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The Natchitoches enterprise., 1922-04-06

Steele and little daughter left fc
Shreveport for . few days befor
returning to their home at Oxford
Rosaries to suit the needs and desire
of young and old, 1t
r. DE VA ARGAS
Rev. Lennie Smith of Alexan
dria was cslled to Natchitochee
Friday to conduct the funera
services of DR.. WaddelI.
Skirts to wear for sport, sfternool
or to dressy affairs 1t
-Eieber'$
Mr.. Newton Voters, who j
working with q company along th'
different railroads, has been il
this section of Louisiana, the pasI
week.
We are prepared to take orders 70,
engraving. Stop In and look over oul
samples. THE ENTERPRISE
DR.. l.. A. Cock6eld. Messrs. E.
c., Phanor, p. T.. and Phonsie
Prudhomme. j. w. Breazeale, l.
CIoutier, NJ. Hertzog, NJ. Chopin,
j. H. Henry were among the vis-
itors, Monday.
LOST-A fur neck piece, between
Marthaville and Robeline. Reward of
$1,000 if returned to this Office or
Wemp Hotel
Miss Marie Breazeale and Mrs.
2. Rachal of Natchez attended the
District Convention of the S. F..
w. &. in Alexandra the begin
ming of the week, Is delegates
from I.escEe.
Easter cards Of all sizes, shapes and
descriptions 1t
-R. D. VARGAS
Mrs. Sam Friedman and daugt-
;er, Miss Gussie Goldberg, of
Natchez motored in to attend the
party given by Mrs. E. Katie
Thursday.
This season the separate skirt is the
hing for general wear. Our line is
complete
-EteberS
Mr.. Lonnie Scarborough, depu-
Y assessor. has purchased the Kill
en- home in East Natchitoches.
nd with bis charming young wife, |
ook possession on the 1st inst.
Engraved work for Announcements |
any kind, wedding and commence
tent invitations. visiting cards. corre-
9ondsnce paper, le dernier eri for
assy folks, in every llne can be order
from THE ENTERPRISE
Mr.. Hilton Holland, who IS on
le road representing New Or
ans firm, spent : day Or two-here /
1ripg the week with his. wife
ho is with her mother, Mrs }.
Hargrove.
WANTED-Teaehsrs for Western
:hools, all kinds. Address Louis A.
,omas. Gunnison, Co'erads. Dox s2s.
Miss Myrtle Sompayrac, who
IS been up in Ward 5 substltu-
ng for Miss Maggie Voiers who
IS been in attendance upon her
ther, who continues seriously
/, came in from the Aloha Fair
ew School for the week end.
The ant season IL here, welcome it
tn Argentine Ant Poison from II
PEOPLES 81. I F., Co.
After spending . few weeks
re with relatives, Mrs. Tom
lggio with her little son, Satur
y joined her husband, who had
t q few days before, in Alexan-
il, where they will agsin make
cir home. |,
Now 10 the time tv use Ant Poison IL
PEOPLES Il. &F. Co. q
Mr.. Ray Allemsn who has.been I
Q Of the engineers 10 charge Of
. jefferson Highway, stationed
Marksville, hes been trans 3
red to Natchitoches, to tho de- ?
ht of family and, friends. +
'rspare Tor the most annoying houssl
d pest BY putting ont Argentine Ant
son from X
Peoples H. &F. Co.
Mrs. Z. K. Shuts accompanied z
hcr daughter. Hrs, michel, b
Delhi and baby who are visit. q
, here. spent last week with her .
and family at Bea q m o nt,w
Eas.n y
new line Of mems straw hats just =
eived 1T y
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1922-04-06

