The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 50, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 24, 1929 Page: 2 of 8
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PACE TWO
BIC LAKE WILDCAT. BIG LAKE. REAGAN COUNTY. TEXAS
Saturday. Augurt 24, 1929.
Remerulier Steddon, a pretty, an- to '•*«?*• in a torment of wue, ca>l f
sophisticated gnj, is the (Laughter <>l head had. aud heaved hei big «•»• »
a kind!) hut narrow-minded minis- up into thecmd brazier til the skie-.
mid-
■'tern town.
lei in n small
Hei father.
Kw. Doctor So* dou, violently
op} oM‘d t" what he l on-nltri-
“worldly thin.-s, adepts motion
jiietum. a- the ante for much ol
the evil ol the present day. Troubled
eei ed to me (hid peering down upon
the little multitude, and move her
liiis in sitpplii ilion.
''h - felt the words and the anguish
wringing her throat, aud lie teai- ;
came trooping from her eves. i,i ’
diming i !" Vr n« u*h. a d -■!. ■ j
mond mountains were hot and sharp,
edged giidioron* to her feet. The sun
came biasing forth and teemed to
spill upon her a yellow hot mass of
metal that slashed her about the head j
and roller! over her shoulders in I
| blistering ingots.
A stone rolled under her foot and
shook her from her balance. She
wavered, clutched at nothing whirl-
ed. s rut k, hounded from the hard |
home of a storekeeper at such wages ris k, fell and fell, then a smash-j
a. he could afford. She began ihe jug blow, blaekiiess. silence,
sordid routine of her tasks, but, con \ young Indian girl chasing her
tiasting them with the glamour of stray pony about the sand had seen |
plaving tragic roles, .he felt herself Mrn> stumble, then fall; and heard
entombed. the thump of the body on cushioned
with a cough, Kttnembrr'goes to we -sallowed them and found them bit
Hr. Biethenck an elderly
phy?
cum, who i. .isUHiished at the plight
in which he hnds her. 1'rewted hv
the I odor, Kemember admits her un-
fortunate .litair wuh
Flwood I arttaby, a poor lx*',
son of the town sot. A. Kemember
ami 1H. Bretherick .Amu*- the prob-
lem a telephone message brings the
news that Flwood has been killed in
an acdideift Dr. Bretherick accord-
ingly |*eisu.ivies Remember to go
Vl t-st. her cough serving as a plans-
ilde excu-r; to write home of meet-
ing and mar tying i prete- drd »uitor
"Mr. Woodville ami later to
write her parents announcing her
“husbandV* death liefore the hrrth
ter .weet with an exultation v*f agon).
There was such wierd reality in her j were
grief that the director's glasses were
blurred with his own tears; the cam-
era men were gulping bard.
As her upward stare again en-
countered Tom Holby's eves she saw
tears were dripping from his lashes
and that hi* mouth was quivering.
grew so fierce that her employei and and told what she had seen. Mem was
his family went to the seashore. taken home. The village loctor did
She spent much thought upon the all that his skill could do.
lefter home that she had not yet writ- Though she had never dared to
ten, that she must write if ever she visit him, he knew of her, and knew
to go home again. The whole her as a widow. When she was strum*
---------- s*. un mi » uPiumii m ...
Then the summer heal began and sand; bad run to the nearest house , *,,vLno,‘ .... . ,
Ihe poor mav he likened, also, t*»
a man who Iras worked ut a trade
all his life. ar*-;* never learned it
Life is a trade, with foreman and
su|ierintendeiiits of superior skill
because of experience or intelligent-.
I often think the poor are like fool ... I s.iv to '<’» ia K*r. i uv
children who have never grown up. i* the greatest 1 ,,nP ,n 1 *■ '"u
It is a common charge against a are not doing **« ■ 11 *|r .'!*u u"
cerium proportion of adults (far wioiiglv plated '"e
Ivmv large! that thev have children * yours It in (he on "u?> essen la .
minds; that their bodies dewlop- |( j* frrqnentlv ml there h»> n£
**d after twelve, while their minds |,,rn j„ B|| hi-t"iv. a woman phfl|
purpose of this long trip into loneli- j enough to l»c talked to he preparer!
ness was to Ik able to write that let- her for bad news,
ter; and it had not yet gone. { “Am 1 to be crippled for life?”
