The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3164, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY LEADER
LAMPASAS, -
TEXAS
THE CAT.
From the standpoint of utility, ex-
cept in so far as decorativeness is
utility, not much can be said for the
average cat these days. The cat en-
joys its privileges without greatly con-
cerning itself with the responsibilities.
And in point of fact, its services in
most houses would be superfluous.
The mousetrap now does for most
households what the cat formerly did.
Nor is the cat particularly distin-
guished by the affection for its mas-
ter which is so conspicuous in the
dog, its sole domestic rival for the
warm spot under the kitchen stove.
If you will note the cat carefully, you
will observe that it usually wants
something of you when it comes
around. None of its calls are courtesy
calls. The arched back and the
“tnew-mew” are eloquent of its de-
sires. If it does not receive these
marks of attention and fails to find
anything else that interests it, say, a
nice warm spot in your lap to take a
doze on, the cat moves majestically
and indifferently away. Your person-
ality has no particular charm for it.
It admires the radiator more than it
floes you. These characteristic symp-
toms of self-centeredness and grave
detachment are reinforced by the eyes
of the cat. A cat’s eyes look at you,
but they seem to be looking beyond
you. They are like the eyes Of the
caged lion, which always seem to be
seeing the distant desert that it loves
and that is calling to it by night and
day.
From year to year there Jiave come
reports of the increase of deer in Con-
necticut which western people have
found it difficult to believe. Last year
there were complaints that the pro-
tected animals were destroying far-
mers’ crops. This year comes the
Story that the Connecticut game war-
dens have given warning that motor-
men on interurban electric cars must
exercise the utmost care not to run
down deer which happen to get upon
the track, or they will be made to
incur the full penalty of the law for
killing deer out of season. It is said
that a considerable number of deer
have been killed in this way, espe-
cially at night, when they were at-
tracted by the headlights. Deer
stalking with an electric car is cer-
tainly a modern method of acquiring
venison; but they were always an
ingenious folk in the state of the
wooden nutmeg.
A bonfire was held by the Fostoffice
Department of over 170,000 Christmas
postal cards, barred because of their
tinsel decoration, notification having
been made that these cards are un-
mailable on account of danger to the
clerks in handling. The number sent
in spite of the warning shows that
men and women are but children of a
larger growth, who keep on doing
things apparently because they have
been told not to do them. -
Census returns of the foreign-born
inhabitants of Greater New York
show that there are more natives of
Italy residing in the Empire City than
there are in Palermo. In a similar
way the Russian-born population of
New York far exceeds the entire num-
ber of inhabitants of so characteris-
tically a Russian city as KieV. The1
Russian-born New Yorkers number al-
most half a million and the Italian-
born New Yorkers exceed 340,000.
The patient Griselda’s famous rec-
ord for meekness and endurance has
been beaten by a woman in Chicago.
For twelve years she supported her
husband with patient resignation, but
finally decided that having to take
beatings as well as give earnings was
a tittle too much, even for a modern
Griselda.
A medical journal has started a
campaign against the beloved stu-
dent pipe, alleging that students who
smoke are not those standing high-
est Jn their classes. This journal
is behind the times, holding the anti-
quated idea that college students in
these strenuous days go there to
study.
Sixteen babies in a courtroom in
New York upset the court's' dignity
and yelled their contempt of court till
the latter was driven to ignominious
surrender in an adjournment. Which
proves that the infant of the species
is more vociferous than judicial prece-
dent
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OF THE AGE OF CHIVALRY
Fat Victim of Cupid Bashfully Ac-
knowledges Real Reason for His
Act of Heroism.
The smallest boy had broken
through the ice and the fat boy was
crawling to his rescue.
“Come back, Fatty!” the other boys
shrieked. “You’ll bust it all in, an’
den youse’ll both be drowned!”
But the fat boy, flat on his stom-
ach and spread put to his widest ex-
tent, ignored these warning cries and
steadily crept toward the black hole
and Tommy’s clinging fingers.
(Once the ice made a cracking sound
and the watchers yelled with dismay.
But the fat hoy did not halt. Nearer
and nearer he came, and finally his
outstretched hands caught those
clinging fingers and drew the small
boy, little by little, onto the firmer Ice
and so to safety.
“What did youse do it fer, Fatty?”
one of the boys tearfully remonstrat-
ed.
“Aw,” replied the hero, "I knew
what I lost in weight I made up in
wideness, see?”
Then his face softened.
“Besides,” he bashfully said, “I’m
sweet on Tommy's sister!”
DRESSING UP
m * *
By ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG
(Copyright, igii, by Associated Literary Press)
A rainy day in early summer sent harness room, Mamie and Grace, dis-
us take’ em
Grace; “he’s
bothers him
mussy since
Both Wrong. •
A ludicrous story is told of an Edin-
burgh baillie, whose studies In natu-
ral history seems to have been limit-
ed. The following case came before
him one day:
A man who kept a ferret having to
go into the country, left the cage with
the ferret in charge of aeneighbor till hi™ in good-by
he should return. The neighbor in-
cautiously opened the cage door, and
the ferret escaped. The owner was
very angry, and brought a claim
against him for damages.