/. The old Enterprise building
which vas bought by the Hedges.
Inc. Go. about q year and a half
ago and remodled temporarily. is
being torn down this week to
make room for a handsome, two
story 48x60 concrete building
which will be Of the latest and
most approved type. Ths plans
are NEST attractive with eight Of
fics suites and Z modern restau-
rant witt, eli the necessary con-
veniences. The Hedges Inc. will
have A. NJ. Deering, the we'll
known contractor. to superintend
the work for the Company. which
will do its own building. and this
puts the stamp Of the s'best" on.
the now Hedges building on st.
Denis Street which will be ready
for occupancy by June lot.
The Natchitoches enterprise., 1922-04-06

The French uniform. horizon
blue and picturesque. gives l.thrill
= evsr1 American heart, feminine
9 masculine, and when the sight
u lhe uniform is accompanied by
u.reial music and sarroended by1
: lsane ef.pretty girls graosfnl,
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
The Passing of the Old West.

The Passing of the Old West.
TIP to the last ten years the
~ Western United States had to
be romantic OF nothing. Hamlin
Garland has recorded his difficulties
in getting the West he knew into
print. No doubt there was romance
in the West. Remington and
Russell drew what they saw. Owen
Wister and Stewart Edward White
did not have to call on imagination
oyermuch; many of the jests they
wrote down were known from the
Rio Grande to the Peace River.
tWill Rogers, with his dry, careless
wit, his unjaded eye, his poise and
pungency, is the concentrated es-
sence OF the romantic West" if
you like to call it that. Seeing him
sandwiched between Dolores and
the Dolly Sisters in a Ziegfeld
revue one ponders the word.) But
White and Wister were just in time
to see the curtain fall. B. NJ. Bower
gives her hero an airplane now
instead of a broncho. The old West
has vanished as utterly as the
America of Chateaubriand's day
which at that had little resemblance
to the Arcadian wilderness through
which Rene took his melancholy
pilgrimage. Villa Gather may
write of the true romance OF Ne
braska's farms. Sinclair Lewis can
show the drabness of Gopher Prai-
rie, without fear of rebuke.-From
The Absentee NoueIists Of Canada
By Isabel Paterson in The Boob
man."
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

ing the simplest lives seem beauti-
full: because she has written only of
the life that has passed before her
eyes, and because, from the first
story she wrote. which appeared in
st. Nicholas in 1873; she has pre-
served her clear directness of narra-
ton and unaffectedness of form. In
thinking of her work the reader
thinks of three settings: the New
England Of her girlhood. which she
has somewhere described as "all the
years that count most; the Califor-
MIA she learned to know. when after
her graduation from the Abbot Acad-
emy at AEdover she joined her fam
ily at Santa Barbara, and the vari-
Gus parts of the British Isles that
are associated with the journeyings
and adventures of her charming
Penelope.
But IL her settings are few her ap-
peal is wide. There is a collection
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

