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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-02-13

tobacco booth. Men In uniform from
the two companies will act as floor
committee. and members of the aux
liary will chaperone the affair.
''Tbe Wishing Stone"
Junior members Of St Johns Epis-
copai church, will present The Wish
ing stone" one act play, Monday
evening February 10Th, at SIS in the
Sunday school room. Refreshments
viii be served and the proceeds will
go towards the work OF the auxiliary.
Social Workers. Name Committees.
AT a meeting OF the board OF
Social Workers, held This week, the
following chairmen Of committees
were named for the year:
Executive, Mrs. Herbert Mann; CO.
operative. Mrs. w. Russell Bowie;
house, Mrs. Karl Blackwell. case, w.
l.. Hobgood. club, Mrs. George Nor
gan; finance. Mrs st. George Cook
ways and means Mrs. Cary Monta
que; garden, Miss aktie Blankenship.
publicity, Mrs. w. ID. Pennypacker.
Mrs. Westmoteland Davis, recently
elected, took her seat as a member Of
the board.
Founders Day" will be observed
at Sheltering Arms hospital today at
IL O'Clock, when Alexander Forward,
of the state corporation commission.
will deliver an address. Rev. Charles
l.. King, Of the Grace Covenant Pres
tyterian church. will preside. A splen-
uTI musical program HAS Been ar
ranged by Mrs. Skidmore Mi ISIS
Frances Scott, president OF the insti-
tuition, Will make a report of the past
years work. Light refreshments will
be served by "A committee from the
board of managers. The public is
cordially invited.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-02-13

tobacco booth. Men In uniform from
The two companies will act as floor
committee. and members of the aux
lltary will chaperone the affair.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-02-13
Are your guests such greedy swine
That you don't dare to give them
wine?
| wouldn't ask such folks 10 dine.
Your much digusted
VALENTINE"

NALF.N 7 \ r.
A few such Jewels Of poesy have
been saved from the White House
waste basket from time 10 time by the
clerk aforementioned Another OF
them. directed to President Benjamin
Harrison. reads:
"Little Benny.
Have you any
Office you can send me?
II not. sonny,
Ready money
You may kindly lend me.
p. s. DO II quickly, Baby Mine.
And l VIII be your Valentine"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-02-13

Mr., and Mrs, Baxter Tuggle, Of
Farmville, viii arrive In Richmond
February 20. 70 make their home
here.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-02-13

James Gray Paulette, is in New
York this week.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

deepest feelings Of English hearts
that was his, his highness the Lord
Protector ordained that in the scarce
less venerable hall he should be in
stalled in the appointed seat of
kings. A wise policy, doubtless, led
the Conqueror to assume the crown
Of England in the church and before
the tomb Of her last Saxon king,
and the same consideration weighed
with his first successors.
"The Saxons clung fondly to the
memory of the last sovereign of
their race. They honored him as a
national saint, and in 1l6l the great
Pope Alexander III, the successful
head Of the Lombard League against
the Emperor Barbarossa, canonized
him at the request of Henry II. The
body of the saint was translated at
midnight on October 13, 1853, by
Abbot Lawrence, the first mitered
abbot Of Westminster, in the pres
ence of Thomas a Beckett; and a
century later Henry III, the second
founder of the abbey, laid it in the
shrine where it still reposes.
"The rich and elaborate decoration
of this resplendent tomb, glowing
with porphyry and rare marbles,
with brilliant mosaics and colored
glass, and with the best work of the
goldsmith art, has for the most
part disappeared, but the fragments
which Sra.viNa and the healitifr |
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
College Gives Mackaye a Home

birds on friendly terms with people.
And all around Miami are hundreds
of places where an outdoor stage
might be arranged. The bird sane
tuaries would be beautiful in connec-
ton with this.
ernest Harold Bains, a friend of
John Burroughs, has invented feed
ing trough for birds. 1t has out
spreading wings that the wind turns
to protect the birds while they feed. )"
Mackaye hopes to establish a COM
munity theater in Oxford Associ-
ated with him there will be DR.. A.
H. Upham, whose anti-Bolshevist
masque, "The Tri-Color," is being
given on the campus this month.
Mackaye was born in New York
and has lived in Rome, Leipsic and
London. He has lectured at Colum-
bia University, Harvard and Yale,
and has written masques for events
where President wilson and Will
lam Howard Taft as President have
been honor guests. E. H. Sothern
and Julia Marlowe played his
tragedy, Jeanne d Arc" here and in
London.
Whitelaw Reid, former Ambassa-
dor to Great Britain and former edi-
tor of The New York Tribune, was
a graduate of Miami University in
the Civil War period, and as war
correspondent reported the exploits
of other graduates. The school has
started campaign for million
dollars to support the demands of a
constantly increasing student body.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
.ERCY MACKAYE, dramatist,
is getting something new in
fellowships from Miami

