Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 321, 26 September 1909 — Page 8

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Quaiqt Old Kendal of Kendal Green Fame Prof. Elbert Russell, of Earlham 'College, Describes the Town That Clothed the. People of Shakespeare, and Scott Much of It Now the Same As of Old

V Kendal, England, August 28. This is a quaint little city in Westforeland which is usually missed by tourists In their eagerness to reach the Inore famous lake country just beyond it. Seeking a quiet resting place where every lodging place would not be crowded during the holiday season and yet where we would be within easy reach of the lakes and historic places of north England, I found myself settled in Kendal. " The first afternoon I wandered out In Idle curiosity to look the town over before taking flight to places of real Interest, and found myself all unwittingly in the gardens of romance in the city of the past. It was the first clear day after weeks of rain. The Kurrounding fells were of the cleanest green, the cobble stone pavements of the lanes and the macadamized roads were washed clean, and the quaint houses of irregular stones roughly dressed, with small-paned : windows and rows of chimney pots, made it pass easily as the "spotless town" of the north. A Continental Picture. The slate roofs alone gave an English sobriety to an otherwise continental picture. The old signs were no longer to be seen at the inns, to be sure, but the names lingered and it only required a little imagination to replace the "Golden Lion," the "Angel," the "Globe" and the "White Hart" where they once beckoned the traveler to his rest. - I wandered on and on, transported Into the land of my lost youth's dreams. Here was a fine vista of blue-veiled fell, there an arched en

trance to a "yard." The streets are

lew in A.enaai, nui ruauius uaun. thrnnarh arched entrances under

houses and walls are narrow winding alleys and footpaths which are known' as "yards." Along these the people mostly live, their houses opening into the wider, spaces or into walled courts. As one walks through these he passes here and there a shop 'or 'factory, but mostly he looks through open doors and windows directly into :the living rooms o! dwellings. They are so dark, however, that one can 'not see much, even it one could' give

undivided attention to the effort. I was distracted from such peering mainly by the effort to keep from

running over the children who swarmed in the "yards" and poured out into the streets at the slightest inducement. Sturdy, solemn-faced little John Bulls they are, and it other English cities are still as prolific of the type, England need not fear tor her future. . Attracted by the sound of a grind or- : gan, I found a group of these youngsters standing against the walls or dancing about in a grave ecstacy, while a ragged, sunbonneted girl ground out "The Holy City." Instead of a monkey, a .parrot accompanied the outfit. Mingling of Old and New. It was a typical incident the strange mingling of the old with a strain of the new. One finds the new In the frequent signs at the taverns : "Motorists catered for, "Good accomxnodations for cyclists" and the frequent "temperance hotels" the chll-

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dren's playgrounds,' next to the old i parish church, the workingmen's instl- j tute, the Y. M. C. A., and the Carnegie I

library. But these have been added to

the old without "the horrors of lm-1 provement." Even the streets have been paved without either straightening or widening them. A visitor . to Kendal two centuries ago, wrote: "One would like to say. something in praise of the town, bu the pavements are eo bad one can only mind his feet." One may let his feet care for themselves now and admire the city. The streets are still narrow, hardly more than the trails for pack horses they once were when Kendal was the groat center of woolen manufacture in the north and exported her wares by pack horse trains in every direction Within a few miles of the city are to be found a dozen bridges which still show underneath their stone arches how the narrow pack-horse bridge has been widened by adding a second narrow span to accommodate vehicle traffic. Long before Shakespeare's day a Flemish weaver, attracted by the fine pastures and shees of the Westmore

land dales and fells, settled at Kendal and laid the foundations of its prosperity and its fame for its woolen cloth. Above the town by the side of

the Kent are still pointed out the old bjleaching grounds, where sun and dew produced a snowy whiteness. The secret of the "Kendal green" worn' by Shakespeare's and Scott's northern heroes, is lost, but one can easily imagine it to have been a reflection of the countryside pastures. The Westmore

land Border Regiment no longer wears

the "Kendal Green." but preserves Its organization and its headquarters recall the old border raids and wars that only -ceased with the union of Scotland and England. A'' Names That Tell of Past. But we must come back to the streets and notice how the names change as they wind along the valley. Just as the names recall the vanished figures from the taverns, so the street names recall the old wall and gates. We enter along Stramongate, pass on to Highgate and may go-out by Stricklandgate, or Gillingate though we find no other trace of gate or wall. Two of the most interesting anti

quities of the town are the parish church and the castle. Love is more enduring than hate, the two relics of the mediaeval past seem to say. for

the church is well preserved and the center of modern life while the castle is a vanishing ruiu. The architecture of the church, the memorial tablets within it and the blackened, almost undecipherable tombstones of the church yards speak of the past; but the parish house Abbott hall is a public hall, and about it are the children's playgrounds, a park for nurses and old people, where they may rest undisturbed by the children's revels and a bowling green for the men. Behind it flows the placid Kent, where the children love to wade and swim. We counted more than a hundred one afternoon, more than seventy-five of them in the water, with pants and dresses drawn up as far as possible, wading about Two old swans and a gosling added an idyllic touch to the scene. Our landlady reconciled herself to these revels by saying it was probably the only washing most of them ever got! Their faces, gravely happy and picturesquely dirty always, seemed to justify her opinion. v Church of Five Aisles. The church is distinguished from the common type by having five instead of three aisles, separated by rows of stone arches. It had evidently at first only three aisles, but the growing parish required more room, and the structure was widened by adding aisles on each side, in different styles of window, arch and pillar. The church builders seem never to have

