Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1896, Page 22

22 —_——— THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1896—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. WALK ARM-IN-ARM One of the Customs Observed on the Streets of Paris. WHAT IT MEANS IN THE GAY CITY ome Curious Usages From the American Standpoint. —— HUSBANDS AND WIVES PARIS, February 4, 1896. walk alwrys arm-in- arm. The intelligent tourist is alternately delighted and shock- ed at the outward and visible proofs of tenderness which es promenade. In the full flood of daylight as in the evening shades, the ladies are clinging to the men like the vine to the elm; they lean on them, they hang on them, they drag on them. The tourist looks in vain for self-respecting girls who swing along beside their escorts with-the independent air of the man who broke the tank at Monte Carlo. Why does that bouncing girl just passing by with the old man press his palsted, mit- tenel hand nst her waist with her plump arm? She is round, upright and with many a bewitching curve: her With Her Papa. ereamy neck ke an tv es are languishing! ke a red, red rose; her and you can inst her nd, and she 2 it is on to am parading that of cheering the to the typical arm up the Bo Thursday ‘and the Bou- nue of the nue of th ion of their best Frothers out to take and ex ng uni . Htis like a Armd if we Anglo-Saxons smile, If we ar it 's by hess and hones their me granted th no necd of the air in find p humor in the thing, use we lack fresh-hearted. y. Of course, all sons love fact 9 to be taken for 3 in many lands see ing the slightest proof of it. In F different. It is ay sight to see thera walking arm-in-arm. He may be off on two days’ leave from his military service: then he will be as bright as a new pin in his unt- form. He i gloved, and his mustache Parading Her Son. His hair is perfumed and his red. ‘The steadfast light of eyes and on his face there is the mile of mixed Umidity mode ay. a on and good ha- mor, of conscious worth, let u not ‘say ag—which is a word exclu- sively for gi He knows he is 01 Jlis mother knows it als that every iz youns girl on the bright pre culd like to steal him. She expands with delizht. T am speaking new of the Parisians, not the so-called Latin quarter students who fufest the brasseries d go howling arm- Boul. Miche. with their Tril- a orn Parisian student goes hore to his family after his day's work and will go parading with his mother ‘Thursday afternoons and Sundays. What else there for him to do? Take some giri do a matinee? He may know one, but her mother wouldn't let her. Some have traced the filial piety of the T FIRST IT SEEMS { A: if all the Parisians j meet his eye upon the { 3, and the | min | t their sons to the ad-| jace | French to the marriage de convenance. Husband and wife heving no particular sentimental love for each other from the start, but rather esteem and friendship comfortably warmed by intimacy, the great reserve of passion In each goes out legitimately to their offspring, so that it is said the child holds the French family together. Father and mother are bitterly Jealous of each other in this devotion. ‘The i child is courted. bribed, flattered i Each has a secret hoard of savings laid up against the boy's future needs, apart from the common fund laid by for him re- ligiously, year in and year out. ‘They }are careful of him, they treat him like a | girl, they give him much, and they require much from him. He may not legally marry without the consent of both until he is twenty-five years old, and until he is ty he must bring a formal lawsuit against each if he persists in marrying without their sanction. They assure his future for him—but a future of their mark- ing out. In France children are the prop- erty of their parents until the end. ‘his makes the position of the mother- each. in-law one of great actuality in France. Your mother-in-law {is your belle-mere, your “beautiful mother,” but despite the mpliracnt she is much depreciated. In France your wife's mother expects to take lunch or dinner with you at least three | times a week and to sce her daughter every t tion with ly ow to manaze you, whether you are loving—and to what ent—y management of her daughter's dot, your Own efforts to improve your ¢ tion. In the comic romance of the day the wife's mother is the trouble machine, the discoverer of infidelities, the rignter of her daughter's wrongs, the household | scourge. The husband's mother, on the | other a. is the screen of his frauds and infide! # censor of the young wife's health an beauty, the constant table | Suest without an invitation, the beneficent yet terrible goddess of the hearth, yct | partial. In the same way popular romance has it that the French husband is a wonderful chap at shing other ladies’ hearts. The people