fellowships from Miami
University, small Ohio
college in the village of Oxford, on
brook that the Indians named the
Tallawanda.
President R. NJ. Hughes has agreed
to pay him a professors salary and
provide a house free for the author
and Mrs. Mackaye and their three
children and not require Mackaye to
do any teaching.
He will simply live there, work on
his plays and pageants in a studio
being built for him in the forest that
is part Of the campus, and meet the
more gifted English students around
a large open fireplace there in the
winter time
Oxford may become an artists
colony similar to Cornish, N. H.,
Mackaye's present home. The West
ern College, also located there, has
just granted similar fellowship in
music to Edgar Stillman-Kelly, com
poser, whose oratorio, "The Pill
grim's Progress,' featured the mu-
steal festival that Walter Damrosch,
of the New York Symphony Orches-
ira, staged in the list Regiment
Armory last Spring.
"Oxford would be a splendid place
for bird sanctuary" Mackaye says.
"The lower part of Miami's campus,
which is quiet and full of great oaks,
beeches and elms, would be ideal
There it would be easy to put the
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Early History

"It is not surprising that wealth
of legend should surround the earli-
est history Of the abbey Of West
minister. The appeal to remote an
tiquity and the claim to royal
foundation alike had their uses in
the defense Of privilege. You may
believe if you will that King Lucius
built here a Christian church upon
the site Of a Roman temple con-
veniently destroyed by an earth
quake in the year 154. You may be-
lieve if you can that St. Peter came
in person to consecrate a second
church built in the seventh century
by Sebert, King of the East Saxons.
You may call the fish depicted on the
tiles Of the chapter house and re-
fectory luce or a salmon in de-
fense of the one or the other Of these
legends and appeal to the preserva-
ton of st. Peters cope in connection
with the latter, but it must be con-
fessed that Sebert's name was not in
troduced into abbey history until five
centuries after his death. 1t is bet
ter, here at least, to pass to buildings
of which there is still evidence in
stone.
edward the Confessor in his exile
in Normandy made, it is said, vow
that if he should return in peace to
England he would make pilgrimage
to the tomb Of st. Peter a. Rome.
From this VOW he was released on
condition Of building a church and
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
The Work of Henry

The church Of to-day, the church
of history since the thirteenth cen
tury, is essentially the creation OF
Henry; though a hundred years
were to go by before Abbot Litlyng-
ton laid the first stone Of the nave
replacing the Confessor's work.
Henry Y made further additions to
this part of the building, terminated
two years before it rang with the
'Te Deum' for Agincourt.
"But We must not linger by the
tonlbs of the royal dead which cus-
ter round the sanity shrine-not
even by the chantry of Henry HIM
self, where the battered helmet of
Agincourt towers on high and with
the royal shield blazoncd with the
fleurs- dc-lys and the saddle of that
transcendent day ranks among the
most precious relics of the monarchy.
Neither may we dwell upon the
glorious chapel where the first Of
the Tudors lieth buried, writes Lord
Bacon, in one of the stateliest and
daintiest monuments Of Europe,
both for the chapel and the sepul-
cher
"That was to be the last great ad-
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

pavement before the high altar sug-
gest that both we're the work of
masters from the great Roman
school Of the Gosmati.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
of brothers and sisters scattered
over the whole world"
A History in Stone

