ct a——— to Defects speech, $ overs Parisian Cafes. Paris.—The success with unimaginable “confidence dled a visiting Austral in a popular boulevard re Indicates that the world depression not universal, Despite repented successes of these cafe “eon this most of Parisian sidewalk cafes still seem to and still provide easy me fhle crooks, who not punished, but date with a Jim men” in come 1 difY som ferent name, ar the before perpetuating disappearing to the 1 time to get i Only recently gentleman droppe POP, DIO YA EVER CE WHAT LITTLE =NCE THERE 3, OFF \S SETWEEN “ i revalent for one of the swin- to ke halr on the f popular cafe where the world ers terrmce of all goes and walt until some particular bird of prey arrives by the random supposed possession The “con man, an eng the ac the worldly arts lived both In every circum The victim sele prearranged ¢ Aang, or =a because of viet soon makes two Drinl 2) TAS Things We Might Have Missed By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Late Dean of Men, University of lllinois. The story is told of Bach, the great musician, that one day he visited a distant city In which there was a cathedral con- taining a wonder- ful organ. He ap proached the sex- ton In charge re questing him first that he might be allowed to see tha organ, and this re quest being grant. ed, that might play upon The sexton refused second re . Bi that it was quite contrary to his directions to let any stranger the instru ment which mig! injured If not carefully Bach i ngist ent, however, and persuasive, and finglly the sexton yielded As he listened to the great musician he it, this quest ving touch handled, wis handling the wonderful instrument the sexton was first astonished and then held Finally it dawned upon him who it was to whose music he was listening. There was only one man in the world who had such skilL When the music was came up to the player and grasped him by the hand. “You are Bach,” he sald, and then remembering his refusal to let the musician touch the organ. “and to think 1 might have missed the mas ter !™ How much we have hissed or come our or to advantage spellbound, ended he stubbornness tuke near missing by our unwillingness of opportunities, I think I might have missed all the pleasant experiences which have come to me during the last years, 1 had a boy friend who had moved away from our community as whom I bad not seen for a half dozen years 1 had thought of inviting hi to visit me, but had put off the invitation one will in such cases, I had the inspiration and acted on it He had been to college and But for the to invite him that 1 May- forty in ns Then one day He came, he persuaded me to go. y led me doubt Inspiration which to me | have visit very much left the farm. 1 ns well been ju have | ever wonder f naes should ever be it would Did yon ave happened to you and missed had you different road or where would what you turned than the one if hadn't you met where you wot what have might have gown = yon toak one night, you gone to the party narried iid iin , or you had not mad { ie cort wre of years ag —_— CONTRIBUTED By EALPn GambivER OAT 81aLKS GROW 8 FEET HIGH a IN SOUTH AFRICA BILLIARDIST COULD PLAY STEADILY FOR 2,000,000,000 y£aRks WITHOUT MIRKING THE GAME GHOT Twice! Q © Meise Mowgapn $n MADE A 165-MiLE GLWER FLIGHT... Munich ,Ger., 10 Kaaden, o Crecho-SGlovakia ~1931~ (WNU Bervice) FINDS BLINDNESS IS NOT A DISADVANTAGE Lawyer Just Works Harder | He als president Than Other Fellow. | In the law school, a of his class Was ©) 1 vantage to cago.~8i ne $ w vho consid at reaso; and the onl; courts, I'm I do it more yers who can see™ only who Is twenty i% been engs iliant re oF threo who old appearance wns But police action tl afrniie The thugs the two ible police visitor were Anes, trimmed ami offenders, and their signalized In Paris, ame only when the venerable gan 11 had parted with his millions, Use Simple System. In this particular cafe the sin of systems are employed Many vie tims probably and fail to collaborate, but when a brother falls these thugs make it worth the time lost on their badd guesses. The iplest get wise well She’s a Busy Woman AY 4 i y Meet the busiest young lady In Washington, Mrs, Helen N. Perry, sec retary to Doctor Gries, who {8 secre tary of the new home loan bank board, All persons having business with the board, be they borrowers, officials or Job seekers, the last of which are le gion, must state their case to Mra Jerry before being admitted to any of the members of the board. whose nae of cir bores of a big corporation, and quaintance is vast among cumstance, To money him, because he has plenty. Flattering Overt. By devious means the erook estab lishes the approximate of his And, by singular co incidence, a venerable gentleman hap- pens by the cafe, He speaks to the crook as though he might be the son his elder partner, The first crook invites his respected friend to Join them In & drink. He explidios overtly that the old gentleman is one of America's or England's greatest bankers, the silent