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Entered as second class matter January 1. 1905, at the postoffice
At Shelby. North Caroltna. under the Act of Congress, March 3. 1879
We wish to call your attention to the fact that It Ls. and has been :
our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect,
cards of thanks and obituary notices, alter one death notice has
been published. This will be strictly adherred to.
MONDAY. MAY1Th»29._
TWINKLES
How’rc you feeling today, Mayor, and which one of the
trio may you be ?
Our weekly prize goes to this paragraph front The San
Francisco Chronicle: “A free country is one that passes
laws to please its conscience and then breaks them to please
its appetite.”
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k The Star has been accused of boosting the business of
the salesmen who handle tornado insurance, but we have a
hunch that the wind which tossed the court square trees
About Thursday afternoon and night had more to do with
It than thq paperv
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i* (Lindbergh ranks ahead of Robert E. Lee, Washington
even Babe Ruth and second only to Woodrow Wilson as
: fhe Jiero of the graduating class at the Shelby High school.
Sot pn| that Information down for what you may deem it
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h,y South Carolina 'declared war upon the slot machines and a
fiews report from the battle front stated that many of the
machines were rushed over into this state. We presume,
therefore, that North Carolina has enough trouble on its
hands with textile strikes and such not to be bothered with
such minor problems.
Ye Twinklcr has always admired the fellow with enough
sand, or lack of sense, to carry on when everything and
everybody seemed to be lined up against him. And that, if
you care to know, Is our chief, and very near our only ad
miration of Senator Tom-Tom Heflin,
Tom Edison Is looking about for some bright young
fellow to carry on his work, as we have mentioned hereto
fore, and it could be that the youngster may be among the
2.10 students graduating from Cleveland county high schools
this month. That’s a bit optimistic, of course, but such is the
mood today, and it is considerably more comfortable, we’ve
learned, to be optimistic than to be inclined to pessimism in
discussing textile conditions and other more serious mat
ters > vf. f v
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^ / TALKING TO THE POINT
JUDGE R. R. CLARK, The Statesville Daily and Greensboro
News editorial writer, is as blunt about talking to the
point in his editorials as is Dr, Sib Dorton, the Cleveland
(county fair secretary, in his conversation. Anent the fail
ure of th| Gaston county grand jury to place the blame of
the destruction of the strikers building there he writes: “It
Is rare in case of mob action, especially if members of the
tnob have some standing and influence, that local officials
Can rise to tho occasion. But really it would have been bet
ter if the Gastonia investigation had not been made. The
(distinct impression made on outsiders is that there was no
teal effort to get to the bottom of the affair.’'
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'rV K K > CLEVELAND’S HISTOHV
AT ^ her* recently the Cleveland County His
torical Association was organized and the secretary is
Prof. W. E. White, county historian. Prof. White is now
preparing a history of the county, which when completed
Wdll be used by the schools of the county as a matter of bene
ficial information to the oncoming generations and also to
engender county pride and a spirit of county patriotism.
Meantime it is also the aim of the historical group to place
proper mai'kers at historical spots in the county, of which
there are quite a number. This is an aim worthwhile and
commendable, but it costs money. And now we reach the
point: Membership fees to join the county historical group
have been set at the low amount of 25 cents. Every patriotic
citizen of the county, interested in the past as well as the
future of the county, should take the opportunity of joining
the organization. The reports and the assembling of his
torical facts along with the locating of historical spots will
prove interesting and your twenty-five cents will aid in the
assembling and preservation of valuable information about
the county.
NEED “MAC” AND BOB
JN RALERiH the officers of the law and the non-drinking
* better class, presuming that there is such m Editor Dan
iels’ home town, arc right muchly worried over the way the
bootleggers and rum runners arc carrying on.
Reports state that rum runners in high powered autos
drive along the main streets and when thirsty pedestrians
or motorists w-ant a drink they crook their finger, the boot
legger pulls his car to a stop, hands over the requested
“short,” be it pint or quart, hesitates a moment to receive
his pay and dashes on. If a cop happens to see it he is left
in the rum runner’s dust because of the slow speed of the
officer’ car and the law forbids horn to shoot. So there you
are. A Raleigh police officer terns it a “damn disgrace”
and The News and Observer, not addicted to such plain and
unmistakable terms ordinarily, echoes the sentiment, and|
urges that, the city of Raleigh provide speeder petrol wagons !
for the police force that the traffic might be broken up.
