Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 101, Hammond, Lake County, 15 October 1907 — Page 5

Tuesday, October 15, 1D07.

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Day's Grist in South Chicago

MIT yOffiKHIITT Republicans of Eighth Ward Meet and Discuss Plans For the Future.

South Chicago. Oct. 15. Special The republicans ' of the eight -ward held a meeting last night In room 320 Commercial building, and the plans for the cornmlng campaign was discussed. The showing at the meeting was exceptionally good for bo early in the season, and it was taken as a good omen by the leaders of the party. Since the

defeat of Mayor Busse's pet charter bill in the ward there lias been a clam

oring for more activity In the South

Chicago district on the part of the

republican party. Alderman Moynlhan

addressed the gathering and told of the

plans of the organization for the future.

Tho meeting was not over until after

11 o'clock.

Briefs.

Peter Niglant of 27 Eightieth street, left yesterday for a month's vacation. Mr. Niglant Is assistant secretary to Lewis Swift. The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ahern of 9821 Commercial avenue are congratulating them on the birth of a 10 pound baby boy. Both mother and child are doing well. Gustave Ilausler of 9811 Avenue H Is buying cigars for his friends the occasion being the arrival of a 12 pound boy at the house. Mrs. Ilausler and her son are doing well.

WINDSOR PARK

The Ladies' Guild of St. Margaret's church met with the finance committee at the home of Mrs. Albert Mohr last evening to make the preliminary arrangements for the bazaar that is to be held in December. There was a good attendance at the lecture given by George L. Sherger, Ph. D., at the Oaks Hotel last evening before the Woman's club. The subject was "The Mission of Culture." Mrs. F. A. Hogberg has returned from Canton, O., whero Bhe was visiting relatives the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Vilas Morse entertained a number of friends at dinner last night in honor of the birthday of one of the guests. The color cheme was dark red, and the decorations In flowers. A merry time prevailed until a late hour. ,

Miss Grace Sutton, 7301 Bond avenue haa beett entertaining" her friend. Miss Itoth, from the East, during the past few weeks. G. Brandenburg of Bond avenue has returned from Buffalo. Mrs. George Cox, 8020 Coles avenue, Is entertaining friends from the East. Mrs. John IL Jones la suffering from a severo cold which she contracted at the Horso Show. The Inclemency of the weather last week and the Inadequate precaution from the same for the patrons of the Horse Show Is having a telling effect.

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The Emancipation Of the Chaperons. By ALICE LOUISE LEE. Copyright. 1305, by Alice Louise Lee.

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UII!" if erri wether stretched

his legs out luxuriously in front of the grate and pulled at his pipe. "A Christmas

house party at The Pines." Then after a pause, "Who are invited?"

His nephew leaned against the mantelpiece and stuffed his hands Into his pockets as he enumerated the guests, the uncle keeping up a running and caustic comment: "Engaged going to be introduced for matrimonial purposes engaged the same." The numeration ceased. "Yes, I see myself helping to chaperon your house party. I stroll into the reception room and stumble over an engaged couple. I sneak into the library and am frowned out again by a newly Introduced couple. I bang In

to the music room and overhear a pro

posal. No, thank you, Roy; I shall spend Christmas in peace and my own

coring her question, "that women retain tkelr youth so much longer thaa men?" She paused with her hand on the candle and looked back. "I think," Bhe replied thoughtfully, "it's because they insist on doing youthful things." "There it is again!' he thought, with an Internal groan. He would be obliged to skate and dance and do all the other uncomfortable things which forty years and 220 pounds shrink from. Still as te watched her move about the room the burden of it did not seem so onerous after all. Therefore he danced not badly, but laboriously, ail the while admiring the graceful ease of Gertrude Angell's mo

tions.

"At least," he determined resolutely,

I'll not be caught skating, as I waa

dancing, without a bit of practice." It

was 1 a. m. when he made this resolution and issued the command to his man, "Peter, get me up at 7 unless," In sudden inspiration, "It should be storming."

