The Flatonia Argus (Flatonia, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 1931 Page: 3 of 8
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THE ARGUS. FLATONIA. TEXAS
A Candle in the Wilderness
cA Tale of the Beginning of New England
by Irving Bacheller
WNU Service
Copyright by Irving Bacheller
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THE STORY
Robert Heathers and William
Heydon, to earape secular and re-
lltfioun tyranny, leave NnKlund in
1634 for the New World. They
are welcomed at Boston l.y H«v.
Doctor Cotton and make acquain-
tance with Amoa Todklll, veteran
aoldler and woodsman. Heydon
meets Klisabeth Ilrade. daughter
of a leader in the colon)
falls deeply In love. The young
men settle down to the life of
the colonists.
CHAPTER III—Continued
They had fish In plenty coming
every week from the northern const,
•ml TmlUill kept them supplied with
venison mid dried berries. They had
a cow that was pastured In the com-
mon fields and a small stable. More-
over. the ships were bringing oatmeal
and pltchsuet and tallow and conserves
of red roses and mithrldate. They
could also buy corn meal for hasty
pudding.
Through the autumn and early win-
ter William and Robert were at work
with Todklll and his men. When the
snow came deep enough to clog their
affairs, they broke camp In the forest
and waited for better weather.
Every Sabbath they went to the
crowded meeting house ami sat on the
stairs with a parcel of young boys.
Constables, each with a black staff
tipped with brass, were at Its three
doors to prevent people from coming
out and dogs from going In. The dogs
of Rost on, abandoned by their mas-
ters and playnintes, were depressed In
spirit and wont to howl with loneli-
ness. The long prayer, the chapter
and Its exposition by Doctor Cotton,
the sermon by the pastor, the psalm
singing, the solemnity on many faces
wearied the young and put them In
dread of the Sabbath day, especially
In severe weather with no heat In the
meeting house. Our young men found
the prisoners, who came under compul-
sion with armed guards, a diverting
part of the congregation. Robert
speaks In a letter of the stir when
some "blubbering person" made a pub-
lic confession.
Todkill and Blaxton came often to
while away a winter afternoon with
them. Bess came with her maid to
bring them a wild goose—one of the
two which her father had shot when
the snow-laden drng was flying low.
As she went away, Blaxton exclaimed:
"What heavenly pulchritude Is this I”
“I hope that she will be my wife,”
■aid William.
"A lamp of virginity! And what a
pretty redness of cheek and Up!” the
old gentleman exclaimed. “Looking
at her I regret my age. Counsel to
the young Is like giving mutton to a
horse. You will both do well to marry,
with the red blood of youth In you
and a lusty young wife In the kitchen.
He told how a baronet had come
over with a comely paramour and
been compelled to run for his life and
find refuge among the savages.
"Neither heraldry nor wealth can
prevail with the court If one Is up for
ellcketlng. Will Shakespeare once said
to me, speaking of the rurltnns:
"There are those who think tbnt be-
cause they are virtuous there should
be no more cukes and ale.’"
It reminded Todklll of the killing
and boiling of n Puritan by "man eat-
ers" of the wilderness.
Blaxton Interrupted him. saying: "I
make one remark. A Spaniard is that
tough they hung him three days before
he Is boiled. If you have a Spaniard
to be cooked I will listen, but if he be
an Englishman I beg you to desist. It
provokes me like a wringing of the
nose. Turn somersaults or sing a
bawdy song If you will, but no more
torturing of the king's men.”
It was after this talk that the young
men decided to displace that "lusty
young wife" In the kitchen, Mabel
Hartley.
"Her face and form are too win-
ning," said William. "We do not need
a Venus In the kitchen. To be sure,
she Is a wench, but we are human and
we wunt to live a few years yet.”
In this they were of the same mind.
They drew lots to decide which should
dismiss her and the heavy task fell
to William.
Mabel Hartley had served In the
kitchen of the earl of Warwick. She
had married ona of his stablemen and
come to America in the westward rush
•f 1032. Her husband had turned out
to be a heavy drinking roysterer In-
capable of supporting a wife. He had
found work In Newtown where he
progressed In the downward way. She
had left him there and come back to
Boston. The young woman had agree-
able manner and a face and form
which many of higher birth had re-
garded with envy. She had flaxen
hair, eyes of th# shade of a bluet In
tho meadow grass and a fair skin.
