davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1927-05-15

saw only Trina and the bad spell.
for Charlotte and her young husband
were having their dinners at home,
and that meant that Lutte had 10
cook for them.
Trina came regularly to the Satur'
day night dances, attended by the
young engineer.
She delighted the whole village by
winning the county championship in
tennis. The first Saturday night
thereafter. the young brother-in-laW
brought the whole family into the tea
room to celebrate Trina's victory. be-
for the dance. Trina appeared i'll a
new blue frock, with a shining sap
phire ring on her engagement finger.
Tt could not have been given her by
the young engineer, for he looked
frightfully unhappy and sat watching
her with miserable eyes. He didn't
even try to cheer up at the midnight
supper. when the whole crowd waAed
hilarious and joyously heckled the
blushing Trina.
Where did you get that ring?"
they sang to popular tune,
Trina refused to say.
But her brother-in-law cried out:
II don't know where she got it, but
| do know that l signed receipt for
a registered parcel post package
from Montana. just about a week ago.
and the girls been all popped up ever
since
The whole crowd gathered around
her and somebody tipped the orches-
ira leader to play the wedding march,
and the evening ended riotously for
everybodyt-eXcept Lutte and the
young engineer.
Babs noticed that the two of them
paired off with a frankly misery
loves company" air
So it was rather surprising. few
days later, when Clairmont woke up
to find that another OF the Selden
girls had eloped Trina had married
the young engineer.
1t developed that he had been so
heart-broken over the appearance of
the sapphire ring that he had asked
to be transferred to a job in Texas
and. at the last minute, when he had
come to tell Trina goed-by, she had
realized she couldn't let him go, and
she had fled with him without taking
so much as travelling bag. She left
the sapphire ring on her dressing
table. She didn't even bother to eX-
plain anything-she Just left a note
for Lutte saying:
I'm going to be married. You can
have my clothes. I'll only need camp
ing things down in Texas"
Grandmother Selden went into a
perfect rage over katrina's S elOpement.
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and who, if there isn't anything ready,
| thinks up something.
| But the youngest, whose real name
almost everybody except her grand
mother had forgotten, was a sullen
| 1S-year.old, who greeted the entire
world with a scowl. 1t was rather
nice scowl. because it frequently
turned itself into shy smile, al
though most people never saw the
smile. But they saw Lutte as much
as they saw her two sisters, because
everybody in Clairmont had way Of
saying;
II suppose We'll have to ask Lutte,
too. won't We?"
The three of them were so pretty
that clothes didn't matter very much.
But they were rather shabby young
things. who wore one another's coats
and hats with utter frankness, and
they made over their frocks until
there wasn't scrap left to make over,
Charlotte was the only one who ever
had anything new. and that was be-
cause she was SO much taller that 1t
was. only sensible to let things begin
on her.
Besides, her grandmother wanted
her to look especially we'll, because
she was rather concentrating on
marrying Charlotte to Tad Vernon.
Tad lived in the second house be
yond the Seldens and he was to in
herit it and a nice bit Of money and
a third interest in his uncle's whole.
sale jewelry business in New York
when he was %, which would be next
year Tad was good looking, good
humored and a lot Of fun. He was
as fair as Charlotte was dark and they
made very Good-looll.ns couple. The
thing seemed as good g settled, but
everybody wondered where grand
mother was going TO find two more
eligibles.
But Charlotte surprised everybody
by eloping with a penniless young
nobody from nowhere. who was
actually so poor that they had to
come home to live with grandmother.
He was a nice youngster and he had
Il job as a sort of confidential messen-
ger boy in the Vernon business. In
deed, it had been Tad who introduced
him to Charlotte.
Tad was expected to be grief
stricken. but he heroically concealed
his anguish and presented Charlotte
with a beautiful silver coffee service
and gave dinner-dance for her at
the Yacht Club.
Then ne continued to play around
with the three Seldens. He was seen
with them as much, or more, than he
had been before Charlottes marriage.
And he continued TO go with them to
Evening star., 1927-05-15
Script and Print.

