The Daily Transcript (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 216, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1916 Page: 3 of 4
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(Copyright. 1916, by W. G. Chapman.)
"Miss Flora Johnson, 28 Walden
avenue," read the line In the city di-
rectory, Indicating that the owner of
the name was a business woman,
winch, in her small way, she indeed
■was.
The little chonicle savored of com-
mercial establishment and independ-
ence, but in reality it covered the
drama of grim and sorrowful experi-
ence. At the address noted Flora
Johnson lived in two poor rooms with
her mother, an invalid, her father
<lead and memories of a life of com-
fort and contentment before Mr. John-
son had failed in business.
The old friends of Mr. Johnson al-
lowed his daughter to refer to them,
but none of them offered a position.
She struggled through the initiation as
a typist and stenographer and secured
a good position, but the house em-
ploying her went out of business. She
had to take a poorer place, and then
misfortune seemed to pursue her. Her
wages became smaller and smaller,
one of her employers abandoned his
office, a whole month's salary in ar-
rears, and at last Flora was forced to
take up rapid-fire envelope address-
ing at a mere pittance. Her ward-
robe was becoming shabby, but she
had no means of replenishing It She
was, indeed, dejected at times, always,
however, seeing that her mother was
provided for. Flora went hungry
more than once at the mandates of a
sordid necessity.
The heart of the mother was
cheered, as Just after six o'clock had
struck, she heard the quick step of
her daughter coming up the stairs.
Flora How Badly She
Needed the Position,
Had
She fancied that she caught the echo
of a glad, Joyful laugh. All excite
ment, her usually pale cheeks red as
a rose, Flora burst into the room,
gayly waving a letter.
"Oh, mother!" she cried; "what do
you think? My luck has changed at
last. I just got this letter in the hall
mail box. It's for me and it's from a
firm called Andre Fairfax & Co. I
must have answered some advertise-
ment of theirs for a stenographer, for
\ they say that I can report at ten to-
\ morrow morning, that my application
Is accepted and that the salary Is—
oh, mother, dear, guess! guess!" flut-
tered Flora breathlessly.
"Surely not $50?"
"No—$75!"
What a babbling and almost hys-
terical delight there was all through
their frugal meal! What hopes they
built on this sudden and unexpected
fortune. Flora sat up until midnight
mending gloves, doing up her hair,
starching and ironing her best waist.
"You pretty picture!" enthused the
fond mother, as Flora kissed her
good-by. "I've put a poor lunch in your
handbag, but it was all there is un-
til—"
"My first week's great, grand sal-
ary!" cried Flora, with shining eyes
"Then—oh, then, won't we luxuriate!"
Flora reached the office of Fairfax
& Co. She told her business to the
information clerk, who went into
private office, and, returning, stated
that Mr. Fairfax wished to see her.
Flora was impressed with the kindly
face of the young man, who, It seemed
was the head of the business. He
nodded intelligently as he read the
letter and wrote a line on a card.
"Take that to Mr. Doane, the office
manager," he said. "He will assign
you to your work at once. I hope
you will like your tasks here. Your
references were excellent."
"My references?" repeated Flora, In
a puzzled way. "Why, sir, I sent
none—but I have them with me."
"That is strange," observed Mr.
Fairfax, and he reached over and
lifted a large envelope from a little
tray. "I thought I was right. Yes,
here they are."
In wonder, and then in sickening
despair, Flora glanced over the recom-
mendation of Miss Flora Johnson, but
another Miss Johnson, at entirely dif-
ferent address. She felt faint as the
truth dawned upon her: Whoever had
cent the letter had looked at the dl-
rectory and had addressed the letter
to the wrong Flora Johnson.
There were tears in her eyes as she
faltered out an explanation. Blindly
she tottered from the room, reached
the outer office and then all became
blank.
"Poor little soul!" were the words
that greeted her as she opened her
eyes, and two typist girls were bend-
ing over her as she lay on a settee
in one of the inner rooms of the suite.
"Mr. Fairfax is quite interested. It
seems this girl had her hopes raised
by receiving a letter intended for an-
other of her name. That poor lunch
in her handbag! Isn't it a pity? Prob-
ably her heart was set on this posi-
tion."
