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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-28
SING SUN CECIL COUNTY, Md. FRIDAY. JULY 49, 1888
PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL
Items OF Social Nature OF In
terest To Our Readers

Mrs. Marian Fehr and daughter
are spending the week in Allentown,
Pennsylvania.
Miss M. Lidie Stewart is spending
some time with her sister, Mrs. Ella
Reese, in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, Mounds
vile, w. Va, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. William M. Mask.
Mrs. John E. Mackey entertained
her brother, James L. Hudson, of
Elkton, the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wolf, of
Lima, Pa, were guests last week of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Clinton Logan.
| Newell Jenkins and DAVIS Boyd
enjoyed several days by the seashore
at Ocean City, N. j., last week.
c. L. Dunn, Of Virginia, has been
spending some time at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. R. C. Dodson.
Mr.! and Mrs. William J. McDougal
entertained the past week Mr.. and
Mrs. George Williams, of Burlington,
N. ].
Misses Mary and Grace Rawlings,
of Baltimore, were guests last week
of Misses Esther and Mary Maxwell,
near town.
Mrs. Edwin l.. Haines, daughter
Anna and son Lincoln are enjoying
an extended sojourn at Cape Codd,
Massachusetts.
Miss Dorothy Hindman is visiting
her cousin, Miss Florence Barker, of
Groverman Avenue, West Airing
ton, Baltimore.
Mrs. J. c. Hindman, ST., and Miss
Helen Mosteller enjoyed the week
end in Baltimore, with her sister,
Mrs. John A. Barker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Pyle, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, are visiting Mrs.
Pyle's brother, Job w. Kirk, and
family.
Mrs. Mary Cherry and Miss Louise
M. Warrington were visitors at the
home of their brother, H. L. Worth
ington and family, in Baltimore,
during the week.
The members of the Komrade
Klub were very pleasantly enter
tanned on Thursday evening last by
Mrs. Norris ]. Reynolds, at her home
on Cherry street.
Mr.. Wilmer j. Wright, Of Lewis
vile, and Miss Jane Hamilton of
Hickory Hill, Pa, were MAJ ried on
Saturday, July Is, at the parsonage
at Cherry Hill, Md, by the pastor,
the Rev. J. w. Diehl.
Mrs. B. M. Boyd, daughter, Miss
Annie and son, E. K. Boyd, left last
week for southwestern Virginia,
making the trip of near six hundred
miles by automobile. They will be
guests of Mrs. Boyd's parents, and
will remain for some time.
Joseph Coudon, of Perryville,
who suffered serious injuries some
weeks ago when his auto struck
telephone pole along the roadside
near North East, has so far recover
ed as to be able to return to his
home from the Havre de Grace
Hospital.
| Elwood Loller, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James D. Loller, and Miss Myr-
tie Allen, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alonzo Allen, Earleville, were unit
ed in marriage July 13, at Cecilton,
the ceremony being performed by
the Rev. J. C. Mccoy. The young
couple will reside at "Rose HILL"
where the groom is employed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Hanna enter
tanned a number of young people at
their home in Wilmington on We'd
nesday night last. Those 10 enjoy
the evening with the host and host
ess were Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Ring
Ter, Misses Dorothy Bonner, Dorothy
Cameron, Marian Fehr, Mary Bro
kaw, Isabel Mccoy, Ross Cameron,
Joseph Cooney, William Liddell and
Ben Pogue.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-28

Divine grace sometimes descends
in the form Of plain common sense.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-28

Later success is what you get to
take the place of earlier enthusiasm.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-28
WEDDINGS
GORRELI-IRWINN

Miss Noami Irwin, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. o. H. Irwin, of Perry
vile, employed at Reade's Drug
Store, Havre de Grace, and Mr..
Howard Gorrell, of that city, were
quietly married at Cape May, N. j.,
on Thursday, July Is. The cere-
mony was performed by the Rey.
Gwynn Keller, pastor of the Cape
May Methodist Episcopal Church.
The bride is a graduate of Tome
School, class of 1880, and the groom
a member of the class of 1928 of the
Havre de Grace High School and
also graduate of Beacon Business
College, Wilmington, Del. He Is
employed at the Aberdeen Proving
Grounds
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-28

So long as there are attics there
win be mine of antiques.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-07-28
PHILLIPS-LARKIN