themselves believe it, so that to make a statement of the fact is not a j mere foreigner’s calumny. In ihe prom enade, as they fo arm-in-arm, it is no j trouble to discern the mairled couple | Look for the man who still makes eyes | at other girls—yes, turns and stares vi toriously over his left shoulder. Look for the pro half-pleased, half-ang lady, not averse herself to giv lock, who hol Protection. this tim ill see Not m with her Frou nor Nora but mingles almost itude with tine politen Yet he mai action a Wives when fluttering the most January und May. prudent. To touch the young man’s arm gives her a shock, as from an electric bat- He on h's side feels a ne thrill, se of the knowledge that e is thrilled. For such a thrillable covple to ro er n-arm is tnuch, you may believe. (unmarried), ther at led promenades of the arm of a young man is certainly engaged to him, or else it-is her brother. A cousin would not dare to offer his arm to his cousine. Young people Every young lady night or in the ero afternoon seen on t ef the midd! middle rank of so- ciety have si saintances with the other sex and no prom‘scuous inler- course; so that the question has small cause for ar sg. In ultra-moi er, ultra-fashion- h erm society—where In; s rule—in the life of the seaside an ateau, the world of “white balls, lawn tennis and the whole phantasams goria of Marcel Prevost's ‘“Demi-Vierges’ (the phrase alo: Ss what the scandai- bourgeois M 1 thought of such go- on), the relation of the sexes is chang- ng The young girl may not thrill so much when chatting with a youth. She mght take his arm, should . But even here the rule pre’ e the oc- f that might be out with a party of matrons and a few othe to see the fireworks on the ri y fete night, and that hh one of the youths of th her his arm, as a mait party should off al service. Neatily fair, even of an afternoon. “Who it is that does all this arm-in-arm promenading I have often asked ladies with pretension to gentility, ladies of that good upper-middle rank of the | bourgeoisie, to which M. Carnot and | he present president, Felix Faure, beth |owed their belr “Oh,” the answer always comes disiiinfully, “they are the ltile bourgeotsie, little commercants, v! tors from the provinces up to see the cap: tal. Then there are all tHe little grizettes and shop girls who permit themselves to waik out with the young mgn, and the familles of artisans and clerks and litde employes. All those imbeciles. Heavens! they would think themselves lacking in the perfect ton if they did not grip each other hire so many railway cars!" These ladies prefer admiration to curi- osity in foreigners, and dismiss the ques- ton with a sweep of the hand. The fact ap- pears to be, if-one speaks generally, that in France both the higher classes and the lower clesses have kept more generally to the old traditions in manners and habit; while {t Is the well-to-do middle classes who have. modified their ways, by reason of growing dignity. Respectable young people of both the upper crust and the lower crust have much more frank relations with each other-than do those of the jealous middle bourgeoisie, whose Ia-lies scorn the thought of promenading arm in arm with their husbands, who will not let the!r daughters talk or walk or have young men acquaint- ances. You 1 see families of this up- per bourgeoisie on Thursdays and Sun- days at the zcological garden concerts in the Bois, generally the mother with her daughters and never an attendant youth. In the slightest press or crowd they take each other's arms instinctively. It is ata- vism, like the instinctive turning round and round a dog makes before he lies down to sleep. Here is where we Americans come in. American girls in Paris are 1! that skip upon the hills, and ike the win that bloweth where it listeth. They want! to go shout, In the evening as in the day- time. Then they should have hold of sonw one’s arm. The Boulevard at night, w: its wonderful shop windows, its gay, bright crowd and its ic: fas, 1s one of the regulation sights. Yet the sean girl j revolts from a g this protec: be cause she has be» amus't at the great arm. isians. She hears pretentious F whom she meets in soc! school—more kely boarding school—de clare ther shriak’ng horror of the prac tice. She does not like to reflect that thes have the same shrinking horror of running around Par's in the evening, seeing all the sights. : Whatever else may be, it is certain that no attractive marric] woman or widow rench girls y or at boarding Shop Girls on the Boulevard. may walk the streets of Paris alone wi impunity. Shop girls, to escape annoyanc or inforce their virtue, manage to go 5 or three fortitied y three, against the enemy, sauc they ape and chatter through the lam! shades of Paris in the evening. The evening shades have fallen over