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THE NASSAUePOST: FREEPORT, N. Y., SATURDAY, SEPT, 12, 1914 ^ I - A SIEGE OF BARIS AS IN DORAN NOVEL Arnold Benedict in “Old Wives Tales” Published by Doran Co. Tells of Paris Scige WAR DISPATCHES CAN BE CHECKED Scenes of Military Life and Battle —Talcs of Home Life and Efforts Depicted W hen I was living in Papa, I said to my old railw a y servant, “By the way, you w e n t through the Seige ol Paris, didn't you?\ He turned to hib wife and said, uncertainly, \The Siege of P a ris? Yea, we did, didn’t w e ? ” The Siege of P a r is had been only one Incident am o n g m any in their lives. Of course they rem e m b e red it well, though not vividly, and I gained m u ch inform a tion from them . But the m o st useful inform a tion which I gained from them was the perception, startling at tlrst, that ordinary people went on liv ing very ordinary lies in Paris during the siege, and th a t to the vast m a ss ol the population the siege was not the dram a tic, spectacular, thrilling, ecsta tic affair th a t it is described in his lory.—Arnold B e n n e tt in introduction lo \The Old W ives’ Tale. The landlady’s ignorance of the mill tary and political situation was com plete; the situation did not interest her. W h at interested her was that she had th r e e m en to feed, and thai the price of eatables was rising. Sh< bought fifty pecks of potatoes at a franc a peck. One m o rning, on going to do her m a rketing, site found a no lice across th e shuttered window ol her cream ery in the Rue N o tre liam t de L o rette: \f'losed fur w a n t oi m ilk.\ The siege had begun! It wa: In the closing of the cream ery that the siege figured for her; in this and in eggs at live sous apiece. She wetit elsew h e re for h e r milk, and she paid a franc a litre for It. T h a t 'evening she told her lodgers that the price ol m eals would be doubled, and th a t il any gentlem a n thought Uiat he could get equally good m e a ls elsew h e re, he was at liberty to get them elsewhere- She rented h e r own room and es tablished h e rself in a little skylight cham b er, am id a world of dom estics and poor people. On her first nighi I here, she w o rked very late-, and the rays of her candle shoi uu Interm it tently through the skylight into the black heaven; a t intervals she flitted up and down stairs with a candle. Vn known to h e r a crowd gradually form ed opposite the house in the street, and at about one o’clock in the m o rn ing a file of soldiers woke the con cierge and invaded the courtyard, and every window was suddenly populated with heads. Sophia was called upon to prove th a t she was not a spy (sig nalling to the P russians. Three qXiar ters of an hour passed before her rn nocence was established and the stair^ casks cleared of uniform s and dishev elled curiosity. T h e unreason of the L. F. COMELLAS Bay v iew A v e . and Archer St. Freeport, N. Y. First Mortgage Money To Loan Building and Per manent Loans Phone 375-w Freeport W h ile in M in e o la HENRY C, KRAMER’S HOTEL NASSAU Where Yon Will Meet Your Friends _WALTER B. COZZENS GENERAL CONTRACTOR BUILDER STRUCTURAL WORK Estimates Cheerfully Furuishcd For All Kinds of Work 423 South Side Ave., Freeport, L. I.] Custom and Family Laundry! EFFICIENT SERVICE AND WORK AMERICAN LAUNDRY Telephone 97-R NEWTON BLVD FREEPORT N. Y. I suspicion against h e r com p le ted In Sophia’s mind the ruin of the reputa tion of the French people as a sensi ble race. She was extrem e ly caustic the next day to her boarders. Except for this episode, the fre quency of the m ilitary uniform s in the streets, the