The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 52, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 April 1911 — Page 7

1/2 STORY gl] I 1~1 Miss Selina Lue ■ AND THE H Soap-Box Babies By Maria Thompson Daviess A* Illustrations by Magnus G. Kettner J I Copyright 1909, The Bobbs-Merrlli Company. 1 SYNOPSIS. Miss Selina Lue, spinster grocery-store keeper of River Bluff and guardian angel of the community,, presides over an Impromptu day nursery for the babies of ’he neighborhood in the rear of the place. Her charges are kept In soap boxes and are known as the "Soap-Box Babies.” The fact that she is single makes her somewhat of an object of sympathy to the mothers, although possessed of stronger maternal Instinct than htany of them. CHAPTER I.—Continued. At her door she was welcomed with enthusiasm. Miss Cynthia Page stood on the top step, in her arms a baby who was uttering a protest against the world in general, and Miss Cynthilu in particular, in such a staccato volume of voice that his size could but be a surprise to the beholder. On the floor his exact counterpart, except in the matter of hair—that of counterpart being of the tone known in some walks of life as, red gold but called on the Bh I “car- , roty”—sat with solemn eyes chewing a string and clutching determinedly at the hem of Miss Cynthia’s white linen skirt with grimy hands. Just behind him a pink-clad little bunch had succeeded in squirming between the pickle barrel and a large bushel basket of snap-beans, and only the hind quarters and ten pink toes of the explorer evidenced her whereabouts. From a certain ecstatic wave of one leg it might be suspected that a find , had been made and was being secretly and rapidly consumed. ■ In the middle of the floor another infant lay prone, with legs and arms waving frantically, resembling nothing more than an overturned beetle helpless in its appeal to be before the world. And from behind the counter on the left there Issued a voice, a voice that rose and walled an accompaniment to the Flarlty in Cynthia’s arms that could not but impress the hearer. It was no fretful cry for attention and amusement, but was the howl of a soul in torment, hungry, hot, frightened, with a pain all over and in spots. "Dearie me!” exclaimed Miss Selina Lue. “You all seem to be upsot!” And as she spoke she took the wailer from Miss Cynthia and reaching for . Carrots on the floor, tucked him under the same arm with his brother, while she drew out by one foot the explorer and revealed the treasure, found to be a now partly consumed. The beetle shared the hollow of her arm with the explorer, but the voice from behind the »counter wailed on unpacifled. "Miss- Cynthia, honey, please pick up Clemmie from behind there and bring her on back here to the boxes." Miss Selina Lue spoke of the boxes as of stalls in a training stable. “Whatever did you let them out for? I am afraid you was pestered to death with ’em." ; “Oh, Miss Selina Lue, they all vegan to cry at once and I didn’t know what to do,” apologized Miss Cynthia as she struggled to the back of the store with the voice in her arms still making itself heard, though the sight of Miss Selina Lue had brought it down a note or two. “Oh, that’s all right; crying’s good for ’em, the darlings,” said Miss Selina Lue as she deposited the wriggling load on the floor. There was a large south window at the back of the grocery, and a morn-ing-glory vine peeped in on one side and clutched with little tendril fingers at a group of sides of bacon that hung on the wall. A large yellow cat stretched on the sill in the sun, which poured in over him to the' floor. Ranged back from the heat, but In the cool breeze, were five empty soap boxes. capacious and clean, with calico cushions stuffed down each back. Miss Selina Lue shook out each cushion and deposited theron a baby, picked from the group on the floor. Carrots I came last and was enthroned with care on a “chiny-blue" cushion. "Ain’t he too sweet on that blue klver?” said Miss Selina Lue as she smoothed the flaming kinks. A tender hand ran over/each bobbing head and peace reigned In the River Bluff grocery, whose back regions were given over to a’hospitable day nursery conducted on entirely original and also utterly unremunerative lines by its otfner. With Miss Selina Lue to love was to minister, and she never dreamed that she was testing a widelydiscussed and little practiced philanthropic measure. r “Miss Selina Lue, you are a wonder! How do you ever manage with them all the time?" ventured Cynthia as she stood by, disheveled panting. Her checks ware shell-

