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which may defeat the good intentions of the
most absters,ous The truth was that the
Vicomte lost his head over Lillian. That was
because he lost his heart to her. 1t was the
one and only time in his life that he was in
love.
Thirty wears later the VicOnlte used to
dwell on this episode in an otherwise dilettante
past with feeling of sweet regret He was
never quite certain whether he regretted low
ing Lillian or whether he regretted marrying
feeling of regret
He married her at Nice and forthwith
embarked with her on a voyage round the
world. At Monaco. where they started, he
remembered their standing at the liners rail,
arm-in arm, while crowd of cosmopolitans
stood on the quayside waving and laughing.
as if he had done something Unfortunately
funny. At Corfu they went ashore together
and made tour of the island by cab She
bought picture postcards. At Cairo they
visited the Sphinx by moonlight, bought
picture postcards, and he noticed on re-
turning to the boat that an extraordinarily
pretty woman had taken a cabin on 1'A'
Deck
At Alden he developed an inhibiting neu-
ralgia, so Lillian went ashore alone to buy
picture postcards while he entertained the
lady at tea in the wr!ting-room At the Fed
Grated Malay States. for some extraordinary
reason the lady disembarked Her husband
had some connection with rubber
Lillian remaining as amusing, sarcastic and
good-natured as ever, the Vicomte discovered
between Java and Sydney an extraordinarily
pretty woman in the second class. and in
Sydney, by all that was wonderful, he was
hailed in the lounge of the Welcome Hotel by
little woman who cried out to him Mon
Dteu, c'est Henri" He remembered, after
wards, that she had had some vague marital
connection with Australia. What a Danish
ment He did his gallant utmost to alleviateit.
In the Pacific Islands he was enormously
interested in the possibilities of the Poly
nesians But in San Francisco she left him =
that is Lillian did. The Vicomte de la Foret
&e St. German shrugged his shoulders. She
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de St German. He fetched bottle of per
fumed lotion and began with the greatest
possible gentleness to apply it. Then he held
out his aristocratic fingers. stretched them
like pianist who is about to play, and set to
work
'Mademoselle is about to be married." he
inquired, with proper diffidence
well, I'm wondering I'm told there's
nothing you don't know about all that sort of
thing"
"Oh, MademOiselle, you are too kind"
$50 I've come to consult the oracle"
He stopped kneading for moment and
met her eyes in the mirror. Before l can
advise. Mademoiselle, must know the names
of the parties
"Well his name is Captain the Honorable
Arbuthnot Villiers.''
For a second he remained rigid in astOnish-
ment Then he went on kneading. 1t was the
name of notorious collector of pretty women
a young man after his own character.
He has proposed marriage to Mademoi-
selle?"
well, you see, Harry yes and no.
There is. think, Mrs Villiers?"
Two said the girl.
1T is enough" said the Vicomte. That
is more comfortable Mademoselle?'
That's lovely"
Reluctantly he took the shroud and yelled
her charms. IF Mademoiselle would lean
forward, just slightly, SO - He took the
scissors and began to trim the little curls at
the nape of her neck.
I'm not awfully fond of the extra-wedlock
idea, Harry. Not that I've ever tried it."
The Vicomte smiled to the head of hair.
There are times, Mademoiselle. when it is
convenient. 1t depends on the character the
social position of the protagonists. Made
moiselle has not yet favoured me with an
introduction
She laughed You'd never guess it," she
said, from my American accent, but I'm
Grace de la Foret de St. German. How's
that"
The Vicomtes scissors remained in mid
snip in MIDI Your father was the
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the most enchanting beach costumes topped
with nothing but a bandanna tied at the
neck and waist. SO that sometimes he was
almost faint with beauty. the Vicomte found