"Mr, Fairfax wished to know when
she recovered," spoke the other girl,
and Flora, sitting up a minute later,
was confronted by the young busi-
ness man.
"You seem to have come first." he
said, an expression of real interest
and sympathy on his face, "your
namesake has not reported, so I think
we may take you on—"
"Oh, no, sir!" spoke Flora impetu-
ously. "It was this other Miss John-
son who qualified for the position.
Perhaps she, too, is depending upon
It to—to relieve—to pay her way! I
could not think of causing her disap-
pointment," and Flora arose and left
the room.
'The brave, unselfish girl!" spoke
Mr. Fairfax in tones of profound ad-
miration. "We have her address and
I will look into this."
He could not get rid of a memory
of that silent, pleading face all that
day. He was eager, glad, as one of
his clerkB, sent to investigate at the
address they had. returned and re-
ported the circumstances surround-
idg the Johnsons.
"What did you learn?" asked Mr.
Fairfax of his envoy, and his sympa-
thetic face was tense and concentrat-
ed as he heard the sorrowful story ol
the struggling girl.
But a new life opened for Flora
within the next few days. A lettei
came from a large brokerage firm
stating that her address as an expert
stenographer had been furnished
them and asking her to call.
Flora found herself in the position
of her life. Her companion workers
were charming, her employers con
siderate and liberal. Within a week
all of the bloom h d come back into
Flora's face and renewed courage was
restored to her tried but intrepid
soul.
One noon, as she sat down at a table
in the restaurant where she ate hei
lunch, a pale-faced, frail-looking young
woman abruptly took the seat oppo
iste her.
She introduced herself as Miss Flors
Johnson. She was the young ladj
whose place with Fairfax & Co. Flora
might have had. In fervid, broken
tones she told Flora how badly she
had needed the position. Now she
thanked her for the sacrifice she had
made in her behalf.
"And Mr. Fairfax said that it was
the noblest act he had ever known.
That was why he got you your place
here—"
The cat was out of the bag! Flora
flushed with pleasure and gratitude
at the kindly interest of the good
hearted young business man. She
wrote him a brief noto that evening
thanking him for his kindness.
And wonder of wonders! He called
upon her a week later, and then the
week after that.
His interest and sympathy were
fast growing into love, and one eve
nlng he confessed it And the humble
stenographer became the happy wife
of a man of wealth.
GOSSIP
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Monument Drive Beauty Plans Revive Stories
117 ASHINQTON—The grounds surrounding the base of the Washington
ft monument may be beautified still further by the setting out there of a
screen of evergreens and other shrubbery, as the result of the eighty-second
annual meeting of the Washington
<T~v-—s r ——■> National Monument society. Also, an-
^ THIS | other history of the monument may
WILL BF O K) be published shortly, as the result ol I
the meeting, to meet a demand of I
libraries all over the country, the edi-
tions of two previous histories of the
monument having been exhausted.
Several Interesting old stories
were revived in connection with the J
monument as the result of the meet- (
ing. When the monument was being
built and the stones were being re-
ceived from the states they were placed, as received, in a long shed near tho
monument, known then as the "lapldarlum." Tourists and souvenir hunters
haunted this place, and when they were not carefully watched they chipped I
off pieces of the stones to take home. A medical society sent a stone with
carved figures of personages in the medical world, and the souvenir hunters !
chipped off the hands of some of the figures. Michigan's Btone bore a coat
of arms in sliver. Vandals took a letter or two of silver out of the motto of |
the coat of arms, although these were replaced.
There is to this day some little uncertainty that the stone representing
Texas is actually the stone sent by that state. Old records (dated 1850)
thow a resolution of thanks to Texas officials for a stone, so it is certain that !
a stone was sent, but the stone In the monument Is badly defaced and i
deteriorated, and it is intended to urge Texas to replace It. It Is defaced so [
badly that the carvings cannot be identified as the carvings of the Texas
stone.
