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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1914)
m WHEN ffl HI IFIKIPImI THREE hundred and some odd days of the even tenor of his way and, then, the ermess and the Volendamer dances, writes Anna jvl. uennison in the Sew York Tribune. No. He does not dance Id his wood en shoes. No man of fashion has a pair of pumps better suited to tripping the light fantastic than are this Dutch man's Sunday slippers. They are of some sort of soft, shiny leather, and In them he becomes light of foot. The Bame may be said of father, mother, brother, siBter, Bweetheart and friend. The Volendam fisherman goes week ly out into the Zuyder Zee and casts his net for fish. As regularly as Sat urday comes around the harbor out Bide the dyke fills up with craft until It can hold no more for then he re turns for a peaceful Saturday after noon or Sunday with his family and friends. When he has anchored his barge he turns toward home, walking with that clever combination of drag ging, shuffling and freedom of swing In his step that can be acquired by no other means than the wearing of wooden shoes and trousers a half yard wide about the ankles. When he reaches his own door a door exactly like those of his neighbors to right and left he deftly slips out of his wooden shoes and crosses the vesti bule into the living room of his home. The Fisherman's Home. This vestibule and living room are exactly like those of his neighbors to right and left, to front and rear. The living room has two windows In front, each of which is curtained with even ly plaited lace across the lower sash and smoothly ironed lace across the upper. A table stands between these two windows. The floor is covered from the table back to the opposite wall with matting, the fireplace accom modates a small charcoal burner in its flue, and all the family china and sil ver and brass is assembled hereabout. Beside the: The beds open into the walls like cupboards, and here the family is stored away at night like dry goods on shelves. During the day, however, coffee or tea simmers over a perpetual fire, which is kept alight in the burner on the table between the windows. Here Bits mother or sister, sewing or knit ting, and to this hospitable board come cousins, aunts, grandfathers and beaux to pour and drink a cup of tea while the gossip of the day is passed; or, If it be the sweetheart, he steals a few minutes of flirtation with the de mure damsel. Inside the four walls of this typical living room the women spend their time over the routine of housework, In sewing on the always homemade wear ing apparel of the family, In knitting or In scrubbing and polishing everything that lies about the place. The first three days of the week are largely filled by the washing and Ironing of clothes to the end that the entire village has the appearance of being l variegated clothesline. Always Planning for Kermesa, Money is not so abundant from the labor of the average fisherman as to permit much diversion from the rou tine. In fact, to one used to the at tractions of cities or the push of mod ern times, this life seems like a 12 month clock, wound up each year and left to beat out its routine, organized and established. To learn the life of Um people Is to find that they live thus . content, but always counting and plan, j ning for the Kermess as an American country cnua waits tne year arouna for Christmas. , Perhaps this necessary economy, combined with natural thrift, accounts for the great sobriety among the men. Cigars, however, are seen smoking gayly as the owners thereof swing down the streets, hands in pockets. Ninety-nine per cent of the hands of the male inhabitants when on the street are thus bestowed, and the for eigner ponders upon the size of these capacious receptacles in the enormouB trousers. It is easy to understand that when a man and a maid who can dance, and at that well, and can take a glass, and with unction, will do it with a vim when the moment arrives, for there is but one genuine diversion during the year. Therefore, before a certain Saturday evening in the month of Sep- temDer. It is the custom each year for all available men and boys to begin putting up booths along the dike, or on the seaward side of the main street In these booths are bestowed dried fish, smoked eels, toys, candles, bak ery, etc. Booths for Everything. One booth is prepared for the cake cutting. This means that each cus tomer Is given a hatchet If he can cut the strip of cake In two with three strokes, sometimes four the cake is his. If he falls he pays for it Usually he pays. Another booth is for