Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1921, Page 61

ALLISON, 1L, Jan. 2. ROTHER CHARLEY. ‘well Charley 1 supose you been haveing rotten weather down east just the same like we been haveing out here. Well Charley when you move out in a subburb they aint no chanct for a man to spend 2 quite evnirg at home onct in a wile because theys some thing doing evry minut out here ether Co. comes to our house to set a round & play cards & lap up our home brew or else we o0 some wheres else to some bodys house & play cards, but you couldent drowned your self in the home stuff they give us when wear at there house but when there at our house its diffrunt. But Grace is haveing the time of her life & says she dident never know what a good time was when she lived in the city & says she use to think she wouldent care nothing a bout society but its grate Stuff when you get in to it so is lang is she feels that way I wont try & <poil her fun tho it keeps me broke Muying clean collars & getting my Vest close prest. Well Charley. we was to & party the night before last & wear going 10 an other party next wk. & it takes mest of my time geting my shoes shined & they talk about Chicago being a live place well Charley its like a grave yd. come pared with th place & some thing doing evry min- ut when your a good dresser & the Deeple likes You. The party last night was over to Curtis house the wood and coal man & no wonder his wife ast us to the party because there geting a bout $20.00 dollars ver mo. out of us for 1 & 12 ton of coal & it wouldent hurt them none to give us a party onct a mo. & have bootleg whisky. but they dident give us no wine only home brew & not hardly emough of that to wel vour tongue & of corse Id rather have a glass of beer than all the wine in the world but when Im dry 1 or 2 bottles dont even clear my throte & they might is well give mc. » spoon full of butter milk & expec me to have 2 good time & if I was i: THE LAST LAUGH ‘The Funniest Yarn You Ever Read, By Ring W. Lardner. + Illustrated by Fontaine Fox. as she thot she was but any wi the gents prize was a box to put your collars in & if I had of win I would of throwed it a way as soon is we got out side the house because I aint got so many collars that they aint room for all of them in the drawer & of corse I don't never have them in the house all at once nether because they 3 or 4 of them gos to the landery evry wk. The womans prize was a pare of silk stockings & even if Grace had of win them she would half to take them down town & change them Off because they wis plane black & she aint in morning for no body. So the peopl that win the prizes was well come to them eh Charley. Well the Carrys is giveing a party next wk. & we come home with them from the Curtis party & Mr. Carry ast me how did I in joy my self & 1 says O. K. only I could of got a way with a couple more bottles of brew with out standing on the pian- no & singing a song. Grace come in a little wile a go looking mad so 1 save whi the matter & she says nothing says you cant fool me so she told me a bout passing by Mrs. Carpenter & Mrs. Hamilton & she spoke to them & they dident nether 1 of them speak to her. I guess I all ready told you who they was Charley. Mrs Hamil- ton lives right next door to us & Mrs. Carpenter next to Hamiltons & there the peopl Grace called on last summer right after we moved out here & they dident never call on her back & Mr. Hamilton was 1 of the guys that wouldent leave us come in & dance that time we got the Invata- tion by Miss take & went down to the dance. So I says to Grace what did you speak to them for & she says she wanted to show she dident bare them no grudge because they was probly sore on them self for not call- ing on her & 1 says well you will know better next time & I pertend it I'ke it was a joke but I would like to get a good chanct to get back at them peopl Charley & 1 guess you know Im the 1 that can do it when I Allison, Ill, January 25. Dear Charley. well Charley 1 and the wood & coal business I bet 1 would give my friends enough to eat swell head Hamiltons & Carptenters { HADN'T NO SOONER OPENED THE DOOR THAN HE PULLED HIS GAT AT Grace is going to get back at them ! and drink when they come to see me |and when we get threw with them espeshaly when the peopl that comes | there chest wont be sticking out so to see you is the peopl that you might | far and it was Graces idear only st say buys your groserys for you. & all she sprung it and 1 guess when we they give us to eat was ice cream & didemt know how good it was when cake & coffee & Grace hadent gave |put this over them Hamiltong & Car- me much supper on acct, she thot we | penters will wisht theyd act it a would get a reglar meal ‘to the party. | 1 bet the next time I go to a party a | round here I will stick a couple | crackers in my pocket & a little cineese. Well they toid us it was going to be ard party so I & Grace thot | of corse they would play cinch or | rummy or may be whist but When We got over there they sprung this here game they call auetion bridge whist. Mrs. Curtis if I played t 1 wouldent have no trubble learning this here game but in this Fame you bid back & 4th. like pitch only you half to say what are you bidding on & they got a lot of funny sines that means some thing & a o threw collige to lern | 50 I just set there & played when it was my turn & onet | ih hole fist full of clubs & bid | 2 clubs but my pardner took it a way | me with 2 spades & that counts | than 