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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-17
st. Johns pay


The caterer, who will feed the
St. Johns Day crowd of knights
Templar, estimated at well up to
1000, is advertising for 40 girls to
serve as mattresses. The banquet
will be served at noon, June "a, on
Franklin Park under a mammoth
canvas, and the guests of Pilgrim
Commandery OF Pennington, will be
members of St. Alban commandery
of Portland, ST. Armand Command
cry of kennebunk, and Strathglass
commandery of Rumford, each of
which will bring a band. Pilgrim
commandery has it's own band of
30 pieces, the only band in Maine
composed wholly of knights Temp
lar and appearing in public in full
regalia of the order. This band will
give concert before and during the
banquet, and each of the other
bands will give concerts later in the
day and in the late evening the
bands will consolidate and march to
the station for the return trip.
Soon after arrival in the morning
there will be a parade of the princi-
pal streets of the village, Pilgrim
and its band serving as escort to its
guests. During the afternoon there
will be a vaudeville entertainment,
poxlnS matches. ball games between
teams from two of the command
cries, then by teams from the other
two. and finally between the two
winning teams. There will also be
other interesting features, and a buff
fet lunch will be served In the big
tent shortly before the march to the
station begins.
Today was big day for Miss Eva
Childs. chosen Miss Pennington in
the six weeks voting contest ending
last week. and Myron Starbird, chos-
en- by her to be MIR. Farmington,"
for they were given a free auto
mobile ride all around the neigh
boring country, accompanied by a
picked delegation from a local band
OF musicians, cars placarded to
show who they were and what they
represented.
Lem Moody, who has been in
klrksville, Mo. for several months.
attending school of osteopathv,
has returned to Maine for the sum-
mer but intends TO continue his
course there in the fall. He likes
the work very much.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-17

that were taken at a meeting last
fall, for comparison at this meeting
Mr.. Blackwell will be at the south
end Of the Winslow bridge with HIS
truck at quarter to ten. to take all
those members who have no means
Of transportation down to his home.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29
q I1h5sstxR4I4, 81 "a.
sSDOI y & Martha Martin


Peter accepted for all of his family.
She invited the DOGGY family and the
Oaf family and she invited the Cloud
Fairies.
Some one asked her how she ex-
pected to have all of the guests come.
1t would not be possible to have the
King of the Clouds and the Army of
Raindrops and the Mist grandchildren
and the Rainbow Brothers and the
others all at the same time
Effie Elf invited her guests to come
in the afternoon and to remain until
night. Some of the guests had other
engagements and told her they could
not stay all those hours, but they
could stay for while and that pleased
Effie Elf
Well, the party began. And all the
guests came. The Fairies and the
Brownies, the Gnomes and the mem
bers Of the Bogey and Oaf families,
Witty Witch and old Mr.. Giant-every
one of them appeared
And then, all of sudden it began
to rain and then every one remem-
bered that it had been said that the
King of the Clouds and the Army of
Raindrops and the Mist grandchildren
had all been invited.
And how dark they made 1t and how
they did pour down and what spat-
tering and spIashing they made. But
Effie Elf had called her guests to come
within the great Elfiand tent so they
could look out from every side with
out getting wet
Before long Mr.. Sun appeared right
while the King of the Clouds was com
ing down, and he called out:
Hello, King, how are your 1t
shows what a high-up creature Mr.
Sun is that he feels entitled to speak
to a king in such fashion. And the
King of the Clouds liked to be greeted
in that way by so noble and high
creature as Mr.. Sun.
And then appeared the Rainbow
Brothers and Mother Rainbow looked
over them. All the Rainbow children
came, too, for Mother Rainbow al
ways brings her children with her.
They wore orange and green and pink
and lavender.
Oh, then came the Cloud Fairies in
fluffy white silvery costumes, and
some wore sashes of yellow golden
cloud silk which were very gorgeous.
Later Mr.. Moon came peeping over
a hill and Mr.. Sun excused himself po-
litely after a bit. But oh, such
gorgeous ball it was, and every guest
came to it!
(Copyright.l
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29
THE OLD QUILT