could have failed 10 note an exceed
ingly lively tongue and a general air
Of executive ability. If / am to be
truthful i must say that I recall few
indications OF budding authorship,
save an engrossing diary (kept for
six months only and devotion to
reading. Her literary passions"
We're THE Arabian Nights" The
Scottish Chiefs" Don Quixote,"
''n haddeus of Warsaw Irving's
"Mahomet," Thackeray's Book Of
Snohs," ''Undine" and THE Martyrs
of SPAIN" These and others. Joined
TO an old green Shakespeare and a
plum pudding edition of Dickens.
were the chief of her diet"
Here is a picture Of Kate Douglas
Wiggin twenty-five years ago:
Mrs. wiggin carries on a most
voluminous correspondence, as she
feels consciously constrained to
answer every letter that she receives.
1t is touching to hear of some Of the
letters which have been sent 10 her
from remote parts of the globe by
those who have read her books. AS
she does not use a typewriter and
does all her own writing one can see
how severely Mrs. Wiggin is taxed
by this self-imposed service. But no
doubt in this way Mrs. Wiggin's in
fiuence is as extensive as it has been
through her books. Although her
abode is in New York she does all
her writing at her country home,
which stands on the Saco, about six
teen miles from Portland. Me.-ouili-
cote, as she ca,ls il. which is the
nearest she could get TO the home
of pen woman" Much of her writ
ing is done in the summer months
in the open air under the gnarled
branches Of the dear old apple tree"
to which, il viii be remembered,
she dedicated the Village Watch
Tower"
Here is list of the books of Kate
Doueis wiggin in their chronology
cal s,r:
Birds Christmas Carol, 1856; A
Summer in a Canon. 1889: The
Story of Patsy, 1889; Timothy's
Quest, 1880; The Story Hour. 1890;
A Cathedral Courtship. 1898. Polly
divers Problem, 1893; Froebers
Gifts. 1895: The Village Watch
Tower. 1895; Marin Lisa. 1896;
Froebel's Occupations. 1896: Kinder
garten Principles and Practice, 1896;
Nine Love Songs and a Carol, 1896.
Penelope's Progress, 1897; Pene-
lope's Experiences in Ireland, 1900;
The Diary OF a Goose Girl. 1901;
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, 1903;
The Affair at the Inn. 1904: New
Chronicles of Rebecca, 1907: Home
spun Tales, 1907; Robinetta, 1910;
Mother Carey's Chickens, 1911; A
Child's Journey with Dickens, 1912;
The Story Of waitstili Baxter, 1913;
Penelope's Postscripts. 1915; Ro-
nance of Christmas Card, 1916:
Anthology of Mother Verse, 1915
and Ladies in Waiting. 1919.
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
What You Should Know
About American Authors

of her books that are printed in for
eign lands. 1t includes ''The Birds
Christmas Carol" in japanese, Tim
othy's Quest" in Danish and Tim
othy's Quest" Polly divers Prob
lem" and THE Birds Christmas
Carol in me volume in Swedish.
The French translations of "The
Birds Christmas Carol, "A Cathedral
Courtship" and others are in bound
volumes of the magazines. There is
a German edition of "Rebecca OF
Sunnybrook Farm" There is also an
edition OF 'Rebecca" in English that
before the war was used in the Ber-
lin public schools. 1t contains
glossary that Mrs. Riggs describes
as precious beyond words" "Thc
Birds Christmas Carol" The Story
of Patsy" and "Rebecca OF Sunny
brook Farm" are all printed in raised
type for the blind. and eight of Mrs.
Riggs's books were TO be found 'in
the old Tauchnitz library. Nor is
her popularity TO be measured en-
tirely in terms of longitude and lati-
tude. Rudyard Kipling has always
been one of her admirers, considering
Polly divers Problem" to be her
best book. For the encouragement
of aspiring and unrecognized authors
it may be added here that ''Timothy's
Quest" which has been one of her
greatest successes and which has
been translated into. half dozen Ian
guages lin Danish its title is Tim og
Gay'D, lad the honor OF being re-
fused by six leading publishing
houses.
Born in Philadelphia brought up
in New England and going TO the
Pacific coast when she was is years
of age, Kate Douglas Virgins love
for and interest in children first
manifested itself in kindergarten
work Her association with that
work began in San Francisco and
was continued later in New York.
When visiting the kindergartens she
used to join in the children's games
and tell them stories. To that ex-
perience. she says. she owes the in
spiration of her literary work.
In preceding paragraph the sub
ject of this sketch has been referred
to as Mrs. Riggs. She Is that by
virtue of her second marriage. Born
Kate Douglas Smith. she married
first a young lawyer OF California.
and in 1895 Mr.. George c. Riggs.
Here are two pictures OF her in her
younger. life. the first a passage OF
reminiscence by her talented sister.
Nora Archibald Smith:
MY sister was certainly capable
little person at a tender age, con-
cocting delectable milk toast, brown
ing toothsome wheat cakes and gen.
orally making a very good parents
assistant. ! have visions of her toll !.
ing at patchwork and overseeing
sheets like a nice old fashioned little
girl in a story book. Further to IL
lustrate her personality / think no
one much in her company at any age
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

