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McCORMICK MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940
Bonnet, Sun Suit
and Frock for Tot
I TSING this one
^ (1928-B), you
clever pattern
can make a
pretty complete play wardrobe for
your young hopeful. It includes a
scrap of a sun-suit, a sweet little
frock, and a nice, scoopy, eye-
shading bonnet, and every one of
the three trifles takes practically
no time to make. They’re all just
as comfortable to play in as tiiey
are cute to look at.
The sun-suit consists of straps
and gathers in the back, and is
perfectly straight in the front.
The yoke of the frock is extended
into wings of kimono sleeves, and
rows of braid trim every possible
edge of both the frock and the bon
net. Simple as it is, the pattern
includes a step-by-step sew chart
as well as complete directions.
Gingham, seersucker, percale and
chambray all come in colors
which are particularly nice for
tots’ play togs like this.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1928-B
is designed for sizes 2, 3, 4, 5, and
€ years. Size 3 requires 3% yards
of 35-inch material without nap for
the ensemble; 5% yards ricrac
braid. Send order to:
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Seventy-Five Years Ago This Month
The Whole World Was in Mourning for
America s First Martyred President
“STOP THAT MAN!”—John Wilkes Booth flees across the stage of Ford’s theater in Washington after firing
the shot which ended the life of Abraham Lincoln. (From a drawing in Harper’s Weekly, April 29, 1865.)
IN SPRINGFIELD—Outside the old Globe tavern, where Abraham
Lincoln and Mary Todd spent their honeymoon, members of the martyred
President’s cabinet and other dignitaries awaited the arrival of the
funeral train in Lincoln’s home town.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T IS the evening of April 14,
1865—Good Friday.
On the stage of Ford’s
theater in Washington the fa
mous actress, Laura Keene, is
playing in a delightful comedy,
“Our American Cousin.” Join
ing in the laughter that sweeps
through the audience from time
to time is a gaunt, sad-faced
man sitting at ease in a high-
backed, satin-upholstered rock
ing chair in an upper stage box.
Abraham Lincoln is forgetting
for a few minutes the crushing
responsibilities which he, as
Chief Executive of a nation torn
asunder in civil war, has been
bearing for four long years.
The third act of the play be
gins. The President leans over
to whisper something to Mrs.
LincolnwRositsbesidehim. Nei
ther the Lincolns nor Maj. Har
ry R. Rathbone and a Miss Har
ris, who accompanied them to
the theater, notice that a dark-
moustqphed young man has slipped
through the door at the rear of the
box and is now standing behind the
President.
The next moment there is the
muffled sound of a shot. It is un
noticed by the players on the stage
or the audience, still chuckling over
the last funny line they have heard.
But the President’s head drops for
ward on his breast.*
Startled, Major Rathbone looks
around. Through the smoke he sees
the dark young man with a pistol in
his hand and hears him mutter
something which sounds like “Free
dom!” The major leaps to his feet
and grapples with the intruder, who
slashes at him with a knife, tears
loose from the officer’s grasp and
springs to the front of the box.
As he vaults over the railing, his
spur catches in an American flag
which drapes the front of the box.
He drops heavily to the stage with
one leg doubled under him, then
scrambles to his feet. With blood
streaming from his wounded arms,
Rathbone rushes to the front of the
box.
“Stop that man! Stop him!” he
shouts. “The President has been
shot!”
But everyone is too stunned to
move for a moment. The young
man, waving aloft the bloody knife,
drags himself across the stage and
disappears in the wings. But be
fore he does so, the startled actors
recognize in the white face and the
black eyes blazing with fanatical
hatred the familiar features of one
S f their own profession — 'John
Rilkes Booth.
All this has taken place in less
time than it takes to tell it. The
next moment Ford’s theater is a
pandemonium of screaming women
and shouting men, shoving, push
ing, breaking chairs, crashing
through railings and trampling upon
each other as they surge toward the
stage or try to climb up to the box
where the moaning Mrs. Lincoln is
supporting her stricken husband and
Major Rathbone is trying vainly to
open the door which the assassin
had barred from the inside.
Now the soldiers of the Presi
dent’s guard come bursting into the
theater and with fixed bayonets and
drawn pistols they charge the mill
ing crowd. Their hoarse shouts of
“Clear out! Clear out, you sons of
hell!” rise above the tumult as they
drive the half-crazed audience out
of the theater.
