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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-01-07

fine linens and sheer cottOns that show
little change In style or decoration.
American manufacturers have adopt
ed these imports to our needs and
little Journey to the shops will repay
the needlewoman who intends to re-
plenish her own supply Of underwear
with something useful and Of her own
making
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-01-07

er garden knows first when
= coming.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-01-07

= multiply as fast as any
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-01-07

A. the Source.
you heard today's gossip1"
suess there isn't any"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-01-07
What He Wished.

were buying the son and heir q
Of shoes. Father had ex-
me usual wish that he could
nir OF number los as cheaply
oer 81, and mother had ex-
ne usual hope that the new
~. .ould last a long while.
wlsh," said the youngster,
E6Ss e would buy me football %
llo have some use for my new
aziiwaukee Journal.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

course-all these things being neces-
sary in this form Of the standardiza-
ton into which American fiction, no
longer a fluid thing. is being crys-
tallized: We accept them. like the
fourteen lines OF the sonnet and
their rhyming. and having good
naturedly admitted that these are
the laws which Western fiction must
obey. also admit that it can still
be a pretty good story in spite OF
its obedience. Mr.. Anthony tells his
story. in spite Of these restrictions.
attractively.
Aside from the fictional "red
blood" there is some in the story
that seems quite human Some of
the minor characters, old Bill Santry.
in particular, keep a certain solidity
in the readers memory after the rest
Of the tale has receded into the
general limbo Of current fiction.
The wide spaces of the Wyoming
cattle country when portrayed with
so nice d touch and so convincing
a manner as that used here, have
an interest of their own, and carry
of a good deal of cheap melodrama.
The book is like a good landscape
in which the artist for purely ex-
tranaous reasons. has felt Obliged to
place a few commonplace figures.
Possibly the commercial reason is
unanswerabIe. Maybe the public does
prefer even conventional figures to
landscape work. yet somehow, just
for curiosity. one would like to read
this story again with all the char
acters. except Bill Santry. left out.
Probably ID wouldn't sell, and there
wouldn't be much bulk in it, but
what was left would be OF fine quail
ity.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

THE YELLOW POPPY. BY d. X.
Broster. Robert NJ. Mcbride & Co.
"HERE appears to be something
of a swing Of the pendulum
of popularity-if the pub
fishers are guessing correctly
toward the somewhat old fashioned
historical romance; a barking back
to Dumas in the adventure tale
rather than more voyaging in q
mere fairyland of modern strenuosi-
ties. 1t is at least more dignified.
and in competent hands may yield
better results than the fancifully
staged affair. Mr.. Broster is no Du-
mas: neither. as to that, is any other
modern experimenter in the field.
But he is competent workman. and
this is a soundly built, well planned
and skillfully executed romance. IL
is possibly a little longer than need
have been: but once started there is
never any good reason why such a
narrative should stop until the writer
Is tired. as there is always room for
a continued in our next"-witness
what Stevenson has called the finest
tale of them all. 1.-The Vicomte de
Bragellone."
Mr.. Broster takes us back to 1929,
"or. II you prefer IL. F'loreal of the
Continued ON E'olI0fcinO Pare.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
THE EIGHT STROKES OF THE
CLOCK BY Maurice lie Blanc
The Macaulay Company.

AhS 11oN90AaJ OOuitaH1.
NUR old friend ArSene Lupin
~ calls himself Prince Reniae
in these latest exploits of his,
but it is a thin disguise, a mask
hardly more than hooked over one
ear and left dangling. The heroine
in-chief is Madame Hortense Daniel.
whose worthless husband. insane in
the first of the eight episodes. con-
veniently dies. unregretted and little
noticed. somewhere toward the, end
of the book.
Eight strokes of the clock and
eight episodes, each provided with a
sub-hero and heroine and a mystery
which could easily have been made
to serve for full length novel. but
which Prince Arsene- Lupin- Renins
disposes of with Gallo crispness.
To many readers il may serve as
an melting invitation to the book to
call attention to the absence here of
the common variety OF young hero
inc. the cheap love interest" the
general "grippingness" that mark the
American and much of the English
equivalent of this kind of story. This
may actually be read with entertain
ment by grown ups. folk who are as
much as thirty years old or even
more. without being annoyed by the
conventional intrusive heroine. When
viii publishers learn that we have
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
played with a doh until the sawdust
has all run away and left it fiat?

