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SEAWEED HARVEST IN EUROPE.

THE right to harvest seaweed. which
was suppressed during the Rev.
olution. was restored to the French
coastal population by Napoleon in the
early days of the First Consulate. The
suppression had piled tons of weeds
along the coast. for the life in the
sea is so dense that seaWeed grows
even in regions where ice arrests all
other vegetation. The mountains and
valleys under the sea are covered
with plants, and this submarine veg.
citation includes thickets and forests.
in whose shelter live marine denizens
of many kinds.
In Brittany. where bladder.mack
abounds. 1t is called. in Breton patois,
"goemon. The law gives the sea.
weed fishers the right to harvest the
weed from March 81 to August Is.
The harvest is reaped only by dav.
light, with sharp cutters, rakes and
prongs like cutting blades When the
time comes to harvest "goemon," the
plant fishers line up their carts along
shore at low-water mark. The carts
and drays stand hub-deep In the sea
the horses breast-deep, and the women
rake from the carts, with skirts float.
ing on the water.
The weed Is an excellent fertilizer.
affords good nourishment for cattle
and makes fine fuel for the people who
have no forests. In many places sea-
weed il eaten with relish.
At Lands End the peasants eat
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OF Mrs. Meddy. Then he was aware
that she had been for some minutes
monotonously addressing him. What
she was now saying was:
Now then, nut. Howe you get that
way?"
WHAT" said Elmer.
"a root.beer float" she directed.
And make it fairly fizZy."
How'd you like to try" was on
Elmer's lips. No. He could make no
gum Arabics for anybody else. Ever.
"Yes'm," he corrected dreamily.
This woman before him was not his
idea of a wife. His idea of a wife
He measured the ordered compound
and mixed it.
Mrs. Meddy drank her fzzy root.
, beer float, and eyed Elmer.
Live homer" she inquired.
From the Businesses Of his utter alb.
straction Elmer said no. that his home
was so.and-so.
Live in a room?"
Yes, he lived in a room.
Eat out around?"
Yes, he ate out around.
Come up tonight and have some
chicken"
| thing in the world, to be alone TO
think, to remember, to expect. But
| having no knowledge of escapes, he
said weakly that he would he pleased
to come and have some chicken. And
then. of course, chicken was chicken
Got a lady friend?" came next
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"You won't dance with me. Well,
you can tend the fizz department and
leave me dance with Elmer"
You'll go alone, or you'H stay
home"
I'll go. And Elmerll 20. And
you'll go SOS to watch me. l know
you"
Now look here, Violet"
Violet! Elmer was the one who
looked. And, as he looked, wave OF
pity took him-pitv for Mr.. Meddy.
He had married a Violet, and look at
what he drew
Violet, Rose, Rose, Violet-Minnie
He thought of Minnie in all her
/, delicate beauty. and her youth. Min.
ME or Rose. she was all of life for
him. And this woman here, was she
all Of life for Mr.. Needy? Certainly
not! For that matter, Mr.. Meddy him
self was pounding the table and
| laundering:
You'll stay in the fat, I tell you.
| am not going to have"
You'll have some more ice cream
won't you, Elmer" Mrs. Meddy in
Quired quite smoothly.
Elmer's only known wav of being
polite was to lie. so he said no. In
any case, his appetite was going. As
he rose and followed them back to the
| living room. he felt sick. All the in
| toxication Of the afternoon in the store
with Minnie was being replaced by this
a1an'and'Wife. this Observation-Disclosures
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I Her way was so charming that even
Mrs. Meddy carried off the moment
with something like ease.
And then Elmer heard:
'Mr. Meddy. I want to tell you.
| That was my fault last night, and I'm
| dead sorry. Elmer and had only just
| met in the afternoon and, you see, we
yes. You know how it is"
The metal case was still in her hand.
| Standing there, SO young and brave.
Minnie made her confession and
rouged her cheeks.
Vast in her henna gown, Mrs. Med
dy looked at the girl. She looked in
her eyes and met their amazing frank
ness. She looked over at Elmer be-
| hind the soda grill, but him she disre-
| garded utterly. Mr.. Meddy was try.
| ing TO say something, and him she
disregarded, too. For a moment her
| look was locked with that of the girl.
| Then slowly Mrs. Meddy went down in
| the depths of great bag, drew out a
| metal case of her own and over her
morning rouge she laid on an after
| noon rouge.
Don't say another word" said Mrs.