the housewife who makes and sells some sort of fried cake. These are bought eagerly for and by the children. Another booth Is arranged for ring throwing. Clocks, watches, dishes, lamps, and so on through a long list, are won or lost by the payment of ten cents (two cents of American money) and the skill of the thrower. This Saturday afternoon the fisher man comes home and puts on his Sun- zuyder Zee. day best. His wife and babies are already spruced up, and presently they stroll out, hand in hand, in troops and groups, past these tempting displays, regaling themselves on smoked eel and giving the children a "Christ- masy" feeling by buying and present ing to them dolls, toys, cakes, etc Everybody begins to be happy. So goes the week. The daytime spent more or less quietly about dally affairs, but the evenings are full of music, laughter and madcap dancing. As the last nights of the Kermess ap proach it seems to dawn upon the Volendamer that the humdrum length of another year Is approaching, and accordingly he raises his heels and limbers up his knees. Whole bands of boys and men clasp hands or embrace lovingly, and pound thp floor In rhythmic thuds and thumps until the entire building sways and trembles, rocks and echoes to motion and sound. They dance and dance the last Satur day night away. Still they dance when Monday morning dawns, and only up on the stroke of noon on Monday does bedlam die away and all Volendam go firet to bed to sleep It off, and then back to work till the Kermess comes again. Raven Not Lon-j-Llved Bird. The ancients credited the raven with unusual longevity, but modem Investigation shows that It Is not warranted. The bird rarely lives more than seventy years. WAR'S HUKKIBLE SIDE WHEN IT 18 BROUGHT HOME TO AVERAGE CITIZEN. Never Anything But a Frightful Night mare to the Man Who Has Rela tives or Friends In the Line of Battle. You live on a certain street in a certain place, and war comes. Your neighbor's son John enlists; and so do your own son and the son of the man two houses beyond yours. They go to war. Presently they bring back your son with a leg gone or an arm. Presently a brief "Your son has fallen I" comes from the war office to your neighbor. Presently in your newspaper there stares from a long list of dead or wounded the name of the pride of the house two doors be yond. You get that. It is real, vital, personal. Or these boys march up the street Icarrying guns, arrayed for war. Some of the enemy appear from around a corner. Firing begins. There Is fierce fighting. When it is over these boys of yours are lying in the road or in the adjoining field, some dead, some wounded and you know what that means. From hundreds of other streets like yours hundreds of sons of other moth era march away. They go to battle. You read uncomprehendlngly In the official dispatcheB that the center ad vanced or the left wing was repulsed. You read that there was a sharp en gagement at some place, a daring as sault at another; that the troops are Intrenched; that the great flanking movement has succeeded or has failed. You read these things, and then what Nothing. It means little. The battle line is 200 miles long; but on every foot of it there is the on John of somebody's neighbor, the husband of the woman up some street, the child of some mother millions of them; and they are being wounded and killed because It is their part to be wounded and killed in order that a certain contention may prevail over a certain other contention both ol which will seem absurd in a few years or that a certain ambition may sur mount a certain other ambition, neith er of which ambitions will be reck oned, in the long run, as worthy of civilized consideration. We have re verted to the primitive. The humane in us has been subjugated by the ne cessities of the state. Samuel Q. Blythe, in the Saturday Evening Post, Skipper's New Title. As a rule skippers, outside the three-mile limit, manage to show in some way or other that they are sov ereigns of the deep, carrying out the ancient saying that a captain Is the "king of his ship." There was one exclusive captain sailing out of San Francisco who not only had his own steamer chair, but made known the fact that it was his chair and his alone by having painted across the back the words "Captain only." The day after the vessel sailed on a particular voyage one of the pas sengers happened to seat himself In the skipper's deck chair and was Im mediately told by a steward that the chair was for the comfort of none but the captain. The passenger arose, and having circled the deck several times, saw the skipper reclining in the chair. He strolled