Britton Weekly Sentinel (Britton, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 1911 Page: 5 of 8
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the strapontin.
Found In Parisian Thaatara, It la ■
Delusion and • Snare.
In every Paris theater there are two
or three score "strapontins " You won-
der what a strapontin Is? Well, it is a
folding or strap seat on the aiale at-
tached to the side of the alale chair of
the orchestra or balcony rows. It has
neither sides nor back and Is without
visible means of support except
through affiliation and attachment.
The unsuspecting American tourist
Whose stay in Tarls is but a matter of
days approaches the Parisian bo* of
flee and is shown the diagram by
the middle aged lady with the blond
curls. Guilelessly the visitor indicates
what he believes to be on aisle seat
and congratulates himself on his luck
at so late an hour in capturing it
A few minutes later he has paid his
10 cents for a program and tipped the
woman attendant who shows him to
his strapontin. It is as devoid of legs
or feet, this strapontin, as of arms
and vertebrae, a device to be shunned
and tabooed. You squirm to make
yourself comfortable, to secure some
attitude whereby the hardships of the
strapontin may be annihilated, but in
valu. It drives from your mind the
most seductive music, the most dra
untie episode fails to afreet you, and
your thoughts nre forced back on the
instrument of torture which has cost
you the full 10 francs, the price of an
orchestra chair.—New York Press.
KANAA BURIAL GROUNDS.
Bolivia'a Fearsome Valloy of tho Shad
ow of Doath.
There Is a valley in Bolivia, South
America, which might well be called
the Valley of the Shadow of Death. It
has been inhabited for an Indefinite
period of years by the Ivanaa Indians,
who are kindred to tbe various South
American tribes and number now only
a few hundred souls.
That they were once a very powerful
tribe is indicated by the condition of
the land which they as a tribe still In
habit. One cannot travel any distance
through their land without coming
upon the old and forsaken burial
grounds of the Hanna dead. These
places cannot be called graveyards, for
the bodies are not burled, but rather
placed upon elevated platforms, wrap
ped In the garments of death and
bound to the crossbeams that they
may not be displaced.
In one of these burial grounds there
will be probably fifty high skeleton
plntforms, and on each will lie from
three to five of the Kanaa dead. The
air in that part of Bolivia Is very pure
and preservative, for it is one of the
highest plateaus of the continent, al
though Kanaa valley Is just a little
below the plateau's height A traveler
passing through that land at night and
b.v moonlight would be awe stricken at
the gloomy vision those graveyards
present.
Won by His Wit.
On one occasion a dress rehearsal at
His Majesty's theater was prolonged
till the small hours of the morning.
The company grew very weary, par-
ticularly a gentleman who bad been
with Sir Herbert Tree in a good many
productions, but who had never at-
tained to more than a very tiny part.
When the time came to rehearse his
few lines he was so tired that his voic
was anything but distinct.
"What's the matter, Mr. Z.?" ask-
ed Sir Herbert in his most sarcastic
tones. "Are you saving your voice for
the rehearsal?"
"No, Sir Herbert," was the retort;
"I've never been able to save anything
under your management."
Sir Herbert, an exceedingly witty
man himself, was so pleased with the
retort that the salary of the small part
man was raised.—London M. A. P.
Opposed to Mourning Clothea.
"A southern physician of recognized
skill and eminence urges that all out-
ward symbols of mourning should be
abandoned." says Munsey's. "For many
years he has expressed his views. He
has won over a large number of peo-
ple who see no reason why the heart
should advertise its sorrow by the
conspicuous Insignia of gloom. There
are or have been peoples wiser in
their generation. The Romans of tbe
days of the republic wore blue as a
sign of mourning. It is the proper
thing in Asia Minor now. The Turk
mourns in violet and the Persian in
pale brown. Until a French queen
set the present fashion in the latter
half of the fifteenth century white was
the color of grief in Europe, as It is
now in China."
Hit MILO REPROOF.
