Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 37, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 February 1928 — Page 3

^^&ytvici Helen RMartin^

STORY FROM THE START Handsome, fastidious and wealthy—young St. Croix Creighton awaits his sweetheart at their trysting place. She is fifteen minutes late, this ordinary . little Pennsylvania Dutch girl, Meely Schwenckton, but he awaits her eagerly. She is so demurely beautiful, he thinks, but so out of his “class.” Despite her seeming innocence and ignorance, she succeeds in keeping him at a distance, to his chagrin. Meely, In the Schwenckton home, where she is boarding, is altogether unlike the girl who meets St. Croix clandestinely, and her speech has lit-tle of the Pennsylvania Dutch accent. CHAPTER ll—Continued Mr. Schwenckton looked sternly disapproving. “You hadn’t ought to heist windahs where a person’s layin’ sick I” he reaffirmed, and Aunt Rosy added her horrified prophecy: “Yes, soon you’ll have another wife dead on you. Mister, with such goings-on as soon as my back is turned around behind me oncet!” “Susie would be up and about In a week if you kept her room aired and clean," Meely imperturbably affirmed, “and the baby, too, would pick up. There’s nothing the matter with the baby except that it’s not properly taken care of, Mr. Schwenckton.” “Yes, well, but when a body’s sick, or for babies,” Mr. Schwenckton repeated, “we don’t hold to openin’ windahs on ’em.” “Susie’s bed was plenty clean as it was!” declared Rosy. “It didn’t need changin’ till another week yet. It makes me too much work, such behaviors does! And Susie’s too sick fur Meely to take and wash her! Of — all —things! Washin’ a person when they’re sick yet!” Meely’s reception of this criticism was as Impersonal as though it were being directed toward anyone but herself. Her whole attitude to this family, her very presence here, seemed tentative, experimental. When she was not regarding them with wideeyed wonder and curiosity, her face was expressing suppressed amusement, or pity, or impatience; sometimes bewilderment; sometimes the interested suspense one might feel at a “movie” or a play. Their attitude to her, however, was entirely matter-of-fact. Evidently they took her quite for granted, as she certainly did not take them. Just now her alert observation took in the fact that Mr. Schwenckton’s anxious glance was resting with affectionate concern on Lizzie’s red eyes; that he was aware of her desperate effort to repress the little gasping catching of her breath which betrayed her recent violent crying; that he saw she was not eating any supper. Reaching across the table, he took her plate, piled it with food and handed it back to her. “Eat your supper, Lizzie,” he ordered in a tone that for him was a caress. “We can’t have no more sick folks here.” “Ye-yes, sir.” Though the food strangled her, she would have to obey and eat it to the last crumb when her father so ordered. Aunt Rosy never missed a chance to disparage Meely in Sam Schwenckton’s eyes ; for she felt that if she could get rid of this objectionable girl, as she had gotten rid of Nettie and Jakey, the two older children of the family, she would hold the situation in hand, here in her young sister’s home, with much more confidence. "So you took another of them long walks of yourn again today, Meely, ain’t?” she just now remarked insinuatingly. “Seems so funny walkin’ just fur the sake of walkin’! Ain't. Sam? I guess,” Aunt Rosy nodded knowingly, “she goes to meet her fellah!” This bait elicited no reply from Meely, though it manifestly touched Mr. Schwenckton’s curiosity a bit and even Lizzie’s sickly interest. "But why,” continued Aunt Rosy, “are you so secret about it if you’re got a fellah? You’re welcome, I’m

sure, to keep comp’ny here in the ftont room. Ain’t, Sam? You’re got no need to meet him secret that way. It don’t look nice. Looks like as if you had somepin to hide yet I Ain’t, Sam?” “I can't think,” responded Mr. Schwenckton reflectively, “of any fellah ’round here that wouldn’t be too common for Meely.” “Ach, I don’t know. She ain’t so much, so far forth as I can see.” Aunt Rosy frankly stated, “even if she is high-educated that way.” “The only educated young men ’round here is the two Creightons, and to be sure,” said Mr. Schwenckton, “they only run with swells.” “Creightons?” repeated Meely inquiringly. “Yes. They’re away-up folks, them Creightons. They’re ’ristocratics, they are. Grand folks. None better. Even the swells that lives in town ain’t nothin’ much to the Creightons—they’re got so much, the Creightons has.” “‘So much’? Money, you mean, of course ?” “To be sure. What else?” “Well, I thought you might mean education or brains or even character — interesting things.” "Yes, well, they’re got all them Ithlngs too.” “Have they?" “Ach, yes, they’re wery grand col-lege-educated that way, them two Creightons. And the younger one, St. Croix, he’* very proud and Uigh-