Fromptly at 7 he was awakened in a

rebellious frame of mind. "Stiff as a

cart horse,'" he grumbled. "I hope it s

snowing like blazes."

The man raised the shade and looked

out. "Sky clear as a whistle, sir.

So, with his sleep cut nhort two hours

at both ends of the night, Merriwether dragged himself and the pair of skates,

produced by his thoughtful nephew,

tones in a morris chair and determined ! to return to the city early next morn- 1 ing. He would be old and sensible and comfortable once more. He would forget Gertrude as long as he could not keep up with her youthfulness. But alas for his determination! lie nearly forgot his bruises and sprains that evening in the charm of Mrs. Angell's presence, and he noticed, too, with a pang of something very like jealousy, that Briggs. the youngest man in the party, occupied his spare moments looking In her direction. "I'll see what the weather promises for tomorrow," was his irresolute comment as he reached his room at midnight and noted that Peter had obe-

disntly packed his things ready for the 9:10 train. "If it should storm, may

be" was his last conscious thought, and then he drifted off. into a land

where Gertrude spent her Chrl6tmases

with him beside a quiet hearthstone and chaperoned house parties no more.

Next morning, when he awoke, the

snow was driving against the window, while the wind whistled savagely through the trees. Merriwether turned over with a deep grunt of satisfae

tion. There could be no sleighing, no

skating, no tobogganning, such a day as this, and that night was Christmas eve and the Christmas tree. He had purchased an. exquisite copy of "Maud"

for Mrs. Angell. It was a poem they

had once read together, and he won

v. ' ft - W- i - V " ' N A i

The Title

"Hie Old Reliable

Specialist1

of So. Chicago litis been fittingly glvcsrt DR. RUCKEU

Klnsey, was one of the most enjoyable of the season and was well attended. Messrs. C. Reld and J. Carr were South Deerlng visitors Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Taylor of 10821

Torrence avenue are the proud parents of a baby daughter, who arrived at

their home Saturday afternoon.

WEST PULLMAN

There was a good attendance at the concert at the Congregational church

Sunday evening. Mrs. J. TV". Starling

presided at the organ and M. Martinson

lead the orchestra.

Mrs. Guy Hoover spent Monday with

friends In the city.

Mrs. Ingstrom of Sotuh Chicago vis

ited relatives on Kggleston avenue

over Sunday.

Baptismal services were held Sunday afternoon in the Catholio church by Father Lynch. There were two candi

dates.

room."

Roy picked up his hat and moved to- Qut to d beMml tlje hm For dere(i ,f hls memory of the fact would

an hour he skinned his knees, bumped touch hor. "With these thoughts he

his head and disturbed the equanimity

of his temper before he was able to

move alone with moderate speed and

keep his feet under him

When he went in to breakfast he was

thankful for a few moments alone in front of a glowing grate fire. He stretched his aching legs toward the

heat and rubbed the back of his head

where a bump was appearing which is

not laid down in phrenological charts

and pains from which were darting in

every direction. He listened Idly to voices In the hall until his attention

was chained by two comments made

Just outside the door,

"Isn't she a perfect delight of a chap

eron? And so young too! She can't be

thirty."

The reply was given In a doubtful

tone. "Why e e, yes, 6he must be all

of thirty."

"Forty-one," muttered the listener

STONY ISLAND NEWS

KENSINGTON NEWS

Mrs. Cooke was the guest of Mrs. Leahy Sunday evening.

Mrs. Hogan and Mrs. Begdy made a shopping trip to South Chicago Monday

afternoon.

John Hopkins made to Burnslde Monday.

a business trip

Mr. Smith of South Chicago was Stoney Island visitor Monday.

Mrs. Howe made a shopping trip

down town Monday.

Mr. and Mrs. Itobarge of 11G04 Lafayette avenue visited friends in Tullnmn Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chantal of 11712 State street entertained a number of friends Sunday. Mrs. Jenkinson and daughter, Mrs.

