The Ogden standard. [volume], July 03, 1915, 4 P.M. CITY EDITION, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 20

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If THE STANDARD MAGAZINE SECTION OGDEN, UTAH. ' ' H
I PikeGuRtys
II
H ! Down in Pike county, Missouri,
M where they raise mules and famouB
statesmen, there is going to be a
I wedding that for a time -will attract
I the undivided attention of the whole
! United States.
James Mcllhany Thomson, ed
I i itor of the New Orleans Item, has
Ij popped the question to Genevieve
If Champ Clark, daughter of Champ
If Clark, the "war horse" of the lower
H house of congress, and they're goih'
H to be spliced Juno 30.
H Of course, Genevlevo Clark has
Hi been away 10 Washington, hob-nob-
Hf bin' with Senators who wear silk
W hats and frock coats and don't chew
M tobacco and even getting to talk to
III President Wilson personally and
Rl goiu' to them high-falutin' dauces
Br aud receptions, but when It came
H time for her to get married she de
li- elded to come back to Pike county
Mi Missouri, and have the ceremony
lr ""'' performed in the little Presbyterian
' church at Bowling Greeu.
I Not that Pike county folks thought
she wouldn't Pike county is used
to sending the mules it raises to
market and the men and women it
raises to prominent places in state
and national politics. Of course, the
county hasn't produced a president
yet. It sort of had its heart set on
the presidency and might have had a
I Pike countyan at the head of the
nation had it not been for the de
feat at the Baltimore convention
when Bryan won the nomination for
Mf Wilson instead of for a son of Pike.
iW" Of course, Pike county felt mighty
R bad about having the presidency lit-
U erally jerked away from it wheu it
III had its heart set on it and it doesn't
111 feel much love for that Mr. Bryan.
H Of course, Pike county-stands back
H of President Wilson and thinks he is
almost as grent a man as its own
I Champ Clark, but it won't stand for
I Bryan, and so he hasn't been in
B vited to come down to Bowling
H Green and see Genevieve Clark mar
H rled.
II However, Pike county wauls Pn s-
Ident Wilson and all the other big
'' people of the country to come to
H Bowling Greeu for that weddiug,
It and iU would like to have the eyes
B' of the whole country centered on
B that beauty spot of Mssouri on I he
H day Genevieve Clark and Editor
HI Thomson wed.
Hi OTHEH BIG
H PRODUCTS.
H Of course, it won't be the first
H time Pike county has won its share
H of fame. Elliott W. Major, governor
H of Missouri, came from Pike, United
I, States District Judge David Patrick
It Dyer and many other famous per-
Hn sons were born in that county and
i were sent forth to win fame for
H i themselves and the county that
H raised them.
H i So down in this beauty spot of the
H i state there will be great rejoicing
H when this prominent marrlago is
I' performed. Preparations already
H are being made. The farmers aided
fl by naturo are making the Clark
RH home the most beautiful in the coun-
MR ty as far ns trees, flowerB nnd
i shrubs count.
The Clark home, known as"Honey
Shuck, Is one of those modest coun
try homes white frame with big
porcheB and big trees protecting it
and flowers blooming all about and
giving off a sweet perfume that al
most makes one go to sleep as he
sits on the porch of a summer after
noon and hears the bees buzzing
about the honeysuckle vines and no
other sound save the occasional
song of the hen as she leaves the
Naturally those who must spend
many months away from home as do
the Clarks when Champ is at Wash
ington aiding in making the laws
and seeing that his constituents get
their allotment of seeds and a copy
of the Congressional Record, cannot
Heep the homo garden aud the trees
as trim as they should be. But peo
ple at Bowling Green have taken
re of the place and roses are
blooming and shrubs running riot
y with color and perfume and thou
sands of lovely annuals are in bloom,
llierearo several acres about tho
rambling old home, but the giant
Jjncy locust trees are it8 jrlory.
crc are the first distinct memories
of the bride to be, when as a little
child she played with the fragrant
flowers and swore that if ever she
married it would bo in June when
the flowers are blooming and the
ceremony would be under f'csc
same trees. v
IN THE
JUNGLE.