Westminster Abbey has been
called "the history Of the English
race set in stone" In a sense, it is
the symbol of English monarchy
for Harold, the last Saxon King, was
crowned here; SO was William the
Conqueror, in 1865; so was ever
since every English King. Yet, as
"The London Times" says of the
abbey:
ut is no history of dynasty or
Of a kingdom that speaks here. 1t is
the history of race in every branch
OF human activity, told generation
after generation by the hands that,
through good days and through evil,
carried and handed down the torch.
There is scarce field Of thought or
Of action, scarce a department of
science or branch of art, which is
not represented, and gloriously rep
resented, in these bounds. 1t is this
largeness and universally which are
unique in the abbey. In other
lands splendid sepulchers have been
set apart as the last resting places
Of emperors and Of kings.
deeply as these great repositories
Of the great dead must move all edu-
Gated men, the story they have to tell
is short and confined to that en-
bodied here. That is all-embracing,
unbroken, widening down from Has
tings to the great war, from the
Saxon Witan and the Kings Council
to the Parliaments of the empire and,
not less truly if less directly, to the
Congress of the United States"
Of the earliest origins of West
minister Abbey H. F. Westlake, its
custodian, writes:
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
NAVE estminster Abbeyl
e This is the gist of the ap-
- peal issued by the Dean Of

his IS LNc RlSL or IH6 2p-
~ peal issued by the Dean Of
Westminster to "the English
Speaking peoples of the world" for
fund Of s1,00O,00O to cover ur-
gent repairs and insure future main
.enance.
The high cost of everything, the
appeal says in effect, has visited
the most historic and most be-
/ loved sacred building in the en-
pire, monument not only of Eng
lish Christianity, but of the spirit
ual and cultural union of the Eng
lish-speaking world. With the
enormous rise of the cost of ma
terlais and labor the money avail
able for maintenance has become
utterly inadequate. For years the
abbey has existed on borrowings,
and its guardians now face bank
ruptcy. And the abbey is "in dan
ger of entering upon a phase of
steady structural deterioration"
There is no one danger that con-
fronts the abbey, it is only that the
great age of the walls make neces-
sary constant efforts to keep them
strong. The danger, even before
the war;. was recognized and the
work of restoration had been be-
gun, but naturally this was discon-
tnued to a large extent, owing to
the larger need Of combating the
power Of Germany.
The Treasure of the Race
Can any sacred building in the
British Empire compare with West
minister Abbey? Is it not the unique
and priceless treasure of the Eng
! disappearing race? Such was the
exclamation uttered by an Ameri-
can friend Of mine whom I was
taking round the abbey" writes
Bishop Ryle, the Dean Of Westmins-
ter, in the Westminster Abbey Ap-
peal Number Of "The London
Iimes," and continues.
Ut was not made In the tone of
rhetorical compliment, but with the
intense conviction of one who had
lquite suddenly been awakened to q
liull sense of the significance of this
great inheritance from our common
lAnglo-Saxon ancestry. 1t is the
same story if you take round friends
i0r visitors who have just come from
Oanada, or Australia, or New Zea-
a'and, or South Africa, and who have
never before been in the mother
country. One feels overwhelmed
asnd humiliated in the presence of
I1elr delighted enthusiasm, their
reverence for the historic associa-
3aons of the building, their apprecia-
laon Of its antiquity, their emotion
jst the sight Of places and things of
which they have SO often heard. Fa-
lulllar as it is to some of us, to them
me abbey is the heart shrine of the
i"orld-wide empire. The thought of
i"ls intertwined with the most sa-
iUed feelings and deepest affections
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Rivals Lie Together

"There Elizabeth and Mary rest
in the same tomb. There are the
graves of Mary Queen of Scots, of
the statesmen who determined her
death and Of the judge who spoke
her doom. There are the mortal re-
mains of the frail invalid who occu-
pied the throne the Stuarts had
forfeited and whose matchless sa-
gacity and indomitable courage bat
fled the policy and stayed the aggres-
sion of the greatest Of the Bourbon
kings. There, too, are the first and
second sovereigns of the House of
Brunswick. And there, more elo-
quent than any monument, a plain
slab marks the vault from which the
moldering remains of the great
Oliver were torn, to be gibbeted and
to be buried at the gallows foot
"All the earth is the tomb of ia
nous Englishmen, writes 1.-The
Times" "They lie studded over this
island singly or grouped in Win
chester, in St. Paul's, in a score of
historic cathedrals and churches
only little less renowned than
this, while not a few, and of the
greatest, sleep their last sleep in dis
tant lands. Accident, affection for
the place they first called home, or
for the dear ones buried there, a
proud scorn in death of the highest
Of posthumous honors, or a convic-
tion of their nothingness, have kept
from these precincts many with the
fullest claim to all the glory they
can register or can bestow.
Westminster is no Valhalla es-
tablished by ordinance and decree.
Its prerogative as the seal to great
ness in all fields has been slowly
nodded, like all Interchangeable ira
ditions, by the operation of many
causes working together through
great periods of time. The shrine
of the royal saint predetermined it
to be the burial place of kings; the
companions and the servants of
kings were laid near the graves of
their royal masters; greatness in
the state drew to itself greatness in
the other walks of life.
Famous Names
"The names crowd upon us. Cecil,
Villiers, Blake, the restorer of the
great tradition of the navy; Monk,
who brought back the king; James
Butler, Duke of Ormond, among the
stoutest champions of the Stuart
cause; Mr.. Pepys' Earl of Sand
wich; the great Clarendon, who por-
t1ayed for US with the hand of mas
ter the men of his troublous time :;
the Bentincks and the Schombergs
of King Williams struggles in Flan-
ders and in Ireland; John. Duke of
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

