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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1915)
LUNGING FOR HOI Fosebank Held a World of Happi ness for One Woman. By MOLLIE M'MASTER. (Copyright, 1915. by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) When the village hack turned the corner of the road and shut from Nlnlan's eyes the last glimpse of Rose bank cottage It seemed as if the world of happiness had been left be hind. Around the bend of the road lay the home that had given Ninian birth, and its roses had wafted into her brain the poetic fancies that had begun to express themselves in the form of vivid color sketches. In fact, Rosebank was home to the girl who was forced to leave It in order to seek a market for her art. And home to Ninian meant all that was worth having in life. "I will come back and buy Rose bank in two or three years," she told herself through her tears; "surely no one will want my isolated little cot and get it away from me before I can earn enough money to purchase it." Had Ninian possessed even the smallest income she would never have left the place that had become home to her, but her parents had left noth ing. With their going she had been left alone, and Rosebank with all its dear memories and associations must be temporarily abandoned while Nin ian traveled the road to fortune. However, the girl was not given to vain regrets, and it was with high hopeB and an ever-present dream of her ultimate ownership of Rosebank that she went into the world of strug gles. She found others working with great visions leading them on, but none, she felt, had so wonderful an in centive as she. None of them had a tiny rose-hung cottage and a garden that boasted every variety of rose that grew on Long Island. In her mind, Rosebank was already her own, and Ninian was not unhappy. It did not for a moment occur to her that anyone else longed for the cottage as she herself did. . Had she known that Robert Good win had pounced upon the vacated cottage like a hungry cat upon a mouse, her struggles would have been bitter inBtead of sweet. But Goodwin had taken Rosebank, and his furniture had been moved in a scant few days after Ninian's had gone out. He had a three years' lease with the option of purchase. His hobby was the cultivation of roses, and he had eyed Rosebank through three long years waiting patiently until it should be vacated. Each day he had Bklmmed by on his motorcycle. The day a sign "To Let'' had met his eye waB one of the most joyful in Goodwin's life. He was not deterred from taking the cottage, isolated though it was, because Mb faithful motorcycle bridged and distance. The quiet and seclu sion and the wonderful vlewB from the cottage windows, as well as the old roBe garden at the back, would have lured him had the place been ten miles instead of three from the stntion. Nlnlan's work in the field of art progressed with flattering haste. She saved every penny earned and called It her home lodging fund. In the be ginning she had gone without lunch in order that the fund might increase the more rapidly. One year crawled by, a second slipped by, and the third drew to a close. It was almost three years to the day when Ninian sailed for home rich er by many thousand dollars and a splendid name In the world of art, Sho had won a great prize in the Palis school at the close of her third year. She recognized the fact that home longings with Rosebank In the Joyfully near future had been her in centive and Inspiration that had given her the coveted prize. She was re turning now to buy back the cot tage. She had Bcarcely set foot on Amer ican soil before she went out to Long Island and took the walk from the station that led through the chestnut woods to Uosebnnk. i Fear clutched her heart when she saw smoke issuing from the chimney when the cottage wbb barely discern able in the dlstanse. As she drew quickly near her worst fears were realized. "My cottage! It is occupied!" Ninian cried half aloud and the tonrs squeezed from her closed eyelids. "If some horrible person has bought Rose bank, 1 don't want to live any more," she told herself. Determined to find out that it was not only a caretaker she continued her way. The perfect care the roses were having told her enough. She walked slowly around her loved home, touch ing the rambler-hung fence that guarded It. Ninian was weeping and the tears trickled down her cheeks unheeded. Ufe was a weary pilgrim age to her, for the one haven In the world that she longed for had been taken from her, For three long years she had looked forward to the day when she could rest her body and soul In the tiny, rose-clad cottage and draw in the fragrance ot It all. Her spirit, she knew, had dwelt there while she was In Paris, but now Bhe and her soul were intruders. She turned away and walked blind ly back to the station. Robert Goodwin, looking out of his casement window, had seen Ninian Her hungry eyes gating longingly at (he rose gardens bad sent a swift emo tion over him. "Tnat girl must have tome frightful tragedy in her life," he comment ed. "I never saw a pair of eyes so sorrowful." He went about his pruning and clipping and caring for the roses, but Ninian's eyes haunted him. She seemed still to be walking sorrowfully around and around the outer side of the fence. So vivid was the girl's picture In his mind that he thought he was dream ing of her the next day when, look ing up, he saw her quite close beside him, sitting on the old well at