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New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups

man to whom inevitably attaches the sobri-
quiet OF Bluebeard Cabbage Face"
Thereupon Bluebeard lamented long and
loud and beat his breast, CRYING "Alasp' and
"Alackaday" "I have read manv sonnets
odes, rondels, quatrains, sestets and other
poems of the pangs Of unrequited love-" he
exclaimed, "but compared with the real thino
they are as a bottle of near beer in a dairy
restaurant. Alas, that mischievous Provi-
dence has fosted upon me this unpreposses-
sing patch of herbage. What misfortune is
mine!'
how about clean shave?" suggested
paterfamiias, who was practical man.
Il never thought of that replied Blue
beard, frightening.
Inc old gentleman was pleased to find him
man of such alert intelligence "Go to it,.
ne said, land unless your lower jaw proves
to be too occasional l am confident the Young
lady will yield"
Accordingly the suitor had his chin crop
scythed by a sanitary barber, and shortly af
terward the nuptials were celebrated with
great pomp and boredom
In due time the bride and BRIDEGROOM re-
turned from their honeymoon to Bluebeards
excellent town house. There he found unex
pected messages awaiting him. and he ex
planned that he would have to leave the next
morning to visit certain of his gold mines in
olstant place, where the workers had gone
on strike for a sixteen-hour day
Before leaving the husband produced a
great bunch OF keys which he placed in the
hahds OF the bride. "You have the freedom
OF the house." he said, "and I particularly
commend to you this futed brass kew. It opens
certain closet leading from nv bedroom.
You will find the closet filled with undarned
socks, which | have accumulated during a
long period of unmarried misery. leave
them to your good offices, and trust that Won
will visit the closet daily and stack the re-
suits of your housewifely labors in the walnut
bureau next the washstand" '
That is so thoughtful Of you,' she said
gratefully. Through the long, lonely even
lngs such occupation shall be my delight"
So saying, they kissed fondly and he de-
parted.
AS soon as his carriage was out of sight
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were accepted, because the people of her set
gave preference to domestic establishments
where drought did not prevail In her first.
burst Of freedom to spend ad lib. Fatima had
been beside herself with JOY, and hoped hubby
might stay away year, but with the rapid
dwindling of her social triumph she began to
long for the return of her tired business man,
and when in due course he came back from the
mines she was exceedingly glad, although a
bit remorseful about the neglected hosiery.
None the less, after the first greetings were
over she did not fail to take him to task for
leaving the house as dry as Sahara.
In the old days would not have minded"
she said, "but under prohibition one must fill
the flowing bowl or lose ones social standing
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So saying, they kissed fondly, and he departed

fatma quietly dropped the brass key down
the sewer. mo retroactive matrmony for
mine," she said. $50 that's that"
During the next few weeks she gave an as
sortment of parties and entertainments that .
made some little stir in the society columns.
Her guests We're delighted with her palatial
home and its perfect appointments and serv
Ice, and her chef was classic There was. in
TACT only one drawback to her hospitality. ,
Search as she would, she could find nowhere.
from cellar to attic, so much as a half pint of
the stuff that dreams made Of In the cell
lar were extensive wine vaults, but these
proved to be empty. Among themselves, her
male guests expressed considerable dissatis
faction at the prevailing aridity, and as time
went on fewer and fewer of her invitations
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tackled GonelH's army while it slept The
weary Nationalists had dropped exhausted on
the shallow plateau which opened, fan shaped,
before the ruined shafts of the old Marias
mines. Their camp fires had smoldered low.
very old, pale moon hung just over the
lofty peak of Monte San Felice and few
sleepy sentinels pacing back and forth along
The rim of the plateau heard nothing until
the Yankee miners literally fell from the
slopes of the mountain into the heart Of the
Nationalist camp.
eve pussyfooted cross country" Pug
wrote his dad, "and such cross-country We
had to tiptoe along the ragged edges Of dizzy
cliffs, and chop our way through tropic
forests. We had to creep on our hands and
knees through underbrush that was as tightly
braided as the seat Of a rush -bottomed chair
Dark? Gbod Lord! There were stars in the
sky, but they were confounded far away
Once we splashed through q river. Ice cold
Deep. Black. We held our rifles over our
heads and waded across, trusting to luck to
reach the other side. Then we clawed our
way up a mountain--Monte San Felice, they
call it, Heaven knows why-fve thousand feet
Of the hardest climbing I've ever tackled
Goneli was the mountain, peacefully
asleep.
I'VE could not see the Nationalists until
we had crawled out on the bald polished crest
CT San Felice. They were down by the
Marias-we saw the glow of their camp fires
and the glitter of stacked arms. GonelE,
with Diego and few officers, had taken shell
ter IN the only house left by the Spaniards--
little frame building near the mouth of the
tunnel not far from the water falls
Dad, it was glorious! It's fun to fight if
you don't hate your enemy, but simply crave
TO teach him manners. We waited on the
summit of the mountain, getting our breath
and splitting into the palms of our hands
IN the dark you could see the white flash of
the mems eyes as they looked over their
shoulders at Mccarthy They were TREMBLING
Tor the word Go! You could hear them
treathing-deep and steady-fghting men
every one of them. But Mccarthy held us
pacK-Just by whispering to us-until dawn
have you ever seen the sun rise. dad? 7
guess not. It's hard to get line on the sun in
New York, isn't it? In Magella it comes up
IKE klpllngs sun, with crash The bass
drum at Relsenweber's will give you some idea
OF Magellan dawn, if you will take the
trouble to listen to that jazz band A big red
oal came bouncing up from behind range of
snow-white mountains and the whole world
olazeo suddenly. Do you know how YOU feel
when the saxophone takes deep breath and
you step out on the floor with your best girl?
Ihats the way | felt-glad and careless and
thankful to God for everything, especially INV
enemy.
i can't tell you what happened. It was
great battle. | remembered plunging down the
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Exit the Organ Grinder