Son, Saddened our nedrtS- he was
constantly absent, but the whole
province spoke Of his tumultuous
life at Dgiguit. At home we avoid
ed speaking his name, so much
were we panied by his extravagant
adventures, which surpassed all inn
agining. 1t was he alone of all the
children to whom my father had
given a European education, follow
ing the ideas of Jean Jacques Rous-
seau, whom my father had believed
equal to Buddha. Weary of his
great learning, unable any longer
to love the little joys of life, my
father completely shared the dis
gust which Rousseau felt for civili-
zation. the corrupter of nature. He
had agreed with Rousseau that we
should return to the primitive state
and allow our instincts to develop
freely. And, according to Rousseau,
if any one possessed an evil instinct
punishment was unnecessary, for
he would be punished directly by
the inevitable consequences of his
actions. In order not to influence
my brother with our Asiatic Gus
toms my father kept him apart
from us in a solitary lodge.-By
Armen Ohanidn in Asia"
Literary Associations of Stock
bridge, Mass.
CTOCKBRIDGE and its neighbor-
~ hood had been for. years IA
nous for its distinguished inhabi-
tants, including Catherine Sedg-
wick, G. P. R. James, Henry w.
Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Herman Melville, Fanny Kemble
and Cyrus w. and David Dudley
Field. Most of these celebrities had
disappeared when / arrived, but the
New England tradition Of neatness
and cleanliness had expressed itself
in the founding of the Laurel Hill
Association, the first of the village
Improvement societies that are to
be found to-day in nearly every
small community in the land. 1t
was in Stockbridge that l met the
first of the long line of famous writ
ers whom it has been my privilege
to know in the person Of Mrs. Har-
riet Beecher Stowe, whose daughter
was the wife of the local Episcopal
clergyman. Her husband, the Rev.
Calvin E. Stowe, was with her and
recall with delight his humorous
darky stories. The old home of G.
p. R. James of solitary horseman"
fame stood, and perhaps still
stands, over the way from what is
now the Red Lion Inn.-Fr0m
Early Memories Of Nei0 England"
By James L. Ford IN "Scribner's
Magazine"
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
The Half Forgotten Ouida.

DR. WILLIAMSON says that "The
II Massarenes," which Ouida pub
lished in 1897, was regarded by the
authoress as the best book she had
ever written. From this opinion DR..
Williamson dissents. He thinks that
the best of her books is "Bimbi," or
at least that "Bimbi" contained
some of her best work. She thought
it a volume of trivial importance
compared with others. I have not
read all the books of Ouida, but of
those / have read / think "The
Massarenes" much the best, full of
determined and deadly hatred and
charged with the purposes and
properties of poison. Nevertheless
it was written with remarkable
vigor and carried the reader on.
DR.. Williamson speaks gently of
poor Ouida's eccentricities which
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
The World Of Letters as Others See It

done. Play it safe. Stick round
the sack, old pal. Second batter up.
Pitcher getting something on the
ball now besides the cover. Whiffs
him. Back to the bench, Cyril.
Third batter up. See him rub his
hands in the dirt. Watch this kid.
He's good! Lets two alone, then
slams the next right on the nose.
Whizzes round to second. First
guy, the one we left on second,
comes home for one run. That's a
game! Take it from me, Bill, that's
a game."-From THE Huwor Of p.
G.. Wodehouse." By Sidney Dark in
John o. L0ndon's Weekly"
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
Authors as Husbands.