Meddy. Don't say another word"
Woman to woman, they looked at
eacn Otner. w oman 10 woman, they
admitted that love is to be believed
| in, whereas once one would have gibed
and the other smirked and agonized.
| Woman before woman, they touched
| on the rouge, though once they would
have used it by stealth and then lied
about it.
And" said Minnie, "all the girls
| are coming in TO have some of Elmer's
gum Arabics. And I've told them how
he named the grill. You're going to
have a frightful rum
With all her new courage, an an.
cient astuteness still.
Mr.Meddy burst into the moment
with masculine assertiveness. Some
how, he seemed to say, he and Elmer
must get into this.
Il told you he was a batch o.
brains" said Mr.. Needy.
Mr.. Meddy moved toward the door,
as il all that there was to do had been
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lasso a blackboid-'ats tin de
water--oops-
Mr.. Feitlebaum VI Yi-Queeck
habit NEEDLES a feesh by me on
dc line--Queeck-A neeple,., A neeple
I got--Is pooling me in de wodder de
feesh---
Mrs. Feitlebaum--Yi Yi--Is captur-
ing mine Mowriss feesh.!!--
Looy - Holy Smokes-Yo musta
hooked Moby Dick--or a corset
cover! Ha ha pull up-'at's it-Well-
well--weli--weli--caught a can of
sardines but dey swan away-ha ha-
Tough. pop
IsidOre--Ba ba-gibbee sobe bore
bait.
Mr.. Feitlebaum - HIM (smack)-So
why you dunt tying maybe by de
hook heff pound from stoigeon
(smack) witt a copple white feeses
(smack) witt a broiled lobster ha1a
Newboig maybe you should ketching
from it tetpole ha (smack}--
Looy-Well ats how II is. Gotta
glvev de fishes break. y'know-Papa
fish comes home and de hungry little
fishes all sez-RayM Woims on de
table!!-An' Mamma fish sez-How
Gomez? - An Papa fish sez--You
needn't hold?? Is feeshing Meester
Feitlebaum oppstess!.-An'--t
Boom9-'At's all--he can't sock me
witt no can of bait.!--Im troo--I
Mr.. Feitlebaum - Halpi Yipe :,
Yipe. Queeck DOCTOR! A nembu-
lence!. Halp Yipe!! 1t beet me a
snake! Halp-
Mrs. Feitlebaum-Yi vi! A snake.t
Halp-Hytrophobia he'll gat! Halp!
Tie heem arond de bite witt de sos.
penders a tournament! Oooy I'll
faint!
SCENE THREE.
Outside the Zoo--Midnight.
Looy-Here we are-Hey buddy
open UP. We got d customer fer a
load Of serum. Yeah-he's short
sigfted-Mistook a hunk OF wood fer
a snake an picked UP a snake to kill
it witt-ha ha-Nope--dese gents
rushed US down In de fiivver-We
been suppin him foist aid outa q
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She said: Hello"
HLJaIJo.HolIo'o

She said: Hello" ~
Hello Hello
I'D like a Gum Arabic" ~
"Honest?"
why not?"
But you'll have to help me make
it,"
why not?"
Incomprehensible woman!
They worked together. as before.
And-as before-the sun surged
through the room and the golden
world flowed about them. Two casual
mites. tossed up by a warm Spring
afternoon.
I'm going away" Elmer announced
abruptly.
"Oh, Why"
Well. I-can do better for my
self"
YOU lost your job"'
"No--that is, i"
you did. You lost your job! I knew
that woman had it in her."
Elmer looked at her breathlessly.
Look here" said Elmer. do you
care IL lost my job"
well. I made you lose it, didn't I?
OF course, I care"
She shrugged. Not many good
dancers at the Winter Palace"
But he looked at her, and he con
tinued to look. So that now she drew
out the metal case and rouged the
blush that was creeping.
I'D go to any trouble to dance with
a good dancer" she found a further
defense.
Listen" said Elmer. do you want
me to stay?"
Suddenly voices-sharp, raucous
contentious. The stair door opened
and Mrs. Meddy came in. tossing back
words to Mr.. Meddy, following:
%. about enough Of this. I don't
care who hears me. I'm sick of the
whole business"
"Of me. Violet?"
Violet. Minnie. Minnie, Violet
Toward Violet Minnie suddenly
swept. "Mr. Needy" she said, I'D
like to meet your wife,
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Gross Exaggerations; In the Dumb-Waiter;
1t Makes Hikes in de Woots de Fen1iv
BY MILT GROSS.

- ECOND FI.OOR-Mrs. Yifnif-so
she leffed from you witt de
knockers hahn!