the traffic is getting the best of them and
there's SO much noise in the town it's hard "
hear their music. Sometimes go week
without seeing an organ. There's one old maa
"a cripple who passes every now and tnen
and it seems to me he walks faster than ne
used to. 1 guess the traffic's got him."
Victor Pappachado, delicatessen dealer IN
Harlem's Little Italy, said that he once sold
sandwiches to half dozen organ grinders
every week, but that these customers have
disappeared entirely. Il guess they're all
getting out of the music business or getting
out of town." he said Zone fellow VINO
played an organ for twenty years came in Toe
other day and I asked him how was business.
He said that business was good because he ns0
quit organ grinding and had become
peddler."
E. S. Curtis, employed in q Mulberry Stres'
steamship agency, says the war did 1t. Ah'
organ men are going back to Italy," he sa0
Lots of them have gone. l happen to KNOW
of three cases in which veteran grinders ~en'
back home on the money they earned durinS
the war"
Sam Luigio-his neighbors call him the Wv
Man Of Mulberry Street-says ne has DssD
waiting twenty years to see the organ griaa"
pass and he believes the time has finally eoms
There is not one-tenth the number OF grinos1'
that New York had ten years ago" ne ss'r
Ten years from now there won't be any ieis /,
The pawnbroker, who has come to the sl
of the red-sE;rted hurdy-gurdy man WIZ
business was slack, and the apartment h0'''
dweller who has often peered down in'' :
cement court when tunes broke in on the noO4 |.
day stiffness, can also testify to the tact .as'
the hand organ man seems to be disappesf'hss'
The testimony of just one other person :
needed in the case. That person is Tony h'',
self. If you catch sight of him as ne stSnSs
beside his battered instrument or as nc :,
clines in the bright sunshine against Oi','
wall with his silent organ parked at the cuss'
go up to him and, ask him just why his ie.'V, !,
grinders are saying goodby to New iO.s
City. He will probably stare fixediy AZ ~ s.
for moment, shrug his shoulders, extend =
lower lip to indicate doubt, and say:
sToo mucha da crowd"
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completely. l can't understand why you sub
jected me to such humiliation
''You didn't find the hootch!' he exclaimed
"Not a DROP"
But it was all stored in nv new vault be-
hind the closet containing the socks, to which
l so earnestly directed your attention. I was
sure you must find the booze as soon as YOU
sought the socks.'
"Alaso' she replied. 81 lost the key" And
she began to weep most beautifully
Her husband assured her that he had a
duplicate, and SO she need not grieve about
the socks
That evening his father-in-law came to din
ner, and before the meal, in the privacy of
his chamber the bridegroom told the old gen.
tleman the incident
II was not born in the thinking classes" ("
he explained, "but the beard incident taught
me that even the best people may advan-
tageously their beans. So I decided bv
taking thought to conserve my supply of the
good stuff from the onslaughts of the thou
sand and one rumhounds of our acouaint-
ance."
"And yet" remarked the old gentleman
'she might have gone after the socks"
But, unfortunately, I gave her the wrong
key" counterec the young man.
"Oh, worthy son-in-law!" exclaimed the
other, embracing him. Whereupon they en-
tered the forbidden closet, and the young man
shook up something cool and substantial.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
BY Mildred Cram

