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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1909)
WASHINGTON J0C7Sj WOMEN WHO COULD RE1X. UPON THEIR.? TALENTS The claim that Washington women are the most generously talented and variously cultivated of any In the country Is borne out, the Washington Post says, by a knowledge of the tastes and capabilities of many wom en who are regarded chiefly as charm Ing hostesses or admired belles. The most notable Instance of a Washington woman of leisure who has made a name for herself, not only throughout the country, but also throughout the world. Is, of course, Miss Mabel Boardman. Although she lias always sought to keep herself In the background so far as the affalrB of the soolpty are concerned. Miss Board roan Is admittedly the "whole show" In Red Cross affairs. President Taft, who has been for several years the head of the organization, gladly gives the credit for much of the success to Miss Boardman. To a man and all the other members of the central com mlttee of the organization are men-, the governing body of the Red Crosi delights to sing Miss Boardman'i praises. Few of those who meet her socially realize that Miss Boardman's roomings are invariably devoted to the work at Red Cross headquarters, and that she works' as hard as any paid employe of the oraganlzation. Not many persons are aware that the first lady of the land, Mrs. Taft, has a diploma from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music which entitles her to teach. Mrs. Taft is perhaps the finest pianist among the smart set, and has paid much attention to the development of her talent. As Miss Helen Herron in Cincinnati she was noted for her interpretations of the masterpieces of musical literature. 1Yy i mm SrW LIVELIHOOD! Musicians also concede her ability, and as a concert pianist Mrs. Taft might, had she chosen to do bo, have become almost as well known to the people of the United States as 'she now is. Miss Helen Taft Is still so young that her talents and tastes are little known to the public She Inherits the fondness for study which Is Inherent In the Taft family, and has always been among the leaders In the classes of the schools which she has attended. In addition to her scholastic pursuits. Miss Taft Is an authority on old china, and Is quite capable of writing a trea tise which would be valuable as a guide to collectors. Mrs. James Bryce, wife of the Brit ish ambassador, holds first place in Washington as a maker of salads. In this much appreciated art she has shown an Inventiveness that amounts to genius, and her skill has given her the place pre-eminent even in the diplomatic corps, many masculine members of which, proudly boast of their skill as chefs. Mrs. Bryce's cele brated salads are responsible for a fever of emulation which has agitated many Washington households, but thus far her laurels as the best salad maker of the local smart set have re mained undisturbed. One of the rarest abilities possessed by a Washington woman is that of Mrs. James Cecil Hooe, who Is an 'ex pert accountant. From her father, the late Representative Nelson DIngley, of Maine, author of the DIngley tariff bill, Miss Edith DIngley, now Mrs. Hooe, Inherits her grasp of facts and figures, two things for which the ma jority of her sex have little fondness. Her delight In these two prosaic realms led her to make a study of ac counting, and her work on the sched ule of the tariff bill Is remembered with something akin to awe by all her friends. Of fine singers and graceful dancers there Is no lack among the fair daugh ters of Washington, but there are sev eral who excel their friends in these two arts. The most gifted dancer In Washington Is Miss Olga Converse, daughter of the late' Admiral Converse. After her appearance In the amateur play, "We Are In .Society," Miss Con verse received offers from several of the biggest theatrical managers in the United States, who put forth great In ducements to tempt her to join their productions. The hit she made would have turned the head of almost any other girl. Miss Converse is a true daughter of Terpsichore, and her twin kling feet are capable of evolutions which even the most graceful of her friends are not able to rival. SOUL AND BODY. Where wert thou, Soul, ere yet my body born Became thy. dwelling place? Didst thou on earth, Or In the clouds, await this body's birth? Or by what chance upon that winter's morn Didst thou this body find, a babe for lorn? Didst thou in sorrow enter or In mirth? Or for a Jest, perchance, to try Its worth thou tookest fiosh, ne'er from It to be