THE difference between script and
print is TO be referred 10 date
long before the invention of printing.
One must not suppose that the ancient
scrbes, in writing papers of but tenn
porary value, would labor TO follow
the same alphabet that the carver EN-.
ployed upon the monuments of stone
destined for all time. AS far back as
records have been preserved there
was in existence a cursive style of
writing, and instances have been pre-
served abundantly in Pompeii of ram
dom remarks by the ordinary citizen
scribbling idle sentiments upon the
walls.
The alphabet Of the monuments was
the model for the writer's Of
formal literature, professional penmen
who looked forward to the library
preservation of the works ! on which
they were engaged. Business men
used the cursive script. which was far
more readily and correspondingly
more rapidly written. The monu-
mental and manuscript hand has
served as the parent of the printed
etter. The cursive hand is the an
,estor of penmanship.
Evening star., 1927-05-15

GtnIef. / 6HolC an itGt9Qn fCSlUUf0Ht
near here tohere they serte frogs
legs a la Moren0o better than any
toherc else in London
"A fe1c minutes later ICE acere seated
at one Of the tables OF O dtngU little
edtin0-p:d tChose si0nbodrd acith
the tcords RestourdTto ItdHdno led
me to the deduction thai 10 Uds an
TtGlion restaurant. I acds amazed to
obserre that my friend acGs evidently
aceU EnoiCa in the place, achile his
order for three glasses Of Chipnti
uith taco drops Of uermiceHi in each i,
called for an obscqntous 0oac from
the dpprcciatiUe pddrone. ] redN=ed
that this amazing man kneW as much
Of the fnesse OF italian lci,tes as he
did Of playing the sdrophone."
We may 20 further. In many up.
to-date cases the detective not only
gets plenty to eat, but a liberal al
lowance Of strong drink. One gen
erous British author OF today is never
tired Of handing out to the Great De.
tective and his friends what he calls
stiff whisky and soda" At all mo-
ments of crisis they get one.
For example. when they find the
Body Of Sir Charles Althorpe, late
owner Of Althorpe Chase, terrible
sight. lying on the floor of the library
what do they do? They reach at once
to the sideboard and pour themselves
out a stiff whisky and soda. Or
when the heroine learns that her
guardian. Sir Charles. il dead and that
she Is his heiress. and when she Ii
about TO faint, what do they do? They
Immediately pour "a stiff whisky and
soda" into her. II is certainly great
method.
But in the main we may say that
all this stuff about eating and drink
ing has lost its importance. The
Great Detective has TO be made ex
ceptional by some other method.
And here is where his music comes
in. 1t transpires-not at once. but
in the first pause in the story--that
| this great man not only can solve
crime, but has the most extraordi
nary aptitude for music, especiall!
| for dreamy music Of the most dificult
kind. As soon as he is left in the
| Inn room with the Poor Nut, out
comes his saxophone and he tunes II
| up.
"Whdt tcere yoH p9dDin1?' I asked
as my friend at last folded his be-
| 1ored Instrument into its case.
'Beethoren's Sonata in O. he an
srered modesflp
GOOD Hcdrens'' I ercla in1ed."
Another popular method Of making
| the Great Detective a striking char
acter is to show him as possessing q
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not observe. Did you nerer note that
makers Of trousers n0lCdddyS stamp
their trouSer buttons cith their
names. These letters are the concIud-
tng part of the name Billion. one Of
the best kno,cn tailors Of Kings Croft
tour miles east Of the Chase
"GOod Heavens" I cried. 4 begin
TO see
"'Do yous' he said dryly. ghem no
doubt you can piece together the
analysis. Our criminal is 1Cedring q
croft. and shoe bought in Market
croydon. What do you inter as to
,chere he Hres?"
"Good Hearens.' said. 4 begin TO
see it,"
"'Erdctlv.' said the Great Detective.
He ltues half 1cdy bettceen the ttoo'"
"'At the Chase ITSELF" / cried.
What fool hare been.
"'Yom hare, he GnslCered quietly"
But unfortunately the public has
begun to find this method of traces
and tracks "bit thick" All these
fond old literary fictions are crum-
bling away
THE METHOD OF RECONDITE
KNOWLEDGE.
In fact they are being very largely
replaced by the newer and much more
showy expedient that can be called
the Method of Reconcile knowledge
The Great Detective is equipped with
sort of super-scientific knowledge
of things. materials, substances, chem
istry, actions, and reactions that
would give him Ph. d. degree in any
school Of applied science.
Some of the best detectives of the
higher fiction Of today even maintain
laboratory and q couple of assis-
tants. When they have this, all they
need is a little piece of dust or
couple of micrometer sections and the
criminal is as good as caught.
Thus, let us suppose that in the
present instance Sir Charles Althorpe
has been done to death--as so many
elderly gentlemen" were in the tlc-
ton Of 20 years ago-by the intrusion
into his library of sailor with q
wooden leg newly landed from Java.
Formerly the crime would have been
traced by the eopheaviness of his
wooden leg--when the man drank beer
at the Althorpe Arms. his elbow on the
side away from his leg would have left
an impression on the bar similar to the
one left where he climbed the window
sill.
But in the newer type of story the
body would turn out to he specks
from the fiber Of Java cocoanut, such
as is seen only on the decks Of ships
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I Were you criticizing something
| the waiter had written?" asked my
wife.
NO" replied, but one of ny diff
fculties was that in Akron they tidn' Z
serve tripe in the restaurants and
there weren't any canal boats"
THAT did make 1t harder" agreed
my wife.
YES" I went on. "and what was
worse, when 1 did finally find res.
taurant where they served tripe the
waiter was Greek"
$50 you took UP Greek" said my
wife.
shook my head.
NO." replied. II decided to go.back
to the book and learn the next two
phra ses."
You were probably wise" she said.
Il was, in a way" | agreed, ''be-
cause didn't like tripe very we'll
But. on the other hand, the next two
phrases weren't much Of help,
either. The first one was, Listen,
driver, this is not Napoleons
tomb
And the second"
The second was, You sing very
pleasantly for a beginner.
Evening star., 1927-05-15
BY STEPHEN LEACOCK.

