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WATERlURY EVENING DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1908. v
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Lady Metty
Across the Water
By C. N. 6 A. M. WILLIAMSON
Copyright. 1906. by
I never heard of such breakfasts and
luncheons as they hare on this ship,
and the first menu I saw surprised me
bo much that I couldn't believe they
really had and could produce all those
things If auybody was Inconsiderate
enough to ask for them. I hardly sup
posed there were so many things to
eat la the world. But the captain
heard me exclaiming to Sally, so he
smiled and told me to test the menu
by ordering a bit of everything on It.
He'd guarantee that nothing would be
missed out. This was at breakfast the
second day, and when he saw that 1
ate several dear little round things
shaped like cream colored doilies,
which are called pancakes (though
they aren't a bit like ours) with some
perfectly divine stuff named maple
sirup, he said my taking such a fancy
to American products was a sign that
I should marry an American.
What nonsense! As if I would
dream of marrying, especially a for
eigner. But for all that oancakes and
maple sirup are delicious. I've bad!
them very day since for' breakfast,
after finishing a great orange four
Itlmes the natural size, which Isn't
really an orange, because It's a grape
fruit You have it on your plate cut
!n two halves, with ice in each, and
you scoop the inside out of a lot of
tiny pockets with a teaspoon. fou
think when you first see it that you
can't eat more than half, but instead
you eat every bit, and sometimes If
the morning is hot you even wish you
could . have more, though, of course,
jou wouldn't be so greedy as to ask.
It was on the second day out, too,
that all my troubles began and in a
queer way which nobody could have
guessed would lead to anything disa
greeable. In the afternoon I was reading in
my deck chair, drawn close to Mrs.
Ess Kay's side, when that Mrs. Van
der Windt whom Sally called a silly
lold thing, toddled up and spoke to us.
Do come and watch them dancing in
the steerage," she said. "It's such
tun."
Mrs. Ess Kay likes sitting still on
Shipboard better than anything else,
tut It seems that Mrs. Van der Windt
5s so important that if all the Four
Hundred Sally told me about were
pruned away except about twenty-five
she would be among the number left;
so probably that is the reason why
Mrs. Ess Kay takes long walks up and
down the deck with her, though it
makes her giddy to walk, and Mrs.
tVan der Windt is not in the least en
tertaining. She got up now, like a lamb about
to be led to the slaughter, except that
she smiled bravely, which the lamb
;would not be able to bring itself to do.
'Come, Betty," she said to me, "it
Itvill amuse you."
"Tea, do come. Lady Betty," repeat
ed Mrs. Van der Windt Whereupon 1
obeyed, little knowing what I was
laying up for myself.
Our deck Is amidships. Aft on a
level with ours, is the second class
n elderly, pinehtd little man teal mo
otonoulv tcraping a battered fiddle.
deck, and for-rsrd, down below, like
Jfpkisg into. pit Is the steerage. We
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walked to the'ratl, over"whfcH' quite
a number of men were leaning, to see
what was going on, and several moved
aside to give us room. I didn't like to
take their places away, especially as
they were laughing and enjoying them
selves, and I could hear the sound of
dance music coming up from below
(such odd sounding music!), but Mrs.
Ess Kay murmured to me that I
mustn't refuse. "American men are
never so happy," she said, "as when
they're giving up something for a
woman. They're used to It."
And evidently she, as an American
woman, was used to taking it She
and Mrs. Van der Windt slipped into
the vacant spaces with a' bare "thank
you," and I had to follow their exam
ple. Wo peered down over the rail,
and there was a sight which would
have been comical if it hadn't been
pathetic.
On rather a rough looking deck,
about twelve feet or more below us,
a dense crowd was collected around
two small squares, which they pur
posely left open. Besides those little
squares every inch was occupied.
There wouldn't have been any more
room for even a baby to sit down
than there was in the Black Hole of
Calcutta. In the crowd were old men,
young men and boys, all poorly
dressed, and old women, young women
and girls, big and little. Tliey wore
crude, vivid colors, and more than half
of them had bright handkerchiefs tied
over their heads. They scarcely took
any notice of the first class passengers
staring down superciliously or pitying
ly at their poor amusements; they
were far too much absorbed In the
dancing which was going on busily I
can't say gayly in the two hoilow
squares. In one of these an elderly,
pinched little man who looked almost
half witted, was monotonously scrap
ing a battered fiddle for two solemn
couples to dance around and around,
always on the same axis. But the
other "dancing salon" was more lively.
