The Ringwood Leader. (Ringwood, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 19, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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m Rlngwood L9mdr
W H Watkins Put
BtHOWOOP Oj
The wind la no respecter of aerm
planes
There la n singular diffidence about
this season’s sea serpent
With Its earthquakes and revolts
Europe is becoming an unhealthy
place to lire In
We may now consider It demon-
strated that a balloon will stay In the
air as long as Its gas holds out
It everybody who Is rich were hap-
py and everybody who la poor were
unhappy there would be a good deal
more to kick about than there Is now
In Morocco It Is the custom for men
to bury their money In this country
however it Is more the custom to
burn It
Did the man whose wife has sued
him for divorce because he used to
take a razor to bed fear that he would
have to answer cutting remarks?
The hotter the weather the greater
need to support those summer chari-
ties which aim to alleviate the suffer-
ings of the poor
We certainly do need to begin the
day at the Brat peep of the sun U It
Is necessary under present arrange-
ments to play ball by elec trio light
In a balloon contest the only thing
definitely known beforehand Is that
the balloon will come to earth sooner
or later — generally sooner
When an aeroplane falls a victim to
the total depravity of Inanimate things
the consequences are dreadful be-
cause the higher the aim the worse
the fall
A man has been sentenced to 14
years In prison In British Columbia
for “Black Hand" practices That
seems n vary decent and reasonable
sentence
While the married prims donna can-
not constantly deny for publication re-
ports of her engagement shs can man-
age to keep In the public eye by re-
futing divorce rumors
It is pleasing to anticipate the days
of purple grapes and blushing apples
the Thanksgiving turkey the cider
with the bead on It the possum
browned and reposing In his couch of
browned potatoes but we shall not
have the sweet soothing ennobling
warmth of this delicious August tem-
perature then
A "green" Vermonter or a Vermont
Green Mountaineer lust as you will
went down to the swell golf contest
at Englewood N J in which a num-
ber of the most notable players In the
country participated and beat the
bunch All of which Is fresh proof of
the manner In which rural brains
muscle and skill are reinforcing the
city stock
“There is a certain type of college-
bred men who seem to Imagine that
during their four years of study they
have accomplished all the work of
their lives and can thus afford to dis-
sipate mentally ever after” So says
a current essayist In an eastern news
paper Let the crop of graduates to
be harvested next take heed not tc
conform to this type The real schol-
ar is not finished by his college
course but only started on his career
A French airship of the dirigible
gas-bag variety has made a five hom
journey at an average speed of 37
miles an hour Her success following
closely upon the heels of Count Zep-
pelin's performances with his huge
ship of the rigid type reveals the fart
that Inventive genius Is grasping ev-
ery Idea of progressive aeronauts and
piecing them Into what will eventually
be an aerial flyer that can be relied
upon except during very high winds
All the educational experts now
seem to be denouncing the cramming
system In modern education Consid-
ering Its vast Importance It Is some-
thing of an anomaly that popular edu-
cation Is subjected to more fads and
experiments than any other profes-
sion Unfortunately by the time the
fads have been discarded and the
experiments proved unsuccessful
some of the most valuable years In 'the
lives of the unhappy young subjects
of both have been wasted
The Chinese government continues
to show a progressive spirit and net
urally gets valuable hints from this
direction An Imperial edict transfers
Tuan-Fang viceroy of Nanking to tbs
vlceroyship of Pe-Chl-L! - province
The significance of this lies In the fact
that the latter province Is one of the
most Important In the empire owing
to contact wlh foreign Inerests and
the transferred viceroy Is thoroughly
Imbued with American Ideas and alec
a warm admirer and friend of the
United States
CHAPTER I
Across the brilliant parquette from
the bishop's box Miss Wlnstanley
