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Show I PikeGuRtys II H ! Down in Pike county, Missouri, M where they raise mules and famouB statesmen, there is going to be a I wedding that for a time -will attract I the undivided attention of the whole ! United States. James Mcllhany Thomson, ed-I ed-I i itor of the New Orleans Item, has Ij popped the question to Genevieve If Champ Clark, daughter of Champ If Clark, the "war horse" of the lower H house of congress, and they're goih' H to be spliced Juno 30. H Of course, Genevlevo Clark has Hi been away 10 Washington, hob-nob- Hf bin' with Senators who wear silk W hats and frock coats and don't chew M tobacco and even getting to talk to III President Wilson personally and Rl goiu' to them high-falutin' dauces Br aud receptions, but when It came H time for her to get married she de li- elded to come back to Pike county Mi Missouri, and have the ceremony lr ""'' performed in the little Presbyterian ' church at Bowling Greeu. I Not that Pike county folks thought she wouldn't Pike county is used to sending the mules it raises to market and the men and women it raises to prominent places in state and national politics. Of course, the county hasn't produced a president yet. It sort of had its heart set on the presidency and might have had a I Pike countyan at the head of the nation had it not been for the defeat de-feat at the Baltimore convention when Bryan won the nomination for Mf Wilson instead of for a son of Pike. iW" Of course, Pike county felt mighty R bad about having the presidency lit- U erally jerked away from it wheu it III had its heart set on it and it doesn't 111 feel much love for that Mr. Bryan. H Of course, Pike county-stands back H of President Wilson and thinks he is almost as grent a man as its own I Champ Clark, but it won't stand for I Bryan, and so he hasn't been in-B in-B vited to come down to Bowling H Green and see Genevieve Clark mar-H mar-H rled. II However, Pike county wauls Pn s- Ident Wilson and all the other big '' people of the country to come to H Bowling Greeu for that weddiug, It and iU would like to have the eyes B' of the whole country centered on B that beauty spot of Mssouri on I he H day Genevieve Clark and Editor HI Thomson wed. Hi OTHEH BIG H PRODUCTS. H Of course, it won't be the first H time Pike county has won its share H of fame. Elliott W. Major, governor H of Missouri, came from Pike, United I, States District Judge David Patrick It Dyer and many other famous per- Hn sons were born in that county and i were sent forth to win fame for H i themselves and the county that H raised them. H i So down in this beauty spot of the H i state there will be great rejoicing H when this prominent marrlago is I' performed. Preparations already H are being made. The farmers aided fl by naturo are making the Clark RH home the most beautiful in the coun- MR ty as far ns trees, flowerB nnd i shrubs count. The Clark home, known as"Honey Shuck, Is one of those modest country coun-try homes white frame with big porcheB and big trees protecting it and flowers blooming all about and giving off a sweet perfume that almost al-most makes one go to sleep as he sits on the porch of a summer afternoon after-noon and hears the bees buzzing about the honeysuckle vines and no other sound save the occasional song of the hen as she leaves the Naturally those who must spend many months away from home as do the Clarks when Champ is at Washington Wash-ington aiding in making the laws and seeing that his constituents get their allotment of seeds and a copy of the Congressional Record, cannot Heep the homo garden aud the trees as trim as they should be. But people peo-ple at Bowling Green have taken re of the place and roses are blooming and shrubs running riot y with color and perfume and thousands thou-sands of lovely annuals are in bloom, llierearo several acres about tho rambling old home, but the giant Jjncy locust trees are it8 jrlory. crc are the first distinct memories of the bride to be, when as a little child she played with the fragrant flowers and swore that if ever she married it would bo in June when the flowers are blooming and the ceremony would be under f'csc same trees. v IN THE JUNGLE. Just to the left of the