P. d the early 1 angling t s like « fair The st “with om : tho ‘e the lambs | he hour of the ea ng, when all is hurry, fro RLING H¥ILIG. —_ - AKOUT THE § A Chirepodist Telix Why People Suf- fer With Corns. would be good thing if could learn a les see what a fool) tend to man has anythin elf he ¢ in a ph t him he thini n from itt was in the I ‘One of the is made in Balt'more, but not loug manwacturer brought his wife over to me } to be trected for corns. I e did net try to cure told me that his p! things to sell to dr did ne s slighte rns. is one of the jes in the 2 y im this line. it is on account of the asphalt streets, I thnik. At any rate, people who come from other cities often develop seme form of fogt trou- ble after they have been here a wh@.”” o are your t customers? Women and High Heels. “Women always. They will persist in wearing high hcels and shoes that are too short for them. Now, a short shoe is much worse than a shoe that is too 1 as the average person is not biessed with the tces are forced high insteps, down against the end of the shoe, and either corns or deformities of the joints result. In my opirion, southern people have the Lest feet. The reason of it is that th are at herseback riders. Holding one feet in the stirrups results in making h insteps, and high insteps prevent the fect from being forced down into the end of the shoes. It is true that southern women like ear hi f; nearly as bad on the on northern wemen with their flatter steps. Ricycling Good for the Feet. es; b ing is just about as good for the feet as is horseback riding. The foot gets freer play than it does in walking, and if the shoes are well made and properly fitting it has a tendency to make the feet arched and graceful. I firmly believe that the fact that so many small children are now riding the wheel {s certain to result in better-shaped and healthier feet in the coming generat.on. Parents really ought to pay mere attention to the condition of their children's feet. They ought to take more care abou’ thelr shoes, seeing that they fit properly «nd do not rub, or are not too loose. That parents do not, as a rule, exercise such care Is shown by the number of childiea from two to five years of axe who are Lrought to me to be treated, for corns and bun.ons.” in- jay, I wants the ugllest valen- tine youse has in de shop. Mean’ me goil had a scrap, an’ I wants to send her some- jof his argument, | and feathered with br tin’ dat'll scare her—see?” Shopkeeper—“Urn—er—er—why don’t you go to a photographer?” LOST IN LEGAL LORE Long Winded Argnments Before the Supreme: Court. TIMES HAVE CHANGED Lawyers of Old Appreciated the Value of Brevity. eae eee oes Es SOME STILL PRACTICING the close of a gloomy afternoon, and the Supreme Court of the United States was very weary. The chamber was darken- ing In sympathy with the outside murki- ness; the hour band of the clock was drag- ging slowly around to 4, and the honorable court seemed to feel that it must ke at least half-past 5. One grave and reverend selgneur of the bench looked suspictously like being in a doze, another was contem- plating the ceiling with an air of abstrac- tion, and a third was looking at a member of the bar with an expression of infinite resignation. This member of the bar was talking. He had been talking for nearly two hours, and was still as fresh as a daisy, and rolling out kis words with keen relish. He had a I: WAS TOWARD | Yoluminous brief before him, replete with | facts and legal lore, and was wallowing about in his argument like an overloaded | Vessel In the trough of the sea, making more leeway than headway. He had beeu allowed by the court time to argue, in order that he might, if he possessed the judgment to do 80, pick out from the great of straw, to which his brief might be likened, a few kernels of wheat, In the shape of some salient points. Instead, he was overwhelm- ing the court with demonstrations of his legal learning, attempting to stud his argu: ment with some glittering nails of oratory, and succeeding In nothing except to make the court exceedingly “Great guns! I can’t sti an ancient and honorable me! bar, who was. sitting benches with a Star flicts me grievousl: rest. Let's get out.” * remarked ber of the in the spectators’ “That man af- and my soul craves As the ancient and honorable member of the bar, familiarly Gesignated as the judge, passed out the lay was just saying: “With these few remarks, your henors—” but someth: ea groin from the persecuted bench seemed to drown the remainder. ‘Times Are Change: * continued the ju “Ihave practiced before this honor- able court for thirty years and more, and now m with ‘Sorrow and regret the changing toms of the times, I fear me, 3 of this day are degeneratin; Not in ability, for the . L grant you, bit In th haubie of ¢ more impor He was