a N hour after old Bianchi, discoverer
u of the mines now operated with the
4 "A money of Pugs father, had told young
Fairchild that an attack by revolution
lists was inevitable, Pug and the old explorer
had set off on foot for the starting point of
the rack-and-pinion railway to the rim of
the canon.
The consul returned to the city, still secure
in the possession of san army and navy in
both pockets" The little railway-a single
car-cut straight across the cindery slopes
of the lower Santa Christina, climbing spas
medically into the air like the car of an OBJ
servation balloon. The city lay below them,
the checkerboard roofs touched by the first
direct rays of the sun. Columns of smoke still
sprang from the waterfront fires. The rab-
Bile was distinctly visible, tossing sea of
straw hats, horses, flags, gun carriages.
Bianchi stared morosely and shook his head.
II wrote your father that something like
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plateau with their arms above a..
eve tied Goneli's hands bebina :. aeas
because we were afraid of him. but .. n p
effect. Some one went after tho 49,. non
we invited Papa Diego to mount. nsa ' a's
regular court bow, and the old os V hls
touched. ! think he expected to bo -p .l-t pa|
and there. He saluted and we rode ys az y
trail, Gonelli stumbling ahead of rs ysa s,,l =
up as much dust as possible and now ~ ~a'l'
casting looks at Diego over his sbs~l, sna as
venomous looks that were like tha e.,
snakes tongue. Diego began to eol,y e.
cove have saved Magelia from ,n.. '.'a'
drel,' said, poking my rife into ~. '''ai
back
Papa Diego cast his eyes up to bess,
sighed. And what do you think the ~ 'a = sl4
critic said? He looked me straight i =
and said solemnly: God was on my side q q.
Pug ''gaal
"fGod!' Gonelli hissed over bis d.,
You traitor!'
Papa Diego paid no attention 10 II,
ally. He rode magnifcently forward N ~
man who knows that he is the savio, = :.
country. He was planning some so.a, =
orations Of his own.
Down near the river Mccarthy b.a
nered the Nationalists, and we finiabaa j ~
OF with the neatest bit of guerrilla warf,.s1 a'
the history of Magella.
eve entered Magella at sundov,
most battered army of patriots tho ~. :, =
ever seen. Mccarthy had stayed bebi,a = J
guard the trail, but Diego insisted on r,.s..
a triumphant entry, still mounted ON Il, -
spicuous horse and driving GonelH b.,.. -"
him. F
"a multitude of people turned ont !,
US, packing the streets from Sidewalk II ~ -
walk so that we had to force our wav .b,,n..
with fixed bayonets. People clunr Il =.
telegraph poles, hung out of the v,ndoss
swarmed over the roofs, climbed on ..a
cther's shoulders. There was a roar ,s -,
come, and Papa Diego bowed to rjcht a.,
left as if he had intended 10 lick the Natior.l
lists all along.
'"Our men were so tired that they tossr.,
We rode the length Of the Via Nazionals .rI
into the big Piazza before the palace AMI
straight through the front door into n.
courtyard. Then Diego made speech ;,or
the balcony and promised Magella eyervthi,.
on Gods green earth
II stood by Papa Diegos side and feD r..
pulse beat Of Magella-it came uu tbron,.
the soles Of my feet and went to my head n.
a long gin fzz. Dad, knew you were
sport, SO / spoke for you, and guess
smoothed things out for the U. S. A. The,
listened, and l heard my voice go out Ov,
That silent crowd promising happiness.
Il promised peace and wealth, work. uro,
perity, progress-Oh, j gave myself man
size job! And 1 was happier than I've bee
in my life. When / finished, thew vels
Viva PAmerica! and Viva Fairchild! and Wv
Iiego! and ten thousand hats went suinun
into the air. Papa Diego took it all for him