wide walk leading to the Clark front door Is a rustic bridge that leads to a favorite spot known to the family as the jungle. It is a famous spot in Clark annals, an-nals, for here the Speaker of the House sits during his few leisure hours in the summer and thinks out his problems and prepares many of his speeches. Mrs. Clark entertains all her guests here and tea always is a delightful treat in this cool and inviting spot. All around the wide hospitable looking veranda is a great border of hardy flowers and when June is at a close It is a splendor of regal hollyhocks. Miss Clark Is undecided as to where the wedding ceremony will be performed. She would like to have it under the spreading locust trees or in the flower garden, opposite the jungle, but if the weather will not permit the marriage will be in the little Presbyterian church at Bowling- Green. All hough Miss Clark has not finally final-ly decided upon her bridesmaids, it is believed they will be her two cousins. Miss Anne and Susan Ben- nett of Kansas City. Mo.; Miss Murray Mur-ray Sanderson, Bowling Green; Miss Jean Poberts, Alexandria, and Misses Imogen and Dorothy Thom-Hon, Thom-Hon, Summit Point, W. Va., sisters of Mr Thomson. New Orleans and Summit Point friends of Mr. Thomson Thom-son will serve as ushers. 'OTED GThfceremony ,vill be performed bv Rev. Robert Sherman Boyd, pas,-?or pas,-?or of Lee Memorial Presbyterian church of Louisville, Ky., who was married to Miss Belle Herndon of Fulton. Mo., a niece of Mrs. Claik. about five years ago. in addition to the guests of local 'slgnficance there will be scores of friends from every section and the MISS GENEVIEVE ((SSM e- CI ARK J SS Mil SmmBBSmmmtsKSr p5l JAfv1S MiLHANY THOMSON & little village will sco tho liveliest days in its annals. Even the great hotels of St- Louis will be taxed and when tho gifts begin to henp up, gifts of jewels, of gold ana silver, or precious stuffs In painting and art, of wonderful curios, laces and embroideries, em-broideries, It will tax oven the excellent ex-cellent police service of tho city to provide sufficient guardians. After the buffet luncheon following follow-ing the ceremony at 4 o'clock there will bo dancing. Naturally Missouri is solicitous about this lucky young man who has won the lovely girl, in every senso the national belle. And it i3 comforting com-forting to know he seems altogether worthy of tho boon which fortune sent him. Genevieve Champ Clark Is a daughter of Dixie and she could not really care for anyone who felt hostile to that sacred cause. She had hor gallants among the northern north-ern wing of bachelor legislators and In the country generally, but, somehow, some-how, a man of the South was always in tho background of her mind as the Prince Charming. The Thomsons arc of Scotch origin orig-in and tho first ancestor of the groom-to-be came to the colony of Virginia in the first half of the eighteenth Century, a minister of tho church of England and one of the first permanent shepherds of souls in tho colony. Ho settled in Fauquier Fau-quier county and from tho same environment en-vironment comes the mother of Miss Clark's fiance, who was Eliza- yWrfftlf ni ii ii muni in mi mi i mil in hi in "'- - ,-t-. ,, , ,, . -UXJ-UUXyXJ 'H beth Mcllhany, descendant of rov6-lutionary rov6-lutionary heroes of London county. Coming of patrician and aristocratic Uncage, the TJhomsons had in every generation a minister and a physician. physi-cian. Dr. Thomson selected his sou ns his successor in the splendid practice prac-tice which he had established iu tho countryside, nnd young Jim went to Johns Hopkins University and for a time thought seriously of a medical career. But with the gaining of his A. B.dcgrce he wavered first toward MISSCLARKINA CHARACTERISTIC POSE the law and then literature, and finally cast his lot with the latter via the journalistic way. He was a cub reporter 'in Washington early in his career and he has memories of seeing the charming little daughter of the present Speaker of the House when sho had a black "mammle' in attendance. But he cannot piove this entirely. Although Miss Genevieve Gene-vieve was about years old then and had a "mammy" as nurse and may have been taking the ajr in the Capitol Park at the