minded ; wonderful high-minded ! Marvin, the older one, he ain’t so proud. He’s different to what St. Croix is.” “How is he different?” asked Meely, disguising under an elaborate indifference her excited interest. Much as she had longed to ask questions about the Creightons, she had never dared risk it, so she was elated that, without any maneuvering on her part, the talk should be taking this interesting turn. “Well,” answered Mr. Schwenckton. “Marvin makes hisself nice and com mon with us folks when we meet up with him; and with his Pop’s miners, too.” “But that ain’t sayin’, Meely,” spoke n Aunt Rosy, “that he’d stoop to you. He ain’t that common!” “Isn’t he?” “Yes, well, but he might stoop even to such as Meely,” Mr. Schwenckton speculated, “since his Pop turned him out to earn his own livin’.” “Oh! Why?” asked Meely breathlessly, off her guard for an instant in her surprise and curiosity. “Well, he don’t hold with his Pop about the way their miners is treated. He puts out that he thinks it’s like Roosha under the czar. He’s fur treatin’ ’em like Roosha under the 80l-

«TS ^7’ J j^ui^ 7 w Aunt Rosy Never Missed a Chance to Disparage Meely in Sam Schwenckton's Eyes. sheviks. So him and his Pop they don’t hit it off so wery good. He tol’ his Pop (so it’s put out) that he couldn’t live on money so earnt. So then his Pop tol’ him to get out and earn his own livin’ and see how he'd •like it.” “Then the other son, St. Croix, will inherit a(l his father's wealth, will he?” asked Meely. ‘‘Or are there other heirs?” “Them’s all. But the estate is entailed, that way, and Marvin must get his share, too, till his Pop’s deceased a’ready. That’s what gets old Creighton so peeved, that he can’t disinherit his son; for he says that Marvin, with his Bolshevist vee-yous, will ruin their business —his own share and St. Croix’ too, seein’ it’s all together. Yes, Marvin he’s an awful worry to his Pop 1” “And to his brother, St. Croix, too, I should think?” Meely suggested. “Ach, yes, it’s put out that the brothers don’t get on good together at all. Then there’s other troubles, too, between Marvin and his Pop—about a second cousin in England with such a title —a duke-ess or what —that Marvin was to marry and he got balky and wouldn't do it. It seems he tol’ his Pop he wouldn’t buy his wife nor he wouldn’t sell hisself fur no titled lady in the world, nor he wouldn’t marry no girl that would sell herself for his money.”

❖X‘J>X4‘X^X«:<^X<‘X<«X*X*X*X*X*X^X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X^ Many Women Workers in the Middle Ages

The Middle ages, too, had their “feminism,” and the way women’s problems were solved was not very much different from today’s. In the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries, just as at present, it was necessary to take care of unmarried women, and this could not always be done by means of convents, although a greater number of girls went in convents then than nowadays. The crafts excluded women often on principle but in practice women worked in almost all crafts during the Middle ages, as simple workers as well as at the head of enterprises. The professions in which women excelled were, of course, those which were related to the traditional feminine work, as weaving, cord manufacSimple Journalism The editor of the Bano (Africa) Daily News does not have trouble over such matters as circulation or the high cost of paper. When he gets a piece of news he smooths off some slabs of wood, writes up the story in his best editorial style, and then gives the slabs to his office boy who runs off some of them and hangs them in conspicuous places so that he who runs may rea& ,