One Interesting thing about the monument is the aluminum cap on the !
topmost point. This is about 12 by 9 inches, and, years, ago, when it was !
brought to Washington, it was a great curiosity, as it was said to be the
first piece of aluminum of any size ever made. It cost the government $300. i
Creased Trousers on Statue of Senator Rice
SENATOR HENRY MOWER RICE died long since, but he was a great I
character in his day—so great that the people of Minnesota have erected
a marble statue to his memory In that chamber of horrors known as Statuary j
hall, where the capltol guards orate
on the various little odds and ends of
interest to be found in that dismal
tomb. Speaker Clark always smiles
when anyone mentions the "art" In
Statuary hall, and if the fine arts com-
mission, which has been on the lips of
congress lately because of the central
power plant, the Grant memorial, the
Lincoln memorial and other great
things, could spend an afternoon in
that hall the members would probably
want to take quinine to rid themselves
of the horrendous chills superinduced by gazing on the "art'' therein.
The latest addition is the Senator Rice statue, a fine, upstanding effit?y
fashioned by Frederick E. Triebel, whose studio is at College Point, N. Y.
He Is one of the very few American members of the Royal Academy of
Rome. He probably knows how to bring a marble block to life as well as
the Greek who carved Galatea in yielding stone.
However, he seemod to have failed to live up to the realistic when it
came to creasing Senator Rice's trousers. The latest criticism comes from
Maj. James A. Abbott of Providence,' R. I., a special employee of the United
States senate, who was gazing upon the marble trousers a few days ago.
"The artist has given the senator creased trousers," said Major Abbott,
when, in fact, in the days that the senator lived, no one was ever Been in
creases. If you had been found with your trousers creased like that, the I
natural supposition would have been that you had Just picked up a pair of
hand-me-downs in a ready-made shop (which was a disgrace In those days) j
and that you had not had time to iron out the creases made by piling the ■
breeches one on top of the other on the shelf."
n^HREE years have made the movement successful in hun-
ureds of cities and towns. Every farmer should apply the
idea to his premises. How it improves rental property,
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The upper picture shows a vacant lot in a southern town before a Clean Up and Paint Up cam-
paign. It was rid of all the trash by negro children in the neighborhood. Then they planted a
vegetable and flower garden on the plot and had fine success with the enterprise. Can't we do
something equally good with some of the vacant lot eyesores in this town? The lower picture
shows what can be done with a ragged, good-for-nothing side yard. It took a great deal of per-
suasion to wake up the owners and tenants of the property, but once aroused they made up for
lost time—as the neat garden indicates. This is a lesson for us.
Women More Religious Than Men.
The real reason why women arc
more religious than men today is be
cause they are more human than men.
It is not by nature that they are so,
Social conditions have made them so.
As we have divided the labor of the
world between the sexes, the work ol
men is almost entirely concerned with
the production and distribution ol
things; the work of women almost en
tlrely with the production .and sus-
tenance of persons. We all of us al
times notice the great throngs of men
who go, at the call of the whistle, in
National Museum Shows Native Java Garments
ATTENTION has recently been called to the opportunities open to the style
creator lying within the arts of certain quaint and little-known peoples.
Especially is this applicable to the natives of parts of Java who dress in
homemade costumes of gayly printed
^4.3 ft , cotton. Their method of dyeing or
"C
LEAN UP and Paint Up"
has become a nation-wide
slogan in the Interests of
homes and towns beauti-
ful since Allen W. Clark, a St. Louis
publisher, organized the National
"Clean Up and Paint Up" campaign
bureau In May, 1912. Mr. Clark, for
has been brought in and disease driv-
en out.
The creator gave to tho country a
peculiar charm. Beauty—beauty of
blade and blossom, of hill and hollow,
of daydawn and sunset—coniQS as the
birthright of every person who is coun-
try born. In the springtime nature
schemes are both unique, and may
well be Imitated and applied to better
goods for general trade rather than
the small distribution they receive at
present.
The National museum has Just re-
ceived a consignment of these native
garments obtained directly from the
Netherlands East Indies commission
at the close of the Panama-Pacific
International exposition at San Francisco. The exhibit includes several
different types of Javanese dress decorated by what is known as batik-work.
The Javanese batik process is very crude, and yet is possibly the origin
of the advanced method of resist printing followed today in various civilized
countries. It is closely allied to the stencil method both in principle and
effect. The handmade Javanese batiks are produced, from common cotton
sheeting, the only cloth procurable In their country.