Murphy and daughter, Eliza, were the guests of Mrs. Itebedeau of 11843 Lafayette avenue, Sunday. Miss Lillle Douglas of 11813 Lafayette avenue entertained a number of her friends Sunday evening. Mr. St. Lawrent of the city. Is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Roy of Ona Hundred and Nineteenth street. The Thistles of Kensington and the

White Eagles of the city played In the

Athletlo field In Pullman Sunday the score bein 0 to 0.

Mrs. C Swartzile spent Monday nfternoon at the home of Mrs. Oakley.

Mrs. Reed made a shopping trip to

South Chicago Monday.

Mr. Hicks has excepted a position

on the Belt railroad.

Miss B. Brown and Miss H. Dyson

visited Mrs. Ford Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. Barbau'd visited her Bister In

Woodlawn Monday.

Mrs. Hanson visited Mrs. Galert Mon

day afternoon.

ward the door. "Modern bouse parties

are not conducted along the lines you've laid down, nncle. Change your

mind and judge for yourself." He turned the knob. "By the way, I

didn't mention the other chaperon, did

I? It's Mrs. Angell, Bertha's widowed aunt, you know." With this parting

shot, which he knew was effective, Roy discreetly retreated.

After he had gone Merriwether sat

an hour Ptaring at the fire and pulling away at a smokeless pipe. Then he

arose and looked earnestly at himself in the mantel mirror. "We're ant to

run down," he apostrophized his re

flection; "apt to run to seed, 'we bachelors. Now, this tie let's see, it's six

months out of style, and Gertrude used

to be hum." He stepped to the phone

and called up his tailor, realizing that his mind had already undergone the

change Roy hoped for.

Ten days later he arrived at The

Pines just in time to dress for dinner,

He was accompanied by a man and a

smart lot of luggage, accessories which

made so marked a change In his appearance that when at G o'clock he de

scended to the lower hall Bertha Mon

roe, awaiting her aunt at the foot of the stairs, surveyed him In delighted

amazement

"Why, Uncle Bruce," she exclaimed.

'you look so fine I scarcely knew you!"

Bertha was his nephew's fiancee and

already claimed relationship in private

to trie uncie. "la maKe lloy wear

evening clothes in the morning if he

had such a splendid figure so filled

out, you know."

Merriwether, following her Into the

living room, laughed grimly at the

doubtful compliment. "Oh, he'll tip the scales at 220 soon enough, don't wor

ry!"

'You surely don't look that stout,"

began Bertha and, turning abruptly toward the entrance, finished with,

'Does he, auntie?"

Gertrude Angell swept past her niece

and met Merriwether's outstretched

hand cordially. "Look? Why, he looks

surprisingly like the Bruce Merrlweth

er I used to know so well."

'Fifteen years ago," was on the end

doggedly, the light of hi3 new resolve

shining again In his eyes

At 10 o'clock the entire party went

out to the pond, and Merriwether skat

ed and skated and skated until his

teeth were clinched in desperation and

his forehead knitted In his efforts to

hold out as long as Mrs. Angell did.

That he was becoming a man of one

Idea he acknowledged to himself that

afternoon on the sleigh lde. "What

Gertrude dares, I dare," he told him'

self in feeble jest. That sleighing par

ty was a nightmare to him for days

afterward. The drifts were deep, and the sleigh was overturned again and

again, generally with Merriwether at

the bottom of the heap, owing to the

fact that sleighs incline readily in the

direction, of 220 pounds. Then, to vary

the monotony of the tip-overs, there

were miles of hillsides with a souther

ly exposure where the sun had melted

the snow and obliged the party to

walk.

Merriwether tolled up the slopes, hus

banding his wind by maintaining si

lence, watching Gertrude's elastic steps ruefully and feeling his resolutions in

respect to youthfulness ooze from his

chilled finger tips

'All out for our last climb!" cried

drifted back into sleep, and the morn

ing train went thundering cityward without him.

But his triumph over the state of the

weather was short lived. At the break

fast table his nephew curdled his blood by the announcement of the plans for the Christmas trees, which yet stood in the forest a mile across lots. "Two of the men are sick this morning, fellows.

so we'll have to fall into line and fetch

the trees," Roy proclaimed, with a rel

ish born of twenty-three years and

warm blood.