Every time she made the beginning She cried,
her hands flinched from the Ling “No," hr sighed. “You will l*ear
pen. But one night in a frantic fit of no marks of your accident. But you
histrionic enthusiasm she dasher! off | will not but your other hojies and
The sight of his tears sent through her fable, sealed it in an envelope, expectations will not lie realised,
her a strange pang of triumphant and dropper! it after dark in the mail She was dazed and he was timid,
sympathy, and sire broke down -ob- box. , and hr had some difficulty in making
bing. would have fallen to the sand. Darling Mania and Papa— her understand •*»* ha news: that
if Ixva 1-rmairr bad not caught her Hou ran I write the terrible news? she would not be :• mother,
and drawn her into her arms, kissing / ran hardly bear to think of it, let She bore this blow with a fortitude
her uiwi whispering: “Woodk*rful! alone nrite about it. But my dkrling that surprised him.
Wonderful!" husband pasud away in the desert. And now Mem was weak and woe-
Sbe felt a hand on her arm and was / cannot tt rite y o u the particulars begone, at the bottom of the cliff of
drawn from leva’s arms into a man’s, non. for I am too agitated and grief life. She had never climbed very far.
nt tier expect eei child I na > e a '>nr jjrr s}u>ujj^r, *rr<- queried hard by stricken and I do not u ant to ft or hut she had fallen far enough to give
to L u her -o ret. Kemrtnlwr g<M— hands and he heard a voice that run you with details. I know your both soul and body an almost fatal
identifh? her captor a- the director. /u>or hearts uill ache for me, but I shock. She was a drudge in a poor
He was saying: beg you not to feel it too deeply, be- family in a scorched settlement aban-
doned by all that could get away.
to hn mother with it.
Her mother turecs with the plan
of the doctor. Mem leaves town. On
the tiain Mem a< < ide'il iPv meet*
Ton Molbv. le.idin : -tar. traveling
with Kobm.i f’rele. leading lad'
in the movies, who are the cvnosure
nil ryes. The tr-iie rorne* to an
abrupt halt, a disaster having Keen
narrowly t'o* ed. and the passen-
gers get out and walk about.
At I'ufHin Mem meets I >r. ('..('•
braith. a pastor, who knows her
father and takes in interest in her.
She mis< alls I oin Holbv "Mr.
Won Ville" in order to make her
fancied suitor seem more real.
While the (Galbraiths are iwat. she
snlr, them as well a- her parent*
that -he ha* married ‘Mi Wood-
xdle" and that they a*r to live in
(Yuma for which place -he buys a
ticket
Mem ide* to kill oft her ima-
ginary KnsL‘ d by saving be died *d
tlm-.t in the de* rt. meanwhile sire
starts off for another town to >*H
a *oh a a era mt On the wav she
runs into the movie company of
Toin Holbv Tom insist* that die Iw-
c!tine an extra, iiiul is most cordial
finds herself in the mov
..phci. one distinguished for mr-
r,v| candid thi* king as max !<••
sai of hundreds of men.
What doe* this mein? Certainly
not that women d<. not engage deeply
in life, and thereby gain sufficient
knowledge to liecoine reflective. Dors
* • * [ it mean that women, in private and
Napoleon never cared much if print, refuse to acknowledge the fact,
his wive* had lover* . . . But it i (1f |jfr? | have known less than a
makes a common man mighty mo«l- ] do/en really candid women; I have
* * * j rare|y known a man of average in-
For more than a hundred year* j lP||ige,i< e who was not. This differ-
there have been attempts to explain ,annot hr accounted for by *rx.
