Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 23, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 1 November 1928 — Page 7

Fust I ^iLcidv of /f^W WgM^^ / x Py \ .’, JSK^^ \ ' \H3SBhflH| Underwood 'vsEpjSßjjßSSjjw XA ] iki Wz \ ^urTc/cr^'Qod ^MgMMBEg«^^ |E^a z’/uT^X I Ws ifrfc- \ -*< jEffl dt * * a ^gp ■■^ : ^za| ®«t^rao 1 /ji^Z-wrp^ । £► " J|^ »- W /gg||rs3iißg!M^ y K|r .r COOUDG^ \^ k - ^J^SSKT x /Wi » EBJII I Wrl x. Jmw ^HKt^lk •^uqw— KI IL I Ik*" W v Jr ^/trnffwi TIRS.ROO3e^r ^MwFb^^^M WB^Wi Iw* Wj^.TiRS.ZI2rCOLir- > x < -P^zPtp iyd cP yf T^. T^wzsozr / \ Tiß^^arr £'^

By LOUISE M. COMSTOCK TEN Mrs. Herbert Hoover or Mrs. Al Smith sets up her domestic menage in the White House next March, she will do it according to customs established by 32 predecessors, women of unusual personalities and talents who have molded to its present form the glamorous role of First Lady of the Land. Love, romance, adventure, success and failure have come to them while mistresses of the nation’s first home. Three of them, Letitia Christian Tyler, Caroline Scott Harrison and Ellen

4 I •

Axson Wilson died there; three more, Julia Gardner Tyler, Frances Folsom Cleveland and Edith Galt Wilson, by marrying men already in office, came to the White House as brides. Only two of our Presidents were bachelors when Inaugurated, a proportion which shows them to be no exception to the rest of humanity in this particular respect. They were James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland, and Mr. Cleveland remained single only a year after his term began. Three Presidents were widowers when they took the oath of office and to daughters or sisters fell the responsibilities of First Lady of the Land. Martha Washington, the first to hold this position, had no White House in which to entertain the diplomats and foreign guests of the new Republic, but the elaborate formality of the receptions, levees and musieales held in the temporary Presidential residence at Philadelphia set a definite social tradition. “Lady” Washington was a widow when she married the famous general, the mother of two children, and she brought him a SIOO,OOO estate which helped make him the richest colonist In his part of the country. She is described as a quiet, unassuming woman, a good mother and a charming hostess, who held “court” with her idolized husband with ease and grace in spite of the lavish ceremony the times demanded. It was thus to Abigail Smith Adams, wife of the second President of the United States, that fell the distinction of being the first mistress of the White House. She was introduced to her new abode on a bleak November day in 1800. Behind her lay a torturous stage-coach journey over the miles of mud and wilderness which lay between her and her luxurious Philadelphia home. And before her —well, read what that staid and brilliant woman wrote her sister a little later: “I arrived about one o’clock at this place, known by The name of the City, and the name is all you can call so, as I expected to find it a new country, with houses scattered over a space of ten miles and trees and stumps in plenty with a castle of a house —so I found it. The President’s house is in a beautiful situation, in front of which is the Potomac. ... I have been to Georgetown. ... It is the dirtiest hole I ever saw for a place of any trade or respectability of inhabitants. . . . This house is twice as large as our meeting house. I believe the great hall is as big. I am sure it Is twice as long. Cut your coat according to your cloth—but this house is built for ages to come!” Mrs. Adams was compelled to endure embryonic Washington only three months, for President Jefferson moved in the next March. Jefferson was a widower and affairs at the “Castle” were ordered by his two daughters and by the vivacious and popular Dolly Madison, at that time wife of the secretary of state. For 1G years, while Jefferson and her husband were President, Mrs. Madison built to colorful dignity the social life of the new White House; for over 50 years she held undisputed sway over Washington society. She was not handsome; it has even been said that, though brought up in the Quaker faith, she rouged, took snuff and played cards for high stakes. But, according to one of her biographers, this daughter of South Carolina “is believed to have made a greater contribution to the social life of the country than any other woman who had the honor of living in the White House.”

w Coincidences of Early Presidents

The following remarkable coincidences were noticeable in the names and lives of the first seven Presidents of the United States —Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Jackson: First —Four of the seven were from the same state (Virginia). Second—Two others bearing the same name (Adams) were from the same state.