The old quilt had been up in the
attic for long, long time.
Moths had come and had had ban
quets right on the quilt. That was
really disgrace for the quilt to
suffer.
Oh, there had been the time when
the quilt never had to put up with
anything like that
There had been the time when dur
ing the summer, the quilt had been
put away, and when moth balls and
newspapers had been used to keep the
quilt safe from moths and their ban
quets.
There had been the time when the
quilt had been taken out as winter
had approached, and had been greeted
so affectionately.
Speeches like this the quilt had
heard:
"oh, the quilt will feel pretty good
tonight"
"oh, the quilt win be needed to-
night"
what a lovely warm thing the
quilt is"
How warm and yet how light 1t
isl''
"We needed the quilt last night.
Well, we will have it tonight"
Such had been some of the speeches
the quilt had heard. And then the
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29
CHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
b. H, IRVING KING
MAGIC OF RAW SKINS

c IR WALTER SCOTT said that one
~ OF his earliest recollections was of
lying on the floor of the grandfather's
house wrapped in a bloody skin just
stripped from a slaughtered sheep to
cure his lameness Sir Walters peO-
pie were of the border gentry related
to the high Scottish nobility, educated
and enlightened for their time, yet
they apparently had full faith in this
ancient piece of folkmedicine and
looked for better results from its
magic than from the learning of the
medical faculty of Edinburgh who
had been consulted concerning young
Scott's affliction. And Edinburgh was
then the very headquarters of medi-
cal knowledge.
1t was about the time of the battle
Of Funker Hill that Sir Walter lay
wrapped in the freshly stripped sheep
skin but in some respects times have
not altered so very much since that
date The warm and bloody sheep
skin newly stripped is still considered
in many parts both of this country
and Europe as a sovereign cure for GER
tain diseases. In different parts of
the country different diseases are
specified as the ones for which the
fresh skin is to be applied. In one
section they generally recommend it
for Inflammation of the bowels. There
are kindred superstitions throughout
the country with regard to fresh skins
of other animals. In another section
they cure chilblains by wrapping the
feet In a warm, bloody rabbit skin"
This is nothing more or less than
survival of the primitive idea of dis
ease transference. Modern science
ascribes the transmission of disease
to microbes; primitive man ascribed
It to magic. Modern science conceives
a transmission; Mr. Caveman went
further and conceived transference.
Then since transference was possible
why not transfer the disease to an
animal or to the skin of an animal so
newly stripped that it still retained
the receptive qualities of the animal
in fact the magic of association of the
animal itself?
And get little rabbit skin
To wrap the baby up In.
20 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29
How Ii Started
THE "UNION JACK"
By JEAN NEWTON

stST~ HE Star-Spangled Banner ex-
4 plains itself; likewise the Tri-
color of France. But who put the
Jack in Union Jack? This curious
term, which is the name by which we
know the British flag, has been the
subject of much surmise, but so unique
is it's history that you would never
guess it in a thousand years
In ancient times every English sol
der in the field wore the protecting
"jacque' or surtout (overall), which
was a garment of padded leather inter-
spersed with pieces of plate armor,
upon the breast the crimson cross of
st. George When the soldiers had oc-
casion to board a ship their j-cques
were placed next to each other along
the bulwarks of the ship In the same
way that the Romans arranged their
shields on board their galleys. The
jacques so afforded the men protection
against the arrows of their adver-
saries on the water and by the device
upon their outer side proclaimed the
nationality of the ship. Excepting the
kings own ship. which flew the royal
arms on silken sail, the jacques
bore the only indication of the nation
ality of vessel.
In the course Of time, when the
jacques were no longer needed along
the bulwarks. solitary jacque was
displayed at the bowsprit, and so the
name Jack" came into use for the
flag that superseded it.
In 1901 the three kingdoms Of Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland, were for
mally united and the British flag made
a combination of the. cross Of st.
George for England, of st. Andrew
for Scotland and St Patrick for Ire
land. It was this union which made
the British flag the Union. Jack
scoDyright.l
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29
Employing Spare Time
Can Bring Girl Success