w +: :. ::.. i:
the ''janitor" has been ar
rested-when the police have been
completely "baffied is the time
when the Great Detective" is brought
in and gets to work.
But before he can work at all, or at
least be made thoroughly satisfactory
10 the up-to date reader, 1t is reces-
sary to touch him up. He can be
made extremely tall and extremely
thin, or even "cadaverous. Why a
Cadayerous man can solve mystery
better than q fat man IT is hard to
say. Presumably the thinner man
is. The more acute is his mind. At any
rate, the old school OF writer's pre-
ferred 20 have their detectives lean.
This incidentally gave the detective a
face like hawk" the writer not
realizing that a hawk is one OF the
Stunidest OF animals. A detective with
face like an orang-utan would beat
il all to bits.
Indeed, the Great Detectives face
becomes even more important than
his body Here there is absolute una.
nimity, His face has TO be "inscru-
table" Look at 1t though you will.
YOU can never read ii. Contrast it.,
for example. with the face Of In
spector Higginbottom OF the local po-
lice force. Here's face that can look
surprised" or relieved" or with
great ease, completely baffled.'
But the face Of the Great Detective
knows Of no such changes. No won.
der the Poor Nut" as we may call
the person who is supposed 10. mar
rate the story. is completely mystified,
From the face Of the great man you
can't tell whether the cart in which
they are driving jolts him or whether
the food at the inn gives him indiges-
ton.
To the Great detectives face there
used TO be added the oldtime eXpedi.
ent OF not allowing him either TO eat
ar drink. And when it was added that
euring the same period of about eight
Gays the sleuth never slept. the reader
fould realize In what fine shape his
brain would be for working out his
binexorable chain OF logic"
But nowadays this is changed. The
Ereat Detective not only eats, but he
rats we'll. Often he il presented az
o connoisseur in food Thus:
"'Stop q Bit thus speaks the Great
Dctectire 10 the Poor Nat and In
spect0r Hig1inbottoni, ichom he "a
dragging around With him as usual
IRE haze halt an hour before the train
leurcs Paddin0ton. Let US hare some
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the Saturday night subscription
dances.
All Clairmont grinned that Spring.
when it was Trina who appeared in
what few new frocks the Seldeu
family afforded itself. Tad had auto
maticauy become Trina's beau. They
played tennis together almost every
afternoon when he came out from
town. Trina was trying for the
womens singles championship. and
Tad was coaching her assiduously,
Grandmother used to march her
little family into the tearoom very
early for dinner these nights. limping
along on Lutfs arm. Her new SON
in-law and Charlotte followed her
meekly.
I'VE VIII not wait for Katrina, 3"
the old lady would decree. "She will
be along later"
Trina would come along when they
were having dessert. Everybody in
Evening star., 1927-05-15
BY LUCILLE VAN SLYkE.

