The Maupin times., November 05, 1914, Image 2

THEIR FIRST LOVE
By H. M. EGBERT.
The two houses had formed one In
more spacious days, but where the
stout brick chimney reared Itself
through the center of the frame build
ing a brick wall bad been built in, ex
tending from the cellar to the roof,
and converting the one home Into two.
The only symbol of communion be
tween the disunited parts of what had
been organically one was that, on
windy days, smoke from a stove set
against the chimney on either sido
would Issue down the flue into the
stove In the adjacent room. And
sometimes, too, if any one listened at
the sheet iron, one could hear words
spoken upon the other side.
When Frank Barton and Ida Norris
were children they had played at this
game; but that was long ago. The
Intimacies of the old house were not
evoked by childish play any more.
Both were Immeasurably old each
was twenty.
The double house stood in a small
town, Just such a town as may bo seen
almoBt anywhere In Now England,
neither rich nor poor, and proud of
its history. Greenfield folks prided
themselves on being ordinary Ameri
cans. Immigration had hardly
touched them, for there was only ono
factory, and the French Canadian
hands had something of the colonial
tradition about them.
The Bartons and the Norrlses had
lived there for fifteen years, and had
known each other for fifty. Sometimes
the elders looked at each other from
their opposite sides of the double pi
azza and smiled, when the boy came
home, carrying the girl's eclioolbooka
for her, while Bhe Btepped at his side
with all the assurant ownership that
a BniLll girl feels for her childish
sweetheart.
But that was years before. The
change of adolescence had Bet a bar
rier between the young people's lives.
Frank was In the local bank now. Per
. haps he earned $12 a week. Ida stayed
home and helped hor mother.
The thing that happened came all
in a moment. The girl had pictured
it a thousand times, the boy never;
but It was Just as surprising to each.
One moment they were friends, chat
ting together on the piazza, wonder
ing whether the rain would kill the
gypsy moths that devastated the shade
trees; and the next they were looking
at each other In amazed wonder.
What is more inarticulate than love
at twenty? The strange helplessness,
She Was Alone, Too.
the sense of Borne tremendous power
that holds one in terror of self-reve-lullon;
caprice and shyness, ob Inex
plicable to one as to tho other! For
Instance:
"Best get ready for the picture show,
Ida."
"I'm not coming, Frank."
"Aw, why not, now? You said you
would. This is the last night of the
week, and there won't be another in
town for an age."
"I don't tare; I'm not coming," Bhe
anwered, snatching her hand away aa
he pulled at her wrist coaxlngly,
"Leave me alone!"
"Why, Ida!" exclaimed the boy, look
ing in wonder at her Hushed face, "I
didn't mean honest, I dldu't say!
You aren't mad at me?"
But the girl had flung into the house,
leaving him staudlng outside and gap
ing after ber. He could not under
stand what was the matter with her.
As he stood there Mrs. Norris came
out with tho big watering can. She had
a box of asters, which she was rais
ing from seed; or, rather, it had been
Ida's but she had ceased to care for
the tender shoots. ,
"Sny, Mrs. Norris, Ida's all right,
Isn't she?" asked the boy.
The old woman looked at htm, purs
ing her lips. "I guess there's nothing
wrong with her," she answered, and
began sprinkling the plants. There
was a wise smile on her Hps, and her
(ace was faintly flushed.
"They're too young, Jim," she laid
that night to her husband, when the
eld couple were alone.
Outside, at the Barton end of the
piazza, Frank was waiting. He bad
meant to go to the picture show alone.
Me had wished that he had some other
girl to take with him. They would
troll past the double house together,
P wolces slightly raised, and Frank
laughing. The thought pleased him;
but he only sat sullenly at the end of
the piazza, his chin on his hands, star
ing out Into the dusk.
Ten yards away the girl sat by the
window in the living room. She wag
alone, too; her father had gone out
upon some errand, and her mother
was making up accounts in the hitch
en. From the corner of the window
she could Juot see tho Barton end of
the piazza. She had a book in her
hand, but she was not reading.
She had been trying hard not to
cry, and she was exceedingly angry,
because it was not about Frank Bar
tonand yet it was, too, In a sort of
way. But what had he done? Noth
ing. That was Just it; he was only a
boy and couldn't understand. But
what was there to understand, except
that she hated him?
She went up to her room at last,
and then she crouched down by the
window and cried In earnest. Pres
ently a slight squeaking sound inside
the chimney made her tiptoe over to
the stove. It had not been lit since
the warm weather began, a month be
fore. Something like a mouse was
squeaking and scurrying behind the
place where the stovepipe entered,
Frank Barton, at the end of the
piazza, saw the girl's shadow thrown
on the lawn. He was not going to
look up at her. But he looked up, and
saw that she had pulled the stovepipe
from its place and was bending over
something,
"She's found a mouse's nest," he
thought, and a wave of disgust surged
over him. He had heard the little
beasts scurrying to and fro at night
He had thought of pulling out the pipe
and drowning them. How like a girl!