There a man dressed like a buffoon,
with a tall hat a lobster claw for a
nose, a uniform with big red flannel
epaulettes and pasteboard buttons cov
erad with gold paper, was pretending
to conduct the band. And what a
band it was!
It consisted of four sailors, rather
sheep faced and self conscious. One
musical instrument was a wooden box
rigged up with strings and a long han
dle, another was formed from a cou
ple of huge soup spoons tied together
on which the player beat rhythmically
with a smaller spoon; the third was a
poker dangling 'from a string banged
heartily with an enormous nail as it
swung to and fro; the fourth was a
queer homemade drum, which looked
as if it had been made out of a wooden
bandbox.
Somehow they contrived to coax out
music of a sort, and a few young men
and girls were solemnly gyrating to it
lu a way to make yon elddv even to
watch. When a man thought he had
had enough or wanted to dance with
another girl, he dropped his partner
with alarming suddenness, bowed stiff
ly without smile or word and left her.
It was evidently etiquette not to speak
to your partner. At the end of a dance
the conductor with the lobster claw
nose looked up to our deck, bowing
low, with his band on his heart, and
then all the audience leaning over the
rail began fumbling In their pockets If
they were men or opening their purses
or gold bags If they were women.
Down poured a shower of small silver
and copper, little boys scrambling to
pick It up and band it to the conductor,
who would, Mrs. Van der Windt said,
divide the money among the members
of his quaint band.
I had a few shillings with me, and
I'd been so much amused that I felt
like being generous. Luckily mother
couldn't see me and scold. I took half
a dozen coins shillings and sixpences
and, wrapping them hurriedly up In
half the cover torn off a magazine I
was reading, I aimed the little parcel
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Generally 1 can throw fairly straight,
for Stan took some pains with that
part of my education when I was a
small girl, but just at that Instant
some one standing next me moved,
knocked me on the elbow and spoiled
my aim.
Instead of falling in front of Mr.
Lobster-Claw, the parcel hit the ear of
n very tall young man among the
crowd below, who bad been standing
with his back to me. He turned quick
ly, not knowing what had happened,
glanced up and caught my eyes, as I
was looking down quite distressed.
I had noticed his figure in the crush
because he towered nearly a head over
every one else, and I had a dim Im
pression that he bad good shoulders,
but seeing his face gave me a great
surprise.
It was as different from all the rest
of the steerage faces as day is from
night, and somehow it gave me quite
a shock that such a man should be
among those others, as if something
must be wrong with the world or it
could not happen. I had even a guilty
sort of thrill, as if I had no right to be
well dressed and prosperous, staring
at him and his companions as though
they were a show which we others
paid to see daring to amuse ourselves
with the hard, strange conditions of
their lives.
I've heard mother say that good
blood is sure to prove Itself, that a gen
tleman can't look like a common man
A man with a tall hat and a lobster
claw for a nose.
even lu rags. Stan disputes that the
ory with her when he isn't too lazy
and wants to. bet he could so disguise
himself that she would take him for a
green grocer or a fishmonger, who have
the air of being commoner than other
men, I think at least In our village at
Battlemead because they wear fat
tufts of curls frothing out over their
foreheads from under their caps, which
are always plaid and made of cloth.
Anyway, If mother is right this man
In the steerage must have the bluest
of blood In his veins, for I never saw
one with clearer, nobler features. And
yet he doesn't give the impression of
a broken down gentleman who has
gone the pace and paid for it by stum
bling into the depths. I thought as be
looked up straight into my face that
first time (and I think still) that no
face could be finer or more manly than
his. Brown deep brown It is, like
bronze, and clean shaved (not rough
and scrubby), with dark gray eyes (I
knew at once they were gray because
the light struck Into them) rimmed
with black lashes so long you couldn't
help noticing them; black eyebrows
and hair short and sleek like Stan's or
any other well groomed man one
knows. Besides, commonness shows In
people's mouths more than anywhere
else. It's hard to define, but It's there,
and this man's mouth Is the best part
of bis face, unless it's the chin or per
haps the nose. I'm not quite sure
which, though I've thought a good deal
about them all, because of the mystery
of finding such a man In such an un
suitable place. It would be Just the
same If you saw a tall palm suddenly
shooting up In the kitchen garden and
couldn't find out bow It had been
planted there.
