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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH Number Tens ADI BT TOT MAKERS OF IVORY SOAP By ALICE C. ( MEYER-WIN- G fits true, madam by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WNU 8ervlce) took stock of a half worn-ou- t coat, a flimsy blue silk and two print dresses, a wool sweater and one pair of shoes without holes in the soles. Nothing to wear anywhere. Certainly nothing to wear to ft wed- - . ding. And Joe had just sold the calves for a hundred dollars. What a lot of .things a hundred dollars would buy. . . . Oh, well, she knew when she married Joe Reynolds that his farm But theres Just one more payment after this, honey, hed said when she mentioned a rug for the bedroom and Clothes? Why, girl, you al- - ; clothes. to me, and as ways look dressed-ufor a rug well, you Just wait till the last payment is made. Itll hurt your eyes the way weU doll up. Just on.e hundred mor.e and my girlll have a home." And now had come that Invitation And I havent to Ernests wedding. a thing to wear, she told Joe, "except that flimsy old silk and I hate it, Joe. But Jde was Immovable. The payAnd ment must be made promptly. as for that wedding invitation He didnt finish the sentence but Mattie knew the invitation hadnt interested her husband. Well, it Interested her and theyd go. It would be the last affair of tfny kind they would attend together. .Shed endured farm as long as this old, unpaid-fo- r she could. One suitcase would hold Joe every garment she possessed. could have the dishes; their few pieces f furniture. She was sick of the whole mess. But she would like to look nice at had been, Ernests wedding. Ernest fond of her in the old- days. Well, there were those two bills hidden away in the toolhouse. Joe was saving them for seeding the small meadow. And there were and seventy cents-rshkept careful of the count in her dime bank, almost another five. Joe had been dear about dimes for her little bank but tO-- determined about business. Always business first, with Joe. Fifteen dollars would buy that flowered satin dress shed seen In the window, of the village store, iharked and down from shoes. The very best shoes in the store would cost less than five dollars. Here her glance rested upon Joes " best on the closet floor beside her own. Their bulk reminded her of something Ernest had said once, about Joes number tens" being in the way when her future husband had been slow to catch a figure in the square dance. She had resented the inferred comparison .. at the time. Ernest wore sevens. Thoughtlessly, she picked up the big shoes beside her own small ones, idly turned them over. Why I there were holes In the soles. Joes best. Joe would go stark naked to make those detestable payments. Well, let him. Lets see. Where was she? Yes! her dime-banmoney for shoes; the ten dollars for the satin dress. She would walk to the village. She paused before the mirror in the store window. The fresh air had lent additional color to her cheeks, a bluer blue to her eves why, three years couldnt be an eternity. She was still ' young, and lovely and there was the flower-budde- d dress. She felt a bit of civic pride as she looked at the store things in the windows. Like a shop in the city. Mens articles on one side. Womens on the other. With her hand on the doorlatch, she faced the mens window : Shoes. Well, what of it? Of course there would be mens shoes in the mens window. Except for one pair, all her own had holes in the soles. This stony country left its mark, and she and Joe But Joe. hadn't even one pair without holes in the soles. These mens shoes in the window the price screamed at her were exactly Warm, thick-soledressy looking. too She was suffocating warm In the store. She would walk to the post office. Those shoes she would look at the other window as she passed through the door. She walked past the post office, turned and passed it again. On down to the the blacksmith shop. Back again: Rosebuds. Mens shoes. Rosebuds. . But she must burry. She'd planned hot biscuits for Joes supper. She smiled, thinking of her husbands boyish liking for hot biscuits and his pride of her skill in making them. And how proud he was of Heavens! Why need she, at this moment, remera . ber his pride Jn her economies He must never know how shed felt about these farm payments. It was for her a home hed been so determined. for his girl comforting protecting. . . . She put her hand to her face, wet with tears. A thousands loving little characteristics that were Joe came rushing through her mind. Good, genuine, bigfooted Joe. Tears were streaming now. Thinking of Joe and weeping. She liked men with big feet It took a good foundation to build one. Joe was a builder, ner husband. She loved him. She would press the old blue silk, put fresh lace in the neck. Joe had always told her how sweet she looked in