What a business girl does with her
leisure, with the little margin of her
life outside the ! office determines
whether she will degenerate into a
mere business machine or maintain
her status as human being
The difference between keeping up"
and getting on" lies largely in the use
of the margin of time between the
business or professional hours and
those which must be used for the body
maintaining process Of sleep and the
body-rebuilding means of food and
exercise, says a writer in the Business
Woman.
According to our use of the small
margin of time will become and re-
main effective business. or professional
women of wide vision, of broad in
terests and deep and helpful knowl-
edge of life or high grade, concededly
efficient mental machines" continues
the writer. "Some professions, as
some kinds of business, are more
broadening and educational than
others. Not one, but many seem to
us, at times, weary desert Of dusty
facts To water our lives and make
them bloom we should turn on the
stream of other interests"
In this connection the writer recon-
mends the study Of languages, which,
she AYERS, is tremendous business
asset. And especially she recommends
the study of music, the universal lam
guage," a membership in some choral
society, visits TO art galleries and
hours out of doors on Sunday. For
she does not believe that the business
woman should devote her Sundays to
freshening up her wardrobe.
.grhe woman Of today need not
choose between being a business wom-
an and a human being. She may be
both. Her fear she will degenerate
into mere business machine need
not be fulfilled. Woman's entry into
business is beginning to humanize her.
She can perform that mission without
allowing her business life to degener-
ate into a husband hunt But to re-
main human Will depend largely on
the woman's employment Of the tiny
margin OF time the wee, precious seq
menf Of life outside Of the office.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29
AS Told by
Irwin S. Cobb
SIGNS OF DEPARTURE

TOR some reason or other a good
many stories of financial disaster
have for their heroes or their central
characters colored persons. For in
stance, there is the time-honored yarn
of the mulatto cashier who told a
black depositor seeking to withdraw
his funds ''dat de intrust had done ct
up dat money!" And one likewise re-
calls the pathetic narrative of the
ancient negro who, on being told by
the state bank examiner that banks
had busted before and that no doubt
in the future banks would continue to
bust, sorrowfully replied: "Yas, sub,
/ reckin you's right. But, boss, dis
is de fust time ever had one bust
right in my face q
| think of yet a third: An elderly
person Of color secured a job as janl-
tor in national bank. He put his
savings on deposit in the institution,
but after few weeks withdrew the
sum and transferred 1t to a rival bank
across the street. News of this hav-
ing reached the presidents ears, he
sent for the old man.
Uncle Ike" he said, "of course your
money is your own to do with as you
please, but don't you think it looks
peculiar for you to be working here
for us and keeping your money some
where else? What's the idea any
how?"
''Well, Mist Blanchard" said Uncle
Ike, "I's tuck notice dat you wears
yore hat all de time you's in yore
office. amt never seen you widout
you had yore hat clamped on yore
haid.''
what has my habit Of wearing my
hat constantly to do with the case?"
asked the puzzled president.
Mist Blanchard" said Uncle Ike,
Il amt gwine tell you no lie. If you
must know de truth, it's done made
me Uneasy. You looks so much lax
man OATS fixin' to go way some
whar's in a hurryr
&c. by the Central Press Association.)
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29

Fairy Princess Joy said she wouldn't
miss it for anything.
you'll be sure to come. won't you,
Fairy Ybab?p she asked. And Fairy
Ybab said she would come and that
the Fairies orchestra would come, too.
"Then," said Fairy Ybab. when the
members of the Elves orchestra want
to dance we will play for theml"
And then Effie Elf asked the rest
of the Fairies, and all of the Brownies,
and Billie Brownie and his brother,
Bonnie. accepted for the whole fam
lily!
Effie Elf invited old Mr. Giant and
Witty Witch and she invited Mr. Sun
and Mr. Moon.
She invited the King of the Clouds
and the Army of Raindrops and the
Mist grandchildren and the Rainbow
Brothers. She invited the Gnomes and
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29