Just to the left of the wide walk
leading to the Clark front door Is a
rustic bridge that leads to a favorite
spot known to the family as the
jungle.
It is a famous spot in Clark an
nals, for here the Speaker of the
House sits during his few leisure
hours in the summer and thinks out
his problems and prepares many of
his speeches. Mrs. Clark entertains
all her guests here and tea always
is a delightful treat in this cool and
inviting spot. All around the wide
hospitable looking veranda is a
great border of hardy flowers
and when June is at a close It is a
splendor of regal hollyhocks.
Miss Clark Is undecided as to
where the wedding ceremony will be
performed. She would like to have
it under the spreading locust trees
or in the flower garden, opposite the
jungle, but if the weather will not
permit the marriage will be in the
little Presbyterian church at Bowling-
Green.
All hough Miss Clark has not final
ly decided upon her bridesmaids, it
is believed they will be her two
cousins. Miss Anne and Susan Ben-
p5l JAfv1S MiLHANY THOMSON &
nett of Kansas City. Mo.; Miss Mur
ray Sanderson, Bowling Green; Miss
Jean Poberts, Alexandria, and
Misses Imogen and Dorothy Thom
Hon, Summit Point, W. Va., sisters of
Mr Thomson. New Orleans and
Summit Point friends of Mr. Thom
son will serve as ushers.
'OTED
GThfceremony ,vill be performed
bv Rev. Robert Sherman Boyd, pas,
?or of Lee Memorial Presbyterian
church of Louisville, Ky., who was
married to Miss Belle Herndon of
Fulton. Mo., a niece of Mrs. Claik.
about five years ago.
in addition to the guests of local
'slgnficance there will be scores of
friends from every section and the
MISS GENEVIEVE ((SSM e-
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SS Mil SmmBBSmmmtsKSr
little village will sco tho liveliest
days in its annals. Even the great
hotels of St- Louis will be taxed and
when tho gifts begin to henp up,
gifts of jewels, of gold ana silver, or
precious stuffs In painting and art,
of wonderful curios, laces and em
broideries, It will tax oven the ex
cellent police service of tho city to
provide sufficient guardians.
After the buffet luncheon follow
ing the ceremony at 4 o'clock there
will bo dancing.
Naturally Missouri is solicitous
about this lucky young man who has
won the lovely girl, in every senso
the national belle. And it i3 com
forting to know he seems altogether
worthy of tho boon which fortune
sent him. Genevieve Champ Clark
Is a daughter of Dixie and she could
not really care for anyone who felt
hostile to that sacred cause. She
had hor gallants among the north
ern wing of bachelor legislators and
In the country generally, but, some
how, a man of the South was always
in tho background of her mind as
the Prince Charming.
The Thomsons arc of Scotch orig
in and tho first ancestor of the
groom-to-be came to the colony of
Virginia in the first half of the
eighteenth Century, a minister of tho
church of England and one of the
first permanent shepherds of souls
in tho colony. Ho settled in Fau
quier county and from tho same en
vironment comes the mother of
Miss Clark's fiance, who was Eliza-
yWrfftlf ni ii ii muni in mi mi i mil in hi in "'- - ,-t-. ,, , ,, . -UXJ-UUXyXJ 'H
beth Mcllhany, descendant of rov6
lutionary heroes of London county.
