Show I 4 M i I I I hiI Il I WHO W WAS AS WHO By Louise Lalli M. M Comstock IIII I I 1 1 1 I 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I-h-I-I-I-I-I-I-I I H I I I 11 I I I I-i-I I I I I I 1 I I-I-I 1 1 1 HARRIET ARRIET LIVERMORE A woman tropical intense In thought and act net act In sou and sense Sho blended In a n like 1110 degree The Tho vixen and devotee Tn as Whittier paints Into the 1 charmed circle about the New England hearth in th Snowbound the picture of oC that not half bait welcome guest the woman evan evan- gelist Nor was the picture an Imaginary Im tin- one Harriet Livermore LI was n a real woman she traveled widely wide wide- ly Iy preached of often ten and eloquently of the Imminent second coming of the Christ and once had defied every ery tradition of her sex by talking before congress and twice on the same day For some time she had made her home with Lady Hester nester Stanhope until the two had bad quarreled over o a horse they both desired desired de do- sired to ride when the Messiah should appear On her return to America she talked herself In and out of ot the good graces of the people of Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth Ply Ply- mouth Mass She offered to give gl glea a free lecture In the village church Three people In succession entered while she was speaking leaving the thedoor thedoor thedoor door open behind them and necessitating necessitating a pause in her eloquence and her request to close close It After the tile third repetition of the offense she became obviously furious ant and refused to proceed until one of the audience volunteered to act as door door- kec keeper per At the lectures lecture's close the speaker announced she had for sale salea a certain brand of pills pUls and asked those who had Interrupted her to r redeem redeem re re- deem themselves by being the first to buyl buy I C C S SALICE ALICE IN WONDERLAND N NOT OT many little girls Just turned six find themselves suddenly become heroine of a story book destined destined des des- tined lined to be translated into twelve languages quoted almost as much muchas as Shakespeare and more parodied than any other work In the English Eng Eng- lish language I Nor was Alice Liddell Liddell Lid Lid- dell more familiar to us as Alice In Wonderland so much different from most children But she could boast the friendship of Charles Lut Lut- Dodgson professor of mat mathematics mathe mathe- matics at nt Oxford university who vho could be persuaded on occasion to entertain story-hungry story little girls with the most delightful of fairy fantasies Alice AIIce first had her adventures ad In wonderland during an afternoons afternoon's boat rl ride e on the river with Dodgson at nt the oars a and d her two little sisters sisters sisters sis sis- sis sis- sitting happily In the st stern rn Then were created those quaint quain events the tue the everlasting e tea ten party with the Mad Hatter and ana the Sleepy duchess duchess' crazy garden party part th the Dormouse the duchess duchess' crazy y garden party the lobster qU quad quad- lI rille nIle the curious lullaby for tor the baby who sneezed because e knew It teased So delighted was Alice with her adventures that the author printed them out III liS' liS them signed them with his pen pea name Lewis Carroll and presented presented pre pie them to her as A Christmas Gift to a n Dear Child In Memory l o oa of ofa a Summers Summer's Day Just a few years ago ngo Alice in financial straits sold the precious manuscript at auction for and It was subsequently res resold ld to an American collector forS for S S S ROBINSON CRUSOE IT IT IS because Daniel Defoe was a aI I good newspaper man able to seethe seethe see seethe the story ID I'D a current news yarn concerning the rescue of ot a marooned sailor from a n desert Island that we have ha today that universal favorite fu Robinson Crusoe The yarn upon which he based his book was about one Alexander Selkirk Sel Sd- kirk English mariner born at Largo who early went Into in the South seas and by hy 1701 i had earned promotion to com corn mand inand of the good ship CI Cinque que Ports As the result of a n quarrel with his captain he hc was at his own request set ashore at ut Juan Fernandez a tiny Island some 3 80 0 miles west of the coast const of Chile where he lived for four years and four months much perhaps as ns did the character he In lie Ele was finally rescued by Capt Woodes Rogers and anel re returned returned returned re re- re turned to civilization At the time of his death Selkirk had attained rank of lieutenant Not only was It his story upon which Defoe built huilt Robinson Crusoe Crusoe Crusoe Cru Cru- soe but Juan Fernandez Is today frequently known as Crusoe's island island is is- land and boasts not only man many orthe of or the very umbrella trees that figure In the story but a Crusoe's cave e and near the summit of its highest high high- est eat mountain Selkirk's Lookout a tablet placed there In 1803 In honor honorof of the orI original Robinson Crusoe I S 1932 Western Vestern rD Newspaper NC Union |