the ideal dashing western lawyer, but he knew just when to rein himself up and not go careering over the patience of the court. He was quick at ropartee and did hot hesitate to make a sly pass at a member of the bench occasionally. He could give a few pointers to these endless talkers of today because he was success- ful in his methods and they are well wor- thy of emulation. “Bea. Butler was a man who never wearled the court, either. In argument he vould turn his face toward the befich and that would give his game eye the appear- arce of looking into the opposite corner of the room. Ben. Butler was a very bold talker. He feared nothing, and never seem- ed tebe timorous of his case. He com- manded the respect of the court and was very successful. Stil Practicing. “Take some of the old men, who are still Practicing before the court. Ex-Attorney General Garland, for instance. He won his spurs by his ability to say a great dealin a few words. Garland performed a great serv- ice to his southern colleagues in the matter of the test oath case. It will be remem- bered that Congress passed a law providing that ne man in the south should practice before a United States court until he had taken the ironclad oath, attesting his al- legiance to the United States during the war, This meant ruination to the majority of the southern lawyers, and Garland brought a test suit and argued it. Reverdy Johnson and Matt. Carpenter were ass0- cioted with him in this case, and they wen ft. Garland has always been a man of few words, and in talking to the court realized the benefit of not wearying them with unnecessary details. “Ex-Senator Edmunds of Vermont fs laid out on much the same line. He is re- garded as one of the greatest lawyers of the age, but he stili clings to the old-fash- icned custom of brevity, and plays it as a trump card with the court when he gets into a nest of these long-winded lawyers. He hes a good deal of dry humor, and is fond of taking a shot once in a while at his verbose opponents. “Benjamin Harrison is not a brilliant talker, but I imagine he 1s a very satisfac- tory one to the court, on account of his habit of being brief and to the point. Ckoate of New York and Carter of New York are two of the greatest lawyers of this day, but they both believe in lengthy arguments. I have imagined that when demands are made for extension of time the court wishes the good old days were back again. It seems to me that making an argument before the court is much like telling a story. The sooner you come to the point the more ready your hearer will be to laugh at it, and the sooner you disclese the meat of your argument the better the court will be pleased. “But now, my son, let me whisper a secret in your ear. I have observed that while the court murmurs at these lengthy arguments, when it comes to writing out opinions they—ahem—well, they are in- clined themselves to overlook the fact that brevity is the soul of interest. But don’t breathe a word about that.” GEE ee THE MARE LIKED FUNERALS. How a Lady Driver Was Perplexed and Mortified by Her Horse. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. “Several years ago,” said Alderman Jas. Cc. Gilbert, “I had a tenant down town who died leaving a wife and helpiess family. Their only property consisted cf an old irare, and more to oblige them than any- thing else, I bought the mare. She was gentle, and my wife adopted her for her ewn driving, and was much pleased for a while, as the old mare was £0 gentle that my wife could drive her about town her- self. It seemed, however, that the mare had cnce belonged to an old lady over in New Albany, who had a mania on the 11s, and made a point nev he old mare's principal oc s had been to folloy not always” ta pnd frequer the court. An hnsen and Lake Potand, back to the days of R ohnson. Ah, there was a man for hort and to the point, no frills or « ment; he was a plain tet lawyer and stuck close to He often e without a brief, 's recelved mark In his oid a blind and w: n add attention from e he became par- about by an at- ing the court he stood front of the judges and would d down bench from on © other, e into the faces of S = down h's declara- ta earne: Ss and positiveness. Reverdy Johnson talking for two hours, indeed. iere was Luke Poland of Vermont, or, time jurist. im now in his blue coat and bra ouring out his sentences at the » every one of them clear cut as the bell and pregnant with under He never made the court yawn, you. When he had picked out ding facts or statements of la -ked them up, figurat speakin r the nse of the ecurt, and then made his bow and withdrew. Jere Black Knew When to Stop. “L remember Jere Black of Pennsylvania another man who was popular with the court on account of knowing when to stop. He chewed fine cut tohacco and carried it around in a