It is just one of those prohibition problems, and not
knowing any other solution to suggest we think that Raleigh
might find it of value to employe Shelby’s police chief, “Mac”
Poston, and the county’s redoubtable deputy, Bob Kendrick,
for a spell. “Mac” seems possessed of the valuable asset of
finding many ehaces of hooch before and while deliveries arc
being made, while Bob has just purchased a new gas chariot
and dares any law-breaker to try it. And then Deputy Ed
Dixon has been known to do some right good running on the
two cylinders bestowed upon him by nature, his feet.
Of course, it is just a suggestion, but we hate that
things are so bad down to Raleigh that the police officials
and Editor Josephus are forced to such descriptive terms.
FOR ANOTHER ELECTION
yo MAKE matters more convenient and also to avoid the'
possibility of a row The Star would make a suggestion!
about city elections to the board of aldermen elected by
Shelby voters today.
The suggestion is t hat soon after taking office, or at
least prior to the next city election, that the aldermen pass
an ordinance or make a ruling to the effect that the registrar
and judges appointed for city elections also serve as the city
board of elections. Quite a number of reasons might be ad
vanced for this suggestion, but we will outline only one.
In this election numerous prospective candidates asked
Iho question: “With whom do 1 file my announcement?” Now
who, pray, can answer that correctly? In county elections
the announcements must be filed with the county board of
elections or with the court clerk, but no official
person or board is designated for filing in city elections. And
therein lines a danger, the danger that if the present slip
shod procedure continues that in some future election some
defeated candidate may take the complaint to the courts and
declare that his victorious rival did not have his announce
ment properly filed. In Shelby city elections, including the
one on today, the custom has been to file an announcement
in The Star or tell The Star reporters as a matter of news
that they are candidates. More should be required than
that. Two or three friends of some prospective candidate,
let us suppose, walk into the newspaper office and say “John
So-and-So is going to run for alderman. He doesn't want to
run but we’re going to put his name on the ticket.” An
nouncement is made by the paper that John So-and-So will
be a candidate. Along comes the election and John's name is
on the ticket. Now suppose John tells the world that he
never announced? Predicament after predicament may arise
by such a slipshod manner.
In fact, it was no easy matter for the printers employed
to print today’s tickets to know just what names to put on
the ticket. There was no particular person or board desig
nated to so inform the printers, and naturally it could not
be the fault of the printer if a name which ought to have been
on should have been left off, or if a name printed on ^he
ticket should not have been there. Our point should be clear
although we have tried to explain it in a round-about man
ner.
In brief, the suggestion is that Registrar Mike Austell,
or whoever shall be the registrar for the next city election,
l>e named also as chairman of the city election board with
the requirement that all candidates must file notice of their
cadidacy with him. Wjth that plain it would be an easy
task for the registrar-chairman a few days prior to the elec
tion to assemble the names of the candidates and have the
tickets printed in such a manner that there would be no
omissions, or names on the ticket which should not be there.
The cost would be nothing more, and we tender the pro
posal to the new city board elected today, along with our con
gratulations not knowing just what men will make up the
board.
Nobody’s Business
GEE McGEE—
(Exclusive in The Star in this section.)
Play Ball.
Very few people know it, but I
usester be manager of a baseball
team This was way back yonder
when baseball was rather new, and
petticoats were being worn 4-deep.
I had 8 players on my nine. Our
league was a 4-way league, that is,
we had 4 teams in it. as follows:
The Mudcats, the Polecats. The
null Dogs, and The Wildcats. My
team was known as the Mudcats
and they nearly always won the
pennant, but it wasn't called that
then.
We played a circle diamont. The
pitcher stood on the second base,
and pitched and handled that
mound too. Our diamont being
round, the bases were a little clos
er to one another than the new
style diamont bases. Our season
usually opened just as soon as
crops were laid-by. And it closed
just before fodder-pulling tunc. We
generally played about 6 match
games per season,
We played what you might call
a World's Record game once. It
was the opening game of the sea
son and was supposed to be a
double-header, but It turned out to
be less than a single-header. The
game vu called at 1 o'clock sharp,
but as nobody had a watch, I am
sure It was about 1:55 p. m. when
the magistrate of the township
tossed the first ball. We played
with all the venon common to
country players, and had not got
to the third ending when the sun
went down and as we lost the
ball about that time, the game was
called, the empire claiming that he
had a right to call the game until
the ball was found.
