NEW WISDOMS ® By FANNIE HURST (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) {WNU Service) T WAS as if, crash! a skyscraper had collapsed. Or a tornado de- vastated a forest, or a segment of heaven fallen, obliterating every- thing in chaos. That was the way Frederick Farm- ington felt the noonday he emerged from the-office of the most eminent diagnostician in New York city. Crash, Crash. Crash. Of course many men before him must have merged from that same of- fice with the same torment of emo- tions, 3ut nonetheless, to Frederick Farm- ington, newly president of his corpor- ation, director of three others of equal importance, vice president of a bank and treasurer of a railroad, It seemed that never had blow smitten & man 80 in the midst of life! In the midst of life, Farmington had just been ordered out of it! That is to say, out of the rushing turmoil of his day-by-days There was no longer any ing to elude the symptoms. nent diagnostician had spared no words. Farmington’s left lung had two growing sore spots with a threat of one on the right, It matter of out of town WAY Or an his doetor had Informed him rather purposeful brutality By ray of the Adirondack express to the pine forests, or by way of mahogany with sliver handles, In the midst of life had been ordered Standing there on the steps of the doctor's office in the gray of ber, It seemed to Farmington, depression clamping down upon him, that possibly of the two ways cism to the Adirondacks or the of mahogany with silver the latter preferable, Life an affair when of It as Farmi pine forests use try- The emil- was a ttine HUN one Farmington out of it Novem. with ~Osira- way handles was was so jammed and were in the midst Life in the with the sot ing of wind at night und the creakls by day was all right summer vacation of it to it for what an indefin you igton was! trees for a two weeks But ostracism the doctor had termed It was a matte f weeks before ided upon his life was too worlds Earthly fields three he had tasted elixir of succes to domina too relinqui Life. the 8 to Life Street, easily. JAfe, tle of Wall master industrial vings minds, the men of the country. Life, Lif Life greedy for tive. The leader good to live. And so Farmin rendered to the rary exile . . . with the bitterest pain he had ever known in his life In the midst of life, to the silence nd tl long motion- «8 days in a log eal At first there friends days were as clear as and fishing and hunting helped them pass quickly enough, but the cam the top of a mou roads left off G2 reached it and train connections were bad and the winter season in town sot in with a bang, and the friends fell away. Those were the days when the lone conn with prospect of tempo- and the stool the was on Hness first began to settle upon Farm- ington. The exile less days with only a mountain guide, hired to live with him for company, and the stacks of books and a radio machine and a magnificent cal piano, Those were the days when the lone liness began to settle. And the beauty of the forest to recede and the sound of waterfall to beat into his brain with monotony, and the yearning for the tramp of men's feet and the con- flict of quick minds and the excite ment of the fray to eat and gnaw at him, The clear, thin, bitingly cold days of the forest. The pellucid nights with stars like silver Christmastree balls waiting to be plucked. A wa- terfall leaping in glory and suddenly frozen there, a shy and startled love. liness, All part of the loneliness, The de- vastating, eating, gnawing loneliness of this man of affairs. Pain In the lungs. Pain In the heart. Days and days of the kind of pain that made him irascible and dif- ficult for even the old mountain guide, rather scornful and oblivious of the ways of men, to endure. A gnarled old oak tree of a guide. Strange socrets he knew, Out of the forests, The habits of wild things. The call of the loon. The way of the quick-flanked trout, The footfall of the deer. His lore was full of these delicate, lovely intimacies, Ie knew the look in the eyes of a trapped fox and was bitter at the women who wore their pelts, He loved the prickly little mash of pine cones under him and had a pill low of them on his crude pallet, He spent long days in the woods and came home more silent than they. Sometimes it seemed to Farmiogton Breathless, death- 3 s riot a id mechani he must spring at the throat of this man who was so complacent with the mystery of the silence, Sometimes, watching him sleep through his own sleepless nights, It seemed to Farmington he must fly at his heart, To tear from it the secret. The secret of his capacity for silence, The silence that was eating into Farmington. Gnawing into him, Mak ing him a little mad with terror of it The radio did its part to help. Yank- ing the outside world Into the heart of the forest. And the mechanical pl- ano and the letters from his