tried to make - the new structures agree with the old. Among its relics is an old helmet Tradition says that during the civil wars one Robin, surnamed the Devil, held an island in Windermere lake for the king. On a certain Sunday, hearing one of Cromwell's generals was to be at church in Kendal, Robin rode armed into the church to- seize him' whereupon the people set apon him. so that he was glad to escape, leaving his helmet behind. Pursuit was hot but . Robin leaped his horse) over the precipice of Scout scar, two miles above Kendal, and so got safe again to Windermere. The story must be true, for the helmet is there! , The church dates' back to the building of the castle and gave its name to the village, which in the old charters is known as Kirkby Kendal. "By" seems an old Norse suffix tor, Village, so that tits mba nag have, meant the

church village in the dale or valley of the Kent one finds Kirkby Lonsdale not far away. In time, however, the

prefix was dropped and Kent-dale be

came worn down to Kendal.

Castle as Old as the Conquest. Since the barony of Kendal was one of the most northerly fiefs mentioned in William the Conqueror's "Doomsday Book," the castle is at least as old as,, the conquest. It was well located on a commanding bill east of the riv

et), apparently far safer than the vil

lage fnd church that grew up close below, and ; looked up to it and its soldiers for protection. One goes up Parr street to visit the castle ruins, and there is -reminded that in the Reformation days it was in the hands

of the Parr family, and that the last

wife of the much-married Henry VIII

was born there. Catherine Parr, hav

ing successfully buried two husbands, did not shrink from risking the fate of some of Henry's previous queens.

She 'outlived him and was so little daunted by her experience that she

afterward married again. After ' her

time the castle had no living influ

ence in the nation's life, and for two and a half centuries has been an untenanted ruin. The Norman has gone and left little trace of his violent conquest and haughty rule. Perhaps the descendants of the "axons over whom he lorded it are softer and more versatile of speech, endowed with greater sense of abstract justice, respect for law and love of 'heraldry and titled power, but little else distinctly Norman can be traced in the little village of Kentdale today. v . Characteristics of the People. .Their speech is broad and gutteral, matching well the clack of their hobnail shoes, save where education or travel have softened both shoe soles and speech. One sees clearly the fair Saxon features, especially in the women, who are so conservative of racial type, blue eyes; fair skins that flush rosy on the maidens' cheeks and grow florid on the old women's faces, but never tan; light hair, usually showing a reddish tinge, from is it a Celtic or Norse strain. The -latter, probably, since there are so many evidences of Norse occupation in these northwest

ern countries. Rune stones are now and then dug up as at Heysham, and the suffixes of most place names such as thwalte, thorpe, by, are Norse, as

well as such words as fell, ghyll. tarn and many common proper names. The old men of the town are inclined to be squat and heavy, and the custom of wearing a fringe of beard around the face gives them a patriarchal, if somewhat goatish appearance. The Saxon blood nowhere appears clearer than in the tenacity with which the humbler citizens stick to their customary privileges. The green along the Kent is all that remains of the old "common" on which the dwellers in the crowded "yards" pastured their sheep, bleached their fabrics and dried their clothes after washing them in the Kent Right to Hang Out Washings. They have no longer reason or desire for most of these things, but the housewives steadfastly resist every effort to deprive them of the right to hang out their washings and pasture sheep on the village green. What care they that the progressive and respectable people are scandalized that tourists should be greeted every Monday by acres of waving underwear and night dresses, be the? never so spotless and white? It is the true spirit of '76 and one can believe that the same sturdy Saxon love of personal and customary rights and , privileges binds in one clan of free blood the framers of Magna Charta, the long parliament Boston tea party and the Kendal housewives. Kendal's first charter was for a Saturday market and it is still one of the

live institutions of the town, a great event for farmers and housewives, and a perpetual joy for sightseers and

children. , . 'Industrial Changes. The woolen industry has gone; the railroad has bought up the canal that gave impetus to so many, industries a century ago, and uses it only for coal barges; but new industries have come and the people are thrifty and content The Norman came by the sword and perished of war, lust, disease and idleness, but the little community of patient and stolid Saxons that submitted to the power they could not resist and held their market end wove and dyed their wool under the shelter of the castle, lives on. The calamity of the Norman role proved a blessing In disguise, since it. enforced peace and taught justice and thrift And sow their descendants have bought of the

j heirs, Um old castHi ruias and hillside

field, and have taken steps to save them from vanishing utterly.

