□ HE real name cf the
first president of the
I'nii'd States was not i
Washington His bap
tismal name was
Ceerge. and he was
born February 22 In
the year 1732 The old
colony of Virginia was
his birthplace, but the true name
>if bis male ancestors was not Wash
tsgtoa This may seem a sweeping
•ta'ernes* tn »be light of generally ac
• rpted history, but careful research
has established beyond doubt that
•be ancient founder of the family from
which ensue the Father of our Country
■ as wsmwt william lie Hertburn Thu
hey to this apparent paradox lies in
the fact that, in common with many
w-blerne* and monarch* of Europe,
•he first president possessed an estate
-uu and a real, or family name, the
.••ter heiag known aa the patronymic,
or paternal name.
The first Washingtons were of
French, and not English, origin, sad
• ere numbered among the powerful
amgbts of the northern portion of
France When *ue (hike of Normandy
com e« red the ambP’on of becoming
King of England he called to his aid
■be Catholics of France, and among
those who responded to Ms appeei was
an ancestor of Ueorge Washington.
The duke gathered his soldiers about |
him and announced that by right and ;
promise be deserted ard intended to
be the new King of England His spir- i
Fed address had the desired effect
and ’he knights and their vassals |
•hronged to the standard until there
was soon gathered under tbe leader
ship of William, uuke of Normandy. ;
the greatest army France bad ever
mustered ready for the field and
thirsting for tbe glories of conquest, j
la-tug the many banners thrown to |
the bfwtr appeared the shield of the
aa!’. greatgrandfather of our own
■letnr Washington His name was
William de Herthura The OO 'Khi fol
lowers of -be duke set sail in 3,000
teasels o# war for tbe English coast
and landed without opoeition. because
«f the Key.ish Kir g Harold’s conflict
with tie Norwegians in another part
od ht» invaded domain*. On October
11. lets, the rival armies met. and on
the field of Hastings took place one of I
the mom terrific battles in tbe history ,
: well as ao accurate record
of the biographical and ber
;ildic character of the new
■ or French proprietors. And
* in this last seemingly un
necessary entry appears the
statement that the brave.
1 ever reliable Knight. Sir
William De Hertburn. for
| military service to Will
; iam I. be granted with feu
dal rights and power the ex
I tensive estate known as
| Westyngton, and henceforth
| said Sir Knight shall be
known as Sir William de
| Wessyfngton; but he shall
still be a vassal of the bish
: op and his heraldic denom
ination shall continue to be.
Arms: Argent, two bars
gules (red); in chief, three
mullets of the second. Crest:
A raven with wings endorsed
proper, issuing out of a du
cal coronet or igoldl."
As a further demonstra
tion of the importance of the
I 1* Hertburns. or "Wessyng
: tors." history furnishes the
information that the estate
in question was under the
command of the Bishop of
Durham, and situated in a
oeality exposed to the at
; tac* °f the Srots of northern
| l.ngiand. On this border
there was constant warfare,
and the king naturally select
ed the bravest and most
warlike of bis adherents to
hold lands In the disputed
district. For nine years this
country between Durham
aid York was laid waste,
and for ten years It was
i practically a desert, no man
j having the courage to at
1 : etc pi cultivation of the
h a.■-ted fields or inhabit the
ruin** ! town* One hundred thousand
people die,| in this debatable strip of
and. and there, where active hostili
ties ever reigned, the De Hertburns, or
Weasyugtons. were stationed. This rec- j
ord of the great family is absolutely ;
authentic in every detail, having been
proved by minute research and per
sonal visits to the locality where its
members were lords of the soil—a
i task which embraced fifteen years
of heraldic investiga
Wa**>ingtorTs Crested Carriage
tion
I-ater the estate
known as Wessyngton
was spelled and en
tered officially as Wes
sington. the proprietors
assuming the same
name. Then it was re
corded as Washington,
and a natural change of
the owner's name in
accordance with that
of his land followed.