pink and warm, little gold curls clung to her damp forehead. Her p violet eyes were wide with admiration at Miss Selina Lue’s generalship, but were given a desperate cast by a huge smudge on the side of her nose which had by accident tried conclusions- with that of the vocally strong Clementine. Her hat had been pulled to a rakish angle and the starch was out of her linen blouse. She had the appearance of one who has fought a losing fight. “Now, Miss Cynthie, honey, they was jest hungry. They’s as good as gold most times; but babies Is like human beings —they can’t always be counted on to do the best they knows. It’s time they was fed, and I better be about it. Want to stay and see ’em feed ?” Miss Cynthia had a number of times in her life heard invitations issued ; from various tented sawdust rings of i which she was instantly reminded by I Miss Selina Lue, and it was with some- ! thing o’ the same feeling of trepiI dation that she accepted. i “Now,” said Miss Selina Lue as she ! rolled i p her sleeves and cleared the i deck for action by drawing the boxes into a close semicircle around a threelegged milking stool, "you can see how good I’ve got ’em trained, the darlings. I cook up this bowl of oatmeal outen that as spills outen the packages what bust, and I pour on a good dose of Charity’s new milk, which is that of real human kindness, if she is just a spotted cow.” As she talked she seated herself on the stool and dipped out a spoonful of the sticky porridge dripping with milk, i Instantly five small," pink, toothless or partly toothless mouths popped open and five bobbing heads became rigid and five roly-poly necks craned. The moment of suspense was keen. Presto! the spoon descended into the mouth of Blossom, the explorer. Her ecstatic gurgle had four anticipatory . echoes. Again the pink caverns yawned and again the poised spoon descended, this time into the rosy lips of Clementine, who swallowed her portion with the remnant of her last sob. The echoes gurgled again and ; presented open mouths at attention instantly. “Seefns like,” said Miss Selina Lue, “they all swallows one another’s dinner and gits jest that much more pleasllsis / At Her Door She Was Welcomed With Enthusiasm. ure outen it all. If grown-ups would jest chaw one another’s good luck, t they could git a heap of satisfaction from it, I say. Now ain’t they good, j and jest as patient, a-waiting their : own turn?” “Indeed they are just a cunning nest of baby birds, Miss Selina Lue, and you are the mother bird .with the worms, the nicest sort of worms. You —you,”—Miss Cynthia hesitated, trying to give coherence to a thought Miss Selina Lue had heard voiced before, —“if you were being mother bird to your own you couldn’t ” “Miss Cynthie, honey,” said Miss Selina Lue as .she scraped the last drop of milk intd the spoon and skillfully administered It to the nodding head of Flarity, the brother of Carrots, “I think the good Lord intended that a mother should come into this world with every child, but sometimes she don’t git borned when it does; and sometimes —sometimes the mother is borned and the child ain’t there. The mother job is one that ain’t cut out to suit everybody and them it fits have got a duty laid on ’em strong, even if it is jest being a kinder soul-mother. Don’t let Clemmie fall and cut her head on the edge of her box! She is nodding so and I have to ease down both the Flaritles, who is plumb gone. Thanky, child, they are all safe now and I can git to -work. Seems like my heart is at rest when I’ye got ’em asleep in the soap boxes. I sometimes wonder if the Lord don’t feel the same way about us grown-ups when he sends the night down to kiver us up in our beds. But then when he’s got us all safe asleep the folks over in Chlny wakes and they deviltries, so I reckon the Bible is true when it says he neither slumbers nor sleeps.” CHAPTER 11. The New Soap-Boxer. “Vanity in a man is like a turkeygobbler a-strutting in November." - —Miss Selina Lue. “Miss Cynthie, honey, it’s a good thing you come down to see me this morning first thing. When you are in town on one of them week-end-and-be-gins with Miss Evelyn, sweet as she Is, I don’t rest calm as I might Seems like, so to speak, I am afraid you will turn over your soap box or bump your head or swallow a fly or something, if you are outen my sight." “You mean you are sure I will have the strength of mind to refrain from taking in the camel, but are uneaay

