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Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-03-17
CHAPTER VII-cOntinued.

'Be there at a quarter after two,
Mr.. Webster, and you will hear from
me promptly on the minute" the clerk
assured him; whereupOn Webster paid
for one berth and departed for his
hotel with feeling that the clerks
report would be favorable.
True to his promise, at precisely a
quarter after two, the ticket clerk
telephoned Webster at his hotel that
che berth in No. "a had been Cancelled
and the entire stateroom was now at
mis- disposal.
eff you VIII be good enough to give
me the name of your valet" he con-
cluded, II will fill in both names on
my passenger manifest and send the
tickets to your hotel by messenger i'm
mediately. You can then sign the tick
ets-I have already signed them as
witness-and pay the messenger"
"Well, I haven't engaged that valet
as yet" Webster began.
"What's the odds? He's going to
miss the boat, anyhow. All require
is a name."
''That ought to be simple request
to comply with. Let me seel"
81 read a book once, Mr.. Webster,
and the valet in that book was called
Andrew Bowers"
Bowers is q fine old English name,
Let us seek no further. Andrew Bow,
ers it is"
"Thank you. All you have to do
then is to remember to sign the name,
Andrew Bowers, to one ticket. Don't
forget your valet's name now; and ball
everything up" and the clerk hung up,
laughing.
Half an hour later a boy from the
steamship office arrived with the tick
cts, collected for them, and departed,
leaving JohA Stuart Webster singu-
larly pleased with himself and at
peace with the entire world.
A "large" dinner at Antoine's that
night (WeDser had heard of Antoine's
dinners, both large and small and was
resolved not to leave New Orleans un-
I'll he had visited the famous restaur-
anti, and a stroll through the pictur-
esque old French quarter and along the
ievee next day, helped to render his
enforced stay In New Orleans delight
full, interesting, and instructive. FoI
Sunday he planned an early morning
visit to the old French market, around
which still fingers much of the pie
turesque charm and colorful romance
of day that is done-that echo OF
yesterday, as 1t were, which has left
New Orleans an individuality as dis
+inct as that which the oldens golden
goddess days have left upon San Fran
cisco.
He rose before six o'clock, there
fore; found a taxi, with the driver
sound asleep inside, at the curb IL
front of the hotel; gave the latter hi
instructions and climbed in.
Opposite Jackson Square the eloy
ing sweetness of palmetto, palm, ant
Dig burdened the air. Above tn
rumble Of the taxi he could hear tn
distant babel of voices In the Frencl
market across the square, so h
halted the taxicab, aligbted, and harde
the driver a bill.
Il want to explore this square" h
said. He had recognized 1t by tn
heroic statue of General Jackson peer
Tag through the trees. "Tn wal
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-03-17
"I am known as Mr.. Andrew
Bowers. valet de chambre to
that prince of gentlemen, MIR.
John S. Webster"
(To BE CoNTINUED.)
Her Sad Farewell.

A very dignified man, whom had
known only short while, came one
evening to say good-by, as he was
leaving on a long trip. When I ush-
cred him into the parlor I discovered
that my young brother had hung
crepe on ell the furniture ~ Chicago
Tribune,
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-03-17
Their High Ideals.

Don't jeer at the imaginings of
young people. When they dream ae
what they would like to be and do
they have a vision Of what they mas
be and do.
Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-03-17
Important % gotnera
Prlees.

?
She-Don't you think the food theg
serve in this restaurant is healthful'
He Maybe, but the prices are sick
ening.
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The Orient in London

the dream-child, waiting for me. . . d.
No dream child now stands at its
corner. f.. My girl went with it's
vanished past. The child | had
placed. there could not survive inspec-
ton under the cold light of common
sense He ought to take more time
with them. He has a sentiment for
weakness. for frailty, for occurrences,
for pallor. for appeal-decorative at
tributes that cannot be appreciably
sketched in headlines. He should re-
main as long on his subject, which he
wants to carve as a cameo, as Mr..
Griffith does when he takes closeup
after closeup. Delicacy is not impress
sionistic. bold or curt. 1t fingers and
IL fingers.
However, there are good stories in
more Limehouse Nights" that would
be unusual for another author per-
haps. but Just passably worthy of one
of Mr.. Burke's reputation. They are
"The Perfect Girl"-"Once they have
pany of all other daughters in this
sunless land. They will find her in
any one of these little pellets OF li-un
which | am about TO smoke In this
very ordinary and i'll constructed
pipe "MaZur<a," THE Scarlet
Shoes" and "a Game of Poker"
These are tinged again with Bur<ism-
color, music, sway. The second and
third relate youth and longing, the
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