Miss Maude Amy Larkin, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas X. Lar
kin, of Philadelphia, and DR.. Roger
Earl Phillips, of Florida, now serv-
ing as an inferno at the University
Hospital, Philadelphia. were mar
ried in the Valley Forge Chapel, on
July 18th. A reception followed
the ceremony at the Washington
Inn, Valley Forge, to about one
hundred relatives and friends.
Miss Larkin is graduate of the
Kennett High School and of the
nursing school of the University
Hospital. She received the Amer
lean Legion medal in the eighth
grade.
Among the guests who attended
the wedding and reception were Mr..
and Mrs. Howard Brown, of Sylmar.
Evening star., 1933-12-10

have known the professor there has
never been any sherry in that decantef.
am quite certain that he does not
realize it is empty. Perhaps this is due
to the fact that whenever I am asked
by him to have glass of sherry, po-
litely step over to the table and lift the
empty decanter. BY the time ! have sat
down again the professor has forgotten
all about it. 1t was so this time. AS
sat down the professor plunged into the
subject of water divining.
'It is obvious" he said, that this in
fuence, if it exists, is electrical"
"Why?"
He blinked at me impatiently. Be
cause there is no contact between the
water and the person holding the twig.
That's why I call the influence elec-
trical."
II should call it magic"
Magic is only another word for elec-
tricity. Now, since we know that we
cannot send an electric current of any
power through the ether without a con-
ductor, it must be only slight current.
One that you could cut of by spreading
an insulator over the ground. That's
the first experiment should like to try
on your water diviner-to make him
stand on rubber bath mat"
Grand" I said. What else?"
II should ask him questions. I should
ask him, for example, in what other
parts of his body, apart from his hands,
he felt this strange influence. If he were
an honest man, know what he'd an
Swer"
"What?"
He'd tell me that he felt it on his
tongue. Haven't you ever put little
toy battery to your tongue, and felt the
sharp, bitter taste2 Yes? Well, why
do you feel that? Because your tongue
is intensely sensitive. That's what
water diviner ought to feel"
The professor proposed to try the
hazel twig idea himself.
But shan't use a hazel twig," he
said. "I shall use a piece of copper
wire. The hazel twig is sheer super
stition."
The professor arrived early for the
event, but, before making his expert
ments, the professor wanted to wait for
the water diviner
Il do not propose to make him a
Evening star., 1933-12-10
Dear College Days.
By Julian Street

fluids, learning to double. triple and quadruple
their mixture In order to make two, three or
four cocktails at time and come out even.
In one Of the larger laboratories we found
a group Of students at work on gin drinks
other than cocktails, under the capable di-
rection Of Prof. Patrick Mooney. late of
Healy's.
The professor was in the midst of lecture
Having taken up the gin rickey" he an
nounced, "as well as the gin hzz, and the
more complicated silver f1zz and golden fzz
we now approach the celebrated Ramos izz
which was invented" He raised his eye
brows interrogatively, looking at the class.
Then as no answer came, he frowned.
Il want to say to this group" he threatened.
"that If you don't keep up better on required
reading I shall have to funk you. Is there
no one in this class who has studied page
1872 Of the Bartenders Guide?"
"The Ramos f1zz was invented in New Or
leans" piped up q girl.
Right. Miss spiegel And at what place in
New Orleans?"
"At Ramos bar, sir"
Right again. Go to the blackboard and
give us the formula"
While Miss Spiegel was setting down the
formula, the professor continued.
The mixture of this beverage Is in itself
comparatively simple. The only diffculty in
volved is that Of fatigue to the arms caused
by the necessity of protracted and intensive
shaking. For this reason the faculty advises
against the dispensing of the Ramos fzz in
establishments to be presided over by our
woman graduates"
The lecture was still In progress when
the dean and tip-toed from the room.
Some of our girls are very bright and
studious" he told me. Nevertheless, may
say to you privately that was loath to make
our university co-educational"
do the boys and girls get into mischief"
mot at all Our dean of women was hostess
on week end cruise ship and her assistant.
who Is equally competent, came to US direct
from nudist colony where she was house
mother. The girls can't put anything over on
them. It's Just the idea Of the thing that
don't hke-so different from the old days"
We next visited recitation hall the senior
class was undergoing an oral quiz, conducted
by Prof. Jerry McGrath, formerly Of the Man.
haitian Hotel, but now of the department of
history, social science and psychology.
Evening star., 1933-12-10