that these modern ladies hid behind curious
frankness and humour that disarmed his
most subtle artillery The conquest of women
had been easier in the days of mystery Never
theless he prospered
There was one young woman in particular
whom he was always to remember The Vi
cOmte was at the Golf Hotel at St Jean de
Luz. surrounded by the cleaning apparatus of
his craft. In a curtained alcove a very pretty
woman sat backwards in chair with her hair
falling behind her into the basin, while he
rinsed it gently with soft rose-scented water.
Your hair, Madame" he murmured. lis
delicious.
AT that moment the curtains of the alCove
were violently withdrawn. and he looked up
to find himself lost in the bluest eyes he had
ever seen. They smiled in sumbmned face,
but he had no eye for details being thrown,
momentarily, off his balance by the whole
bewildering nearness of her beauty. His brain
spun madly with an acute sensitvity to
bronzed legs and shoulders and sm-bleached
hair, and then in an instant he had recolected
himself
What can l do for your" he asked.
Are you Monsieur Harry"
He bowed with a sort of delayed nod, allow
ing his eyes to narrow with flattery.
II want haircut, a shampoo. set, and
some good advice about marriage.
His teeth flashed between his moustache.
I'm two minutes, Mademoiselle, am entirely
at your service" 1t took him exactly one
minute and forty five seconds to turn the
dryer on to his existing lady and to usher her
forth.
Nov, MademoiSelle" He sat her in the
chair. produced his shoud and then hesitated,
fixing his eyes on her shoulders. For moment
he remained like that. admiring their young
frmness and charming contours. Then he put
his hand delicately at the back of her neck.
1T is painful, little, the sunburn?"
1T is bit" she admitted.
ALLOW me-" said the Vicomte de la Foret
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was realist The Vicomte also was a realist.
SO the force of habit closed over. and the
adventure. recedng normally into the past
became more and more minutely episode But
still. thirty years later as he called sklfully
into being the little curls at the nape of the
neck. he remembered, regretfully, Lillian -.
She had been his wife.
Now real life is very queer Fate was
always practical joker. There were four
million people killed in a war. The Vcomte's
two ChateauX were in ruins; but since there
was no connection between these events the
Vicomte had been unable to profit from either
There had been slump in America. Things
were not as they were. Even the Vicomte was
not as he had been. In short he had no money
The orbit of the Vicomte was still the social
orbit. He spent the summer at Aix-les- Bains
the autumn. since Biarritz was not what it
was, at St. Jean de Luz On January the
fifteenth. since Monte Carlo was not what it
was. he proceeded to Cannes, and then by
easy stages coincident with the tennis tourna-
ments, he edged his way along the coast by
way of Beaulieu. Cap d All, Cap Martin. and
Ritz in Paris. In early summer at Claridges
Cfor Ascot. And so on "
There is quite group of vagabond coifeurs
who do this, very superior ones, of the most
grand chic, who But the secret is out The
Vicomte de la Foret de St German had faded,
together with his period. He had become
coifeu.
If the truth must be told his new mode of
life suited him very we'll His collection of
pretty women had assumed impressive pro-
portions He had only to wait for them in his
chromum-plated lair. white-coated, gar
denia d, debonair. smelling family of eau-de-
Cologne, and they delivered themselves into
his hands. There was about him an air of
mystery, of past, of his not always having
been barber, which women found irresistible.
His hands were so aristocratic. His eyes.
when they met in the mirror, were so lazy SO
appraising, SO -appreciative. He was Don
Juan among BARRIERS.
Not that there were no difficulties Things
change, and while his clients came mostly in
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-10
HALLE @. BROWN SUNDAY
FORUM

