Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 36, 16 December 1911 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PAULADIU3I AM SUX-TEL.EGRAM, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1911.

"FIGHTING DICK" TO RETIRE Ml NAVY Rear Admiral Wainwright Celebrates Sixty-second Birthday, Sunday. WASHINGTON. Dec. 16. The ofcial life of "one of the greatest fightera, bval fellows, and most beloved of officers the Hervice almost has ever had" cxpireH at midnight tonight, when by reason of the fact that tomorrow will be the sixty-econd anniverwary of hla birth. Hear Admiral Itichard Walnriglit, aid for operations in the Navy department, will be retired from active service. No officer in the United States navy today is better known or better liked than "Fighting Dick" Wainright. His recordof service 1b long arid efficient. He graduated from the naval academy In 18C8, but it wa not until the early ninetien that his name began to be heard outside of the service. He was executive officer of the battleship Maine when she was blown up in Havana harbor. "1 will never Bet my foot on Cuban soil until the Maine la avenged," aOptain Walnrlght declared as the waters closed over the twisted and torn hull of the American battleship as it carried down to their death 266 sailors and marines. For weeks, from dawn to dark to dark, Wainright toiled heHide the wreck, directing the divers' work, and recovering the bodies of the dead. On April 5, long after Capt. Sigsbee and his subordinates had been relieved of their painful task, Walnrlght, the sole surviving officer of the Maine left in Havana harbor, pulled down the weather-Btalned flag that had floated day and night from the shouds of the wrecked battleship. When the war was declared with Spain Captain Wainright was among the first to apply for active service. He was delighted when he was placed In command of J. Pierpont Morgan's transformed pleasure yacht, the Corsalr. The little vessel was renamed the Gloucester, in honor of the Massachusetts city where Wainright was born. The Gloucester lost no time in Joining the blockading fleet at Santiago. When the Spanish fleet attempted to escape the Gloucester pounded and destroyed the two torpedo boat dwtroyers, Pluton ind Furor, ere they scarcely had begun their reckless dash from the harbor. For the "eminent and conspicuous conduct" displayed at Santiago Captain Wainright was advanced ten numbers. Admiral Wainright comes of a famous naval family. His father, Commander Itichard Wainright, was one of Farragut's most brilliant subordinates. He met his death in the battle xf New Orleans while commanding Farragut's flagship. Fortunately for the service the name will remain on the active list after "Fighting Dick" goes toito retirement for his son, Lieut. TDlck" Walnrlght is much like his famous father and inherits his affecrtlon for the service afloat.

THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT BEING SERIOUS

Many Persons Regard Themselves Solemnly and Deliver Homilies to Their Relatives. Never Say Things You Don't Mean.

LETTER LIST

you should not allow yourself. She shirt waists with sleeves rolled up and said it was just by accident she learu- hats hanging over one ear.

i ed that von hnA hwn wearine silk "Solemnly this social storm ppntr

hose that the bill came to her instead moves toward the green where the" ine "uwS letters remain unof you a mistake of the bookkeeper winners are putting. Fixedly the ag- claimed at the local postoffice and and ' " gregated eyes of the center gaze upon l will be sent to the Dead Letter office

"By the time you have reached this the brawney winners

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. i "Well, as I say, I had entirely forMuch time is wasted taking your-gotten I ever wrote it. I hand cut

self seriously. Many people imagine themselves at the center of things. Round which pivots the universe. "Yes," said the cynic, "life is too serious to be serioua." "And this from you!" mocked the other person. "Why not from me?" asked the cy-

those things, pass lisht on and give i them no further thought. j "But not so dear sister Maria. "Arrives a large, fat, bulky letter. ; " 'My deai. James,' it began. " 'I was glad to receive your letter and to ; Sfje in it that progressive spirit which ' you, above all others in our family, have invariably evinced. But I regret,

point you are in a cold perspiration of fury." t "You think you'll take the next train i for Maria's town and dynamite her j that you'll cut her off the list but i first you write her a letter.

'It is a sizzler.

if not called for within two -lrs-

meir gaze is proressional solemn!. .. , , . portentous. Lad,es L,,t "When all is over and Richard, a! Miss Hazel Cherry, Mrs. Ed. Heusgilded youth beloved of the daughters tis. Miss Mary Mason, Miss Agnes of the elect, is shaking hands with Norton. Miss Grace Pedeu, Mrs. H. E. Hup, the victorious, Mrs. Manufactur-; shields. Miss Phoebe Stevens, Mrs. er approaches Hup who. alas that it Varv Sullivan. Anna Pravthr

"You read it over and over, more should be so, is Mrs. Corner Grocery's centl

nic in an injured voice. "Why mayn't exceedingly, your degenerate views on

I make an observation now and then without being pi;'l'i up. Besides this remark merely shows I'm playing the part." "Oh, I didn't mean anything when I said that," said the other person. "I just wanted to see how seriously

those vital questions which are now agitating society. I cannot agree with you at all that women are too numerous. No, James, I not only do not agree with you, but disagree with you pointedly. "It is the women who are the sav-

and more delighted with your own literary ability, your scathing irony, your blighting sarcasm, your sardonic humour. "After a while you declare to yourself it is a shame to waste such a gem of purest ray on Maria. "Poor Maria! j "Maria has no ser.e of humour. J "You will pay no attention to Maria, i

son and congratulates him with awful and frigid dignity. As if to say "you may be the local champion but do not presume to cross the dead line.' " "Alter which groups form. "And everybody speaks to the people they think they ought be seen speaking to. Then " But here the other person, refus-

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How's This?