friends and the hint of the doings of men in the outside world that with the weekly parcel post, jut those were only moments out of hours. Hours of torment. Hours of trying to read out of the books, to tear out of the plann, something to counteract the loneliness Poor Farmington! It is difficult in the haunts of men to learn how to be alone, Farmington frankly had hor ror of It. He had all his life been the sort of man who would call up a bore of a friend sooner than dine alone. Or «it through a vapid musical sooner than spend an evening at home without guests, When Far mington so much as traveled from one city to another he secretary along for company. And now, up here in the woods, not even the secretaries would remain for more than a few weeks at a Only Farmington and his old who talked back to the birds in noises that their own knew forests that first had began to pall on Far came show took a time, guide, who resembled and secrets of the entertained, after Two years of this a saying goes, the hou is, from a nervous, resistance, Fart morose kind of a Torpor. Or Rometimes little cabin, or and h fter hon mington woods hour a lently. There was And, strangely obgerve-—quick, fleeti forest. It shimmered i it kept the senses alert the The per munk The enon watch where you least slant frees, ear, Ever see a The bob-talled wind-pol mington in the had dor two lence The the threat of a sore entirely Won. Farmingte and back to the And Far procrastination take it There was r forest be done about liscussed it just sat side after guide knew, of sensitiveness that he footfall of He knew way into Farm the tramp-t ) Farmington hac fa id It was hear the footfall of other, And strange, new wisdoms knowing and loving the of the footfall of a deer even pipef men, deer worth another ar AD0LN American Indians Not Lacking in Good Ideas With particular respect shing, the American Indian 3 especially interesting harpoon was a favorite Implement for large fish, the spear or simply a sharp pointed stick for smaller fry. But the net also was used, and a kind of fish corral was frequently employed on the tidal beaches—a circle of sticks driven into the sand. In the New England region torch fishing was common; the fish, attracted by the light, were speared or netted by the Indians In canoes or actually wading in the wa- ter. No better evidence of the natural economy of the race, so frequently de nied, ean be cited than the custom of fertilizing corn hills with the remains of fish, This was the trick taught to the settlers at Plymouth by Squanto, and a little thought on the subject will suggest that it was an example of pure prirhitive genius on the part of the inventor. Another exhibition of the same type is to be found in the cus. tom of using mild vegetable poisons to eateh fish, but in this ease the origin may well have been of the nature of a discovery rather than of an invention. met! was taking First Gypsies in Europe Organized gypsy bands first ap peared In Europe at the beginning of the Fifteenth century, and in Italy their number in 1422 was computed at 14000, Five years later they made their first appearance in Paris, saying that they were Christians of Lower Egypt, driven to take refuge in Eu. rope from the Saracens, and had re cently left Bohemia, le Brims through cottons is this summer to im cottons NTERPRETING wrmnlity means of sheere lovely fashion's way of doing it Des! no «ffort press » that have gone formal . ands Eners are spat upon their OUR! ‘dress up” gowr vhict ill apparel society's ¢ shown in ing made of suc! ive and prettily feminine d sheer or gandie, goecialls the mbroidered types, de Har weas Golr R Ai winsome too! tering have as and into It that while mal afternoons oO Sports . clothes hours mode change snpletel) in the rule of mn ) implicity is being rigid] nforced. All of which show that lady's wardrobe satile to of the goes to must be exiren nee! dress requir 1052 or Senso A dress that nings, garden dances, gradua aks summer eve ! moonlight weddings and summer festivit neral, is shown in the foregronns iHustration It » aecompanying ictively made, lines, of =» in the simplest Orgs i between infinitely femi squarish wide mrncteristic sed by 3 i } where bow a8 Sou see be efMoctis MODISH CAPE-WRAP By CHERIE NICHOLAS A) The new short cape wraps are fas cinating. This ofie is of medici trans parent velvet in bright madeap blue The white evening dress which it con trasts so effectively is made of demi clair crepe, which is one of the very new, very heavy semisheer weaves which lend in fashion this season. It is smooth and dull and drapes gra. clously In both daytime and evening modes, THRIFTY FASHIONS ARE NOW SMARTEST Thrifty fashions are often the smart oat that is the conten tion of a many of most im portant French ones--at least good the dressmakers. Current French fashions, as {llustrated by the style shows now going