Evening star., 1921-11-06


assumed they would not ia
terest you. the Rambler did
not go into the Chsntilly country cf
Virginia last Sunday. but trotted
along q sandy road in Maryland.
Even though he finds 1t delightful,
tho descendants Of Pocahontas, the
hrst families of Jamestown and Gov.
Spotswood's Knights Of the Golden
Horseshoe. Now and then he must
visit that region near Washington.
whore SO many Of the Inhabitants
are descended from the English
cavaliers who came over the bound
ing main with Gov. Leonard Calvert,
brother Of Lord Baltimore, 2S7 years
ago. Just as New England is pretty
well settled up with descendants Of
Priscilla, Miles Standish and several
of their joyful. but somewhat Jealous
friends. SO Maryland Is thickly peo-
PIED by descendants of cavaliers who
had the pleasure of escorting Lord
BIS brother to the land Of promise.
meaning than you think. OF course.
even my readers know that cavalier
is the French for horseback rider,
but 1t meant more than that. Com
mon mon can ride horseback quite
as we'll as aristocrats can ride. and
common men can Nown horses that
are faster than horses owned by aris-
tocrats. The Rambler mentions aris-
tocrats because all these poor fish
claim to be descended from cavaliers,
a just claim. Here and there one finds
an arfstocrat who has money, though
or course, he never has as much as he
Is supposed to have. but now and
then one finds an aristocrat who seems
to be quite well off, and can afford
board and something else in the cell
lar This Is never so with tho de-
; scendants Of cavaliers. All the de-
scendants of cavaliers tho Rambler
has the honor of knowing are broke.
a rev OF them may be found passing
popular lunchrooms. but this 10 q
most unusual sight because as a
rule descendants Of cavaliers will
never work. They do not want to tar
nlsh their escutcheon with sweat.
CAVALIER. however. meant a good
deal more than a mere horse
back rider. In most cases q cavalier
was a perfect gentleman who inherit
ed q soft snap from somebody else
who inherited the soft snap from
somebody else who inherited the soft
snap from somebody else who stole
! 1t or got 1t by licking the royal boots
OF royal monarch or by licking the
licked the kings boots The cavalier
always wore fancy millinery. He
wore plumes in his hat and his hat
was q. chApeau The Piscataway,
Mattawoman and Eantemoy Indians
wore feathers In their hair. but not
plumes: They wore the king feathers
and tail feathers Of bald eagles and
turkey buzzards, but never glorious
plumes plucked from the tail of an
ostrich or peacock.
A cavalier always wore his hair long
and arranged in curls and generally
had wavy ringlets about his refined
brow. He often had grease on his
hair and sometimes 1t was rancid.
though he sought to overcome this
defect with the aid of perfumes. Per-
fumes have sometimes been used as
substitute for soap and water. The
cavalier was much given to the use
of laces and ribbons In making up his
toilet and was very popular with
tho ladies. He cultivated the art Of
paying the girls compliments and
would tell them that they had the
eyes Oh a lawn, Che neck OF swan,
teeth of pearl. lips Of ruby and ears
like sea she'll He laid the >flattery
on with q trowel and the danes stood
for it. They stand for 1t still Tell
a woman that she is beautiful, that
her hat is bewitching and that she
| is unlike any woman you ever knew.
and she will invite you to tea If she
doesn't actually try to break up your
happy home.
When a cavalier knew how to write
he spent some Of his time writing
|poetry-"inditing verses" as the say
ing was-and even today some mon
are given to this pernicious habit
Cavaliers were always great fighters.
until those mean chaps. who were not
cavaliers, began to fight. Then the
| cavaliers did not do SO well. In Eng
land q bunch Of rude and unpolished
fellows, with close cropped hair,
fought them to a standstill and in
France the wretched and mean-born
| bourgeois. paysans and ouvriers put
the grande seigneurs and the noblesse
| out Of business.
But the Rambler must come back
to his mutton. How many cavaliers
were in the expedition sent out by
Lord Baltimore the Rambler does not