/ Though Dolly Madison was twenty-one years younger than her distinguished husband, they lived together happily for forty-two years. When he died at Montpelier, his widow returned to Washington and though then nearly seventy and in straitened circumstances, she made her little house opposite ’Lafayette square, now the home of the Cosmos club, a magnetic center of social life. Her death in 1849, when she was seventy-seven, was mourned by the entire capital. Her Immediate successors, though perhaps less well known, each left the stamp of her personality upon the social regime of the White House. There was Elizabeth Monroe, a quiet, intellectual woman of stately bearing, and Louisa Johnson Adams, who, though born abroad, educated in foreign courts and “a person far beyond the average of her generation,” was prevented by ill health from continuing the festivities Initiated by Dolly Madison. Though Rachel Jackson died, perhaps of a broken heart, some months before “Old Hickory” was inaugurated and though she was much maligned during the stormy campaign which preceded his election, his passionate devotion to her memory was responsible for momentous events during his administration, though social life at the White House was actually in the hands of her sister-in-law, Mrs. A. .L Donelson. And it was Angelica Singleton, his daughter-in-law and a charming belle of the South, who presided over official dinners for President Van Buren, a widower. Letitia Tyler, made First Lady of the Land by the death of President Harrison only a few months after his inauguration, died in the White House. President Tyler met the woman who was to be his second wife, Julia Gardner of New York, In story book fashion. They were brought together by the death of her father, who was killed in an explosion on the Potomac and whose body was brought to the White House immediately after the accident. The brilliant activity with which the new Mrs. Tyler brought her husband’s administration to a close ended abruptly with the entrance of Sarah Childress Polk, a beauty of the dark Spanish type with a regal manner, whose strict religious beliefs caused her to banish dancing and the serving of refreshments from White House functions. Margaret Smith Taylor undertook the duties of First Lady of the Land reluctantly, resenting the demands this new honor made upon the husband she had already seen though the hazards of a spectacular career as Indian fighter. Consequently, so it is said, she sat quietly knitting and smoking a favorite pipe while her daughter, Mrs. William Wallace Bliss, saw to the installation of new lighting fixtures and furniture in the Presidential mansion and entertained for her father. Abigail Powers Fillmore, a self-educated woman and a school teacher before her marriage, was another who, this time because of lameness, put the burden of playing hostess on a daughter. And Jane Means Pierce entered the important role under a cloud of grief for the death of her thir-teen-year-old son killed in a railroad accident.

Third —The remaining one of the seven (Jackson), being particularly tenacious of his opinions and ways, came very properly from Tennessee. Fourth—All of them, except one, were sixty-six years of age on retiring from office. Fifth—All these last mentioned served two terms. Sixth—The one who served one term only, had he served two terms,

would also have been sixty-six on retiring. Seventh —Three of the seven died on July 4, and two of them on the same day and year. Eighth—Only one of the seven had a son, and that son was one of the seven Presidents. Ninth—Two of them were of the subcommittee of three that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and these two were they that died on the same day and year, and on the anniversary of the Declaration of Inde-