blue; blue like her eyes. But she must hurry. the store Boldly, she and when she left It, she carried a single package under her arm: Mens shoes. Number tens. Mattie three-year-ol- Reynolds d p Wakefield; a Restoration of the Birthplace of George Washington. it pass of tolerably but a good Reward a Dubbleloon ($7.16) is my constant gain every Day that the Weather Will permit my going out and Prepared by National Geographic Society. Washington. I. C.) WNU Service. WASHINGTON, soldier has eclipsed George the traveler yet as a traveler, and as a geographer who gained his .information at first hand, the Father of His Country earned the right' to another "first. Many places Washington visited have been unaware of the fact ; other places where he Is reputed to have stopped or "spent the night are far from the verified records of his travels. This Information developed when the map makers of the National Geographic society started on the extensive research task research consuming more than a year to record all of Washingtons Journeys on a single map. Thorough checks was made of the diaries of Washington, of the contemporary accounts of his travels, and in many cases personal visits had t'o be made to places, and musty courthouse files scanned, because of places that have changed names, or have their' names duplicated. The compilation of this information shows that George Washington traveled over a larger area than any other official of his time. His travels extended from the heart of Georgia to Kittery, Maine. Westward, he went to the vicinity of Lake Erie, in Pennsylvania; to the neighborliod of Toint Pleasant, In West Virginia, and to Gallipolis, Ohio. Of three sea voyages Washington-made- , one was to foreign soil, Barbados. But the most amazing aspect of his travels, perhaps, are his journeys on horseback journeys ranging from Virginia to Fort Le Boeuf, and from Mount Vernon to Boston. However, so. far as records show, he did not visit the birthplace of his mother, Epping GEORGE Forest Long Horseback some time Six Pistoles ($21.50)." ' Traveling expenses, were low in those days. Virginia had a law .that rates for .accommodations in 'each county should be fixed by the court thereof, and that any keeper of an ordinary not observing these rates should be heavily fined,, half the fine going to the Informer. The Augusta county court order book shows that a hot dinner cost 9- pence; a cold meal 6 pence; lodging, with clean sheets, 3 stabling and pence; twenty-four-hofodder for a horse, 6 pence ; and corn or oats, per gallon, 6 pence. When it is remembered that the Virginia shillcents of our ing was worth 16 money, we see' that a. hot dinner cost 12 cents and other service In proportion. From Staunton, Washington rode to Fredericksburg by way of Charlottese Journey in ville, making the three days and still being fit enough to play billiards the evening he arrived. On Wednesday, February 4, 1756, Washington set out for Boston to lay ' a case of military precedence before Gen. William Shirley, commander In chief of the British forces in America, lie reached Philadelphia the following Sunday, and took five or six days to. look around the city. ' He apparently made the 90 Intervening miles to New York in two days. And what must the New York of that day have meant to the young Virginian, who had spent the last three years mostly in the primeval forests or fighting French and Indians on the savage Trips. more than a week. Once he. rode 560 ' miles in 16 days. That trip was from Cumberland, Md., to Williamsburg, Va., and two days of the 16 were time out', waiting for an armed escort. He carried the pay for Braddocks army in his saddlebags. Horses often broke under the strain, when public duty called Washington to move with dispatch. For Instance, when riding to Join General Braddock, upon reaching the vicinity of what is now Charles Town, W. Va., he reported that he killed one horse outright and had- - rendered the three others he had brought along unfit for service. When there was no urgency of public business his horses fared better. After his trip to bis western lands in 1784, during which he had twice crossed the Appalachians and had been so far from civilization that he could get no corn for his horse (and nothing or only boiled corn for himself), he sets down with satisfaction that he had traveled 680 miles between the first day of September and the fourth day of October, on the same horses. Washingtons geographic instincts began to develop on this early trip. The trough of the south branch of the Potomac, where many years later President Grover Cleveland fished for bass, he described as (a) couple of Ledges of Mountain Impassable running side and side together for above seven or eight Miles and ye River down beTon must tween them. He adds: Ride Round ye back of ye Mountain for to get below them. With boyish zest Washington ate his evening