“Aud was he sure," Mesly asked, after an instant’s pause, “that his English cousin wanted to sell herself?” “Well, that’s the talk. The two families had fixed up (he match and Marvin he got balky. And his Pop was awful peeved, he’d been so set on this here match. Marvin bein’ the oldest was gave the first chance at this here grand lady, you see, and wouldn’t take it. So now it’s St. Croix that’s to marry her, they say.” “Is he?” “So they say. And I guess it’s better so, for he’s more suited to such a duke-ess, or what. Marvin's too plain a dresser for such a high lady.” “And how,” asked Meely after another moment's silence, “does this Marvin earn his living since lie's been thrown out by his father?” “Yes, you better ask, Meely! He’s your boss! He’s got hisself elected county superintendent of our public schools!” “What!” “Yes. mind if he didn’t’ So he’ll be wisitin* at your school one of these here days to see how you teach oncet!” "Does he know anything about । teaching, himself?” asked Meely skeptically “WeR, he’s got a college diarploma, i or what.” “And the younger son—St. Crols—he agrees with his father, I suppose, about the treatment of the miners?” “Ach, yes, him and his Pop agrees fine. He’s the lawyer for the estate ■ and his Pop thinks he’s tine and sharp. Lizzie,” he spoke to his little daughter, “eat your supper.” “It don’t wonder me she don’t eat,” said Aunt Rosy; “her conscience won’t leave her enjoy her witties, so bad—” “Be peaceable. Aunt Rosy. You can tell me after supper what you’re got to say.” The child looked terrified at these ominous words and Meely glanced at her pityingly. For a moment no one spoke and the silence seemed heavy and menacing. “Well,” Mr. Schwenckton presently

broke it, “I’m done.” He pushed away his plate, drew the hack of his hand across his mouth, shoved back his chair and rose. “I'll go up and see Susie.” Aunt Rosy, who was a greedy eater, at once concluded her own supper with a few hasty mouthfuls and rose to go with him. “Lizzie!” she spoke over her shoulder from the stairway opening out from the kitchen, “you get at and clear off the table and do the dishes and then finish up them diapers.” “Yes’m,” answered Lizzie, rising at once and beginning to scrape and collect the plates. A moment later Sammy, a cowed and sullen boy of twelve, skulked Into the kitchen, sat down at the table and began hungrily devouring his belated supper. Meely strolled to the foot of the stairs and stood listening to the voices in the room above; and Lizzie, her eyes wide and strained, left the sink and tiptoed across the room to stand at her side. “Lizzie she won’t obey to me," Aunt Rosy’s complaining voice came down from the sick room. “I can't do nothin’ with her. After school this after she run out and stayed till near supper time a’ready! If you don't learn your children to obey to me. Mister, I can’t housekeep for you, and then where’d you be, with a sick wife and a boarder that's that pertikkler! —wantin’ a napkin to every meal yet! —and interferin' and makin’ Susie worse with lettin’ in the cool air where she’s layin’ here sick! Well—of —all —things !’’ “And, Sam,” Susie’s weak voice backed up her sister, “Meely she encourages Lizzie to disobey to my sister Rosy. I misoverheard her sayin’ to Lizzie, ’lt’s a pity you ain’t old enough to do like your sister and brother done —run off!’ Yes, mind you, Sam, if she didn't tell Lizzie that!” “Yl, yl, yi!” Mr. Schwenckton’s deep voice responded in strongest disapproval. “Yes, and If you don’t get rid of your fancy boarder, Mister, you will have another of your children runnln’ off, now mind I’m warnin’ you I” said Aunt Rosy. “Ach, no, no!” Mr. Schwenckton returned in a tone of mingled distress and resolve. “Well, then, you gotta switch it out of Lizzie, Mister, the way you done out of Sammy. If you give her the good switchin’ you give Sammy last week fur not mindin’ to me, then I guess I won’t have no more trouble with her. Sammy you bet he minds to me now’ when I speak to him! Well, I guess anyhow then! He jumps when I speak since he got that there good whippin’ off of you! And Lizzie she needs it worse’n Sammy yet.” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

ture and the textile crafts in general. Many women became leading seamstresses. Feminine tailors were far more frequent during the Middle ages than now. The gold industry always had a group of feminine and a group of masculine workers. Women often were barbers, and feminine musicians played in most of the wine inns. Women were teachers not only in their convent schools but also in general schools. Above all, there was never a lack of women physicians. Vital Part of Tree The stem of a tree, also called trunk and bole, is the main axis extending from the roots to the crown, or to the |t ip in case of an unbranched stem. Tree stems range from long to short, straight to crooked, and from erect to prostrate. An examination of a cross-section of a stem will show bark, wood, and pith, says the American Tree association. In the central part of the stem Is the pith. About it la the wood, which in many trees can be divided into the darker heartwood and the lighter sapwood. Between the wood and the bark is a thin layer known as the cambium. This is the most vital part of a tree, for it la here that aU new wood and bark am made up.