price of food and the tact th a t «v least one house in four was dying either the am b u lance Hag or the dag of a foreign em b a ssy (in an ab surd hope of im m u n ity from the im pending bom b a rdm e n t) the siege did not exist for Sophia. The m en often talked to her about th e ir guard duty and disappeared for a day or two to : e I a . I . e a r l s , but s | i e V Hr too I j U b j lo listen to them. H e r ears were soon quite accustom ed to the sound of cannon, and she ielt that Paris had alw a y s been be sieged. She did not speculate about the end ol the siege; she lived from nay to day. O ccasionally she had a qualm of fear, w h en the firing grew m o m e n ta : ily louder, or when she heard iiiat battles had been fought in such and such a suburb. But then she said it was absurd to be afraid when you ,vere with a couple of m illion people, all in tlie sam e plight as yourself. Shells were lulling in the southern quarters of Pails, doing perhaps not a g reat deal of dam a g e, but still plung ing occasionally in to the m idst ot oome doruesth interior, and m a k ing a was like nothing hut a raw wound. V iolent anger would spring up m a g ic ally out of laughter and blows out of caresses. Soon afterw a rds the G e rm a n s en ter ed P a ris, but m u tual agreem e n t, and m ade a point of seeing the Louvre, and departed, amid the silence of a city. For Sophia the conclusion of the siege m e a n t chiefly that prices went down! (—From \T h e Old W ives’ T a le,\ by A rnold B e n n e tt; George H. Doran om p a n y .) C arnival Ends a t Springfield A successful year, botty socially and financially, for the Springfield Y a cht Club was celebrated on4 L a b o r Day by Its second annual M ardi Gras, of which a boat parade, a land parade and a confetti dance w e re the fea tures. T h e boat parade took place in the m o rning. Among those w h ic h took part w e re the following, w ith their cap tain s : Pedrel in wbidti w e re the king and queen of the M ardi Gras, aptain J. Krauze, jr.; Scout boats T a r Captairi R. M d lw a in, and M adge D„ C aptain DiUiipr; Seoul, aboard which w e re its captain, W. Nea1 a n d Captain A. Fink, carried them dressed as Zulu king and queen; Laurim-, Com m odore J. E. Poppe; Ross L., Vice Commo dore C. Lober; Cum abong, C a p tains Seheer and Schoge; Edna, ex-Commo- ad m ess of it. T h e P a risians w ere flore W. M iller; Katy K„ C aptain jonvinced that the sheila were aimed K a h l; Ram b ler, Captain.- N o rton and ajallciously at hospitals and m u seum s; Cuff; Jc-m, C a p tain J. M cllw a lne; Et- .tud when a child hapened to be blown j ta P : C apiain A. Fink; H e len, Cap- ,o pieces iheir unspoken com m ents | tain C P e ters; Dandee, C a p tain Wit- jpon tin- Prussian savagery were bit- „er. T h e ir faces said: \Those bar- uarians cannot even spare our chil- , They amiiaeil them s e lves by creat ing a m a rket in sin 11s, paying .more •or a live shell than for a dead one, i nd modifying the tariff according lo .he supply And as the cattle m a rket i .vas em p ty and the vegetable m a rket .viis empty, and the beasts no longer pastured on the g rass of the parks, ,tnd the twenty-live m illion ra ts of the | Heliopolis w in too num e rous to lui ; lisii interest to sp e c tato rs, and the Bourse was practically deserted, the | craflic in ^shells sustained the starving ^ m e rcantile instinct during a very d u l l ! period. Bui the effect on the nerves was deleterious. The nerves of everybody schieben; R e s tless, Captain C. F r a n k ; Greg, C aptain G regory; Louise E„ C a p tain E idt; Known, C a p tain J. Brown and Viola