on in Paris show a marked tendency toward more simple clothes and a general practicality fowaro One of the favorite examples of thrifty fashions is the sult whose jacket portion is a three quar ter coat. A coat of this type I8 con gidered neither an out-and-out jacket nor is it listed among the topeoats—so it results in sharing the advantages of each, these now STYLE NOTES High colored buttons white coats and dresses It's the two plece sports sult which I= ultra smart, Wide wale pique is a wear favorite. Brown and white, also navy and white prints lead Striped seersucker Is newest material for the two plece sports suits Guimpe frocks are In fashion for town wear, P'rinte and embroideries favor the daisy motif, enliven beach Belt Fastener One of the ventest tricks of the sea gon is n belt which closes with a slid ing fastener made of silver. When closed the fastener resembles an arrow as straight as Cupid's. Shirred Chiffon Shirred chiffon Is back again, Jack ets and bodices of the new semi for mal gowns are made entirely of shir ring. 4 by h shington, D. Ci—WNU Ber NKELSBUHL, quaint} don National Ge 08 lavarian town, is my at tire. This sun brate the however, larger sis Rothenbu Branch. onghfare are all cor old age ing off from narrow, nding : in treasures of medieval fu lanes and side streets which artistry. Exquisite examples of frame and stucco forged beautiful, await the explorer of these enchanting and lens hyway Survive. are dying out In other in Dinkelsbuhl hand in the open air hammer out pots and kettles, baking tins, and other utensils, for copper in the kitchen is gtill held in high esteem in the small cities and in country districts, and one of the few surviving pewter molders still plies his trade here Everywhere, hanging over the door ways, are wonderfully executed wronght-iron signs’ indicative of the activities carried on within, One might Old Trades that Trades places still exist Coopers make barrels bh: Cop remiths buhl's history the guild of smiths was a power within the town. At any rate, the signs lend to the streets over which they swing a note of peculiar inter est. Ag in so many South German towns, the houses are for the most part gaily painted. The color combi. pations are perhaps a bit startling, but they are always effective, And flowers vie for color supremacy with the brightly tinted houses, No Masses of vines cover the garden walls, while nearly every house has its window boxes filled with petuniag, geraniums, and other gay blooms, Wells and fountains are ringed about with the same lving colors Overshadowing the market place, as indeed it overshadows everything else in the city, is the Church of Saint George, built during the latter part of the Fifteenth century, when Dinkels bull was at the height of its influence. To the J,000 inhabitants it represents something more than a place of wor ship. It is an expression of all the civie pride and aspirations of the gturdy old burghers who directed its erection, And right well they sue ceeded, for Saint George's Is perhaps the finest Inte Gothic church In south. ern tion of the Germany gir the ul ig of the 1 Eseler uth German us Frederick Barbarosss * fo give the City as a nt to his son Konrad, but his j ried, and nearly two centur i 351, Emperor Karl IV as an hereditary feudal tenure prince of Oettingen That the bought fhe rights from him in Dinkelsbuhl begar “Troe Many of the empire ans n citizens emperors of the Holy Dinkelsbuhl and whenever there was a ceremonious reception on the market square, at which the council presented to the emperor and his entourage the *“customary™ gifts. What these amounted to is shown by a record in the municipal archives dealing with a visit of Emperor Maximilian II on June 12, 1570. The Dinkelsbuhlers have been known for centuries as “Die Blausieder,” “the blue cookers” A favorite method of serving carp, trout, and certain other fish in Germany is “blue cooked" that iz boiled in water to which a little vinegar has been added. The process is called “blausieden™ and those who do the "blue boiling” are “Blausieder.” In the early Middle ages the author. ities of Dinkelsbubl succeeded in catching a robber and murderer who had been carrying on his gruesome occupation for a long time. A special session of the council was called on a hot summer afternoon to decide what punishment te mete out to him. One of the councilmen, who was a trifle deaf, went to sleep during the debate and dreamed that his cook was about to prepare a fine carp for him. When the time came for him to vote on the question before the council, a fellow member poked him In the ribs and asked : “Hannes, what do you say we shall do with our robber? Hannes, rodely awakened from his dream, thought it was his cook asking about the carp. “Blausieden!” (Boll him blue), he answored, Roman visited one came
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