Napoleon Rv^naparte ... I can ex- pj1(. |>r;,irs of men and women muet
plain him in half a dozen lines; 1° 1 average about the same,
ih- dirth of love, passion, life, he |, Mlav |„. a poor gues*. but I lie-
picked un at birth marvelous groin . |j,,vr j|,,. difference due to this: Since
»» a sholdier, as Charle* Dickens p: k ,he ^av,n „f civilization certainlv,
cd up marvelous genius as a nove-
list. As age advanced, both men lost
their power; youth was a part of their
marvelous combination, and, without
it. both aid and did things tha’
would have c’isgraoed the commonest
The only inferiors she could see
a paragraph describing “Mrs. Wood-
ville’s" fall from the mountain and
her miraculous escape from death.
Leva expressed the utmost sympathy
were a young widow named Dark and «nd prayer! that her beauty bad not
her five-year-old boy. Terry. Mrs. I***1 marred. She added:
Hack took in washing. j "But if it has, you can still find
The bov Trrrv was of the Ariel somehting to do in the movies. I '<•
breed. He mimicked birds and ani- ’given up trying to be an actress and
nials and often covered hi- m<> her I taken a position in the laboratory
widi terror and amused chagrin by projection rdom, correcting the
imitating her clients with uncanny j films. It » cool and dark and in-
-kill. leresting. I think 1 can get yo
and possibly somewhat earlier, wo-
men have been flattered; that ha-
been man’s weapon in soliciting their
favor*; on the other hand, men have
perpetually traveled the war path,
and known thr truth about them
selves. Men are actually better than
the public estimate of them, for libels
’old by opposing warriors have come
down to us with history, along with
the exaggerated compliments for wo-
men. There is no page of print, old
or new. not overpraising women and
criticising men more than they de-
serve.
Men are candid, and become phil-
osophers occasionally, because l<>n^
experience has convinced them of the
practical value of truth; women, who
never Income philosophers, still be-
lieve truth distorted in the interest of
women, mav be of value to them.
Lundid thinking seems to have
un t!
"God bie«a you. That was the real stuff. You re a good girL”
tore-ting. I think I can get you
Once thr child caught cold in all place, if you’ll come up. There s no
that heat!- and Mem sat by his bed- excuse for a woman of your educa-
- i d e through several smotliering tion and charm wasting your sw«*et-
i nights, while thr back-broken mot tier t:e*« on the icl-sert air. Do come! j paid the men: of the things in life
slept. Mem exercised her skill in mak- .I’ve -ent my three children out to -aid to be great, the men have is
ing up liitlr dramas to while awav their uncle’s ranch. A ou could live at a lead almost as in philosophy,
the tedium of the long nights artd j here with me and my friends.” W ould candid thinking pay th>*
to keep the wakeful child's mind ! The thought of working in th<- women?
from his rough. j dark and the cool was a hint of Para- | do not know. It may be that
During his illness Mem received , dise to Mem. their be-t plan is the one they have
a letter from l-eva l-emaire. saying!
that -he had just seen in an old paper |
I Continued A ext fTeek)
adopted even though
philosophy in it.
there is not
* exulant, a* if a g(*d had -eued her
■r etubrated h^t fiercelv for a mo
■r ■(, arn! thf-n iett her aching, an
-tidier in the ashr*.
I Ik duo tor was alreadv calling
individuals were tak-
stnktng t v ;*es i»rmg
oa> bed to express
i <>u go nt.*d and
i. will vo(i Tear at
d lei voir toorm
\ ou, miss, w ill fail
mother , aims <vou
v ou diim and ■n<h * ”* help glam mg toward fom Holbv
to d>e vou know, just **•» moving off with th
ve- ba- k and sigh and 'tow<1* ***» ‘uriung back to
heap And vou, mother, i "ur her M>- was nodding le*l
I I 'd* and be.a vour ' ,n *PPr<>v«l and he raised hts hand
m a salu'e of profound rr*}»ect.
\! -rt - bad led In-r to the edge
of paradise, and then drawn her bark
hv the hair.