quilt had been tucked up under the
chins of children.
The quilt was very old, oh, very,
very old. But many a happy time,
oh, many and many happy time the
quilt had had.
When the quilt was new it had been
used to cover up two children who
slept in trundle bed. In the day
time the trundle bed had been put I'M
der the big bed in the mothers and
fathers bedroom.
OF course the children were out Of
the bed then
The quilt had felt so proud and
happy covering the children each
night.
The quilt had loved being tucked
under their chins. The quilt had felt
their affection.
Then the children had grown up
and the quilt had been used for a
big, tall bed.
And then once more the quilt had
been used for children-the children
of those who had grown up.
And then the quilt had been used
again for grownups.
Oh, the quilt had had long, long
life. You will hardly wonder that the
quilt had had proud and happy time
for many, many years, when you hear
that the quilt was now over hundred
years old.
But for the past ten years or so
the quilt had been in the attic The
trundle bed was deserted. The chill
dren Of the second group Of children
now slept in other beds.
The trundle bed was used some
times On rainy days when the chill
dren played house in the attic
But the poor old quilt with its moth
eaten holes, its dark blue covering
faded and dusty and musty now,
thought of the long life it had had
and how now it was permitted to be
used by moths for moth banquet.
Nothing is a greater disgrace for
a proud old quilt than to be used as
the table for a moth banquet.
But all of a sudden the quilt knew
a great change. The quilt was brought
down from the attic aud busted and
swept and made all nice and clean.
ut has few moth holes in it, they
said, "but it will do
Once more the quilt received fine
speeches and kind words. Once more
they said how warm it was and how
light in weight it was.
But what do you suppose the guilt
was used for now? For covering the
laps of members Of the family when
they went for rides in the automobile.
Even an old quilt had to change and
become modern and go dashing
through the country. 1t was change
for the old quilt, but the old quilt
really liked 1t and did not feel so old
fashioned as you might think.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29
THE ELVES PARTY

wC ONE to the ball." said Effie Elf.
" @We are giving a ball, we want
every one to- come"
And she went around asking all the
friends of the Elves, and the friends
of the Elves are many.
"You'll be sure to come, won't you,
Fairy Princess Twilight-Bell? n she
asked. And Fairy Princess Twilight
Bell accepted with much joy.
'You1l be sure to come, won't you.
Fairy Princess Joy?" she asked. And
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29
Titles Made Hereditary

The title smarkgraf' or "margrave"
was at FIRST held only during the life
of the incumbent. AS these men be-
came more independent and powerful
their positions and titles became vest
ed in the same line and they were
established as a powerful hereditary
order of nobility. This occurred about
the Twelfth century. The margraves
then acquired the rapk Of princes OF
she empire, between counts and dukes.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29
Great Personages
of the Bible
BY
REV. LEONARD A. BARRETT
Deborah

4RCOOa ASAA
OUTRAGE for women is not new
- idea. 1t is not an achievement Of
the Twentieth century. SO far as our
! modern civilization is concerned it is
not new. Centuries before the Chris
tian era of Jabin, king of Canaan, De-
borah was unanimously elected to one
of the most responsible political po-
sitions of her time. This unique hon
or came to her not because of her an
cestry, for in her veins flowed no royal
blood; nor was her rise to political
power due to a brilliant marriage. On
the contrary, she married a poor and
unknown man. Deborah was poor in
this worlds. goods, but she possessed
the natural endowments of brilliant
intellect and convincing personality.
These attributes of personality drew
the people to her. They not only adj
mired her; they loved her. When the
time came for the people to say who
was to reign as their queen, they
placed the crown upon the head of
Deborah.
Deborah had the gift of song. She
sang herself to many victory. The
music of her life inspired and encour-
aged all who heard it. The song Of
Deborah* has come down the aisles OF
time as one of the truly great compo-
sitions in the literature of music.
The dramatic career of Deborah is
seen in her experience with Sisera,
whose official position was that of cap
tain of the kings army. The Israel
ties were being prosecuted under the
command of Sisera Unmentionable
crimes against the Israelites were com
mitted with no motive other than
crime for the sake of crime. No Is
raelite's life was safe Sisera was
feared by everyone He was known
as a vicious assassin. During the
days of this persecution, Deborah
spent her days in ministry to human
need. She bound up the wounds of
the suffering people of Israel. She
comforted and sympathized with them.
She cheered them with her wonderful
songs. The more suffering she came
in contact with the more her heart
bled for her people. Not being able
to endure it, with righteous anger
dominating her heart and a sense of
outraged justice impelling her to do
something drastic, she engaged the
service of a man named Barak to do
away with Sisera In a critical hour
the courage of Barak failed He re-
fused to go into the presence of Sis
era unaccompanied. He implored
Deborah to go with him. Queenlike,
Che went. In the battle which fol
lowed, Deborah became the leader of
Ithe forces of Israel which fought
against the invading Canaanites. The
lpeople, inspired by Deborah, the Joan
eff Are of the ancient day, fought as
they never fought before The sword
bf Sisera was broken and Israel gained
The victory. Deborah is known for
her heroism in battle, but more par
ticularly for her songs. Music has
power to comfort and command. Let
me write the songs of nation, and
/ care not who will write its laws
Oh how the boys in the late war
learned to sing. Some sang even
when going over the top. Learn to
sing. Meet the problems of life with
a song in the heart It will help in
wonderful way to solve your problem.
RECORDED in the fifth chapter Of
20, 1925, western Newspaper union>
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29
Would Jimmie Fit /?

