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CAPE MAY STAR AND WA¥t. ALBERT R. HAND, President. A. L. EWING, Adv. Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE: This paper is entered at the post} affice as second-class postal matter. STAR & WAVE PUBLISHING CO. On the mation of George ‘x neeting of s the: Convention. Hall part of the: commissione on. — Under: the ruling . of . the Headquarters of the War Camp Community: Service, mone. of their local wed tr adit age to any dan stood that not . They feel that the time has come when everybody should enjoy the Pier equally. va--- -, CAPE MAY HARBOR Cape May‘s harbor | is without . a ! doubt the basis on which the future prosperity and growth of this city will! be based. A harbor is one of | the three or four essentials which tend to | make a city advance, and in this re | spect, cape Hay is highly fortunate. Our harbor las been developed and improved until it is attaining a reputation. Throughout the war, the | hatbor| rerved in the capacity of a base for submarine patrol boats, and is . now serving aé i submarine base, naving had for sometime two large mother ships, with fifteen . subms.inz« . anchored inzide her jetties. A permanent Naval Base at the harbor is practically a certain‘y, an with some effort on the part of the musici pal administration, fishing . companSes, and other maritime enterprises could be persuaded to estab‘ish head» quarters here. It seems as though the harbor had a bright future, abd the success of the harbor is fundamentally the success of Cape May. becmmmmms acs commmmmment ‘Mot Mard to Trace Origin and Reason |__ for the Gazebe in Architectural Mo name could be more descriptive Jeony, which was erected for the pur pose of enabling anyone to gaze about; | feemmon to the race, and contrivances jof all kinds have been called for throughout the ages, and will contivue ‘to be, to enable people to pry into their nelghbora‘ affairs; and architect {ural solutions of the problem must al{wass be as interesting as they have frequently proved most picturergue. Doubtless in the remotest antiquity such means of prying were in vogue, ‘and the hanging gardens of Babylon may have presented replicas of the towers of Kent or Chambers; but we | {will go no further back for examples | ‘than Pliny‘s ville at Laurentum, The | Piinys, me we know, were of a very | foguiring turn of mind, and are most appropriately commemorated at Como, | their supposed birthplace, on the weat | tr- nt of the cathedral. by a sculptured | representation of each engaged In look» | ‘tng ont of a window. Thus it was that when Pliny the Younger built his cele- | brated silla he gave it two towers, and ms they could be used neither for de fenise in such a place nor for smoking rooms mt such a period, we can only euppore them to have been erected | ito nerve as gezebos where he could | Jook into the grounds of is neighbors and watch their Incomings and outgoJugr.J, Travenor Perry In Architect (England). ° | Joe‘s Mistake. Sixyearold Joe bad the influenss. Enowing that Aunt Anne always brought gifts to her sick nephews and mleces he expressed a desire to see | . She eame and brought with her | several tors and books. Eightyear | old Virginia and Aunt Anne were both at Toc‘s bedside when mother brought In his medicine. . Joe fretted agaiast taking it, and Aunt Anne generously offered: "If you‘l take it like a Itt tie man suntle will get you a now soldiers cap," she promised. A few minntes later in the dining room adjoining the elck room she | beeaiificadLiiineg Geena CRC CEri take on enough, Jor," Virginia LB erfticising her brother. . "If you hed | eried ood like everything you‘d a got ;s whole suit of clothes," _---___ Good From Alchemy. ‘The philosopher‘s stone never ez ‘sted except bypothetically in the imwmgination of credzious humanity, But out of the efforis of many thoughtful men the present has grown with its sclightened views and fuller knowledge. Alchemy, although in many rewpects a remarkable example of the extent to which buman reason may aberrate, can naver be without human

When Myra Forgave nao , By ROSE RAWSON (Copyright, 1M18, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) The fre was in aplendid condition, and cnesfully avoiding the people sho knew in the crowd about the bont Ind: Ing, Myra struck out with long power ful strokes for up thy river. She was in no mood for company. She wanted: to bec alone and. thisk things over. | It‘ > serfous thing when a adr wives tis a first cupugement ring and Informs the donor that she never saints to see him in, | That experience had come to Myra that af ternoon. It haid all been rltculousty. foollxks Tom bi scoffed at her for biving ned the Browning. elut,. decturing Browning to he a prize ps n poet. | She. hind tiken offend bey hind had their first quar hnd wiven back his ring and he had gone aff in dudgeon, leaving her with the afternoon on. her hinds, They bad planned to skate to Riverdale, five miles up the river, have supper there and skate back by moonlight. | Now it wis all spofled and she most skate alone. She was fond of the Ice and the swift motion and the bracing aiz soon put her in a more pleasant frame of mind. Perhaps she bed been hasty in giving back the ring, but then ft Is not every day that one is elected the president of a literary club, und he might at least have congratulated hen upon her YForid over Nettle Doran. Sos mow they seemed so black and forbid» She was still glancing up as ber skate struck a bit of wood frozen Into the ico, and With a cry sho sank to the gizssy surface. She struggled to her feet, but with another little mosn to one knos; abe had sprain-