- HE feel of early Winter on the air
speeded my steps across the campus
ON my way to my appointment with
the dean. Rich in Autumnal tints,
the comic section of a Sunday news
paper fiuttered past my feet. driven
by a wind that whined beneath the stately
Gothic arches. From the distant gymnasium
came the sound Of cheering. followed by the
college yell; but the bright-faced students
male and female, Fastening along the campus
walks, were needless of the shouting. With
textbooks, notebooks and cocktail shakers be-
meath their arms and bar spoons and jiggers
clutched in their fingers, they were evidently
fastening to their classes.
In his spacious Office in the administration
building Dean Dennis Mulcahey gave me
genial welcome. We have been friends since
the early years Of this century-the years when,
in spotless pique jacket, he stood with his
back to the voluptuous Rhine maidens Of
the north wall of the Hoffman House bar,
and dispensed wisdom and other pleasant
matters.
He had changed but little. His shrewd and
amiable face looked ruddier than it used to.
set OF, as 1t was now, by snow-white hair,
and the dignity Of his recently acquired ONCE
as active head Of the University of Bartending
and Kindred Arts sat well upon him.
with repeal so imminent" he told me. 'rve
uau my u6uuS Iul, organizing ILLS uSJLutaOu
of learning and getting it in running order.
On laboratory work we have been all right
from the first. but don't mind confessing to
you that until lately have felt that our
curriculum was little weak on the purely
intellectual side-history. philosophy, psy-
chology, that sort Of thing. But come, want
to show you what we're doing"
He slipped into flowing college gown. put
on his mortar board hat and led nee out and
across the campus to the chemistry building.
In the first room we entered a freshman
class was studying various types of glasses,
shakers. strainers. jiggers and other bar equip
ment; in the next room an instructor was
giving a lecture on the more familiar types
Of cocktail, the Martini, Manhattan, Bronx
and Bacardi. Further along the han some
sophomores were delving into more esoteric
branches Of cocktail mixing, the Jack Rose,
Honolulu, Glover Club, Amaranth, II. p. w,
Orange Blossom, Perfect Star and Soul Kiss.
Still another class was experimenting with
Evening star., 1933-12-10

present of any information may OBJ
tain," he said. Besides, wish to see
If I obtain any influences myself"
He dragged from his pocket piece
of copper wire and held it in front of
him, gripping it firmly. I saw that the
professor was about to go into a sort
of trance, and I prayed that he might
get it all over before the arrival of
Undine and Mrs. M. But at that exact
moment there was the sound of creak-
ing gate, and both these ladies made
their appearance. Undine was tremu-
lous with excitement. Mrs. NJ looked
grim and efficient. I observed that she
was carrying forked hazel twig. So
she was going to see if she could find
water, too!
Meanwhile, the professor was rapidly
going into his trance. He was stepping
forward slowly, holding the copper wire
between his hands and looking up to
the sky. I turned round to the ap-
preaching ladies, trying to warn them
not to disturb him. But it was too late.
Undine cried out:
OAA, PioACooOI-lcG ulc. one tIlppeQ
up to him
The professor blinked The copper
wire dropped from his hands.
HE'LL" said the professor Softly but
very clearly. And then he picked up the
copper wire and strode away.
I hustled about. I appeased Undine,
who was inclined to make scene.
made faces at Mrs. NJ and suggested
that she would be best employed if she
tried to find water before the diviner
arrived, suggestion which she indorsed
heartily. She Immediately took the
hazel twig and proceeded to wander
about, followed by the contemptuous
glanceS of Undine. Then I went to the
professor, and after a great deal of
argument induced him to return and
resume his operations.
LIE RETURNED and once more took
out the piece of copper wire. But
his face did not look at all trancelike.
1t grew more sad more irritated And
to my dismay I saw that his eyes were
fixed not on the heavens, but on Mrs.
NJ, who was making wide circles
round us.
The professor dropped his hands. "It
Evening star., 1933-12-10