~ ABS BLISS often told her Eu,
L. gene that she thought the
three Selden girls were the
IL most interesting young per
sons in Clairmont
But that old grandmother of theirs
Is like bad spell put upon them by
some mean old fairy" she told him
vehemently. "She won't let any Of
them learn any useful occupation
She says that marriage is the only
fit vocation for women"
Eugene chuclled a lot over the idea
that old lady Selden was bad spell.
She was very grand old SOUL and
she walked with a gold-headed cane,
because she had arthritis. She was
the proudest thing in all Clairmont.
She was even proud of her poverty.
Which was the sort that is known as
eenteel. The Seldens lived in a gor-
geous old house that was almost fall
Jig apart for want OF repairs. and
the Selden income was just enough
for them to bump along on.
1t was rather bumpy humping. Blu:
Grandmother Selden was a good old
fashioned matchmaker who was de-
pending upon her rddaughters 10
rehabilitate the family fortunes. She
WAS QiS2TdCcLufiN lTdHh dDOul IT.
Clairlnont wasn't just sure she could
manage it, and was frightfully curl
Gus about how she would manage it.
Babs Bliss used to see great deal
OF the Seldens, because they were FREE
quent guests at the Saturday night
subscription dances Then, too. as
they had no servant, several nights
A week they came TO the tearoom for
their dinners. Old lady Selden was
the only person in Clairmont who
signed checks in the tearoom for her
meals.
Babs didn't like the arrangement 1t
ali and used to get fearfully worried
sometimes about getting her money.
But, eventually. check always came,
signed in the old lady's spidery hand.
writing.
Babs liked Lutte, the Youngest OF
the girls, best of all. Which was
utterly illogical OF her, because Lutte
was the one who most resembled the
grandmother whom Babs called t'the
bad SPELL Charlotte was generally
supposed to be the most beautiful OF
the three. Charlotte was % and tall
and willowy and white-skinned and
dark-eyed. She was terrifically
regal young creature.
Katrina was the most popular OF
the three. Everybody liked Trina.
She was a gay young thing Of 20, the
sort of girl who is ready for anything
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town would have seen her standing
outside the tearoom gates, talking
with Tad Trina was very gay and
most awfulIy pretty this Spring.
Lutte was not Lutte looked thin
and scraggly. What with Trina train
ing for tennis. and Charlotte already
sewing on small garments, Lutte was
kept pretty busy with dishcloths and
the garden and the darning basket.
She went scowling more than ever,
plodding sullenly through what she
had to do.
Lutte used to come TO the Saturday
night dances, looking all to the Gin
derella in dresses that Charlotte had
worn before they'd beer shortened
for Trina.
Babs, who was honestly unhappy If
her subscription affairs didn't make
everybody merry, used TO try her
prettiest to make Lutte have a good
time at the parties But Lutte didn't
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seem to want good time She dance
once or twice with her brother.in-
law, and sometimes Tad would drag
her around, but mostly she sat in the
corner and scowled.
One lovely June night Babs made
very special effort in Lutie's behalf.
She presented the towns newest ar
rival, dashing young engineer who'd
come on to take charge Of some con-
struction work on the new boulevard.
But it wasn't any use. Lutte danced
with him just once. showing no en-
thusiasm whatever Then Trina took
him on. joyous, giggling Trina. and
taught him an intricate new tango
while Lutte finished the evening
scowling.
The next week Tad went off unex
pectedly on a Western trip that had
to do with some Montana sapphire
mines in which the Vernon firm held
a large interest. For a while, Babs
Evening star., 1927-05-15
Gross Exaggerations From Heestory:
It Geeves Biography From Frenl<lin
BY .MILT GROSS.

HANJAMIN F'RENKLIN was
- born gradually in a femily
Wot de fodder was de proprie-
IL tor from a considerable as
suttment from huffspreengs
among ~heech was VERY poor COZ
cumStenceS.
So bing wot dey was VERY poorish
so instat dey should hev shrubbery-
shutt-cake odder chickens. odder
docks, odder goozes, SO instat-dey
he'd honlI harrings. SO by breakfast,
witt deener, witt sopper--so de fodder
would make a lung. lung spitch Wot
he would say grace in de frorS room
from itch harringi SO wan day Banny
sad TO heem--he sad so:
"Leesten pop, some Saturday
hefternoon whan teengs leedle SLOW
by de fectory so why dunt you take
q wick huff so you'll say grace in
de front from de whole berrel from
harrings ct once, we should be liable
we should tying on promptly de nose
beg
SO in view from dees smotcreck 1t
got de fodder Banjamin job he
should be a happrantice by menufec-
turer wot he manufactured fellow
witt kendIes witt tapers witt wexes"!
So wan dey de buss said: "Queek
Banny,,-put away dot invention un
gat hon de job! We got a rosh
horder we should making a boiday
cake it should conseest from ninety
tree kendles"'
So Banny said; "Yi, vi Vi! For
who is de cake??"
So de buss sad: "Dey geeving to
Chauncey NJ. Depew a boiday poddy
Wot it's by heem de ninety-toid
boiday."
So Banny sad: "Wot?, Annodder
one??-Dot's de feeft ninety.toid
yirr!. Goot Mite, I'm troo.."
So in horder he should gatting Twin
Evening star., 1927-05-15