leisurely over. "Good morning, Captain Only," he said, with a mock salute, and passed on. Early Views of Suez. The government's notification that enemy ships are not to be allowed to shelter in the Suez canal reminds us of the strange views as to the military future of the canal entertained those who opposed its construction, Lord Palmerston Insisted that Its ob vious purpose was "the barring of the passage along the coast of the Med iterranean to any Turkish army which might be employed to restore the em pire of the sultan, by opening a great military canal 300 feet broad and 30 feet deep, laid with batteries." As commercial enterprise, he pronounced the scheme "a mere bubble." But in this prophecy he was not singular. The Times in 1859 wrote of "the suspicious project of the impracticable Suez canal," and Disraeli, who was after wards to buy the canal shares, called It "a most futile idea, totally impos sible to be carried out" London Dally Chronicle. Brocken Specter. An Interesting example of the Brock- en Specter was recently described by Sir Thomas Holdich at a meeting of the Royal Geographical society. It ap pears that there Is a mountain called Oml on the borders of China and Tibet, where it was claimed that the jovout worshiper aight occasionally see, from the summit, the image of hi great teacher Buddha approaching the mountain. This belief was recorded is a mere Idle superstition by plorers, until one of the latter hap pened to ascend the mountain under luitable atmospheric conditions and taw his own, apparently colossal, shadow cast by the sun upon a bank )f fog; In short, the well-known 3pecter of the Brocken. Sclentlflo American. Accomplished Girl. "How Is Graziella getting along with ler language lessons?" "Splendidly She can now address her poodle In Trench, German and English." - Kansas Town Rightly Named. ' It was a sad looking little town, like all the rest just a main street and a few stores and houses set down in the midst of the illimitable waste. Our train stopped there. I saw a man across the aisle look out of the window, scowl, rise from his seat, throw up his arms and ex claim, addressing no one in particular: "How can they stand living out here? I'd rather be dead!" My companion and I had been speak ing of the same thing, wondering how people could endure their lives in such place. "Come on," he said, rising. "This Is the last stop before we get to Colo rado. Let's get out and walk." I followed him from the car and to the station platform. Looking away from the station we gazed upon a foreground, the prin cipal scenic grandeur of which was supplied by- a hitching post. Beyond lay the Inevitable main street and dis mal buildings. One of them, as I re call it, was painted sky-blue, and bore the simple, unostentatious word "Ho tel." My companion gazed upon the scene for a time. He looked melancholy. Finally, without turning his head, he poke: "How would you like to get oft and spend a week here some day?" You mean get off some day and spend a week," I corrected. No. I mean get off and spend a week some day. I was still cogitating over that when the train started. We scrambled aboard and, resuming our seats in the observation car, looked back at the receding Btation. There, in strong, black letters on a white sign, we saw, for the first time, the name of the town: MONOTONY! Collier's. HOW TO HEAL SKIN AND SCALP TROUBLES A Baltimore doctor suggests this simple, but reliable and Inexpensive, home treatment for people Buffering with eczema, ringworm, rashes, and similar Itching skin troubles. At any reliable druggist's get a jar of Resinol Ointment and a cake of Resinol Soap, With the Kesinol Soap and warm water bathe the affected parts thoroughly, until they are free from crusts and the skin Is softened, Dry very gently, spread on a thin layer of the Resinol Ointment, and cover with a light bandage. This should be done twice a day. Usually the dis tressing itching and burning stops with the first treatment, and the skin soon becomes clear and healthy again Beware of the Japanese! The diabolical secrecy and cunning of the Japanese are at last fully ex posed. Dr. S. L. Gullick, missionary in Japan for 26 years, avers that he never heard a Japanese express a de sire for the Philippines or a business man envy us our advantages there, or a newspaper refer to them as even a remote goal of Japanese ambitions. New York Post. NEW HOTEL HOUSTON Dave Houston. Pron. H. B. Thorsnes. Mtrr. Thoroughly modem. 101 Rooms of comfort. Mod erate Prices. Three minutes' walk from Union Depot. Write for rates. 