Tho Mat* Lot tho Captain Down Easy
About Hia Mistake
The skipper was a man who had a
good opinion of Almself and bis no-
tions. He had pulled through ship-
wreck. mutiny and other perila of the
deep, but he came a cropper once. Kor
one of bis voyages he had shipped a
boatswain's mate who bore sometblng
of a reputation.
One day the skipper ordered him
aloft to examine a sail on the royal
yard.
"'Tain't safe, cap'n!" protested the
boatswain's mate. "The foot ropes has
got to be fixed first"
'Do as I tell you!" thundered the
captain. "The foot ropes are all right
I know they are."
The man went up.
Five minutes later he came tumbling
down through the rigging from the
top of the mast, a distance of over
100 feet
With a bang he landed on the belly
of the mainsail and bounded Into one
of the canvas covered boats.
The sailors, thinking him dead,
crowded about him In a circle.
To their amazement he sat up.
His eyes wandered vacantly about
until they rested on the leathery face
of the skipper, when they lighted up
with Intelligence.
"Cap'n," he said slowly, "you was
mistaken about them foot ropes."—
London Tit-Bits.
th« coming storm.
VALE* OF THE WYE.
Qlimpao of an Impoaing and Romantio
Spot In Waloa.
Those who travel through strauge
places with their eyes and their ears
open are likely to make strange discov-
eries, but there are plenty of other
finds which, simply as a delight to the
senses and without any wonder or cu-
riosity attending them, are well worth
the trouble of trying to forget one's
preoccupation in what he sees and
hears.
Both these pleasures of travel come
to those who will fare slowly and ob-
servlngly through the Vale of the Wye
In Wales. It seems almost like a chap-
ter from some magnificent Apocalypse
to travel on to Cader and Plynlimon
and glimpse the Imposing grandeur of
the visions that await the appreciative
eye. Half of Wales seems to He before
the traveler. The mountains of the
Cader range loom loftily, and Snow-
don, of the lakes, seems to beckon blm
The long headland of Carnarvon
hugs half a sea in the crook of its arm.
Pembroke's ragged capes gleam be-
yond the lovely tpountainous heights.
No sound breaks the vast silence You
are shut off from the bustling world.
The hawk circles in a noiseless void
above the slopes whitened with graz-
ing sheep. For a moment there may
be the feeble pipe of the wheatear, and
for another brief space a lark may lilt
praise to heaven. But that is all.—
Philadelphia North American
Chinese Queer Ways.
Difficulties of census work among
Chinese are amusingly illustrated by
the British commissioner at Weihaiwel
in his report. "A Chinese child at
birth is said to be one year old," he
writes, "and after it has passed one
new year it is said to be two years old.
'Thus a child if born in the last month
of the year may be said to be two
years of age before it is thirty days old
according to European reckoning. A
child of eighteen months' time of life
since birth Is reckoned by Chinese to
be either two years or three years old,
this depending on whether it was born
in the first or second half of the year
It Is common for a Chinese mother to
give a son the nnme of a girl, presum-
ably to deceive the fates, it being con-
sidered easier to bring up a girl. There
are many large undivided families in
Weihaiwel. The largest is that of a
widow named Meng Yu Shih. whose
family consists of sixty-six. which,
with one servant, makes sixty-seven
mouths to the common meal."
(By Hugh McGee)
The Socialist movement in the
I'nited States is engaged in as fierce
and terrific a struggle in the political
field as the struggle of the unions in
the industrial field It la more than
that It Is a death grapple with or-
ganized society.
All the present laws, all the present
customs, all the present beliefs all
the present conventionalities, all the
present social actions are based on
the present so-called rights of the
present profit system.
In Europe there are conflicting con
ditions, such as castes and the heredi-
klnn , S J" 'he dlVlne rl*hU of
lanrierf „ 1 . Ve8ted Hghta of the
landed aristocracy, while in America
the issue is a clear cut fight against
the continuation of the present ac
cepted political beliefs of the people
of the United States.
It Ji°?a>' the Unlte<1 States the cap-
ron . of society compels the
recognition of the superiority of the
lafo mnn lnherlt m°ney or accumu
hite money, over all other men, as
well as permitting one man or set of
nen to take what another man has
made, or ten thousand men have
made providing wages are paid to
these men.