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"You retlect tnat .Maria naa pam uie j nig longer to ne choked off, interrent for ten years and that, after all, rupts she's your sister, that blood is strong- j "Oh, yes that's amusing but I

er than water " "And," interrupted the other person, "you end by tearing up the letter and

vou'd take me if I pretended to be iours of the world. It is to their ele-

surprised at something there was noth- vating and refining influence that men ' saying 'h. damn Maria! inir to he surnrrseil about." 'owe whatever deizree of sniritualitv 1 "I certainly tear up the letter

"Hoist bv mv own Detard." murmur- thev have attained. tne cynic.

ed the cynic. j "I confess that letters such as you

said

But I wouldn't think my

own sister "

"However," he went on, "These have written dishearten me. In them! -n, mats an rigiu. griuneu me serious ones should be avoided as the I observe a strain of levity, a tend-, other person. plague. You know how it goes. In encv toward a base view of the do- i "But. mercy on us," continued the

Milliner. The term milliner Is derived fro; Milaner. so called from Milan. Ual; which at oue time gave the law to Et rope in all matters of taste, dress an elecance. Milliner w;i ,.i-itii.

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j don't think it's half as funny as those

people who deliver lectures on art." "Yes," agreed the cynic refusing to be switched from the circuit, "I've seen them. Receiving the plaudits of their friends and the multitude after de-

livering an address made over from 1

the cyclopedia and Baedecker's guide. Later they permit reporters to approach, slipping the latter each a car-

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a letter to Maria you say, in a spirit mestic relation, a looseness of view- cynic quite sure that the other per-j , . ., " " '

was tired to death of listening l' - V . puuiicauun.

HUTU UIC1C 8 IUUI UfilUI) U I Ubrow who begins every sentence with

of playful sportiveness point which, I fear, will result in son

" 'I shall never marry. Women are spiritual and moral disaster. j and wanting to launch out into some too numerous. Besides I am, as you "My dear James, I must ask you ' experiences of his own, which the

know, polygamous in my tendencies hereafter, to confine yourself, in your like Uncle Peter III., who supported letters to me, to the mere commona bar sinister or two on his shield.' " places. It distresses me to know that "You simply say this in lieu of any- a member of my family, my mother's thing to write about. ' son, places himself so openly with "You have to write to Maria once a that class which is undermining the week and since all the other members , foundations of the home, of the

of the family also write her with the same, and even greater degree of frequency, and what family and other news there is has been distributed round until it has acquired a tenu-

ousness only equalled by your pastor's

church, of our social and political institutions. "I trust you will give up these degenerate and anarchistic views. I advise a course of ethical study under Professor Boglum-Woglum. I will

sermons and you must say something, gladly bear all expenses, bend me a you fall into puling pages of nothing-; list of books and I w ill order them nesses like the above. ' myself since I have an arrangement

i by w hich I can get them at cost and i ycu are careless about money matters. 1 know, of course, that you have

"You don't mean a thing by it. "You've forgotten you ever said it,. "Maria knows, you argue, that you are strictly monogamous and. indeed, an exemplary member of society, keeping up your end of things by payment of the monthly gas bills and going to church now and then to maintain the reputation of the family so what if you do engage in a little persiflage!" "Why do you write Maria at all?" asked the other person.

"Maria can't be neglected," said the j cynic. "Maria married well and has ;

always paid the gas bilks and I assure you that I, and all the family, appreciate your doing so although compared with what I have done this is a mere drop in the bucket. But do not think I do not recognize the spirit in which they have always been paid. "At this time, James, I must also caution you about going into debt. Mother wrote me the other day that

you had bought yourself some silk

cynic was quite determined he shouldn't do. (It's always a bore' listening to tho other fellow. But how you do love to tell him all about it.) "Mercy on us! There are plenty of other people taking themselves seriously. We've talked about parties, you know, ana soiemn pow-wows women have with each other. "It's awfully funny to go out to the Country club in Maria's town. You ought to see 'em when there's a golfing bout on. "Maria's town is a small place where everybody has to be taken in to support the club. But when they get 'cm in, the initiation fee paid and the first dues deposited in the treasury then see Mrs. Manufacturer snub Mrs. Corner Grocery. "Mrs. Manufacturer is a 'social leader.' She takes her social duties very seriously. Dressed in robes of resplendent hue with enshrouding willow plumes she betakes herself to the golf meet. "There, surrounded by hobbled daughters of the elect, she stands

'as Carlvle savs ' "

"Purge me from the highbrow!"1

ejaculated the other person. "Still he's better than the people that want to give you a soul uplift," said the cynic. "Or those who get inspirations at Chautauquas." "Or the evangelist that wants to save your soul at $2.33 .." "Oh, before you go I want to tell you about a conversation I had with Aunt Lydia " began the other person. "Lord save us," said the cynic, reaching fir his hat. "I forgot I had to go down town."

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"we all write to Aunt Lydia. She's had one stroke and no telling what will happen." "I am shocked," cried ihe cynic, "at such callousness. What if your Aunt Lydia is worth five hundred thousand dollars. She likes to live just as well as anybody else. To make a pretense of loving kinship when all you care for is the reading of the will, is repugnant to my sense of justice." "Oh go on about Maria what'd Maria say?" grinned the other person. "I see," said the cynic sadly, "that you refuse to take me seriously."

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