Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-09-14
aR. AND MRS, c. c. wADE's TRIP
By Mr.. c. c, Wade
tl1ontinued from last weekl

1 N1NeA
yer the same road ON which General
zee made his hasty retreat on the
.hird day of July. 1868. We were
cooked for Sunday sinner (which
urned out to be chicken dinner) at
she farm home Of our cousin. Leav-
ng far behind us the rugged, and
'ften ragged, sleeps OF Pennsylvania,
over which in many cases not even a
goat could go, we came to a state line
marker indicating that we were cross
ing the Mason and Dixon line, into
what might have been "The Confeder-
ate States of Aplericas but the Line"
tself was ifisisible, the kindly earth,
Ike hectograph pad having absorbed
hat once formidable barrier The fer
tile fields Of Maryland in May, the
pdor from the gigantic old Locust
srees now in full bloom along the road
sides and the driyeways; the reddest
soil we had ever seen; the sunshine
/ over all, after a morning shower, and
The mists still clinging to the Hill tops
| like smoke from VOLCANOES, all conspired
1 to form a picture that our camera
could not capture, but which our more
sensitive minds viii long remember;
albeit word pictures are as inadequate
as the camera to distribute among our
many friends even an approximate
copy Of our mental impression. An
hours ride over first class roads
brought us into quaint Fredericlxtown
with its old residences built close to
the Sidewalk and close together, SEMI
colonial designs with caves to the
street. We looked in vain for am attic
window looking out upon Frederick
street where Barbara Frietchie
might have leaned far out and have
shaken the stars and stripes at Stone
wall Jackson with impunity, as Whit
tier records.
Another hours ride brought us to
point half way between Frederick
and Baltimore where according to our
best information we should find Wood
bine but there was none visible so we
pulled up at filling station and asked
| if any Of the half dozen Sunday loung-
ers might be able to tell us where
lived one Rudolph Tragard, Il recent
conner. They all knew; but one more
outspoken than the rest gave such spe-
cific directions how to reach the farm
that / felt like asking for his creden-
tials. Perchance he might have in
mind some other party with similar
name, so said: What new name has
he given his farm 2" and the aforesaid
obliging fellow townsman replied
Search me! I'll never pronounce it,
some foreign name he brought with
him." Whereupon pointed to the
word "WAUWATOSA" on the rear of
our car and asked if it was like that.
He said, That's it exactly and he came
from Wisconsin too--are you his
brother?" Our doubts thus dispelled
we turned southwark as directed
though in an opposite direction to that
dictated by our preconceived notion;
and in few minutes we were shaking
hands and kissing our folks, whom we
had not seen since they left Wauwato-
sa, nearly two years before in their
Ford, with a trailer" and all their
worldly possessions The above de-
scIibed manner of greeting ones
| friends is rather "Frenchyp as well as
old fashioned, but as | am one-eighth
French and three-eighths old fash
| ioned, / fell for it. The other four
| eighths of the alibi | am establishing
was furnished by the immediate en-
viroment--the odor of the chicken din
ner and the inviting faces Of those two
| girls Cora and Lorraine. 1t was well
worth going 50 far to get. mean
| the farm of 129 acres with its roomy
old house and milk house close by out
Of which flows a cold spring water
stream in such abundance all the year
round that there has to be maintained
q ditch all the way to the little river
that rushes across the pasture from
under modern concrete bridge. Ru-
dTph Tragard, having spent the half
Of his life as q commercial artist,
| might be expected to select just such
a farm site, sufficiently rolling to make
it picturesque but tot afflicted with
great insurmourC4bIe ridges and ricks
that are always in the way when ii
comes to plowing and similar sordid
operations that one has to resort to
between Sundays if he insists on his
bit Of landscape affording hiya at the
same time a living. And Rudolph will
make good, partly because Kenneth,
his only son is strapping big strong
fellow, that even have to look up to,
with an Gag School" education and
several years experience as real dirt
farmer, and plenty Of ambition and
determination and, trust, the neces-
sary patience to put the project
through. / say project, for when a
| Westerner buys an old Eastern farm,
even one Of the best Of them, there is
always a project" thror n in with the
deed and the abstract gratis