The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-19
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BY WILL u. AsIEs .
TITLE Daisy Hemph3lls didn't
9 typ circus IN the least.
Il - No. You look for he-5 kind behind
q IN e soda fountain OFF, village
IA dTug store and think CT pink and
4 white checkered bingham as hay
ing been 1insptraticna!ly created
lust her variety of prettiness.f
5Nsyertheless there was SO very
deep a,strain Of It In her blood
4 that the night which witnessed
the gtragic derailmeat of the Har-
fdenburg performers train took
fsaWayS both her parents in one aw-
ul5moment.
The All America show was al
ready$:n win ter quarters. Madame
sFelice Hebert, who. had known
the Empillo duo. premier double
Sbarebeck act ever since Daisy
was child and who had lived
more than one winter in the
back room of their cottage
kin& thesgAll Americas home town,
threw up both arms and shrieked
when B OBJ Sloan, boss of the paint
shop, brought the terrible news
into the wardrobe loft. Then she
grabbed her! hat: torc down two
jsf1ig htsS Of steps, raced the entire
500 yards of trackagc and eXer-
else ground to theback gate, hail
ed a passing taxi and in six min
ssutes was at Daisys boarding
onse, holding the grief shaken
z5rphaninS: b er rms
81 heEonly thing aboutsF elice He
bert tina t was n lot utterly French
was her ccent--w hich7 simply
didn,t list The circus is, a school
pupils among the StanbG rk folk;
but the thriftsofs IL me. Herbert
twas an All American .axi om.s Yet,
s@llen the first dreadfulsda days were
soyerSand Daisyrcame to the facing
of#the future kinless- orphan, it
was only her own inherent sense
ofsjustice#that proven ted the hard
working swardrobe woman from
taking upon herself the place of
4 bothSfather and mother and main
tanning Daisy t1iisNo ugh the final
year OF her high school course.
3sss5sfs$stB But look here child" expos
tuIated Nine Felice, haven't
Ibeen5yo mothers best friend for
sasdozen years, eyer nee she first
I camessto our show and whether
other2 Haven 1 watched you
grow up from a little bitsof a kid?
Who's got better right? OF
course there's the house and
little Bit on the side. but you're
SIM 1YSnot going to cat that up
you're goin g to have something to
start life on.
ut I'm not going to do that"
argued Daisy II m not going to
school any more. I'm going to-
work
And Ito this: arrangement Nine:
;.FeHce was eyentralfy Competed
Sto acQuiesce. But She had her
way about one; thing. IF you're
|Egoing to earn your own living,
DAISY, ''Sshe said you're coming
into3 my loft. with me- simply,
won, t have you knocking around
ANY old place
And that's thow.sit-+ came that
Daisy Hemphill, who didn't type
circus a little bit, Ca to earning
her living stitching vari-colored
Jewels in, huge designs on mann
4moth elephant blankets Of black
velvet. And Daisy's job was
very much more responsible one
18th IAN t sounds.
sssEs F.or,-be it known, to the sur
prise no doubt of tie uninitiated
sthat5 the bushels of GEMS employed
55sbYEa big circus in bcdizenins the
fTappinSs of Its beasts arc no or
#slinary fabrications of glass. If
stheyEwere, week of the wear and
tear Of the road would leave no
Single CLEAN in them. Instead
they are truly synthetic jewels of
parts, and come from overseas,
and cost a packsof money in the
sEotal n ow@it happens that just
aIat8the# timeSwh DGis.y, under the
8kindl y4stutelag of the wardrobe
chieftainess, became a seamstress
10 elephants, camels and Arab
chargers, these highly essential !
gems had become very hard to get
&and9extremely high in price. The
country where they were made |
Shaving with traffic folly permitted
itselfstos become involved on the
wrong side Of the great war, the
markets of the world were closed
tt-and Enoch Prout. the All
Ss&merica's purchasing agent, had
made haste to gather in all the
Jewels in sight TheyE
hist thousands where formerly
hey had cost hundreds..t but mas
snauch as twas now assured that
huoE other circus would be able toll
3riyaI the magnificence of the All
AneTica trappfngs next season
Enoch had cleaned out the