~ Third hoor-Mrs. Feitlebaum
-Hm-wait vat, Meesus Yeef-
neff!!! told her---dot bitch blound
witt de leefted opp faze. sad 20 her
sad SO: ''COoney Highland snake chom-
nner you---witt de poifume on de top
from de doit!!!-You letting ha? So
wot's wrung witt mine kneeckers??"
Like dees hesk her ceewilized quas-
ton. "Wots wrung witt mine kneeck
ers?" So she geeves me henswer dot
hozzy wot she saz, Noting dirrie
honly dey soffering from hoddening
from de griss.spots--"
Second noor-Mrs. Yifnif-Yi VI! A
noif from a critchure!! So why you
deedn't ketch a hold from her you
should scretch her hof de roodge witt
de podder from de faze--it should fly
hun vat de cascara from de heye.
brows do hottihcial ones!!
Third hoor-Mrs. Feitlebaum--Wait
yat--I showed her wot she's dilling
witt rili pipple!!! I sad to her / sad
So" Boarding houze kipper from boot.
aggers you!!--It dun't appiiling to you
gudgeous style wot / werring witt de
knockers setin pomps maybe ha??
You fioiter witt meelkmen you:-You
hain't got wot you should do seence 1t
sailed away de fiitt sailors. ha, so you
got to geevo from mine knockers
hopinions--So go batter beck in de
houze you should falling smoky hook.
ums' witt 'nomsy-wOmSy' leedle
MUIR to de Dolby dug dere--Foider-
more we gurg now by de hike"
Mr.. Feitlebaum--So Isidore (smack,
Dc woims for do feesh ketching you
put in mine Penema het ha (smack). A
woim 'chommer I bicame ha (smack).
tomorrow you'll hont maybe a near
tsmack) 80 you'll put me in q trep-!i
vat ha--NOo meesus teel whan yill
you tukking dere by de hairyway--
Lat's we should stotting gradually
/ Looy--Ha Ha, Let's go--Parade falls
| In In front Of de shootin' gallery
ducks tin cans an watermelon skins
| up Kelly street to Grubnick's delicates.
sen Store-where Jimmy Walker is
Waitin' wild a reception committee
Five ambassadors kiss us and we lay a
| wreat on de Swiss Cheese, den we
swing into de Concourse an dey swing
at us all de way to Bear Mountain
ha-Woops let's got!
SCENE TWO.
A Bebbling Brook Witt a Shaty
Nook!
Mr.. Feitlebaum-Noo, goot for not
| ting-so lat's we should see II you
lqined maybe in de school a whole
time something besites you should
choong choongom und trowing speetz
balls-ha-It titches you de titcher
| IN Dc school bottomy ha! maybe ha??
| So wot IN 1t entitled dees flower wot ]
| holding in de bend ha?
Isidore-Poisod ivy, ba ha!
Mr.. Feitlebaum vi VI Poison
ivory (smack) Geevev a look wot's
dees by de lonch-woims for de feesh-
! Looy--Ha ha--~well well--we'li have
nice fat bait now-Yer pride an joy
parked de woims In de lunch basket
Oh. we'll. dat's hikin' fer you--De food
amt so goot but de soivice in terri
ble-Woims is .bait-Y' puts 'em on
de hook and de fishes nibi,les at DEM
femme show ya--'At's 1t now-cast
yer NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. tryin' 10
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'goemon-bread" nj feastS. The bread
is a perfumed jelly in case formed
by it's own natural crust
In some places seaweed is dried and
powdered; the powder. which is
sweet. is used instead of sugar. being
near relation of glucose. In China
and Japan sea.wrack is eaten favored
or seasoned in various ways. or picked
in vinegar. The swallows nests"
priced by -tsiatics, are a product of
the same growth.
Seaweed gives the chemist bromdes,
soda. potassium and iodine. Some
seaweeds contain mineral substances:
some are rich in fucoglycine, product
used with good effect as a substitute
for cod liver oil.
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Sea Dust.
WHEN the decks of ships are

WHEN the decks of ships are rub.
bed and cleaned each morning
great quantities Of dust are invariably
found. In the modern steamship this
could be accounted for by the tons
Of carbon which are poured forth
daily. but the curious thing is that
the deck of the sailing ship shows a
greater quantity Of this material than
that OF the steamship.
In q trip from New York to San
Francisco. occupying 81 days by san.
ing ship. "a barrels OF powder were
swept from the deck.