partner of ship lines, oil concessions, gold mines and scandalonsly rich, who is retired but who goes to the stock exchange as a matter of long habit The two crooks talk of a little deal. Perhaps they leave their new friend out of this little deal. The next day they met again, and the elderly gen tleman turns over a few thousand francs with a bored alr as the win- nings of their little deal. They offer to let their victim in on one of those little deals, and they even bet Joen- larly among themselves who will get trimmed on the next stock deal, This goes on until the friend Is convinced that he Is In good company. Then comes the real deal. The vietim lays out eash, a specially big prize on a new stock. The next day the two friends cross the frontier and the inno. cent victim enlls shame-facedly on the police, men make wealth victim, some of business Unhurt in Car Crash, Nurse Dies of Fright New York.— Miss Elsie Cob, tw enty. three years old, a nurse at the Creed. moor State hospital, died In Jamalen horpital following an automobile col liglon a few hours earlier. Hospital authorities sald that ns far ag they could learn Miss Cob was physically unhurt, but the shock brought on an attack of hysterin which affected hor heart, This enused her death, w Just the other day Earl Grace, catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, completed his one hundredth consecu- tive game without an error. He had handled 270 chances without a misplay, his last previous error being on Au gust 29, 1031. POTPOURRI Seeing Red When we face the sunlight with our eyes closed we do not seem to be in darkness, but rather, a red dish glow penetrates our visiona This is because the red blood in our eyelids closes out all other colors which go to make up light, allowing only the red to pass through, @. 1912, Western Newspaper Union, Proper Ventilation” The best way to ventilute a room is to open a window top and bottom or one window at the top and another on the opposite side of the room at the bottom, Archery Practice Tie-Around Style Ruins House Walls Le A San Mateo, Calif.—Even the rafn didn’t stop Robert MacCollister and his little bow and arrow. When the rain began to fall Mac Collister moved his target practice into the A wall, MacColl lister found, made an excellent tar get for his arrows But Mrs, Robert Person, owner of the home In which MacCollister was living, objected. She told the court her walls were pockmarked with arrow holes. MacCollister paid to have the room replastered. house (aay GERTIE Y This crisp summer frock, a typleal hot weather dress appropriate for any time of the day, embodies some of the most popular features of the tie around style. It is at its best in flock: dot voile, which is full of fashion im- portance at the present time Wom an's Home Companion, Aging the English Novel Although a copy of every book, ewspaper, piece of music and pamph- let published in this conntry must be deposited '5 the British Museum I- brary, applications to read the novels are not granted until they have been published five years—London An Swers, BES UB sat “No burglar wants to be mistaken for a husband” : © 1533 Dell Byndicate. —WNU Service. I TALE CHIEFS wi DEKANAWIDA AND HIAWATHA Editha Creeping out to a hole’in the river ice, the Huron woman thrust her news born baby into the freezing waters, There was a fear born of superng natural things in her heart, been revealed her t} would be a source of evil ple: Hence, it tribe, and not hat: that prompted the awful Morting eame. Ti Ig warm in her ity triumphed to lgek at the 1111 fo aver fear ted on racy would do likewise. AZTOLING he return awks, te witl and and Onondaga to join them. last promised to join Seneca, wonld also to the Cayuga, to TT i if another enter the eracy. Such promises would ha couraged a less earnest man. His however, considered them the light of a partial success, and Ve watha, about 1570, trik into confederation, ar At last, the five i It Is worthy of note that the remorse lees Onondaga chief who had so op posed Hiawatha's efforts in the begin ning, was the one through whom that tribe accepted the proposed union. As the chief was a reputed sorcerer, this victory of Dekanawida and Hi awatha over him was looked upon by the Indians as a sign of great super oatural power, a fact which added greatly to their prestige, now that i was too late to be of much value. The Iroquois confederation was not the first league of nations, as the Hurons had united four tribes about thirty years earlier, but it was the first successful one. The sensible laws and stable foundation given it by the sible brain of Dekanawida, and the un. tiring efforts of both Dekanawida and Hiawatha, formed a project deemed worthy of study by our statesmen of modern times, There are ns statues erected to the memory of these two gifted men, They But the Iroquois cons monument, and the memory of their success will encourage the peacepro. ponents of our day, C0, ATR, Western Newaphper Union)
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