The "fallows," Including Merriweth

er, worked in the storm until noon be

fore the trees were properly cut, trim

med, cleaned and set up in the ball

room ready for the aecorations ana

gifts. The ladles had the decorations

in charge, but Merriwether found there

was no rest for the weary. He bal

anced himself perilously by the hour

on the top of stepladders, which sway

ed and creaked ominously under his

weight; he climbed stairs to fetch pack

ages from the billiard room; he search

ed for lost hammers and knelt on mislaid tack3 until he relegated Christmas

and house parties to the lower regions.

At last the trees were decorated, and Roy called the party into the music

room to practice Christmas anthems.

Merriwether eaw his fellow workers

safely into the music room; then he

dragged himself upstairs for a solacinj

smoke, only to find his fire out and his

chamber cheerless.

Shoving his aching feet Into slippers, he got himself Into a smoking jacket,

lit his pipe and descended to the libra

ry. The library lay back of the living

room, far from the music, and It con

tained an inviting couch, at which

Merriwether had looked longingly, but

had not found time so far to occupy.

He pushed aside the curtains at the entrance with a broad sweep of his

hand and stepped within. Then he

stopped abruptly. The couch was occu

pied. "I beg your pardon, Gertrude.

I thought you were singing."

"Singing!", she responded crossly, struggling Into a sitting posture. "Why,

I've not a shred of voice left to sing

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of Merriwether's tongue, but he check- R0y as the horses stopped at the foot with!" She did not smile, but passed

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with relatives in South Deerlng.

Mrs. Jackson and children of the East

Side were the quests of the formei's sister, Mrs. Roderick, Sunday.

Dennie Holland of r.oseland visited

with his pareiUs, Mr. and Mrs. J. Ho! land, of Calhoun avenue yesterday.

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LANSING NEWS

Mrs. Martha Bulge and daughter

spent Staurday In Chicago.

Miss urace int nout attended the teacher's Institute In Chicago Saturday. Fred V. Clements was a business vis

itor in Chicago Saturday.

Miss Lucy do louag was a visitor

in Munster Sunday.

Miss Minnie Kaska was in our town

Saturday.

Miss C. Miner entertained company from Chicago over Saturday and Sun

day.

Miss Cora I Ward haa gone to Pala

tine where she will teach school for

the coming year.

Walter and Miss Emily Vandonberg spent Sunday with friends In Blue Island. Miss Claus and Miss Seysarth of Chicago were the guests of the Misses Thllmont over Sunday. The dance given by the Country club Saturday night rffved quite a success.

Pioneer Saloon and Hotel T. J. Greenwood ACM. Kuhn. Prop. Meals Served at all hours. Rigs to hire. LANSINQ, ILLINOIS

ed himself Just in time. Gertrude prob

ably Ignored lapses in time as women

have a habit of doing, he thought But surely here was a face, a form, a bear

ing, which had so successfully with

stood time as to entitle her to the ap

pellation of youth. Her brown hair

had not lost its luster, nor had her blue

eyes lost aught of their sparkling Interest In life, while she carried herself

with her old time spring and vivacity.

Merriwether noted all these things as he sat opposite her at dinner. His memory flashed picture after picture

before him the primary days in their

old home school, their grammar room

betrothal, the warm friendship of later years, which had meant something

more to him; then her marriage and

life abroad. As he looked at her he

had the uncomfortable feeling that, al

though her birth had antedated his by one rear, she was many years his

junior.

He was just characterizing himself

as "old" when his nephew's voice

aroused him and added point to his

reflection. "Tomorrow morning we skate," announced Boy Joyfully. "I've had the pond back here cleared for action, and the Ice is O. K!" Then he

added carelessly, "By the way, Uncle Bruce, I forgot to tell you to bring skates along, but I can easily provide

you with a pair.'

Merriwether quaked inwardly, but

made no reply until after dinner, when he backed his nephew Into a corner and addressed him privately and forcefully, "I've not been on skates for ten years, and I don't intend to make a spectacle of myself now by any

means."