The Self Culture Club will cele-
brate it's twenty-ninth anniversary
at a tea at the Halle @. Brown
House, Sunday, April IL, from 4 to
$50 p. m. Mrs. Cora Strothers,
program chairman, has prepared
a program somewhat different
from the usual programs for tea
in that an orchestra directed by
Mr.. Mym Carter, ST., will furnish
incidental music throughout the
tea. Mrs. Fanny Shanks, president
of the Minnesota Association of
Colored Women's Clubs, will be
the guest speaker. A club whose
life has been so long and so de-
voted to civic affairs deserves the
commentator and applause of the
community, so the public is urged
to come join with the Self Culture
Club in celebrating its anniversary,
Sunday, April IL, from a to $50
p. m, at the Halle @. Brown
House.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-10
THE UNITED NEGRO CHURCH

The dbace of insecure congregation rule In one OF
against outside rule of
Episcopal matters of
Negro progressed WELL under the leadership
admitted poor enough church administration
his church. The Negro needs his church
He likely needs better church than he has,
the method of both Baptist and Methodist
and method drawn
would time develop the latent
O their faiths.
The method drawn out would give denomination
overhead authority reduce friction The other denomination would
have less overhead authority and less friction particularly in cost
of operation Perhaps is simpler to would have little
bishop and the other would have less bishop presiding elder
church should the outside the inside
should highways byays
within When all the of motor utilized to keep
itself action pull anything When all the energy
Of congregation used attending struggles Within spiritual nan
cia there little strength remaining the community
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Friday, April 10, 1885

Romeo was hanging around so
much. You ought to hear
HENRY THOMAS recite poetry,
especially, "Helen of Troy; and
Henry isn't slow, by any means, on
original composition. !. Those
former patrons of the old Mime
apolis Liberty Theater will be glad
to hear it is going to be rebuilt in
the near future. 1t will seat about
six hundred, and cost approximate
ly $4,000. A little bird told
me EVERETT VAUGHN went on
an Easter shopping tour Wednes-
day. How lovely! 3! -. Tell that
"Unworthy One" to get some Fels
Naptha if the washing is irksome.
Where were ADOLPH
THOMAS, BABE MITCHELL and
JOHNNY McHIE seen at approx
mately 3 a. M, last Sunday morn
ing? Ut was not told to me, I
only HEARD). Is H. A. of st.
Paul two-timing R. F., also of st.
Paul, or is everything OK?
Here's wishing everyone a
Happy Easter.
Your old friend,
SAL.
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COMMENT
By w. M. SMITH

have just received a voluminous
report of the activities of the youth
section of the National Negro
Congress. The report tells of the
work accomplished by the younger
group following the close of the
Chicago conference.
In telling the story of the con-
ference, as I have done on some
half dozen occasions, it may have
seemed that I have stressed unduly
the work and active participation
of this group. / am glad therefore
to record that the report to which
I refer fully justifies my high re-
gard for the earnestness, sincerity
and ability of these youths and
their determination to face facts
and courageously seek remedy.
There were some 200 of them at
the convention. They came from
many sections of the Union, the
majority, however, from the east
They discussed with much in
telligence and with an admirable
absence of passion the problems as
they were unfOlded by the dele
gates. They were not discouraged
or dismayed by the difficulties real
or imagined which faced them; diff
ficulties which older men and
women magnified beyond reason
and in many instances used as
basis for the disparagement of the
congress and a prediction of its
failure.
Immediately at the close of the
Congress this young element pro-
ceeded to organize a complete ma
tional setup to work jointly with
the Congress. It has devised and
put into operation an effective
working national committee; es-
tablished a program for nation
wide activity and with it's report
makes appeal to the youth of the
country to organize and aid in the
furtherance of it's plan and to Sc
cure the financial support needed
In the Twin Cities there is every
reason to believe that it's efforts
will be heartily seconded by the
progressive young people of these
communities. Already the Fred
erick Douglass Civic League of
Minneapolis, after hearing from
delegates to the Congress, has
taken steps looking to the inclusion
of the youth of this section into a
branch of the national youth move
ment.
Many of the young people of ou1
cities have just reached that stage
of development when it becomes
difficult to engage their serious at
tention upon anything considered
worth while by their elders. 1t is
to be hoped that the capable and
interested young men and women
of such organizations as the Doug
lass League will be able to inspire
their less advanced, but just as
deeply concerned, though un-
ripened younger brothers and sis
tiers into this most commendable
association Of youth in behalf of its
own future welfare.
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Everybody is looking forward to
the Elks coming event, down home
comedy success, starring those two
comedians Lewis and Davis, to be
given at Norway Hall, April 10th.
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DULUTH NEWS
THE OBSERVER

