THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
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As everybody who has ever been to
Cincinnati knows, there is one, and just
one, possible method of ushering in the
new and brilliant year. Without which
ceremony aforesaid the year can no more
be said to be legitimate than a battle
ship afloat unchristened, innocent of the
Mums Extra Dry smashed across its
bows by the daughter of the governor of
Oklahoma. As understood by the in
itiated, and practiced by that final au
thority upon times convivial and cus
toms ancient and sacred, the Kentucky
Colonel of happy memory, this inaugu
ration of the New Year has certain defi
nite and inflexible requisites. First there
is demanded a Plantation a generous
and wide expanse of grounds, where the
horses can be hitched, or the limousines
browse in comfort; a great fire, and the
vistas of connecting rooms, over whose
portals hang the perpetual invitation of
the mistletoe; a great neighborhood
gathering, drawn from the ranks of
those still cherishing the traditions of
our days of leisure, the heirs of the fox
hunting squire, and the story telling vet
erans of Gettysburg, the shots and the
riders and the picturesque liars of the
domain, assembled to lend atmosphere
to the courting and a glamor of remin
iscence to the exuberant spirits of the
clustering yearlings.
Given this much, all that is needed
to make the day is egg nog. None of
your yolk and whiskey shakes turned by
an electric buzzer out of a tin can.
Nothing of the sort. This egg nog is a
work of art, the culmination of two
hundred years of loving care and infinite
experiment, the ultimate receipt, whose
mysterieus ingredients are as difficult to
discover as its insidious influence is to
withstand.
If there is in this whole merry circle
one place made to fit this ceremony, it is
the Waring Plantation just beyond the
village. And if there is one person left
in this dry and virtuous commonwealth
that still understands the mysteries of
the New Years bowl, it is Mrs. Harry
Waring.
And hence it befell that by the time
the veterans had done their drilling, and
the afternoon shadows begun to lengthen
over the driveway, a veritable line of
communication had opened between the
City of Pinehurst and the hospitable
portals. Here came the young people to
enjoy and the old people to renew their
youth. Here came the tender wrapped
n rugs, and the hardy afoot; the doctor
and the preacher and the colonel and the
judge the merry neighborhood enroute
to welcome the dawning era.
And there was the fire, and the mistle
toe over the archways; there was the
hoard heavy with the delicacies of the
Southern kitchen, and there, to crown
the whole the brimming bowl, from
ose depths Mrs." George M. Howard
dispensed good cheer and a promise of
good luck to every man. Mrs. Waring
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OUTNUMBERED TEN TO ONE
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Hohenzollern coveted.
Behind Ypres today there lie four
thousand five hundred of the flower of
the Canadian contingent. Four thou
sand five hundred young men who made
the extreme sacrifice for King, for Flag,
for Country, for Right. They lie in
their narrow beds of earth, and over
them wave the shading leaves of maple
trees. For thoughtful citizens sent over
and had planted "Canada's little maple
grove,, a monument in a strange coun
try to the men who fought and died and
were not defeated.
"retire be damned"
On the night of April twenty-second,
General Alderson and his officers saw
that the situation was desperate. They
thought to save their men. The general
sent up the command: " Retire !"
The word first reached the "Little
Black Devils. The men heard it, the
officers heard it, and they looked over
the flattened parapet of their trench.
They saw the oncoming hordes of brutes
in a hellish-looking garb, and they sent
back the answer : ' ' Retire be damned ! ' '
The general, the officers, rested con
tent. With a spirit such as these men
showed even against desperate odds,
nothing but victory could result.
The gas and the attacking waves of
men poured on. We were not fright
ened. No; none of us showed fear.
Warfare such as this does not scare men
with red blood in their veins. The Ger
mans judge others by themselves. A
German can be scared, a German can be
bluffed. They thought that we were
of the same mettle, or lesser. At the
Somme we put over on the enemy the
only new thing that we have been able
to spring during the whole three years
the tanks. Were they scared? They
were terrified! They dropped rifles,
bayonets, knapsacks, everything and
ran. Had not our tanks stuck in the
awful mud of France, or had they a
trifle more speed, I believe it might
have been possible fti us to have
reached Berlin by this time.
It was because we could not be fright
ened that General French, then Com
mander-in-Chief of the British Expe
ditionary Force, cabled across the world
on the morning of the twenty-third of
April, "The Canadians, undoubtedly
saved the situation.'
JLUr from 111) Front
Since the United States Expedi
tionary Forces have grown to formid
able proportions we are getting more
and more direct letters and communica
tions from the Front. Charlie Mason,
ho owns a neighborhood peach orchard,
and who joined the First Corps Cadets
last Summer, sends us greeting and a
cheerful word from Somewhere in
France, from headquarters of the 101st
Regiment of U. S. Engineers. The edi
tor, and no doubt our readers, would
appreciate any news from overseas re
ceived by anyone from old friends and
acquaintances of the colony.
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