We had 2 men to keep the tal
lies, one for each team. They
marked the tallies in the big road,
one tally-keeper going north and
the other tally-keeper going south,
as the tallies were made. The
tally marker for the wsitors was
a rascal from center to circum
ference. One of our watchers
caught him putting down 3 tallies
for a single home run. and after
the fight was over, we took up
playing again. The last time X
saw my tally-keeper he was out
of sight down the road and we had
to send runners to tell him when
one of our boys had scored. We
ran 4 little fellows put nigh to
deatli keeping up with the records.
Well, we began play mg off the
previous day's game at about 9
o'clock the next morning. The
score stood 345 to 344. but as it
had rained the night before and
washed away a few of both sides'
tallies, we called it a draw and
went cat. We were delayed an
hour along about noon; one of the
players had carelessly carried the
bat to the spring with turn and
forgot it. but time wasn't banging
heavy on our hands; wc had our
dinner along. My team won that
contest by exactly 21 tallies. Those
were great games and were enjoy
ed by all. I still like baseball,
but they don’t seem to have the
pep In them that they had when I
I was a-playing.
| The period of the year has
arrived lor some lolks to indulge |
til their favorite past-time, vizzly: j
Cussing the umpires.
Cotton Letter.
New York, May 6.
A boll weevil punctured a square
last night,
Much to a bear's surprise,
And spots went down to a horrible
plight,
To meet a private estimate's sur
mise.
Liverpool was weak and New Or
leans broke,
When it rained a lew drops in
Maine,
And an acreage increase in the
artichoke,
Gave the nearby months quiet a
pain.
We advise buying on slumps and
breaks.
If you can borrow the money to
do so.
But il you risk your own and hit
bad streaks.
The poor-house Is where you'll
land. Bo.
A fellow up in North Carolina
(and he ain't no chemist or scien
tist, either) has discovered how to
manufacture gasoline at a much
lower figure than the big oil com
panies have to charge. When he
buys 50 gallons gasoline, he like
wise buys 50 gallons kerosene, and
empties both of ’em in the same
tank, and Bango! He has 100
gallons gasoline. He sure Is a
smart boy. In fact he’s too smart
to be running a filling station: he
ought to be in politics.
I wish to correct a statement
that was recently circulated about
that a third cousin of mine died
out In New Mexico and left $32,
579.99 to me, and that each of his
5 younguns were left a like sum
of money. That's a lie. Cousin
Bill died. That much is true. He
left everything he had except a
stiff shirt and a robe, which he
wore off. But I had to telegraph
$36.75 «fut there to pay an under
taker to bury him in the potter's
field, and I am now pulling some
strings to get little Jimmie and
Susie and Sallie and Minnie and
Robbie in an orphanage. We hope
we have made ourselves clear to
our creditors, and they might as
well let us alone for the present,
meaning me and my family.
Sousa’s Band To
Broadcast Tonight
Procram Is Sponsored By Chevrolet
Motor Co. IUU Million Cars
Since January 1.
John Philip Sousa and his world
famous band will be heard over the
radio for the first time on Monday
evening (tonight) May 6, in an hour
broadcast, sponsored by Chevrolet
Motor company to signalize the
achievement of placing on the road
over a half million new six cylinder
cars in four months time.
The radio debut of the famous
"March King’’ will come through
the National Broadcasting company
coast to coast chain during the
regular General Motors ‘'Family
Hour,” starting at 8:30 p. m.
According to J. R. Crawford, local
Chevrolet dealer, Chevrolet was par
ticularly fortunate in seeking an
attraction to emphasize Its latest
record to secure the first radio per
formance of tills famous director
composer who lias been an Amer
ican Institution for the past two
decades.
‘‘Naturally, we Chevrolet dealers
arc proud that our company has
been instrumental in introducing
Sousa and his band to the micro
phone, Mr. Crawford said. “We are
equally proud, however, of the oc
casion nv.rked by Sousa’s first
broadcast. By putting on the road
over 500,000 new Chevrolet sixes
since January 1, we have establish
ed a record never before duplicated
by any dealer organization distri
buting six cylinder automobiles. In
fact, no other dealer organization
in the history of six cylinder man
ufacture has ever equalled this rec
ord in the course of a full year.