dition to the fabric, save the ugly
west tower. Tudors and Stuarts
lie thickly in this miracle of archi-
lecture that looks so far exceeding
human excellence a man would think
it was knit together by the fingers
of angels.'
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
EXTERIOR of Westmin-
Ii ster Abbey, the Walhallo
Of the Engllsh-speahing race

monastery in honor Of God and
Apostle. Eastward Of a small Sax
on church restored probably by ST..
Dunstan, the King built a stately
church in the Romanesque style,
shorter probably by some three bays
than the present structure, but not
unworthy to compare with it in dig
nifty. There is reason to suppose
that the general plan followed that
of the abbey church at Jumieges,
and that, like the earlier church
there, the presbytery consisted of
two bays and a vaulted apse. By the
year 1920, however, when the first
stone of the old Lady Chapel was
laid, an ambulatory must have been
added, unless the new chapel was to
be an entirely detached building. 1t
may well be that this addition was
made preparatory to the first trans
lation of St Edward in 1853, but this
is only conjecture. Of St. Edward S
church the remaining portions are
scanty but important"
Under the Reformation
With the Reformation the days of
the mitered abbot and the black
robed Benedictine monks passed.
Their place was taken by dean and
a chapter Of canons. Under Crom-
wells revolution the abbey was
degraded and Inundated. The
chapter was elected, the, services
changed, the choir turned into a
kind of preaching house, and damage
of all description was done. With
the return of the Stuart kings the
abbey also was restored to it's an
cient glory and dignity.
Up to the first years Of the eight
eenth century the main building of
the abbey remained incomplete, mas
much as the towers were not erected
as originally planned. The present
day towers are ascribed to Wren,
the great English architect of the
seventeenth century; in fact, the
undertaking was carried out by
Wren's pupil, Hawkesmor, though
the influence of the former may be
seen to some extent in the design.
The historic significance of the
abbey is analyzed by "The Times"
as follows:
"The choice made by William the
Conqueror of the abbey as the place
of his coronation was decisive of
it's destiny. From that Christmas
Day of 1865 until now every
king and every queen regnant in
the long line of English sovereigns
has been anointed and acclaimed on
the same spot. Since Edward I
brought the mystic stone of Scone
from Scotland-the stone on which
the legend tells the Patriarch Jacob
slept in Bethel, the Stone of Destiny
from the sacred hill of Tara brought
across the Irish Sea by the Scots
each of them has sat in the oaken
chair in which the great Plantagenet
encased it.
Cromwell Sat i'm 1t
"Cromwell himself did not choose
wholly to break with that august
tradition. He could not venture to
be crowned in the abbey, but, with
that true instinct fer some Of tia
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01

Nothing could probably have averted
the destruction caused by a direct
hit. But what was most to be feared
was the crashing of stone and timber
fragments from the roof.
"(3) The glass was removed from
the three east clerestory windows
and from the west windows of the
north aisle Of the nave. Wood Stats
were substituted, which, though
much more drafty, were infinitely
less costly than plain glass. The
very ancient glass in the Jerusalem
Chamber was also removed and put
in safety.
Gas a matter Of fact, the abbey
was not touched by any hostile mis-
sile. A harvest of our own shrapnel
was collected. But the building
passed unharmed through all the
terrible time Of the raids. A large
German bomb fell about TWENTY-FIVE
yards to the southwest, just grazing
the wall of the Abbey Choir School
and making huge hole in the court
yard at the back. But it did not
explode. The damage was trifiing,
and the choristers, who were being
kept during the raid on a lower floor
and were singing merrily under the
barrage, were at the time quite
unconscious of their extraordinary
escape.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Whole Abbey Quivered

