The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 21, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 September 1911 — Page 3

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GRABBED HIM. SI. '■ J She —Old Brown said If he were twenty-five years younger he would marry me. He—Twenty-five years younger? Why. that’s just my age. She —Oh, Charlie, this is so sudden! i His Part In the Proceedings. Clarence is a darky who is as proud of piloting Mr. Hillside’s costly automobile as Mr. Hillside is of owning it. •‘Well, Clarence,said a neighbor, “I saw you in the Taft parade, but you didn’t have the president in your car, I noticed.” “No, sir,” the chauffeur answered. “I didn’t have the president, but I had a reporter, and I reckon Mr. Taft might have talked up there on the hill all night long and nobody in town would have knowed about it next day if it hadn’t been for me and that reporter.’’—Exchange. New Idea in Judicial Lore. The suggestion of a French judge, who presided at a breach of promise suit, has aroused the Interest of Ame>| lean men and women. The suggestion is that when young people become engaged an agreement to marry should be drawn up with a clause providing damages if it is broken. A Humane Man. Elderly Countess —Catch this big fly, Johann, but do it carefully, and put him outdoors without Injury. Footman —It’s raining outdoors, countess. Shall I give him an umbrella?—Mergendorfer Blaetter.

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Cissy’s Debui

By MARION GORDON

Cissy Bradeen had just finished displaying a marvelous lace frock to an over-critical customer when Mme. Rosel sent for her. The modiste sat in her private room impatiently tapping her porcelain teeth with a gold pencil when Cissy entered, still wearing the lace frock and looking like a young princess. “Miss Bradeen,” said madame sharply, “1 have a oudden call from Mrs. Givens of Fifth avenue —her daughter has ruined the comitag out frock we delivered this morning—it caught fire ift some way. You are to go up (here at once with the white crepe de chine and fit Miss Givens so that she may wear it this afternoon. Ah, you are' wearing the lace gown—” She looked thoughtfully at Cissy’s stately young form clothed in the perfect fitting frock that was worth a small fortune. Madame's calculating eye did not bother with such unimportant details as Cissy Bradeen’s perfect complexion and dainty features or the coronet of red-brown hair that matched her eyes. All the French woman noticel was the exquisitely fitting robe, and she was computing what price she might wring from Mrs. Giving if she sold it in place of the crepe de chine. “Wear the lace robe up there under a long coat, Miss Bradeen,” she said decisively. “Perhaps Miss Givens may take a fancy to it and buy that Instead of the other." “Very well, madame,” said Cissy. Madame looked at her watch. “You will go immediately,” she Commanded. “Javonne will call a taxicab.” Cig>y flitted from the room and walked across the richly carpeted show rooms to the long narrow room which she occupied with the other models and alteration hands. Gathering some sewing materials Into, a workbag she slipped on a long gray cloak, and, followed by the envious admiration of her fellow workers, Cissy went out to the waiting cab, bearing a huge white pasteboard box containing the crepe de chine gown for Miss Givens. In front of the Givens mansion a red striped awning stretched a tunnel to “What Are You Doing There?” the curbstone, and Cissy felt a strange sense of elation as she mounted the steps and gave her name to the Japanese servant who admitted her. “From Mme. Rosel,” she added, stepping unobtrusively into an angle of the wide hall. When she was left alone she glanced about her at the beautiful flowers massed here and there, and delighted in the color scheme of pink and white. Cissy gave not one envious thought to the young girl who was to make her bow to society in the midst of this bower of roses; she was too light-hearted and sweet tempered to wish for more than had been allotted to her. To beauty-loving Cissy Bradeen it was a rare privilege to work among lovely fabrics and occasionally to catch glimpses of the Interior of the handsome homes along the avenue. In this dim corner there had been pushed several large jardinieres containing palms, and about the floor were grouped smaller plants, making an effective screen. From behind this green screen Cissy calculated one might sit or stand and watch the brilliant company when it should gather In the drawing rooms. She was smiling at her own thought when she became aware that a pair of bright blue eyes were watching her through the screen of the palms, and her pulses leaped as she realized that there was a man hiding there. As she leaned forward the gray cloak slipped back from her shoulders, revealing her In the loveliness of her lace gown. “Whatever are you doing there?” she asked in “Bedad, I’m discovered!” whispered a humorous voice in reply, and the blue eyes came-nearer. “Shure, miss, and you won’t be giving me away this time—l’m not up to any mischief.” he pleaded. “What are you doing there, then?” demanded Cissy anxiously. “1 promised to get some pictures of the coming out party," he whispered cautiously. “I’m a reporter on the Blinket. and they told me they’d give