openlybeckoned me with her little
white black-dotted fan Henrietta
Wlnstanley Is the bishop's sister a
lady more like her own fan than any-
thing I can think of at the moment
to compare her with a small flutter-
ing thing constantly In motion creat-
ing a pleasant stir wherever she hap-
pens to be smelling deliciously of
orris root or lavender her black eyes
sparkling like the Irldescents on the
fan
There were beside her In the box
the bishop Barbara Hemlngray her
brother Dan — the most popular young
rascal In town — Ankony acting presi-
dent of the Central Savings Company
and for the rest a part of the Forlorn
Hope as Miss Wlnstanley calls the
ardent band of Barbara's followers
whom she has always stoutly declared '
Barbara would have none of I wish
I bad been as sure of 1L
The bishop looked the bishop or he
would probably have been Dr Wln-
stanley as his father bad been before
him or Wlnstanley attorney-at-law
following the way his maternal un-
cles had taken or merely Wlnstanley
dealer In loans and real estate as he
once told me his predilection unde-
niably tended But be looked the I
bishop and bis sister who was much
older than he vowed that he should
become what nature so evidently In-1
tended No one ever understood dear-1
ly Just how she contrived It but that 1
she bad triumphantly arrived with
him none could contradict Indeed
whatever Miss Henrietta Wlnstanley
undertakes she Is pretty certain to
accomplish
She bad declared to me often and
with warmth that if she could help
It Ankony should noU marry Barbara
Hemlngray as be very evidently pro-
posed to do If possible Therefore I
was not surprised at the summons
which beckoned me as her aide-de-camp
for Ankony had been making
the most unmistakable love to Bar-
bara ever since the curtain had gone
up and that part of the Forlorn Hope
represented In the box bad yielded
Itself to what was going on over the
footlights
“There's Ingratitude for you" whis-
pered she as I bent over her
“It looks more like devotion" I re-
marked dryly
“I launched that man socially He
had been very nice about my chari-
ties and one must make some return
you know besides he Isn't altogether
a bad sort But he must not think
be can marry Barbara Hemlngray"
“Does he?"
She made a comprehensive gesture
“You can see for yourself Such au-
daciousness I never knew! He seems
to forget the gulf between them"
“The gulf of blood eh?" said L
“Exactly What Is there harder to
get around? I don’t mind a
self-made man — In the third genera-
tion but Ankony Is In the first and
proud of It And he Imagines that
because Dan Is In bis employ he can
force his attention on Barbara when
and as he likes”
“Isn't It possible that be may not
meet with quite the discouragement
you think?" I suggested with a smile
that was mere braggadocio
'Nonsense! You don't believe any
such thing as that Do you suppose
for a minute that Barbara would re-
ceive him — or his Impossible slster-ln-
law either for the matter of that
If she didn’t feel that she had to?”
She sighed and hurried on: “One has
to do so many awkward and unpleas-
ant things when one Is poor and they
are so poor Do you know It’s a fact
that they have to depend entirely
nowadays on Dan’s salary? And so
you see quite naturally they must
be decent to Mr Ankony”
"How they manage to get on I don't
know” I obsedved gravely
Miss Wlnstanley shook her brisk lit-
tle bead “No more do I Dan Isn't
economical you know — how can we
expert him to be with his bringing
up? It's such a pity their father
should have made that last unfor-
tunate Investment Just before he died
It must be frightfully hard on them
both but the brunt of It falls on Bar-
bara as Is natural perhaps You've
noticed haven't you that when a
man and woman practice economy to-
gether It's always the woman who
somehow seems to get In the most
exercise? I'm sure Dan is as consid-
erate and careful as 'be knows how to
be but he Is so generous you know”
“Perhaps he's a bit too generous”
8be nodded “That’s It precisely
Now those are his flowers that the
poor little neglected Pratt girl Is car
rying to-night It was sweet of him
to send them of course hut he
couldn't afford to do It It'e done the
girl no end of good I’ve no doubt but
Barbara why"— she leaned closer to
my ear — “1 don't know that I ought to
tell you but I think I will: that Is a
made-over gown she has on this min-
