New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1921, Page 18

W e Flore TYPICAL LOGAN COUNTY W.VA.MINING TOWN By HANNAH MITCHELL T would be easy enough to make a melodramatic start and give her some such extravagant title or “The Mother of the Mines” or “The Flor- 1 as “The Angel of the Hills™ ence Nightingale of Blair tain,” But Dingess Drake found it some sharp remark respondents” who to the front to cover ginia's recent .mine war than I can say, told of how Molly, twenty miles away,” armed were is safety, as she might very have done, } bullets were flying, ) t i ! b several years ago—two, in ! when, a woman of some two score y vears, she was graduated from high sixteen-year-old That graduation and the | attendant high school diploma were 1 In no sense honorary affairs given for Molly Dingess « had been earned hy cmined, ambitions wo- after four years of high school work, In which she had P school with her ', daughter, | out of respect | Drake. T! | this very dew | man of the hill if you did and Molly ont might laugh and she might make , but most cer- tainly she would nnt, be pleased, How she escaped the “war cor- rushed West Vir- for the story is still like “Sheridan when miners were marching Logan, made all haste not towar but back to where the Her narrowest escape from the feature pages of newspapers was with she ly enroted and for classes along which falthful half her age. On pay day Mrs, Drake is a wel- fare worker for one of the coal companies operating in the Logzan field. Having finlshed her high school course, she did not go on to college with her daughter And, as she puts it, one of the coal pro- ducers “knew she wouldn't sit at home and knit and crochet.” So he offered her the job of visiting nurse among the employecs of his com- pany. In this job Mollie mothers a large family. It is composed of men and women muech older than she and of the children of thes older children, True to the mother- type anywhere, she makes their in dividual troubles, their health, theh happiness, a very personal matter, There was the young ¢ lard who lay in the hospital aft L se vere accident, No friends or rela tives rallied to his hedside, and the | ¢ doctors and nurses could not under- stand him when he moaned out word or two in his native tongue, Mollie Drake sconred the hills for an interpreter and found one. She also dug up a cousin of the unfor tunate boy. Moreover she made the lives of nurses and doctors miser- able until the lad was out of dan ger, sometimes calling at the hospi tal late at night to see how the hoy her daughter had attended with classmates Moun- she more the on W fact AL was getting on, with other hrave women of I ¢ their lives for a Drake AT BRITAIN DATLY HI V) .:. /¢ /..d 4&/ e/ MRS. MOLLIE DINGESS DRAKE W sign horn Tad one of her children? It was the Mollie Dingess rake, ready to face dar not not 1) miners wer that may armed thelr most, already. The ent proof thai Amer afraid to risk when upon me ounty ing homes, sted a8 you tossed $ 100 Tec are not an women and the work },r her this for- | ong | World | | It is Mollie hands ) )y ERIDAY, ] when | s over her native | | bills that make her a woman among © hroo woren, Mrs, Drake is a mou | herself. She know | ne and the h | | and children who live in her hills; | a doubie sense she is working in woman o desires, the of the women in amang her own people, No serfous-minded kiljoy Is Mrs. Dirake, but a large motherly woman | with a great capacity for fun and | for seeing the human side of things, ! ‘Tt 1%y be that the'n khe would 1 hid wo doubt of that, “Hhe ik In college Low,'" contin. ued Mrs, Dr “When her grades s I think they ought to r..v she sends them to her father, but a man can't keep such things secret, and I always find out, She knows 1 haven't much patienca with students who don't keep up their grades, daughter {8 going to be a Tt is a common statement among veling salesmen that they live in a Puliman: Mollie Drake might say she lives in a day coach, Her headquarters are in Logan, and much of her time is spent in riding to and from the little mining towns along the branch lines out of Lo- gan, ller trips are taken to visit the homes of m and no place is remote her to visit, energy in tr ng about and the speed with which she walks over the enough to ms a younger woman gasp for breath and all hbut beg for quarter, That from one who knbwvs, We out of morning on the 10 o'clocl ore the train started part of the 1 gathering which greets the li-too-few passel i trains that come into Logan. Mol- lie Dingess knew everybody. Arrived at the mining first visit was to the schoolhonse, a substantial two-story huiiding, in front of which were all the latest playground devices for amusing the rn child. The teachers were and effiefent In thefr school- TOOmM MANNEers, In Logan couniy the schools have the advantage of extra gond teachers because after the school hoard voted what it can afford for panies make to attract the hest, for too Logan one train, ve were started conter, our maid young up the deficit needed Her | | Tartes the coal eom- physlelan, She didn't make up her mind until after she entered col- lege, T was rather anxlous to know what she would choose. After ghe started studylng blology she was so interested that she decided to go on and study medicine.” It irred to me Drake was a feminist, if worker, “No," she answered, “I've