Ill other words you can legally take
him' an°ther man makes if you feed
mhhT the ?oclalist8 lhat this is ■
obbery, and they propose to stop It.'
um h'V ?,™po8e to make a new law
«hich will say that no man or set of
men can take profit, rent or interest '
lH°inlp-a,.'Lman' w°man or child who Is 1
Hing today or from those who will
be born tomorrow.
They propose to make a new law '
United W Tke "" ",0 peoplt' in the !
thel m States owners of whatever
■m. or build or produce
,.™y Propose to make a new law
which will say that all the instru-
Zr.Zl -P|?d"ctlon and distribution 1
forth u, PrUate profit 8hall hence-
United States "" °?
Mornvmrn " ccvoperatlve ™m-|
It is a death struggle and it is in
evitable that the continued rob!\>eVot
cease! the few mu8t and wlu
BOOKS FOR STUDENTS.
in .hi <R' E Hooley.)
KC?er wl" aPPear from time
stud^ revlews' suggestions for
study, outlines, and such other mat-
who88 "lay bf °f lntere8t ttoSe
who are undertaking the serious
a "soci^li"16 "'e.ratUre of ,nt«™ation-
.in f f e sole object of this
and future articles under the above
cap ion is to aid those who do not al-
IibwyPan8JM S We" 8,OCl<e" Soclall8t i
library and who are uncertain what
needs °r " be8t sui,ed t0 tl 'lr
First I shall take up a list of So- i
cialist books and give a brief outline 1
of their contents so that those who are 1
beginning the study will have some
value" In ,hat may Prove °f
value in future work. These re-
of value in fnuture work. These re-
ritWS. WI1" "lake no Pretentions to be-
Thev m1" nor 'authoritative."
Tliej Hill not be 'handed down" by
someone who thinks he knows all
there is to know about Socialism. The
■ world of Socialist literature is too big
be explored thoroughly by any one
'person in a life time, and it is grow
in*, bigger every day. Some of it is
the merest trash, sentimental slush
some is indifferent, some fair, some
ranks w?th th 8t"' 8maller "mount
ductlons of ufe ^ge 8C'entiflc
Socialism is a science* If you want
to be a scientist you must STUDY.
Ideas do not fall from heaven and
nothing comes to us in a dream "
Read, study, think.
"Socialism, Utopian and Scientific."
The above book by Frederick En-
gels, the life long friend of Karl
v °n,e of the Socl% st classics.
In it Engels discusses the teachings
of the early Utopian Socialists as con-
trasted with modern scientific Social-
8hows the historic connec-
tion between Utopias and analyses of
modern Capitalism, and in showing
_COnn^( Qn an(* *n Pointing out the
fundamental difference. In outlining
the necessary historical basis of So
cialism he forever refutes the puerile
and idiotic statement that "Plato was
a Socialist," the "Ancient Indians
were Socialists," "Socialism ia a
Scheme," etc., etc . ad nauseam.
in this book you will find one of the
greatest and clearest statements of
the Socialist theory of panics The
keynote of the last half of the book is
this: "The contradiction between So-
cialized production and individual ap
proprlation of the products will be the
downfall of capitalism "
The introduction in the above book
is long and difficult to read but it is
Intensely Interesting, it can, how-
ever, be omitted without detracting
from the value of the book propep.
A man cannot live as long as he is
In bondage to worry and fear. We
are all In bondage under capitalism.
We fear that we may lose a Job We
fear that we may fall sick and our
families may suffer. We fear a fire
may come and make us homeless, or
burn our store. We fe*r that we may
lose the little money we may have
saved We fear that our millions
may be swept away by rival capital-
ists. There is no safety for any of us
under capitalism.
Special Sale Saturday
Shopping Bags at Less Than Import Cost
$1.00 to $1.50 Bags
Only 50c
liy mistake of the agents an import shipment of fine shopping hairs has fallen into our
hands a„d rather than have then, returned they are to be sold by m at "J t^Veost to
import. Good, generous size bags, so suitable for Christmas shopping
i nWOVe", with two good handles and all nicely lined. Lai size is
about 10x10, nearly 5 inches wide on the bottom.
