Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-21

PARIS, June 25.
| r SAT- at luncheon in a well-known clut
| i in the Boulevard des Capucines, the
| guest of charter member He Is old In
years, but has preserved the eternal youth
| of head and heart had been presented
| to him casually a few hours before. Upon
hearing my name he asked me IL / hap
| pened to be my fathers son. and when he
discovered that he and the author of my
| being had been boys together in French
| village he took me under his aged ener-
| getc wing for the day. His first business
\ was to invite me to lunch. His second
| was to telephone. inviting several other
| guests TO meet me-"a few men worth
| while" he said; men who always say
| something
1t was thus met Abel Hermant, the
noted dramatist and writer, who, in COM
mon with other literary men of France in
| this time of war, contributes to the news
papers. II is of what NJ. Hermant said over
the coffee and cigarettes that compile this
story
II know an old lady who has four sons
and three daughters" said he, "all mar
ried. and the fathers and mothers Of twen-
ty-six sons and daughters ranging from
three to sixteen years of age, who. ergo,
are cousins She calls them the Twenty
six Tyrants' BE they so or not, this tribe
of youngsters constitute sort of little
autonomic state. with laws, customs and
order to maintain the necessary union be-
tween the divers elements Of this youthful
battalion the ruling spirits. boys and girls
from twelve to sixteen, conceived the idea
of creating a newspaper, But the press to
utilize general term, regardless of it's in
fluence, circulation or quality, must bow
to the distressing conditions existing all
over the world for the moment-the cost
and rarity Of white paper.
The Only Uncensored Paper
Therefore, as the official utterances Of
the Emperors of Russia, their little paper
has seen but one issue, and but one copy of
that issue, in six pages, properly folded
numbered and hand-written and illustrated
by the editors and members of the staff, or
members of the staff and editors, as you
choose For lack Of matter one page was
left blank It's circulation, while not large,
was select, consisting first of sequential
passing Of its single copy from home to
home and family to family among relatives
in Paris.
at was entitled The Twenty Seven and
under its title carefully written, The only
uncensored paper in France
"Its substance consisted in the main Of a
leader philosophising upon the sad but en-.
forced return to study after the Christmas
holidays, a patriotic story describing the
certain Joy that must come through wear
ing a uniform, with the hope the day speed
when the writer could have the privilege;
picturesque recitals of vacation experiences,
a column upon fashions by an editress of
twelve and narrowing tale of the horrors
undergone by one of the twenty-seven at
the hands of an unfeeling medical man, just
because the writer had inadvertently swal-
lowed a copper penny. 1t contained, too,
an advertisement offering to exchange a box
of tin surrendering Kamerades' for an au-
tomobile ambulance that wound with key
Thus 1t even had its economic side
After the lone copy of The Twenty
Seven had made the final rounds in Paris
1t was intrusted to the mails that relatives
in the SOUTH the west and east of France
might revel in its contents. From Paris