Last Saturday evening the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Adams was
the scene of an impressive birthday
dinner given by Mrs. Adams in
honor of her husband. The table
was set for twelve guests, and a
delicious steak dinner was served.
The invited guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. H. S. Merry; Mr.. and Mrs.
B. V. hoffman; Mr.. and Mrs.
Steven Coles; Mr.. and Mrs. George
Dozier; and Mrs. Sidonia Black.
Mr.. H. S. Merry was POSTMASTER
for the evening, who presented Mr..
Adams with gift as a token of
friendship from the guests. A
beautiful fountain pen was received
by special delivery from the son of
the family, Richey Adams of Min
neapolis. Mrs. Mamie Merry and
Mrs. Marie Coles received birth
day greetings as their place cards
because their birthdates fall in the
current month. After dinner the
evening was spent in playing
cards.
Reverend J. j. Runyan, Execu-
tive Secretary of the Duluth
Council of Churches, was the guest
pastor in the pulpit of st. Marks
African M e tn odist, Episcopal
Church on Palm Sunday. Rev
erend Runyan will also occupy the
pulpit Easter Sunday morning.
Under the leadership of Mrs,
Myra Cater, ably assisted by Miss
Mary Kelley and Miss Frances
Watts, the Junior Division of the
Duluth branch of the NAACP was
sent away to a flying start last
Sunday at Calvary Baptist Church.
A large and enthusiastic crowd of
youngsters was present. The fol-
lowing officiary was elected:
Connie Adams, president; William
Jones, vice-president; Eugen
Waters, Jr., secretary; Georgia
Cook, treasurer; Julia Winfield, as
sistant secretary. Members of the
board are Edward Withers, Ruby
Jean Wright, Marjorie Kelley,
Merle Black, and Argonne Thorn
ton.
Mrs. Beatrice Hawkins was again
the guest speaker before the
Phyllis Wheatley Girls Club last
Saturday afternoon at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Rodney. Mrs.
Hawkins, psychologist and teacher
of parent education, gave an in
teresting talk on controlling
Your Emotions"
The "Boyland Presidential Con-
test" is developing into hot fight,
Get your votes from the boys
NOW.
Mr.. Edwin Cater has returned
from an extensive trip into Iowa.
On Friday, April II, the Adult
Education class in Negro Folk
music will appear in joint concert
with the Croatian Chorus of New
Duluth. The affair will be held in
Washington Junior High school at
8 p. m.
A quartette composed of George
Adams, George Hyatt, William
Richardson, and Joseph Albright
sang at the brotherhood dinner of
the Endion Methodist Church last
Monday. The same group will ap-
pear before the Salem Mission
brotherhood on Thursday evening.
Mr.. Warren Creel, executive sec
rotary of the Minnesota Teachers
Association, was the principal
speaker at monthly meeting of the
Duluth Sunday Forum. His dis
cussion of the delinquent tax sit
uation was enlightening and time
| w.
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Five room lower duplex. Modern.
Hot water heat. Garage. South
Central. $500 a month. Br. 1896.
Furnished room for rent. Hot
air heat. Clinton Ave. Call Br.
1896.
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(MinneapOlis)
SAL.

Rates: Three cents per word with Q
minimum of 80 cents per insertion, pay.
able strictly in advance A fat rata Of
Four bedroom furnished house
for rent. Suitable for two fami-
lies. Will take out furniture for
desirables. Call 1852 Smelling Ave.
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Hello Friends:

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Hello Friends:
1t was a great pleasure this week
to interview one of our most pro-
gressive and prominent citizens,
DR.. W. D. BROWN. He is a ply
stefan of distinction and a leader
in civic and fraternal circles. DR..
Brown is a representative of one
of our oldest Minnesota families,
and I know everyone will be
pleased to read what he has to say.
1. Where did you attend school?
Ans. Premedical and medical work
at University Of Minnesota; in
ternship at Hubbard Hospital in
Nashville; graduate work as in
structor at Meharry Medical Col
lege in Nashville.
2. In your work, what are the
most interesting kind of cases?
Ans. Cases classed as heart dis
ease are the most interesting, be-
cause so much can be done for a
seemingly hopeless case, if the pa
tient will submit fully and entirely
to directions of the physician.
3. What are some of the recent
discoveries or developments in
medicine that will help mankind? ?
Ans. In the field of medicine the
most important factor in helping
mankind is the prevention of dis
ease. The next in Importance is
the early recognition Of disease so
that cure, if possible, may be eff
fected before the body economy has
been permanently injured. To
this end, many procedures, dag
nostic apparatus, and the like have
been made available bit by bit. For
example, the use of dyes internally
to make the gallbladder, or the
kidney visible to X-ray; the de-
velopment of scarlet fever anti
toxin in the treatment of this dis
ease. AID infnitum.
A. Who are you going to support
for president? Ans. President
Roosevelt-unless someone else can
present a more logical solution to
the present chaos.
5. What characteristics do you
admire in a woman? Ans. Inteli-
gence-for that will take care of
all necessary attributes.
6. Do you believe in long court
ships? Ans. Yes, and with your
eyes wide open.
7. What is your favorite des-
sert? Ans. Chocolate matted milk.
8. Who is your favorite radio
star? Ans. Uncle Bob Bolton.
9. What do you do for recrea-
ton? Ans. Sleep-something I
have never had enough of.
10. Who makes the best pa
tents, men, women or children?
Ans. Children, for they develop a
genuine confidence in the physi-
clan.
I am afraid the little Willies will
have a cool time rolling their
Easter eggs this year, but the sea-
son is a joyful one just the same.
Our Head Resident of the
Phyllis Wheatley House, MISS w.
GERTRUDE BROWN, is planning
to attend the National Conference
of Social Workers in Atlantic City,
which convenes May 26th. She
has been invited to do some deep
sea fishing while there. The
Style Show of st. Thomas Episco-
pal Church, to be given Easter
Monday at Knickerbocker Hall,
promises to be a swell affair. We
hope to see all of our readers
there. JOHNNY SEYMOUR
seems to be having trouble dialing
some of his usual telephone num-
bers. RUTH BALTIMORE has
come to room at the P. w. House.
I wondered why that dark-haired
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Five-room upper, all modern du-
pick for rent, south. $500 a
month. Call BIZ. 1896.
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Desirable Room for Rent-3032
4th Ave. S. Lo. 1868.
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Live wire statesmen or women to
sell advertising. Call Bridgeport
1896. Unlimited opportunity.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-11
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
A COMMUNITY ASSET

With fall here, plans have been re-
newed for establishment of suitable
quarters for the Ell Centre public libra
ry. Possible reconstruction of the old
building, once condemned as unsafe, is
being considered, along with other po-
tentialities. Whatever the decision, Ell
Centre will welcome a forward step
in the matter of the library.
The public library has become some
thing of matter of course something
taken more or less for granted, by we
who would be lost without it. 1t is sell
dom we stop to realize its magnificent
record, or the basic part it plays in
community life. That it is an integral
part of El Centre is demonstrated by
the fact that 70 per cent of the entire
population of Ell Centro is registered
among library borrowers. The fact be-
comes more startling when it is known
that the American Library Association
fixes 80 per cent of the population of
any community as the essential require
ment of good service, and considers go
per cent shining mark to be aimed at
but seldom achieved. Yet Ell Centro's
library is 10 per cent higher than the
goal toward which most Libraries strive.
Nor are the registered borrowers an
inactive lot The average circulation for
borrower is II books, and the circula-
tion per capita II books during a year.
Total circulation for the last fiscal year
was 1O1 ,806, according to figures fur
nished by Mrs. Agnes Bigelow, the
librarian. Average daily circulation was
35 per cent of the total, or five per cent
above what is considered a good average.
The library is, TRULY, a community
asset here
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-11
News Behind the News
Behind the Crop Scramble :. Ro0se-
Ueifs Delayed Speech And
Land0n's Claim for Credit

WASHINGTON.-That more or less comic
episode wherein Landon and Roosevelt scram-
bled TO get credit for original espousal Of crop
insurance has some previously undisclosed back
ground.
You will recall that Sunday, Sept. 20,
Roosevelt appointed a committee TO study crop
insurance. The next day Landon fastened to
announce that he had decided, several days
before, to favor crop insurance and, to prove
it, gave out two paragraphs of the speech he Was
to make in Des Moines the following night.
Well, just to show you the way things go,
Roosevelt some three weeks previously had de-
cided TO come out for crop insurance-or for
study of it-in the "fireside talk" he delivered
the night Of Sept. g. He changed his mind
Nearly all the notable New Dealers, it seems,
were in on the writing of that talk. Everybody
had ideas. At time the speech was to be
mostly about unemployment. At least one
final draft torn up and completely re-
placed.
Among the conferees was Ambassador Bill
Bullitt-formerly TO Russia, now to France.
Bullitt talked crop insurance right out of the
speech He argued that ii was just another
f-haked idea that wouldn't work.
Roosevelt dropped it-for a while. Why
he picked il up again isn't certain.
Republicans think the Democratic espionage
service. which seems 10 be at least as good as