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Attendant - Where's he bit??-
Dere????-Say wadda you guys been
smoking! Wot?? Wot is tt
Gimme his pants-I1l show va wot
Mrs. Feitlebaum, Looy. chorus-A
hsh hook-a feesh hook-A feesh
hook-A feesh hook.mr
isidore-Yes, bobba--I put the fish
nook id ba-ba's pats pocket-add I
thik he sad cd tits doe good dow.
(!"Smack"y
Mrs. Feitlebaum-Mowris in
de head!
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way and he drew her across the
threshold. It was an ONCE where sat
a man alone at q desk. What he
could be doing before q desk in that
ciamor did not concern them. They
did not see him very much. but they
lowered their voices.
II never knew you'd be here" Elmer
/ said.
Are you glad came?"
Glad? Say"
"You dance fine"
well, yOu--say"
| made any more gum ArabicS?"
Cant, without you"
| Now you say something"
| He was bold, because of her eyes.
well, then, I will say something.
Have you thought Of me since / saw
| you?"
In this, unconscious Of it's vintage,
he breathed dew Of morning. In her
reply he found the morning sun. even
though she said:
Have you?"
II haven't thought Of anybody else. f"
There's the next dance"
Lets go"
i've got it. taken"
Lets gov'
He must have been a compelling
| cavalier, DcCduse sn0 went. Or was
it that she wanted those moments?
Three dances in succession were
theirs. And as he was violently en-.
coring the third, Elmer heard familiar
voices.
II don't see what you want to Sit
here for"
II don't. / want to dance"
Don't want to sit here with me, II
seems"
II might-if you had a decent suit
of clothes"
Stricken, Elmer turned. Mrs. Meddy
addressed him with deliberation.
When you're ready to 60 home
you run along. Don't pay any more
attention to US at ali.'
"Yes'm," said Elmer CALAMITY and
family.
i Mr.. NEEDY burst out In q .salutatioE
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And now she was moving from him
with hnality.
"N.nothins at the soda griiI?" he in.
quired desperately.
She paused, regarded the sparkling
glasses. the marble. the syrups.
II might try . gum Arabic" she
said.
Heavens! A gum Arabic. When
they did this to him, presenting alien
names with which he wasn't familiar
Though they did appear on a vast list
at first consulted Mr.. Meddy, who
made UP something. SO Elmer had
ceased consulting Mr.. Meddy and cre-
ated drinks on his own account to fit
the Pullman titles. The snowdrop be.
came vanilla ice cream ard minis and
white buttercups. Egyptian dark
emerged as q double chocolate with a
chocolate cigaret on ecd in the midst
OF all. So he improvised.
But gum Arabic. He searched her
face. Sweetly, pensively, she was re.
Raroing the counter. II she had been
anybody else, he would have had a
handful Of gumdrops in the bottom of
q glass, laid in two kinds of ice cream,
Garnished the whole according to his
fancy and served it with nonchalance.
-3ut this to her he could not do. He
could do no more than temporlze.
Wouldn't you try a chocolate matt.
ed float? They're my high mark" He
grew eloquent. Thicker il with ice
cream. Richen it with marshmal.
lew"
She shook her head languidly. "Give
me q gum Arabic" she insisted.
He blurted out, What is one?'
Her own air of assurance left her.
IL don't know" she said. Il heard
IL Think thought you--'
She laughed. He joined her laugh.
Ter.
X
WAkED from his noon nap in the
w fiat above, AIR. Meddy heard them
laughing. The woman in reddish cal
leo. with blond hair dark at the roots,
looked up from her chair and her
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ma gazine and asked, Who's laugh
ing
Not you" said Mr.. Needy sourlv.
Been you. it'd been somebody else do.
ing the laughing"
Nor, less you're laughing at me,
| it wouldn't be YOU laughing. neither
you scallop" she retorted.
On this exchange of cordially. Mr..
Meddy went downstairs. The sun WAS
shining through the red and green
waters in the window and through the
girls hair.
Hello. Minnie" said Mr.. Meddy.
Not Rose. then but yet Rose. too. in
Elmer's heart.
Il guess" said Elmer, Il guess ii s
up TO me to take the minute by the
tail"
"Hey?" questioned Mr.. Needy. But
Minnie-Minnie laughed deliciously.
I'VE want to know" pleaded Elmer
whats a gum Arabic, when you drink
it?"
Mr.. Meddy's professional pride
scared.
lit amt liquid" said he.
I'VE mean the kind YOU drink at a
soda grill" said Elmer, hugging
that we.
"Oh. heavens" said Mr.. Meddy.