SELF-FABRIC BOWS ARE STYLISH; JERSEY FROCK WINS NEW I .Al JRRI ..S

A SOFT silhouette’s the thing: ** Fluttering bows and streamers everywhere, on coat, on blouse and on frock, skillful drapes, graceful jabots and all the thousand and one (latter ing details which go to express a truly feminine styling are registered on fashion’s calender for 1928. There is no question about the supremacy of bows in the newer modes.

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These bows do not look like premeditated acts', they seem rather like last moment Inspirations, tied as they are so nonchalantly and unconventionally. Especially at neckline and hipline are fashionista “saying it” with bows. For that matter the new hows are apt to occur at most unexpected places—likely as not at the back of the neck, maybe at the front waistline or “betwixt and between" the neckline and girdle in the form of a deep tie-collar. Some very precocious bows have gone so far as to suggest a bustle effect, confining their eccentricity, however, to formal evening gowns. The self-fabric bow which is taking the lead, is really more of a constructive detail of the garment Itself rather than an accessory item. The three Paris frocks of soft silhouette in the illustration convey the idea of the trend of bows most convincingly. A tie-collar, also a bow which seems to help draw the dress yet a little snugger over the hips ns it ties at the front of the waistline, distinguish the model in the center and adds chic. The frock in the foreground of embroldered with plain crepe abounds In significant style details. In the first place this dress combines patterned fabric with solid color, which Is a characteristic feature of incoming spring inodes. The fact of its high collar effect should not pass without comment, for many of the more recent necklines emphasize this tendency. The soft tied bow at the side which flutters its streamers so gracefully over the shoulder. Is the very essence of smartness. So is the side drape

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at the hipline which itself suggests a , huge drooping bow and so obviously I achieves an irregular hemline—and | what an important subject this brings to mind —uneven, erratic hemlines. The “long and the short” of most of the new skirts is mostly a matter of dipping hemlines. The other frock in the picture also introduces a bow of the same material as that of the dress itself. Again jersey is “it” when it comes to the outstanding preferred meFad in Hair Waving The smooth straight shingle is no longer than it was, but the shorthaired woman who has her hair waved should have it waved so that there is an unbroken continuity of undulations all around the head. Colors for Frocks If you can’t decide whether an additional frock in your wardrobe will be red or brow’n —you can have a very lovely blend of the two colors In the

dium for sports and utility apparel. I However, the jersey frock or ensemble I of today emerges from workroom and I atelier, a new creature of the Imagi i nation, endowed with fetching details which eclipse its every previous styling. There is a decided difference, too, between the jersey of the now and the past, which has to do with a eer-

Bow» Add Stylish Touch. tain subtlety of coloring as well ns an Interesting variety expressed in rhe very weave itself With regard to the question of col oring, honey beige, natural grege shades, biscuit, fawn and many two tone effects are given prominence Likewise the new “faded” tones are 1 In good style, also winsome pastel shades. Especially smart is the new angora Jersey In delicate mauve or maize, pale pink, dull light green and a range of blues. Diversity is also registered In pat turned Jersey, usually delinening dots, disks, crossbars and herring bone effects. Jersey, tiand-painted in modernistic designs, likewise metal tombed effects, al) enter Into the re vised list of jer-'ey fancies for this season. As said before the manner ot styling a his greatly to the prestige of Jersey. Analyzing the nunlels in the picture, with a view of discovering just why two such apparently simple frocks are so convincingly chic, one arrives at the conclusion that It Is all a matter of arresting details and subtle coloring. For instance the double belt, the skirt plaited to at-

tain required fullness, the monogram proudly displayed on the blouse, the Peter Pan collar and cuffs of satin, these are the items which in the aggregate spell style. As to the dress shown to the right of this picture, it achieves its smart ness through clever lacings introduced at shoulder, wrists and beltline. The eyelets are enameled the same soft green of the dress. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.! rich red-brown shade which lends it self so well to the soft woolens, tweeds and velveteens. Combination for Jersey Frock Whether or not to have a whole costume of angora jersey is overshad owed by the attractiveness of the combinations which can be made with it. The natural color jersey with black is perhaps most distinctive while natural with tans and browns is more often used.