torn? Kay, Soul, I will not mock thee; well I know Thou wert not on the earth, nor In the sky; For with my body's growth thou, too, didst grow; But with that body's death wilt thou too die? I know not, and thou canst not tell me, so In doubt we'll go together thou and L -Samuel Waddlngton. , r ! The Tragedy of ! a Diamond Star "And how did you come to this for lorn condition?" inquired the sweet faced old lady as she set down another chicken sandwich and a glass of milk on the porch rail. "You do not look like an ordinary tramp." His breast heaved with emotion. "Madam," he declared, ravenously at tacking the sandwich, "I am not a common hcrtio. I am a man with a past. Once whole cities bowed down and worshiped me. I was a Hon. Alas! In a brief moment all my hon ors vanished and I became a broken hearted has-been. Think what I once "was and then look at me now." "Tell me about It Maybe I can help you to regain what you have lost," she suggested, kindly. "No, madam," he said, hopelessly. "It 1b too late. But I don't mind tell ing you about It, although It is a bitter tale. I was center gardener for the old Red Legs, ma'am, In the days vbm Pop Anson and Brouthera and all of those old heroes were In their prime. I used to reach up into the clouds and pull out the high ones with one hand, and often I picked 'em off the top board of a fence with twe fin gers and a thumb, and the roar that went up from the bleachers sounded like a fat man falling down a coal hole." A tear dropped from his eyes and rolled down his grimy cheek. "The world was very rosy then," he went on, washing down the last of the sandwich with a swallow of milk. "It was all floral horseshoes and silver Bhowers for me, and whenever I trot ted out In a practice heat I got the glad hand and the merry yell. I had my picture in all the papers and I had millionaires carrying my Bweater and helping me on with my coat. I was a top-notch sticker, too, and whenever I came up to the pan the fielders got way out and the pitcher Bent 'em In wide to keep me from lammln' 'em on the nose for a homer." "I don't know that I quite under stand," she said. "Lammln' 'em on the nose for a homer means puttln' 'em over the pickets for four sacks," he explained, making It all clear. "It was easy for me In those days, ma'am. When I swung at one everybody breathed hard and waited for 'em to go over the fence and hunt for It. The ump "ONE strike." always got ready to toss up a fresh one when he saw me at the pan." "But how did you come to to get down on your luck?" she Interrupted. He sighed and thrilled with a rush of emotion! "Madam," he said, "I am coming to that soon. I remember the day as well as though It were yesterday. It was bright and sunny, and everybody was limbered up and shooting 'em through. We was flghtin' th' old Utica Blues. They had four to our three, aud it was the last half of the ninth. We was on the flrln' line. Two of ours was dead and two on the lines. I was up at the plate. The cheer I got when I grabbed my willow and dusted me hands sounded like Cesar comin' home from Galway. I shut my teeth and picked out a board in the fence to send It over." - She grew interested. "The Blues had put In a new flinger in the eighth a scrawny college kid from New Haven. I sized him up for a glass arm, and went In to kill th' first one. I lammed at It with plenty of steam, but it skidded In close to my slats and I felt th' wind of it in my shirt. . The next thing I heard was the thump of it in the catcher's glove and the umps callin' 'Strike!' "I was surprised, and so was the bleachers. But I knew It only took one to kill it, and I waited for th' next one. It came Bailing along as big as a football, and I figured on drlvin' It. But just as I swung at It It blew In down somebody In the street with it. But Just as I swung at It Is blew out to one side about a yard and dropped in th' catcher's glove with a thud. An' then somebody in th' bleachers hollered, 'Take him out he's sold th' game.' "Madam, that made me a desperate man. All of my future hung on that next ball. It came lobbln' up like a hunch of bananas on a string an' I aimed for Its nose an' let go!" He wiped his eye with the back of his hand, overcome by the recollec tion. "I figured on hittin' It on th' trade mark, ma'am, as honest as I'm tellln' you this sad story. ' But it shot up about two inches like a boy slttln' on a hornet and I juBt popped up a little foul that the catcher gobbled like an elephant swallowln' a peanut, madam. I was out of the battle, an' the Utica Blues had us trimmed to a sowsle." Another big tear rolled down his cheek and he sobbed