These bags are a necessity to every woman who has a few miles to go to town and
an!i\""mtifidrgiftr '"""V WUh°Ut Th°-V wi" "ls<1 m«k' « ♦"<•> useful
Come in Sure for These Fine Bags at this Extreme Fortunate Low Price
Iticy All Go On Sale Saturday the 25th. This is Unusual. Remember the Place
Myser China and Glass Company
317 Main Straat Oklahoma Cltv ■, .Ti-. V
North of Terminal Station
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
New Polo and Caracul Coats
At the exceptional
Price of . . .
$8-75
A Generous Actor.
I remember when Toole was playing
an exceptionally fine engagement with
us that he said laughingly: "Oh, by
the way, Calvert, if my wife comes
down next week don't say anything
about the big receipts. You see, I've
a lot of nephews and nieces, and they
all expect tips from Uncle Johnnie.
Last year they had over £400 from me,
and my wife thinks I rather overdo
it"—"Sixty-eight Years on the Stage,"
by Mrs. Charles Calvert
Knowing the Great Men.
Mr. Browning himself once told me
how Important and Interesting he
thought It that the youug should have,
as It were, landmarks In their lives by
at least seeing great men who belong-
ed to an earlier generation.
"Once," he said, "I was walking In
the streets of Paris with my son, who
was then a little boy. We saw an old
man approaching us in a long, loose,
rather shabby coat and with a stoop-
ing, shuffling attitude and gait. 'Touch
that man as you pass hiu,' I whisper-
ed to my little son. 'I will tell you
why afterward.' The child touched
him as he passed, and I said to him.
'Now, my boy, you will always be able
to remember In later years that you
once saw and touched the great Beran-
ger.'Dean Farrar in "Men I Have
Known."
Our east window displays the STYLES, TAILORING and QUALITY of these coats, and
the fact that they are easily worth $15.00. They are Black Caraculs, full length styles,
lined throughout with Farmer's Satin; and Polo Coats in Gray and Purple, two-tone effects
in models, having large, round collars, revcrs. and turn back cuffs, trimmed with reverse
side of material. Choice of either Caracul or Polo Coats. Thursday, Friday
and Saturday
$8.75
Phone Walnut 160
209 W. Main St.
209 W. Main St.
Phone Walnut 160
Quite Different,
"1 suppose his wife is the most care-
less housekeeper in town."
"Poor fellow!"
"And she has half a million in her
own right."
"Ah. that's different." — Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Gossip.
"I wonder why gossip travels so
fast."
"Because the tongues which carry It
are always on the rail."—Baltimore
American.
An Even Thing.
The late Sydney Mudd of Maryland
was on a train going fror* Washington
to his home when a man who had had
too much to driuk sat down beside him.
The passenger blinked at Mudd for a
moment; then he lurched over and
asked, "Shay, wash your name?"
"My name is Mudd," he replied.
Said the other: "You got nothin' on
me. My name's Dennis." — Saturday
Evening Post
Thick.
"How did you find the weather in
London?" asked tbe friend of the re-
turned traveler.
"You don't have to find the weather
In London," replied the traveler,
bumps into you at every corner
Life
WELL I GUESS
WF'R PRFTTV /r _
WELL FIXED (\S THESE PEOPLE ARE
NOW MA I\( TOO GOOD TO ME
AND THAT WAGON LOOl
MIGHTY SUSPICIOUS
MAJESTIC
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Larimore Hardw
MAJESTIC
To give up of your own will what
would cost too much In time and
itrength is not failure—It Is success
We Carry a Full Line of
Roasters and Carving Sets
LARIMORE HARDWARE CO. 13,5 G™°d
Avenue
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Walker, J. L. Britton Weekly Sentinel (Britton, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 1911, newspaper, November 23, 1911; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc142981/m1/5/: accessed May 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.