played with a doh until the sawdust
has all run away and left it fiat?
And why-oh, why!-can't the ar
tist who draws a picture for a from
tispiece and jacket of such a book
be melted or allowed to read the story
before he begins to draw? For 1t
should be a telescope, not a dinky
pair of opera glasses that the gentle
man who kneels before the open case
Of the grandfather's clock should be
offering to the lady in riding breeches
riding breeches that didn't come
into fashion until years after the
date Of the story. For, says the
writer. These adventures were told
to me in the old days by Arsene Lu-
pin." and Arsene Lupin has been de-
tecting for, well-a very long time.
certainly. as heroes of fiction go.
A telescope then, not opera glasses.
(Never mind the breeches.) But the
telescope has to fit a groove in a
loophole of a parapet, and obviously
you can't fit a tiny pair of glasses
into any such situation. 1t is what
the lady and the gentleman see
through it after 1t is fitted there that
serves as an introduction to the other
exhilirating horrors on which the
reader is. to sup. Eight of them
each complete in itself, yet carrying
forward to the next. like the courses
OF a well planned dinner. 1t is a
delectable entertainment. The ex-
cellent translation is by the late
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
THE LOVE CHASE. BY Felix Gren-
don- Small. Maynard & Co.

HR. GRENDoN had an excel
lV lent idea in the conception
of this book In the expert
enees of a young woman raised In
the narrow, intolerant atmosphere
OF Brooklyn" (Park Slope. tooD
when she escapes into the more vio-
lently agitated air of the 'Outlaw
Circle of the model tenement dis
trict of Kips Bay. He might have
made a telling story of it if he had
been able to cut it down to consider
ably less than half its present bulk,
and work it out on more coherent
dramatic lines. Even as it is. Janet is
fairly human girl. type not very
rare nowadays. and worthy of more
study. The circle Of youth and
near-youth into which she drops is
also real enough; another manifesto
ton of our brummagem bohemian
ism- 1t is a section that has not
hitherto received much notice either
from the novelists or newspaper
humorists. though it has been known
to the sophisticated for some time.
We are told by the analytically
mindedshero:
Janet is utterly different from
the Lorillard Outlaw girl, or the
Greenwich Village bohemian girl.
The effect of Greenwich Villageism
is to make irregularity (what regu-
larity so often is) a bore. The pur-
pose of Lorillardism is to make ir-
regularity pay. But Janet is not
likely to adopt radical creed mere
ly as a pose or with an eye to profit.
She will adopt 1t in a spirit of sheer
blind self-sacrifice."
|. Naturally when she does there Is
more or less trouble. through a long.
very intricate and sometimes incon-
sequential plot. but to the necessary
happy ending. Although .he theme
deals with assorted varieties of free
love. 'varietism" in ex,ramarital
affairs, &C., II is not a repulsive or
salaeious performance. and Mr..
Grendon means well. is sincere in
his beliefs. though not wholly sue
cessful in presenting them in con-
crete dramatic form.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

HIDDEN GOLD. BY Wilder Anthony.
The Macaulay Company.
"HIS springs styles for the
Western novel continue TO
show the popular ranch ma
terial, patterned with cattle and
sheep; a plaid mixture of fences
torn down with malicious intent and
grazing grounds entered by those
who have no right in them.
Pouring through a narrow open
ing in the environing hills. and
Immediately spreading fanIike over
the grass of the valley. were sheep:
hundreds. thousands Of them
Hike torrent OF dirty. yellow
water.
The world of fiction is full of NUT
ton. Thus the warfare of cattle and
sheep begins in this story, and is
carried on in a manner that has in
terestins elements in spite of the
restrictions under which the author
labors. For he conscientiousIy brings
in every thing which the public-or
the publishers idea of the public
has been taught to expect in the
way of love interest. heart throbs.
Williams who get the heroine into
their power just so that she can be
rescued. in true movie manner. in
the nick of time: noble cattle men
wicked politicians who know of
treasure on the ranck and try to
do the owner out OF 1t. only. OF
course, To be properly foiled. And
there are kidnapings ambushes,
pursuits
We accept them all as a matter of
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

