The Vernon Times, Volume 8, Number 28, Vernon, Jennings County, 13 February 1920 — Page 3

BELGIUM SKETCHES

A Piece of Tile By Katherine Eggleston Roberts. 'vrifht, 10i J, Western News; ser t;

"Is t ! j I s whre I used to live, grandmother?" The littl girl stood la the middle of No Man's Land, surveying the mm ground and leafless trees." "Yes, dear, right here where you are standing." The oh: woman slipped Mid slid over the uneven earth, peer!u now into one cavity, now into an-

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rusted obus. "Louisa." she called to ! r daughter. "I believe this Is where the old berry tree stood. Try here. I :.i to remember hearing Paul say he buried it near the tree." I-r.;;! - a, a tall, broadly built woman, thrust her spade Into the f,:':-.:ad and -:V;.tly began to dig. "Grandmother," the child called from a Utile distance, "did father and mother live here, too?" "Ye, Maria." Madame Verbeek turned to her daughter again. "If we don't find the money, what are we to do for Maria? If only her mother were here. We have nothing." "And whan Paul turned everything to silver and burled It before he left, he thought he put It In the safest place." Louisa straightened her achtrg back. "cs, snd he thought he'd eorae for it himself. Somehow, he never seemed tn jvulize that he might never come." Her voice dwindled to a whisper. Louisa began to dig again. The old woman wandered off, looking, always Itohing, till the same to where Maria stopped and poked at something la tiie debris. It was round end white, with cavernous eyes and broken teeth.

The child recoiled. The widening black pupils darkened the gray of her eyt s as she stared fascinated. "It's just like the ones we saw on the way, Isn't it, grandmother?" she ashed after a horrified moment. "Was ho a German or a Belgian?" "You can't tell now, Maria. Come oa away from it." She took: the little f

Where Prosperous Belgians Used to Live.

one's hand, and together they tramped through the rank, yellow water-grass, the tired old woman, who longingly remembered the town that had been leveled, powdered to nothing by the f.re of the heavy guns; and the child, who gazed with scarce believing stare wnen they told her this place had been her home, iihe had heard a lot about home In the few yeans of her life. Her grandmother had teld her all about it. In the long, cold nights "And father and mother were they happy here'" Tho? poop! had been In the stories, too, and she liked them. "Yes, Maria; very happy, until the war came." "You told me father wouldn't ever come again. Do you think that mother wiiir "I don't know, dear, I don't know. The lorin; to v. ork." j i .i-k her drove her off .-omoi.- -ivi'U be glad to W 1 -h. rr.e. v. ; 'T vl...-;" ): : . o: .;ih-S.m 1 : .1 ' cro?s the V Th !:! rt TV:;'!h S Wit. y stop i wni ) M A i.h- :" What's that, grand..U.g r.i the ground? Oh, She tubbed away the t. "it v. a - 1 the tltebeti wall They !. 1 .:;od "It's at a a re ir lofothor. pi-ttly picture, isn't It? some trees, and there'3 a ai ul I guess that must have Th re little r been a wiemni and a house. It's broken." She sat down on a hump of sod ard put the tile upon her knees. "Yes, it's broken." Madam Verbeek watched the little girl examining the one thing Uft of heme. "Mother 1" Lou's a rested oa her s 1 Hide. "You've found It I" She started eagerly. Louisa shook her head. "There's no use trying. We'll never Mad it ia ti upheaved place. Let's go away." Is "l.ut what are we to !o? ' "1 do net hr.-v-v." Maria saw then ruaklsj ready to Or part. her si lie the? to s; e d the tile ga!a$t :'cd acre-is to where ulr-g to take it back :iU;1 ski; L 'Tin lb me. for mother: end, when she e,:::,;e3, I'm gyf:,$ tJ give it to her." Madame Vtriuxk sighed: "We ought not to let l;er ian o. Ueletse will

