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Show ''"'..;'-.'. ' . i The Wayside Inn . near Sudbury, Mass. Howe aud the three Howes who succeeded him. ' " After the tavern furnishings were i sold at auction, - u the sign hung In Its place for several yeHrs. Th-- . I' - h2&fl '-- (ill- - Jill --ig-l I VWfiiSmm&E iome students, out on a lark, carried It away and $F'i&ZM?', .r.'Cj 1 I '' 'Frarm'yy a 'or who bad rented them a tilelgb found It ; " CLlJ , 'i 4 1J W'Vfi3 HvFrawW ln ,,ie ilelBh after thp' n,,1 returned the " "'iThp?i - PPi1--1 5 J " H M b'o I iUi'rrTln vehicle, He put the sign In his hayloft and there ' O JLOvCrtf a.'s 9J-- 3 8 B " I ' M I fcr-- f I J Haai 14 remained until Mr. Ford started the restoration fcNII of the Inn and sought It out. .V "fJ J--J LISiir5 '"?t When Mr. Ford decided to reconstruct the Inn , J&k ; - Hj3 'iV's mSJ he used as the tasls for his work these lines wIL"ZLr , ' tnm Longfellow's poem: ' near the Inn n, . v The t, shedding 0v.r all TlZSi . The uplendor of tu ruddy slow, i --sX XftSiiZZ'- - . F"le,;l the wll0le Prl"r, large and low; It gleamed on walnaeot and on wall. It touched with more than wonted grace v Fair Princess Mary's painted face; It bronted the rafters overhead. On the old spinet's Ivory keys It played Inaudible melodies. It crowned the somber clock with llama. The hands, the houm, the maker's name. And painted with a livelier red The landlord's coat-of-ar- again; And, flashing on the window pane Kmblaioned with Its light and shade The Jovial rhymes tbat still remain. Writ here a century ago, Br the great Major Mollneaux, Whom Hawthorn has Immortal mad. So far as It was possible, first buyers and later buyers of objects lu the lna were traced and one by one as many of these objects as could be found were purchased and brought back to the inn. "The bronzed rafters overhead," of course, remained fixed In their place. "The somber clock crowned with flame" stands today reaching almost from the floor to the celling and the present day visitor may see for himself "the hands, the hours, the maker's name" Edward Faulkner, a London clock-make- r of the middle Eighteenth century. "Fair Princess Mary's painted' fuce" hangs on the ' wall nenr the fireplace, still "touched with mon than wonted grace." Near by the "landlord's coat of arms" hangs over the mantel. The "old spinet" has not yet been recovered, although the .. owner of the original Is known and Mr. Ford still hopes to obtain it However, another of the same period stands In Its corner. All of these are In the i'ront parlor, which Is to the left of the doorway and Is culled the "Long-fellow room." On a table more than two hundred years old lies a book opened at the lines spoken above. The window on which the "great Major . Mollneaux, whom Hawthorne has Immortal made," cut his verse with a diamond ring wns lost many years ago. But two of the panes of glass have been preserved and are carefully framed. The "Jovial rhymes' which the major "writ neat1 a j century ago" were as follows: 1 - ii I" ,v i""11 " ' J f if l- ' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 'JfT1 HKKK'S a new "mine host" at the tf Wayside Inn, immortalized by if Henry Wadswortb Longfellow ln a J group of poems familiar to moat Americans, and he Is none other piw Tt"r'fl than Henry Ford, millionaire maker UjWi of automobiles. The Wayside Inn 6Ssp: has stood nenr South Sudbury, ' Mass., for more than two hundred ' Ib- - llvtJ years. Curiously enough the Way-side Inn was not It's original name , at all. That title originated lu 1820 when the poet, bound from bis home ln Cambridge te Albany. N. Y- - stopped by the wayside during a ' change of conch horses at the Bed Horse tavern and It so pleased his fancy thut he later coin-.- . ineniMrnted It In his "Tale of a Wayside Inn." The lied Horse tavern whs built In 1080 by David Howe. Three other Howes were successive keepers of the tavern, their combined service as "mine hoet" totalling 174 years. I.vimin Howe was the host at the time of Longfellow's visit - and It wns Into his mouth that Longfellow put . the words of the piem which begins, "Listen, my , children, and you shall bear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere." In 180O the last of the Howes died and the tavern furnishings were sold it auction. Owner : ship of the place passed through various hands. but it continued as an Inn down to the present century. How It came Into, the possession of ; i Henry Ford was told recently hv Mrs. Ford her-self. Speaking before the Woman's National Farm and flnrden association, of which she Is president, at South Siidhnry. Mrs. Ford gave the "Inside story" ns follows : To begin with w found the Inn In very bad re-pair. The basement was full of broken down