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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1925
Page
3
A vivid regional portrait of Tongking along a 60 mile coastal stretch, famed for beauty and mystery. The coast hosts troops of monkeys wild sheep and red eagles with many hidden islands once used by Chinese pirates preying on coastal trade. Chinese vessels ply among colossal rocks shaped by wind and waves.
A Bulgarian law classifies perfumes wines and silks as luxuries and bars import. An American woman seeking a tour asked for insect powder at a chemist and was told it is a luxury. The column notes most advice covers duties and the author laments little uptake.
A Chicago upbringing shapes Selina DeJong daughter of Simeon Peake into a schoolteacher in High Prairie. She befriends Klaas Pool's son Roelf, draws close to Pervus DeJong a poor farmer, and marries him becoming Mrs DeJong. Their life on the farm unfolds amid hardship and ambition as Dirk DeJong is born.
Selina Peake DeJong, widow of High Prairie truck farmer Pervus DeJong, defies norms by driving to Chicago market with Dirk and a loaded wagon. She fights for autonomy, underdrains clay soil, plants asparagus ideas, and retools the farm while continuing to toil from dawn to dusk.
Roelf, now sixteen, announces he is leaving the farm to go away perhaps to Chicago. Selina, keeper of order and care, bestows a farewell kiss as she offers him about ten dollars hidden in a canister, and Roelf departs with a first suit bought for his mother's funeral and a desire to seek new books.
Chapter VII describes eight year old Dirk and Little Sebig DeJong in rustic childhood, against the backdrop of a transition from a one room schoolhouse to a two story brick building in High Prairie. Dirk attends school from October to June as Pervus decries the change.
A playful query ponders whether Selina can command strong prices for her produce or return home empty handed, hinting at uncertainty about price, demand, and her harvest outcomes.
A student guides his mother around the university showing her the polo fields. The mother, eager to appear knowledgeable, sighs that nothing could be nicer than fields of waving polo, highlighting her earnest, humorous effort to understand.
Mrs Johnson relates that Mrs Gig gery cut her foot badly while chopping stovewood during a neighborhood call. Gap Johnson of Rampus Ridge comments that Gabe will face a few months without a wife to support him. Kansas City Star.
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