The proprietors became
known as William,
John. Lawrence, Rob
ert and Nicholas De
Washington. Finally
the heraldic shields
of England William of Normandy
a as the victor. and King Harold with
•»a» of tbcnuaafi of hla English. was
among the slain The victorious
Frem-h marched to London, and on
• hr >tnsaa day they proclaimed their
cash.eg leader William I. Conqueror
and King of Et.gland “
K.ig W'Oitaa. like all kis French
knight a loved >he French ideals of
government, church and bon*, and in
raced into the old English national
and domestic life all the customs of j
ht native land Even the English
-aeguagr. which William never could
- r* a as gradually set aside, and
among the loyal French knights who
assisted the Conqueror tn enforcing
Via reforms was the distant kin of
'Marge Washington This early an- !
center at oar first president was sum j
bared among the Intimates of the |
K Bg_ ana was one of the leader* of •
'he French Conquest, in the past,
kmeriran historians, possibly because
• f the strong influence upon literature ;
aer lard by Etiglanc. placed tbe
Washington aareagry as beginning in ;
hat country: hot careful investigation i
users out the statement that the i
Washington# were of definite and di
rer* French origin They were French
hath in sentiment and training, and
•he c'igmni name was 1 e Hertburn.
Nat era.) the question arises, why
■n the name changed, and what in
faced these faithful French subject*
4 Vlitha of Normandy to assume an
English cognomen ? Tbe explanation
•s dnyie enough William the Con
queror urns a careful and far-weing
man. He realized that bis usurpatlcf.
if the English throne iui very rad
lead departure in a governmental ex
penmen. tu say the least; and he was
vnakom to mould tbe people, whom
ho bad made his vassals by dint of
'he strong hand, into as close dupli
cates of the French as possible. In
jtber words, he strove to implant tbe
rt» a h ideal# into the English char
actor ns deeply as circumstances per
nutted The cotnpii. ated heraldic rec
alls found in the pages of the famous
linnmoitiy Hook" is undoubtedly tbe
loot evidence that the King wished
la make hts radical campaign of perm
•ae-Rf record, and hence a great num
her of men of education and ability
•ore occupied in diligently surveying
and noting all 'be land and water con
dsUoas <4 England They also in these
rMtmtkms made lengthy entries as lo
the original English estate owners as
and French prefix of "De" was drop
i>er. and the modern spelling of
\V-n-s-b-i-n-g-t-o-n prevailed.
The Washingtons were very prom
inent in the military as well as the
civic phases of English life. In the
days of Henry VIII. when that mon
arch was in conflict with the pope
of Rome. Lawrence Washington sided
with the king, ard the latter confiscat
ed the monasteries, convents and
hurches of the Roman Catholic
church, giving to this Washington the
Sulgrave estate, where for over a cen
tury the Washington family ruled su
preme A decline in their
fortunes then appears to
have taken place, for in
1620. the year the Pi!
grims set sail for Amer
I tea. the Washingtons
. were practically driven
i from the Sulgrave estate
I to take up residence at
Brighton with minor ma
. nors and holdings. The
loss of the hundreds of
acres of rich meadows
j and harvest fields was
in a measure counter
acted by the marriage of
a Sir William Washing
ton to a sister of George
Villiars.- Duke of Buck
Ingham. This union
brought about new al
:anres and affiliations
which made Washing
•ons possible in Amer
ica. and ultimately ied
•o the rearing of George
Washington to be the
military leader of the
colonies and eventually
< onr first chief executive.
This marriage brought
the Washington family
into direct domestic so
cial and court relation
ship with the prominent
and powerful favorite of
the then reigning mon
; arch, ana political cir
cumstance destined the
Washingtons to espouse
Graves of Washington's Ancestors at Sulgrave, England.
the cause or the king, rather than the
| !dcl of the Commons—Oliver Crom
j well. The Washingtons performed
heroic services for the king, but
i when Cromwell proved victorious
and seized the reins of govern
ment. they found England to be
! no longer a safe dwelling place.
