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ROSEBURG. OREGON. TUESDAY, JUNE 21. 1927.
VOL. XVIIINO. 127 OF THE EVENING NEWS
VOL. XXVIII NO, 62 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
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THE WOMAN'S DAY
BY ALLENE SUMNER
Today's unmarried woman takeB
her independence, her privileges
her conceded "right to her own.
life," bo much for granted that she
forgets occasionally the Quite dif
ferent lot.of the unmarried woman
of a generation ago. One of the
most perfect pictures of the rebell
ious old maid of the 80's is Ellen
Dacy, heroine of Helen Hull's new
novel, "Islanders." The title comes
from a line of Matthew Arnold
"Yes; in the Bea of life enisled "
Ellen Dacy feels herself "enisled"
because of the seHishuess of "men
folks," because of the universal
acceptance of their belief that wo
men should wait for -what men
, give them and carve out no life for
themselves.
Ellen Was Typtcat
One may not at first think Ellen
tvpical of her day. One may
think that the rebellious "old maid"
who did not take her lot for grant
ed was the exception and not the
rule. Hut I nm Inclined to think'
that all the seemed placid, accep
tive old maids of 500 years ago
were in reality the same seething
furnaces of revolt that was Ellen.
Ellen was just a girl when he lov
er, her father and her brother
"Joined the gold rush." They talk
ed much of "going for the women
folks coming back with piles of
gold for you making your HveB
easy," but Ellen was not fooled by
their fine words, if her mother was.
She knew that it waB not unselfish
love for their "women folks" that
drove these men out across the
plains and mountains, but the zest
to "live their own lives," unfetted
from family responsibilities, lives
of adventure, romance, and drama.
Pa Came Horns
Eighteen years went on, while
"women folks" ran the unyielding
huge farm. They almost starved.
They suffered from cold and the
terrible loneliness of remote
places. Ellen plowed and sowed
and reaped, milked and cooked and
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sewed, and, hardest of all, kept
hope blooming In her mother's and
Blster-ln-law's hearts, and kept her
own corroding bitterness from
showing through. Eighteen years
later her father, worn out by too
much freedom, too much adven
ture, too much unrewarded search
ing for the gold that was not out
west but had been in his own farm'
It he had only stayed there to till
it, came home.
Wanted to Lord It
He resented Ellen's feeling of
possession of the farm, Ellen tried
to keep this feeling hidden, but
could not always do so. She was
hitter and Irritable those days.
Until she saw her fnther she
thought she had long forgotten
Matthew, her lover. But when she
saw her father
"Like flame, like the spring rest
lessness in the colt, hope that she
had done with years ago, burst
through the stones she had laid
heavy over it, Bwept In a storm
through her hard, strong body, so
that she twisted her hands Into
the mane of the colt and clung
there. Then she saw her mother's
face, stern warning pity in the
sunken eyes:
" 'Did you come s alone'?" she
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cried out, but she knew before Bhe
usked.
" ltob has settled somewhere on
the coast,' " Manila said. " 'Pa
does not know where Matthew is
now'."
"Oh, fooi, fool, to let hope, trick
herl Her knuckles scraped the
rough wood and the smart gave her
angry relief. The spring Bun had
done It, and the suddenness. What
was Matthew, or any man to per?
She was old and dons with
dreams."
Injustice
Eighteen years of slavery to the
farm, doing her father's and broth
er's work while they philandered
for adventure and gold, theu iher
father announced that he had told
the farm. Thurston her younger
brother, had urged hlin to. He
needed cash and if Fa gave him
the proceeds he would "give nlni
and Ellen a good home always."
"Ellen stood motionless. Bell It,
the land? Why, it was hers! Her
41fe spread over the smooth acres.
" 'I'd have you know this Is my
land,' said Ellen's father. 'I set
tled it. I cleared It and mafle Jt
a home.'
" 'You left it, didn't you?' asked
Ellen. "You left it, and for twenty
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years I've worked day in and day
out. . You didn't care then what I
sowed or reaped.'
