Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 16, 1922, Page 16

PAGE EIGHT THE BEMIDJ! DATLY PIONZER ! WHEN DICKENS ATE ’POSSUM : English Author and Washington Irving Dined With Webster in the National Capital. “I have, sir, just purchased in the market 8 famous opossum’—so wrote Webster to Irving and the latter's guest, Dickens, in March, 1842—"and I have sent it home to Monica, my cook, who will stuff’it with chestnuts and bake it with sweet potatoes fin true Virginia style. It will be, sir, 2 dish fit for the gods. Come, with your friend, and partake.” Dickens and Irving did partake in Webster’s house, on Connecticut ave- ! nue, Washington, and Dickens did not relish the ’'possum es much as he relished Webster's company. In a paper on literary aspects of the capi- tal in the Catholic World Margaret I3. Downing recalls another British vis- itor's introduction to a mew. dainty iu ‘Washington. Thackeray, in 1851, ate his first ice cream with Irving at the home of Hamilton Fish, on H street. Not many people realize that Irving lived, for nearly five years in Wash- ington: Of course, every one knows that George Bancroft long lived there, and that Whitman and Burroughs were in the ecivil service during the same Civil war years, Probably mosi peaple know algo that Mrs. Stowe resided in Washington while “Uncle ‘Tom’s Cabin" was appearing. in_the Natlonal Era, Charles Warren Stod- dard, the author of the “South Sea 1dylls,” also lived in Washington fov a time. ‘But no city really has title to an author unil he not only lives In it, but writes about it. The author of this paper omits all mention of Henry Adams and the most notable novel of Washington life, “Democ- racy."—New York Evening Post. QUEER “HUMOR” AT WEDDINGS Ordeals Undergone by Bridegrooms in 8Some Parts of Scotland and in Old Austria. In parts of the Scottish highlands there ‘has long been in practicc a ceremony’ called “creeling the bride- groom.” . Affer a marringe friends take. the bridegroom in hand. They tie on his back a creel or busket ang fill it with stones. Then he is forced to walk with his heavy burden through the entire community, followed by men 1o see that he does not drop the creel, evén for an instant. The bride cin ransom him by coming out on the street and kissing him in. public, but if she fs'a shy person the bridegroom must make the full rounds with his busket ‘of stones, The ordeal is made worse for the man beécause the con-} ductor of ‘the ceremony is the last person . previously marrled, and he' takes revenge by waking the! creeling severe. A widely followed custom is to ake the bridegroom fight for his bride {i a Vaiile' sometlies M7, but as often quite stern. In parts of old Austria’ this was dramatic, Tm- medlately after the couple appeared from the service they were surrounded by young men in masks who tried to separate them. Once separated, the husband had to fight to regain his wife. 1f he was unsuccessful he had to pay ransom. Then to make matters worse—for the bride as well as the bridegroom—the wedding “feast” in- cluded cake appetizingly mixed with cow hair, eégg shells and hog bristles. Man and wife must eat of this cake to bring good luck to thelr cattle and poultry. DELIGHTS OF. LIFE IN' LONDON Fog Frequently So Thick That the Strongest Artificial / Light Cannot Pierce It. Thé worst fog in 20 years was ex- perienced In London when 900,000 tons of soot were suspended in the at- mosphere in which 7,000,000 people at- tempted to live, work, and worst of all, to .get about, a short time ago. The possibility of reaching one's destination was ascertained only by the laws of probability and chance Fire engines . called by duty went through the pitch-black streets pre- ceded by a2 man on foot with a Jan- tern, Busses adopted the lesson of the wagon trains that crossed the Western plains during the gold rush and tray- eled in convoys of nine or ten, alsp led by a man on foot with a light. . The busy traffic. centers. were marked by from four to ten huge - ncetylene torches which plerced the . surround: ing darkness for not more than fitteen feet. Accidents were fnnumerable. Prince Henry attempted to motor from London to Whittlebury for a’hunting engagement, and after narrowly es- caping. two- collisions then decided.to spend the ‘might at a balfway: house. A freakish ineident -occurred when : two womien, lost within two squures of home, were directed by a blind veterian whose misfortune made him. imper- vious to fogs in a district he knew by heart, T A “Burying the Hatchet.”” The origin of the synonym for. for- getting old_ quarrels, “Let's bury .the hatchet,” Is traced té an ancient cus- tom of the North American Indlans. After indulging in the wost rufhless warfare, * tribes would assemble. at what they believed to be the “call of peace.” 'This, it was supposed, was uttered by the Great Spirit, and In the vcourse -of a great -council and amidst singular ~ ceremonies, . they. would smoke the calumet, or pipe of peace, and buvy thelr tomahawks un- der a mound erected in the center of the smoking circle. This wasg equal to- an agreement that ‘all enmity was at an end, and the spirit of peace had settled on the camps. Bargams Worth While . - OFFERED FOR WEDNESDAY, JAN. 181'" TO MAKE A BUSY BARGAIN DAY 2 West Tooth Brushes; 2 .tubes of Magla< Tooth Paste for. e .31 00 “Salvet,” the biggest advertised stock ‘tonic on the market, 12 1bsfor... .3100 4 pkes of 35¢ Rocky Mountain Tea . .