: Prison sentences, exile and death was
descendant of the James Washington
who landed in Holland in 1650. He
married a Bavarian lady and held a
certificate of honorable discharge
showing that he had been a lieutenant
In the Bavarian army. To obtain a
co'mmission as officer in the Federal
army was his wish, but because of the
inability of our consul to assure him
ven issuin
crown, the
ermore, \\
shows by
Herald's o:
not an e&{
ten years
the embl«i
1782). Hli
Washington’s True Coat-of-Arms.
the unhappy lot of the royalists, or ]
King's Cavaliers; and rather than :
bow to one whom they looked upon as
a usurper, many of the Washingtons
fled to foreign lands. John and I*aw
rence, brothers, came to Virginia, the
former being the grandfather of
George Washington, the first presi
dent of the United States.
Among the distinguished Washing- i
tons who escaped persecution by flight
from England was one whose identity
genealogists long sought vainly to
verify—the brother of General George
Washington's great grandfather. This
Washington's name was James, and
he fled to Rotterdam, Holland, where
in 1650 he wedded Clara Vander Lan
en. daughter of the mayor of the port
From this union was derived the pres
ent Dutch and German Washingtons
a sturdy folk who adapted themselves
to these governments under which
they have held and are at present
holding official positions of high sta
I tion. One of these German Washing
tons offered his services in a military
capacity to the United States consul
at Frankfort-on-Main in 1862. He ex
pressed himself as anxious to enlist
I in the Union army, and presented the
: consul with a verified genealogical
i chart prepared from the records of
1 the Dutch government. This gentle
man was Baron de Washington. The
statement has been certified by Will
iam W. Murphy, consul at that point,
and attested by the Honorable Fred
erick Kapp. of New York City, who
was visiting in Germany and wrote a
letter In which the circumstances
were fully described.
The original correspondence and
data in my possession relating to the
Dutch and German Washingtons prove
the baron to have been a direct lineal
of this honor, and possibly
because he deemed that suf
ficient respect had not been
shown to one of such noted
ancestry, he did not emi
grate to the United States.
However, before the Inter
view was closed, he deposit
ed with the American consul
a certified genealogical chart
on which the following ap
pears:
"Baron de Washington is
a direct descendant of the
ancient and honorable Wash
ington family of England, the
earliest emigrant to Holland
being James Washington,
one of the four brothers of
Stuart sympathizers
(Charles I). James came to
Holland in 1650, his two
brothers emigrated to Vir
ginia, and the third brother
remained in England, where
he was serving as a divine."
This remarkable bit of
genealogical history gives the
earliest and most authentic
record of the Dutch and Ger
man Washingtons, of which
there are many and of whom
the church records abound in
entries of marriages, births
and deaths. Further investi
gation brings to light the
fact that this earliest Dutch
emigrant. James, was mar
ried in the English church
of Rotterdam, all of which
tends to corroborate that he
was of English training.
Baron de Washington was
born in 1833, and his brother
Max married the Duchess of
Oldenburg and in this way
became connected with one
of the oldest sovereign fain- ;
ilies of Europe. The House >
of Oldenburg is the prime i
I branch of the Holstein-Gottorp stock. 1
which has given emperors to Russia
and Kings to Denmark, and is prom
inently related to the present King
of England, George V. And Jacob
Washington was first lieutenant of
the Dutch navy in 1845, this branch
being related to the wealthy banking
firm. Cornelius L Keurenaur of The
Hague. Upwards of seventy-five
Washingtons are numbered
among the inhabitants of Hol
land and Bavaria. Hence the
j Washingtons, in the farthest
i genealogical tracings. hail
from France. We next find
them in England and then in
Holland and Bavaria.