B., C a p tain Burse. AUTOMOBILE, MOTORCYCLE, BICYCLE REPAIRING AND ADJUSTING BERT TRYON Telephone 174 55 NEWTON BLVD FREEPORT,N.Y. Plumbing, Heating, Tinning REPAIRING AND JOBBING ESTIMATES CHAS. F. FRITZ Jr. 63 N. MAIN ST FREEPORT. N. Y. F reeport poultry earm S ON POSITIVELY SANITARY IDEAS Sanitary Houses and Pens—1 he finest Bred Stock-Produces the best Eggs and Stock— Always Open for Inspection-— Choice Broilers Always Ready for Im mediate Delivery /VI Orders Promptly Delivered Telephone, 512-w Post Office, Box 75 AUTO PAINTING WE BUILD FORD DELIVERY BODIES CHARLES F. VAIL (t MERRICK FREEPORT The conroe of the boat parade was from the clubhouse through H ell Gate to Broad Channel, and on the retu rn , through H a ssock Creek. The boats w ere saluted all along the line. In the afternoon cam e the land parade, fol lowed by th e confetti dance, a t the clubhouse. T h e oflicers in charge of the M ardi G ras w e re: Jam e s E. Poppe, com m o dpre; C h a rles Lober, vice com m odore; Jaco b K rausz, jr., fleet cap tain; O scar Schoge, financial secre tary ; A n d rew Fink, recording secre tary, and P e te r Seheer, treasurer. ROCKVILLE CENTRE CLUB FAIR P r e p a rations are being made for the annual fair a t the Rockville Cen tre Club, un d e r the auspices of the Ladies A u x iliary of which Mrs. F. J. Bushnell is C h airm a n . The fair will sta r t on T h u rsday aifld continue to Saturday. A special feature will be the danc ing each evening. There will be a Goose table Tor the children, w ith Mrs. Chas. V. Day as M o ther Goose. The various booths and th e ir ch a ir men are as follows: Mrs. F. J. Busn- nell, bag and hankerchiefs; Mrs. W. Heyward, apron, caps and u tility ; Mrs. H. R eeve, candy; Mrs. G. V. Brouwer, cake, pie and braed; Mrs. A. Brown, tea room and ice cream ; Miss Eve B rouw e r, lem o n a d e; Mrs. Palm e , fortune telling; Mrs. W u e rst, m a g a z ines; Mrs. Pinkham , flow e ra, ! Mrs. C h a rles Day, M o ther Goqse and : dolls; Mrs. H. Sheets, fo r tn ig h tly ;! l'lrs H u tcheson, rolling board. Rogers— H a rvey A very pretty hom e w edding took place on Friday night a t th e hom e of >lrs. N e ttie H a rvey of L o x h u rst ave nue, w h en n e r daughter, Cecial, was m a rried to Mr. Lockwood Rogers of New York. The bride w a s handsom e, y attired in a gown of w h ite satin and carried a bouquet of w h ite roses and lillies of the valley. The cere mony was perform e d by W a lter P. Munson the president of the Morman Church of Brooklyn. A fter the wed ding breakfast, th e couple left for N ia gara Falls. They will reside in Brook lyn. T h e Rev. D. H e r b e r t O’Dowd, rec tor of the Churcft of the Ascension, and the Rev. A. H. Rennie, pastor of the P r e s b y terian Church who have been away on th e ir vacation have re turned to th e ir folds, and occupied their respective pulpits on Sunday last. P O W E L L ’S Boat building, repairing, painting, storage, works. Modem marine railway. Boat supplies. Celebrat ed cork decoy ducks ELLISON’S POINT Ft. Woodcleft Avenue, Freeport, N. Y. Better “ Than Mother Used To Bake”\ and Mother Was Some Baker It’s Good T o The Last Crumb 0 . K. B A K E R Y 21 S. Main St., Freeport BAYVIEW AT FREEPORT An Exclusive Residential Section, With City Advantages and Suburban Comforts Most Ideal for the Summer Home. Best Year Round Suburb. Houses on Large Plots Can be Obtained on Most Liberal Terms. ONSLOW MOORE CO. 44 COURT ST., B’KL’N A. A. SEALY, M’g’r., Bayview Ave., F reeport, N. Y. Take it to the Columbian We have the facilities, the men and the ex perience to do your work right. We do oxy-acetelyn W elding. We can