Is hopeless, ne Salu. ne GREW ulS tiduu
YEARLY over his eyes. ITO be COM
pletely receptive to an extremely deli
cate influence such as this one must
be in condition of peace. And at the
moment (here his voice rose sharply.
I am not in a condition of peace"
What is disturbing you, professor?"
asked Undine, knowing very well that
the cause of the whole trouble was
Mrs M
Somebody" doomed the professor, "is
sending out emanations."
Since he was casting look of suS-
tanned hatred at Mrs. M, who had dis
tinctly heard his remark, she suddenly
realized the charge that was being
leveled at her. She dropped her hazel
twig and advanced toward us.
"Professor!"
II am sorry" observed the professor,
"but it is necessary for me to tell the
truth"
"And to make insulting remarks?"
"Insulting?" The professors eyes were
really blazing now. why is it insulting
to tell you that you have a strong per-
sonality?" He took a step forward. ITO
\tell you that you disturb me?"
Mrs. M. took step backward. This
was a development for which she was
entirely unprepared.
But surely-if I don't falkland re-
main quite still?"
"It would make no difference" said
the professor. Then an idea struck
him. wait a minute"
"Yes?" Mrs M. looked at him eagerly.
"Your head" cried the professor. "Yes
we can inclose your head in network
of copper gauze!"
What"
There was no time to demonstrate
with the professor. He was off again.
"And then," he said eagerly, you
should get some quite sexless person to
hold your hand"
He turned around and held out his
hands to Undine. What would have
happened next I do not dare to guess.
But just then a man with curious eyes
arrived and announced himself as the
water diviner.
The professor, fortunately, was so alb
sorbed in the new arrival that he quite
forgot Mrs. M. and Undine. He stared
very hard at the water diviner (who
was called by the agreeable name of
Sparkler), and constantly took out his
envelope to make notes.
Mr.. Sparkler took the twig from his
pocket and looked straight ahead of him.
Then he began to walk. He walked very
slowly with his arms rigid at his sides.
lowed him through the long grass.
I felt slight tingling in my skin
there was something queer about all
this. as though one were at seance.
"Oh, OIL"
1t was Undine who cried out. For
suddenly, right in the middle of the
field, the hazel twig had shot up in the
hands of Mr. Sparkler.
He turned round. He was painting and
there was sweat on his forehead.
You'll find water here, sir" he said.
I wish could describe the next stage
in the proceedings as scientifically as
they should be described. But I can
only draw pictures. can see the pro-
fessor painting across the field, dragging
a rubber bathmat after him. can see
the look of astonishment on Mr..
Sparkler's face when, standing on the
bathmat, over the exact spot where he
had found the water, the twig refused
to move. can see the look of relief
that came over him when, the bathmat
having been removed, the twig jumped
again.
I can see, too, the hurryings and
Evening star., 1933-12-10

dry up entirely, but you'll never have
much to spare"
What ought to do?"
"You should pump this well dry to-
night, make note of the time that it's
dry, and then see what the level is in
the morning. prophesy it will be about
A inches only after IL hours" (This
prophecy was accurate to half an inch)
AFTER that"
-sF-<s'' = .s4sssisss.
HOWEVER, | there was no time to issue
further injunctions, for we heard
La Belle Undine's voice from the dis
tance. Willy-nilly, we had to 60 and
join her on the lawn.
Lets dig lovely hole here and it'll
come up in fountains!" she cried, when
she saw us, dancing round the lawn.
That's the last place to dig" said Mrs.
M. shortly. This is blue clay. You'll
find water only in gravel veins"
Undine shuddered. "How frightful
chat sounds-gravel veins" Then she
futtered to me again. Don't you think
we could induce the water to come here?
Supposing we sang to it, or danced?"
Just then the professor came walking
across the lawn. He had come to ask
me a question about something, but, as
usual, had forgotten what it was. For,
as he had been walking through the
garden, he had met the gardener, who
had taken him to the well and told him
all about its drying up. He had also told
him that we thought of getting a water
diviner to see if it would be any use
to sink new well anywhere
Your man tells me you believe in
witchcraft," said the professor abruptly,
blinking at Mrs. M. and taking out of
his pocket an envelope on which he
made a small note
This is an incurable habit of the pro-
fessor's, but Mrs. M. has never got used
to it. She thinks he is making notes
about her.
Mrs. M. Strengthened her hat nerv-
cuSly.
"Witchcraft?"
water divining is witchcraft, isn't it?"
"Oh, but you must believe in water
divining," gurgled Undine. Its heav-
enly! You dance about with a lovely
branch, and suddenly the branch
dances, too, and water comes up in foun-
tains!"
The professor did not reply. He
merely blinked at Undine, took an en-
velope out Of his pocket and made an
other note. This damped Undine for
the moment.
He turned IN mo ohrr,y,tJv
will you get water diviner? I'd
like to test him?"
why, of course"
"Shall we say next Tuesday, after
lunch?"
EYES,"
The professor blinked again, made an
other note and then with a sigh walked
away.
On the evening before the water
diviner came went round to see the
professor at his cottage. found him
sitting in room that smelt strongly
of insecticide. Even as I was shown
into the room he dashed to the window
with spray and squirted it violently.
Wasps?" asked.
"No-moths." He stared at the floor
and Squirted once more IT think that's
finished it" he sighed. II have horror
Of moths.
Il could probably be psychoanalyzed
out of it, because know exactly why
I've got it.. My father was a brute. He
used to ill-treat my mother. My room
was next to theirs, when was a boy.
I used to hear things through the wall.
I couldn't sleep. used to turn on the
light and stare out of the window
Evening star., 1933-12-10