Four main colors are used in this work: Indigo, red, a tannin brown, and
can paint trade, sought to arouse and
printing, and their designs and color I organize into a single national move-
many years identified with the Ameri- j writes in pink her orchard proclama-
ment the "clean up" spirit which stirs
each spring in every normal man and
woman and nearly every thriving com-
munity.
The first year something like 1,000
towns and cities conducted local clean
up and paint up campaigns based on
plans suggested by tho national bu-
reau. This number has increased each
tion of plenty, and in late summer and
fall time fills the fields with grains of
gold. Sometimes civilization has clut-
tered, but never has nature. Whatever
there is of ugliness In the great out of
doors Is man made.
Means Better Health.
Beauty is a part of the farmer's un-
earned increment. Health, too, should
be for him and his—health and happi-
ness, best of ancient blessings so of-
year until in 1915 approximately B.UUU j ten w,shed for frlend8 Because we
local campaigns were organized. Each
of these took the form of a real civic
and out of our great factories. To the
average man's mind, these hundreds ' R rftther strong yellow. They are sometimes allowed to overlap, which re-
of men are "nands," and the purpose [ ®*lt8 1° the additional color effects of black, green, and orange. All the dyes
dt the factories where they are em- j are home manufacture, made from native Ingredients. Tho manufacture
ployed Is to produce "goods;" but to °' the dyes takes considerable time also, and when it is considered that from
the average woman's mind, these hun- j one t0 three weeks Is required to complete the application of each color of
dreds of laborers are human beings, j tho three to be employed, and that each step of the process has to be re-
and the purpose of the factories is tc j Plated on the other side, it is seen what a long, tedious, and expensive
furnish sustenance, through pay en- j Process this native method is.
velopes, to men and women and boys i It is reported that a more advanced method has been tried successfully
and girls and babies yet unborn. In ,n Holland, where a similar system of coloring has been applied to plushes, I tiful was convincingly pointed out ev-
most of our homes the man leaves hu- I Bilks, and velvets. Strangely enough, the natives of Java seem unable to erywhere.
man interests early in the morning, j improve their methods even with European advice and assistance, and are The weakness of the old-time "clean
devotes the best hours of his day to ' unable to work more accurately or rapidly, and cannot be made to give any 'JP day or week" orgy of the "annual
the welfare of things, and returns to i attention to symmetry or care. I bath" order is eliminated from these
persons again only for the evening's I I campaigns. Permanent results and
movement.
Where Everybody Helps.
City and town officials, woman's
club leaders, boards of trade, health
officials, fire Insurance and fire pre-
vention leaders, school children, boy
scouts and the local paint men all co-
operated in the interests of a more
beautiful, more sanitary and more
homelike home town. Individual prop-
erty values were increased, loss
through disease and fire waste was
lessened, and tho Importance of clean-
liness, thrift and civic pride in any
movement for homes and towns beau-
White House No Place to Keep a Live Eagle I sought.
jp HE White House may be the fountain-head of American patriotism, but it
relaxation. His wife, meanwhile, has
hardly done an act of labor all the
day, has hardly made a plan or had a
thought, which Is not with consider-
able intimacy related to human be I is no place for a real live American eagle. President Wilson discovered
ings husband, her children, hei this the other day, and for that reason the eagle is now preening its feathers
neighbors.—Bernard I. Bell, in the Afc In the aviary of the National Zoolog-
lantlc. I leal park.
* A mammoth crate, containing a
Would Obey Orders. ( live bald-headed eagle from Colorado,
The foreman swore at Cassidy for j reached the White House carrying
not fully loading up his hod. The hod,
he said, would hold so many bricks,
and Cassidy must take a full load up
the ladder every trip.
One morning the supply of bricks
ran out and Cassidy, after gathering
every brick in sight, found he was
still short of the proper number. He
yelled up to a workman on the fifth
ultimately a year-round effort are
story.
What do you want?" asked the
workman.
"Throw me down wan brick," shout-
ed Cassidy, "to make good me load.'
with him the sense of the state of
Colorado in behalf of preparedness.
The president appreciated the
gift very highly. Nor did he express
surprise. He looked over Mr. Eagle,
and remarked in presidential lan-
guage that it was "some bird."
But when it came to housing the
bird the troubles of the White House staff began. But when the matter was
presented in desperation to the president he decided that the eagle would be
better off at the zoo.