Regarding the Washington
■ ian coat-of-arms some odd dis
coveries have also come to
light. Quite contrary to our
American belief the Washing
ton shield does not contain
“stars and stripes," notwlth
i standing that more than a
! thousand books and as many
more published articles so pro
i claim it. The facts are that
j the Washington shield con
| tains “bars and mullets (spurs
! of the Knight’s boots". The
earliest reference which I have
been able to find which announces the
Washington shield blazoned with
stars and stripes, relates to a public
banquet at Baltimore, Maryland, in
1851. where the ideas of an English
poet—Martin Tupper by name—were
voiced, proclaiming that the Amer
ican flag, with its heraldic notions,
was borrowed from the Washington
shield, which possessed stars and
stripes. Ever since this banquet
American authors and orators have,
1 without further investigation, accept
ed the statement as cor
rect. The English poet
was misled by his fervid
fancy, for the Heralds’
College at London, the
highest authority on
British heraldry, writes
as follows: "A Washing
ton shield with stars and
stripes (pales) has never
been of record.” It
is altogether probable
that Tupper. as well
as others, was deceived
by the shape of the
“mullets." These spurs,
as worn by the knights
of old, were round in
form, resembling mod
ern cog-wheels some
what, and their bristling
points possibly suggest
ed the "stars" of which
Tupper spoke.
Hundreds of writers
have also announced
that the crest on Gen
eral George Washing
ton's coast-of-arms is an
eagle, and that this fam
ily emblem was the foun
dation of the suggestion
that the eagle be the em
blem of the American re
public. While the crest
may appear like an
eagle, the facts are that
the heraldic grant of
arms to this Washing
ton branch present a ra
g from a golden ducal
crest of the family. Furth
ashingtcn himself clearly
correspendence with the
Roe at London that it was
;le, and the letter is dated
ifter the eagle had become
a of the republic (June 20,
i letter was sent from Phil
adelphla May 2, 1792, the third year
of bis presidency, and the package
was sealed with the Washington fam
ily arms as is indicated in a letter
which reads:
“The arms enclosed in your letter
are the same that are held by the
family here; though I have also seen,
and have used, as you may perceive
by the seal to this packet, a flying
griffin for the crest-”
The Washington crest, "a raven Is
suing from a ducal coronet, gold," was
evidently given because of the sports
manship of the early English Wash
ingtons. In fact the crow, falcon and
hawk have been for more than four
hundred years the emblem of sport.
The pastime of hawking was engaged
In only by the wealthy and the Wash
ingtons were noted for their love of
hunting and sporting. Benson J.
Lossing lent some color to the fore
going conclusion when he wrote of
the English Washingtons:
“For more than two hundred years
the De Wessyngtons, or Washingtons,
were conspiring after their kind (rob
ber knights) fighting, hawking, ca
rousing and gaming
This grant of the raven was In 1500,
at about the same time that hawking
was at its height as a sport, for at
about the same period we find that
in Spain the son of Columbus atempt
ed to prove that his father was of
aristocratic and also of heraldic fam
ily in that "he was of a people who
kept their own hawks." This alone,
in those days, stamped the man as a !
falconer, as only people of high social
standing were permitted by license to
engage in that enjoyment; hence a
raven, a falcon, a crow or a hawk on
the shield or crest indicated promi
nence. This sporty and hunting dis- !
position of the Washingtons was dis
tinctly manifested in the Washingtons
of Virginia, of which our first presi
dent also gave liberal expression.
There are five distinct Washington
shields, but in the heraldic records
they are pronounced of the same
origin, as follows:
A silver (argent) shield upon which
are two red (gules) bars; in the top ,
(chief) three red mullets (spurs of j
knights' boots).
A red (gules) shield with a single
Ancient Washington Shield.
white (silver) bar charged with three
mullets.
A red shield with a white bar upon
which are three cinguefoilles, also red.
A red shield with two bars white,
in chief three martlets.
A shield of four bars, white and red,
three mullets.
A shield in green, a lion rampant in
white, within a border gobonated
white and blue.
These constituted the heraldic arms
of all Washington people as recorded
in the English College of Heralds.
Washington was fond of genealogi
cal Investigations, and in the College
of Heralds can be seen a score or
more of pages he wrote at various
times in his eager search after family
arms and crests. He was proud of his
heraldic ancestors, and this family
estimate is well expressed in the fre
quency with which he blazoned the
Washington shields upon his choice
tokens and valuables.