A PASSAGE in one of Mrs. Oil
"A plants letters helps to bear
out the Rev. w. Major Scott's con-
tention that authors make unsatis-
factory husbands. Writing to DR..
Story in 1866. Mrs. Oliphant de-
scribes "a visit from Mrs. Carlyle.
who is looking very feeble and pic
turesque, and naturally has been
taking away everybody's character.
or perhaps / ought to say throwing
light upon the domestic relations
of distinguished people of the
period. was remarking upon the
eccentricity of the said relations,
and could not but say that Mr..
Carlyle seemed the only virtuous
philosopher we had. Upon which
his wife answered: my dear, IL
Mr.. Carlyle's digestion had been
stronger there is no saying what he
might have been.' From the
Manchester Gnardian.p
The New York herald., 1922-04-02

ended so sadly. She had been very
extravagant and became crippled in
means She had a great contempt
for most OF the world and hated all
modern movements. DR.. William
son says: Il do not think that
Ouida in person could ever have
been pretty, but when / saw her
she was undoubtedly impressive
because her complexion was of ex-
treme beauty, pink and white like
that of a young girl."-From the
British Weekly"
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN.

" ATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN has
~ been happily summed up as
one of those writers who
even in doing quite ordinary things
does them in an extraordinary way.
In other words, she is independent
of striking plot, of breadth of canvas.
She touches the heart and she ap-
peals to the memory because she
has in abundance the power of max
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
Dresser at the Turning Point.

DreiSer at the turning foInt.
hRUDGING along as / was at the
= most inconsequential of tasks,
l was haunted by the thought that
in reality l was a misfit, that /
might have to give up and return to
the West, where in some pathetic
humdrum task l should exc out a
barren and pointless life. In view
OF this probable end or result l now
began to think that must not give
up, but must instead turn to letters,
the art of short story writing. Only
just how l was to do this / could
not see. l had never written a
short story in my life and did not
really believe that 1 could learn
how. Yet one of the things that
prompted me to do so was the fact
that on this very paper at the time,
or so | understood, were several
who had succeeded in that or in
allied fields - David Graham
Phillips for one, and James Creel-
man, then a correspondent for the
paper at the war which had broken
out between China and Japan, to
say nothing of George Cary Eggles-
ton and Reginald de Koven, the lat
ter on the staff as chief musical
critic. There was another young
man, whose name l have forgotten,
who was said to be a rapidly grow
ing favorite in the Offices of the
Century. Then there were those
new arrivals in the world of letters.
Kipling, Richard Harding Davis.
Stephen Crane, and some others,
whose success il not work always
fascinated me.-From "Ont OF My
Newspaper Days" By Theodore
Dresser in "The Bookman."
w. S. Gilbert and the English
Esthetes.
THE last of the four operas pro-
= duced at the Opera Comique
was Patience" and it ran from
April 23, 1881, till October of the
same year, when the company was
transferred to the Savoy. We ap-
proach the great period. Patience"
was already tremendously popular.
Every one was agreed that the
aesthetics were becoming a nuisance;
there was a powerful reaction to-
ward the more
!. commonplace type
With a stick and pipe
And half-bred black and tan,
and Gilbert was the man to lead it.
If his shafts were aimed at any one
man in particular that man was
Oscar Wilde, but Grossmith, as
Bunthorne, must have looked a
good deal more like Whistler. Any
how, the public was delighted. If
the opera had not contained single
topical allusion it would have de-
served to have succeeded on its
music alone. But D'Oyly Carte was
not satisfied-neither with the sue
cess of the play nor with the fact,
growing daily more apparent, that
he had hit upon unique form of
entertainment that was certain to
make his fortune as we'll as those
of the two authors.-Fron, gilbert
and Sulliudn." By ClenneH Wilkin-
son in the London "Mercary"
An English View. of Bret Harte's
America.
IT is no longer possible to look on
! Bret Harte with the eyes that
greeted him as a delightful portent
revealing, in all their freshness, an
adventurous community, pictur-
esque type of character and native
humor hitherto undiscovered. He
is now survival, almost classic;
his interest has become historical
instead of topical. The America
that he knew has disappeared, both
the sober East and the roaring
West; Poker Flats are no more,
Indians no longer roam, pioneers
&a1x
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
Briton Thinks This Real
'Americanese.'