During the raids most Of the oc-
cupants Of the official houses repaired
for greater security to the so-called
Norman undercroft in the cloisters,
a vast chamber beneath the old
monks dormitory, with stout mas
sive Norman columns and strong
stone-groined roof. Being desirous
as far as possible to be on the spot
in case anything should happen to
the abbey, We in the deanery used to
go to the foot of little stone stair
case leading up to the southern Of
the two western towers. 1t was pos
sible thus to be in the building and
see the watchmen and learn what
was going on. The whole abbey
seemed to quiver while the heavy
barrage was being fired; the Win
dows ratified, and the roar of the
guns seemed in the empty abbey to
produce an extraordinary resonant
effect.
Very careful precautions had
been taken against fire breaking out
in the roof. Watchmen were on
guard every night. They were spe-
cially reinforced on the occasions
when notice was given of hostile at
tack. The water tanks were in good
order; the hydrants and hosepipes
were continually tested; large num-
bers of buckets were ready, some
filled with sand and some with
water. dare say, if the emergency
had arisen, we could not have done
much. But the staff were keen, we'll
disciplined and brave, and never
held back from arriving even while
the barrage was raging.
1--WE look back upon those nights
and we realize how powerles. wa
were to avert the most terrible c4.
tastrophe. The relief when the end
came was the measure of the tension
which we had all been experiencing.
We perhaps only then realized how
tremendous had been the RESPONSE
bility Of our trust, how profound our
thankfulness for the greatness of
our deliverance: Dec gratias,
within three weeks Of the armi-
stice being signed everything had
been restored to its proper place,
save only the windows, which are
still undergoing very necessary
cleaning and thorough repair The
coronation chair reappeared in its
wonted place, and on the morning Of
December %, 1918, the Holy Com
munion was once again celebrated at
the altar of the Shrine of Edward
the Confessor. Our hearts on that
day were very full, and the opening
words of the old psalm seemed to
rise unbidden to our lips: If the
Lord himself had not been on our
side, now may Israel say"
New-York tribune., 1920-08-01
Cromwell Sat in 1t

Cromwell himself did not choose
wholly to break with that august
tradition. He could not venture to
be crowned in the abbey, but, with
that true instinct fer some Of tha
The Ordway new era., 1920-02-27

That farming. the biggest business
in the world, and advertising, the
greatest selling force, need to get to-
gether. was one OF the points brought
out last week at tie community
newspaper conference held in con-
nection with farmers week at Corr
nell.
The farmer needs TO do two kinds
of advertising 1t was declared, first
educational advertising, the same
sort that the meat packers and the
railway executives are doing. The
reason the city man sometimes says
that the farmer is profiteering is be-
cause he does not realize all the exe
penses which go into the production
of food, plant or animal.
A farm publication was quoted
which advocates the creation of a
fund by association of farmers which
shall be used for national cam
paign in the newspapers and maga-
zines to tell the story of agriculture.
Confide in City Man
Take the city man into your
confidence" says this farm paper to
full story of production. 1t is won
htl lul III you
have the greatest romance of all
time. Show him what 1t costs to
raise your bushel or peck of onions.
You have factors entering into these
costs which would stagger a bank
examiner"
The greatest part of the discussion
was devoted to ways in which farm
ers may advertise their own products
and Tins get befter ma t-k eta than
when they sell TIN ough the usual
channels. 1t was declared that every
farmer advertises more or less. for
advertising is only telling what you
have to sell and showing why the
other man should buy 1t. When a
farmer says to a neighbor, "Say. Bill.
know anybody that wants a couple
of fine pigs? They're dandies?"
that's advertising. So It is adver-
tising when a farmer has an auction
and has few bills struck. off. -
Those Mt the conference were urged
to buv good bills. printed on good
naper. even tho they might cost more
than cheaner ones. A good hill. a
bout 1sV'A inches in size will cost
about 81 for so, IT was said.
Ad Better Than Bill
But good as hill NAV be It way
/ felt that an advertisement in the loc-
al paper Is much berter. "The read
err must eo to the bill, while the ad
goes to the reader was the wnv this
was phrased. The possibilities of
readers" or want ads. was empha,
these as well as the larger display ads