ute — twice made-over It you want the
truth"
“It’s the prettiest gown In the
house!" I exclaimed boldly
“Only because It's on the prettiest
girl" smiled she
“But they say she Isn't pretty you
know”
“Who says It? The envious? ' Of
course they always say such things
I admit she Isn't a classlo beauty If
that's what you mean"
“Thank heaven for It!" I fervently
ejaculated
Miss Wlnstanley twinkled as only
Miss Wlnstanley can
“I’ll tell yon what she Is Mr Twin-
ing” she said with warmth “She Is
a genius If she isn't a downright beau-
ty she la a genius for simplicity and
I don't know but that's better than
being a radiant beauty There Is noth-
ing so charming to my mind as sim-
plicity Look at her clothes her balr
Ankony I Felt Could Have
her manner her style! All simple Ir
reslstlbly simple And It Isn't an as
sumed simplicity It's Inbred and gen
ulne and delightful”
I captured the hand that swayer
the little white fan and arrested li
long enough to press Its slender fin
gers
“I don’t blame you for loving her'
she said In a soft little voice “I'd
love her too If I were a man”
“You are putting It rather strong
aren't you?” I suggested -“About
you caring for her? Well
how do you put It?” and she turned
to me with a smile
"Frankly" I admitted “I haven't
as yet put It" at alL"
“Wbatl You know wbat delays dfe “
'They are sometimes necessary and
expedient” I pleaded -“Necesaary
perhaps but never ex-
pedient 1 don't believe In them"
“Then I must certainly endeavor to
follow a course more In keeping with
your Ideas"
“Tell me why you men alwaye have
to be reminded of your p’s and q's?"
she demanded Impatiently “A woman
looks after her own"
And being reminded of her she
turned 9 the klshop whose glasses
had been leveled for a full minute on
the box of Mrs Jack Aakoay oppo-
site Mrs Aakoay la Askoey's broth-
er's wife a pretty young woman
with all the ambitions that her family
should have had and hadn't so that
her way Is rather a difficult oee to
make since the Aakonys are Just tak-
ing their first society steps
As I glanced toward Mrs Ankony's
box I heard the blshop'e sister begin
to speak to the bishop of a widow of
charitable Inclinations and large
means whom rumor says she la anx-
ious he shall marry I could see that
shs believed firmly la plentiful re-
minders 1 turned to Barbara at the moment
and Barbara to me There was I
thought a glimmer of something like
relief In her eyes I know her eyes
very well indeed and 1 am not usually
mistaken la what they convey I
moved my chair close as If I meant
to stay The fluffy sleeve of her gown
touched my coat It was- a white
gown and Barbara Is adorable la
white— or to speak more accurately
If that delightful state has Its de-
grees of comparison she Is superla-
tively adorable in It
“Do you care for tbs prims donna
Mr Twining V ehe asked
“The prime donna?” I repeated
vaguely
"There Is one you know" she said
with one of her laugus that I am par-
ticularly fond of
“I must admit to not having ob-
served but now that you have called
my attention to her I shall certainly
take note of her"
“Do" she counseled “It Isn't nice
to appear so distraught"
"I am distracted" I confessed In her
ear
The ear and the cheek next to me
grew very rosy Barbara sat up with
great dignity and looked out over the
Cheerfully Run Me Through
parquette as If It had been neglected
like the prims donna
Ankony I felt could cheerfully
have run me through but I looked at
Miss Wlnstanley and took courage
“Do you see Dan?" said Baibara
presently “He has' been devoting
himself to those overlooked Crump
girls and now be le smiling on Anne
Bowers"
“His ability to make himself go
round Is touching It ought to be ap-
preciated" “I’m sure It Is It’s awfully nice of
him really” she Insisted
"Of course it Is 1 have often wished
I might follow In bla footsteps but I
never seem to come - to the place
where I‘m ready to try Do you
Ankony?” ’
' “No I’ve no fancy for Indiscrimi-
nate love-making” be answered rath-
er nastily
“Dear me It Isn't love-making at
all” cried Miss Wlnstanley whirling
about at the first sound of an attack
upon her favorite “It's Just his tender-heartedness
He can't see any
one neglected Why I saw him driv-
ing with' Rose Terrell tfie other day
I don't suppose anybody has taken
her to drive In years' She looked rn
dlABta poor thine!"