Summing. with their furs and pretty
sympathies? There was one of them
came to the Casino the other night
| was sitting at table waiting for
friend of mine. Dear girl she said to
God to love your What is your
opinionY said 7; is God personality
or only a sort OF mind in the universe?'
She looked stunned; then she an
swered solemnly. God is love- Well
said I, speaking professionally, I
doubt that"
Later Ann asks him. ''You know
what II Is TO have nobody that cares
rap whether you are alive or dead?
And years and years TO come yet-but
I'll be kissed and bought. Do you
know what waiting is? Listening.
steps are coming. and no one after all.
and then. I put my fingers
through his hair-and when he's gone
remember his arm against my face.
He will say he missed me to-day"
The priest: 'T can't advise you In
this case. came here like a fool,
thinking | knew all about things. and
/ find know nothing at all--nothing." :"
Yet his very confession of ignorance
seems to have been effective. for Ann
turns out the light which was to have
welcomed the nephew.
"Addio" is laid in New Orleans in
the old French quarter. 1t is a story
of a girls quick temper separating her
from the man she loved In Italy In
New Orleans she has many admirers
and seems to favor Harry. though
never can she quite forget her Italian
lover. Tom.
In small restaurant these three
meet, Tom not recognized by her. but
known to the shopkeeper and Harry
to be her former lover. He gently
tells her a story of their troubles. end
ing with the sad words, "and never
found. But If she hadna been so
quicka, so fast. so angry--dey had not
lost each oder" And after studying
the strong. prosperous Harry and look
ing at his own crippled figure, he said:
mo broka like me, eh? Your Tom
maso, mono like--me. Allora---I go.
Ricorda, Signora-Si, ST. addiol Ad-
dio. Goodaby--G leaving the
girl with Harry. to whom she says,
"Scusi--I'm sorry"
The reader may attempt to choose a
favorite, but he will have difficulty
here. Each has a swiftly developing
love theme and tragic renunciation,
holding the interest and leaving the
reader with a sense of having looked
deeply into life and having more
intimate knowledge Of sorrow and of
love.
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

such a line as "The sky has so much
room here. too" gives the keynote to
the diction of the whole.
With philosophic yet affectionate
detachment the writer has studied not
only the character of the people and
of the soil but he has grasped, hap
PLY, their interrelation. He under
stands the influence of climatic and
other physical conditions upon the
temperament of a people. II sup
pose" he says, that wherever man
looks in the world. if he have the
eyes to see, he finds as much of gay
ETY. and pathos, of failure and courage,
as in any particular section of it; yet
so much at least is true: that in
little community like this, so removed
from the larger, more spectacular con-
fiicts IF life, so face to face all the
year with the inveterate and domi-
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

sic Lou of oors up to Boston," says
Kenny, I'VE got a letter from 'er last
night, we did, and she sayse, says she,
why wouldn't we be for ascending o.
the leetle lad up theyr? And he
could go to one o. them fine city eye
doctors and ave his eyes put right
with glasses or somethink: and prob
'ly he could be for going to school
again and a-getting of his learning,
which he's sadly be'indhand in, sor,
becaust he's ben ailing so much"
And then there is the story of Ia
bette and Susanne, who lived together
for thirty-three years there I'm the lit
tie dormer windowed cottage beyond
the post office. having after bitter
quarrel and recrimination decided
true love-" a gay philanderer who had
once courted them both.
OF them all perhaps the story Of
Sabine Bob and Mary Willee i'm Fly,
My Heart" has I'm 1t the most delight
full homely touches of humor and
pathos. Sabine Bob. who had never
been pretty or had any nice clothes or
gone to parties. but had just scrubbed
and washed and swept, saved what she
could, gone to church on Sundays,
bought a new pair of shoes every
other year. could yet exclaim: "Dieu,
que c'est beau. ramour!" She will
stay with you, this Sabine Bob and
her life's tragedy. just as will Zabette
and Susanne and Melanie and Captain
Joe Pettipaw, long after you have
closed the covers of this slender vol
,tp,a
The New York herald., 1921-07-31
THE JOURNAL OF CARLO KNIGHT.
ErPEyE, ANCE
BALLADE OF POTENTIAL POEMS.


BALLADE OF POTENTIAL POEMS.
close my desk and Leave the toaon
For pleasures of the countryside,
Where Nature tceGrs an emerald 0oton
"a bit of knotoledge ichich pride
Myself upon), Where 0dily glide
The butterflies Ger roses rare,
And Natures joyous ,ohin,s provide
Potential poems everywhere.
IT'S m-ue that poets of renoacn
Immortahsed before they died
The items am setting dotcn,
But tchdt OF thats Pm 0rdtifed
To think that famous men deserted
The beauties that noto declare.
Like posies that meath boulders hide
Potential poems everyiohere.
No tconder that cease to froicn
A trout stream, looki (PH haze mine
fried,
With net0 potatoes for croicn.)
Regard the cherry tree-d bride
Decked out In phite. All. see, united,
The coios (they must be tame for fdir) I,
And hear the birds and their implied
Potential poems everywhere.
L'ENvoI.
Pm taking Ethel for o. ride,
Here's stationery and a chair:
you tCrite EN-, friend. those undenied
Potential poems everytUhere!
Spend the afternoon reading Alaska
Mans Luck" by Hjalmar Rutzebeck
Twenty degrees cooler than the street
WELL FED.
Sir: Which would you rather be-
well bred, well read or well fed?
BUCOLIC.
The New York herald., 1921-07-31