convulsively. "Something broke loose In the bleachers then like a den of lions smellin' fresh meat," he continued. "They came down through the wire nettin' aud fell on me in bunches of twenty or thirty. They thought I had sold 'em out, those mullygrubs I'd helped to fly three battle flags for, and they thirsted for my blood. Some body whistled for the police, but be fore they came a pop bottle got me on the head and I went down for th' count It was a crime, ma'am, th' t'lngs they did to me. "The police pried forty or fifty of on my scalp, laid me on a aoor and six of 'em carried me to the hos pital. They sewed me up in a couple of hours and I was six weeks on a bed. When I got out I was tanned." "Canned!" she exclaimed. "Yes'm, canned!" he repeated. "Canned! Extinguished! Bushleagued! Chased! Fired! And all because a college kid from New Haven sent 'era up crooked from th' flrln' line. We never used crooked ones In th' old days, ma'am. They was new to me. Up to that time I was a hero, but Just because I fell down that once and didn't deliver the goods they shot me down th' chutes." He strode thoughtfuly down the road and the sweet-faced old lady watched him sympathetically. "The poor old veteran!" she ex claimed. "I wonder what battle It was?" Indianapolis Star. SAME OLD VAUDEVILLE. Ancient Basis Remain, Although Lantern Sltdea Are Colored. The code of vaudeville as we know it to-day harks back to the year when Maggie Cline was first discovered in the bullrushes of Broadway by one of the descendants of Pharaoh's daugh ter, says the Bohemian. Although some of the code has been altered at various times by supes and supersti tions, although slapsticks have given way to Salomes and clothes to 8 team heated stages, the basis of it remains Intact. "Advanced" vaudeville has advanc ed only In prices. The clog dance has not been lost In the shuffle; the drop curtain showing a desolate street scene, has not been peopled by the painter despite the great growth In the population; the xylophone playert still conclude with a medley of pa triotic airs; the grandchildren of a score of different "world's champion acrobatic troupes" are still on the bill under the same caption; the German comedian continues to ask the German ditto the same variety of questions, periodically swatting him in the face with the same newspaper; and the hobo species of monologlst still strikes a match on his whiskers. There Is one new feature; the lantern slides that illustrate the Rose and Sue type of songs are colored nowadays, but the singer still quivers the note at the end of the second last line of the chorus. From "The Ten Command ments of Vaudeville," In the Bohe mlan. Oatfrreir the Newpappr. A member of a publishing house is telling a story which he says goes to show that the spread of the popu lar novel is constantly Increasing. He was on his way from Pawtucket, R. I., to East Attleboro, Mass., by trol ley and stopped off at the little vil lage store at South Attleboro to get a nibble of crackers and cheese at noon, says the New York Sun. The usual rural characters were about the counter. He got Into con versation with some of them and was Interested to know how their political ideas ran. He sounded them along various lines and at last came to an eld farmer who was sitting on a sugar barrel waiting for the mall. "Think they're going to make a good job of the tariff?" he asked. "What they doln' to It?" was the astonishing reply. "Why, revising It, of course. Don't you read the papers?" said the pub lisher. "Wal, I used to," said the farmer, "but 'bout a year ago I stopped 'era off. They got to be too frivol In' f me. Since then I've been tuck uy readin' a book." Accommodating. An American was showing some ai tlst friends from Munich the sights of New York. As they stood in front of the Shakespeare statue in Central Park, discussion arose whether the figure was resting upon Its right or Its left leg. "Er steht auf dem rechten beln." "Neln," retorted another, "er steht auf dem llnken beln." "Auf dem rechten," argued several. "Auf dem llnken," retorted the oth er faction. An American gentleman, overhear ing the dispute, came over and polite ly tipped his hat. "Excuse me, gentle men," he said, "but this Isn't Lincoln, this is Shakespeare." Hy. Mayer, In Success Magazine. The Dnty of Forivene. The most plain and natural senh ments of equity concur with divine authority to enforce the duty of for giveness. Let him who has never, in his life, done wrong, be allowed the privilege of remaining Inexorable. But let such as are conscious of frailties and crimes consider forgive ness as a debt