about my seeing the gnat In time. Miss Selina Lue?” said Miss Cynthia, as she stood smiling before the grocery door where Miss Selina Lue sat, busily engaged in sorting aver a basket of June apples. “Child, I can’t always help but have more respect for a great big, sinful camel than a mean, little, busybody gnat that pops in your mouth and does you a injury before you know he’s there. And of the two I choose the camel to swallow, if swallow I must. But, dearie one, I’ve got too much to think about to watch out for either one, and I reckon them as keeps good and busy is protected from wrong-do-i ings, big or little. Set down, ''honeybunch, and tell me what you’ve been ■ a-doing.” “How are the babies, and is Ethel Maud’s thumb well again?” said Miss Cynthia as she seated herself-in the door for a chat. “The babies are blooming fine, except Clemmie et something that was ' strange to her and was sick day before yesterday. I hope it wasn't a cockroach, but I have my suspicions from seeing two legs of one on the floor by her. Ethel Maud’s thumb is well, but we like ter had time with bet and a pea in her nose what got stuck up and wouldn’t come down no matter how she snorted. But I put a clothespin up above it to keep it from going further up and coaxed it down with a hairpin and a buttonhook. It swelled I some but she's all right today.” | Miss Cynthia laughed merrily at the idea of Ethel Maud’s nose, which wae i a tiny, turned-up dot, supporting a clothespin and a pea at the same time, and Miss Selina Lue’s chuckle showed . that she appreciated the humor of the picture. When Misst Cynthia laughed it provoked a smile from everybody in seeing or hearing distance, and Miss Selina Lue’s mirth was ever respon sive to the slightest call. “Miss Cynthie, honey,” she said after a few minutes, “I’ve got a new soap box baby and I was mighty anxious for i awhile as to how it would be, but , now— —’’ l “Oh, Miss Selina Lue, with all you have to do! —another? Where is it? ;In a box with the others? I am going back to see it,” and Miss Cynthia sprang up with alacrity. “Oh, no! He stays in the barn with Charity and he won’t be home till noon, so set down and let me tell you about it, for I mistrust myself in doing it, though the pictures are beautiful. Os course I oughter be willing to do something fer art’s sake, which it looks like is jest his love of this beautiful -world put right down fer others to see. And then, it’s true they ain’t another barn about here that’s as good as mine to paint in. Anyway, ain’t he a stranger within my gates?" “Miss Selina Lue, what are you talking about? At first it sounded like a baby, then a calf j” “You’d think it was both by the way it drinks milk, and the helplessness of it, but it’s a man.” “A man?” “Yes, a man! And I ain’t sure I had oughter done It, fer a strange man might be a mistake fer a single woman like me to have about the house. But he was that persuading and nice, and I couldn’t see no good reason not to take him; so what er>uld I do?” “Miss Selina Lue,” said Miss Cynthia, the dawn of ah alarmed wonder showing in her big eyes, “you don’t I mean—you can’t mean that you have got married while I ” “Child,” said Miss Selina Lire, j “don’t never ask me that question again! When they buried all of Adonj iranvMillsaps they could find to bring i home-sfrom the explosion, the marryi ing part of me went into the gravs I with the fragmints and 1 ain’t seen fit to ever dig it up again. Though there is many a good woman as have dona that very thing after having been married to they husband fer years before ! they lost him. But I ain’t one to criticize ’em for it, ’cause some seem to think it compliments one good husband to git another, —and maybe it, do." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Pleasant Meals. Shakespeare very truly wrote that . ‘unquiet meals make ill digestions.’’ j and meal times should never be made I unpleasant Wives must not enter- ■ tain their husbands at dinner with the i day’s domestic grievances about chil , dren or servants, nor ask for money. I and husbands must not retail the wor- ; rles of the office, the fall in stocks or i their own personal troubles. Be ‘! cheerful at meals, everything will I then taste better —and digest better; : leave the worries in the drawing room ! —you can return to tackle them ever so much better if you banish them 1 from the dining room.—Home. May Teach Monkeys to Talk. 1 The monkey is not only more tn ; ; telllgent than the parrot, but is even . I more Imitative. It is (excepting man) ■; the only creature on earth that i> i ! capable of articulate speech. Prof. ■ Bell believes that apes can be taught, at all events, to say a few words—at first by manipulation of their mouths and throats, as is done with the deaf born. We may live, he thinks, to hear chimpanzees talk, and with some degree of understanding of their own remarks. A Sensitive Ear. . ; The poet, Malherbe, the founder of i the purity of the French language, was i very sensitive on the score of diction • [ When, during his last moments, his , confessor, byway of encouraging him. i began to enlarge on the joys of para I dise. “Stop,” cried Malherbe. “Your ■ ungrammatical style is giving me a ! distaste for them!” i Stateman's First Duty. i The first duty of a statesman la * the health of his countrymen

