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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
4
In a New York room a game ends with a sentimental stake, a paper note, and a gamble for futures. Andrew Merry and Enoch Wentworth wager life plans, then Merry departs with a quiet dawn walk toward a fading stage career while Dorcas and Wentworth reckon with looming choices.
Dorcas Wentworth and Merry share a cliff scene as she urges him to seize life's potential. He wrestles with ambition and imagination while she contrasts lazy drift with decisive action. Ensuing dialogue hints at a broader fate for Merry and a named, distant Asia fact interrupts.
Wentworth and his sister leave town for a quiet outdoor life at an old farmhouse on the shore. A telegram from Enoch interrupts the peace as he rushes to catch a city train, asking Dorcas to drive him to the depot and promising to explain on the way.
Major General James Franklin Bell, newly assigned to command the Second Division at Texas City, argues that soldiers should favor rifles over intrenching tools. Born 1856 in Shelbyville Kentucky, Bell rose rapidly from West Point graduate to brigadier general and chief of staff, serving with the Fighting Seventh during the Indian wars and at Wounded Knee before becoming a major general in 1907.
The French embassy’s wife and military attaché’s spouse, Countess de Bertier de Sauvigny, arrived last November with her young son Armand and English nurse. She speaks little English and does not engage in housekeeping, preferring to let others manage the home. She shows no interest in women’s suffrage, calling it dull, but she avidly enjoys riding horses as her favorite recreation.
Mrs. Poindexter wife of Senator Poindexter of Spokane Washington is highlighted as a forward looking western woman in Congress. She votes with her husband and plans to vote for a president. Renowned for humor backbone and frank views she follows national politics closely and reads extensively. She attends senate debates and stays informed on public sentiment across the nation.
Miss Helen Sumner, statistical expert for the children's bureau and head of United States Industrial Relations inquiries, declares thrift must become a national principle. She argues thrift begins at home, must be taught from the mother’s knee, and contrasts American excess with European thrift.
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