which they owe to oth ers. Blair. Fall a re. Whenever there la a failure there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which nature never pardons. Emerson. In every neighborhood there is a man who is hated by the boys, be cause he is always complaining about them, and telephoning to the police. SOMETHING FOE EVEEYBODY The Salvation Army Is established tn fifty-two countries. There Is a great shortage of theolog ical students In Wurtemberg. The War Department paid $94,418 for artificial limbs last year. Six out of seven pictures sent to the royal academy every year are rejected. The railroads of this country pay out $24,000,000 a year In freight claims. There is still pending In the English law courts a case which was initiated in 1707. An owl with a nest of young will gather about forty mice a day for her offspring. One-fifth of the country's wealth is represented In the New York Stock Exchange. For use during military maneuvers the Kaiser has a portable house made of asbestos. There were fifteen executions of criminals In Prussia in 1907, all but one of them men. There are thirty different kinds of new roses for this year alone in Eng land, where rose culture abounds. Nearly all of the fifteen thousand Inhabitants of Marchneukirchen, Sax ony, are engaged in violin making. An effort made In Russia to form a gigantic steel corporation, ou the lines of the one existing in this country, has failed. The Swiss government spends more money, In proportion to Its population, for the relief of Its poor, than any other country. The volcano of Stromboll has been known to emit flames persistently and lava and cinders spasmodically for over 2,000 years. A Parisian antiquarian has paid 750,000 francs for the famous Marfels collection of watches made In the six teenth and seventeenth centuries. At Falun, Sweden, are the headquar ters of a mining company with a his tory so remote that the date of its origin cannot be definitely fixed. ' South American woods were former ly used exclusively in the making of fishing rods, but the material is now being largely supplied by Queensland. In 1906 there were 1,171,000 textile workers In Britain. The average pay each week for men was $6.83. for wom en $3.75, for boys $2.53, and for girls $2.17. Frogs may do some harm to fish in a pond, but German experts have decid ed that this is outweighed by the good they do in destroying injurious in sects. New York State has taken a prac tical way of encouraging forestry. Dur ing the past planting season more than one million Beedlings were dis tributed at cost throughout the State for planting. Solitary confinement still exists as a punishment In Italy, although humani tarian observers declare that capital punishment would be far more hu mane, besides being more effective as a deterrent. On the basis of a bushel of corn pro ducing 2.5 gallons of alcohol. It has been figured out that last year's corn srop In the United States was sufficient to furnish 20,000,000-horse power for ten hours a day for an entire year. Wilbur Bowser, living near Pitts burg, has constructed a frame house, built In sections, which he has moved in a freight car with all his household goods to Wyoming, where he has ac quired a section of 160 acres of land. The latest suggestion for the treat ment of asthma comes from Germany. It consists simply in breathing exer cises conducted In such a way that the inspiration Is rapid, whlle'the expira tion ,1s as slow and as thorough as possible. Not to be outdone musically by New York's police department, Chicago po licemen have set out to organize a band. Chief Shlppy, who used to "pound the pavement" himself, is en thusiastically In favor of the scheme and promises all the aid he can give. The exports of domestic merchan dise from Alaska to the United States in the calendar year 1908 amounted to $12,255,255, of which $9,282,952 was for canned salmon. The salmon out put of Alaska equals the combined catch of British Columbia, the United States proper, and Japan. Not the least Important feature of the general agricultural revival which Is in . progress in so many over-sea markets, and particularly In South Africa and Australia, Is the interest thus created In steel windmills as mo tors for such purposes as pumping and operating small machinery. , Raw river water Bhould be stored antecedent to filtration for thirty days, In the opinion of Dr. A. C. Houston! director of water examinations, Lon' don. Storage reduces the number of bacteria of all sorts, and, If sufficiently prolonged, devitalizes the microbes of water-borne disease (typhoid bacillus and cholera virus).