burn the carbon from your cylinders, 50 cents per cylinder. We can re-seat your valves with a special machine that seats them absolutely right. Re-seat- makes the motor more powerful, snappier, quick er and sm o o th.” running. ii A l l WoVk Guaranteed I Standard Gas 16c. Goodyear Tires. Celebrated I Ball Spark Plugs, guarantdd for life of your engine iL — T H E LITTLE SHOP HOLMES M. NORWOOD, Prop. TIRES. TUBES AND MOTOR ___ SUPPLIES Vulcanizing a Specialty WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED ABENT FOR METZ 22\ 43 W. Merrick Road Freeport, L. I. Telephone, Freeport 1022-W $15 White Sport and Beach Coats, $4.95 W e have purchased from C. Kenyon Co., known the world over for their showerproof sport and beach coats, their entire stock of all wool cheviot coats in ladies’ and Misses' size. All the latest models at a ridiculous price, of $4.95. Don’t hesitate-^ bargain like this does’nt last long. For the benefit of some of our patrons who are unable to come to town we will fill mail orders. In case the garment doesn’t come up to expectations we will re fund your money and expense. MADAME ANNETTE Trolley Junction Hempstead, LH. 5 E L E C T Every Evening COMMENCING FRIDAY, JUNE 3rd Good Music A L E X A N D R A H O T E L Merrick Road Amityville, N. Y. THEPARSONMARBLEANDGRANITE WORKS SMITH SgSPRAGUE, P bops . Designers and Builders of High Class Memorials. All Kinds of Cemetery Work, Lettering a special ty. c Estimates and Designs Cheerfully Furnished 1 A K U V i ' . - U o . i i L v,«<LENFIELD CEMETERY TELEPHONE, 158-w HEMPSTEAD, LONG ISLAND This Handsome Pony Outfit rnre Pony, Carriage & Harness rKEC T o Some Boy or G irl-W H Y N O T YOU? Great Dunlop Pony Contest b e g a n M a y 15, c lo s e s S e p t e m b e r 15, 1914 HOW TO GET VOTES Votes on the Pony O u tfit will be given w ith every purchase mad'3 at Chubbuck’s Drug Store—one vote for every cent. The child having the greatest num b e r of votes to its erdit on Sept. 15th, 11)14, wins the Pony Outfit. In case of a tie 1300 In gold will be divided between cehildren tying. 500 extra votes w ill be given w ith ach prscriptiou filled at this store. W a tch for special sales each Thursday when ex tra votes will be given on certain articles. HOW TO GET VOTES W ith every yearly subscription to the N a ssau Post, accompan- iel by $2.50, 3,000 Pony Votoe will be given and you can buy as m a n y as you desire. T h e best way to get votes is to se cure subscriptions to T h e N a s sau P o s t as the schedule of votes Is so m uch g reater for subscriptions than anything else. You will be surprised how easy it is to get subscriptions to The N a ssau P o s t If you try. C o n te st Closes Septem b e r 15th 1914. Now is the tim e to show your true A m e rican spirit—Get Busy —NOW. Votes are also given away at fountain with Ice Cream and Soda RULES OF T H E C O N T E S T 1. Every contestant gets a number. 2. No names of contestants will be published, 3. Standing of contestants published In Nas ’,au Post commenc- ipg Wednesday, June 17, 1914. 4. All votes must be brought In Thursday o? each week. 5. Tie votes in package with contestants number and amount on top slip only. 6. Votes are transferable only before recording. 7. Contestant having largest number of votes on Sept 16, 1914 wins the Pony Outfit. 8. Contestants will not be permitted to solicit votes within our store or In front of the building. 9. All families connected with this store and the Nassau Post staff are barred from this contest. Enter Your Child in this Great Contest at Once—It Costs N o thing CHUBBUCK’S DRUG STORE Telephone 5 Freeport FREEPORT, N. Y.