Card Of Thanks.
We wish to thank our many
friends and neighbors for the many
kind deeds rendered during the ill
ness and death of our dear mother
and sister. Mrs. Ollie Harrill and for
the many beautiful flowers.
The Children, Brothers and
Sister.
THE PERSON
WHO HAS
NOTHING
Is Usually The One
Who Does All The
Damage.
Your Only Safe
guard is Insurance
With
CHAS. A. HOEY
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Lindbergh Paints Picture of i
Aeronautics in America
Predicts Safe and Regular
Air Passenger Service
Within Year or Two
AMERICA’S airports, in
order to properly serve
the ultimate object of
aviation, must be located with
in a few minutes or the center
of the cities they are to serve,
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
declared before a joint com
mittee of Congress considering
the selection of a municipal
airport for the National Capi
tal.
He emphasized strongly his feel
ing that America is sorely delin
quent In the matter of airport de
velopment, and that this delin
quency Is hampering the progress
of commercial air travel.
Airports should have concrete base
and asphalt surface runways,
should be carefully and evenly sod
ded, and should be equipped with
every possible facility for passenger
comfort, he explained.
Colonel Lindbergh painted a
glowing picture of the future of
aeronautics In America pointing
out that there is met. private fly
ing in this country at the present
time than in all of Europe com
bined.
In connection with the location of
airports. Colonel Lindbergh ex
pressed the belief that proximity to
the business section Is the most im
portant Item to be taken into con
slderaUon.
•‘If the airport is an hour's ride
from the city." he explained, "It
takes away most of the advantage
of flying time; on a trip from New
Tork or Philadelphia to Washing
ton. the time required going to and
from distant landing fields would
add so much to the flying time that
there would be little advantage over
the railroad time.’*
COL. CHARLES A. LINDBERGH
(lnwrnatlonal Nswsretl)
"Would a distance of 10 minute*
be much of a handicap?" he was
asked.
“That’s reasonable," he replied,
‘‘but It would be better if it were
possible to have the Held even
closer."
Lindbergh predicted that In a
year or two there will be safe, reg
ular, direct passenger service be
tween New York and Rio d# Ja
neiro or Buenos Aires. Ha pointed
out that even now there Is regular
service between Miami and Pari-*
amt.
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Humble Dish-Rag Has Quite A
History Attached; Back To 700
Kitchen Implement, First Known
As Clout, Dates From The
Year 700.
“The lexicographer of the future
will doubtless append to his defini
tion of ‘dish-rag’ the following ex
planation,” suggested Dr. Frank H.
Vlzzetelly, editor of the new Stand
ard Dictionary.
*“ An utensil formerly used by
housewives in the cleansing of dish
es in the kitchen sink. Displaced,
like its companion the mop. by the
Machine Age and now' preserved
3s an antique. One of the best col
lections extant is to be found in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Some
designs of the ancient dish-rag
bring high prices in the collectors’
market and in some families they
are esteemed as priceless heirlooms.
“They are still to be found, how
ever, here and there in our land,”
continued the arbiter of words and
their use, “homes into which the
Robot, the dish-washing machine
and the self-filling icebox have not
entered. Likewise there are still
kitchens in which food is actually
cooked by a housewife who washes
ash a dish-rag’?
•Like many another humble im
plement of household use, the dish
rag has enriched the idiom of our
spoken and written language. What
term better expresses that feeling
of the morning after the night be
fore or a physical, collapse follow
ing unwonted exertion than ‘limp
as a dish-rig'?
“Those of the elite may elect to
speak of the dish-cloth or the dish
towel, but to the average user the
world over this lowly instrument, in
separably connected with another
fast-disappearing commodity, to wit
elbow-grease, is known as the dish
rag.
“As such it was known to a great
lexicographer of bygone years, one
who, in a manner unusual, to say
the least, taught his wife, so the
story goes, the correct use of the
words ‘surprised’ and ‘astonished.’
It came about in this way:
“The great Noah, while snooping
around the kitchen, was suddenly
brought face to face with the cook
who was a sonsy lassie. So the gal
lant Noah stepped a bit closer and
bussed her on the mouth just as
Mrs. Noah stepped in at the door.