3 clubs & I left her have it & they wasent a spade in my hand & when I layed it down she Lalled me out like it was some crime Jd pulled off & we got set & she balled me out some more & of corse 1 couldent say nothing back because #he was a woman & I dident even know her name & all I says to her was If you had left me have it with 3 clubs they wouldent of been noth- ing to it & she says you couldent of | even made 3 clubs because you | couldent make nothing only a mess | of things so | says ves & you could- | ent make nothing only a monkey out of yourself so the peopl we was playing with give her the laugh & #he seen she was geting the worst of it so she shut up her mouth. Well Charley | & Grace dident win no prize but the woman that sive | me the balling out dident win noth- ing nether so she wasent as smart little more friendly and hadent been so awelled on them self. I will tell you how it come up and what wear going to pull off Charley T bet you'll laugh when you see what wear going to pull oft on them. I layed off yest. and stayed home all day and wile we was eating our dinner Grace says somec thing a bout giveing & party & I says we aint got no money to Lhrow a way on no partys & she says well if I cant & IT WAS A GREAT JOKE,' ALL RIGHT. Eive a party I cant go to no more partys because I will be a shamed of my self and I says Well 1 guess peopls been to our house a8 much is we n to there house & Grace says yes but they just coms h uniformly & not me reglar invata tion a fare and we havent gave no reglar card party with prizes and re- freshmunts I says 1 guess the peopl that have came her: enings have got more refreshmunts then we got to theré house when they THE was giveing partys but she says Well I wont argue with you and if you wont give me no money te hsve a party we will just half to quit going to other peopls houses and she act it like she was going to blubber so I says Well supose you give a party who would you ast to it and she says why the Carrys and the Curtisis that had us to there house ani then a few other couple that we rzet at them 2 partys so 1 says bavent you forgot the Ham- iltons & Carpenters & she says for- got them of corse T aint forgot them but do you think 1 would ast them to a party at my house after the way they been acting so then I seen the pt. & I says theys some sence to the way your talking now and we will have a party and not neither the Hamiltons or Carpenters & they_ will feel like a dirty doose. Well Grace couldent see it but I guess vou can see it Charley and how would you & Mary feel if the peopl liveing next door to you give a swell party & you wasent ast You would feel like a rummy would- ent you Chatley. So I says to Grace Well 1 dont care what you think I SLIPT MY OVERCOAT AND SOX AND SHOES ON OVER MY NIGHTGOW® AND WENT OVER AND but T will come threw with the money for your party if youll promus to not ast nether the Ham- iltons or the Carpenters & Grace says you can bet your life I wont 50 that part of it was fixed up. So then Grace says we will give a cinch party & give them a dutch lunch & we will ast the Carrys and the Curtis and the Bishops & Farrells & Grimes counting our self that will make a even doz. & § tables of cards & 1 says thats all right a bout who you ast but leave me tend to the refreshmunts a speshally the drinks & Grace says Thats all right with me because 1 dont care nothing a bout the drinks ; We wrote out the invatation day we wanted it fixed up and 1 of them printed & of corse we wont use the doz. because they wont only be peop! ast besides our salf & we dont Want no invitation to our own party but we couldent get 10 print it cheaper then 12 so we will keep the extra 2 for a suveneer or may be we them to you & Mary be- Lave a doz. will male cause of corse you cant come but may be you will like to take a look at the invitations but in case a couple of thems spoiled so as we cant send you none heres what there goinz (o say on them. agst. Chief of Detec- F. A. Gross e tives Chicago Police dept. & lady will be please to enlertain you Jan. 7 from 8 p.m. on 3 tables progressive cinch followed by refreshments. Gents prize 1 qt pre-Volstead whisky. Ladvs prize handsome pare of corsets. Dress suites. Grace made me stick in the part a bout dress sutes & I stuck it in because the peopl that comes to the | party will half to past right by the Hamiltons & Carpenters house & sup- | poge they hapened to be going out i that night & run in to the peopl comeing to our party they would see jwhere the gzuests bad on there dress | sutes & that shows it aint no rummy j party or no bunch of bums comeing & of corse 1 dont half to ware no dress sute my self because I wont half to go out because the partys right in my house. Well Charley wear going to have frank forters & liver worst & siaw & potato sellid & ice cream & cake & coffee & of corse home brew & you can bet I will give them enough so they wont go home dry & I will mix them up some bootleg high balls to & besides that the 1 that wins the gents prize will may be open it up before they go home & if he does I will fernish the excelsior water to make high balls out of that to. We will show them the time of there life Charley & I got it fixed up all ready with the man that runs the weakly paper out here to stick some thing in a bout the party so they wont be no chanct of the Hamiltons & Car- penters no finding out a hout it after words & I bet when they find out they will come over here on there hands and niece & make up for the way they treat it T & Grace. 