Meanwhile Rathbone has succeed
ed in unbarring the door to thie box
and several people, among them a
surgeon, rush in. They see the tall
form of the President slumped for
ward in his chair, his sad eyes
closed, never to open again. Some
one brings a shutter, torn from a
building near by, and they lay his
gaunt form upon it. They carry
him out of the theater to the house
of Charles Peterson across the
street.
Ford’s theater is empty, deserted
now. Its curtain has been rung
down upon the comedy, “Our Amer
ican Cousin”—and upon one of the
greatest tragedies in American his
tory.
Death at 7:22 A. M.
The next morning Washington
newspapers carried this story:
“The body of President Lincoln,
who died from an assassin’s bullet
at 7:22 o’clock this morning, was
removed -from the Peterson resi
dence opposite Ford’s theater to the
executive mansion in a hearse and
wrapped in the American flag. It
was escorted by a small squad of
cavalry and by Gen. Augur and oth
er military officials on foot. A dense
crowd accompanied the remains to
the White House, where a military
guard excluded the people, allowing
none but persons of the household
and personal friends of the deceased
to enter. Gen. Grant arrived here
at 2 o’clock in a special train from
Philadelphia. His presence tends
somewhat to allay the excitement.
The last lines penned by Mr. Lincoln
were written on a card about 8:15
p. m., while seated in his carriage
in front of the White House just be
fore he started for the theater. They
were addressed to the Hon. George
Ashmun and were as follows: ‘Allow
Mr. Sherman and friends to come
to me at 9 a. m. tomorrow.
‘A. Lincoln.’ ”
Leaf through the pages of James
G. Blaine’s “Twenty Years in Con
gress,” published in 1886, and read
there this description of the events
which followed:
“The remains of the late Presi
dent lay in state at the executive
mansion for four days. The entire
city seemed as a house of mourn
ing. The martial music which had
been resounding in glad celebration
of the national triumph had ceased;
public edifice and private mansion
were alike draped with the insignia
of grief.
“Funeral services, conducted by
the leading clergymen of the city,
were held in the east room on Wed
nesday, the 19th of April. Amid the
solemn tolling of church bells, and
the still more solemn thundering of
minute guns from the vast line of
fortifications which had protected
Washington, the body, escorted by
an imposing military and civic pro
cession, was transferred to the ro
tunda of the Capitol.
“The day was observed through
out the Union as one of fasting and
prayer. Services in the churches
throughout the land were held in
unison with the services at the exec
utive mansion, and were everywhere
attended with exhibition of profound
personal grief.
The South in Sorrow.
“In all the cities of Canada busi
ness was suspended, public meet
ings of condolence with a kindred
people were held, and prayers were
read in the churches.
“Throughout the Confederate
states, where war had ceased but
peace had not yet come, the people
joined in significant expressions of
sorrow over the death of him whose
very name they had been taught
to execrate.
“Early in the morning of the 21st
the body was removed from the
capitol and placed on the funeral
car which was to transport it to its
final resting place in Illinois. The
remains of a little son who had died
three years before were taken from
their burial place in Georgetown and
borne with those of his father for
final sepulture in the stately mau
soleum which the public mind had
already decreed to the illustrious
martyr. The train which moved from
the national capital was attended on
its course by extraordinary mani
festations of grief on the part of
the people.”
As for the story of that sorrow
ful journey westward, no one has
ever told it better than Carl Sand
burg, poet and Lincoln biographer.
The closing words of his master
piece “Abraham Lincoln: The War
Years,” (published this year by
Harcourt, Brace and company)—
words whose stark simplicity remind
one of such writings as the Gettys*
burg Address—are these:
“There was a funeral.
“It took long to pass its many
given points.
“Many millions of people saw
it . . .
“The line of march ran seventeen
hundred miles.
“Yes, there was a funeral.
“From his White House in Wash
ington—where it began—they car
ried his coffin, and followed it nights
and days for twelve days . . .
“Bells tolling, bells sobbing the
requiem, the salute guns, cannon
rumbling their inarticulate thunder.
“To Springfield, Illinois, the old
home town, the Sangamon nearby,
the New Salem hilltop nearby, for
the final rest of the cherished dust.
“And the night came with great
quiet.
“And there was rest.
“The prairie years, the war years,
were over.”
“The Name
Is Familiar—
BY
FELIX B. STREYCKMANS
and ELMO SCOTT WATSON
A Garrison Finish
'T'HEY said you couldn’t possibly
do it, that you hadn’t a ghost of
a chance to win. But in the last mo
ment you “came through” and won
—and that was a “garrison finish.”