Coming of patrician and aristocratic
Uncage, the TJhomsons had in every
generation a minister and a physi
cian. Dr. Thomson selected his sou ns
his successor in the splendid prac
tice which he had established iu tho
countryside, nnd young Jim went to
Johns Hopkins University and for a
time thought seriously of a medical
career. But with the gaining of his
A. B.dcgrce he wavered first toward
MISSCLARKINA
CHARACTERISTIC POSE
the law and then literature, and
finally cast his lot with the latter
via the journalistic way. He was a
cub reporter 'in Washington early in
his career and he has memories of
seeing the charming little daughter
of the present Speaker of the House
when sho had a black "mammle' in
attendance. But he cannot piove
this entirely. Although Miss Gene
vieve was about years old then
and had a "mammy" as nurse and
may have been taking the ajr in the
Capitol Park at the time Mr. Thora-
MISS CLARK AND HER m
FATHER LEAVING "HONEY- H
SHUCK" FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL LM
son says, sac does not rcmemDcr re ll
and the black "mammy" is dead. Il
Not since the winter of 1002, IH
when President and Mrs. Roosevelt jH
presented their eldest . daughter, H
Alice Lee, affectionately called Prln- WW
cess Alice to society, has so popu- IH
lar a maid been part of official H
Washington. She made a debut, as H
all well-conducted girls do, two jH
years ago, when she had just passed H
her eighteenth blrthdas. but it -was WM
altogether a supererogatory affair, H
since, in the language of her mother, jH
it was silly to talk of her coming , jH
out, as she had never been in, IH
Miss Clark was Courted by the IH
bachelor Representatives, but the IH
true romance that pfesaged the wed- jH
ding in June did not come until dur- ,-JmmA
lng Lhe Baltimore convention. bH
It was when Miss Clark, overcome lH
by her feelings of resentment when IH
she saw her father's defeat for the 1
Presidential nomination could not 1
be prevented, then fell exhausted B
in lhe arms of her school chum, Miss H
Imogen Thomson, sister of tho -i
man who is to become Miss Claik's WM
husband. James Thomson, although WM
he had important duties at tho WM
convention, gave up the afternoon to WM
consoling Miss Clark and returned LWM
with her to Washington. kW
After that the two became fast H
friends and recently he proposed WA
and was accepted on one condition WA
that the ceremony be performed WA
at Bowling Green, Pike county. Mo. LW
Of course, Thomson readily consent- WM
ed. but the Speaker demurred on the JWM
ground that Congress might remain LWa
in session during the summer and WM
he be compelled to stay at Washing- IH
ton. Miss Clark then told the H
Speaker that regardless of whether H
or no Congress remained in session H
a she was going to be married in H
Bowling Green and the ceremony H
was to be iu the latter -part of Juno H
the month when roses are bloom- H
ing their very best in Pike county. W
lVnr Reduces Crime. ;H
The astounding decrease In crime H
in Paris since the outbreak of war is H
attributed by Alfred Capus, in an H
editorial In the Figaro, not to the W
war itself but the atmosphere of mil- H
, itary discipline which has imbued H
all the citizeus since tho beginning jH
of hostilities.; H
"There have not been," says he, tW
"more than two or three really crim- WM
inal acts in the last five months. H
. . Even the Paris apaches fH
have acted in moderation. H
"This cannot be attributed to tho i H
war alouo, for I remember hearing
a magistrate say at the beginning of f
the struggle: 'Here in Paris, in the j.
void caused by the mobilization.
must be feared the growth of a mob
of little apaches of from 14 to 16 '
vears, who will constitute one of p-JH
the gravest dangers of the entire ' )
situation.' I
"The pessimism of this magis- J
trate has not been confirmed by ex-
perlence. Not a siugle young ban- J
dit has attempted to commit any
startling crime, cither of assassina- !.J
tion or of violence. I
"This is because the criminal in- j.
utincU combined with the oppor-
tunlty, does not of itself produce 1
crime. There must also be a special Jr
atmosphere, created either by. for J''i
oxamile, bravado, or by the litera- m a
turc of Uie outer boulevards, and in Ml 1
which this instinct may flourish. frl
"Then, at a given moment, the 8
scattered elcciricity condenses In PMJ
he individual who serves as the llwJ
pole and the spark, which is iho HI
crime, jumps bQtween him and so- Iffffl
- ciety. til
"The war has, for the present. NH
Hiinnressed in Paris the center In EM
which the malefactor flourishes, and fjflfl
the social state which, by its effer- 11
veacence and disorder, attracts th's tH
malefactor. Anarchy in high placet. M
provokes temptation in lower ffl
spheres. 11
fiiH
It spoils the effect, doasu't it..-J l
tell a boy how ludusVioUs lSHihe-Kee, tijSS,
and then let him thfftk of how we ncra
rob the bee of the fmits of its in wBi
duslry?
Gilllcudy Migglebury would have HH
played with his children' for ar Kfl
hour before they went tombed last mm
night, but he had to put injthat hour Wl
reading a magazine articles on "Why EM
Men Should be Co'uiradc's of Theu l
Children." ':" H