means. but where is his mood, his
rhythm? Or is 1t that Mr.. Burke has
always presented the story-the time,
the place and the yellow curled girl
and left it to us to supply what Scott
Fitzgerald calls simputtco? Where
have the limpid poems of Quong Lee
gone? Mr.. Burke's new book OF More
Limehouse Nights" is interesting, but
synopsistic and, on the whole, sing
songless.
He has written I'm a hurry or he has
written for contract. Many OF these
pieces are remembered az having APP
peared in series in Vanity Fair. The
author has a gift for choosing naive
themes and just as lovely titles--"The
Yellow Scarf" for instance. and Blue
bell": one the story of woman who
in binding her lovers gashed hand
with the scarf he had given her, Kills
him. because her husband had previ-
ously poisoned the gift; the other
family reminiscent of Gypsy in
Dream Street." the little music hall
dancer who walls, God, why don't
men love me the right way?" But
In his narration he has not been
touched. He has not felt. They are
words! words words choice words.
mind you, but sounding less tinkle-
some than cymbals.
out of any material so pathetic as
THE Dumb Wife" and THE Heart of
a Child" why didn't he weave tales of
lambent Illusion? Was THE Heart
OF Child" just the description of "It
is good to believe that the heart OF
"a child Is a symbol OF sunshine. clear
as Joy; but II Is good sometimes to
face facts and to recognize that the
hearts OF children are fashioned in as
many shapes and colors as the hearts
of men," and then in its abrupt. ending
to leave one unsatisfied with $50 they
hanged him. Not one member
of the Coroner's jury thought twice
about the smile which Daisy wore In
death-a chill. clear smile of trium-
phant satisfaction? The persecution
this child endured brought 10 mind
Lillian Gish's suffering in Broken
Blossoms" but then II one hadn't seen
Broken Blossoms" one would have
been left unaroused.
Mr.. Burke clearly likes children. 81
did not make paradise of that
street. but ] gave it magic properties.
/. Every night. at Its corner. stood
The New York herald., 1921-07-31
REVIEWS OF NEW FICTION

to discover more poignant relief in
all the homely, familiar, universal cpl
sodes of the human comedy"
How will you forget the tale woven
of the homely superstitions of the
people, whose chairs stood with three
legs in the air and only the little point
of one on the floor, and in whose cup
board were strange sounds like the
hands of corpse going rap-rap- rap
rap-rap against the lid Of its coffin?
Nowhere better than in "The Privi-
lege" is the patois of the people
brought out. The story of Kenny and
Suse, whose brood had taken wing.
alone for the first time in thirty years.
is one of poignant pathos. THAT Bes-
The New York herald., 1921-07-31
CAPE BRETON TALES. BY Harry
James Smith. Atlantic Monthly Press
Reviewed by MARY SIEGRIST.

NcVicWco Oy MANl oiEoNloA.
"O read these strangely moving
tales is to adventure widely on
the French shore of Cape Bre-
ton-to penetrate deeply into the
character and genius of the place and
its inhabitants. One knows somehow,
without having to be told that the
writer has lived among these simple
people and studied them with a kind
of brooding sympathy. If he has put
them under the lens of minute obser-
walton he has done it with the insight
and understanding of the poet rather
than with the obviously clever and
shifting dexterity Of the psychoan-
alyst. The result is one of large ma
tive simplicity. Only one who knows
how to go softly and understandingly
among the inhabitants-in sense, in
deed, to become the nhabitants-could
have written convincingly these tran
scrips of a simple pastoral people.
go to. / will write a book!" Is
not the impression one gets on read
ing these tales. Rather. they seem to
come spontaneously from the alembic
Of the writer's mind. When he writes
Of men and women he is like Hia-
watha in the study of his forest
friends: he has Learned their names
and all their secrets" There is some
where Hindu proverb that says, "He
who worships God becomes God" Just
so he who studies other human beings
with love and reverence becomes ire
vocably a part of them. And it is
this almost complete identification of
the writer with the lives about which
he tells us that one is so happily
aware of. Delicate vignettes they are,
yet with something infinitely rugged
and robust; they show a terrific un-
derstanding of life. If laborious re-
search and classification have entered
into the work they have formed the
substructure and not the edifice. One
recalls the story of the novice who
wrote an elaborate review of Chinese
metaphysics by reading from Chinese
under the letter C. and for meta
physics under the letter m and COM
bining that information" Information
has not been combined here. The
author has lived life under Cape Bre-
ton skies.
The great Anatole France himself
could not have told the narratives
more simply nor given them to us
more fully saturated in their native
atmosphere. They seem to unfold
themselves with / know not what SUBJ
tie charm and simplicity. They give
you that thrill that sense of some
thing oracular. that inheres in what
ever lies close to the soil and to the
warm breath of the people. Their
very simplicity haunts and challenges
you. Certainly the physical character
istics of the country are portrayed
with peculiar fidelity. The seasons
have been studied with a painters
eye and something akin to the rever
ence of a ritual. Take, for example.
these lines:
"That is the way summer arrives
on the Acadian shore: everything
bursting pell-mell into bloom; daisies
and buttercups and August flowers
rioting in the fields, lilacs and roses
shedding their fragrance in sheltered
gardens, and over all the world a