always been a Democrat, though, My hus- band says I am what 18 called ‘a mean Democrat,’ " She paused and then laughed, “§ made one rule when I was marrieé You see, Mr, Drake 1s a Republice® Well, T told him that If I marriq, him he must keep jJust one rule, | knew our marringe would he a &} cess if he did. And of course promised to keep it too. The ref was that we should never talk pei ties, We never have and we've bl very happy. “Of course T voted at the lag election, and muech good it did & far as the Presidency was cej cerned. But someway I didn't caf so much for the voting. I'm off fashioned In many ways., I 2 brought up a striet way and T do like to hear about folks pln,\lnp cards on Sunday. I suppose ft isn't wicked, but I can't get over my bringing-up. And I never take a needle in my hand on a Sunday, only when I just have to mend something, that I don't feel kind ot guilty.” Our conversation had been inter spersed with visits to various mf’ ers’ homes, mostly where there \\'? babies. Mrs. Drake’s philosop had been punctuated by advice bahies and friendly eomment nk the little interests of the women ¥, visited. If we weren't inspecting j baby we were talking with snm;‘ elderly woman over a fence abo& her latest “misery.” As we climbed into the train was tired, but Mrs, Drake seemet) as ehergetic as when the day began, “T like the work,” she said, “tat want to study more. Last :ummq I took a course in New York, I'd like to go back there for a seg gon at the Henry Street Settlement I want to study languages, tos J”I here are so many things I want to do.” Some day I have not a douht she vill do these things she wants to do. In the meantime T think of her In conneetion with the verse: “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to that Mollie I wondered had ever been- a suffrage It was then I learned of Mrs. Dralke’s unusual high school career, “You know I have a high school education,” she remarked as we left the school and strode (at least Mrs, Drake strode) along the dirt road. “As a girl T went to school till 1 was thirteen, In the teens I took up nursing and later was married Dut I always wanted more educa- tion. Sometimes it i{s the persons who are denied education appreci- ate it most, Well, when my daugh- ter was ready for high school T de- cided that I would get my high school edneation too—not hy fol- lowing her at home (I I:uu\x that wouldn't do), but by mnn.]nw in high school with her, “Some of my friends thought il was an absurd iden, They said T could enroll in colleges for special or take cor But the idea of my going right along with my daughter and the other young p ple seemed queer to them. I s pose it was unusual. But wl nted was a regular education. So T enrolled and went through the four years of high school and was graduated In the same class wm. my daughter.” N “And how did your daughter fni-l about 1t?" “Oh, she had her and took part Just the same. conrges sspondence courses, to school voung friends in school activities » Again the twinkie HELLBERG FAMILY REMARKABLE RECORD Five Out of Six Members Hold Fxecu- | tive Positions in Veterans®' Or- ganizations or Auxiliaries The family of Gustave Hellberg is probably one. of the best known families in the state in vete ' or ganizations and veteran organizations auxiliaries Stuart Hellberg is the present com- mander of the: Walter J. Smith Post, Veterans of Forcign Wars and takes A lot of interest in that organization He: is. one of the powers in the state organization of that hody. Clifford Hellberg, a twin has cast his lot with the Legion, and he has been twice elected to the office the adjut Pddy-Glover Post of this city. state convention the American Legion recently at New Haven #lected him to represent the first congressional district at the national ention at Kansas City. Mildred He a sister of the IKddy She one held the boy Glover Post of the charte ganization and convention at Bridg Leglon auxiliary Mrs. Gustave is one of the Eddy-Glover last auxi was choser auxiliary was r memi 1at ite to the when the ganized mother, the At th Hellt the the Walter | Foreign W at the DIVORCE SOUGHT BY CONNIE TALMADGE Famous Little Screen Star Wants to Continue With ey Career in Motion Picture *| prominent on the | chamber | hours of the agreement over Miss T fessional career. “Mr. Pialoglou is a wealthy and he fecls that. he h money to enable Constance and remain at home. She doesn’t. look on it in that light. She is ambitions | and thoroughly absorbed in her work. | Morcover, has just signed a t} ontract to make picture Hhe and her hushand separated for definite period, but Miss Talmadge now prefers to be quite to pur- sue her work," Mr. Pialoglou could not he at the Hotel St, Regis last night, an his brother said he did not think the young man would care to muke The two made it at Greenwich, Conn., heing ried within a’ 1e time that Miss Dorotiy James Rennie I n, i'he a the ) the 'f min enongh | of to retire years' an fn-llimao | Peopi free Re reached Ab | Th write any statement match year ago, a runaway of m w 2 Chris and have Gish wise nd east! papc {m seree and been married at the me place. | BAN ON GERMAN PRINCH, Sr Thror Rept [Cannot Ascend Duteh tion of Monarchy or Dec. 15 nt ke Amsterdam, out wrliar bill settlin ¢ succession to the the tion rone of the erlands. 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