Show I WHO H W WAS t WHO I IBy By Zy Louise Louisa M AL CO Comstock I a I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Jo HARRIET LIVERMORE A woman oman tropical Intense In thought and ac act In soul IO sou and sense She Sho blended In n a liko degree The vixen and tho devotee US Whittier Whittler paints Into the TADS HUUS charmed circle about ab ut the New England hearth In tn Snowbound the thep p picture of that not half bal welcome halt welcome guest the woman evan evan- evangelist gelist Nor was the picture an nn Im lm Imaginary one Harriet Livermore I was a real eal woman She traveled wide wIde- widely widely ly preached often and eloquently ot of the Imminent second coming of the Christ and once had bad defied every tradition of her sex by talking before congress and twice on the same day For some time she had bad made her home with Lady nester Hester Stanhope until the two o wo had bad over a horse horse they both de do d- d dI desired I I sired to ride when the MessIah I should appear I On her ber return to America she talked herself In and out of ot the good graces of ot the people of ot Ply Ply- Plymouth Plymouth Plymouth mouth Mass She offered to give given n a free lecture in the village church I Three people In succession entered while she was speaking leaving the thedoor thedoor thedoor door open behind them and necessitating necessitating necessitating a pause In her eloquence and her request to close It After the third repetition of the offense she became obviously furious and I refused to proceed until one of ot L the t e audience volunteered to act net as ns door door- keeper door ke keeper per At the lectures lecture's close the speaker announced she had for sale salea a certain brand of pills and asked those who had Interrupted her ber to redeem re redeem re- re redeem deem themselves es by being the first to buyl buy I ALICE IN N WONDERLAND NOT many little girls just turned I- I six find Ond themselves suddenly become heroine of a story book des destined tined to be translated Into twelve languages quoted almost as ns muchas much muchas muchas as Shakespeare and more parodied than any other work In the Co Eng English lish language 1 Nor was Alice Lid Lid- Liddell Lid dell dell more familiar to us as ns Alice In Wonderland so much different from most children But nut she could boast the friendship of Charles Lut Lut Dodgson professor proCessor of ot mathe mathe- mathematics mathematics matics at nt Oxford university who could be persuaded on occasion to entertain story hungry little girls I with the most delightful of ot fairy fantasies Alice first bad her ber adventures ad In wonderland during an afternoons afternoon's boat ride on the river with Dodgson at the oars and her two little sisters sis sisters sitting happily happ y In the stern Then were created those quaint events the thee everlasting e tea party with the Mad Iad Hatter DaUer and the Sleepy duchess crazy garden party the Dormouse the duchess crazy garden party the lobster quadrille quad quad- quadrille rille the curious lullaby for tor the baby baLy who sneezed because lie be knew It teased So delighted was AlIce with her bel adventures nd that the author printed them out Illus illus- illustrated Illus Illus- Illustrated Illustrated them signed them with hIs pen name Lewis Carroll and pre pre- presented presented presented them to her as A ChrIstmas Gift to a Dear Child In Memory ot of ofa ota ofa a Summers Summer's Day Just a n few tew years ago ngo Alice In financial straits sold the precious manuscript at auctIon for tor and It was subsequently resold to an American collector for tor torl l Oooo 1 ROBINSON CRUSOE IT JT IS because Daniel Defoe Detoe was a good newspaper man able to seethe see seethe seethe the story ln in a current news yarn concerning the rescue of ot a marooned sailor from a n desert Island that we have today that universal favorite fa Robinson Crusoe The yarn upon which he based his I book was about one Alexander Sel- Sel Selkirk Sel Sel- Selkirk Selkirk kirk English mariner born at Largo who early went Into In the South seas and by 1704 had earned promotion to com corn command mand of ot the good ship Cinque Ports As the result of a quarrel with his captaIn he was at his own request set ashore at Juan Fernandez a tiny I Island some 30 miles west of ot the const coast of ot Chile where he lived for tour four years and four months much perhaps as did the th character he In Inspired Ue lle was finally rescued by Capt Woodes Rogers and returned re- re returned re returned turned to civilization At the tIme ot of his Ills death Selkirk had bad attained rank of ot lieutenant Not only was It his story upon which Defoe built Robinson Cru Cru- Cru Cru soc soe but Juan Fernandez Is today frequently known as Crusoe's Is Island Is- Is Island Island land and boasts not only many of I I the ver very umbrella trees that figure II I I In the story but a n Crusoe's cave cave II and near the summit of Its high I high highest I est cst mountain Selkirk's Lookout a tablet tablet placed there In In honor honorof honorof honorof of the original Robinson Crusoe I lb 1932 un Western Newspaper Union |