''he was do.>iin-I to *|>end a certain
owe in increasing heaviness and
then to die or to go about thence-
forth with a nameless i lidding hold-
ing her hand and authoring Ix-r to
•b«* OfifS
**he found a plate j, maid in the
your
’stand
lust to
pray for
Hi her -lu
»e g-utw'
( lo»r up «>
t*i i, the in i »•*
wits tta! void
c tst-s (it feeling
tvabhle. ohl n ot
vroui thjoaf am
bang out '
(>at k in your
1m- mother, wil
K i vtH* are t
mil vour rve*
amk into
V
bt“at anil wail At ou m i
Oriental .tuti eh
“Arid I d like sonieh,*!
look up to hantven and
•lerry h ^vr-
,1**0 tire y iitnd ladv over there will
you top out Oh, it’* Mrs. W (K«d
ville. ish I it f I met vou this murnmf
Here s vtrtir rhancr Do this lor me
r»“ a gum! a.-,d g;w -ft! ;<•
it la>ok lip to heaven, if the sun
brtnirs tears to y«»ur evew alt rtgfit.
but lei tlnn come fr*>m your s»ui.
d»‘ir, if vo« can Yo»U see >our people
dying like flic* (bout you, from fam
ine and hardship You look up and
Ml, O (.t» i, vou don’t mean for us to ;
die m tht useless torture, do v«a.
dear (God? Pike m» life and let those
other* five Won’t vou, dear tsnI 1"
Mem tood throblung from head to
foot with eiwharr.issroetit and with a
tgrangr inrush of alien llltnada IV
fierce eyes of the director hurning |
durswreh hr- da k glasses, the I'Ute>ua
instigation in hi- voice, the plea to do
well for him quw krned her magic*
ally.
lolger took her by the arm and
murmured
“Now. dear’ let vour heart break!
Look round ind see yiMir dying peo-
ple. That’s your father over there i
gawping Km life out. Your mother lira
iir«! back there; yaa'xt covered bee !
poor btzdy with sand ’o keep (he jark
al* from it. ( an vou do it? Will you?
That’s right. I (»ok round now and let
yourself go!”
She felt herself bewitched, benumb
ed. yet mystically alive to a thooaaad |
tragedies. Her erew rolled around the
•taring throng, and made out Tom
Hoihy gazing down at her from hi*
camel and pouring sympathy from
Ilia own wont m’o hers
TVs Jve flung her head from wide
‘"(.in! blr-s vou’ Dial wa- the real cause l am trying to he brave. And I
»*u!) A >ure a 4**od girl! Ihe ie.il rememlter u hat you taught me. that
thing’ the Lord gitelh and the Lord laketh
11icc -be i.i laugh am) oimiv.....I cannot write you any
tioke arid ’MNamc ,m utter fool. more now. I urn in no need of money
I hts **«» her first experience of and f mil come home nhen I get n
I be fwi •':<.!! of Rutiihrv. >he w.ts a* little stronger, ill the love in the
■ allied .is glorified. ,>s drained vet world from
) our loving
Mem
Viler she had slipped the lettr-d lr-
rev... ably into the mail box -he rea !
h/cd that the postmark of Palm
I
nn b to the next luck ^he could Springs would Ik -tamped on the en-
vehqie Her place of concealment
would Ik disclosed.
''till it would no? matter. She was
widow now in the numb of u"r (Ho- |
[be (ltd -}<e could ,*u b.K k tn them |
an face the fufu«e in calm
he mountains had a beckoning
leok always, and n ibis afternoon.
wIkii a clo'tded skv gave a li tie -lid.
;«i from the sun. sin set out to obey
in impulse to climb .is far a- her
tree util -ould take . < The exertion *
of dun bing w a- more then Mem had
bargained for. The streps 'ha? looked
«<< invitm- 110*11 a distance were rag-
ged arwi forbidding. The burnt-al-
School Children
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Hibdon, John. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 50, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 24, 1929, newspaper, August 24, 1929; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth633733/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Reagan County Library.