TT is said that Mr.. Wodehouse is
i the only Englishman who ever
learned to write Americanese. There
is a fine example of this power in
his American exile's thrilling ac-
count of a baseball match:
.. !. Now pay attention. Play
ball! Pitchers winding up. Put 1t
over, Mike, put it over! Some
speed, kid! Here it comes right in
the groove. Bing. Batter slams it
and streaks for first. Outfielder-
this lump of sugar-boots il. Bone
head! Batter touches second.
Third? No! Get back! Can't be
The New York herald., 1922-04-02
A New Era of French
BEST Sellers"

NEVER before have books In.
~ France been printed to the
extent that they are now being
printed. For a long time it was
thought that the record established
by Zola would never be equaled.
In the years preceding the war that
record was regarded as astonishing.
Now some of our noyelists are beat
ing that record with first books.
Zola figures were: La Debacle,"
100000; La Terre," 1000; LAS
sommoir," $4,000; ''Nana," 100000.
Later came "Cyrano de Bergerac,"
to sell $4,000; "L'Aiglon," to sell
100000; Les Desenchantees," to
sell 332, 900, and lie Lys Rouge" to
sell $4,000. Other figures: Louis
Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine' (now
a conspicuous "best seller" in the
United States.-Ed.), $4,000; Bar
busse's lie Feu." $4,000, and Bar
busse's "L'Enfer," 2S4, 900. "L'Atlan-
tide" has reached 10000, Les
Croix de Bois" 10000, Rene
Maran's "Batoula' has passed the
100000 and Ernest Perochon's
Meme" the $4,000. - Translated
from "L'Opinion" OF Paris.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-04-13
THE wOMAN'S CLUB

On Wednesday afternoon, April 5.
the members of the Woman's Club
met in group meetings.
Group | met with Mrs. WEIGH. II
is due to the efforts of this group
that street markers have been erected
on the principal streets of Berea-
something that the visitors to our
little city will surely appreciate. A
discussion of the child welfare work
now being carried on in Kentucky
proved very instructive.
Delicious refreshments were served
Group ii met at the home of Mrs.
Cunningham A program from the
compositions Of the great composer,
Beethoven, had been arranged. and a
number of Nictrola selections delight
ed the listeners.
Umbrellas and raircoats were very
much in evidence when the hostess
Of Group II, Mrs. Griffith. greeted
her guests at her pleasant home on
Jackson street, but gcodly number
were present. The leading feature
Of the meeting was talk given by
Miss Dizney on what has been &C
complshed BY the Child Welfare
Workers in Berea and its vicinity.
She gave some interesting statistics.
Malrutrition was found 10 be more
abundant among the city than the
rural children. Also a paper on the
subject Of "Vitamines" by Mrs. Weir
was appropriate and timely. The de-
licious cake and ice cream served by
the hostess was very refreshing.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-04-13
EASTER BAZAAR

The Ladies' Aid Of the Christian
Church will hold their usual Easter
Bazaar at Cornett and Deans store.
formerly used by Porter Moore Drug
Co.. Saturday Is There will be on
display many useful articles girls and
women need and want, and many
good things 10 eat every boy and
man will want To housekeepers
planning Easter dinner the dressed
hens and fresh eggs and beautiful
cakes and pies will solve the prob
lem. and we especially call attention
to the fact We will have several kinds
of homemade candy.
Give Us your patronage-we appre-
ciate it. The proceeds are to be
used for the remodeling Of tho
church.
The Ladies' Aid
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-04-13
DIR. BERGER. L. 8. VET

DR.. Berger will reach Berea Tues
day noon TO assist County Agent
Spence IN testing cattle, especially
cows, for T. Il.
Silver Creek community will be
visited first The collecting Of the
cows is in charge Of /. b. Chestnut
and Bill Johnson
Wet Berea and Wallaceton will bee
in charge Of A. b. Estridge. Whites
Station community will be- in charge
# Judge Goodloe and Todd Moore.
All people living in these commu-
mites or near, see the person in
charge and have cattle collected. in
groups.
Further information call County
Agent, Berea, Ky. Office phone l75,
Residence phone opt.