and though a competent if somewhat detached hostess, she had such a dislike of politics that they were never discussed in the President’s home while she was around I During the administration of the bachelor President, James Buchanan, his ravishing niece, Harriet Lane Johnston, one of the most beautiful and \ popular of the women who have held that position, played First Lady of the I.and and brought to the historic mansion once again a period of high festivity. Then came Mary Todd Lincoln, “a pleasant-faced, cheerful woman, who would be satisfactory In her place.” whose life at the Cap- ; Itai, darkened by the death of her son Willie and the President’s assassination, could not have been a very happy one. Her successor, Eliza McCardle Johnson, though she taught her husband to read and write, was an Invalid while she lived in Washington and was forced to relinquish the duties of her exalted position to a daughter. A new social era, as well as new furniture and ■ decorations, entered the White House when Julia Dent Grant became Its mistress. A talent for ■ entertaining and unfailing energy enabled her to promote a continuous round of gala functions, ' among them the brilliant marriage of her daughter Nellie, one of her four children. Lucy Webb : Hayes, also an excellent hostess, modified the nature of White House entertainment by banishing the serving of Intoxicating liquors. And the custom of lavish and efficient entertainment established by these two was ably continued by Mrs. John E. McElroy, sister of President Arthur, and successor to Lucretia Garfield, whose term as First Lady was cut short by her husband's assassination. Though President Cleveland entered office a bachelor, his marriage to Francis Folsom soon after gave Washington one of the most popular hostesses it has ever known. The young Mrs. Cleveland was the idol of the women of her generation, many of whom still remember the dresses she wore at her famous public receptions. Caroline Scott Harrison, an unusual woman, skilled In painting and music and the first president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died In the White House, leaving her responsibilities to a daughter, Mrs. McKee. At the close of President McKinley's administration, a quiet one socially, due to the ill health of his wife, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow Roosevelt, another woman still fondly remembered, became First Lady of the Land. She was an engaging, intelligent person, keenly interested in the activities of her famous husband and such a devoted mother to her five children that she has been called the “American Cornelia.” The best remembered occasion of her life In the historic mansion is the marriage of Alice Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth, present speaker of the house. With Helen Herron Taft, the new interests of modern woman were introduced into the White House. Mrs. Taft was active in civic enterprise and was the founder of the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra. Her successor, Edith Axson Wilson, died during her husband’s first term in office and was followed by Edith Galt Wilson, mistress of the nation’s first home during the troublesome times of the World war. Florence Kling Harding was again a modern woman with modern ideas, being the first President's wife with the power to vote. To the demands of a most elaborate social program Grace Goodhue Coolidge, who after seven years as First Lady of the Land yields her position next March, has lent a charm and tact that have endeared her to the American people. She is a graduate of the University of Vermont and before her marriage taught In a school for the deaf in Northampton. Through the death of one of her two sons, Calvin, Jr., the long Illness of her mother and the death of her husband’s father, through wearing years of continuous publicity, she has maintained a calm, gracious dignity, and been always a true First Lady of the Land.

pendence, and which happened just half a century from the day of the declaration. Tenth —In respect to the names of all, it may be said in conclusion, that the initials of two of the seven were the same—and the initials of still two others were the same. The remaining one who stands alone In this particular, stands alone «>lso In the admiration and love of his countrymen and of the civilized world —Washington.— (Originally published In the Boston Transcript in 1855.)

M oWa R C H QUALITY FOOD PRODUCTS set the standard. If you paid a dollar a pound you could not t“3 buy better food products than those you find packed under F-j the Monarch label. 113 Reid, Murdoch & Co. . J|HL Established 1853 fesw^a^ 9 1 3^ General Offices, AOS3| Chicago, 111. T* P*? ”I'l^*^*l Z---I © 1^ s®?e il^ija V^aW-S"^ Joy of Labor The only things worth having in this old vale of tears and laughter are those you have to work at least a little to get, and we suppose a really Intelligent mosquito would rather have the girls wear stockings than not. —Ohio State Journal. zZi /- M y^Wb ww^XT Hie \ Doctor It is essential that my car should always operate properly and accordingly I usa Champion Spark Plugs. Champion is the better epark plug because it has an exclusive silli* manite insulator spe* | J] cially treated to with- P K stand the much higher c- $ temperatures of the Jg.-.~] modem high-comprcs- JL —jy sion engine. Also a new patented solid copper W*~— gasket-seal that remains ® absolutely gas-tight W/Z ; /aKJ under high compres- 11 -^' sion. Special analysis qj Sp electrodes which assure a fixed spark-gap under xs- 1 all driving conditions. ^Beginning October 4th and every^f Thursday thereafter the Champion Sparkers will broadcast over the Blue T^etwork of the National Broadcasting Company from 8:30 to 9:00 p. m. Eastern Standard Time. Champion Spar!(Plugs T O L E DQ. OHIO Growth of Corn The bureau ot plant industry s*ays that there are two periods ot maxi mum growth of corn —one is tn the foienoon and one is in the afternoon Scientific research shows that some plants grow as much at night, under good conditions, as in the daytime, but this is not true of corn. Being courteous can be made a pleasant pastime. Plenty is the child of peace.