furni-ture, the lower floor had to be changed so there would be more room from floor to celling and w made It nice and clean. The next Job waa rewiring It W wer afraid of Are, the wires had been stuck In every which way. W went into th walls and flnhed those little wire through and put them through, what call It, a conduit? It waa an awful big piece to do and not many who have seen the house before would know that we did It. W wanted to keep It as old as possible. ' People began to come In crowds. We found we . couldn't take care of them. One Thankaglvlng tOO Many funny stories hav none around about our Intentions, so I am going to tell you so that at least .." thin group will hear the real truth Well. I think w have owned It about five years. perhaps six Mr. and Mrs ,mon owned It and ran It a an Inn until Mr Lemon died Mrs Lemon ear. . rled It nn about five years. Then she thought she , would sell It and take a little ease. New Rnglanders had a great Interest In coming to the place and they disliked the Idea of Its being sold, fearful It might get Into th hands of some one who would cheat them out of the privilege of ! " visiting It. When an aaaoclatlon, formed by many t Doeion people with th Intention of raising money to buy It, waa unsuccessful and a man offered to ' Rive Mrs. Lemon her price, Mr. Ford was ap-proached. He wa told about the man who Intended to add on (0 bedrooms and turn It Into a common, ordinary roadhouse and tak In everybody and all kinds. : Well, some one, 1 don't know who It waa, said that was going to happen. Mr Ford aaid. "We'll buy II and nave It." Thit seemed an easy thing to do, buy II and save it. After we realised we owned ' It we said, "What will we do with It?" We didn't , know one thing about running an Inn or hotel of any kind. We thought, "We won't renovate t We'll keep It in perfect order and keep It as a museum - Then we began getting letter from these nice New England people who came to It so often, " writing. "O, Mr Ford. I've always been abl to i rid out to Wayside Inn and bav luncheon or dln- - ' oer." Mr Ford Is miner easygoing, so be said. "We'll continue that." That meant cooks and managers, all sorts of people to be here and run It We were ' - away in Michigan and when people are many milee . away II Is hard to tell whether th people are car-rying It cn as w should like to have them Bui a long a people wanted it, we did It We did think w wouldn't have anybody atay over night, and w should keep all Ihe rooms as - show moms, but w got the same story when New England prnpl heard that. U, we want to atay over eight," and so we did that Of course we do have these restrictions. We , don't take everybody Everybody has to be known by some one or bav aa Invitation becaune there .are only four bedroom on the second floor and two ' ' ... on th third floor; not very desirable because In the summer It Is bot up there We Just had to limit to people we know are reliable, people we know will pot bring a hip flask r anything like that. came to dinner, they began telephoning for res-ervations early In th morning. W hsd to do something. He had to hav another dining room and just as soon as we started doing that wa had to hav another kitchen. An sink and stove and oven that would do years ago for a few people won't do for many people. We hav to hav things up to date and of th best, but peopli don't see th modern kitchen. Just as soon as we started enlarging the dining room people said, "Tbe old Inn must be making so much money they don't know what to do wltb rt, It waa closed Sundsys because w decided th type of people who streamed In were not Interested In antiques at all. They merely wanted a placr to ' ' spend, the day.- W stopped busses coming out at night because we thought It waa Inconslderat to have th persons who had been showing people over the house all day. taxed further by tourlata wbo would com to toe Wayside Inn In the daytime. Interesting as Is this "Inside story" It does not tell alt that the motor manufacturer has done to preserve tills shtlne for future genera-Uoti- s of Americans, for lie has spent more than a hundred thousand' dollars to build a new link of public highway so that heavy traffic may be diverted from the neighborhood of the Inn. He has bought more than 2,f00 acres of land sur--. rounding the Inn, and across the wuy from It he has restored the old stone mill over, whose 'wheel the water still pours as It did In the old days when the farmers brought their grain there to be ground. Around a bend of the' Boston I'ost ' nail, which goes past the Inn. stands tite school house where Mary went, followed by her ' little lamb. Tills school house originally stocrt near Sterling. Mass., but. finding It In a .dilapidated... condition. Mr. Ford bought