ROOSEVELT’S AFRICAN \ TROPHIES NOW ON VIEW ■■ i 1W WMFI ■Wl ‘W IWWS ■UU will- .<> i Um. f Wo 11. ijfeaffiiii&ii' T.T’J St. ~ i -4 Jis? J?* ' Lh-. ' Uts..-.- , ■ OftllCON W ASHINGTON. —Many of the specimens of the fauna of Africa ootalned by Theodore Roosevelt during his hunting trip in the Dark Continent have now been mounted and are on view in the National Museum, where they are inspected by numerous visitors daily. The taxidermy has been well done and the large group of animals forms a most interesting exhibit 4

ABOUT HUMAN BODY

■i Distrust of Medicine Arises From Ignorance of Anatomy. Enlightened Science of Today Shows Within Ourselves Wondrous Mechanisms and Adaptions Which Arouse Admiration. New York. —Dr. Frederic S. Lee, professor of physiology at Columbia university, opened the Jessup lectures on scientific features of modern medicine at the Museum of Natural History with a “Sketch of the Normal Human Body.” It is Dr. Lee’s conviction that whatever distrust of medical potency may now exist arises largely from ignorance of the human body and the present status of medical science." “In accepting ths. Jessup lectureship” he said, “I was Influenced largely by the thought that through it 1 might perhaps be of service to both the medical profession and an intelligent public by telling the public something of what medical leaders are doing. “Nothwithstanding the swift progress of medical science we frequently meet with a distrust of the efficiency of medicine, a feeling that the physician knows far too little concerning disease and its cure, and a tendency to turn toward strange cults, making fair promises. Such distrust is as old as medicine itself. I do not believe that it is justified. Doubting is indeed an entirely legitimate form of mental exercise. The man of science who is not a doubter has no claim to honorable standing. But not all doubts are equally estimable. There are those that betray much knowledge and those that betray little. “The Ignorance of the human body among many persons is extraordinarily great It is strange to find thinking, reasoning men and women, who were born with their bodies, who have clung to them in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, who have used them for every variety of human service, and yet hold themselves utterly aloof from a knowledge of bodily affairs. I suspect that we

SEE THE END OF FREAK FASHIONS

Dr. Caroline Hedger Declares “Rats” ■nd High Heels Result of Thoughtlessness. Chicago.—High heel shoes, bit hats, “rats'* and other adornments that contribute to the torture of women would be abandoned if the working women had more time to consider the matter of dress. This is the opinion of Dr. Caroline Hedger, who discussed “The cost of the long work day” at the meeting of the Women’s'Trade Union League of Chicago the other day. Dr. Hedger declared working women did not wear novelty styles from choice, bat because they were too busy working to have time to think of dress. She declared also she has been busier than the average person of her ■ex and that slje never had had time to select a “rat” for her own head. These declarations were made in a plea for shorter hours for women workers at the meeting called for the purpose of a public discussion of the proposed amendment to the ten-hour law for women now before the legislature in Springfield. “If the working women had ipore time to think about clothes the high heel shoes that cramp the feet would be discarded and the big hats that produce stiff necks and the “rats” that burden the heads would also be thrown away,” the speaker said. The speaker declared conditions

have here an inheritance, through many generations, of the mediaeval notion of the vileness of the human body, a notion which is out of keeping with the enlightened science of today. This science shows within ourselves wondrous mechanisms and adapatations which ought to arouse a man’s admiration if he possesses a truly aesthetic sense. Dr. Lee gave a sketch of the human body, covering its composition anatomically and chemically, and a survey of its functions, stopping now and again to suggest the lines which future research will take where mysteries still “lure and baffle.” He tried to give his audience some conception of the wonderful complexity of the human organism. He illustrated it at one point by describing just what it means to contract one’s biceps voluntarily, added laughingly: "We may, in our bewilderment, well wonder why a mere Innocent contrac-