self and saluted, standing upright, martial an
lhcorruptible, like a marble statue.
Observation-Disclosures is Miss Diego-wa
standing by me when 1 made that sOeech
She isn't afraid of life She likes the B
Scrap. She loves and hates with all he
heart. She is brave She will never for
get how to laugh. She has black ewes and ,
few freckles on her nose. I love her. ,
''Your son.
Pug"
Copyright, 1921. Dodd Mead Co.
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mountain loading and firing, lodging behind
rocks, falling headlong, scrambling up again,
yelling whenever / thought Of ut, laughing
whenever / dared, wondering every hundred
yards or so why some one hadn't blown my
brains out. few Of our men died on the
way down--fe1 forward in Odd attitudes OF
prayer or fatigue, Hat their faces. We
couldn't wait for them. / doubt if any of us
cared. | didn't-not then.
eve had surprised Gonellis mea and they
fled down the narrow opening of the old
Indian trail, leaving most Of their officers with
Gonelli and Diego in the Spanish ruin where
they had spent the night. Mccarthy and his
men raced across the open plateau and fol-
lowed the Nationalists down the trail, leaving
me with half dozen men to account for
Gonalli.
Cone of my men stood upright suddenly,
and those inside the Spanish hut fred vol
ley which rolled him over After that we lay
on our faces, keeping very still. We could
hear the fighting in the valley below us as Nc
Carthy pushed the frightened NationaIsts
toward the lowlands.
~ waited behind buttressing rock keeping
my eye on the hut They were silent in there
and could imagine their amazement The
Nationalists were gone--chased literally off
the rim of the universe by an enemy fallen
from the sky. The sun had come up, and it
was as hot as the subway in August. There
wasn't sound except the whisper Of the
waterfalls and the faint rattle of rifle fire
down below But Gonelli was awake He had
an idea that if he could make a getaway the
entire Nationalist army would answer to his
whistle. | had promised to rub his beautiful
nose in the dust, but I didn't want to frighteu
Papa Diego. Not that Papa Diego had any
tender feeling for me. Every time one Of us
slapped fly, sheet of flame burst from the
windows of that hut
1T was, you see, matter for speed I told
the boys to make noise like an army: then
shut my eyes and beat it across that plateau
like Jersey commuter racing for the $40
express.
II wriggled under the hut and Law on NV
back, fighting fer breath and listening to the
conversation going on above my head. think
Gonelli groaned aloud. I heard him saw: That
Slgnor Pug! I'll shoot through the floor, And
ne did l rolled over, saw a little snurt Of
sand about yard away and said, in loud
voice: BE careful up there. I've got dvna-
mite I'm going to blow you higher than
kite unless you open the front door and wall,
outYunarmed.' =
"Will you believe it, dad-Dego let ont q
most agonzing squeal like man who baG
burst suddenly into tears I believe. he had
[ heard great shuffling and a fierce, subdued
whin1pering, Then Gonelli shouted. .You
liep
-" I'm telling you the truth I answered
There are 500 men beyond the rim Of the
plateau l would rather die with YOU than let
you escape And began to count. at the ton
Of my lungss One, two, three, four It was
hilarious. I could hear Gonelli shrek. .r+,s
a trick, you idiots' And then Diego hurled
himself at the door, praying, squealinc beg-
gfng for mercy. The door opened and those
precious fools, as crestfallen as plucked eagles
rushed out of the hut and ran across tbe
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Continued from page three)