He almost hated Ida then. He
hoped she had not been angry with
him because because she guessed!
The shame of that would make him
hang his head the rest of his days
He saw Ida clearly again, a pale young
woman . whose twin pigtails had
changed into fluffy, Btraw-colored hair,
He did not even want to take another
girl to the picture show now.
"Aren't you getting cold, Frank?
It's turning quite chilly," said his
mother, from the window of the liv
ing room.
"I guess not," he answered.
"Shall I light the fire in the stove?"
Bhe asked.
He hesitated. ' Yes, It might warm
up the house," he answered.
The boy was In his room and It was
morning. He leaned over the window
Bill. Underneath a lilac tree was be
ginning to blossom and the scent came
up to him. The world was very fait
that soft Bprlng morning. Why was
his heart aching bo?
In the next house, but shut off as
by a thousand leagues, was Ida. Some
times she would lean from her win
dow and wave a good morning to
him, and he looked for today. 3ul
there was no sign of her.
"She's still mad at me," he thought
and the old sense of resentment be
gan to stir In him again.
Suddenly he heard a sound of sob
bing. It came from the next house.
He heard it through the chimney, and
put his mouth to the stovepipe.
"Ida!" he called. "Ida! Ida!"
There was no answer, and he went
downstairs. He stood beneath the li
lac tree. The beauty of natur
Beemed suddenly to have become ac
cursed and dreary. He leaned against
the trunk and idly plucked a spray ol
lilac. Then he saw a girl comlni
along the piazza and went toward her,
a little sheepishly, not yet decided In
what spirit to approach her. But he
saw the tears in her eyes, and his
heart leaped with remorse. And in
her hand she was carrying some
thing. She held it out indignantly,
It was three little dead birds chim
ney Bwifts, which had been killed by
the fire he had let his mother kindle
"Aw, say, Ida! I didn't know. 1
thought they were mice," he protested
"You have killed them for wan
tonness, Just like a boy!" she said in
dignantly. Her eyes were wet. She Btroked the
limp little wings, and then suddenly
burst Into passionate tears. Frank
stood by helplessly. He was sure
now that she weald never speak to
him again.
"I'm sorry, Ida honest, I am," he
muttered.
She raised her eyes to his but there
was not anger in them any more
There was something he had never
seen there. It was not love; it was
more like humility that which Is born
of sudden understanding. Something
of the tragedy of life had gripped
them both, and the seriousness of it
when one puts aside childish things.
"You didn't know did you, Frank!"
she said. And she slipped her arm
through his, and in that moment the
new life lay before them, though they
only dimly realized what was happen
ing in their souls. For when the but
terfly emerges from the cocoon it
at once forgets and only rejoices in its
new happiness.
From her window Mrs. Norris
looked down at the pair, strolling un
der the trees, and called her husband.
There was the shadow of a smile upon
her face.
"I don't know maybe they're not
too young, Jim," she said.
(Copyright MM. by Vt. Q. Chapman.)
It Depends.
"How long does It take to Kothrrmeh
those woods?" asked the summer
boarder.
"That all depends," replied the
farmer. "I have noticed that when a
man la with his wife It takes about
thirty minutes, and whoa he Is with
bis mother-In law be can make it In
18 minutes. If, however, he ii with
his fiancee It usually takoi about two
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NOW In these days when the
, great nations of Europe are
arrayed against Germany, the
Teuton places his faith In the
naiser, me army, me navy
and Krupp. In the Krupp works, be
cause Krupp rifles, cannon and siege
guns are the greatest in the world ad
mittedly; while Krupp armor plate on
Germany's battleships Is the most im
penetrable. The house of Krupp, as a
recent writer has said, is a national In
stitution in the Fatherland, and Its
name Is almost as revered as that of
the Hohenzollern itself. Krupp guns
and armor form a ring of steel about
the Fatherland which it will require a
miracle, believe the Germans, to pierce.
The ironmasters of Essen have ruled
a hundred years; and now a queen and
a queen consort hold sway. The heads
of the houses have been: Friedrlch,
founder (1787-1826); Alfred (1812-87);
Friedrlch Alfred (1854-1902), and now
Bertha, wife of Krupp von Bohlen und
Halbach. And with the queen rules
Dr. von Bohlen und Halbach, entitled
by order of the kaiser upon his mar
riage to designate himself Krupp von
Bohlen, thus keeping alive the family
name of the great gunmakers. For the
last male of the line left only daugh
ters. Bertha and Barbara.
From a Small Beginning.
"Great oaks from little acorns grow."
So with the house of Krupp, which had
Its Inception in a small forging plant
near Essen that at one time did not
have sufficient business to support it.
The rounder of the line, Friedrlch,
who was born at Essen, endeavored to
make cast steel, the secret of which
was carefully guarded In England. And
In 1810 he founded a small forging
plant near Essen for the production of
cast steel after a process he had
evolved. Mint dies, stamps for but
tons, etc., were manufactured, but. so
Bmall was the demand, the works could
not be kept in operation. And, soon
after 1820, Krupp was obliged to give
up his house to occupy a small one
story laborer's cottage near his plant.
The hut is still preserved in the midst
of the present gigantic establishment.
Shortly before his death, however,
the first of the present day Krupps
confided to his son, Alfred, the secret
of making cast steel, which the latter
developed successfully, Alfred, with
the Indomitable perseverance of the
Teuton, a perseverance that captivates
the imagination, continued in the face
Dwellings of
of mountainous difficulties his endeav
ors to improve the manufacture of
steel.
Then came the Krupp opportunity
the great exhibition at London In 1851.
The obscure Rhenish steelmaker from
Essen electrified the military universe
with a six-pounder of flawless cast
steel. Since then the German army and
navy have bought 29,000 Krupp guns.
And 30,000 Krupp guns have been sold
in the last halt century to 52 nations
throughout the world 23 In Europe,
18 In America, six In Asia, five In Af
rica. But thd Krupps have never manu
factured munitions of war for France.
Alfred Krupp's breech-loading rifle
and cannon, adopted by the Prussian
army in 1S61, proved their superiority
In the Franco-Prussian war. From then
on the factory became world famous
for Us manufacture of heavy ordnance
and armor plate.
Under the next Krupp, the output of
the gun factory was Increased and di
versified by the incorporation of other
enterprises.
And now the Krupp von Bohlens not
only have the Immense plant at Essen,
which comprises an area of 1,200 acres,
235 of them under one root, aa it "Shef
field and Pittsburgh had miraculously
beeen transplanted and rolled Into one
throbbing area," but many other plants
as well. At Essen, and at the three
neighboring 15-mlle-long gun ranges of
Meppen, 39,000 men are employed.
At Krupp's collieries In Rhlneland
Westphalia and Si'eala, 10,000 miners
dig coal for Krupp branch works at
1 i i fas Ummm !C ,
Annen and Gnison, where armor plate
is made, and for Krupp blast furnaces
at Rhelnhausen, Dulsburg, Neuwied
and Engers, which, between them, keep
another 15,000 pairs of hands busy.
At Kiel 6,100 shipwrights build bat
tleships, torpedo boats and submarines
in Krupp's 55-acre Germania dockyard
In Germany and far away Spain 6,000
miners are disemboweling ore from
Krupp iron mines which, in the case
of that mined in Spain, is shipped In
Krupp steamers that unload their bur
den at Krupp docks at Rotterdam,
there to be transshipped down the
Rhine.
For all those employes the Krupp
pay roll totals $25,000,000 a year.
Bertha Krupp Sole Owner.
When the last of the Krupp men died
he gave the Krupp works to Bertha,
his oldest daughter, now twenty-eight
She married, after a love affair at
Rome, a young Prussian diplomat at
tached to the legation there, Dr. Krupp
von Bohlen und Halbach. He Is now
managing director of the vast system
of which she is sole owner. He no
longer is merely Bertha Krupp's hus
band, however. He no longer is sim
ply the man who married the greatest
fortune in Germany. He has become
the master of Essen in reality. The
75,000 members of the Krupp staff, and
the community of 300,000 souls de
pendent upon Krupp employment, to
day look upon Krupp von Bohlen with
the same spirit of reverential loyalty
that inspired three generations of
workmen to regard the Krupps as their
liege lords.
In "The Men About the Kaiser,"
Frederick William Wile paints about
the couple a happy picture. The vast
bulk of their time, he writes, is de
voted to their home, their three chil
dren and their work people.
The social work of the Krupps at
their foundries and factories, among
their work people, dates back to 1861.
At that time, finding there were not In
Easen sufficient houses for their em
ployes, the Krupps began building
dwellings. Now some four hundred
houses are provided, many being given
rent free to widows of former em
ployes. A co-operative Bociety divides
profits according to the amounts pur
chased. A boarding house for bach
elors now accommodates 1,000. Bath
houses are provided and employes re
ceive free medical attention. Accl
t'eut, life and sickness insurance soci-
krupp rkmcn
etles among the men are given $G0,000
a year by the -firm for their support.