MAKES LARGE MAP OF MOON

Only One of Its Kind In the World Is Drawn by English Business Man—Six Feet Across. London. —An extrordinary map—the only one of Its kind In the world—has been drawn by W. Goodacre. F. R. A. S., of Finchley, who spent seven years in the work. It is a map Os the moon on the large scale of 30 miles to an inch. When spread out it covered a grand piano, several chairs and finished up on a table at the other side of the room. Many attempts have been made before to produce such a map, but Mr. Goodacra claims that no one has succeeded in depicting the moon in such detail and accuracy. In general appearance the result of his work resembles a picture of a greatly magnified drop of water, showing bacilli in countless thousands. Mr. Goodacre is a business man who has devoted his leisure for thirty years to a study of the moon. He gazes at it through a reflecting telescope with 12-inch aperture, such as

f among women workers in this state are appalling. She cited instances in this city where as many as 600 worked long hours in a large room where the strain ,pon the nerves was such that they soon became unfit for work. She concluded with an appeal to the 200* persons present to aid in the passing of the amendment to the ten-hour law. Miss Mary E. McDowell, of the Chicago University Settlement, urged the passing of a resolution asking for , an increased appropriation for factory inspection and the appointment of more women factory inspectors to look after the rights of the 20,000 women employed in factories in the state. The resolution was passed and will be brought to the notice of the legislative committee, to which the factory inspection bill has been referred. \ Seapie Weighed 168 Pounds. o Goreston, England—A seapie weighing one hundred and sixty-eight pounds, with a three-inch crust, divided into bulkhead compartments, containing six rabbits, three ox kidneys, three sheep " kidneys, twenty-eight pounds of steaks, forty-six pounds of turnips and carrots, fifty-six pounds of potatoes and twenty-eight pounds of Brussels sprouts, was served at an annual banquet here. It waa cooked by a North Sea skipper.

tion of the biceps does not bring in its train an attack of nervous prostration. Seriously, this great complexity is not appreciated. Gay critics, the antithls and the antl-that, grow Impatient with medical science and turn to others who. profess to work successfully with simpler methods. But those to whom they turn are utterly unfamiliar with the complexities of the human body and its functions, complexities that are way beyond the antl-this and the antl-that” Get Ideas for Canada. Annapolis, Md. —For the purpose of obtaining useful ideas on the conduct of the new naval school recently established by the dominion government at Ottawa, Rear Admiral C. F. Klngsmill, royal navy, naval adviser to the Canadian government, and Commander G. B. RopeA chief of staff, inspected the naval academy the other day. The two English officers after having been received by Supt Bowyer, whose guests they will be over nlghL were taken in charge by Lieut. Commander Paul J. Dashlell, who escorted I them through the institution.

any observatory might be proud Os. His map is based on detailed drawings and on excellent photographs, amplified by telescopic observations. “The telescope,” he explained, “shows much finer detail that a photograph, owing to its enormous magnify- ; Ing power. You can see clearly In i this way small crater pits which > would be practically Invisible In a ; photograph.” When Mr. Goodacre began his task he took a great sheet of paper, placed a compass point In the middle and drew a circle 77 inches in diameter. All the space outside this he blackened over with India ink. The next thing was to rule within the circle about 40,000 tiny squares, and to make notes of 1,433 measured points. All this was done to insure correctness of position for the mountains, ! craters and seas which were to be drawn in during the next seven years. "I have not had time to count up yet,” said Mr. Godacre, “but I should estimate that there are probably 30,000 craters shown In detail. Some of those clefts In the moon’s surface, shown by short lines, are 100 miles long and a mile or so wide; I propose to reproduce the map In 25 sections, provided a sufficient number of persons want ft” EDITOR WAS NEARLY ROBBED ■ “We” Thinks Alleged Thief Is AllFired Mean to Attempt to Separate Him From Money. ———— * West Grove, Pa.—ln an explosive column of righteous indignation E<H- j tor Hltchler of the Oxford News denounces a prominent Lancaster county woman, who he alleges sought to i rob him of his board money, hidden 1 in a pigeonhole of his desk at the News office. The editor is a bachelor and from time to time hides away a trifle of his weekly stipend to pay his hotel bill Some of his barbed-wire sentiments relative to the incident are: Now to steal at all it a crime, but to steal from an editor is the height of human degeneracy. To hold up ■ banker or plumber or some other form of plptocrat is excusable under certain cUcumstances. The person who will deliberately attempt to separate an editor from real money is a brute, with a soul no larger than could be Incased in the appendix of an especially diminutive mosquito. A little lying and slandering we can stand, but even if the smallest sum of money Is stolen from us we are broke.

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