72 ft Sulfa St., PORTLAND, OR. WEEKS' BREAK-UP-A COLD TABLETS A guaranteed remedy for Colds and La Grippe. Price 25c of your druggist. It s good, lake nothing else. Adv. Kola Tablets have many friends who use them ss a general tonic and for Kidney trouble. Price 25c per box, 6 boxes for $1.00. For salo by Laue-Davls Drug Co., 3d snd Yamhill 8ts Portland, Ore. Reflections of a Barber. It's a gone hair that has no return ing. Toupees cover a multitude of skins. A dull razor gathers no tips. A mole on the neck is worth two on the mush. . When hairs fall out, then barbers sell their dope. As the wig is blent, the fee Is de fined. A rolling dome purchases no tonic. A strop in time shaves nine. Kan sas City Times. If "The Only Son" got mixed up with the Eleven American whirlwind Beauties would "The Circus Man rescue him from the Bower of Melody? King Pip, a hapless wight Is he, We're Borry to relate. No sooner Is he made the king Than he needs must abdicate. The theaters of war Beem to be drawing all the crowds nowadays, al though the box office receipts are fall ing off. Movies will tell the history of the war. That, of course, is the only way the reel facts can be known. Speaking of hot stuff In movies. A roll of films exploded and set fire to a railway smoker. Million Eggs Lost In Breakage. The New York market loses a mil lion eggs a year by breakage. Balti more American. We Will Do Your Christmas Shopping tniTWt purchase anything from a Needle to an Auto. Special attention to Dressmakers and Mail Orders. Strangers accompanied on Shopping Tours. Write for Particulars. CLARE MOORE CO. 213-214 Royal Annex, Morrison at Park. Phone, Main 4521. PORTLAND, . - OREGON PUTNAM Gsist mots goods (aster and' briar, ur solors ttuul any sjetkus Writs lot Ires booklst "How is Dys aosl Are Your Hands r by a chronic disease common to woman I 1 V - .1.11 I 1.1 Tl . . 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Some time ago the teacher of a pub lic school was instructing a class in geography, and when it came time to hand out a few questions Bhe turned first to Willie Smith. 'Willis," said she, "can you tell me what Is one of the principal products of the West Indies?" "No, ma'am," frankly answered Willie, after a moment's hesitation. 'Just think a bit," encouragingly re turned the teacher; "where does the sugar come from that you use at your house?" "Sometimes from the store," answer ed Willie, "and sometimes we borrow it from the next-door neighbor." Phil adelphia Telegraph. A Rebuke. "Mary followed Edward," mumbled the high school girl, who was trying to fix the sovereign of England in her mind. "What's that?" spoke up grandma, who had been dozing. "Mary followed Edward." "Then you keep away from Mary. 1 don't want you to go with them kind, Girls Is getting too bold " Louisville Courier-Journal. Constipation causes and aggravates many serious diseases. It is thoroughly cured by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. The ravorite lamily laxative. Words and Deeds. "You should have heard Smith at the club lunch the other afternoon He certainly Is in love with his wife the way he kept talking about her per fections. By the way, I didn't notice Jones there." "No, he was at home, putting down the carpet at their flat for fear his wife would have to do It herself." Baltimore American. Breakage. She was but seventeen and very sweet, Her corn-fed coBtume was Quite Bhocklng; And when she slipped upon the icy street She tore a great big hole in her Bilk umbrella. Cincinnati Enquirer. She was sweet sixteen, and you know that means The happiest time that life can send her: But when she stepped high to the car She busted the strap of ber imag ination. Memphis Commercial-Appeal. She'd passed eighteen, this sunny little miss, She Bat and chatted with young Spoonyun Root. lie picked a thread as he bestowed a kiss At home, she found she'd lost her self-composure. So He Bought. "Why are you plunging In chicle and rubber today?" inquired the New York broker. ' "Had a hunch," explained the cus tomer. "Heard an old farmer say 'By gum' Just now as I came through Wall street." Loulsvillo Courier-Journal. YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU Try Murine Eye Heinedy for Red, Weak, Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids; No bmarllng lust-Eye Comfort. Write for Book of the Eye by mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago. Poultry Raising at Home. "Ever raise poultry, old chap?" "Not exactly. But I read chicken literature every night, and I have a graphophone record of a hen who has laid an egg." Louisville Courier-Journal. Amber Glass In Goggles. To protect the eyes of motorists at night from glaring