Brotherly Love
'"Now, Ellen, it's not yours. It's
his. . And he sees eye to eye with
me. This Is the time to sell It.
You cau't work like a man all your
life. I tell you I don't want you
crashing around in men's hoots,
while I make the Dacy name mean
something. "You ought to be thank
ful there's a good home waiting for
OU.'
"A good home until she died.
They would give her that. Without
these acres she was nothing. They
would take her life, her Job, her
reason for being, away from her.
Profoundly she knew that she had
been less barren, living there, mak
ing the land yield. What could Bhe
do? Until she died. Soon she
would he 40, thon 6060. Listen
ing to the light Voice of Thurston's
wife making complaints. Her
brother and father; they could do
this. They were strong against her
impotence, in wanton, male arro
gance." Why We Are I
Well, they made her do It, and
that's the rest of the story. Hut
such a reminder as this of a day
when women's liven were products
of mule decision may answer some
people who wonder what the mo
dern "old maid" gets out of life.
She gets the sweets of indepen
dence and the- self-respect given
only by un 'ability to tell some
munoglng male relatives to go to
the dickens! . .
ALLEGED STRANGLER IS
IDENTIFIED BY ALIAS
(Auoclited Preu Leind Wire.)
BUFFALO, N. Y., June 20.
Earle Nelson, 30, charged with the
murder of two women recently at
Winnipeg, Man., today was Identi
fied' here from pictures and bert it
lion measurements as the man who
on May 30 murdered Mrs. Jennie
Randolph, rooming house keeper.
He was known- here as Charles
Harrison.
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Leave for Visit in Maine
Mrs. K. L. Metzger and son, Don
ald, left recently for un extonded
visit with relutlves In Maine. They
will return via New York, where
they will take a boat for Now Or
leans, thence by rail to Los An
geles, where they will visit wltfe
Mrs. Metzger's sister before return
ing home. "
A RECIPE
FOR GENIUS
By Olive Roberts Barton
We are told by Dr. Alfred Adler
of Vienna that there is no such
tiling as genius.
"I must, deny," says he, "that
heredity has a great deal to do
with accomplishment . or perform
ance. The great accomplishments,
the really worth-while achieve
ments have been made by indi
viduals whose equipment was
poor."
Like the chanticleer who flap
pad his wings and crowed to the
world. "Look! I have made tholsun
come up!" I feel like Buying, "1
told you so."
Now that we know there Isn't
such a thing, it gives us ail a
chance. Isn't it a comfort to dis
cover that we can do quite as well
as the world's outstanding gon-
IllRen nvni' m-ntmiiliwl tn ,1,, IP i-a
begin young enough, work long
enough, and tl'V hard nnnuph tn
do it.
Effort Is the keynote. It seems
to do something to us besides
merely accomplishing the button
sewing or the pot-stirring we hap
pen to be doing ut the moment.
But we cannot become Paul
n
Polrets or Mary Lewises by being
too citsuul about our button-sewing
or pot-slirrliig. For . Instance,
speaking of cooks, George Reotiir,
of the lamous "Hector's" In New
York, spent two years in ParlH
learning to make one of his fnmaus
suueoH. He hired out as appren
tice cook wherever he could get fit
until he worked his- way up to the
famous French cafes and restaur
ants. His teachers were of the
best but he surpassed his teach
ers. The son of a well-to-do res
taurant proprietor himself, he wan "
not satisfied. He out-Caesared
Caesar eventually. It was not gen
ius but hard work, '
And so we have a new equation.
Courage plus patience plus work
minus easy discouragement equals
genius. . -
AERIAL TRAMWAY TO ' -
MT. HOOD SUITS HOTELMEN
(Auoclatetl Preu Loaird Wire.)
PORTLAND, Ore., June 20. The
proposal of the Cascade Develop
ment company to build an aerial
tramway from Cooper Spur near
Cloud Cap Inn to the summit of
Mt. Hood received the Indorsement;
today of committees representing
the Oregon and Washington State
Hotelmen's associations-