It and moved It to a site near the Wayside inn so that It, too, may be preserved for posterity. Not the least of the Interesting facts about the Wayside Inn of today and Its new host has been his unrelenting search for the original furnishings or duplicates In the same period. Over the en-trance of the Inn swings the sign which tells the passing traveler that this Is the Red linrse Inn and which bears the name of its builder, David "' What do you think Here Is good drink Perhaps you may not know It If not In haste Do stop and taste You merry folks will show It. The tap room where could be obtained the major's "good drink" Is opposite the Longfellow room. The ancient bar, conveniently high for the elbow, but without the font rail of a Inter period, still stands ns it did In Longfellow's day. On the shelves behind the spot where "mine host" stood are bottles and jugs of various kinds. Of course there are no bottles to he opened, nowadays, so that these empty relics are all that remain to c tell of this adjunct to the Joviality of the group which gathered around the fireplace In the tap room to sip and smoke nnd tiilk. Nearby, still hungs the "pipe tongs." a long Implement like a' pulr of aclssors with which the guest, without bending his back, might reach Info the fire, pick out a glowing con urn! light his pipe. On the walls of the Longfellow rotn hnng the portraits of some of these guests made famous by lngfellow. In assigning them parts In the "Tales of a Wayside Inn." Amons them are Ole Bull, :the violinist; I'rofessor Treadwell, the theologian;' Isanc F.lrehl.-"Ih- e Spanish Jew"; Lulgl. "the Sicilian," then a Harvard professns. and Thomas W. ('arsons, the (Kii-t- . .Another of the Moms Is .culled the "Washing-ton itoom" because of the' tradition that Cieorge r Washington spent a night there on his way to take command of the Continental army at Cum bridge. ' ' On the third floor which was the old garret there are rooms tor about twenty guests. Here the motorists of toilny. sleeping beneath the eaves ns travelers of an earlier day before slept, may "take mine ease In mine Inn" and he grateful to the "ninth landlord" of the fled Horse tavern for this opportunity to enjoy the practical use of ett American shrine because "mine host" of today is Henry Ford. ',- - HOT DOGSI j For over hnlf an hour a iiunll boy had hwfl persistently whistling out'' file (lie butcher's simp. Finally thai huf clter mil I (I siiinrt li no longer Ha rushed out into lie afreet "Slop imiklRK Unit confounded noise, jrou little wrclch!" be shouted. "I've Itisl me dog." Bulit the hoy. "Well, do you think I've cot your dg, then?" j "I fliiiiiio." muttered the hoy. 'But every time I whistle those sausai!'"! of yours move." i ICEBERG. OF COURSE p aanasn iiiiew n --Whui kind of a berg Is the capital of Iceland?" "Ad Icehurg. I'd say." Poetie Pus i Adam never would ot el That 'here little apple on a bet tf thli little rlh and he Hadn't ahared the self-aam- e tree. Judge. A Truthful Kid "What Is your iiiuiiiiua doing these duysj" asked the friend of little Bob-ble. "She Isn't doing what she Is, but la trying awfully hard," replied the kid. "And what is that?" smiled tbe friend. "ltedurlng." said the kid. Preferred Prompt Pay - The Aheriloiiiiin pulled a brother Scot from the water Just before be went down for the third time. "I'll remember ye in ma wull for this." exeliilnieil the rescued one. "But. mon." said the other, "would ye no prefer to cut me off wl a sbul-ll-uoof v Hurray I Brown What's he smiling so much about these days; stocks go up? fireen Nope. Solved the high cost of living. Wrote to a thousand tailors for samples for a blue suit and got enough patches to make a suit Might Do Mrs, A. (at flsli counter) Oh, dear, I don't know I I'd like some fish for dinner, but my husband wants fowl. Clerk Why not compromise on a chicken lobster, madam? FREEDOM'S CALL Bird I get pieinj lu eul ami itrlnk and am well taken care of. but ot how I envy thai fellow outside I Question "If all the world were apple pie Thus runs an snclent wheeze. What If it wer, ask, would I Kate a hunk of cheese? What Condemned It? Miss Anne 'I'enk I d like to see the huge plcliiresiiie ruff ot the Sixteenth century revived. Miss t'nrn t'oolngton I wouldn't They'd be horribly inconvenient for engaged couples tt wear. Guarding Her Health Her Mother I should think you'd he frightfully cold In tint low-ru- t wnfsl. . Funny Pllpiie Why. no. Dont you see I'm wearing my wlntei heads? ' Good Reason for ll Innocent .U.vsiuiuler What's all the excitement nhout? Geel Some crowd Is gathering. t'opper-O- h. only a doctor fainted He met one of his putlents on the street and the patient, paid his bilL Served It Purpose - The Asslsiiiiii I see you sold that new I'll