There is a trust fund of one-quarter
million dollars for the benefit of the
needy who are not qualified to re
ceive pensions. There is also a fund
for a building association. And tech
nical and manual training schools are
provided.
"Altogether," sums up Mr. Wile, "the
Krupp von Bohlens are inspiring re
minders that the age of luxury and
splurge is still adorned by folk to
whom great riches can never be a
curse."
And It is In the hands of the Krupp
von Bohlens that the fate of Germany
may rent.
After Waterloo.
One hundred years ago many of the
principal European sovereigns and
their chief advisere were turning their
otpiis toward Vienna, whern thov
i - - J .. V. 1 o
' soon to meet for the purpose of read
justing the map or Europe, or in other
words, of settling everything back as
nearly as possible In the shape In
which It was before the Napoleonic
wars. The congress of Vienna, as
the gathering is known In history,
was notable for Its distinguished per
sonnel. Among those gathered at the
court of Emperor Franois of Austria,
were the Czar of Russia and the kings
of Prussia, Bavaria, Denmark and
Wurtemburg, together with such emi
nent statesmen and soldiers as Prince
Talleyrand. Prince Metternlch,- Vis
count Castlereagh and the Duke of
Wellington.
New Costumes
WHEN entire costumes 'made of
plush first appeared they made a
strong appeal on the score of novelty,
but seemed somewhat heavy. Manu
facturers have improved the quality
of the new plushes or "fur cloths"
for making suits and costumes by
making them lighter in weight, more
supple and handsomer than ever.
Some of them are marvelously faith
ful copies of certain furs, as broad
tail and mole. They are made In a
greater number of colors than in for
mer seasons and there 1b no doubt of
their success in entire costumes.
In any representative display of
suits and costumes those models em
ploying fur cloth- are found combined
with plain smooth-surfaced cloths.
Occasionally contrasting colors are
used but much oftener the two cloths
are of exactly the same shade. The
rich but sedate colors, fashionable
for the coming season, play Into the
Three Hats for
fi
HATS elaborate and rich enough to
grace the smartest of occasions
are shown in the pretty group pictured
here. One of them came from that
celebrated woman among French de
signers to whom some excellent Judges
of millinery would hand the blue rib
bon if a contest for supremacy were
on.
This delightful and novel headpiece
from Madame Georgette is a rather
small hat with narrow drooping brim
of velvet. The odd crown Is like a
fan, supported at the left side by a
band which narrows to the right until
it almost disappears. The crown is
made of overlapping strips of a fancy
braid and might be effectively man
aged with velvet or other ribbon.
At the front a tall fancy feather of
ostrich and chenille makes a decora
tion full of dash. The hat Is worn at
a saucy tilt but Its lines are so well
managed that nothing of Its elegance
Is lost
Entirely different In character Is the
picturesque and exquisite brimmed hat
which first came to the eyes of woman
kind In a New York establishment It
cannot suffer by comparison even with
so good an example of French art as
the Georgette turban.
IF I
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of Fur Cloth
hands of those who are introducing
fur cloth? In entire costumes. But
the most - attractive of all the new
models are those in which smooth
faced cloths and fur cloths are uied
together.
In combinations of this kind plain
skirts of broadcloth with very wide
borders of fur, cloth are worn with
skirted coats in which the two fabrics
are cleverly worked up together.
Fur cloths are as well ,adapted to
millinery as to costumes and aro
made up into toques and turbans.
They are utilized in muffs and neck
pieces and In coats for little chil
dren. In these particular directions
they have been considerably exploit
ed. But in costumes only the begin
ning of their story has been told;
we may expect to see Its splendid de
velopment as the winter season ad
vances. JULIA BOTTOM LEY.
Smart Occasions
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The shape has a round crown of
moderate size and a brim with slight
curves in the edge. The hat 1b in
white and black, the top crown a rich
brocade in raised flowers on a satin
ground. Very handsome ribbon, with
pivot edge of silver, is draped about
the side crown. The brim is of white
faced with black velvet. A very un
usual ostrich fancy feather with jet
Btem and ornament is posed on the
brim, two of the pompon-like enda
near the front and the remaining one
at the side.
The third hat Is plainer but is a rich
and elegant model depending upon Its
unusual outlines and richness of ma
terials for the distinction that fixes Its
class. It Is of deep sapphire velvet
trimmed with pilage collar and the
handsomest of shaded ostrich plumes.
This Is also the creation of an Ameri
can designer, which goes to prove that
we can do very well by relying upon
the talent of our own millinery design
ers whether native born or Imported.
Any of these delightful hats might
be made up In other colors than those
described here. If the color har
monies are well thought out replica
of them will lose nothing In beauty,
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.