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'-..'-a It r.Ir.o clean. The lilt:? c!rl j has a dirty face. Auatie, do you s'po the lived there in that piece of liotLie?"' j "Ie. res. maybe the did," Louisa's I thoughts were busy elsewhere. TThat j to do? flow to provide? Her mother ! was so old, the child so young. If ! only they had found her brother's j money ! Twilight wrapped the Holds in dreary gray before they reached the little railroad hut a new-built siding where nobody lived. About her thin, bent shoulders Madame Verbeek pulled th shtiwl mnro iluhtlv She shivered i ; ! y 'A K ' The Wrecked Home. as the damp and chilly wind cut through her threadbare garments. Louisa put her arm within her mother's and they stood between Maria and the wind. Back to Ypres, the puffing engine took them, and then they had another deary walk to where they lived out near the edge of town. One by ona the cloud up in the sky faded and Coated off and left the stars and .moon to watch the drooping trio find tiicir way. The women were both silent though thoir thoughts ran in a never-ending whirl of -"Flow" and "when." Maria dragged between them, half asleep. At last they reached the i, i. K 5 , place tbey now called home, and they were glad to sink upon their bods of straw and sleep. And each one dreamed the gray-hairea woman of a happy past, Louiaa of innumerable fiends that tortured her with worrypointed spears, Maria of a tile that came to life. The heavy sky of bleak November bound the world within Its pall. Lou!,? a i wakened from her restless sleep. An- i other day to meet. Each day seemed long, and yet they passed too quickly as the winter came. She moved about the room on tip-toe. Why wake the other two? The more her mother slept, the less she'd think about the future with an empty purse. Her gloomy thoughts were startled by a knock. "ileleno!" "Louisa 1" That was all until the mother held Maria In her arms her baby grown into a little girl. Madame Verbeek awakening, thought that chvVam? were fooling her. And then they all sat speechless, so filled with things to say they could not talk. "I've hunted for you for time," at last ITelene began. a long "When 1 came back " "Where have yon beea?" "Not where I would have gone, but let the past lie still. I came backhome as quickly as they let me free. Cut home was gone, and then I looked for you. Last night rsiao people over there la Poelcapelle. you know - the Neefs they used to lite r.eer us told me you were here." "Then you were horae before us?" "Ye, I was home; I found the money Paul had'1 "You found the money!" both the women gasped. MOh, I found the raocey, the bos lay la full view upon the ground ; I found the money, but I didn't :'. : d my family nor my home a broken piece of tile was all 1 found." "I found one, too. I saved It just for you." Maria ran to get it from the cupboard. "Look, your piece fits with ialce. It makes the picture a woman end a little girl. That's you and me. Oce corner's gone, though, yet." MA man stood there before a house, her mother said.

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SOME FACTS AND FANCIES ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES There Has Been Much Misrepresentation in America About People and Conditions. By MAXIMO M. KALAW, Secretary of the Philippine Mission. A certain lady at the St. Louis Exposition saw at a ballroom a brown complexloned man in faultless evening dress and accosted him with the inquiry, "I suppose you are Japanese, sir?" The man - adJ dressed replied, ' "No, madam." & "Then you must be Chinese," she said. "No. -I am not. f.laximo f1. Kalaw. I am a Filipino," he replied. "IIuw's that?" asked the Tady. "I thought they were all savages living La the woods." "Well, I'll tell you how I came here," he raid. "A. month before I' left the Philippines I was living in the woods, but (lie American Governor decided to catch as many wdld men as possible, train them and send them over here. So here I am, just as you Eee." And the St. Louis lady actually believed him. That Is what you would call fancies about the Philippines. The fact 13, however, that the 11,000,000 Filipinos and their ancestors have been civilized and Christians for E00 years; that the non-Christian population, according to the census of 1'JIS, is only 500,000, and even these are not all uncivilized. Another fancy Is that not until the coming of the Americans wer school buildings seen in the Islands, roads built, or substantial houses erected. Do you know that for hundreds of years the Filipinos have had colleges and schools and that the University of Santo Tomas is only twenty-five years older than Harvard? That as early as 1S0G, out of a population of 4,000,000 people, there were 841 schools for boys and S3r for girls? That in 1892, eight : years before the coming of the Americans, there were 2,137 schools? "To grant self-government to Luzon j uiKk-r Aguinaldo would be like grantIng self-government to an Apache reservatfon un-''- - local chief." Thus ; spoke a former Pre&ldcu! ol theTJS'Hs! j States during the Filipino-American j war. Exaggeration could be an excuse j at a time when the dignity of the Amj eriean people demanded the extinction I of Filipino opposition, but do you know ; that the Philippine Republic, before the ! American occupation of the Islands, j bad tiie approval of prominent AmeriI cans who were on the spot like John F.arretr, Director of the Pan-American Union, who compared it favorably with the Japanese government? That Admiral Dewey considered the Filipdnos better fitted for self-government than the Cubans? That they had drafted a constitution at Malalos which elicited the approval of distinguished Republicans like the late Senator George F, noar? That before the coming of'the Americans they had produced .national heroes like the martyred Jose!- RiEah pronounced by a Republican congressman, Representative Cooper, as -the noblest victim that has ever fallen intothe clutches of tyranny?" - And do you know that til Filipinos have not had for hundreds of years any caste system, blood distinction or royal j sisters, they are the only Christian peo- ; pie in the orient? ( People have pictured an ignorant j mass of Filipinos, illiterate, poor, livI ing a life of servitude for a few I wealthy land owners and foreigners, ! with no housos or farms or property j of their own. Do you know that 70 j per cent, of the people above ten years , of ago can read and write and that this ! percentage of literacy is almost as high j as some of the states of tha Union? j That it Is higher than In any country j of South America, higher than the liti eracy of the Spanish people, and uniuestioiiably above that of any of the j new countries recognized ia Europe? j Do you know that there are a million j and a half farms In the Philippines j and that bd per cent, of these farms j are owned by Filipinos. Ia other words, i that out of the 11,000,000 Christian Filipinos, S.000,000 of them at least live on thoir own farms, with nouses of thoir own, independent of any absentee !a!:!b..rd or foreign master? That 1)1 pvr tvp.t. of the urban property cons".ti:'.g of houses and lands is owned by the natives of the Philippine, and rdy ' per tvnt. Is In the hands cf foreigners? Yet these are facts cabled by -- tii-- Governor Charles Emmett Yea;or to tho War Department from the ivart i : ; estimates. 1 1 .t s.-Icr.inly promised the ' Filiepviolvnee and having e iPe v(,r!d as tho 'champion -rf.dr.atler.. the Filipino pi oO f L. ! . . s. f it ! v hc-y .Aiaerli'a to taaka rood reiui-e ' i oe pron CLJf 1ATE e I" OF TH' PHILIPPINES. d- Lt ve r f : 1 f.