the Knight engine, two sliding ■ 111 •lme> in earh cylinder combine with the nphcrical cylinder head to form n perfectly sealed com- ji YSjjg bustion chamber — assuring high uniform compression at all times, ~ • at all epeeda and with any gaa, >■ । WMB JEi erfckihance J always at its best ^Uiousandti an&re .now jetuou-^ £ STANDARD COACH A (UUi .p.(TAZ? JL JjP % record dow dmee^ I MIE patented Willys-Knight double sleeve’C ; X A valve engine is as fresh at the end of a hard V I* iL day’s run as at the start—and after thousands of 1 E. milesyou willfind thissuperiormotoreven smoother I Other Will ye-Knight and quieter than on the day you took delivery, f N models «995 to f 2695. Zr Ohio/arid J Its simplicity of design insures remarkable freedom. » > fixation-subject from carbon troubles and repairs. There are no valves i to change r * r without to grind, no valve springs to weaken. At the lowest price I notice. f in ]ji s tory, the Standard Six is bringing the advantages of J Willys-Knight’s sparkling activity, sustained brilliance and ; ease of control to thousands of new and enthusiastic owners. WILLYS-OVERLAND, INC., TOLEDO, OHIO WHEYS'KN r WILLYS-OVERLAND, Inc. \ TOLEDO, OHIO

Great Orators Among Red Men of America Standing erect, with eyes flaming with enthusiastic ardor, and a mind laboring under an agony of though', the Indian was a most impressive orator. writes Elijah M. Haines in “The American Indian." When he spoke before his assembled nation on some great subject he showed most manifestly that he was feeling an awful responsibility in what he attempted to advocate in behalf of his people. Caleb Atwater, one of the United States commissioners who made a treaty with various Indian tribes for the purchase of large tracts of Illinois and Wisconsin in August, 1829. said the Indian's oratorical presence was the finest to be seen. “His eloquence abounds with figures from every subject which nature presents to his eye. When he touches upon the subject of the sale of his country his eye flashes fire, his whole soul is in every word, in every look, in every gesture, lie raises himself on his feet, his body is thrown in every attitude, every muscle and nerve being strained to its utmost power. His voice is loud, clear, distinct,* commanding. He becomes. to use his own phrase, a man." Proud of Ownership ' of Historic Bugle The most famous bugle in the United States army is said to be found at Fort Myer. Va.. just across the Potomac from Washington, the property of Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey, the veteran bugler of the Third cavalry. Witchey blew taps on the horn at the grave of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington cemetery, and at the funerals of Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan. Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. Lieut. Gens. Nelson A. Miles and S B. M. Young and other prominent Americans. The bugle was issued originally to Witchey by the army as a part of his equipment, but the day after he blew the taps at the grave of the Unknown Soldier he bought the horn back from the quartermaster for $2.50. He had the bugle gold-plated and now he engraves on it all the important events at which it is blown, with the dates The Verdict John Sloan, the noted painter, was i dining with a Fifth avenue million aire. and after dinner his host led him into his art gallery. “Sloan.” he said, ns he halted before an enormous canvas, “tell me. is this a genuine Titian?" Mr. Sloan laughed heartlessly. Then he said: “It's a genuine repe-Titian.” Not Quite McNutt—l met that impossible Billswiggle today. His Wise —Yes, and I suppose you argued with him until you were black in the face. McNutt —No. just around one eye. —Pathfinder Magazine. Blasted Hopes Tessie—“l thought you said you had a rich uncle?" Tommie—“ Yes. but he just got married again.” Our Ancestors Howell —Do you believe in the Darwinian theory? Powell—Stop your monkeying. All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.—Horace.

® Replace old । or inferior iitbesuiihnew Cunningham Tubes and enjoy modern radio reproduction. Going Fishing “I have my nets and my tackle all ready.” “Why the shotgun?” “We might sight a few flying fish." kN NihenEbod Sours Lots of folks who think they hav< “indigestion” have only an acid condition which could be corrected in five or ten minutes. An effective anti-acid like Phillips Milk of Magnesia soon restores digestion to normal. Phillips does away with all that sourness and gas right after meals. It prevents the distress so apt to occur two hours after eating. What a pleasant preparation to take! And how good it is for the system! Unlike a burning dose of soda—which is but temporary relief at best—Phillips Milk of Magnesia neutralizes many times its volume in acid. Next time a hearty meal, or too rich a diet has brought on the least discomfort, try— PHILLIPS i Milk . of Magnesia DWosdeeful and acre. Males rrm alia bea^tifti' alaa roes eeze—a. Price «1.25. free booklet. Freckle Omanent remores freck:ea. Us-d erer forty rears. 1!.2S <nd esc. A«k yoer dealer or write Dr. C. H. Berry Co., 2975 Mic-iisan Aw., c hica«o Conversing with a man who always agrees with you is as bad as talking to an echo. Stylishest thing one can do Is to stand up straight. The world has not yet learned the riches of frugality.—Cicero.