headlights, goggles have been Invented, the upper portion of the lenses of which are of dark amber glass. Skating Rink of Salt In Berlin there has been constructed a skating rink with all the properties of ice, but made of salt, the invention of a German scientist. London Tit Bits. Dangerous Occupations. It is asserted that more children are employed In dangerous occupations now than 30 years ago. Indianapolis News. Carriers and Foreet Fires. Rural carriers are now required to report forest fires throughout the United States to proper authorities. Indianapolis News. Pay of Scotch Painters. PalnterB In Glasgow, Scotland, re ceive $9.50 a week. London Standard. Barber In New Zealand. Barbers in New Zealand have a min imum wage Bcnlo of $14 a week. Lon don Tlt-liits. The glove cutters have been denied Increased wages. It Isn't child labor, even if they do work with kids. FADELESS DYES ethst y. Every package vusrantnd M eolor Silk, Wool Cotton and Mists' Goods St or bolunf. 10 cease Ml Caters.'' calendar, blotters, etc MONKOB DIUO COMPANY. Dtputmsnt Z. Qutasv, 1 1 1 h 1 1 ssr Tied? Puzzling. "Isn't it strange that so few mem discover the secret of Buccess In life?" "Yes, but it's stranger still that the secret is still a secret. Surely Bome of the men who discovered It must have told it to their wives." Philadel phia Press. Ruptured Persons suffer more from inexperienced Attlng than from hernia. Why not buy yeaar trusses from experts? Try Laue-Dsvts Drug Cow at 3d and Yamhill Portland. Or.., whs are ex perts and know how. Next Branch, Young Lady How is It you dont come to Sunday school, Katie? Katie Oh, please, Miss, I'm learn ing French and music now, and mother doesn't wish me to take up religion till later. Philadelphia Led ger. Presentation Cigars. ' ' "I am going to give Chaney another box of his favorite brand of olgars." "How do you know it's his lavorite brand?" "Because every time I give him a box of them he acts as it he hated to use them up. He insists on Bavins; them for company." Washington Star. Tobacco Habit Cured Not only to users of pipe and cigars, bat the vicious cigarette habit is overcome by using the "NITRITE" treatment. Price complete, postage paid, 11.00. Laue-Davls Drug Co.,U and Yam hill, Portland, Or. tWhen writing- mention thie . paper.) Too Free and Easy, "How about a tar roof for your ho tel?" aBked the agent. "Not In this town," declared the landlord of the Umphsvllle house). "The boys have already carried off half my beds for tar-and-feather par ties, I don't want 'em to begin on my, roof." Louisville Courier Journal. Eugenic. , Uppson "You have a new baby at" your house, I hear." Downing "Great guns! And we live four miles apart! I had no Idea any one could hear that distance!" London Tit-Bits. Logs In Battle of Sedan. Of 2(17,000 men In the battle of Se dan, 25,970 were killed or wounded. London News. Ilheumatic Throat Is Common Troubla Should Be Treated in Blood To Prevent Recurrence. There are successful gargles thst etof) snrenrHS la the thrust, but to prevent their Inmumnt return, the blood must be put l order. Tba bout remedy Is H. R. 8., as It influences ell the (unctions of the body te neutralize the Irritants er waste product and to stlmulste their excretion through the proper channels. Khcumutle sura tl.rost Is a dangeronsv Indication, as it means that the blood ls loaded with mors uric aciil than the kid neys can excrete, and may thus lesd te icrlous general disturbance. The tctina of H. H. K. stimulates cellular activity. It prevents the accumulstlou of Irritants In local spots. It enables the arteries to supply quickly the sew reil blood to replace worn-out tissue. Kit this reason uric acid that finds the thrnat an easy prey to Its brcsklng-down Influence, Is scattered end eliminated. . la other words, H. 8. 8. prevents chronic con ditions bv enabling all the mucous linings of the h-dy to secrets healthy mucus. Its) Influence Is shown In ft marked improve ment of the bronchial tub", wherehy the hunkincHs of voice with thick, grarlsa. ex pectorations Is overcome. 8. H. H., well diluted with water, means a blood bath, since It Is welcome to say stomach tnd at once gets Into the blooil. H. fi. H. Is free of all minerals and con tain Ingredients wonderfully cooducive to wcll'hslancvd health. You can net It at snv drug store, but do not accept anything else. There Is daoger In aiilmtliiitca. X 8. H. Is prepared only b The Hwlft Hpeelflc To., 62S Swift Bid., Atlanta, (la. our JJedlcnl Dept. will give you freetiHtnictlon. hr mall en sny subject of bluud liiaurilu's. Write tuiisr, P. N. U. 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