"Whv. uncle er you know, that

makes things rather awkward, for Mrs

Angeil does all those things so well, and er we don't want her to feel

bored here."

"Oh!" groaned Merriwether. "In that

case I'll try, but watch out for a rep

etition of a chapter in the 'Pickwick

Papers V " and he turned abruptly Into

the ballroom.

"Are you looking over the scene of former triumphs?" asked a gay voice beside him. And Mrs. Angell moved across the room to straighten a candle

In on of the candelabra.

Merriwether noted with admiration

her free, light step. She was a superb

specimen of womanhood, but he fer

vently wished she had appeared older,

"Why Is it, he asked impulsively, lg-

of a steep rise. "This is our last hill.'

"Thank the Lord!" said Merriwether

devoutly behind his mustache. He

tain -

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her hand across her eyes In a gesture

which caused a great light to break in

on Merriwether.

"You're tired 1" he accused In a ring

ing voice of triumph.

She leaned back, resting her head

against the wall. "Tired?" she repeat

ed in an Intense voice. "I'm half dead

with the awful pace of these two days, business by actual tests of my ability, made before your own eyes.

glancing resentfully at the proportions of the man before her, "I might be

able to endure everything and yet ts

fresh, but, being a woman and forty

one

I call your name, age, birthplace and occupation the instant I

meet you, without your speaking a word. I positively unfold in de

tail all your affairs, giving names, dates, facts and figures in a manner which forever settles the question as to the true and wonderful

powers of clairvoyance. I reunite the separated, overcome enemies,

Gertrude," interrupted Merriwether cause marriage, establish peace, etc., etc., under the guarantee no

charge unless satisfactory. I advise on all kinds of business matters.

moves, changes, journeys, speculations, love, marriage and divorce.

She pauted and looked hack. watched his chance when the atten

tion of the others, especially Gertrude,

was directed elsewhere, and then, as

sisting his pedal extremities laborious

ly over the side of the sleigh, he fell on them heavily, trusting to luck rather than to his tired legs to keep him upright

Near the end of their climb he re

marked to Mrs. Anell, with all tha

nonchalance he conkl command, "I

should think you ladies would be a bit

tired."

A light laugh put him to shame, and a pair of dancing blue eyes met hi3

la a glance which stripped him of fif

teen years and led him back to tha

davs when he had walked beside her

with never a thought of fatigue.

Tired!' she returned carelessly. "And

by such a little trip as this?

That reply, coupled with the day's

unparalleled exertions, turned the tide of Merriwether's resolutions. In his

room before dinner he eased his achiny

In a tone of solemn Joy, "are you forty-one?"

"Of course I am," she responded al-!

most irritably. "You know that I am."

"Ye-es," he replied vaguely, coming

nearer, "but I didn't know that you

knew It!"

"I have every reason to know it" the tears were near the surface now

"when skating gives me the rheuma

tism, and dancing the headache, and that sleieh ride" She spread her

hands out in a gesture of despair. "I

can't endure it any longer. I'm going homo tomorrow on the 9:10 train and leave you to chaperon. Nothing seems to

tire you." The tears had reached her

lashes, and she turned her head away.

Merriwether sat down beside her uninvited"Gertrude," he began in a

voice in which rang a satisfaction out f

f harmony with his announcement, "the exertion attendant on chaperon

ing this house party and keeping up tj with you has given me the rheumatism

In every joint and muscle, and not only the headache the effect has penetrated

to my disposition, which is'

A door opened somewhere, and a i f

burst of music interrupted him. "Peace on earth, good will to men." The door closed, and eilence reigned lm the library. A realization of the spirit of tho words came to Merriwether. His light manner dropped from him. He leaned over and laid hia hand on Gertrude's. "Let's be old and peaee;ful together, dear. Dea't go baek tomorrow. Spend Christmas here with me." Tha firelight played softly over the .woman's face. She glanced up with a smile which was tremulous in spite of her motklng words, "Now that I think ?of it Bruce, I haven't bought my ticket yet and it Is more comfortable to be old!

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