She Gave up trope of Help Coming.} haps some of the others would take it tuto their heads to skute up and they would give her help. If no one came she would try to creep buck after she had rested. But after an hour she gave up hope | ot help coming, . She was so bom | she could scarcely move. She began to ery softly. If she could not get to | the lower end of the cut where sho | might attract attention of someone on | shore abe might freeze to death, With infinite labor she crawled a few ors s Gécwn again.. Perbape they might miss ber at the landing and remember that whe bed gone up the river. They would send out a searching party for her, It might be an hour or more be | fore ahe could hope for help, but the fea brought her some comfort, though it did not check the flow of tears. Then her quick ears cought the wel« eome sound of the ring of atee! on the hard‘ tes and she tried to struggle to her feet. Around the bend above, Tom Run: yon came with powerful strokes, He was looking straight aheed, and in the dusk he prssed her.. Before she could gin the cournge to call to him he stopped suddenly and turned. In a Bash he was at her side, kneeling before her. "What‘s the matter, dear?" he asked. "Are you burt?" "I‘ve sprained my ankle," she sobbed, "and I‘m tired and cold and hungry, and it burts an awful lot.. I‘m so mie arable." — "How long have you been here?" he ed. "Hours," she mosned. . "It seeme ltke daye and it‘s so black and lone » some. "Poor little girl," be maid. tenderiy, boo hs nout o m ak

Zoi 10 Ue mhunig neu vorfew a She graped . his. coat . in . teraor. "Dont leave. ine," she. pleaded. . "T think I would go er "It would take only ten minutes of #0," he argued, but whe kept w. cab» vulsive bold apes his cont, | Presentiy «n Iden struck him "Can you stand on your ather font?" eid. — SWI It bear your selght?" ac at Std he helped her to tise, . She winced by the lime foot struck the fee, but she smiled. bravely. "I think 1 enn," she satd. Torm dropped on one knee snd sturt» 6d to wntasten the kate on the Inlured foot. ankle wise so swollen that he lind to car the strap f presently he ruse and . girs hinds. | "Now eep the foot up minded, "and fet roe tow yon. Tt wa a litle schwourd . at first. Thay skated together nleely, but now | she. could not tke io strake, mere | sltdfng long upon. the ebsgle. runner and lenning heavily mentust him for support, . Under his corching she «oon eaught the tdea, nnd. presently they were awhudgt itong at n good pree. | The hijursd foot nehed with the mo« ton and weight of the boot, but It ws comforting to feel Tom‘ etrong hand» | clasp ind to lean ngninst his shoulder ns they sped. along. Somehow she hind never realized what a strong man he was until sho felt herself being carried nlong ntmost | without an effort. It was lers: thin ten minutes before they came in sight | of the town as they turned the last boaid "Looks kind of good, doesn‘t It?" he laughed, as she gave a cry of delight. " thought I never should see it meatn," she confemsed. "I bad almost given up hope." "Tm glad it was you," she mur ured. mm "Are you?" he asked in surprise, "I thought you would rather have had almost anyone else rescue you." "I did feel that way for a moment," sho confessed, "when I first saw It was you. I wonder why you turned around." "Bomething seemed to stop me," he explained. "It was a funny sort of feeling. I fust seemed to sée you behind me, and I had to turn around to make certain. It seemed almost as if a great hand made me stop." "T think it was fate," abe said, softly. "Maybe I sort of balf saw you, and was not conscious of it until I bad passed you," he suggested. "I would rather belleve it was fate," pho perstated. "Bo would L" be said scberiy. "Here‘s the landing.? The crowd had left the fce and had gone home to nupper. ‘There were no wleds around, so he slipped off his skates and canght her up in his arm« "It‘s only a couple of blocks,* he anid. "We‘ll get home more quickly this way," She did not make any comment until he had carried her Into the house and had bestowed her comfortably. upon the sofa. — As he turned to go she spoke bis name softly. . He turned brck, "Will you be aver after ten?" sho neked. "urcly," he answered, "I shalt want to know how you are getting nlong," "Will you bring the ring," she whis ered have It right here," ho cried, eag» erly. Por nnswer she stretched out her hand nnd he slipped It on. "This makes me think of the only Browning I know," he laughed. "Re member: *‘There‘s a time in the liven of most women and: men, When nll would go smooth and everf only the dead know when