The following was the decision of
the learned baillie: “Nae doot,” he
said to the neighbor; “nae doot ye
was wrung to open the cage door;
but,’Vhe added, turning to the owner,
“ye was wrang, too. What for did ye
no clip the brute’s wings?”
It is very apt to make a young
widow Indignant if a man doesn’t pre-
tend to use force the first tinie he at-
tempts to kiss her.
Numerical Logic.
“What makes you think Jones is
his feet again in the factory?” \
“I noticed he had so many hands.’
Like
Pleasant
Thought
of an old friend—
Post
Toasties
with cream.
6weet, crisp bits of white
Indian corn, toasted to an
appetizing, golden brown.
A delightful food for break-
fast, lunch or supper—always
ready to serve instantly from
the package.
“The Memory Lingers**
For a pleasing variation
sprinkle some Grape-Nuts
over a saucer of Post Toast-
ies, then add cream. The
combined flavour is
thing to remember.
some*
Postum Cereal Company, Limited
Battle Greek, Michigan
Jim Bomar’s motherless girls to the
I’attic to rummage in the capacious
chests for old-fashioned dresses, in
great glee.
“Oh, but aren't we fine?” cried
Mamie. “Let’s go down and show
father.”
“Father might make
off,” rejoined practical
feeling sad anyway.”
“I 'spose the house
’cause it’s so kind of
Mrs. Mott left, but I tried to scrub
that kitchen just last "Saturday, and
father washes the dishes himself
^whenever we leave ’em long enough.”
And Mamie sighed over a house-
keeper’s trials.
Poor Jim Bomar was used to cold
meals and a general lack of cheer,
Even before his .wife’s death, the
house had borne a down-at-the-heels
aspect, and Jim had been wont to
escape to the harness room in the
barn, where he could find order and
peace.
As a refuge the harness room was
exceptional. Besides being clean, it
Was warmed in winter by a small
wood stove, and made airy in sum-
mer by two enormous windows. The
west window had the advantage of
which they arrayed themselves with
looking toward the homestead where
Mary Andrews had lived alone since
the death of her mother. Mary’s
younger'sister Jennie was Jim’s wife.
He had never understood just how it
happened that she had supplanted
Mary, If not in his heart, still to all
intents and purposes in his life. He
and Mary Bad been sweethearts for
years, and at last he had written
asking her to tell him where he
might see her for a most particular
talk. He knew that Mary would un-
derstand, and he had laughed, when
he gave her the note, at his little
subterfuge; when he might so easily
have told Mary he loved her then
and there. But Mary craved ro-
mance, and Jim was / doing his hum-
ble best in arranging this dark plot
for her entertainment.
Mary ran up the steps with his
note in her hand, waved her hand at
and he had not seen
her again in months. She did not
answer the note? and gave Jim no
chance to ask an explanation of her
strange conduct. Deeply hurt, he
leariled the next day that she had
gone for a long visit to her aunt in
the city.
Jim took his dismissal hard, , and
Jennie was full of sympathy when he
came, night after night, for news of
Mary. She did not tell him outright,
but hinted delicately that Mary had
been courting only in fun and had
taken this' way of letting him down
easy. And after a time. Jennie’s
sweetness won Jim to believe that
her heart was pure gold, and it was
his fault if he could not appreciate
her as he should. So on the night
she told him that Mary was to'wed
a man in the city whom she had
known for several years,' Jim asked
Jennie if she would care" for what
was left of his life, and Jennie ad-
mitted thaV she would.
Mary did not return for Jennie’s
wedding, nor did she make any prep-
arations for her own; and when she
had lived quietly with her mother
for a number of months doubts as-
sailed Jim concerning the truth of
his wife’s story of her engagement.
During the ten. years of Jim’s mar-
ried life Mary went in and out of his
home and his children took their
griefs to her more ' readily than, to
their mother. But Jim had seldom
seen her, and for several years he
had not crossed the threshold of the
Andrews home.
As he looked over the fields green
with sprouting grain and saw the ap-
ple orchard at the homestead in
bloom, he imagined that he could
see. Mary herself walking among the
trees in the sun that had just come
out and was coaxing the earth to
bloom and laughter. He knew
that her brown head would be bared
in the breeze and her eyes filled with
a love for all growing and blooming
things. He recalled the last time he
had walked along the orchard path,
when, after Mother Andrews’s death,
he had gone to Mary in an impulse
of sympathy, but had unfortunately,
managed to convey some expression
of his long repressed love. Then did
Mary’s brown eyes flash and her
gentle mouth stiffen to rebuke.
"Jim Bomar, never let me hear
such words from you; There can be
nothing between you and me after
Vfeat has passed. And I cannot bear
the sight of your deceitful face.”