I "How many feet after heavy rain?"
] "About five, madame"
Never higher?"
mo"
There was rapid fire of questions in
the same style. Mrs M. turned to me.
This is how I'd judge the situation"
she said. You aren't on spring. Your
water just filters in. It's not likely to
dry up entirely, but you'll never have
much to spare"
What ought I to do?"
"You should pump this well dry to-
night, make a note of the time that it's
dry, and then see what the level is in
the morning. prophesy it will be about
A inches only after IL hours" (This
prophecy was accurate to half an inch.)
after that"
1s-a
Evening star., 1933-12-10

LIE WAVED his hand to an empty
decanter which was always kept
among a mass of scientific apparatus
On one of his tables As long as I
Evening star., 1933-01-08
TRUCKMEN FAVOR
us. REGULATIONS
Join Railways and |. C. c. in
Plea for Road Traffic
Legislation.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Truck operators yesterday Joined with
the railroads and the Interstate Com
merce Commission in urging Congress
to regulate highway truck trafic.
Representatives of truck operators
from % States met here yesterday to
determine policy and draft a tentative
bill for regulation to be submitted to
the congressional committees handling
the situation. The truckmen also plan
to seek the cooperation of bus oper.
ators in the plan.
The bill to be drawn by the Legis-
lative Committee of the American High
way Freight Association and attorneys
for the organization Is expected to
provide Federal regulation for not only
the common carrier trucks operating
over regular routes, but also the con-
tract truck and industrial truck. 1t
will provide for Federal license tags to
be carried by interstate trucks, which
will do away, they hope, with the
necessity of purchasing State tags in
any other than the home State Of the
truck.
THE purchase OF Federal license
plates" said j. l.. Keeshin of Chicago,
president of the association, would
provide the Federal Government with
several millions of dollars of revenue. !"
The plan to be broached to Congress
by the motor carriers closely follows the
recommendations the Interstate Com
merce Commission made to Congress
early in December. 1t would provide
Federal certificates of necessity and
convenience for truck lines, Federal
licensing and regulation of rates, size
OF trucks and safety factors.
Evening star., 1933-01-08
BOYS CLUB PRIZES
ROOSEVELT PICTURE
Autographed Photograph of Presi.
dent-Elect Presented in 1929
for Excellent Work.

An autographed photograph Of Presi-
dent-elect Roosevelt occupies an i'm
portant place on the walls of the North
east Boys Club, 1853 Kramer street
northeast, and Is the cherished posses
sion Of members of the c. ]. Club. to
whom 1t was sent by Mr.. Roosevelt four
years ago.
Mr.. Roosevelt learned of the C. j.
Club through John A. Gage, who had
been q club leader for two years. When
the President-elect heard how the
youthful members spent their savings
for Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets
for the needy he sent the boys his pho
tograph, inscribed. ITO the c. j. Club
of shington-Franklin D. Roosevelt,
January, 1929"
The G. j. Club was organized five
years ago by IA boys who got the idea
from Coleman Jennings, now president
of the Associated Charities and mem
Der OF the board of trustees of the Com
munity Chest. Mr.. Jennings chanced
across the boys In a group playing to-
gether in the Northeast section and in
Wted them to be his guests at a party
The boys later organized the club
and named it with Mr.. Jennings in
itial. The membership has been in
creased to 25 and the club is going
strong.