I'm afraid I must have shown how
surprised I was and admiring, too,
maybe (how can one keep from admir
ing what Is fine and noble, whether It's
a strange person's face, or the profile
of a mountain against a sky at sun
set?), for the handsome steerage pas
senger looked at me a long, long In
stant ss If he were as much aston
ished as I was, and yet with such a
mo .look that In stadpf being an-
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noyed, 1 couldn't help" being pleased.
In the meantime the little packet of
money had fallen on the deck; but
though It had struck him from be
hind, he seemed to realize exactly
what had happened and, . stooping
down, he picked It up. Then be raised
his hand high, so that I could see he
had the crumpled ball of paper in It
and edging bis way determinedly, but
not at all roughly, through the crowd,
hp opened, the parcel and gave the
money to the conductor.
"What a splendid looking man!" I
said In a low voice to Mrs. Ess Kay.
"Isn't it extraordinary that he should
be in the steerage?"
"Come away, my dear child," she an
swered. "I can't have you standing
here to be stared at by low creatures
like that The fellow's not in the least
splendid looking. He's only a big,
hulking animal. Don't take to making
up romances about the steerage pas
sengers, my love. They're not worth
nothing your little head about because
If they weren't born for that sort of
thing, they wouldn't be there, I assure
you."
I didn't say anything more, though I
was vexed with her, both for being so
stupidly conventional and for speaking
to me in such a loud tone that she at
tracted people's attention.
We went back to our deck chairs,
and there was nothing to remind me
of the little episode except the torn
cover of my magazine, on which, I
now remembered, Sally Woodburn had
scrawled my name over and over again
in pencil, just In idleness, while she
and I had been talking that morning.
If Mrs. Ess Kay had known, no doubt
she would have been furious that a
piece of paper with my name on It
should have gone down into the steer
age. But I didn't mind, for I remem
bered that the young man bad opened
the parcel, given the money to the con
ductor, and kept the cover, which
probably be had soon after thrown
overboard or twisted up to light a
pipe.
Nothing more happened that day, bnt
there are two nice American girls on
board, about my own age or a little
older (they seem years older, for they
are so charming and self possessed),
and Mrs. Ess Kay encoarages me to
like them, as they are In Mrs. Tan der
Wlndt's party. 1 grew quite well ac
quainted with them the third day out.
and they' asked me to go and watch
the people In the steerage, who bad a
trick dog which was lots of fan. I
went and saw the bronze young man
again. He was standing with his
arms folded across his blue .flannel
shirted chest leaning against one of
the supports of a kind of bridge, look
ing up toward the first class deck.
Our eyes met as they had before, and
I was so absurd that I felt myself
blushing. I could nave boxed my own
ears, and though the trained dog really
was a pet I didn't stay locr ajr- -,
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"It is strange how" certain kinds of
eyes haunt me. You see them In the
air, as if they were really looking at
you especially when you are Just
dropping off to sleep. I think gray
ones do this more than others. Per
haps it is because they are more pierc
ing. But it was the fourth May that the
climax came the climax which has
ended by upsetting me so much and
has made everything so uncomfort
able. '
The weather was glorious all blue'
and gold after a sulky, leaden day
and there was dancing down on the
steerage deck again. Though it was so
fine, the water was not smooth like a
floor as it had been at first, but broken
Into indigo waves ruffled Irregularly
with silver lace and edged with shim
mering pearl fringe.
The same performance was going
on down there on the crowded deck
that I'd seen the first day, and Sally
Woodburn and I, who had been walk
ingcounting the times we went
around to make two miles stopped to
glance at the show. i
'There's that good" looking man
Cousin Katherine classifies as a hulk
Jng animal," said Sally. "I must really
consult the dictionary for a definition
of the word 'bulking.' I don't know
whether it's a verb or adjective, do
your
"No. I don't," said I. "But which
ever it Is, I'm sure he doesn't or Isn't
He's a gentleman, and something
strange has happened or he wouldn't
be there. I do think it's a shame. It
must be horrible."