me a steady job if 1 could get some pictures. So I got next the Jap there and he helped me smuggle a camera in and we’ve fixed up this screen—l’m supposed to come from the florist around the corner,” he grinned im pudently. “It’s a mean trick," asserted Cissy contemptuously. “A mean trick!” echoed the embryo reporter aghast. “Show me a nobler profession than reporting the news of the country?” Cissy was positive that he thumped his chest vigorously. “It’s noble—like any kind of work,” she admitted reverently; "only isn’t it kind of sneaky to come into somebody’s house this way?" “I suppose it is—only they’d never let me in any other way,” he muttered. “They I’d stay out if I never got a job on a newspaper,” she declared warmly. “I’d shovel sand first!” “Hum!”. he z said dubiously. You make me feel mean. You never shoveled sand and I have! I’ve always been crazy to be a reporter ever since 1 was a little shaver.” “What you been doing all your life?” asktrn Cissy curiously. “Been going to school and learning how to*be one?” “I’ve never been to school very much. I couldn’t. 1 had to work evei since I was a kid selling newspapers and I never learned a trade. I clerk ed it for a long time in a hardware store, and the last three years I’ve been chauffeur for a man in Wall street. But I want to be a reporter but* everything seems against my do ing it. I thought 1 was fixed this time, sure!” he ended morunfully. “Os course you don’t have to take my advice,’’ said Cissy haughtily. “I’m going to, miss, just the same. I’m packing up my camera now, and as soon as I can beat it to the Blinket office I’ll throw up my job. Then I’ll hunt for a place as chauffeur. You don’t happen to know if any of your rich friends needs a responsible man, do you, miss?” He thrust a curly head over the screen and looked so earnestly at Cissy’s splendid raiment that she realized that he mistook her for one of the invited guests. Honest Cissy soon disillusioned him. “Glory!” he whistled, with more excitement than the announcement seemed to warrant. “Don’t you think this Mme. Rosel of yours needs a new chauffeur for that elegant limousine you say she rides in?” “Indeed she does!” cried Cissy, delightedly. “Henri left last week and she has been trying them ever since.. I’ll give you her address.” As the reporter slipped from the house leaving his card in Cissy’s hand, the butler returned to say that Miss Givens would look at the gowns, and as the young Irish girl picked up her gray cloak and went up the broad stairway she tucked the card of Owen Munigle within her laces on. her bosom. Months afterward when Mme. Rosel sent her handsome limousine to the chruch to eqnvey the happy bride and groom from church, Owen Munigle whispered in the pretty ear of his wife: “Cissy, darling, why do you always refer to the day I met you as ’your debut?” Cissy blushed warmly and laid a finger on his ruddy cheek. “Ah.” she said, tenderly. “ ’Tis because ’twas the day Miss Givens entered society and because ’twas the day—bless the same Owen, dear, that I first met you!” One Vote for Kipling. A certain senator is -i expert on mining law, but in the words of the Washington Post, “he is not up on literature.” Some time ago he introduced a bill for the relief of a gallant Union soldier, ramed Mulvaney. Presently an eastern colleague went over to him. “I am very glad you introduced that bill,” he remarked. “Mulvaney and I are old friends.” “Is that so?" responded the western statesman. “I am pleased that you take an interest jn him, and 1 hope that you will vote for*the bill. I don’t know him myself, but he has been highly recommended tome, and it seems to be a most deserving case." “Yes,” said the wicked colleague, warmly. “Mulvaney Is the best fellow that ever lived, a lively, fighting, bighearted. lovable, humorous Irishman. Ypu will be surprised to know how often I have spent the days and nights with him in camp, and how much I enjoyed it By the way ” he added. “I have another friend you ought to know. His name is Kipling —Rudyard Kipling.” “Never heard of him,” said the Senator from the west, as he turned away, “but if you are going to introduce a bill for his relief, let me know. I’ll help you all I can.” Getting Data. The detective was trying to find a clew to the destination of the runaway couple. •*yxai sqyr your young mistress leave the house at 9 o’clock last night?” he said. “'Yls, sir.” answered the kitchen glrL “What did she travel in?” “A white hat, white elippere, aa’ a pale blue gown, sor.” Soured. “I’m just crazy to play golf,” said the enthusiastic summer girl. “Most people are,” muttered the mere man who had no ambition even partly to fill the presidential chair. Our Fashions. "What do you think of Mrs. Smith’s waist?” “Well, she seems to have so much, and yet she hasn’t any."—London Opinion.