Elmer now lassed rapidly into all
the heavens. He heard her say:
Mr.. Meddy, may we make up one?"
Could We make up one.
sure" said Mr.. Meddy sure SO
you know this young batch o brains,
Minnie?" he inquired.
Around the edges of the new rouge
she blushed.
Well" she said
'Meet Elmer Dick" said Mr.. Meddy
capably. Miss Minnie Little. Meet
her. too"
Mr.. Meddy passed from Elmer's con.
seriousness and went out and sat un-
der the awning in the lazy warmth.
There they were, they two, in the Blue
Lion Soda Grill. afternoon sun surging
on the glitter Of glass and strip. nuts
and eggs, chocolate anG cherries.
Across the aisle the shelves came alive
colts foot and licorice and soda mint
dissolved into one essence, and that
shining And, in the sober showcase
below, combs and mirrors and all Mr..
Meddy's merchandise lay enormously
enhanced in a radiance unearthly.
"Whatll we put in first?" asked
Miss Minnie Little.
Nectar OF the gods, all of them, they
commingled-but what these were FL
mer could never tell. Only of her
voice he could have told and of her
little hand, indicating now this and
now that for delectation. But he
mixed as never he had mixed before,
in dream and a daZe and a trembling
An hour ago he had been but soda.
fountain king. Now he was king of
new and magic world.
When she sat to taste what they
had made and he lowered above her,
he kept his strange, sustained smile,
kept rubbing at his sharp red hair AS
IT these were the only realities remain
ing. He could recall nothing, nothing
Of what they talked about. He knew
how she looked up at him when she
had spoken. He knew the delicious
surge of understanding on her face
when he made some feeble comment
But what he said to her was writ in
gum Arabic. 1t vanished and it was
not there. Perhaps never had been
there.
Then she was going, had risen, was
nodding good-by. 1t was intolerable.
Earthquake and cataclysm he knew
to exist, but not this, surely.
Can l see you again some time
ever-just little while?" he produced
i come here sometimes"
us that ail?"
ASK Mr.. Needy" she said and van
ished.
ELMER was left to his empty world
OF chocolate and nectar.
He washed her glass, her spoon.
Tenderly. He dreamed Of kissing her.
He looked up to find before him the
huge figure and late-blossoming eyes
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Mr.. Feitlebaum - Swift Held dill.
line ee cell! Whooy--Hoo! ham I
could lick amy cop in de-Looy is
hic-a good boy-Ho boy-Hot po-
She's by me de Hanny
I'm be her de joe
She's by me de swift hott
I'm by her de-"
Ha ha! Say boyiss-take by me de
teep-If you hain't merried so dun't
gat--hic--Do I got a Wife
Dun't esk,i
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OOnP. MT. 4dSUuN 1OIlOWeU MS lOlet
out under the awning.
X X \
over Elmer swept delicious agony
~ which quivered to his fingers.
mixing that gum Arabic and concoct-
ing it with heaven knew what compo-
nents. He called it finished and came
slowly around the marble counter. He
set before her the foaming glass, with
, out spoon, and he spoke with all the
moment trembling in his words.
You did that to save me my job"
She looked up as one who should
say, Have / got to spell it,"
Didn't you?" he pressed il.
Some ancient wisdom kept her ST.
lent, though she looked so capable of
speech.
You want me to stay?" he cried.
Now she met his eyes as honestly as
she had met the eyes of Mrs. Meddy,
but her lips had lost nothing of the
ways of the sphinx.
You'll have to find that out" she
said graphically.
The store and the sun and the cher
ries and the sirups flowed around
them. From beyond the threshold. in
the awnings shade, a voice sounded:
can't help what you say.
You've simply got to get you a new
suit of clothes"
Over Elmer swept not the tone of
that voice. but only the exquisite in.
timacy of the words.
Rose, Violet, Violet. Rose-and IL
ever his Rose should tell him that!
"Oh, Rose he said. "Rosew
MY names not Rose" she said with
asperity..
'Oh, yes. 1t is-Minnie," he answered
rapturously.
Life in Beetleville on a Spring after
noon, in all the majesty of its immor.
tai trifies.
fCopyright 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10

AN HOUR AGO HE HAD BEEN
But A SODAFOUNTAIN KING.
NOW HE WAS KING OF A NEW
AND MAGIC WORLD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10

ELMER was left to his empty world
Of chocolate and nectar.
He washed her glass, her spoon.
Tenderly. He dreamed Of kissing her.
He looked up to find before him the
huge figure and late-blossoming eyes