I I Howe About- ? ED HOWE , I L J । ©. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service, The good citizen Is being honored more in these modern days, and less I attention paid to adventurers of vari- : ous types who succeed or fail in a J large way. Benjamin Franklin is i growing in popularity; it is being quite 1 generally said of him that he was the i first civilized American. Franklin was a fine type of good citizen, and i probably a greater man than either . Washington or Lincoln, who, in acquiring fame, had the help of distinguished position. Franklin had good sense and good health; he lived much longer than the average man, and was I always active and useful. Franklin never aspired to help a special class, I but the average man. He promoted | not only libraries and universities, but i fire departments, sewers, better streets, and better household conveniences. He had a good many bad habits, overcame them, and men admire him because he was never promt: .ent as a “good gentleman.” The life of Franklin was much more active and useful than that of either Washington or Lincoln ' before they became great in politics. Franklin had no opportunity not offered the average man, and lived so well and usefully that books about him are now best sellers. It is the common man who does well from whom we may expect better tilings in the future. # * * What has become of the old vagrancy law? I recall that years ago it uae common for men to be arrested for vagrancy and sentenced to what we then called the rock pile, I have not heard of an arrest for vagrancy in many years, although vagrants are certainly more numerous of recent years than ever before. Men who have jobs almost never engage in highway robbery. Let the vagrancy law be enforced strictly, and most of the criminal class would be arrested before their crimes are committed. * * * 1 have noted that every woman 1 know pretty well wants to take a peek at me: straighten my tie. scratch a spot on my vest, or say 1 should use something for dandruff. They seem to fear other men and let them l alone. * * * 1 am so tired of big words and long and meaningless sentences that I suppose 1 go to the other extreme; I know nothing that cannot be expressed in a few lines in simple words * * 1 know a young married man. and we all say he is nicer without his wife. When with wives, married men always have family responsibilities to look after; they are fearful they may not meet them properly and become nervous. * * * Danger signals are displayed everywhere, but, for some si range reason the best men we have often disregard I hem. # # * There is a little of the outlaw In every man who thinks he is a devil with women; but there is a capable army on the other side to watch him. How capably women do their own police work ! & # # Newspaper gossip doesn’t amount to much; every newspaper of consequence employs a lawyer to see that Its gossip is amusing, and harmless, but the gossip of the neighbors is terrible. And their intent is to attack only ’ the ill-behaved. Your business Is to stand in with the gossips, and you can only do it by

being selfish, and keeping your record straight. * * * In biographies of Europeans, we are usually told of their relations and experiences with women, good and bad. | Which is proper, since no man's life may he known unless it includes these particulars. When an American's life is written, his relations with women ' are omitted except that the dates of his marriages are given. But you may depend on the date when he united with the church, and the statement that he remained a consistent Christian until he died. Nearly every American biography is mere brag. # * « If it is easier to be a civilized man than a savage, then success in life is easier than failure. Why have men disposed of plagues? Because living is more comfortable without them. Why do we treat and dispose of sewage? Because it is a more comfortable plan than to permit tilth to threaten contagion around every household. Good conduct was never taught for any other reason than that it is easier than bad. * * * There is so much of value tn the old order against which we have rebelled that we shall finally be compelled to send for it and beg for its return. * * * A man has written about the foibles and faults of good women. Now let some women admit that good men are entitled to faults. * * * 1 have observed that radicalism is nearly always on the wrong side. * * * 1 know an old lady aga ist whom nothing can he said except that she overdoes goodness of every kind; she is an angel who makes angels unpopular. With too much goodness she has ruined her own life, and the lives of eleven children and grandchildren. * * % Banks are robbed of great sums by ' armed men appearing at the paying tellers window and scooping every- : thing in sight into a bag. But banks are robbed of still greater sums by unscrupulous men able to out-talk the president.

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