meal on Friday, April 8. We camped this Night in ye Woods near a Wild Meadow where was a Stack of Hay after we had Pitched our Tent and made a very Large Fire we pulld out our Knapsack In order to Recruit ourselves every (one) was his own Cook our Spit's was Forked Sticks our Plates was a Large Chip as for Dishes we had none. Good Pay, Small Expense. A letter written to a friend while on one of the several other surveying trips be made to the waters of the Shenandoah, the Cacapon, and the South Branch in 1749, 1730, 1751, and 1752 indicates it was the good pay that reconciled young Washington to the hardships of a surveyor's life. Therein he says that' he had not slept above three or four nights in a bed, but after walking all day he lay down before the fire upon a Little Hay Straw Fodder or bairskin which ever is to be had with Man Wife and Children like a parcel of Dogs or Catts & happy he that gets the Berth nearest the fire there's nothing would make ' . 114-mil- frontiers ! A . Washingtons horseback, trips were often arduous. lie was known to average 35 miles a day for periods of ' Visit to New York. flve-doll- miniature, which took 22 years to build. Washingtons enthusiasm for It is written in his accounts, for on two seperate occasions he enters items for treatg. Ladies to ye Mi(cro-cos)m- ." There was also a rout at Mrs. Barons, and tips to the servants in the household of Beverley Robinson, son of the speaker of the Virginia house of burgesses. The young officer was always punctilious in tipping the servants in households where he was entertained, and equally so In entering these items in his account books two traits that have aided a great deal in tracing his travels. Two days before he was twenty-fou- r years old he set out on the last leg of his Journey to Boston, and the Pennsylvania Gazette carried the news that Colonel Washington, of Virginia, but last from Philadelphia, left this city (New York) for Boston. On his way to Boston he stopped with a Mr. Malbone, in Rhode Island. He entered a tip for the latter's servants of 4 and another item of a broken bowL In Boston he stopped at Cromwells Head tavern. He saw General Shirley, who decided the question of command at Fort Cumberland in his favor ; visited a man of war In the harbor, lost some money at cards at the governors house, and then set off for Virginia. But at the governors he had met such people as John Adams, and made a deep impression by his recital of conditions in western Virginia, UnconMaryland and Pennsylvania. sciously he again was playing Into the hands of destiny, for John Adams was one of those who 19 years later Joined with Thomas Johnson of Maryland in making him commander in chief of the American forces. Survey of the Frontier. Another interesting phase of Washingtons travels began when he determined to make a personal survey of the frontier with a view to establishing a chain of forts at the Important passes, in the hope of damming the Indian tribe behind the Allegheny divide. During the French and Indian war days, villages and towns near the frontier had not yet begun to take shape, except in the case of county seats. Tlaces were known as John Smiths Plantation, William Scott's Mill, "raskerToshs Fort," BigLick, ae changing ownerships of five etc. generations, together with the substitution of bridges for fords, have obliterated these names from map and memory alike. It was necessary, therefore, to go patiently through scores of massive land-grabooks, dozens of old deeds books, and all the surwy records that have survived, In order to find out where the early settlers lived. , 5-f- Salt Lake Directory Well-Lighte- 229-23- The ideal Salt Lake City's Vacation Land Winter . Sunshine All Bad Language Long had moved Into the Splendid roads towering mountain neighborhood and Jack, accompanied ranges Highest type hotels dry inair clear starlit nights by his dog, made a call. He came vigorating California's rorsmost Dasart Playground home disgusted and said: Writ Crn Chtrrry Mother, I wouldnt have anything to do with that lady, she says cussing words.' When I went on the CALIFORNIA A new faniily aim Sprinajjo concur SOAP four-dollar- s ed HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE Used in Every Country in the World for More than Generations . Three , tw.elve-seventy-fiv- . There was the Microcosm to visit described at the time as a world in Innocents Abroad porch she said: Dont let that dirty City The traditional site of the Garden cur come on my clean porch. " of Eden, says a U. P. dispatch, Is d OR1SMON A NICHOLS Room now visited by many American tourThis remote region was forAt the United States bureau of ASSAYERS AND CHEMISTS ists. 1 8. West Office and Laboratory merly reached only by caravan, but standards, sample electric lamps Temple St.. Salt Lake City, Utah. P. O. and 1666. 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