silver box. It was his habit when in conversation or argument to twirl that box around in his fingers and manipu- late it in his gestures. When he put the box in his pocket it would mark the close and then when he sat it out again to quietly himself with a chew of fine cut. aking his argument Jere Black aban- d all circumlscut.on and took a short cut for the pith of the matier. He pos- d the faculty, so rare in these days, of ng his leading points at once out of Cid Judge Campbell of New Orleans was one of the greatest Inwyers of the later sixties. He was on the Supreme bench up to the breaking out uf the war, hen he went into the confederacy. After the cessation of hostilities he took up the practice of law and often appeared hefore the Supreme Co: He Ways held that a good lawy ar hy brief arg’ down he ould Make ents ind t he carrie theory into practic Te never indulged in pyrotechnics, but awas a plain matter-of- fact lawyer. He stood, vei and his legal at respect. enjamin R. Curtis! of Massachusetts was another man meted for brevity. If there was any fault Im his ar, ents it vos that they wert toe short. He was of ebsterian ouild, 4 very pact, and it sed to be said that Fis arguments were in that respect like h!s person. tow his t shudder if tt ever visits the Court airing one of the long- el pow-wows’ Of the preset day. king of Curtis,;you' know it used to he id that he left te Sifpr ount of @he Dred: Scott de with the commanded 5 H nfter re- signed his seat and went into prac Local Legal Ta “Richard T. rrick of were 1 ie of the mark, but aly Phillips of Alabaraa who knew when alla halt. He was a brilliant talker ‘© many of those southern jurists, and yet there were no flowers on his argu ments. He always showed h's thorough acguaintance with HIS ease and his main object scemed to be to acquaint the judges with it in the fewest words possible. “Many of the cold Washingionians will recall Matt. Carpenter. In fact he has not been dead so very loag. I remember him long before he entered the Senate, when he used to coms before ihe Supreme Court. never flew w! scored: Colonel P. was another able to j three mornings. Then he decided to try “to. the ecmeteries funeral, fol- societies with all v with he rare knew her br 5 down, sel meurners with an looked with s y wou of ours, t the t nicet they which my wife was appurently paying to the deceased, until wife was frantic with mor mand anger. “At every cr she would appeal to bystander: 4 to stop the m to un d a polic man, who, respo tearful appeals, stopped the i | | no laugh and I had no ft mare and got her out of sight for good.” swe. THE ELECTRICIANS ALARM. The Result of the Janitor’s Obedience to Instructions. From the Cnicazo Evening Post. We has romns in a big apartment bulld- ing, and he has devised an elaborate scheme to avoid sleeping too long in the morning. He hasn't much faith in alarm because he forgets to wind them vered that pounding on the floor has very little effect. He engaged the janitor to pound on the deor at a cer- tain hour every morning, but it failed to have the desired effect after the first two or He was an amateur electrician self, so it was easy for him to put a over the head of his bed and run a wire to the door. But n@ ordinary button would do him. He was afraid he would turn over and £9 to sleep again as soon as the bell stopped ringing. Consequently, he put a ch on the outside of the door and ar- ranged with the janitor to come up and turn the switch at a certain hour every morning. That would start the bell ring- Ing, and it would not stop until he got up and turned off the current. He was naturally proud of his device. E felt that he had solved a great problem. And he lad. There was no sleeping in that room after the janitor had turned the switch, for it was necessary to get up and cross the room in order to stop the noise. But he overlooked ore thing. He made no ari gement for notifying the janitor when he was not home, and the first night that he failed to come home there was trouble. The janitor went to the door at the usual hour in the morning, turned the switch and then went back to his quarters in the basement, leaving the bell in active opera- tion. Oceuparts of adjoining apartments were unanimous in the assertion afterward that the bell did not shirk its work that morn- irg. They did not think muca of the bell, aryway, but on ordinary occasions it was shut off after a few minutes of active ser- vice; so they had refrained from making any co This time, nowever, it con- tinned ess at the old stand for about half an hour, and they rebelled. One by one they came to their doors to see yvhat the trouble might and later en- joyed themselves by pounding on the door of the teir etric Ss room and yell- ing to the supposed oceupant to shut it off. Firding tnat that did no