Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1921-02-26
VILLAGE GOSSIP

REV. Charles Evans, father OF Mrs.
Ernest Sibley, has been ailing for some
weeks with an old complaint that oc-
casionally takes hold and will not let
go until it entails great suffering. He
has been at the Sibley home for ten
days, is getting the finest possible at
tention, and is slowly getting better
His patient fOrtitude in the face of
great suffering is most admirable. His
many admiring friends all hope he
will soon be himself again. His adj
vanced age is a cause for slow re-
cuperation, however.
At Last a Snowstorm
Last Saturday night late it began
to snow and by Sunday morning the
lOng-waited storm of the winter had
set In like 1t meant business. The
furnace man who looks after ourn
asked how deep it was said, deep
as walking stick" He meant in
places, but at that it was some job
to go after the Sunday papers over at
the Junction. The snow by actual
measurement was less than a yard
deep on level, but. knee-deep any
where, and about as hard to negotiate
as quagmire. The boys Of the viii
iage who are generally anxious to
"clean your sidewalks" baked at this
one for fair. The storm began to
abate around l o'clock in the after
noon Of Sunday and there was left a
job that was some job to clear away.
-Alcine Pinard has now become
full-fiedged photographer in the max
ings. He is studying with his dad at
the latter's New York studio.
TO have sense of appreciation Of
what is what is fine capacity. To
have not this sense, but to assume 1t,
is painful presumption, and general
ly getting by with it is difficult task.
And yet some do.
-Washington's Birthday was general
ly celebrated in Palisade, but without
any set program-just everybody stay
ed at home and looked like they did
not mean to but could not get around
it. These clOse-to-New York suburban
ties do hate to give up a minute from
their daily tasks. In the meantime,
are there too many holidays? Who
says so!
No, that was not a Mack Sennett
picture in last Saturdays New York
Evening Post. 1t was none other than
our own little Margaret Porter, who
formerly lived in Palisade. Margaret
was at Palm Beach arrayed in the
altogether of that lovely climate, and
was riding one Of these Whatever
callems that ride the waves like
catamaran or something or other, and
there she sat all graceful like with
figure that would nearly give one
connipti0n fit, she is so beautiful.
DE Voc talked to the Westwooders
last week and had the temerity again
to assert his "mOonSlants" theories
about chow we get our weather" The
savant says our weather depends
upon the relative position of the
sun, moon and earth, whatever that
means, and we will bet nutcracker
that if his life depended upon it he
could not give scientific answer as
to the relative position of the moon
to the earth, the relative position of
the sun to the moon and earth. In
other words, we will wager dollars to
doughnuts that he does not know the
names and position of the planets,
cannot tell the names and positions of
the consultations, and another gam
BILE that he could not point out Ursa
Major. If he knows that lunatic
comes from the moon, meaning the
word, he would be wise to study more
about it. In the meantime, what be-
came of his heaviest snowstorm of
the winter that was to fall on that
beautifully clear February Z. Side
tracked, like the most of his guesses.
John Davidson, Jr., nephew of Mrs.
Charles T. Logan, was her weekend
guest last week over Saturday and
Sunday. His family are in New Or
leans for the winter.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Evans, par
ents of Mrs Ernest Sibley, were both
ill at the Sibley home last week. Mr..
Evans was i'll from rheumatism, and
Mrs Evans from broken bone in her
ankle from a fall. DR.. Edgerton, the
New York specialist, treated both.
They are improving.
Cards cards. cards! What is the
fascination of this strangely magnetic
game on humanity? That it may be
developed into great possibilities so
far as winning games is concerned,
admits of no doubt. Memory is the
great desideratum. But when one
wins in the average social game where
just the exhilaration of winning is the
only incentive, what is its hold? There
is no question of the games intense
hold upon large number of people.
Some do not hesitate to play almost
every evening where they can arrange
with others to do so: others seldom
allow a week to pass without having
several "card parties" 1t is game of
absorbing interest for the most part.
some card games being, of course,
more difficult than others. But any