Many such instances may he noted
in his heraldic watch charms, his sev
eral personal seals; the doors of his
carriages; the porcelain of his dinner
set; the silver ware of his liquor serv
ice; the fireplace and the mirrors; the
picture frames and his library walls;
his bookplate and his saddle, and
practically everything upon which a
family signature or shield might be
I engraved, painted or printed.
The illness of Sir Isaac Heard, the
head of the English department of
heraldry, closed the correspondence
relating to Washington's eager at
tempt to prepare a Washington gen
ealogy and origin and evolution of the
family coat-of-arms. This interesting
correspondence has never yet been
scripturally reproduced, and it Is to be
regretted that a continuance of the
investigation was disturbed by illness
since many disputed biographical
problems would doubtless have been
solved.
The man who is doing good work is
writing his name on the memory of
the world. Stone monuments are only
seen by a very few, no odds how high
they may be built.
Where all men are not allowed a
hand in making the laws that govern
them, they are slaves. They must bow
to the dictates cf other men and have
no redress.
Solely By Finger Prints
Wow Vert Police Hop* to Convict
Gambler who Always Kept His
Face Hidden.
The New Tarfc police forte la will
ag to admit that It ran go M Bertil
oo ow bettor cs his linger print
daoillraniTn syatoat. which, by the
way. was la ten ted by th* Chinese a
*ew thoaaaad years Mote M. Bertll
mm became a terror to the French
rogue*. On the atrength of the finger
print they have arrested a man they
know waa guilty of a crime, but whose
face no person concerned had seen.
There was a swell gambling house up
town in which the proprietor was
more effectually hidden than “the man
in the iron mask.” Te remained in a
little room, which he entered from an
other bouse. No one ever saw him;
not even his employes. All business
was transacted through a little wicket,
through which his voice might be
heard, but his (ace could never be
seen. When a player wanted to buy
cards or chips he passed his money
through the wicket and got his cards
and chips—but never saw the proprie
tor. When he wanted to “cash in" he
passed his chips through the wicket
and got his money—but never saw the
proprietor.
The nimble wits ot the police de
partment wanted to “pinch” that man,
but they couldn’t “get the good* on
him.” Finally, however. Detective
Charles Steinert gained entrance to
the place, pushed his money through
the wicket and secured a lot of chips
and cards. He put them in his pocket
and took them to police headquarters.
From them he took innumerable “fin
ger prints,” left by tbs unsuspecting
gambling house keeper. These he
compared with the finger prints in
the rogue’s gallery.
That evening he arrested a man on
the streets and charged him with con
ducting a gambling house. And the
queer part of it all Is that the police
are sure they will convict him. though
no person can be found who ever actu
ally “saw" the man in the gambling
house. His finger prints, however, are
deadly evidence against him.
Misconstrued.
Shopman—*fhe fresh herrings are
very nice this morning, m’m.
Lady—Er—have they roes?
Shopman—Well, m’m, all fish is
dearer at this season!—Punch.
A Girl of Yesterday
* * *
By MARTHA McCULLOCH WILLIAMS
(Copyright. 1911. by Associated Littraiy l’tess.)
"It's no use—not the least," Dora
said despondently, though her lips
curled faintly. "Wear that—thing to
the Marstons! I won’t That’s flat
I don’t expect, of course, to have
things like other girls—but this once
—well, it seems to me, if father-”
“Shut up!” Prudence, her elder,
worn and worried, said imperatively.
“Nag me all you want to, but leave
father out The salt of the earth—
that’s what he is—so good I don't see
how he can have a flirty, flighty child
such as you.”
Dora was used to such sisterly
amenities. There were just the two
of them—father did not count Un
lucky. mild, the soul of honor, he had
a talent for losing whatever he ven
tured, so had ceased from venturing
—not quite voluntarily, to be sure.