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1 -,-4 91 jrs f i a f ; 6 O i afc tM r "" : 3 t 5 1 m m m m it m mm x m ifk - w ("s, i A 6 I t I da Veyra Desoribes in tho Status of Women I kin WSt ivOi The Filipino woman is destined to be in the world's spotlight more than ever before as a result of the news just received by cable from Manila to the effect that the Philippine senate has passed the equal suffrage bill giving women full political rights with men. This would Indicate that the Filipina may beat her American sisters to the ballot box. The Filipina has many admirers who predict she will make good If she gets the vote, just as she has made good in the very important role she has occupied ia the family and business life of the Philippines ever since the introduction of Christianity in the Islands three centuries ago. "America's advent in the Philippines discovered a wonderfully interesting, responsive little being, the Filipino woman," writes one American concerning 71 MRS. JAIME C. DE VEYRA, A Filipina who Is doing important work for her people in tha j United States. the' Filipina. "Mothering the only Christian people in the far east, she holds a place of authority, love and respect in-family and social life that Is not accorded to women in countries neighboring vthe islands, or in India, China or Japan." A Filipina who Is doing an important work for her people in tho United' States Is Mrs. Jaime C de Veyra, Wiife of the resident commissioner from the Philippines. Not only has she frequently addressed the wives of members of Congress in Washington as to conditions in the new Philippines, but she has visited various cities, speaking before women's clubs. The senora wears, in giving her talks, one of the beautiful gowns of her home land, a delicate pineapple fabric, hand-woven and hand-embroidered, shaped like a gauzy-winged butterfly. "In many ways the path of the women of the Philippines is easy," says Senora de Veyra. "Laws made by her have - combined the best of American and Spanish precedents, and she has corns into her pwn with far less struggle than either her American or her Spanish sisters. Married women may hold property in severalty. They -are guardians cf .their own children. These are vested rights and cannot be taken away from her. "Professional opportunities are as good for women as for men in the land from which I come. The Filipina is : bv -custom the dictator in the heme. She Is usually the keeper of the family treasure. Practically all of the shops in Manila are conducted b; men. Women are already mem! the" Philippine- Bar Associa:;. thing still impossible in Great FThey are also successful as clans." Life is really a fifty-fifty propo for women In the Philippines, a ir.z to the senora, who has tub; r. a proP-iinejit part in wome. '--there, that she has. some time:' 1 e ferretl to as "the little mother of all."- She was the as-dstaat to-;-' r-rnn the Nur-.oal IIall I 'or when she married, i tlsli -fluttitiy and f!';' rate rv ti her

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