time Mr. Thora- MISS CLARK AND HER m FATHER LEAVING "HONEY- H SHUCK" FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL LM son says, sac does not rcmemDcr re ll and the black "mammy" is dead. Il Not since the winter of 1002, IH when President and Mrs. Roosevelt jH presented their eldest . daughter, H Alice Lee, affectionately called Prln- WW cess Alice to society, has so popu- IH lar a maid been part of official H Washington. She made a debut, as H all well-conducted girls do, two jH years ago, when she had just passed H her eighteenth blrthdas. but it -was WM altogether a supererogatory affair, H since, in the language of her mother, jH it was silly to talk of her coming , jH out, as she had never been in, IH Miss Clark was Courted by the IH bachelor Representatives, but the IH true romance that pfesaged the wed- jH ding in June did not come until dur- ,-JmmA lng Lhe Baltimore convention. bH It was when Miss Clark, overcome lH by her feelings of resentment when IH she saw her father's defeat for the 1 Presidential nomination could not 1 be prevented, then fell exhausted B in lhe arms of her school chum, Miss H Imogen Thomson, sister of tho -i man who is to become Miss Claik's WM husband. James Thomson, although WM he had important duties at tho WM convention, gave up the afternoon to WM consoling Miss Clark and returned LWM with her to Washington. kW After that the two became fast H friends and recently he proposed WA and was accepted on one condition WA that the ceremony be performed WA at Bowling Green, Pike county. Mo. LW Of course, Thomson readily consent- WM ed. but the Speaker demurred on the JWM ground that Congress might remain LWa in session during the summer and WM he be compelled to stay at Washing- IH ton. Miss Clark then told the H Speaker that regardless of whether H or no Congress remained in session H a she was going to be married in H Bowling Green and the ceremony H was to be iu the latter -part of Juno H the month when roses are bloom- H ing their very best in Pike county. W lVnr Reduces Crime. ;H The astounding decrease In crime H in Paris since the outbreak of war is H attributed by Alfred Capus, in an H editorial In the Figaro, not to the W war itself but the atmosphere of mil- H , itary discipline which has imbued H all the citizeus since tho beginning jH of hostilities.; H "There have not been," says he, tW "more than two or three really crim- WM inal acts in the last five months. H . . Even the Paris apaches fH have acted in moderation. H "This cannot be attributed to tho i H war alouo, for I remember hearing a magistrate say at the beginning of f the struggle: 'Here in Paris, in the j. void caused by the mobilization. must be feared the growth of a mob of little apaches of from 14 to 16 ' vears, who will constitute one of p-JH the gravest dangers of the entire ' ) situation.' I "The pessimism of this magis- J trate has not been confirmed by ex- perlence. Not a siugle young ban- J dit has attempted to commit any startling crime, cither of assassina- !.J tion or of violence. I "This is because the criminal in- j. utincU combined with the oppor- tunlty, does not of itself produce 1 crime. There must also be a special Jr atmosphere, created either by. for J''i oxamile, bravado, or by the litera- m a turc of Uie outer boulevards, and in Ml 1 which this instinct may flourish. frl "Then, at a given moment, the 8 scattered elcciricity condenses In PMJ he individual who serves as the llwJ pole and the spark, which is iho HI crime, jumps bQtween him and so- Iffffl - ciety. til "The war has, for the present. NH Hiinnressed in Paris the center In EM which the malefactor flourishes, and fjflfl the social state which, by its effer- 11 veacence and disorder, attracts th's tH malefactor. Anarchy in high placet. M provokes temptation in lower ffl spheres. 11 fiiH It spoils the effect, doasu't it..-J l tell a boy how ludusVioUs lSHihe-Kee, tijSS, and then let him thfftk of how we ncra rob the bee of the fmits of its in wBi duslry? Gilllcudy Migglebury would have HH played with his children' for ar Kfl hour before they went tombed last mm night, but he had to put injthat hour Wl reading a magazine articles on "Why EM Men Should be Co'uiradc's of Theu l Children." ':" H |