Squire Hexly, his wife's father, had
tied up his daughter's portion, so it
inured solely to the benefit of the two
girls. It was safely invested—so safe
ly the income was mighty slender.
Hence the chafings of Dora—and
Prudence's careworn face.
Prudence loved her father passion
ately—because she understood him.
The fine fibre that made It impossi
ble for him to be shr.ewd and money
making seemed to her the most won
derful thing in the world. She petted
him undemonstratively—chiefly in the
way of cooking what he liked, exactly
as he liked it. Further, she made
Dora keep the peace—mainly by giv
ing the young lady much more than
was equitably hers. But she had re
fused the new party dress, firmly, and
spent herself on refurbishing an old
one. Dora had already spent much
more than her share of the joint in
come—and Prudence was bent upon
buying her father a new greatcoat—
he had needed one for two winters at
least.
Commonly, she either coaxed Dora
out of the sulks, or ended them by
herself giving in. This time she did
neither. Instead, she nonchalantly
took up her shears, saying over her
Gire it to her sra’wsOow
shoulder, "If you are so set against
this dress, I know a girl that’ll be
glad to have it. It only needs a lit
tle shortening and a bit off the waist
measure to make it fit Elinor Lee—”
“She shan't have it—it’s my dress
—even if I don’t mean to wear it,”
Dora flashed out. “Hateful thing!
She’d feel fine as Friday—though she
knew everybody was laughing at her.
because she had on my east-off
clothes.”
“You don't want them to laugh at
her. I suppose.” Prudence said argu
mentatively.
Dora gave her a withering look,
saying, "You know I don't want her
to go. She’s so uppish, and forward,
always pushing herself into every
thing.”
“I say she’s nice—always trying to
help along. Tastes differ," Prudence
countered loftily, still clutching the
shears. "As you say—this is your
frock. Wonder if I haven’t got some
thing that might do for Elinor?
There's my graduating dress—you
turn up your nose at it—but those
old-fashioned rosebud silks are com
ing back again."
“Give it to her and welcome—If she
comes in it. she will be worse than
a laughing stock,” Dora said, scowl
ing.
Prudence turned sharply on her.
“You're my blood—whether or no,”
she said. “Don't let a beau, more or
less, make you so mean and hateful.
You're afraid Elinor will cut you out
with Taaewell Gray. I hope she won't
—he's the best chance you’ll ever
have—but you won’t get him by being
so despicable. He has eyes that see
deeper than a pretty face—even if it
is yours."
Find Rest in Needlework
- 3
More Women Should Realize the Ben
eficial Effects Such Employment
Has on the Nerves.
Not many realize what a restful ef
fect needlework has on one, and it has
this great advantage over books, that
one is not lost to all around. One
woman of artistic tastes goes to the
museum and makes sketches of well
known pieces of art needlework and
tapestry designs, and then sets to
work to copy them. And the woman
who would look charmingly pictur
esque well knows she is most fas
cinating sitting before a frame, with
exquisite colored silks near her.
But this kind of needlework needs
more thought than white work. As
one sews, the thoughts come fast One
remembers one's grandmother, show
ing one how to put the needle in, and
advising stroking the cotton under the
hem neatly, when an impatient begin
ner would tie a knot One also re
members the beautiful work she ac
complished.
That strange and Interesting wom
an Princess Helene von Racowitza.
in her memoirs, amusingly describes
her first attempt at tailoring, with
which she was delighted. And she
says ever since her first success she
has made all her own clothes, includ
ing lingerie. The princess must be a
monument of patience and cleverness,
because the making of gowns, in these
dajs, is an art not lightly acquired.
There Are Other*.
In our adolescent inexperience we
cherished the notion that hotel clerks
and book store attaches were the
most conspicuous of the unintelligent*.
Yesterday, however, a telegraph oper
ator objected to our using “juxtapose"
in a night letter. “We don’t allow
code words,” said he. And for the life
of us wc couldn’t think of a snappy
comeback.