Roger had not seen his little cousin
for a year and he talked necessarily
Of Jimmie's coming visit. He won
dered if Jimmie had grown as much
as he had, and he expressed it thus {:
''I'm long boy now I wonder II
Jimmiell fit me-"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29

Bobbie's sister had bobbed her hair
and now was carrying her comb
around with her Bobbie was vexed
one evening, and said, Nothing but
old hens carry their combs around
with them"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-07-29

sstTV HATS that" The Hotel Ste
4 nographer smilingly put the COW
er on her typewriter.
Done for the day?" asked the
House Detective.
Kelly, am done with that job for
ever" laughed the girl That's the
thing which keeps me downtown
dressed up all day instead of at home
in curl papers and kimono. Down here
| finish a job knowing / will never
have to do it again. That's a lot of
letters about stock in a cement coffin
company The suckers will bite and
get hooked or they will wasre-basket
those letters as they should BE- In
either event l won't have to v.ite
them again That the cement casket
people waste lot of cement that
ought to be made into good roads
everywhere is none Of my affafE
but at home there is no SUI
as finishing a job. While
one red flannel undershirt
dirties another. While you No
the breakfast dishes you mr.
scraps into stew for lunch sgazsa Il
the pot of cabbage you cook for
ner onto warmer part Of the stovs
while you scrub the kitchen Els
telle cuts paper dolls and scatters the
scraps all over the dining room, while
pop knocks the ashes out of his pipe
on the arm of the chair in the sitting
room. So it goes day in and day out,
week in and week out, and months and
years till they scent up the fiat with
tube loses for the woman who had q
job that never was done.
me for business, Kelly, where you
can see the finish of something.
Home life is like one of those
movie serials which never finishes,
or continued story in a magazine
which is never donel hope l never
fall in love and marry!''
90 by the McNaught Syndicate, Inc)
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1926-08-27
Marylandsky Den ma
vYStaviSti.

Tento patek slaven jest ma
vystave We Filadelfii MARY
landsky Dem. Velika delega-
ce naSeho statu vedena jest
governerem Richie.
Delegace odj1zdi v patek ra-
no 8 hodin do Filadelfie VIA
ky Pennsylvanske a Baltimore
and Ohio drahy.
Mezi jinym u Marylandske-
ho sloupu SIM Cti polozen bu-
de venec ku vzpom1nce ma ety.
Fl Marylandske, kteri pred $50
roxy podepsali "Prohlaseni
Neodvislosti."
Odpoledne darovan bude
Marylandsky hedvabny pra-
por Filadelfickemu zenskemu
vyboru vystavy.
z Filadelfie delegace odeje-
de v 9 hodin vecer.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1926-08-27
Vetsi valka " Europe pry
nemoZnosti.

Baltimorsky rabfn, DR.. Will
liam Roseman, jenz prave vra-
til Sc. z cesty pc Europe, kde
navstlvil Francii, Belgii, Ho-
landsko a Nemecko, vypravuje
ze V Europe dnes nalezl pome-
ry horst nezli byly. tam roku
1924. S vyminkou Nemecka
rab1n fekl, malo kde jake zlep-
Semi videl. Pomery v AngliL
jsou rozhodne spatne. Francie
zdala Sc mu byti obrazem nej-
horst mizerie dnesn1 Evropy.
Anerict1 turiste v1tani jsou
jenom tam, kan pTinesou pen1-
ze. Y Europe zda Sc mu z nej-
yetslho blahobytu re Sc test
Holandsko.