r I. model suit. I didn't think It ao awfully fetching The Modiste I think It was. It fetched $:i7. Th Straight and Narrow "Honesty Is ihe hest policy and Its own reward." "Why do you think like that?" "You know that dog I stole. I tried in vain to sell It for $1(1 and at Inst 'ook il hack to Its owner, who gave me -.r reward." Smart Boy "Why Teddy! ifou're teaching Hie parrot naughty words.' "No. mother. I'm telling Tolly about tbe words he mustn't say." I If Back Hurts Flush Kidneys Drink Plenty of Water and Take of Salts Before Break-IOIata fast Occasionally; When your kidneys tart and your back feels sore, dont get scared and proceed to load your stomach with a lot of drugs that excite the kidneys and Irritate the entire urinary tract Keep your kidneys clean like you keep your bowels clean, by flushing them with a mild, harmless, salts which helps to remove the body's urinous waste and stimulate them to their normnl activity. ' The function of the kidneys la to filter the blooA In 24 hours they strain from It 600 grains of acid and waste, so we can readily understand the vital Importance of keeping tl kidneys active. Drink lots of good water yon can't drink too much; also get from any pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts. Take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast each morning for a few days and your kid-neys may then act fine. This famoas salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon upe, combined with lltbln, and has been used for years to help clean and stimulate clogged kidneys; also to neutralize the acids In the system so they are no longer a source of Irritation, thus often relieving bladder weakness. Jad Salts is Inexpensive; cannot In-jure; makes a delightful effervescent ilthla-wate- r drink which everyone should take now and then to help keep their kidneys clean and active. Try this; also keep up the water drinking, and no doubt you will won-der what became of your kidney trou-M- o imii hneknrhe. FIRST BOTTLE HELPED HER Keeps On Taking Lydla E. Finlc barn's Vegetable Compound Philadelphia, Pa. "I always VM ydla E. Plnlihr.m's Vegetable Com-- " ... I pound before and . - after childbirth. I Jr am a mother of 't three children twe I jTj&iX litu Blrls and V IJSI baby boy. I would g I J 8et run-dow- nerr-- x i ' ij' ons, dizzy and weak JT sometimes bo I had to lie ln bed. I y$fJT would take the jTT Vegetable Com-i.- '' Jw.- pound as a tonic an Improvement after taking the first bottle. I found It to be a good tonic. I always recommend your medicines to my friends and I cannot apeak too highly of them." Mas. Anna Loude back. 1607 B. Front Street, Phlla., Fa. Denver Mother Tells Story Nature controls all I the functions of our "X ' digestive organs ex-- , j ! cept one. We have ! control over that, and $' - i It's the function that s4ziV&jP causes the most trou- - kJ ble. StyPK See that your chIl-lLJl-dren form regular bowel habits, and at the first sign of bad breath, coated tongue,- - biliousness or constipation, give them a little California Fig Syrup. It regulates the bowels and stomach and gives these organs tone and strength so they continue to act as Nature Intends them to. It helps mild up and strengthen pale, listless jnderwelght children. Children love ts rich, fruity taste and it's purely vegetable, so you can give it as often aa your child's appetite lags or he seeing feverish, cross or fretful. Leading physicians have endorsed it for 50 years, and its overwhelming sales record of over four million bob ties a year shows how mothers depend on it A Western mother, Mrs. B. W. Stewart, 4112 Karitnn SL, Denver, Colorado, says: "Raymond was ter-ribly pulled down by constlpntlon. He ?ot weak, fretful and cross, had no appetite or energy and food seemed to sour in his stomach. California Fig Syrup had him romping and play ng again In Just s few days, and soon he was back to normal weight, ooking better than he had looked In months." rrotect your child from Imitations Dt California Fig Syrup. The mark ot the genuine is tbe word "Call fornia" on the carton. Constipated Instead of hsblt-- f onnine ph yti&ff j WM or stronr. trrltatinir parses M f 'TV take NATURE'S REMEDY JT llfl i S tn'M -"- --- vegetable bwstlve. Mild. T" gentle. pleot-KR-- to- 10 j'JV I Get a 20c box. ALRiu For Sal nt All Draggiifcf f -- PICTORIAL GOLF INSTRUCTION o o . By H. E. MARTIN - - - - - j - j - ' THIS IS tUt- - WAV Tetfc Tne lOV SHOULtt TAKE-- tHE. rrlRE 15 PANGE-- COMCS UP Tmm ouKKiy fe'wrv Pufea,Ai, o F Long Flat Swfng Prevents Danger of Topping THE golfer who attempts a tound swing with his iron will Unit himself topping or aihlullltig ten or fifteen per rent of his shots hiuyhe more. One must be accurate Indeed to hit the bull at tbe exact bottom of the