“Dan la a sort of eoelal philanthro-
pist" I suggested
“U requires more mosey than the
most of us have to be any sort of a
philanthropist" Ankony muttered la
an aside that I alone caught Or I
thought I was the only one to catch It
until aaw the way Barbara's cheeks
were tingling and her eyes sparkling
sad then I knew that she bad beard
and that he would pay well for his
remark
I At the moment Bishop Wlnstanley
addressed his sister and she turned
from us while Ankony leaned over to
ask me If I had met bla slater-la law’s
guest Miss Streeter
“That's coming" said I amiably not
disposed to take myself off at the
covert suggestion “Pretty girl Isn't
shs?” and I looked to where the
bishop's glasses had pointed “Rather
after the Madonna order don't you
think?”
“I don't know anything about 'em”
Ankony replied
Barbara tilted her bead thoughtful-
ly “Btstlne Isn't It?” she observed
“Undoubtedly" I agreed
“You’d like her” Ankony said “I'm
sure Edith” — Edith was Mrs Jack—
“would like to have you drop la on
them to-night"
“I will— later" I said
Miss Wlnstanley must have heard'
for at the exact Instant she reached
back of her and squeezed my arm
I stayed till the last act I couldn't
decently stay longer: besides I knew
Ankony well enough to be sure be
would have It out with Barbara In
spite of me He had routed the For-
lorn Hope by this time and bad the
field clear except for the watchful
Miss Wlnstanley Rut I remembered
the flashing of Barbara's eyes and
left them together cheerfully enough
As I went out of the theater I brushed
shoulders with Henrietta Wlnstanley
tripping along at her brother's side
and keeping an eye out for me as
mine was (rained for her
“He proposed to her the minute
you were gone” she whispered ex-
citedly “right under our noses! Think
of it! But oh you should have heard
her refuse him!”
“I should have liked It better than
anything else on earth" I admitted
“You are certain — "
“Why you must have known she’d
refuse him!”
“Far be It from me to set myself up
as certain of anything with which a
woman has to da”
She ebook her head at me signifi-
cantly “Make certain!” ehe cried
I walked beside her for an Instant
In silence and she clipped her fingers
Into mine - - -
“I do want to see you both happy”
she said ' --
The bishop turned to us “Fine-
looking girl with Mrs Ankony" he
remarked “Did you notice her?" --
“The Slstlne" I murmured absently
“Eh? Miss Streeter"
“Yes of course Mtss Streeter"
“I don't care for Mrs Ankony and
I Shouldn't care for her guest In all
probability” said hls sister
“My dear Henrietta how very ab-
surd!” be protested amiably And
then: “It seemed to me that Ankony
was very attentive to Barbara to-
night Did you notice?”
Mlse Wlnstanley laughed a crisp lit-
tle laugh
“Omit the qualifying adverb or
change It to 'offensively' The man Is
wretchedly bred Good-night Mr
Twining Come to eeo me when you
have anything particularly pleasant
to tell ms and do let that be eoon"
(TO BB CONTINUED)
Narreweet Street In the World
The seaport town of Great Yar-
mouth In England contalna what Is
said to be the narrowest street ln the
world It le known as Kitty Witches
row and Its greatest width Is fid
Inches Its entrance would seriously
Inconvenience a stout person trying
to pass through It Twenty-nine Inches
from wall to wall Is all the room that
can be spared In this part Yarmouth
Is a quaint old town containing many
streets like Kitty Witches row They
are all called “rows” and are more
picturesque than convenient A hun-
dred and forty-seven of these narrow
streets of a length of over seven
miles In all are to be found In the
town — New York Tribune
- - Nurse for a Hotel
At one of the hotels In New 'York a
nurse has been Installed whose duty
It Is to take care of the children of
guests who come without nurses The
proprietor says that very often a wom-
an Is obliged to come without a nurse
and -In consequence Is tied down by
the baby and moreover obliged to
consult a Strangs physician If It Is
ailing The nurse- takes care of all
that and herservlcea are not charged
for
Effort Appreciated
“So you were deeply touched by
the poem young Mr Guffson wrote to
you" said Maude -
“Yea” said Maymle
“But It was not a good poem" - -“I
don't care It was Just os much
trouble for him fo write It as If he
bad been Shakespeare"
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