They are now a playground for the

children, who clamber over the hill

sides and crumbling walls, a park where lovers tryst and an attraction for tourists. For it is one of the revenges of history that since our forefathers refused to pay the mother country a few pence tax on tea to help maintain her, we of this generation must buy the tea and tip the waiters beside, for the mere privilege of looking on the country from which we got our institutions and our blood. Perhaps also it is fair reward, to these men of England for marring so little the natural beauties about them and cherishing so carefully the old England we so carelessly abandoned or flung away. At any rate the fields are small; England is crowded, and were it not that ruins, lakes and fells enable many to live. off the tourists the rest of England's v boldest ' and youngest would have to follow the example of our fathers and emigrate. ELBERT RUSSELL. Professor of Bibical Literature at Earlham College.

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WIDOW'S WIT Will ' AGAINST II LOVER

Asks Him to Hold Her Parasol, Sends Her Maid for the Police.

THREATENED TO KILL HER ME COMPELLED HER, SHE DECLARES, TO ACCOMPANY HIM TO ST. LOUIS UNDER A THREAT OF TAKING HER LIFE.

GADSKI TO RETURN

(American News Service) -t New York, Sept 25. Mme. Johanna Gadski is soon to return to New York, where she will head the Wagnerian contingent of singers at the Metropolitan opera house during" the coming winter. She has secured passage on the North German Lloyd steamship "Kronprinzessin Cecile," sailing September 28. The soprano's host ot friends and

admirers in the United States are planning a warm welcome for her and " she will be the recipient ot many con-": gratulations over the brilliant success of a reception she gave in Berlin, when she was the hostess of Dr. David Jayne Hill, the American ambassador' at the Kaiser's court and Mrs. HilL The dinner and reception were attended by a distinguished gathering ot diplomatic and professional celebrities. Ambassador and Mrs. HU1 tendered Mme. Gadski and her husband, Hans Tauscher, a farewell reception prior to her departure to sail for Am-

SPAIN AND AMERICA

(American News Service) San Francisco, Sept 25. Old. Glory and the standard of Spain will be unfurled to the October breezes, the scent of roses and violets will fill the sunladen air and the prettiest women and girls of California will dance and sing and make merry, when San Francisco celebrates Portola week, from October 19 . to' 23. At night the city of the Golden Gate will shine In the radiance of dazzling electrical pyrotechnical displays. . The Pacific coast metropolis is to commemorate in magnificent style the founding of the city by th3 Spaniards.

OBITUARY. William Hubbard, son of Joseph and Sarah Hubbard, was born 5th month, 30th, 1S32, in Newport, now Fountain City, Wayne County, Ind. His mother died when he was three months old. Then Lis grandfather and grandmother Thomas took him in their family and raised him just as they did their own children. When he grew up to young manhood, he was married to Amanda M. Chenoweth, 3rd month, 21st, 1850. To this union was born seven children, four sons and three daughters, one son having preceded the father to that heavenly home. The other members of the family, with the exceptfon of the oldest son, were at their father's bedside during the last days of his illness. As we stand beside the lifeless form of our brother, Wm. Hubbard, we feel to say. how the church, his home meeting will miss him. So faithful in attendance and in testimony, but most of all will he be missed by his beloved wife and companion in life for almost 60 years, who at this time languishes on a bed of afflicton not able to be with us today. He also leaves a host of friends who will morun his departure.

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Rose City Rerie No. 933 will visit uss

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St Louis, Mo., Sept 25. Mrs. Bertha Williams, a dark eyed, dark haired

widow, forced by fear of being killed to come from Edwardsville to St Louis, with her ardent suitor, Charles Barron, after the sight of a revolver in his pocket had wrung from her a promise to marry him, used a brown silk parasol in a clever ruse to cause his arrest in a downtown department store. ' V: Mrs. Williams is employed in an Edwardsville dressmaking establishment According to her story of her experience, told to the police, she was on her way to work bareheaded when Barron, who has long been paying court to her, stepped from a doorway and asked her where she was going. She answered that she was going to work.. Was a La Melodrama. "No, you're not" said Barron. "You are going to St Louis with me. You didnt meet me the other night as you promised. I have waited long enough for your answer. Now you are going to marry, me whether you want to or not". ;'' v He threw back his coat Mrs. Williams said, and pointed significantly to a revolver in his pocket Mrs. Williams pleaded for time to go home and get her hat thinking she could thus escape him. . ;

"No," he said, "you are going to St Louis with me just as you are. I'll buy you a hat when we get there and then well get married.". Fearing he would use the revolver.

Mrs. Williams said, she boarded an interurban trolley car with him. After leaving the car at Eads Bridge, Mrs. Williams, who had figured out a plan of escape, reminded Barron - of his promise to buy her a hat She prevailed on him to accompany her to a store at Broadway and Washington avenue. They went to the second floor. . "Before having a hat fitted I must fix up my hair," said Mrs. Williams. "You wait here on the settee while I go to the rest room." Then, as if it were an afterthought she handed Barron her brown silk parasol. - "Just hold that until I come out" she- said. . When she was In the rest room she hurriedly whispered to the maid: "There is a man out there who threatened to kill me. Go get a policeman. Tell the officer It is the man sitting on the settee holding a brown parasol."

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