Her cheeks glowed with color. Robert
Heathers said In his diary that she
was about five feet and six inches tall,
straight as an arrow, and that "her
plump breast and slender waist and
angles would have filled the eye of
old t’htdlas. It la a pity that she was
so thrown away. Henry VIII would
have educated her and brought her to
court.”
William found her ut work In the
kitchen.
"Mrs. Hartley, I am sorry to have to
tell you that you must find other em-
ployment," said he.
The young woman asked: "Huve I
not pleased you, sir?"
“Too well," he answered. “We are
young and you are that pleusing to
the eye it will make gossip If we keep
you here. They tell us In Boston that
we are all filled with corruption.
There are moments when I can believe
It. It is said. I, bear, that you and
Robert already know each other too
well."
He smiled, but she Hushed with
anger.
“I would not have you think that I
believe It," be went on. "You are
no brabbling, limber-tongue sossle
like most of the women who do kitchen
work. You have a brain in your head.
You have a comely face and figure.
You know the town you live In as
well as I do.”
"Yes, I know you rich people. A
woman who works Is like your cattle.
You do not enre what happens to
her."
“You are In error," lie answered.
"I do care. I shall try to find a
e*t»i
“Mrs. Hartley, I Am Sorry to Have to
Tell You That You Must Find
Other Employment.”
place for you and until that Is done
we shall give yon an allowance for
food and lodging."
She left that day not In a good tem-
per. The young men engaged a new
maid, and Mabel lived with a poor
family on the shore and came once a
week in the evening for her allowance
until she was suitably placed in the
house of a reputable freeman.
William was often at the Brades' or
with Lady Bess at the Wlnthrops’.
The brown-bearded John Winthrop
was a man of wealth, learning and
dignity; liis wife a lady with unusual
graces. The atmosphere of affection-
ate devotion was In their home. Here
was an example of married life not
without its effeet on the young of the
parish.
"Youth Is of perishable stuff," lie
said to the boy and girl. "We should
ever be looking toward the future.
Therefore, the mainstays of our com-
monwealth will be the school and the
church. I look forward to a time in
this land when education will not bo
regarded as the privilege of the few
but as a duty which the state owes to
every citizen."
William was often thinking of this
vision of his wise friend. In May
Winthrop was elected governor.
The summer returned. The young
men had resumed their task In the
wilderness. Day and night they were
going back and forth on the well-worn
path of their clearings. Ships laden
with men and women, with sheep,
gouts, horses and rattle had arrived.
On every side one could hear the
sound of saws and hammers. The
eolony was growing. It was at peace.
Friendly savages came In their feath-
ered caps and blankets, and fantastic
necklaces and bracelets, and traded
and begged at the stores and stood
about, silently gazing at the strunge,
hurried, restless doings of the white
folks, and went away. They feared
the strong hnnds of these pale-faced
people, swift to punish or to liplp.
No one feared them. The Indian
menace bad passed, only the I’eipiots
were In a bad temper, but they were
far out and beyond the valley of the
great fresh-water river in the west.
A ship brought the long-desired let-
ters. Roswell Brade, not easy to sat-
isfy, was satisfied. William and Bess
were preparing for their examination
as candidates for baptism in the
church. Meanwhile Robert had had a
deep experience. The good fortune of
bis friend In finding the stay and
solace of an affection well placed had
not been his.
At last he bad hope of It. One day
at Mrs. Wlnthrop's he had met l’eggy
Weld—a tall, light-hearted, red-
cheeked blonde—lately arrived from
England with her brother Henry. Her
hair was beautiful. There was much
talk of that wavy silken crown of red
gold among the men and women of
Boston. She had dark blue merry
eyes. Her face was not so finely
molded as that of the Lady Bess, but
she was good to look upon. It was her
love of fun—her gay manner and her
talk—that chiefly pleased the boy Rob-
ert, although It shocked the good peo-
ple of the parish. Soon the ladles be-
gan to chatter of her light carriage
and to sliuke their heads.
"I’m pinked at last,” the young man
said to his friend William. “I’m not
going to gaze at the moon and twitter.