Jim, sorely wounded, was -roused
to reply in anger. “Very well, Mary,
I will never enter your door until
you send for mo,”
While Jim was dreaming in the
their- attic finery, had
of admiring themselves
Mary’s.”
“Let’s
want us
porting in
grown tired
alone.
“Let’s go over to Aunt
Mamie was adventurous,
wear ’em over.”
“I don’t believe father’d
to,” objected Grace.
“Huh, father’s in the harness
room, and it’s no harm if he didn’t
tell us not to. Besides, he don’t care
very much what we do, so long as
we don’t bother him,” reassured
Mamie.
So the girls trailed up the road and
surprised Aunt Mary in the orchard
“telling secrets to the trees,” as
Mamie called it.
Ten or twelve years ago the silk
gown which Grace wore had been
familiar to Mary, for Jennie had
worn it that fatal summer when she
won Jim’s love. Even now, with the
gray in her hair, Mary felt the old
pain fresh at the sight of the hated
raiment. Jennie had worn that very
dress the night she delivered Mary’s
note asking Jim to meet her at the
foot of the orchard under their par-
ticular tree, Where Jim had con-
structed a bench and where they
often sat on summer evenings.
On that Summer evening Mary had
gone to the trysting place and waited
with her heart full of love and joy.
But Jim did not come, and when,
deeply hurt, Mary returned to the
house, he was leaning over the front
gate talking earnestly to Jennie.
Later Jennie told her that Jim had
sent her a message saying that he
had decided he had nothing particu-
lar to say to her.
“See, Aunt Mary, isn’t my dress
full?.; It’s lots wider’n Grace’s.”
“Maybe, ’tis, but my dress has got
a pocket,” rejoined Grace, “a real
deep one. You can’t get to the bot-
tom. Auntie, you feel and see if it
has a bottom.”
Absently Mary put her hand into
the pocket of Jennie’s dress. Her
fingers touched something that re-
sisted, and she reached again to draw
out two letters—Jennie’s love letters,
no doubt. But no. She clutched them
wildly. One was Jim’s note to her
■asking for a meeting. She remem-
bered she had hunted in vain for it
after the evening in the orchard. But
the other letter was her answer, and
that answer had never been opened.
Jim had not received it.
Suddenly a hundred little incidents
crowded to her mind that made it
clear what part Jennie had taken in
her life and Jim’s. Then a rush of
gladness came over her. How she had
misjudged Jim!
Mary could have laughed aloud as
she thought of Jim and how she
could make up to him for his years
of puzzled wonder. Then she looked
at the little girls staring at her ab-
straction and began to unfold a plan
that delighted them.
When Jim Bomar came home from
his afternoon’s work he could hardly
believe the evidence of his senses.
An immaculate kitchen gave forth
the odor of such a supper as only a
good housewife could iffepafe. In a
swept and garnished living room his
two girls were dancing about a pret-
tily laid supper table. And beside
the table stood Mary, his sweetheart,
the woman he had always loved;
Mary with & smile on her face and
a light in her eyes as she stretched a
hand to Jim and said:
“I came over to stay to supper, Jim.
Am I welcome?”
The light in Jim’s face was answer
to that question even before his
tongue stammered out eagerly a wel-
come in words.
In the late twilight he went with
Mary over the path that only the
children’s feet had pressed for so
long a time and his eloquent eyes
told the story. Silently they took
their way along the fragrant path
until Jim touched Mary softly on the
arm and said:
“Mary, this is our tree. See, it Is
all in glorious bloom. Won’t you
sit down?”
And the apple blossoms wasted
their fragrance and their petals on
two unheeding figures while the
years of misunderstanding and pain
were swept away to make rpom for
the love that was to illumine all the
future.
Public-Spirited Strike Breakers.
The amateurs who worked the pow-
er station and kept the trams running
and Liverpool supplied with light dur-
ing the great strike deserve much
praise. , Among them were seven cler-
gymen. Stoking is no easy task,
and yet for hours on end these men
shoveled coal into the blazing fur-
naces while the hussars stationed out-
side guarded the doors.—London Tit-
Bits.
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Lady in Pierce Relates An Expert*
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from pains in my eyes and in the
back of my head, as well as low flows
In my body.
Sometimes, it seemed like I would
die with the pain. I was compelled
to see the doctor, but he did not help
me.
At last, I began to take Cardui, and
three bottles gave me great relief.
My health is getting better every day.
I can recommend Cardui to Suffer*
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Other women, who suffer as Mra.
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On a Main Road.
Pottleton drew up at the side of th®
road and accosted a man sitting on
top of a load of hay.
“I say, colonel,” said he, “are we oft
the right road to Claypool Junction?**
“Ya-as,” said the farmer.
“How’s the road, pretty good?*
asked Pottieton.
“Fine,” said the fanner. “We’ve
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through.”—Harper’s Weekly.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 3164, Ed. 1 Friday, February 16, 1912, newspaper, February 16, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth889436/m1/2/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.