Part 45 (2/2)
And there they will see Becky Thatcher in the flesh, silkengowned, gray-haired and grown old, but Becky Thatcher just the sa tea at a table on which the author once wrote And if the aroma of the cup she hands out to each visitor doesn't waft before his olden long-tails at play on the wharf of old Hannibal while the ancient packets ply up and down the rolling blue Mississippi, there is nothing whatever in the white ic of association
(_Milwaukee Journal_)
FOUR MEN OF HUMBLE BIRTH HOLD WORLD DESTINY IN THEIR HANDS
BY WILLIAM G SHEPHERD
WAshi+NGTON--Out of a dingy law office in Virginia, out of a cobbler's shop in Wales, out of a village doctor's office in France and from a farrand old palace at Versailles, will soon put the quietus on the divine right of kings
In 1856, three days after Christmas, a boy named Thomas was born in the plain home of a Presbyterian parson in Staunton, Va When this boy was 4 years old, there was born in Palermo, on the island of Sicily, 4,000 miles away, a black-eyed Sicilian boy Into the town of Palermo, on that July day, came Garibaldi, in triumph, and the farmer-folk parents of the boy, in honor of the occasion, na, whom Garibaldi had helped to seat
Three years later still, when Thoinia, and when Victor, at 3, spenton the little farriland, a boy naliest of the hoh, with s a busy stone sidewalk Its rooreatness could ever have sprung froy place
There was one other boy tomedical student in Paris twenty-two years old when David was born in England He thought all governht to be republics, and, by the time he was 25, he came over to the United States to study the A over here as a doctor He had been born in a little village in France, in a doctor's household
While George was in New York, alht French in a girls' school in Stae of 10 years, had buckled down to his studies, with the hope of being a lawyer; Victor, at 6, was studying in a school in far-away Paler ready for life in the hoe shoemaker, in a little town of Wales The only city-born boy of the four, he was taken by fate, when his father died, to the sie life and saved, perhaps, froe irl and went back to France, to write and teach and doctor Thomas went to a university to study law David, seven years younger, spent his evenings and spare tie blacks to his elders talk over the affairs of the world
Victor, with law as his vision, crossed the famous old straits of Messina from his island home and went to Naples to study in the law school there
In the '80s things began to happen Down in Virginia, Thomas was admitted to the bar In old Wales, David, who, by this tilish, was admitted to practice law in 1884, and, in 1885, the black-eyed, hot-blooded Sicilian Victor received the documents that entitled hie, in France, by this time had dropped medicine Bolshevisht it so desperately that he had been sentenced to death He hated kings, and he also hated the autocracy of the mob He fled froether, the first peace table in all hus are barred The future and the welfare of the world lie in their four pairs of hands Their full naes Clee, priland; Victor Emanuel Orlando, premier of Italy, and Thomas Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States
_(Saturday Evening Post)_
Three half-tone reproductions of wash-drawings by a staff artist
THE CONFESSIONS OF A COLLEGE PROFESSOR'S WIFE
A college professor--as may be proved by any number of novels and plays--is a quaint, pedantic person, with spectacles and a beard, but without any passions--except for books He takes delight in large fat words, but is utterly indifferent to such things as clothes and wo to know better
It is always so interesting to see ourselves as authors see us
Even ly inconsistent attitude toward academic life maintained by practical people who know all about real life-- soon after I becae professor's wife I enjoyed the inesti next to one of Aiven in his honor by one of the trustees of the university
When he began to inforinality which often accoe professors were ”mere visionary idealists--all acadee of the world”--and so on, as usual--I made bold to interrupt:
”Why, in the name of common sense, then, do you send your own sons to them to be prepared for it! Is such a policy safe? Is it sane? Is it practical?” And I areat man's face
He only blinked and said ”Huhout the rest of the evening he viewed erous theorist too--by e So I turned e and brilliant dinner was given for such a dull and uninteresting Philistine!
This shows, by the way, how young and ignorant I was The mystery was explained next day, when it was intimated to me that I had e circles, a break Young professors' wives were not expected to trifle with visitors of such eminent solvency; but I had frequently heard the e condemned in public, and had not been warned in private that ere all supposed to do our best to work this ainst materialism
In the cloistered seclusion of our universities, dedicated to high ideals, h finance than to the masters of other arts--let me add not because Ma cloisters
The search for truth would be faras our old-fashi+oned institutions remain, like old-fashi+oned females, dependent for their very existence on the bounty of personal favor, deviousmoney out of those who control it--and therefore the truth