m ARK TWAIN once prepared a
lVI choice variety of weather
description and put it all
together at the end of the book. ad-
vising the reader TO pick out what
he wanted and insert in the narra-
tive as desired. Once there was an
other book printed with a page or so
Of punctuation marks -c commas
semicolons. &c.-assembled In an an
pendix. with directions to the fussv
reader to stick 'em in wherever he
liked Mr.. Patten has refined upon
this idea in this curious book. the
first part of which is story-"Part
/; Its Mud Holiow's) Life Pre-
sented." and the second part of which
is a philosophic. psychcanalytic,
critical commentary-"Part II: Its
Life Interpreted" II is q striking
innovation: the hurried reader may
stop at the end of Part I. and the
thoughtful inquirer may. If he likes
confine himself to Part III. The
effect. however. will be much the
same upon each procedure, as either
lands in puzzling confusion, Lit I'D.
none the less. by some bright spots.
Mr.. Patten has luridly pictorial
imagination. and is also capable of
pungent remarks. as asides, but Ii
is little hard to see just what he
Is really driving at in the book. It
seems to be laid upon a foundation
of primitive Methodism, intensified
by dash of Calvinism and then
covered with a rich top dressing OF
psychoanalysis OF the uitra-Freu-
dian school and a sprouting of blos-
som in evolutionary theorizing. IL
is an odd compound of curious in
terest.
The story part Of II deals with the
development OF a very solid headed
young man named Paul, a girl
named Ruth. who Is an experiment
in education" being allowed, like
Topsy. to "jes grow" in her own
way. and her father. professor. who
rs an apostle OF feminism- Paul de-
votes himself to the rights of wom-
en-" though IL is impossible to make
out what he conceives their wrongs
to be. and he is also devoted to chas-
tity. to ascetic renunciation for him
self. Ruth. being a human girl. does
not wholly sympathize. as she dem
cnstrates in several extraordinary
scenes. Paul Is eventually a little en-
lishtened. but il comes to no very
ineligible conclusion.
The analytical chapters are really
more interesting. They deal with
such topics as the elements, racial
and religious. that went to the max
ing of the American composite. and
then switch to a study of COM
plexes." "genetic psychology" the
sense OF sin. romantic love, and
finally with the next step in evolu-
ton. (which appears to be toward an
exit" from our present impossible
situation into some kind of new life,
the detail of which is wisely left un-
stated. Mr.. Patten is a serious
thinker and he has laid hold of the
tail of some Interestingly wriggly
ideas. but is not quite sure enough
in his grasp to pull them fully into
the light. The method of his presen-
tation is unfortunately chaotic.
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New Fiction
Continued From Preceding Page.