arc. There is one sure wuy of blttlna an Iron shot. Let the club describe a flat are which nuikes sure of the cluhhead picking the ball up as It sweens through. Lnnirer and more accurate shots will result from this sweep of the club than If the round full swing Is used. Ty AM.MOU. AS MB. FINISHE.C His 5MIMC 0 7 pa. IfMS THI3 I NAWC Good Finish Means Good Shot THE finish of the swing' meuns than the average golfer will admit. Few shots go wrong where the finish has tieen perfect, or even fairly good. Tommy Armour looked at a photograph of himself recently taken at the completion of his swing and remarked that It must have been a very good shot. If the club goes the route from the top of the swing to a position around behind the back working Its way In a groove as it were, the bull will he hit properly IB out of 20 times Hnr ry Varilun has the perfect swing of golf and be misses a smaller percent age of bis drives than any othei player. )m billiards thb, cushion t$ paut op the: shot. i IT SHOULD 66 " THE JAME. IN Plat imp a fAAJHlE. S, Ground Is Used in Making Mashie Shot IN RILLlAllDIS we use the tuhle ' quite a lot In making our sliota. This Is especially true of the mashie shot. The ball Is under perfect con trol In almost every shot, and ohiniD ln accuracy Is easy We should learn to do this more In the mashie shot where acvurm-- u in plli-hli- to the green For back spin we hit Into the ground that Is. a sort of a squeeze, nslng the ground to rettotind from The divot Is alwnye taken with this shot, hut not until after the hull has heen rilspntrhed iion Its way The divot will he taken In front ot the nll. Bot behind It (. Ills. Bell Syndicate.! Postal Excitements Talking of advertisements, the conn try gentleman who advertises "boa constrictor, healthy." which "can be seen by writing' ts obviously of the same breed as Ihe gentleman who of-fers to send "roars of laughter" post free. Bread. Eb? Three-yea- r oio forlne's favorite pastime was to tut out pictures in newspapers Her mother warned her not to let the scraps fall to the floor. One evening she excitedly ran to her mother and exclaimed: "Oh. mother I I dropiied the newspaper crumbs on the floor'" Air Is Still Cheap Hint fur niotorlsis: li rg economy to use as much air and as little guso-In- as posslhle D your carburetor. Woman's Home Companion. Echoc From Spate Light on the wandering of wireless waves throuKh the ether Is flu lined by Professor Stoernier of Oslo to have been thrown by experiments under, taken In conjunction by Norwegian Mild Hutch wireless stations. The pro-fessor states that echoes from these waves have been clearly distinguished. He puts forward the view that the waves are thrown buck to earth when they reach a point In space far be-yond the moon. A Tempting Price She (with magazine) It says here that the cheiairal constituents of a man are worth US cents. He And you women are great bar-gain hunlers. Good at Drawing "How Is your son making out as an artist?" "He's overdrawn at the bank." ? - Painless Dentistry Tried on Lioness nary methods of pulling It were unsuc-cessful. The dentist waa compelled to crush the tooth and extract It In more than a score of fragments, the Hon meanwhile enjoying a fitful sleep Induced by the narcotic With the tooth once out of the way the socket was soon cleaned and disinfected and Ihe animal released, minus Ihe tooth ache which had been distressing ber for days. Many a worthless man has a good disposition. Life's Lift I Ironic When lu(eri Burnv iMy . on hit, outhlie;l In Dumfries he is said to have declared lu Ills wife: "I will Ite better known a hundred years from uow Jenn than I am lodny " More prophetic words were never uttered. The poet who died tortnenled with a debt of S.'s'i hnngina oer hi in thai he .was iinahle to meet Is known everywhere todny. while the sale of one copy of an early edition of his poems brings enough money to hsW1 kept Burns in alllueoce all his life. A bit of dentistry In which the den fist rather than the patient might ; have beeu expected to llee the ollice as the futai hour npprouched Is re ported by Prof. Osknr Burgt of the ' Unherslly of Zurich. Switzerland. The pattenl was a twenty-year-ol- lioness, resident of the zoo at Seebncb. and suffering from "an ulcerated toofb. First Doctor Itiirgl administered a dose of narcotic sufficient to keep the I atiltual without : pain and virtually asleep. Chains and ropes were then list'' to tie the patlenl so tightly that escape was Impossible The Jaws were propped open and tied. Not until then did Doctor Burgt begin his dental op-erations, but his troubles were not over. The ulceration affected one of the great canines or "eye teeth" of the giant cat. So firmly attached to tbe jaw was this great tusk that ordi-- |