the foot of the rose garden. Her head was bowed in her arms and Goodwin knew from the shaking of her body that she was weeping with complete abandonment to her grief. He hardly knew whether to go qui etly away and let her have her cry out or whether to attract her atten tion and do his best to comfort her. His dog had solved the question by going over to the weeping girl and slipping his long, cool nose up beneath her arms. Goodwin swal lowed the lump in his throat when he saw the girl's fingers draw the dog's head close to her. Creature comfort was Instinctive In the ani mal, but he himself had lacked the Initiative. He coughed delicately and the girl looked up. Her eyes were starry and tear-wet. Goodwin knew that he was going to fall in love with Ninian, and he worded his thoughts accord ingly. "Please confide in me," he said softly. "I will do anything in my power to allay your suffering. Tell me your troubles." He added the last word In so soothing a voice that Ninian smiled through her tears. She liked Goodwin at first sight. "It is only that I have slaved for three years to come back and buy my old home. I have longed for It and wept for it, and now" "But you can buy it," Goodwin lied glibly. "I am moving out next week. The place doesn't exactly suit my needs." Never had he expected to see such gloriouB light in any wom an's eyes. Never had he lied more gladly. On the morrow he would see the man from whom he had but yes terday bought Rosebank and have the transfer made without the girl know ing it, Ninian had jumped up and without thinking slipped her fingers into Goodwin's. "You have given me all the hap piness in the world!" she cried, ex citedly. "Not quite," Goodwin said dryly, for in his mind he saw himself court ing Ninian in the rose gardens and giving her a far greater happiness In love than she was getting in the lone someness of her cottage. "And I was quite right," he said to her some three weeks later, "wasn't I?" "Yes," Ninian answered softly, "and I think I realized at the time that you were going to give me this hap piness, too." The roses in the garden nodded. Inscriptions at the Fair. Students of monumental Inscrip tions must often have observed, with the ordinary vice of Inappropriate ness, the want of variety of which Wordsworth spoke in hla "Essay Upon Epitaphs." Ranging from Whitman to the Siamese Phra Ruang, there is no such deficiency in those at the Panama-Pacific exposition. But In seeking variety does not the far West stultify Itself a bit. One series is harmlessly historical, commemorating the discov ery of Panama in 1301 by Bastides, its crossing by Balboa, the discovery of California and the founding of Mission Dolores, and like events. The Court of Four Seasons quotes merely a Call forninn upon western nature, with Spencer's well known characterization of Jolly summer and autumn all In yellow clad. But In paying tribute to great literary figures the exposition does equal honor to six occidental and six oriental nations. If visitors are moved by the beauty of the passages from Kalldasa, HItomaro, Zuhayr and Flrdausl to make some further ac quaintance with these writers, San Francisco wll have surpassed Chi cago and St. Louis. To find a region so violently anti-Asiatic as the Pacific coast inscribing on its walls Japanese lays and Chinese philosophy is new evidence of the potency of cosmopoli tanism. "Movie" yNow Accepted. A moving picture magazine recently submitted to nenrly 1,000 newspaper editors the question as to whether the word "movie" has obtained a suffi ciently established place in our lan guage to be used without quotation marks. More than BOO of them re plied affirmatively, while only 220 ex pressed the opinion that the word was still on probation, a few declaring it ought to be abolished. The word has probably come to stay. It is indica tive of a certain American simplicity and directness that "movie" should have found popularity In this country whereas In Europe the current word Is "cinema." The old world stuck to the original Greek derivative name of cinematograph, and the public short ened it. In America we preferred moving picture a name requiring no translation of the multitude. Blacksmiths or Gardeners Flrstf The other day a blacksmith was ar guing w ith a gardener as to which was the first trade in the world. The gardener said It was gardening, and quoted from Genesis: "Adam was put Into the Garden of Eden to till It." "Ah," said Pat, who had stuck up fur his own trade. "Who mad tht pades?" CtP a i i h 01.wLL,MfAR AMONG the innumerable cities and towns which have been ruined by the war is St. Gall, in neutral Switzerland. It has seen its trade of centuries growth swept away by a struggle in which its people have no interest St. Gall is a town of one industry and that for the export trade, says the National Geographic society. It is a world-famous center for the manufac ture of machine-embroidered white goods, and its wares have found sale over the whole earth. It has done an annual trade In these articles with America of between six and seven million dollars a year. It also had heavy business with the countries of Europe and South America and those of the Orient. Since the outbreak of the war its export routes have been closed, while some of its largest cus tomers have been forced by their war expenditures to stop all purchase of foreign-made luxuries. The town has grown wealthy through the centuries, and it has con tinually developed its one Industry, built