Horrified as she professed to be,
the good New England aame was
far from speechless and exclaimed:
‘“Well. I am surprised!’
“To which the great Noah non
chalantly countered:
“‘Not at all. my love: not at all!
For it is I who have been surprised
—you were merely astonished .’
“Over in England, when the ruler
of the roost wished to rid herself of
the Paul Prys of the household, she
expressed neither surprise nor as
tonishment; all she did was to pm
a dish-clout on the tail of tlje of
fender's coat. I found a reference
to this practice in a comparatively
recent glossary of terms used in
East Anglia, "Go thee ways or 1 11
pin the dish-out to thee tail,’ a
warning given by the Lincolnshire
cooks to such men and boys as
would come meddling in the kitch
en
“The dish-dout, frequently de
spised, deserves better treatment be- 1
cause it is of reputable origin and
ripe age. jBoth of Its elements datc
froan the year 700 or thereabout, and
this is not surprising, for one could
not very well have a dish without
having a cloth with which to wipe
it. Yet before that time dishes were j
just dipped in water and rubbed!
clean with a handful of sand, then 1
rinsed and left to dry. Later they j
were washed with a dish-clout and j
wiped with a cloth, so that which i
started out as a dish-clout became
in turn a dish-cloth and dish-towel I
while the clout itself descended to
the common or kitchen dish-rag.
"In the year 700, the word clout
meant ‘a piece of cloth or leather
used in mending worn goods.’ Then
it was spelled clut, and pronounce
ed ‘kloot.’ The form clout was not
introduced until five centuries
later. In the ‘Ancren Riwle,’ or
code of rules for anchoresses as
cribed to Simon of Ghent. Bishop
of Salisbury, England, in 1297, the
term clout was used, and this is the
earliest reference that we have to
a small, worthless bit of rag or
cloth put to mean uses such as in
the world dish-clout.
Connected With Scullion.
“According to Palsgrave, who
lived in 1530, the dish-clout was in
French a soullion, a term which the
French eventually applied to mean
also the person who used it. In
English this person was know n as a
scullion, a word that may perhaps
have arisen from a misreading of
the French ‘o' which was transcrib
ed into 'c'. The good George Fen
ton, favorite of Queen Elizabeth,
the father of a fev.' sensible maxi
mums collected in his ‘Golden
Epistles’ of 1577, was averse to the
type of people among whom he
was thrown. He described them
as such as 'washed their faces with
fair water, but dried them over with
a dish-clot.’
“English literature Is fairly well
sprinkled with references to this
most useful little tribute to the
sink. Sir Walter Scott in ‘St. Roh
an's Well’ tells of Mrs. Bods, who
threatened to pin a dish-clot on the
coattail of an intermeddlcr in her
kitchen, and in 'Dr. Duguid." John
Service, the author, describes his
friend as coming up. ‘with a face
like a dish-clout, crying out in ter
ror.’ The term was, and is still, in
common use in Northern England,
particularly in the counties of She
shire. Durham and Yorkshire.
Scared men and weary women are
described as 'limp as a dish-clout’
in Devonshire today.
Clouts In Literature.
“Who of us who has read Bun
yan's glorious allegory. ‘Pilgrim's
Progress,' has forgotten the occa
sion on which Little Faith looked
'as white as a clout,’ and Bunyan
wrote this while in prison in 1677.
78. In his story of ’Moll Flanders.’
Daniel Defore makes use of the
same phrase but we have to go to
Tottell's ’Miscellany’ for an earlier
literary use:
“’No life I feel, no foot nor hand;
as pale as any clout am I.’
“The date of this is 1557.
“There was a time when clouts
were used for clothes, not always I
disparagingly or contemptuously .4
some lexicographers suggest, as we
are reminded by the old provarb
that goes out.’ In the East Ridins
of Yorkshire, around the neighbor
hood of Holderness, and in Ayr
shire. Scotland, until comparatively
recent times, feminine attire is oc
casionally designated by this term
Johnston tells us of ‘sixteen of the
best players in Kilmarnock, shod
and clouted for the occasion, were
mustered there.’