the cud of reflection. The reader
smiles, but not the book. Now and
then. at the helpless shaking of your
diaphragm. a story win seem to
glance at you with that plainsive
surprise OF the perfect raconteur.
did / say something funny? I
wonder what it could have beenl"
For somehow on paper there has
been prodpced the Illusion of a down
drawn upper lip. the hesitant. medi-
tatiye pull at a short inverted pipe,
the musical. drawing voice OF Ire-.
land itself; at its kindly best, not
brawling or treacherous but just
Irish.
The book is a collection of short
stories. some OF them connected
here and there. but for the most part
each a complete episode in itself.
There is an arbitrary subdivision
into two parts. the first eight stories
being devoted to small village life in
Ireland at the time of the troubIous
prelude to its parting with England.
yet one may look in vain for the
murderous bitterness and phrenetic
uproar with which the newspapers
have made US warify familiar. In
stead. one is left with a general i'm
preston Of tremendously good inten-
tions that somehow go askew and
lead-well. to the usual place. Not
always, though; at least not until
after the close of the narrative.
Take Lady Bountiful herself, who
gives her name to the book. What
could be more kindly. ingenious and
ingenious. than her practical appli-
cation of the Governments scheme
by which it hoped to mitigate the
evils of unemployment likely to fol-
low rehabilitation and the closing
Of the munition works? "An out
of-work benefit of % shillings week
struck her as a capital thing :.
<r the first time in her life she be-
came slightly interested in politics."
Her method of procedure was SIM
pie. In brief. it consisted in hiring
and diseharging everybody in the
village until they all had insurance
cards properly stamped and were re-
ceiving 25 shillings UNEMPLOYMENT
pay every week. Dismissal of
servants became a regular feature of
life at Castle Affey. On Monday
morning Lady Corless went down to
the village and dismissed every one
she had engaged the week before
after three months every man
and woman in the village had passed
IN and out OF Sir Tony's service and
every one was drawing unemploy-
ment pay. :"
The second half of the volume is
largely concerned with the not
wholly moral adventures OF one Cor
man. painstaking and conscientious
scalawag Of an Irish journalist and
politician. who strives to please that
monarch in exile who for the DUR
poses of fiction is named Konrad
Karl III. Of Megalia- Other rascals
appear in the group before the three
stories. "A Bird in Hand. "The En-
erald Pendant" and Settled Out of
Court" are done with them. Their
point of view in all matters is sim
gularly similar to that of Arabian
Nights" characters. But one likes
German just as one likes the Fox in
A.sop. smiling and quiet, letting
monkeys and asses play the fool for
his advantage.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

Continued on FoHo,oin0 Page.
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THE YELLOW POPPY. BY d. X
Broster. Robert NJ. Mcbride & Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
LARGE NUMBER OF CAST OFFS

Had you stopped Moley offs playing with Southern clubs ball
 list the livery of other Southern league clubs.
 The Chattanooga outfit playing the Barons Redwood possessed of four who formerly romped for Moey The Eddie McDonad looked after third the local flock for Ralph Crol old Baron utility holding berth with the Noogans the nfe Pitcher with Birmingham, Then Chattanooga claimed him the waivers Kid Kress who putting high of backstoppng the cellar champs out with Moy catcher two but at that time couldn't make the grade
 If digs the dope Chattanooga
 largely made Nederkorn catcher the Mountain City by Atlanta Anderson played for several Southern clubs before landed on s present job Wight short with New Orleans the start of the training season this spring Cro Birming hammer Cunningham the right gardener broken-down who took otfedng after his bad Detroit shunted him to the minors Clayton kid just breaking perton New Orleans caso formerly outfield for the Noogans Drake Birmingham Boone another pitcher, the Lookouts carried Freddie Graft to Atlanta Take em by arge ookouts tables.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
GRIFFTTH WINS. SOUTHERN ZONE. TITLEAT MEMPHIS.

Memphis Tenn, June s.-George Griffith. of Memphis, was declared winner of the Southern zone 16-yard championship in the zone handicap shoot here today. Griffith tied with T. J. Ayeock, Jacksonville. Fla. with 197. In the shoot off Griffith made perfect score, Aycock missing one target.
 J. H. White, Spartanburg, s. C., shooting from the 20-yard line, won the southern handicap championship with 96. White tied with C. Smith, Of Mounds Ill, who was declared ineligible because shooting outside his zone The South Carolina man was high gun of the amateurs in the 16-yard events, breaking 394 elays out of 400 He also broke 1s6 in the eight southern zone events
 Mrs. J. L. Doggett, Clarksdale. Miss, made a clean sweep of all events for women She won the southern zone women's champion- ship with 1S1 ard was high gun in the. 16yard events, breaking 371 5nt of 400. She was also second in the handicap, defeating three men gum ners and winning the honor with i195.
 sam Huntley. of Memphis. won the doubles championship with a perfect score in a shoot off with Enoch Ensley. of Memphis.
 Phil Miller, Dallas, Tex, was high amateur on all targets. breaking CTS out of TO clays.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09

Roy Bert knew that Roy was looked upon as kid, even when he was being hailed as a veter- an. Niehoff saw Ellam as a kid the year he was drafted by Cin- cinnati after having sensational first year in the Southern League under Molesworth.
 few years later Bert was let out of the National League the management deciding that he was getting too old. He pas- timed in the association after that and then went out on the coast, where his batting eye con tlnued good. Then he came on to Mobile as player r-manager and soon became known as one of the hardest and most timely hitters in the loop Niehoff figured that Ellam had many, many years of service in his system, Tor he realized that Ellam first broke in with Cincy as a youngster while he (Neihoff) was slipping even then. So he signed him to be his side Rick on the Mobile infield..
 The other Baron cast-off do- ing duty on Southern League ball club is Dutch Bernsen the fence buster. who was sold to the Crackers by the Barons the past winter, while the three-year rule was still in vogue, the Bir- minghaIn management figuring the veteran rule would stick. At the winter meeting, however. this three-year rule was thrown into the discards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
Chicks Get Causey E
 From the Giants
By Briggs

Mobile, Ala, June 8. - Manag1E Spencer Abbott of the Memphis south- ern association team announced toe night that he had secured Pitcher- -Red" causey from the New York Giants. and that he expected him tos report at Mobile. When Causey res. ports. Pitcher Webb, of the Memphis club. will De turned over to the Giants. ~
 Manager Bert Niehoff of the Mobile team announced the release of Pitchsr Jack Schenenberg today, uncondition-s ally Schenenberg was obtained from Joplin, Mo, club of the Western league last season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
B. A. C.'s Handball
 Meet Begins Today

The Birmingham Athletic clubs championship handball tournament will begin today. with over 20 club members entered in the affair this year. Charles Stapleton, who is act ing athletic director in the absence of Coach Erwin, yesterday announced rules and regulations to govern dur Ing the tournament this year.
 The field of entries has been di- vided into two divisions, A and B. and each division will have. tournament in itself. The winner of Class A will meet the winner of Class B for the club championship.
 The tournament will be round robin affair, each entrant in each division meeting every other con tender in that class The player having the highest percentage at the end of the tournament will be de- clared winner in his division. Then the two winners will meet to de- eide the championship.
 Medals have been secured for the winners of both classes, and there will probably be a trophy for the winner of the championship series
 B. A. c. officials state that the courts have been considerably inn proved for the tournament, and that spectators for the affair are well comed. The gallery between the two indoor courts will be open to thc public throughout the tournament. Following is the entry list for the meet which begins today:
 Class A
 Walter Storey, Morris Finefield Joe Smolian. J. Winston Hale, W. F. Shillito. Gene Wirthimer, Clyde Orr, A. T. Simmons. Claude Shill. B. E. Davis
 B. Heller, Dr. B. F. Sapienza. Roy Cohen. Leonard Wise, Joe Alper, M. Becker. J. McDougall. w. McDougall, NJ. M. Rosenbusch, A. Speriing. Clem- George Beattie,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
PaWhuSk's New Pilot

Joplin, Mo. June S.-Clyde Wrenn resigned as manager of the Paw huska club of the Western assocla- ton yesterday, and Johnny Wuffli, until recently manager of the okmui- gee club and second baseman Tor pa whuska. will succeed him. Wuff- Ii received his appointment over long distance telephone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
Boys Club Defeats
 Jordan Park Outfit

Boys club pastimers all but slaughtered the Jordan park outfit yesterday afternoon. defeating their opponents by the score of 1f to G. The 10 hits made by the club boys were helped along into runs by five errors committed by the Jordan park players.
 McGowan. twirling for the Boys club team, pitched splendid ball. He held the opposition to four scattered hits and was very effective in the few pinches that occurred.
 Dill led the Boys club sluggers. getting four hits. Score R. II. E. Boys club .... 0S2 BIO 0--14 10 2 Jordan Park .. 400 1f0 O. 6 .
 Batteries: McGowan and Dill; Hall and oner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-09
BOOSTERS ELECT OFFICERS

Boys club boosters met last nlgh' in their weekly session, with S5 cluh members in attehdance,
 The boosters have only a small percentage of the Boys club mem bers enrolled, but this inner clut is steadily growing. Monthly elee- ton of officers took place last night with the following results:
 Petty Gore, president: Hugh Cain vice president; Jimmie Odom, sec retary. Leslie Gore, treasurer.