It’s called that because it’s the way
Edward H. (“Snapper”) Garrison,
one of the most famous jockeys in
American turf history, won a race
in 1886 when he came from nowhere
with an outsider,
to take the Great
Eastern handicap
at Sheepsljead
Bay, N. Y.
The term stuck
to “Snapper,”
who never liked
“front runners.”
He held ’em back
until they reached
the stretch where,
as he was accus
tomed to remark,
“the money is.”
Garrison’s most
famous race was his victory on
Boundless in the World’s Fair Derby
in Chicago in 1893. On one pretext
or another, such as fixing his straps
and his saddle, he delayed the start
for *an hour and 42 minutes. He spent
most of this time on the ground, thus
keeping the weight off his horse,
while the other jockeys fumed and
their horses wore themselves down
prancing and plunging.
“Snapper” was fined $1,000 for de
laying the race but he didn’t care.
He booted Boundless, a 15 to 1
shot, home in first place and that
“garrison finish” was worth just
$60,000 to his owner!
* • •
E. H. Garrison
Silhouette
T HE silhouette got its name from
Etienne de Silhouette, who was
not an artist but the French minister
of finance in 1759.
By sheer economy, he tried to
remedy the evils of a war that hid
just ended, leaving the country finan
cially exhausted. He enforced so
many rules that only very plain liv
ing was possible for even those
who had money.
Clothes were
made without
folds or frills,
snuff boxes were
of plain wood and
table plate had to
be melted down
to provide money.
So it was that
everything came
to be a la Silhou
ette, which meant
very plain and in
its simplest form. And about this
same time there originated the fad
for having portraits done merely in
outline—no colors, no details—in
other words, just in their plainest
and simplest form. They were
known as pictures a la Silhouette.
Etienne de Silhouette’s rules were
too strict and the people rebelled.
After only nine months Finance Min
ister Silhouette was forced to re
sign and the people went back to
their customary ornate ways of life.
But the outline pictures remained in
vogue and they were called silhou
ettes in memory of the man who
tried to take away all the color and
glamour from the French people.
A Silhouette
Morris Chair
HE next time you sink back into
the comfort of that old morris
chair, you might remember grate
fully the man who made it possible
for you. He was an Englishman
named William Morris. Born in
1834, he was successively—and suc
cessfully—a poet, an architect and a
painter. He built a house in which
furniture, wall
paper, drapes and
household utensils
were all specially
designed.
That suggested
a new occupation
—interior decora
tor. With several
others, Morris
organized a firm
which did all
sorts of interior
decorating. Out of
the work of this
firm, devoted to
the “revival of sounder ideas of
construction and workmanship” and
to winning the English “back to the
massive simplicity of plain oak fur
niture” came the chair which bears
the name of this “painter, designer,
scribe, illuminator, wood engraver,
dyer, weaver and finally printer and
papermaker.”
Oh, yes! He was also interested
in politics, first as a Liberal and
then as a Socialist, for whom he
wrote a rallying song, “Chants for
Socialists.” But when they drifted
toward anarchism, he lost confi
dence in the movement and went
back to his first love, the arts, to
which he devoted himself until his
death in 1896.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
William Morris
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Never run the vacuum cleaner
over loose tacks or other metal
objects on the floor. They may
puncture or cut the dust bag.
* * *
Try this fruit sauce on your
favorite ice cream. Melt a cupful
of jam or jelly in a double boiler.
Add a fourth of a cup of orange
juice. Serve the sauce warm.
* « *
After cooking carrots until ten
der put them through the ricer,
and season and beat as one does
mashed potatoes. Even those who
refuse to like carrots cannot re
sist them thus prepared.
* * *
Corduroy garments should be
washed in mild soapsuds and
rinsed thoroughly in warm water
before being hung up to dry.
• * •
When preparing oranges for a
dessert, pour boiling water over
them and let them stand five min
utes. This will make them much
easier to peel.
Do not soak flannels; it hardens
them. Don’t boil them; it shrinks
them. Wash and dry quickly.
Shake before washing, shake after
washing and before hanging on
the line.
• * *
A whole egg beaten into fresh-
squeezed orange juice and dusted
with nutmeg makes a nourishing
drink for convalescents.
* * *
Soaking dough-encrusted bowls
and dishes in cold water before
washing them in hot, soapy water
makes the task easier.
* * *
To remove brown marks from
china put the articles in a sauce
pan with cold water and a lump
of soda. Put the pan on the stove
and let it boil for 15 minutes.
Then rinse the china well and you
will find that the marks have dis
appeared.
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