! “Yet—you won't help me,” Dora
snuffed, hiding her eyes. “You know
how particular he is—that’s why I
must have something new-”
“You can't! That’s the word with
the bark on it,” Prudence retorted.
“But if you’ll be sensible, I’ll drape
my lace shawl over this green satin
—and then nobody will know it isn’t
new—right straight from the city.”
It was an enormous sacrifice—
made in the interest of peace and
matrimony. Dora knew it—the lace
shawl was, next to her conscience.
Prudence’s most cherished possession,
an heirlotfm, fine and costly, descend
ed from a great grandmother, to
whom fine and costly things were not
rare. It would give distinction to any
frock. Instantly, Dora was smiling.
She even patted her sister's hand,
saying, “Oh, but you are clever, Prue.
I won’t be naughty again for a whole
month."
Then the two fell to work, with the
result that Prudence had time next
day to fit the rosebud silk to slight,
pretty Elinor Lee—and feel more
than rewarded by the girl's shy yet
genuine gratitude.
“You—you are—better than a fairy
godmother. Miss Prue,” she said.
“Because this beautiful frock won't
turn to rags even if I do dance on
past 12 o'clock.”
The Marston dance reached almost
the dignity <5f a ball. Dora was easily
the belle of it—tall and dashing, vivid
in color, mobile of face, she caught
every eye. The transfigured green
satin became her as no other gown
had ever done. It swathed her slen
der, curving shape modestly, yet al
luringly. Because she knew she was
looking her best, she was at her best
—until the unexpected happened.
Elinor was unaccountably late in
comfng. Truth to tell, she had come
long before the rest, and spent the
interval in helping kind Mrs. Marston
with the fine, last details of supper.
She had been wise enough to rest aft
erward—even to sleep a little while.
As a result she came among the dan
cers dewy-eyed, and as rosily fresh as
the flowers upon her frock. They had
held color, and showed finely against
a ground once white but now the soft
est cream. The low bodice had a lac*
bertha at top—the frostwork of it
was caught up in front with a knot
of real pink roses. Tiny ruffies
fluffed over the foot of the full skirt.
Truly, Elinor's feet, beneath, "like
little mice, played in and out” Her
mass of fair, wavy hair, simply part
ed, and coiled low, went beautifully
with the gown's lines. Altogether,
she was a picture, the sweetest pic
ture in all the world to one pair of
eyes,—Tazewell Gray’s eyes.
He had hnng about Dora half a
year, all the while conscious of Eli
nor’s attraction. Commonly he had
seen her in the world of workaday—
a fragment of the huge machine
known as public education. Rosy and
rose-beset, he knew her for what she
was—the woman of all the world to
fill and crown his life.
He strode toward her, forgetting
all else. But before be came to her.
Allan Muir had whisked her off in a
waltz. Indeed, for a full hour he
could not get near her. Outblooming
the roses of yesterday, she put even
Dora in the shade. Partners, the most
finicky, the most eligible, swarmed
about her—her card was full in a
twinkling. By way of keeping the
peace she even parted dances be
tween the young fellows she knew
best.
Tazewell would have no such part
nership. Audaciously, in the face of
an eager partner, he drew Elinor out
on the piazza to say:
‘‘Girls of yesterday didn’t flirt—you
look the part—are you going to live
up to it?"
‘No—because I don’t know bow,"
Elinor murmured, drooping lightly
toward him.
Then and there he kissed her—
quite forgetting Dora.
Properties of Metals.
As is well known, some metals are
unsuitable for casting, while others,
like iron, can readily be cast in any
desired shape. The property of cast
ing well is said to-depend upon wheth
er the metal contracts or expands on
solidifying from the liquid form. Iron,
like water, expands in solidifying, and
hence the solid metal may be seen
floating in the liquid iron about it
The expansion causes it to fill the die
into which it is poured, and so it can
be cast easily. Gold and silver con
tract in cooling, and. therefore, are not
suitable for casting.
Strange.
It is strange how a man who sits
for hours doubled over a touring car
steering wheel will strain his back if
he handles a shovel for five minutes.