good, they talked of breaking dewn the door, but fnally de- cided to send for the janitor and let him do It. The janitor came and listened to their in- dignant protests. He hcarkened to them patiently while they adyised him to knock A panel.out of the door with an ax. Then he auietly reached up and turned the switch, while half a dozen sheepish look- inz men crept back into their rooms. How- e behind |. ever, one of them cvidently came out again, for when the amateur electrician returned he found that the switch had Leen smashed. ee +02 Wiltten for The Evening Star. My Guardian Angel. By my side, at night und day, When [am at work or pi My Guardian Angel stan When Ip alway. tempted to do wronz, My Guardian Argei seems so strong, And I, though weak, to him belong. When T sty my evening py livays feel his For am not I his God-¢! —GERTRUDE HAMILTON (nine years old). i Matter of Life or Death. From th Pitadelphia Item. Johnny Smart—‘‘What ‘does b-i-e-r spell?” Old Smart—“That depends, my son, on who is spelling it. If it is a German it is about the first thing that he wants; if it's an Englishman it’s the last thing he wants.” Gladness Comes ith a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys- ical ills which vanish before proper ef- forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis- ease, but simply to a constipated condi- tion of the system, which the Pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt- ly remové That is why i fie onl: remedy with millions of families. and everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness, without debilitating the organs on whichit acts. Itis therefore all important, in order to get its bene- ficial effects, to note when you pur- chase, that you have the genuine article, which is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep- utable druggists. 1fin the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, then laxa- tives or other remedics are not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended tothe most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, then one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely used and gives most general satisfaction. — = AGUE UTILIZED. The Shakes Are Made Usefal in Ran- ning «a Dairy. A short distance above Owenton and New Harmony, Ind., on the Wabash river, which little towns their resident, Robert Dale Owen, has made famous, is the vil- lage of Payson, Ill. It consists of but a few houses, but it is noted as the home of ague. Not ordinary chills and fever, but the shaking kind of ague, where the chat- tering teeth play a waltz, and every bone in the body keeps time to the music. One of the houses is occupied by a man of an inventive turn of mind, who is blessed with a family consisting of a wife and ten children. He has gone into the dairy busi- ness, and in his spring house is a large churn, operated by a spring board. Every day butter is made, and the way it is churned is unique. The proprietcr of this little dairy explained its operation to his neighbor. “You ." he said, “none of us do any extra work, so I call it clear profit. Monday, I alway: ake in the m: and my wife afternoon, Tues’ Jim and Sallic Wednesday, Hob z George; Thursday a Tom and Bill, and Satu a, When the shakes come on, w nd stand on the spring board, a last long enough to bring b So it ain't any extra they ter In the churn. trouble.” alway ———— A DIAMOND IN A GOOSE. rv When He Heard of med th And the Bute We one. nthal does the markot- turday, in prep: for Sunday's dinn< Mrs. senthal ited the store of Lo eted a fine fat goos of ordi type and Mrs. kK 10 cents per pound for it. Sunday mo ng Mrs. Rosenthal and the cook went to work on the goose As the cl aning pro what appeared to be a pebble rolled out upon the Kitchen table. Oae sharp of the 4d pebble threw out a 3 kitchen sink she dipped it in hot water, po 1 it on er apron at. it's a n corroborated this amxour ‘The stone was ighing a carat and a half, Ee When Greenbaum heard of Mrs. R&s« he thal’s good fortune turned pale with chagrin. “I "he exclaimed, “not the diamon stone is my property and I shall demand its return Greenbaum did demand it, but Mr. 1 and his family laughed at him. ner now threatens to take the case to court. SS Written fer The Evening Star. Anxiety. Child of ms love, What hath th Thy heart Or will yet all untried, world in store for thee? will it be £ thy soul? My little ore, what fears # ‘The while I mect thine Sereve, that thro Thou run a On, tender bud, about to burst To swee' thood’s full bloom, May all thy ir, wnenrst By cares that blight; nor wave of gloom Across thee roll. May heaven grant, my child. thy pt As each arises from thy heart. May engels guard thee unawares From cyery snare and poisoned dart, THM reached thy gocl. 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