"Don't you think Cousin Katherine
knows more about such persons than
you?" asked Sally, and there was such
a funny quaver in her voice that 1
turned to see what It meant She was
laughing, but Mhelber at me or at
Mrs. Ess Kay or at the man with the
lobster claw nose I couldn't tell, and
before I could answer her question by
asking another something happened
which put the whole conversation out
of my mind.
To Be Continued.
HEARST AT WHITE HOUSE.
He Runs Ovsr Far Frv Minutes te 8m
President.
Washington. Nov. 17. W. R. Hearst
ef New York made a call of courtesy
at the White House. His call was at
such sn unusual hour that It caused
remark.
He left the theater .which he and
Mrs: Hearst were attending between
acts, saw the president and was back
In his seat soon after the curtain rose
for the succeeding act '
He said that bo significance was to
be attached to his visit; that be mere
ly took the earliest opportunity after
his arrival here te pay his respects te
the president . -
RANGES
BUILT TO BAKE
Why experiment wnen you want a Ranger
When you buy a Household you get all that is BEST
in a Range. Fifty years of experience has gone into
their building. More Households sold here than any
other make, what is the reason ?
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Yellow
Front
MEET TO BOOM
WATERWAYS.
National Movement Begins
In Baltimore Today.
CAPE COD TO KEY WEST.
Scops ef Deeper Waterway! Associa
tion's Work Embraces Entirs Atlan
tie Sosboard of the United 8tates.
'Success Mtant Strengthening ef the
Hands of the Breadwinners of the
Country, Declares Congressman J.
Hampton Moor.
Baltimore, Nov. 17. With nearly BOO
delegates in attendance, the' first an
nual convention of the Deeper Water
ways association began here today.
The convention will last three days
and Is expected to be productive of
good results in the promotion of Amer
ican maritime interests. Its primary
object is the advocacy of the move
ment to build an inland waterway
connecting Boston with Key West,
practically the entire length of the At
lantic seaboard of the United States.
More than 200 associations are banded
together to promote the movement
. The president of the Deeper Water
ways association Is Congressman J.
Hampton Moore of Philadelphia, who
delivered the address welcoming the
delegstes and outlining the objects
of the association. He predicted a
successful outcome of the association's
work, declaring It to be oos In which
the entire American people are vitally
Interested.
Scops ef the Association's Work.
In speaking of the association's work
Mr. Moore ssld:.
"If the opening of a waterway from
the north aide ef Cape Cod to Long
Island sound means the saving ef a
single life, employed la the shipping
trade, why should we not strive for
the completion of It?
"When we know as a matter of rec
ord that hundreds of human lives are
lost upoa the shoals of Cape Cod and
that millions of dollars' worth of val
uable property is wrecked because
there Is no Inside passage, why should
we hesitate te put our engineers at
work and make a short cut Inland
that will provide a safe harbor for
shipping and a haven for the men who
re engaged In that Important occupa
tion? "If the deepening of aa Island eban
ae fcetweejal! Delaware river and
LANGLEY
the Chesapeake bay will give to Amer
ican ships of war a safe inside psssags
and a harbor for repairs or for stores
In times of peace or tn times ef war,
and will save an outside sailing dis
tance of hundreds of miles, with all
Its perils, why should a great nation
like this hesitate to provide such deep
er channel? '
j Commercial Signifioanoe,
I "If,, again, and I regard this as of
greater concern to the common people,-the
deepening of such a water
way between any such porta along the
Atlantic coast or from any point of
production to any point ef shipment
will enable the farmers or the manu
facturers to do more business) than
they hitherto have dons or will pro
vide facilities that will attract Ms
and encourage the development ef
American shipping, why should we net
provide such waterways and thus
strengthen the hands of the breadwin
ners of our country ?"
Turkish Aid to Persia.
Tabriz, Nov. 17. Turkish officers art
assisting Satar Khan in fortifying the
town ae-ainst the forces of the shah. ..
General Lucas Dies Suddenly.'
Laurenceburg, Ind., Nov. 17. Brtga
dier General Thomas J. Lucaa dies'
suddenly at bis home here.
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Cleaning sua repairing.
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