Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-08-14

A prominent lumberwoman of Port
land, Oregon, L woman citrus
grower of California, Mrs. George Z.
Rae and Mrs. Arc Smith, are tour
ing the country and arrived in Maine
this week They made the trip from
the Pacific coast to the A ...ntic In
25 actual running days. When COM
pleted, their journey will be $4,000
miles The two women, accompanied
by two brothe who act as chauf-
fuers, have be on the way from
Honolulu since March l. having
sailed from Frisco on that date, after
making complete tour Of the island
,'r heir trip back to the
uv4-~-. ~-,-~ VIII be through New
Brunswick, across to Quebec. follow
ing the st. Lawrence river as far as
Montreal. crossing w York state
to Albany and then going along the
Great Lakes to Chicago
From Aroostook county to Santa
Ana, Calf, Is some ", :. to pul -ue
agricultural &c,.vitics, but such has
been done by NJ. H. Whittier, former
ly Of Caribou, who has recently
bought in that western place All
! acres which he and his three sons
will develop as an alfalfa and dairy
ranch, stocking it with Holsteins
About $2OO,OOO was involved in the
deal.
| What l have learned about hu-
man nature from ChautauQua aud
ionces" is an interesting article writ
ten by Strickland Gillian IN the Au-
gust Farm and tlreside.". He
which we trust is not characteristic
OF us as q whole.
! One night III Millinocket, Maine
! my wife. sitting in the car for the
cars protection while l was lectur-
| ing, heard one big fellow grum BILE:
"Sevcnty-ti' cents Jist t'hear one
| fcllcr talll-gec."
| Later, however, when the vigilance
about the gate was relaxed, the man
| went in.
| 1t was in that same town that a
man about the size of the Colossus
,, Of Rhodes listened few minutes and
then got up Che was on the next to
| the front seat, at that and marched
srandly out, disgust written on ev-
cry line of his j ig back. l was only
one man talking, and he didn't UNDER
stand what was driving at. l wasn't
giving him any information or
pulling any off color gass. or trying
to incite him to rebellion SO why was
L? AS he went out l said:
IF anyone else feels the need to 60
out and study over what I've said
SO far, I'll wait a loment'
The big fellow, near the last quar-
ter pole by that time. stopped. turned
and seemed about to say something
or to do something, but he didn't.
And 1 am glad. He was one whale of
a big dolt.
At Gardiner. Maine, lately. l in
CURED the undying disp'easure of
one young woman, and shall never
be able to square myself with my
kinder hearted wife because Of an
/ utterly unmerciful bawlingout to a
young woman WHO sat WIN foT pro-
file toward me during half an hour
of my fifty minutes. talking earnest
ly to another young woman who was
trying to listen because she thought
I might be saying something. Final
ly said:
There is one young woman back
there who hasn't heard a word have
said. all evening. Right there near
the entrance-yes, that's the girl"
Now. that young lady CT heard
through other channels) was per-
manentlv hurt, almost heart broken
over this faying rebuke. But she
will perhaps never know that she was
as rude 10 me as I was to her: that
!. is as bad manners . turn aside
and talk to sombodv during an ad-
dress as X lis to turn away and be-
gin addressing someone else when a
friend is talking to YOU alone.