ODD SIBERIAN HOUSES I THOSE OF THE KORYAKS LOOK LIKE HUGE FUNNELS. One enters the Place by Hole in Roof and Climbs Down Pole That Is Covered With Grease ” and Soot. There are many .kinds of queer houses in the world, but for difficulty of ingress and egress the huts of some Siberian fur hunters, Koryaks by name, take the palm. From a distance these houses have the appearance of huge funnels rising out of a snowbank, xhe craterlike top of the house, besides forming a roof, is used as a general storage place for food and all sorts of articles. This slopes downward to an aperture in the center which serves as a smoke hole, Ventilator and passageway below. A number of logs arranged in a circle support the rickety framework of the roof, the lower end of which rests on a secondary pile of timbers forming the walls of the living quarters. For nearly nine months the whole house is covered up to the projecting roof with tons of snow, chinked in with frozen earth and debris, the inmates being about ten feet below the surface. The most peculiar feature of the house, according to Fur News, is the means of entrance. This is accom plishbd by scaling a narrow split log, having holes cut -in for the feet and hands, which extends down from the roof at an angle of almost 90 degrees. Getting inside is a feat which none but the experienced native can accomplish with comfort. The interior is reached by descending another perpendicular tree 10jg stairway, the holes being covered with a slippery coating of grease and soot. A misplaced step of any visiting white fur trader or agent would result in his landing in a pot of blubber always kept boiling at the base. The whole enclosure has a ground floor, and is barren of anything in the shape of furniture. A large vessel for cooking seal and blubber and a kettle used for melting snow are the chief household utensils. The diet is limited almost exclusively to raw and half cooked seal and whale flesh, with Russian brick tea and American tobacco as an extra luxury. Before entering one of these Arctic households it is customary for the white visitor or trader to send word ahead prior to his arrival. On reaching the house he will usually find assembled on the roof awaiting him the host and all bls family, including dogs. Dogs play an important part in their primitive religion and are thought to be a potent agency for keeping away evil spirits and bringing good luck in the hunting of fur animals. For this reason the stuffed form of a dog is always kept dangling from the rooftop of the houses. Shapes of Eggs. There was recently had before the Zoological Society of London a mathematical discussion of the differences in the shape of eggs. A few eggs, like those of the owl and the tortoise, are spherical, or nearly so; a few, like the grebe’s or the cormorant’s, are elliptical, with symmetrical ends; the great majority, like the hen's, are ovoid, or blunter at one end than the other. The hen’s egg is always laid blunt end foremost. Eggs that are the most unsymmetrical are also eggs of large size relatively to the parent bird. The yolks of eggs are spherical, whatever the form of the entire egg may be. This has been shown to be due to their being enclosed in a fluid, the “white,” which makes the pressure everywhere on the surface of the yolk practically constant. —Scientific American. Handicapping Cupid. “Crabbed age and youth cannot live together,” said Senator Davis, apropos of an unhappy divorce suit in Little Rock. “Whenever I hear of an old man marrying a young girl I think of the Cupid story. “ ‘Gupid,’ indignantly cried a millionaire of 77 years—‘Cupid would be powerless before such an iceberg as yourself, miss. Why a score of Cupids, armed with a hundred arrows each, oould find no vulnerable spot upon your heart of stone!’ “The young and beautiful girl addressed tossed her head as she replied: “No, they couldn’t, if they used an old beau to.shoot with.’ ” Steam Roller Went Over Bank. Several people had a miraculous escape from death a few days ago when a large steam roller fell over a bank 30 feet high and crashed down into a shipbuilding yard at Brlxham, England. The roller got out of control while working on a private road at Brlxham. The driver steered it safely through the entrance gates of its private grounds, but the impetus gathered through descending a rather steep hill caused the engine to swerve and it was precipitated Into the yard. Lewis, the driver, was found under the engine crushed to death. Reasonable Deduction. "Mother, I know what elephants’ tusks are made of.” “What, dear?" “Why, paper knives." Time to Go. * “Why is she leaving the beach? The place agrees with her perfectly.” “Seems her poodle has lost an mace.”