I could sing pretty but I have no perch
to stand on. I have a rival In Jim
Rosewell, who has been bossing the
fortifications. He's a living Apollo. I
may have to poison him."
"Bob, good luck to you,” suld Wil-
liam. “It’s the thing I’ve been hoping
for. She's got a brain in her head.
Good family and all that! The type
that stirs the blood In a man I She’s a
pearl."
"t<tr the present she’s Just a sweet-
voiced bird In the bush." Robert went
on. "She’s as wise as she Is beautiful.
She loves joy. She’s a ray of sunlight
In this gloomy parish. Lord! It’s a
land of long faces. I wonder why It
makes a man solemn to get his soul
saved. Peggy could be a help in the
great problem of New Boston."
“What problem?" William asked.
“The dissipation of solemnity" and
keeping the grave out of Conversation
and in the cemetery where It belongs
and hell In the hereafter. For my own
part I simply refuse to be worried
about my soul. For that reason, I
will not Join the church."
Robert was still a rebel. Next day
he rode with Peggy to the clearings.
On the way he snid to her:
"Peggy, I couldn’t make love In a
saddle. One needs free hnnds and
feet and proximity. He might want to
run. I warn you that I have serious
Intentions. I'm a little worried about
Rosewell. If I'm to have a race with
him. I iisk for fair conditions."
The girl blushed as she answered:
"This is a subject on which I cannot
talk with you. 1 am engaged to Mr.
Rosewell."
"He’s a quick stnrter. I have had
no chance to show you my pace.”
“I can imagine what it would be.”
she said with a laugh. “You see, Jim
Rosewell and I were friends in Eng-
land.”
"Well, permit nte to say that I love
you and that I do not surrender. I
shall keep on loving you because I
cannot help It. Not until I must will
I bow my head to the deepest regret
of my life and say that I wish you
happiness and good luck with Rose-
well.”
(TO BE CONTINUED *
RUFFLES AND RUCHINGS ARE
LAVISHED ON SUMMER FROCKS
OUMMKK 1931 finds designers In a
^ mood to berufTle and beruffle sum-
mery frocks made of organdie and
other similar sheer weaves. While all
sorts of ruffling Is going on, ranging
from deep flouucings to ruffles of any
width, fancy turns especially to
myriads of tiny ruffles which achieve
a sprightly silhouette for the frock
after the manner pictured.
This winsome summer gown Is made
of white organdie. The snsh with Its
bow tied at the front waistline Is of
wide pale blue satin ribbon. It Is the
pretty-pretty frocks of this type which
ure holding the center of the stage.
Frills and furbelows which bespeak
the truly feminine are characteristic
but are left to the mercy of each pass-
ing summer breeze.
There is apparently no auch thing
as wearing too wide a flop brim.
Those fusliionable for beach wear are
simply enormous, the dimensions of
some being almost unbelievable.
It Is Interesting to note the variety
of slruws and fabrics as well, which
go to make up the new wlde-of-brlm
hats which are lending their pictur-
esque presence to the summer land-
scape. They are making these flatter-
ing chapeaux of organdie, of stitched
linen, of allover embroidery and eye-
leted materials as well as of stiffly
starched luce.
As to their straws the list Includes
FRILL, FURBELOWS AND RUFFLES
of the new midsummer modes. The
materials themselves are that beguil-
ing the; call for treatments of pic-
turesque mfluence, which accounts for
the use of niching* and raftings.
An exceedingly sheer summer la In
promise so far as fabrics are con-
cerned. Dainty cottons as quaint as
they are lovely are bringing old-time
romance buck Into an ultra modern-
ized world, So far as the traditional
summer girl Is concerned she Is com-
ing Into her own as beguiling as ever
she was In the days of yore.
Her frocks will be made of mate-
rials ns sheer and lavely as the world
of fashion e'er has seen—ertsp, young-
every type with fine mllan, leghorn,
and all sorts of rough effects both
shiny and dull taking the lead. The
-trio In the picture la representative of
hats snch aa will top dainty lingerie
frocks daring the coming midsummer
days.
The vogue for all-white millinery
la reflected In the lovely hat Illustrat-
ed to the left. Aa Is the way of these
exotic body hats which are hand-wov-
en of dull finished snow white soft
straw, Its brim falls into lines of In-
finite grace. The simplicity of this
model Is its charm. Its only trimming
being a garland of white gardenias.