To come back and be forgiven." "I forgate you long before that," she whispered. . "I ente more for you then I do for Browning." is NOT MERE sUPERstiTION The Touching of Weed, Supposed to Drive Away Bad Luck, Had its Origin Many Centuries Ago. Like mont modern superstitions, the "touching of wood" In really a revival of a very old practice. Various nourcen are given an Its origin, one being the medieval proctice of carrying about an alleged plece of the True Crom and teuching It upon nppropriate occasions {perhaps . with a reference to 8t, Paul‘s phrase: . "God forbid that I should glory mave in the Cross of the Lord Torus Christ"). . Another: Inves: t!xator suggents that the Iden In very much older thin Chrfrtianity, nnd was originally. mmsociated with the secred trees and grover round the pagan tem | ples, . He adds: — "The superstition had a practical side to It, ns fugitives from hostile atmles or the forces of the law took refuge In woods, where they were comparatively anfe from pursuit, . Bo well was this recornized In this country that we find in the ‘Pore ent Lows‘ that all travelers leaving the wood for the road or the open country should blow three notes upon a horn before emerging, so that alt whould know that they were ‘good men and true?" . An cld Scottish dominio hnd another but analogoun derivation, "Churches In early times," he maine tained, "were in many case® sanctuaries from both the law and the op. pressor. ‘Those who sought refuge in them u..., when attempts were made to dislodge them, to cling to the altar rails, commonly of wood, and so long ms they maintained thair bold they wore safe"

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So It Dign‘t Get in the Paper. "1 culled you this morning und told you mbout a ficht," said a feminine vole on the telephone to in Emporia urette reporter the other day. flit lins heen settled out of court end I wish gou wouldn‘t say anything about it In the paper." "Whe is (ix talking?" inquired the reporter. "I don‘t want to give you my name, but this is one of the Initiex that war Io the fight"-Kunsas City Stur. In the Vernacular. R "Rather unusual ense io the court of domestic relations," "Fell me about It." "A husband claims that his wife won‘t live with him since whe got m job In a munitions plant at £85 a week." "Aud what is the bone of contention between thei { "There are 35 ‘bones‘ of contention. He thinks he‘s entitled to her wages" bllusdLo oA ds Bam knocked nt the door, "Is Misa Hannah in?" he inquired, pompounly. "Too very sorry, sab, but Miss Han mah am Indizposed," was the resly. "Ah bef pabdon; In de which?" "She am Indixposed." "Hmm, that‘s very strange". said Bem. "Ah was talkin‘ to her last night and she didn‘t say nothin‘ about goln‘ out ob town." ALL KNOW SIGN LANGUAGE Pecullarity of tnhabitents and Visit era to Beautiful Island Town of Maesachusetts, Sign language is the chief means of expression of the entire population of the township of Chilmark, Marthas Vineyard Iland, Massachusetts. With its rolling country, pretty lakes and inleta, it to the most picturesque part of this beautiful island, . Visitors who have fnvaded its qulet atmosphare declored Chilmark is a "paradise on earth." Deaf and dumb folks rule the quaint old tsland township. . The . general store and post office In conducted by a deaf mute; the village church to in charge of & deaf mute clergyman; the fish and lobster Induatries, the truck gardens and the ‘dniry farms are all operated by deaf and | dumb people. — Indeed, there is no family of the 400 Inhabitants in which the sign language | i» | not | understood . and apoken. It all came about in this way: Thirty or forty years ago Chilmark was a deaf mute colony, . Practically every family living there now traces from deaf mute nncestry, In a few cares entire fanillies today are made up of deaf mutes, as were their fathere and mothers before them for over huif a century thus nflicted. "Bummer people" bave come to large numbers and they bave all learned the sign Imnguage-In order to buy their supplies of the dent mutos, Plenty of unusunl experiences are to be had there, One family of visttore recently was In need of potatoes. They carried a potsto to a farm to whow what they wanted, ‘The farm er‘ wife went Into the house, got a telescope and storied to another farmhouse on a fa-off hillside, Very soon that neighbor spperred carrying a teleacope and a bushel of potatoes, In every home there !s a telescope and alo & retired sea captain,» Church Made From a Single Tree, ‘There In m church In Sonta Rosa which enjoys the distinction of being conntructed entirely from " a . siugle This tree from which the tim bers, lumber and thingles were cut was a giant California redwood, ang a considerable amount of timber was left over after the bullding war com. pleted. It has a spire of 70 feet, an auditorium seating 600, & Patior seat. Ing 80, a pastor‘s Mudy 80d n large vestibule. ‘There ate D6t many build. toga in the world to which All the tim. bers, Including its Oolshings, have obtained from a lagle treeFrom "Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage," Carrie Adell Strahorn. ___.. From the Front Representative Reavis of Nebraska front," he said, "betwee to 7oung chaplains of qifferent denominations. The mentor chaplain got the better of the quarrel, ""Let us bury the batchet mp brother:‘ he sarg, . safter all. we Are ots doing the Lords work, A10 We not ""We certainty are,‘ said t# J8910¢ chaplain, quite dirarmed. At Us, therefore; said the 8010 £00700, ‘to It to the beat of OU° Sbil 1t7. 798 in your way, and I 18 bit"

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