SIMPLE OLD WEDDING THEY DIDN’T COST SO MUCH IN GRANDFATHER’S DAY. Courtships, Marriage and Honeymoon Then Required a Capital of Love and Courage Instead of Stocks and Bonds. Some of the wedding reminiscences of the old man in the chimney corner—if there is a chimney corner, which is doubtful —are almost startling in their financial simplicity, at least when viewed from the modern cut-glass and 360-a-month apartment point of view. Get the old man to talking some time and find out how much his wedding journey cost him and how much capital he had on which to set up the business of housekeeping. Some of these reminlcences are almost unbelievable, they show such a simple confidence in Providence and good luck and the ultimate working ogt of things for which no present provision could be made. Quite a typical honeymoon of 60 or 70 years ago was the prairie* schooner voyage. Back in Indiana or Ohio or some other of the thickly settled communities the affair would start with two loving hearts and twd strong and willing pairs of hands. The lovers would have an abounding faith in themselves and in the future Otherwise the lovers’ assets would in elude $9 In cash, a Sunday suit of clothes more or less homespun, a' good constitution, and a father who stood ready to give him upon the wedding day his parental blessing and a yoke of oxen and the wagon in which to go west and take up a home stead. The modern mother is not often to be found who could view such a stock and bondless venture without fore bodings. But the mothers of that day do not appear to have been appalled “Mary is strong and willing,” the mother would say. “I’ve taught hei how to cook and sew and keep house and if I do say it, she does me credit.” The wedding outfit was simple in the extreme, most of J it was home made, costing little but loving work Then the honeymoon followed, out into the west, with no especial destination, no money for trousseaus and tips and bridal suites and furniture and flat rent. A little cabin somewhere was put up by the new husband himself upon a likely 160 acres, the latter the wedding present of ths United States. Such courtships and weddings cost little beyond a great capital of cour age. From them have come the men of today, who think it necessary to bestow grand pianos and European bridal voyages upon their sons and daughters before a wedding of today can be properly Comparative Value of Coins. The comparative values of the coins of the world figure out as follows In Canadian currency: The pound sterling of the United Kingdom is of the value of >4 86. 65 cents. The mark of the German Empire, 23. 81 cents. The franc of France, Belgium, Switzerland, the drachm of Greece, the lira of Italy, and the peseta (of 100 centimes) of Spain, 19. 30 cents. The Austrian florin, 47. 60 cents; the Russian rouble (of 100 copecs) 77. 17 cents; the crown of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, 26. 80 cents; the Netherlands florin, 40. 50 cents; the Portu guese milreis (of 1,000 reis) $1 8. 47 cents; the Turkish piastrie, 4.39 cents; the .Egyptian dollar (of 20 piastrles) $1 0. 39 cents; the rupee (of 16 annas) of India, 45. 84 meats; the dollar ot Central America, 96, 50 cents; the Brazilian milreis, 54. 56 cents; the silver taol of China. $1 61 cents; the gold yen of Japan, 99. 70 cents. Can the Serpent Fascinate? Professor Barnard concludes from his personal observation of cobras in Ceylon that the serpent’s traditional love for music is a pure fable, and that the only effect es music is to arouse the reptile’s curiosity, which is excited by any loud and acute sound. The cobra protrudes its head from its burrow alike on hearing the snake charmer’s flute, the rattling of a chain or the sounds made by beating the ground with a switch. It appears to perceive only sounds of high pitch, for it pays no attention to the low notes of the flute or the bagpipe of a drum. Professor Barnard has also confirmed, in Ceylon, the results of observations made in the zoological gardens on the supposed power of fascination exerted by serpents upon birds, and he concludes that this power of fascination is also purely imaginary. Saved Patient, Badly Hurt. To suddenly leap out of bed and jump through a window of an upper story was the desperate act of a patient at Halifax (N. S.) Imfirmary, a few days ago. One of the attendants darted after him and managed to se>-’.e his legs as he darted through the glass, but the patient, with extraordinary strength and energy dragged the attendant after him, and both fell to the ground. The patient, who had gone suddenly insane owing to the extremely hot weather, was almost unhurt, but the attendant, named Thomson, was seriously Injured in the fall and badly cut by the broken glass. A Severe Test. He—Yes, darling, when I am w ! ‘h you I feel inspired—as if I could do some perfect thing. She —Maybe you could order a luncheon that I would like without consulting me!—Puck.

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