The eagle was sent to the president by Judge George F. Patrick of Ouray,
Colo., who described It as the rnogt magnificent eagle ever captured In that
itate.
Clean Up the Farm Too.
With the idea of making the farm
home more attractive and more health-
ful a farm clean up day has been sug-
gested. Why not this idea long ago
' "absorb environments," a farm clean
up day may result in better living,
higher thinking—yes, and better
health. It may also play no small
part In the solution of a big problem,
that of keeping on the farms of the
nation a large number of agricultur-
ally trained and efficient men and
women. Such as these will find in
their work not only a living, but a
life. They will share in the spirit of
Joy In the excellence of production
There Is much work for a farm
clean up day. It may be that there
are disease breeding places that need
attention. The appearance of the barn-
yard—often such as to suggest that
various okl vehicles and farm Imple-
ments had taken fright and backed
Into the corners—might be changed
for the better. Maybe there is a cora
post heap—rich in nitrogen, phos-
phorus and potassium and valuable as
a fertilizer if spread over the fields,
but in its present place an Incubator
for insects and dangerous as a possi-
ble source of fever.
Flowers and New Paint.
If mother Is fond of flowers, and
usually she is, the farm clean up day
long has sagged and creaked or that
needs painting, and it so the R. F. D.
mail box is sure to need brightening
up. Whitewash on poultry or other
buildings will work wonders. Before
the day's work is done, prompted by a
new pride in the place, It may be that
the farmer will display the farm name
near tho main entrance to the place.
States, counties, communities,
churches, schools or farmers' clubs
may proclaim farm clean up days, but
best of all each Individual farmer may
have his own.
Don't Neglect to Paint.
It is apparent to even the casual
observer that many property owners
let their rented houses, or houses for
rent, go too long without painting.
This neglect makes the houses look
unsightly but also hastens the day of
decay. A little paint is a good invest-
ment from every viewpoint. It pre-
serves the wood and it keeps the
houses rented. The writer visited an
Illinois town last spring and after a
careful observation found not a single
house which was not well and fairly
recently painted. There had Just been
a clean up and paint up campaign.
Tho impression left was one of a
thriving town where a man would like
to live and bring up a family. The
yards were well kept, -with lawns,
flower beds and shrubbery, and each
householder seemed to vie with hia
neighbor in making his place look at-
tractive.
Cities, towns and villages have had might mean a new flower bed or per-
their clean up days, and because of ! haps a fence fixed so as to protect an
these and similar influences beauty I old one. There may be a gate that too
POSTSCRIPTS
Automobile tires made of synthetic
rubber by a German inventor have
shown no Blgns of wear after having
been run more than 4,000 miles.
With the idea of resisting earth-
quakes a hospital In San Salvador has
been built of pressed steel plates bolt-
ed to a wrought iron frame.
A computing scale has been Invent-
®d that shows the amounts of the In-
gredients required for different quan-
tities and mixtures of cement.
At the present rate. $1,000,000 will
be expended In electric ranges this
year.
The adjutant or marabou bird of
India, which Is valued on account of
Its feathers, will swallow a hare or a
cat whole. It stands live feet high
and has a 15-foot expanse o( wing.
Many of the western boards of edu-
cation are equipping high schools and
colleges with electrical cooking ap-
paratus. and In state an<} My insti-
tutions, especially hosol'.sis, the cook-
ing Is done by eWrtnclty.
New Sterilizing Agent.
German scientists have found that
glycerin Is a valuable sterilizing
agent. Various deadly germs, when
heated In It to a temperature of 248
degrees Fahrenheit, were completely
killed In one minute. This process Is
particularly valuable for sterilizing
surgical instruments, for the reason
that the metal Is not attacked nor is
the temper affected. Rubber tubes
can be sterilized in it, and, instead of
being injured, the elasticity of those
which have become brittle Is restored
by the treatment.
His Fate.
"Did you hear how Smithers got
caught In a copper corner?"
"No; how was it?"
"He had been taking a little too
much, and ran whooping into a bunch
Of policemen Just as he turned around
the street."
Consistency.
"There is one thing which ought
to, but does not, go with the unKrrlt.
ten law."
"What?"
"Payless lawyers."
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