many factories, large and small, where an Important percentage of the embroidered white goods of the world are worked, and through all the neighborhood around the city the same Industry has found development as a home industry, In which hand machines are used. Grew Around Monk's Cell, St. Gall perches high up on a moun tain shoulder, considerably back from the Lake of Constance. It grew up around the mountain cell of a learned Irish monk, St. Gallen, who, taken sick here in the seventh centilry while on a pilgrimage to Rome, built him a cell 1,000 feet up the mountain side, and, upon his recovery, vowed to devote his life to the conversion of the mountain tribes. Around his cell there has grown up a city of more than thirty thousand, which bears his name, and which is known to the dry goods buyers of all countries. An abbey was built, and Its Irish monks, distinguished throughout Eu rope for their devotion to learning, here made a safe retreat for their studies. Centuries before the Renais sance the monks of St. Gallen studied both Greek and Latin, and painstak ingly copied many of the ancient texts. These manuscripts are still preserved In the library of St. Gall, and they form a priceless nucleus of its collections. Considerable American capital has been attracted to this energetic little manufacturing city. Some of the great factories, with their scores of VtEW or highly Intricate, almost-Intelligent ma chines, are entirely owned by Ameri can manufacturers, who regularly vis It their plants and make preparations for this country's seasonal supplies. The American consulate at St. Gall is a very busy office, and It has to do al most solely with the embroideries and the machine-embroidered laces of St. Gall and ot the surrounding villages for American consumption. Lace Town Alio Suffers. Another town that has suffered se verely by the war is Calais, which though It has been looked on by tour ists as merely a threshold of conti nental Europe, is in reality one ot the four greatest machine-made lace cities ot the world. It Is as a cen ter ot manufactured laces that Calais In peace times Is most widely noted. Calais is a lace town. Almost everything about It has some bearing upon the filmy, delicate webbing which it makes and distributes over the world. Should a tourist miss hla Paris express thing, by the way, which is most Improbable, tor the C ARD HIT Calais-Paris connections are excellent and find himself forced to spend some hours In the city, the first thing he remarks is that there seems to be a dozen or more women to every man upon the streets. While, of course, the relative disproportion is nowhere near so great, still girls and women do largely outnumber the men, as the lace industry is continually draw ing them from the surrounding coun try to its factories. Wages in this in dustry are very low, and many of Its operations can be performed as well by young girls as by men. The loiterer next notices lace signs everywhere, upon commission houses and factories. Generally, these signs appear in three languages, French, German and English. In spring and autumn he will meet a continual stream of his countrymen, buyers for the big importing houses. Factories Are Worth Seeing. Of his own free will, however, the traveler seldom stays. He Is always willing to leave Calais for most any where. There are plenty of self-centered, serious, hustling business towns at home, and there is no oc casion for enduring the monotonous twentieth century atmosphere when one is on a pleasure trip. There are, nevertheless, many things worth see ing in the flat, dingy, strictly practical port city. Visits to the great lace fac tories are well' worth while, and usually give one a new reverence for the possibilities of Insensible machin ery. To see the most Intricate pat terns mingled in a foam wave of ex quisite lace, possibly of several colors, with gold and silver threads, and all this done by a massive, complicated piece of machinery, at one end de vouring thousands of thread strands and, at the other, giving forth a lace equal to the highest cunning of the human hand, Is to witness almost the perfection of man's inventive genius. And, then, this piece of machinery op erates automatically, much like the player-piano. Calais shares with Nottingham, England, the honors for the manufac ture of machine-woven laces. The other two leading lace towns make what are known as the embroidered and "burnt out" laces, on entirely dif ferent machines. Calais smuggled its industry from England, but it has add ed to the original English processes and machinery enough to be in posi tion to claim a perfection of its own. Aside from, and beyond, its momen tary military interest, Calais has the liveliest interest for the person wide awake to present-day marvels, as a ST. GAUL world center of lace production where all the famed handmade lace genre are imitated on machines. Find Potash In California. The salt-incrusted valley floor com monly known as Searles Lake, in southern California, has lately come Into prominence through the wide spread interest In the search for an available source of potash In this coun try and the apparently promising pros pects this locality affords of a con siderable commercial production in the near future. The estimate made three years ago that this deposit con tains four million tons ot water solu ble potash salts seems to have been amply confirmed by subsequent de velopments. 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