over the street music. Even the kids don't
care about the organ man any more. If they're
out in the street when he comes they'll listen,
but if they're not they won't break any doors
down getting to him.
The organ grinders are going out, all right.
No doubt of that. Where there used to be
twenty week in the Italian quarter there are
only two three now"
Charles j. Ryan, traffic policeman, on duty
at Prince and Lafayette streets, says he never
sees 'em any more. "They used to come along
regularly, but they don't now, he said "Guess
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
By Tansy McNab

W AIRY TALES FOR GROWN-UPS were
related to the transcriber by no less
IL an authority than the Old Woman Who
Lived in Shoe. She told them one
spring afternoon when he called on her and
presented her with some copies of a magazine
edited by Mrs Margaret Sanger in which
the Old Woman expressed great interest
The Old Woman was in rare good humor
that day. cobbler was mending her roof;
that is, patching the upper. "Thank good
ness, leather has come down. she said Our
ing the last few years l couldn't afford to
keep a sound roof over my head. Do you
suppose these repairs will be tax free under
the new building laws?
From this the Old Woman passed cvnicallv
to the subject of fairy tales
The trouble with fairy tales is that thew
are largely German propaganda In them the
greatest thing in the world is to become :,
prince or princess, by marriage or other overt
act. In numerous stories truth is perverted
TO serve the kaiserist idea In other stories
the 1acts are just wantonly dsregarded Moth
ing needs good undertaking so much as our
larry tales l wish Berny Shaw or Hank
Meneken or some one would tackle the lob.
-eC us nave the real facts about these notori
1o i@pylahd characters. That's what we
want For instance, take Bluebeard"-
mus the Old Woman went on. retellinp
story after story. They are set down here in
order. "' iieie III
BLUEBEARD
III d certain city there lived a wealthy pen-
eiefan who was courting a certain Young
woman OF position. Though he was ar
tremeiy eligible person and not unprepossess-
ing, in spite of his pictorial beard Of ric,
Maxheid Parrish blue, his suit did not prosper
and III time ne sought out the young woman,s
father for counsel and advice.
i used to think myself something of
lady killer" said the young man, "but vour
daughter seems as Indifferent as a borsea, !,
garage"
"Fatina has spoken to me of your suit"
declared the old gentleman, "and she is fa-
vorably inclined toward you, except for one
obstacle. That is your indigo chin whisker
Naturally girl cannot be expected to marry
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~ AIRY TALES FOR GRoWN-UPs were
y related to the transcriber by no less
4 an authority than the Old Woman Who
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Copyright, 1921. Dodd. Mead & Co.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-04
ALL FARMERS URGED
 TO PRESS ARMS CUT

CHICAGO. Nov. 4 Let the United States take the lead il disarmament and the establish melt of world wide peace" says a petition being circulated among the 46 State Farm B:l- reau Faderations. with an az gregate membership of more than 100000. The petition was sent out by the American Farm Bureau Federation.
 We want our country to take the lead in disarmament and establishment of peace says a statement issued from the bl- reau's office. It is the opinion Of J R, Howard, president of the Federal Bureau, that no event since the signing of the armistice has been so momen- tous to agriculture as the con ference
 Nothing would do So much to bring about settled and bal anced world conditions and es- tablish markets for our foods and clothing than to do away with the terrific expense of mili tarism," he said
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-04
SOCIALISTS MAY GET
 SEATS IN NEW YORK
 BOARD OF ALDERMEN

NEW YORK, Nov. 4.--Less than three months before the expiration of their two-year terms Edward F. Cassidy and Algernon Lee, Socialist candidates for Aldermen, who claim ed they had been deprived of office by fraud, were declared elected in report filed by Alderman Abraham Beckerman, Socialist member of the Committee on Privileges and Elec- tions.
 The two were candidates in the goth and 8th Districts in 1919. The election night returns showed Moritz Graubard won over Lee by 236 and Cassidy to have, been defeated by Timothy J. Sullivan by a plurality of 37. The two Tammany men have served as Aldermen since January 1, 1920
 According to Beckerman's report the recount showed Lee was elected by 349 votes and Cassidy by 165.
 The majority members of the com mittee refuse to report until the Ap- pellate Court decides the issues in the case appealed to it from the Supreme Court which held for the Socialists.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-04
Unions to Boycott
 Foreign Made Goods

NEW YORK, Nov "A nation wide boycott of foreign made goods has been authorized by $50 dele. gates, representing 100000 union men and women of the Central Trades & Labor Council of Greater New York and vicinity.
 Under a resolution offered by Will liam F kehoe, secretary, which said unemployment in this country is due to the sale and purchase here of for eign made goods manufactured un- der long hours and low wages in other countries, the 136 International unions, 930 central bodies and 220 labor papers throughout the Unite States were urged to cooperate in the movement
 By this means we can make q market for articles and commodities manufactured in the United States and provide employment for millions now out of work here" said MT. Ke- hoe. The resolution was unanimous. ly adopted.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-04

along the beach from Aux Bay can nory is completed. The latter is a cooperative project between the Bureau Of Public Roads and the Ter ritory. There are IA miles of con ctruction to be carried out on the project and MT. Cheatham expects considerable activity on that section next season. Mr Cheatham also con siders it probable that the route will be extended up Eagle River Valley to open up valuable farm lands in that district
 Operations Suspended.
 With but few exceptions all road building operations have been sus- pended in the division for the sea son. At Skagway, the Alaska Road Commission is completing the floor yatem in a suspension bridge across the Skagway River At Strawberry Point it is finishing the erection of a life span bridge across Good River and completing grading at Yakutat
 Combined Expenditures.
 The combined figures f6 all ex- penditurer cn roads h Southeastern Alaska under tri-partite agreements as announced today by Col. Steese follow: