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New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

"I don't claim that that never happens,
said Labehardere.
Let US try again." he added.
He held out the bag to his cousins. Each of
them in turn read the word she had drawn.
Capital.
Perfume.
Interest.
"If you make a thought out Of these, III
congratulate you, cousin. We will all admit
ourselves vanquished."
Labehardiere didn't answer. He put the
blocks down and began:
"'Captal is the perfume of interest," No.
Interest is the capital of perfume No. again.
Perfume is the interest of capital Miserable
Let us change them again. Perfume is the
capital of interest," That means nothing. In
terest is the perfume of capital All! ah"
He repeated slowly: "'Interest is the per-
fume of capital That seems to me pretty
good What do you think of t?"
More astonished than ever, the cousins
couldn't but concede the success of the second
experiment.
Bravo! Victory You are right"
They did not haggle over his triumph, which
he enjoyed with bssful satisfaction and
naive faulty.
"Now you know my secret" he said. cam
l plagiarism"
"You certainly not" the three cousins
exclaimed with sincere conviction.
And Marthe added with a slight shade of
irony.
"You are great inventor, cousin. You de-
ssrve a place apart among the thinkers"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

the Barbary Coast, who were constantly at
tackng the Lgurian villages, and who even
managed to take and pilage Genoa in 936.
The early Genoese sold their services to any
nation that would pay them. They were the
most noted sailors and fighters of that time.
On different occasions they went into the serv-
ice of the Greeks, the Hohenstauffen, the Popes,
the kings of France, Naples Sicily, Aragon
and other countries. From the end of the
Sea of Azov, an inlet Of the Black Sea, to the
English Channel, their ships fought as much as
they traded and established a great reputation
for Genoa. The attitude of the mercenaries
and the extreme instability of the home gov
ernment prevented them from developing
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

of Naples and Of France the Marquise of
Montferrat and the Dukes of Milan.
The big revolution of 1898 put an end
to the exclusive authority of the mobiles, and
the people elected Doge for life, copying
the Venetian code But as soon as the mobiles
took back seat and the populace began to
control the government the latter imlnedi-
ately dlVlddd into the old party lines Of Gibe-
Inns and Guelfs. 1t means that the side out Of
power devoted all it's energy to overthrow the
Doge generally by poison or assassination.
The Doges' cemetery filled up rapidly. Fight
ing between the two parties, now that they
were pebeian, was carried on even in the
colonies, and when Guelf boat met a Gibelin
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
The Thinkers Secret
BY PAUL GAULOT
Translated BY William L. McPherson

The two younger cousins were very curious
this point. They eager to get to the
bottom of the mystery, for they didn't doubt
that their elderly relative had secret With
freedom which their youth and charm ex-
cused they often badgered him on the subject,
plying him with questions which he answered
with the greatest vagucness, Repulsed in
their attacks, they never confessed themselves
beaten, and one day they ventured to go little
further than usual, revealing to him the slight
ing suppositions which some persons were un-
kind enough to indulge in. This maneuver
bore fruit. Labehardiere, accused of plagiar-
ism, was touched to the quick.
"Ah" he cried. "Is that what they say
about me? Well, l going to disprove the
calumny I will work before you, and you will
be able hereafter to defend me from such an
Infamous accusation. Call your mother
want her also as witness
Followed by Nine. Dilaud and her daugh-
ters, he returned to his room. He seated them
about table and then went TO a box, from
which he lifted out a green bag--flled with
wooden objects, to judge from the sound they
made-placing it on the table top with the
gravity of pontif engaged in holy office.
He opened the mouth of the bag and asked
Nine. Dillaud to put her hand in and draw out
little block. She obeyed, and gave the square
which she extracted to Labehardere
'It is your turn now" he said to each of the
daughters.
All three were highly mystihed and won
dered if the old gentleman was not playing a
trick on them. But he remained perfectly
serious.
eve will begin with a simple thought" he
said, arranging before him the three squares
on which were pasted printed words, cut out Of
some newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
By EDWIN D. HASKELL

policy of methodical expansion, and explains
why they did not become a state with the
wealth and possessions of Venice although
their position was superior and their race more
energetic.
All would have gone well if Genoa and Pisa
could have pulled together as allies, for they
were equally powerful on the sea and equally
great traders, but they fell apart over the
division of the spoils, just as a similar stu
alton in 1912 brought about the second Balkan
war, and now as great deal of the European
discord is due to attempts to divide The Ger
man payments.
Pisa and Genoa fought the Saracens to-
gether as they grew up but in 1917 they both
went to throw the Turk out of Sardinia. Their
agreement was that Genoa should have the
spoils and Pisa take tho island. Genoa in
sisted that she would not get her share unless
she sacked the cities completely, but Pisa did
not want the prosperity of her new colony de-
stroyed Genoa went around with a chip on
her shoulder, which Pisa proceeded to knock
off by taking Corsica in 1910. Till then
Corsica had been more or less .3enoa's special
meat. The two cities became enemies, but
did not fight in earnest. Their conflicting
commercial interests added fuel to the mutual
bad feeling. Both attacked the Mahometans
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

KIT THINK this fea MacMonnies doe a
pretty good job with his statue Of
Civic Virtue" opined Marty Nc
Mahon, the retired bartender. at
looks to me like pretty good likeness. From
the picture I seen, this bird the statue is of
must have a good punch, but he's kinda slow
on his feet. You couldn't ask nothin better
than that for statue of Civic Virtue.
Hes got easy-mark kind of face, too,
an looks like he was built solid above the
cars. He could take lotta punishment, an
if he ever got punch home they'd have to fire
the referee an hire mathematics professor
to finish the count.
"But it was kinda raw, pckin' subject like
that-or, maybe, they didn't tell this guy Mac
Monnics they was goin' to put the statue in
front of the City Hall. A stranger to the town
probly would take it for a statue Of the Board
of Estimate having meeting.
"Then fish-tailed ladies hadn't oughta caused
all the trouble they have, either, seems to me
Anybody with half eye can see nowadays
that real ladies is built different If they amt
supposed to be statues Of real ladies an has
got fishes tails to prove it, where do any real
ladies get off to make kick about them, I'd
like to know?
"There don't anybody prob'ly get much more
chance to see art than what a bartender used
to. Every time he turns around to get the
mulligan there it is staring him in the face.
"The boss had a picture in the old place on
the avenue that he called Venus Gettin' Outa
the Bathtub' an it give pain. She was
the stumpiest lookin' Venus I ever seen.
Zone time there was fella wit vandyke
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

He read slowly:
"Heart, Pohtencss, Benevolcuce. With these
three words we can make thought. This is
how it is done. We connect them with some
common verb. The commonest verbs are to be
and to haze. Let US first take to be. We have
this: The heart is the poiiteness Of benevo-
lence. That doesn't mean anything. So we
must change the order of the words In doing
this follow mechanical rule, shifting to the
left the word the right. 'Benevoence now
begins the phrase 'Benevoence is the heart
of poitencss That also makes no sense
continue: 'Potencss is the benevolence of the
heart That commences to have meaning;
but there is, perhaps, a better meaning.
take note of the thought and shift the words
heart and benevolcnce.' Thus l obtain:
'Politencss is the heart of benevolence That
is worse. Now make change quickly from
the right to the left: 'Benevolence is the po-
likeness Of the heart What do you say? Isn't
that pretty thought? 1t isn't commonplace,
and it doesn't lack depth. We can stop right
there. The demonstration has been made,
hasn't it?'
The three onlookers were astounded, as
much by the procedure as by the result.
Nevertheless, Nine Dillaud expressed some
doubts.
"This is very curious, indeed" she said
"But it chance that enabled YOU to
succeed. You must often be left with your
little wooden blocks in front of you unable to
extract from them even carcature of
thought"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

beard an bun on come in by accident late st
night, thinkin' it was Sixth Avenue insteada
Tenth, an wantin to know what they'd doue
with the elevated. He was all broke up about
it first, but when he seen the picture he forgo4
all about the elevated.
at give him pain, he said. He stayed !
long time talkin' to me about art an drinlin.
rye. He was real artist an had been huns
in Paris, he said, which was maybe why HI
wore the beard. He was the real goods, too
| could sec that. lie called lotta them bird,
that everybody has heard of by their frs
names Rubinstein an Vermicel and all ther
an done it careless so you could see it wa
just habit
well, what I was gettin' at was that th
boss's Venus give US both d pain, so ".
couldn't bear to look at it hardly, an tol
him it had give me a pain even before I ms
him and he said I was a natural born artis
an ordered dry Martini.
"It's that way about art; either you make
without tryin' or you don't make it at al
Now l don't hardly ever have any trouble
know right away whether picture or a stat,I
is good or whether it amt, and say this Civ
Virtue the goods. only it hadn't oughta /
in fronta the City Hall, which IS kinda rubbil
it in.
you could put it up in front of the Publ
Library, now, an it would make fine statu
specially if you maybe gilded the sword II
fea is carryn', SO nobody would take it for
nightstick.
"Of course, if the ladies still thought it wi
an insult you could change the name of it. I'd
You could call it The Sailor, Home from Il
Sea" or something like that, which would e
plain the fish tails"
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

"A n LABEHARDIERE had come this
NJ summer, as usual, to spend few
Ae weeks with his cousin,~ Nine.
Dillaud. The latter, widow
with two daughters, Marthe and Lucie, lived
IN pretty country place which she owned
on the banks Of the Saone, not far from
Villefranche
Being bachelor and past sixty, M. Labe-
hardere greatly appreciated this stay with
his charming relatives. And they appreciated
unaffected and always in good humor, for it
helped to relieve the monotony of sometimes
prolonged season in the country.
This amable old gentleman was of 4 curl
Gus type. Up to forty he had lived a life OF
idleness. Then suddenly he had taken to pub
fishing every year a collection of apothegms
which he sent to his relatives and acquaint
ances. Although the most Of his thoughts
were commonplace inconsequential, and it
was unusual to find anything beautiful or
profound in them, his collections made some
impression and won him, in the circle of his
relatives, the title of the Thinker.
What always puzzled the persons honored
with the little annual was, first, the regularity
OF its production, showing an inspiration which
never varied, and, second, that nothing in
the Thinkers conversation ever revealed SO
constant aptitude for thought. Some of
the recipients even believed that the old gen.
tieman drew his ideas from manuscript
which he had accidentally discovered or from
some old volume he had purchased at sec
ond-hand bookshop.
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

&OOQt OVO 4ccC. uSSo
are ali built solidly with
novels and palaces.
Back Of them the hills
rise higher and higher
to where the horizon Is
lost among the snowy
peaks Of the Apennines.
Behind the city, on tho
higher bills, ten miles
of ramparts, with sixty
towers, built in tho
seventeenth century,
lend an atmosphere Of
armed security to the
inhabitants.
Unlike Florence, MI
Ian and Venice, con-
temporary cities in the
middle ages famous
for their art and learn
ing, Genoa has never
pretended to be more
than merely CONNER
cial. The university was
opened in 1912, the mu-
nicipal library has but
100000 books and the
city, since the days of
Rome, has produced
fewer artists and writ
ers than any small
town of Lombardy. The
interest in Genoa lies
in its history and its at
mosphere of war, mur-
der and intrigue.
From the earliest
days before tho Ro-
man Genoa was noted
for her port. Even 400
B. c. she was carrying
on an active trade with
the Greeks, Kelts and
Etruscians. Later as a
Roman city Genoa
managed to keep her
constitution at the time
of the barbarian inva-
sion, but was used as
a base for attacks on
Hannibal. Gradually
Frankish feudal lords
established themselves
among the local nobil-
ity of the city, adding
a new element of strife.
The Genoese were kept
busy in the tenth CEN
tury fighting the Sara
Gems and Arabs from
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

these wars, Genoa was
busy with domestic
warfare. Contests for
supremacy between the
two political factors
we're constant, and the
Gibelins, on the one
side, represented by the
great families of Doria,
Spinola, Adorni, Fre-
gosi, were in regular
conflict with the Guelfs,
on the other side, who
were backed by the
noted families Of Girl
maldi, Fieschi, Guarchi,
Montaldi. The Gibclins
generally kept the lead,
as they had the sympa-
thy of the populace
and were against the
oligarchy. There was
such open fighting be-
tween the two parties
that when one side
gained the supreme
power they were forced
to call in a foreign
prince with his armies
to help them keep.
down their adversaries,
although this was at
the expense of their in
dependence. But the
populace, growing tired
of foreign rule after a
few months Of it, never
failed to assassinate the
prince and kill all his
soldiers. This happened
regularly, and there
was at least one revo-
luton a year. Then
the people themselves
would grow tired Of be-
ing tools in the quar-
rels of the mobiles and
would overthrow thos
in power in order b
establish a democracy
A few months Of that
was always enough to
satisfy the mobiles, who
would come back, kill
the peoples leaders
and reassume supreme
power. During the
twelfth and thirteenth
centuries Genoa passed
alternately under the
dominion of the kings
france, the Marquise Of
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
GENOA, THE CITY WITH A PAST

of
""d Ones quoting History Wish the Allied
TOR Their Harmony Met
By
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02

"A n LABEHARDIERE had come this
NJ summer, as usual, to spend few
A. 10 weeks with his cousin,~ Nine.
n;lI,uI Thu 1,tt widow
New-York tribune., 1922-04-02
Marty Disc0urses On Art(
By ROBERT B. PECK

KIT THINK this fella MacMonnies doe a
pretty good job with his statue Of
A. "Civic Virtue opined Marty Nc
The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
Not Interested.

The world has more respect ld !
man who yelIs than for one HS
WhineS.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
Congress Called to Meet
In Extra Session Nov. 20

ashingtOn-Congress has been call
ed by President Harding to meet in
extra session November 20, exactly two
weeks in advance of the regular ses-
sion
The call, set forth as is usual in the
form of a proclamation, declared the
extra session was made necessary by
public interests. The text of the proc
]amation follows:
Whereas public interests require
that the congress of the United States
should be convened in extra session at
IL o'clock noon on the twentieth day of
November, nineteen twenty two, to re-
ceive such communications as may be
made by the executive:
"Now, therefore, l. Warren G.. Hard
ing, president of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim and de-
clare that an extraordinary occasion
requires the congress of the United
States to convene in extra session at
the capitol in the city of Washington
on the twentieth day of November.
1o-@, at L U CioCh NOON, OIL WHICH all
persons who shall at that time be en-.
titled to act as members thereof are
hereby required to take notice.
In witness whereof, | have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
OF the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington
this ninth day of November in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hun
dred and twenty two, and of the in
dependence of the United States, the
one hundred and forty seventh.
WARREN G. HARDING"
The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
FOREIGN NEWS.

Swedish motorists will begin to pay
taxes on their vehicles and tires on
January /, 1928 Tourists from for
eign countries, however, may still
bring their own cars into the country
and roam about at will for as much as
II months without any charge whatso-
ever.
Eight foreigners, five of them mis-
sionaries, are in the hands of bandits
In the province of HOnan, China
The opening of the British parlia-
ment has been postponed from Novem-
Der 20 to November % The king will
take part in the customary state cere-
mony.
The British government. in a com
munication which Lord Hardinge, the
ambassador, presented to Premier
Poincare of France, has requested a
postponement of the Lausanne confer
ence to November 81, because of the
British elections
The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS

Engineers specifications have been
completed for shelling the streets of
Freeport, Texas. Money for the bonds
issued is in the local bank.
Declaring that the modern tendency
toward indiscriminate legislative and
judicial jugglery" with great funda
mental questions of free government.
if persisted in, would lead ultimately
to social disorder and revolution"
the District Of Columbia court Of ap-
peals has held unconstitutional the
minimum wage law effective in the
capitol, in holding the law invalid and
thereby establishing what is regarded
as likely to be precedent of far-reach-
ing importance, the court of appeals
reversed itself from decision handed
down in June, 1921.
The shipping board has been urged
by the chamber of commerce of the
United States to discontinue the use
of government-owned Sships in service
between Atlantic and Pacific ports.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
THE WORLD OVER
Interesting Items of Present
Important Happenings.
EVERY ITEM A NEWS ITEM
Relating to the Latest Happen
ings of Interest Just Now
Throughout the World.
1VERY ITEM A NEWS ITEM
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Congress was called by President
Harding Thursday to meet in extra
session Nov 90, exactly two weeks in
advance of the regular session. The
call set forth as is usual in the form OF
a proclamation, declared the extra ses-
sion was made necessary by public i'll,
tereStS.
A continuation Of republican control
in congress, but with a majority OF l63
in the house slashed to fifteen and
senate majority cut in two has been
assured by practically complete, but
unofficial, returns from last Tuesdays
elections While the republicans re-
tanned only seven above a house ma
jOrity OF 21S and five above senate
majority Of As, they will have in the
next congress plurality Of Is over the
democrats in the house and OF IL over
the democrats in the senate.
The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
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The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
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The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18

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The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
Somewhat Novel Request.

Joe, aged three, accompanied by his
mother recently spent night with
one of his auntS. At bedtime, auntie
and uncle came in to hear how Joe
was progressing with his prayers
Mother was proud of his pious efforts
and glad to exhibit him. but much to
her embarrassment, instead of asking
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The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18

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The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
Thoughts Failed Him.

boy next door and turned and left him
without word
When being commended for holding
his temper he replied 20, that wasn't
1t. | would have told him what |
thought of him if I'd been able to
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The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
Posted on Current Events.

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ried Princess Mary?
Owner of the Quickest Hand
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The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18
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The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18

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The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18

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The St. Mary banner., 1922-11-18

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The New York herald., 1922-10-01
New Features in Vaudeville
Miss Sophie Tucker and Miss Bessie BarTscale Among
Feminine Stars at>the Palace.

Miss Sophie Tucker returns TO the
Palace this week after having conn
pleted an engagement in London. She
will be assisted in her new comedy songs
by Ted Shapiro and Jack Carroll. Miss
Bessie Barriscale will appear In a pro-
team playlet. Picking Peaches" by
Howard Hickman. Vincent Lopez and
his Pennsylvania Orchestra remain
with recital OF new numbers and new
effects. Others will be Ned Wayburn's
Dancing Dozen, Harry Burns and COM
pany. Mehlinger and Donaldson. Joe
Rome and Lou Gaut. the Hegedus Sis
ters and Merion's Dog Actors.
The chief acts at other vaudeville
houses follow:
RIvERSIDE---Miss Alice Brady,
Charles O'Donnell and Ethel Blair.
EIGHTY-F1RST STREET--George
Moore, Wallace Reid and Miss Bebe
Daniels In the photoplay Nice People"
LoEw's sTATE-vera sabini. Har-
old Lloyd In the photoplay "Grandma's
Boy"
PRocToR's FIFTH AVENUE
Laura Pierpont and company, Tom
Kelly.
PROCToR's TWENTY THIRD
STREET-Miss Josie Heather and
company, Marks and Wilson.
RocToR's FIFTY EIGHTH
sTREET--Isob Albright, Arthur Astill
and company.