You know that I'm interested in any.
thing pertaining to your early strug
giles"
Are you really. dear?" asked. and
her reply was a reassuring smile.
Well" I continued, my next prob
Evening star., 1927-05-15

lem was to get a spider"
What for?" she asked.
$50 that | could watch 1t and feel
encouraged" ] replied.
oh" she said. did it have to be
a Scotch SPIDER"
Luckily not" I answered. land !
Evening star., 1927-05-15

got very good one, and before long
/ went back to my study Of French
conversation with renewed zest, and
within a month | was able to converse
for half to three-quarters of an hour
on any one of number of topics,
such as Closing the door or What
Evening star., 1927-05-15

newly arrived from Java, and on the
clothes of sailors
But. by the one method or the
other method, the 'inexorable chain
NJ logic can be completed to the last
link. The writer can't go on forever;
sooner or later he must own up and
say who did it, After 200 pages, he
finds himself up against the brutal
necessity of selecting his actual MUIR
oerer.
So. now then. who did it? Which
brings us to the final phase of the
Detective Story. Who really killed
Sir Cha rles? And with that we leave
ii for a week.
copyright. 1922
rro Be Continued.
Evening star., 1927-05-15

goot de jukks witt de queeps wot dey
using dem teel dees day yat in hall
de comic-streepS.
tCopyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-05-15

y ABS BLISS often told her Eu-
gene that she thought the
three Selden girls were the
y most interesting young per
sons in Clairmont.
Evening star., 1927-05-15

w YHEN a detective story gets
n well started--when the
Wv ,aS,,h bod" has s.. been 9.s,,t,ar!' duly dy
ha atia rifnrit has hean ar
Evening star., 1927-05-15

~ ANJAMIN FRENKLIN was
- born gradually in a femily
Wot de fodder was de proprie-
IL tor from a considerable as
At1fft,,nnt fr0n1 hnffSnrePnpS
The Washington times., 1927-12-22

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The Washington times., 1927-12-22
Gift Perfumes Viii Check Many Of The
Names Remaining on Your Christmas List

The listing below is but mention Of the infinite number perfumes
offer Here will find the that she just adores
The Washington times., 1927-12-22

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New Britain herald., 1927-09-26
5000 CHINESE KILLED
 IN GIANT TIDAL WAVE
10000 Homes Damaged :; Property Loss More
 Than Million

Hongkong, Sept. o6. R}-The Ex- change Telegraph here announces receipt of a report that 5000 per sons perished when an immense tidal wave and typhoon struck Ye- ungkong, Wwantung province, 15O miles southeast of this city, on Sept 10.
 Twenty thousand homes were damaged and 400 junks and sam pans destroyed, the report said The total loss is estimated at 1,000,- GOO.
 The report from Hongk ong would indicate that the tidal wave and ty- phoon which took 400 lives, injured 2,300 and caused tremendous ma terial damage on the Japanese Is land of Kiushiu on Sept. 13 had first struck the Chinese coast along the lower part of kwangtung prov inCe.
 The storm which ravagcd the kiushiu coastal cities came from across the East China sea and trav- clei northeast. Hours after it's force had been expended in Kiushiu, the tail of the typhoon whipped towns on the main Japanese Island of Hondo causing minor casualties and damage before passing out to sea.
 The distance from HongkonC 10 Nagasaki, one of the cities on Kiu shiu struck by the typhoon, is ap- proXimatcly l,o70 miles.
New Britain herald., 1927-09-26
FACES MORE CHARGES
West Virginia Town Complains Rev. W. F. Jordan Has Family and Debts There.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Sept. oG CP, More charges against the Rev, Willis F. Jordan, detained here pending arrival of officers from Charlotte, x. C., were announced by local authorities today.
 A letter from Hcrndon, w. Va, written by II. F. cMador. asserted that Jordan left wife and unpaid debt there several weeks ago. Mca- dor declared that the preacher came to that city some six or eight months ago from Wisconsin, taking d pas tCratc there. On July 17, th" letter continued, Jordan announced re- ccipt Of call from Washington. D. C., 10 conduct two weeks series of meetings. Word came from Wash inStOn later that he had been killed and his body thrown into tho po- tonac river. Shortly afterward, he returned 10 HcIndon but left again without making arrangements to re- pay Sl25 borrowed from Moador pr. F. r. Thompson 10 make the trip 10 Washington.
 Deputies from Charlotte, x C., are understood 10 b" nrouty here with warrant charging Jordan with bigamy.