$1.00 Jarden Court double combination Cream 60c; and Jarden Court Face . Powder, together for ...........$1.00 Picture . Frames, from $1.25 to $2.00, for . Shaving Mirrors, $1.25 to $2.00, for $1 m A Shimmy Dog and Spoof Hound for - §1,00 A $1.25 Shaving Brush and a 35c¢ Shaving Stick for . ... Hot Water Bottle for Fountain Syringe Prescrnphons Filled at ONE-HALF PRICE ~ OnDollar Day! Joardman’s dnrnor Drug Storo . CHARAGTER MUST BE MOLDED $uperiative Formation of the Mind Can Nsver Be a Matter of Spon. taneous Growth. What man wins with, it he wins at; all, is character, and character is no} spontaneous growth. It does. not wpring full-armed into the fight ngnlnst moral or spiritual foes. As ‘it can - he won, it can also be lost—lost merely through * inaction, slothfulness, and failure to cultivate it. Here agaln the philosophers Speak with much clear- ness. “He that'wresties with us” sald Burke, “strengthens -our ncrves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist 13 our helper.” “Difficulties,” said an- other great man, “are things that show what men are” Another one speaks of “the muscular training of 8 plilosopher,” which, he says, results In: “A will undisappointed; ovils avolded; powers daily exercised; care- ful resolutions; umerring decisiors.” “The art of living,” as seen by Marcus Aurelius, “Is‘more like ‘wrestling than dancing, In so far as It stands ready against the accidental and the un- foreseen, and {is ‘not apt to fall.” No man, it has been sald, ever grew good or bad all at ‘once. Goodness or badness Is the resuit of a process, and in the former case the process may be, and usually 1s, -arduous. The apostle in_"agreement twith the L\!)fi_flt‘b from 4 phiffosopliers, with whom fdeed fig bas much in common: ye may obtain. And every man' that striveth -for “the inastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it .to ob- tain_a corruptible croivn; but we an incorruptible. 1 therefore so run, pot as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one | that beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it Tato subjection; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be ! Through it ‘all runs the ! note of effort and struggle, and i it ' a castaway.” there is a warning against one of the most - demoralizing and enfeebling of faults—which is slackness, The object | these teachers had in} which . all mind was the “soul well-knit,” which | 1s an essential element-in a strong character—indeed the very center of it, and_quite indispensable to it. But [ the “soul well-knit” is the product of life’s discipline: bravely endured, and wrought -iifto -character—Indianapolis News. 2 Stones That Ansorn wvater, Stone s by no means imperyious to water. - Some kinds, notably coarse saudstones, hold -a large percen Even marbles ubsorb quantities. apsorptive capacity' 'of ‘limestones ranges from 7 per cent or more down to practically zero. ‘‘Porous limestones to' which :thé. pore space rangés from 10 to 15 per cent, wili to G per cent of “So’ run that' i ing advanta Water, “according to “the “United | States geologleal survey, Pépartment ‘of the Interlor, whereis semicrystal- line and crystalline lhmestones or mar- _bles have lower percentages of pore space and absorption, such marbles’as, those from Vermont, Tennessee. and (eorgia heing ahmost nonabsorbent. | Pumice stone, which Is usually lighter « than wafer, owing to its great.amount of pore space, will absorb. larga quan- tities of water; obsidian and. veleanic glass which are of the same. chemical composition as pumice ‘stene, but cial times he: e than water, wilt orh none. Qu granite ay numerous er eally impervious to awater. Coal or \‘laler? A new French ited States with 80,000,000 avail- able horsepower ; Canada with 25,000, ; Norway wlith 7,500,000. Sweden ,000; “Austro-Hungary dis- 50,000; Italy and Spain with @ 000,000 each; Germany ‘with only 1,500,000, and England with 1,000,000, have a supposed compensat= e in their suppliés of coal. THE PIONEER WANT ADS BRING RESULTS HIIIIHIIHIHIIIIII!lllllllllll“é" s are practi- | “'llllllllllllIIIHIIIIIIIIIII!!llllfl!fllllfl IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIHIIIIIIII|IIllIIIIIIIIIIIlII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH]IIIWM“I!II lil-‘ a man can]makea better mouse-trap than his neighbor--- even tho he builds his “house in the woods—-the world will make a beaten path to his door. PROWD]ING he ndwrflm the advantages ot the mouu-t.up. PROSPERITY IS JUST ROUND Space contributed by> THE BEMIDJI PIONEER USINESS TODAY IS CROSSING into prosperous times. Experts proclaim it, indica. tions point to it, past experience assures it. The regular traffic between producer.and consumeris being resumed rapidly—bridged across by Confidence, Swmg the lmdge of Confidence down to a straight-away road and keep it there. anmess is reviving=—as it did after" the ‘depressions of ‘1896, 1904, 1908, 1914. The volume of manufacfiring and trade is increasing daily, unemployment is decreasing, loans are expanding. Busitiess is gathering momentum—, \- in co-oper-txm with the ROTARY' CLUB PROSPERITY CAMPAIGN Advertisements contributed by Frank Presbrey Mvemm; Agency, New York