Milady's frock is a typical garden-
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Widely Used Quotations Too Frequently Garbled
Usually when we think we are quot-
ing some thoughtful expression of the
past, we are only misquoting. And
the chances are we don't know whom
we are misquoting!
The Golden Book Magazine sup-
ports the truth of this statement with
a list of frequently misused quota-
tions, all part (ft our everyday speech,
some of which have heen changed
only by a word, but others of which
have lost their original meanings
entirely.
Today, for Instance, we say: "All
the world loves a lover." But Emer-
son said "All mankind loves a lover.”
We say: "Accidents happen In the
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Negotiations to develop an Interna-
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been going on for some time and the
Braille Frees has put Into effect a
standardised system so that musicians
of any nation may be able to read the
music of any other country.
best regulated families." What Dick-
ens said was: "Accidents will occur
In the best, regulated families.”
Cervantes In the Sixteenth century
gave birth to the modern phrase,
“Familiarity breeds contempt.” But
what he sHld was: "I find my fa-
miliarity with thee has bred con-
tempt."
blind DwolUri
There are only two good ways to
come to Stockholm. One Is to ap-
proach slowly by the canal from Gote-
borg, and the other Is to arrive by sea
through the glorious channels be-
tween Its 73 miles of Islands. The
rugged sea and landscape* of these
rocky Islets not only mnde artists
happy, but many families of the city
make their summer homes on an
Island, and the business men commute
dally by launch to their work. Every-
body has a yscht or some more modest
craft and they spend nearly all day
on the water.
NEW SUMMER
looking organdies, exquisitely fine
batistes, most of them beautifully em-
broidered, others smartly eyeleted, also
dotted awlsses, usually with contrast
dot, competing with which are the
flowery voiles and chiffons. The flair
for sheer cottons brings net for gar-
den-party and eveulng frock Into
prominence.
The naive styling of frocks made
of these "old-tlmey" sheer weaves
tunes to the character of the mate-
rials.
Summsr Millinery.
As wide ns you care to wear them
Is fashion's message In regard to
brims for the summer hat. Further-
more, from the standpoint of what’s
what In broad brims, the more they
go flop, flop, floppy-flop, the better.
Which means that they are not wired
"FLOP” HATS
party style—sheer eyeleted batiste
with narrow velvet ribbon In Valencia
blue tied about the waist
Comes from the atelier of Patou the
charming bridesmaid rostume shown
to the right The dress Is of pale
blue taffeta with puff sleeve and
quaint gathered aklrt. The wide-
brimmed leghorn has a snsh of wide
blue satin ribbon encircling Its crown
with a soft bow at the back.
A stunning exponent of the popular
“flop hat” is shown In the circle.
Black-eyed susans adorn this beguil-
ing creation which la a loose-woven
coarse black-and-yellow novelty straw.
A row of the same flowers edge the
neckline of the frock which la made
of summery yellow chiffon, now ao
popular.
CHKRIE NICHOLAS.
<A. till. WtatirB Ncwrotoar (Talon.I
MOW CAN YOU BAT THAT/
SPAGHETTI? IT ALWAYS
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THAT'S EASY!
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Spaghetti (or some otter
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"Snare a copper for a poor-out-of-
work?”
“Here la a shilling—call at my
shop tomorrow and I will And you
work.”
“No, air, the shilling will he
enough—I am not greedy."—Boon
Humor, Madrid.
“I couldn't eat
much and as a result I waa getting
terribly undernourished. My nouao-
worlc was drudgery and I was al-
ways tired and ailing. But after
the first bottle of G.FJP. everythin*
was different My appetite picked
up and I felt stronger and much
better.”
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For over 50
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It is a Reliable,
General Invig-
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Long-Lived Its Us ns
Croveo Is reputed to have the
largest percentage of long-lived in-
habitants of any village in Italy.
There are only 190 inhabitants,
among whom there are three wom-
en of ninety-five. There are 13 non-
agenarians, and 20 persons who have
reached seventy-five years or more.
Fitting Mark of Respect
“The proprietor of this restaurant
died this morning.”
"That so? Then out of respect all
the soup ordered should be drunk In
silence.”
True
“Now there is talk of rubber
money.”
"Some are already using It for
checks."
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