“Once upon a time ‘a babe In
clouts’ meant something different
from ‘a babe of clouts.’ Judging
from the dialect of Dumbarton
shire, the first may have meant a
young woman ‘all dolled up’ with
somewhere to go, for in his ‘Dis
ruption’ Cross tells of a Scotsman
who ’could sec the baby dout3 fine.'
He wrote this m 1C77. Who shall
deny that it may not apply to mod
ern times, too, when we remember
what the Chinaman said when
cross-examined by the magistrate:
“ ‘She see much not; I see whole
lot.’
A “Babe Of Clouts."
“ ‘A babe of clouts was originally
a doll, a rag doll, of course. Lyly
chided a young woman thus:
“'Silence, thou must, love him for
thy husband.’ to which. Sllena
promptly replied:
“ 'I had as lief have one of clouts.
“ ‘Babes of clouts’ are good enough
to keep children from crying even
now. ‘The man of clouts’ was merely
a lay figure, one of those insignifi
cant. spinless creatures, dressed in
clouts, not unilke the one described
by Fielding in ’Tom Thum’ as 'a
pretty king of clouts to truckle to
her will.’
“Heywood tells us of 8 lady ‘as
sober as she seemeth, few clays come
about that she will firs', wash her
face in an ale clout,’ to indicate
that the thirsty good woman of his
time occasionally dipped her face
in the suds a little more deeply than
was good for her health,
“Poor Frances Burney, when she
went out calling on Mrs. Ord in the
year 1782, had the misfortune 1o
pick up a dish-clout, and inad
vertently to put it in her pocket, and
to draw it out before her friend.
Then she bewailed the possible con
sequences of her act. for she great
ly feared her friend would dis
parage her on account of a mis
placed kitchen rag.
“Out of the dish-clout we obtain
ed the phrase ‘in the wringing of a
dish-clout,’ which originated in the
kitchen and meant ’in less time
than It takes to tell,’ ‘in the twin
kling of an eye' or 'in the twist of
a bedpost.’
Noticed By Shakespeare.
“The simplest things of the life of
his times were not beneath the no
tice of 'William Shakespeare, and
this remark applies to the dish-clout
as to many other perhaps less im
portant things. Any one who has
read 'Romeo and Juliet’ may re
member Juliet's nurse, who refer
red to one of her charge's admirers
as ’a lovely gentleman: Romeo's
a dish-clout to him.’ Then ther-’
was the fantastic Don Armado of
’Love's Labour's Lost’ who were
Jaquenetta's dish-clout as a favor
over his heart.
"In Queen Anne’s time from the
dish-clout to the napkin was but a
step and when a man married his
cook, which vgs quite a common
thing, he was merely said to have
made a napkin out of his dish-clout.
Napkin is a corruption. It is de
rived from the late Latin napa, a
corruption of the Latin Mappa. a
cloth. In old French the two forms
naps and maps, were u.:rd side by
side, and the word was introduced
into middle English as napekin.
This form is composed of nape plus
the diminutive suffix ’kin’ to desig
nate a little cloth.
Derivation or .Mop.
“Mop is related to mapple. which
was used to'designate a baby in
1440 and later applied to a rag doll.
In this sense it occurs in ’Prompto
rium Parvulorum.’ Mop is explained
as a contracted corruption of map
pie. Mapple is derived from the Lat
in mappula, a diminutive of mappa,
the napkin to which I have already
referred, but in provincial English,
map has long been a .form of mop,
and a map-clout is a cloth for mop
ping floors.
“In his ‘English Dialect Diction
ary,’ Halliwell tells us that mop is
used in Gloucestershire for a nap
kin. Napkin, which might more
properly be called lapkin. inasmuch
as it designated a small piece of
cloth used as a towel in wiping
both the mouth and hands, has gone
through a number of senses from
the muckider or muckinger carried
at the belt, to the pocket handker
chief. particularly in Scotland and
in Northern English dialect, es
pecially about Sheffield, and even
tually to the small piece of linen
used for other purposes, such, for
instance, as a towel or face rag.
“Formerly at all English country
fairs servants who sought positions
always carried with them the em
blem of their occupation or the
symbol of service, be it clout or
mop. fork or flail, sickle or scythe
Arc. These symbols designated the
office in which they sought em
ployment. One of the largest of
these statute fairs ws* held a'
Stratford-on-Avon In 1894 "
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