1 prety near forgot to tell you a bout the peopl we got liveing next door to us not the Hamiltons but the peapl on the other xide & they aint been liveing there lorg but moved in a little wile ago and there name is Mar- tin. Well the night this hapened I Suess they was giveing a new yrs. eve party or some thing & they wi makeing more noise then & brass b & hollering like & bunch of indians till 2 o'clock in the A. M. & Grace had a headache & couldent sleep but she wasent going to say nothing but pretty soon little Ed was woken up by them hollering next door and he was balling & they couldent none of us sleen 50 pretty soon 1 couldent sty it ne longer & I slipt my over cote & sox & shoes on over my night xown & went over & rapped at the daer & Mr. Martin come to the door & T says you better lay off on mome of the rackit & he savs what will you I CURTIS SAYS OUR HOUSE WASN'T BIG ENOUGH TO DANCE IN AND 1T TH YOU KNOW HIM & MRS. CARRY WENT OUT ON THE WALK & BEGIN DANCING THERE. e erererere——— | do 1t we dont & tn en I flashed my star on him & I says cut the noise n’ut or you'll get the worst of it & then I come & way & I guess what I said done the business because a bout a 14 hr. after words there guests went home & they wasent no more noise & next A. M, I & Mr. Martin went down on the same train to gather & : vlnl"ugllo!himt&hu" 1 was sorry 3 s fun e says Thatg all HEht you dident spoll gur fun"y just it to it. So you see he is good fellow & we would ast him to the party only him and his wife would imake 14 & I & Grace would haye te | set out of the game & not play if they was any more peopl ast the we an,we couldcpnt Ie-&o nonve“:ll I the left the order down town to day to up hole 10 no out & we cant ast 16 peopl & 4 tables because we aint onmly Eot 3 tablea in the house. I will write & let you know a bout eur party & I bet you wisht you & Mary could be here for it. Kindest to Mary. them have Fred A. Gross. *x % Allison, TIL, Feb. 1. RROTHER CHARLEY. well Char- ley Im so sore I cant hardley write but I want to tell you what kind of bums we got liveing next to us 1 mean the Hamiltons and the Car- penters that lives on the other mide of the Hamiltons and before they get threw with me they will wisht they hadent of monkied with Wred Gross & 1 guess T dont half to tell you that| they' cant no body try there funny busness on me and get a way with it Well Charley I guess I better tell you what come off & the papers was a0 full of it this A. M. & 1 called Up the chief & says 1 wouldent be down to day and he says all right & RAPPED ON THE DOOR. I aint sick or nothing but I kno | theys some bums down to head quai ters that would shoot there mouth o # bout what was in the papers & would probly get sore and shoot som: body fu)l of holes. Well Charley last night was the night we gave our party & of corsc we knowed when we got the party up that the Hamiltons & Carpenters would get sore on acct of not geting ast to the party but we dident in tend to leave them know nothing & bout the party u head of time bu leave them read a bout it in the Alilson paper when it comes oy next Sat. But they found out a bou' it some way & of corse they wa: sore but insted of takeing it like & man they act it like a baby or wors: then that because they couldent baby be mean enou t whai they done. EnCiterdoRang Well Charley the peopl all com: that we ast & we set down & playe: cards & wile & evry body was have ing a pretty good before 1 give the boys some thing 1o moisun there throtes so I wen: out & mixed up a few high ball: & 1 made them pretty stiff & th gents was tickeled to death to ge: @ hold of some thing to drink beforc it was time for the refreshments & Curtis says it taste it like more so | mixed {hem up some more & lst thing you know Curtis was throw- ing the cards all over the floor & he hadent only had 2 so Carry callec me over to 1 side & says it wasen' right to not finish Curtis up wher he had such a good start so of cors: | then the game busted up and Grace dident have the refreshments read: yet but my part of the refr ' Y S 1 weuldek by dowm todey. I SAYS I WOULDNT BE DOW\N TODAY, was leave do so ready so T wasent going 1« the” Co. with out nothing 1 1 brot in the Stuff & left thc gents mix up there own & aftei While about 4 of them cleared th: tables out of the way & begin dance- ing & of corse we dident have nc musie so Curtis pertend it like h. was the orchuster & begin hollering & singing for the others to danc to & we was geting & long all O. but pretty noisey but no harm don: till Curtis says our house wasent bis enough to dance in it & 1st thing you know him & Mrs. Ci out on the walk & begin danceing | there & him singing all the wile & { hollering like a wild man & pretty { Boon the rest of them was all out | doors & of corse 1 & Grace could- ent stick in the house when they was all out side & Grace kept aftel me all the wile to try & get Curtis to shut up his mouth but she might is_well of told me to stop the Irish civil war & he kept it up till finely he sliped & fell down on a banana peel & when I & Carry tride to pick him yp we sliped to & fell down & I thot we wasent never going to get up the side walk was s0 unsteady then Grace says we had woke the babys up & Curtis herd her & they wasent nothing to it but he must g0 Up stares & put them back to sleep & he hit more of the stares with his jaw than he did with his fl. & him trying to get the babys back to sleep was @ bout like a5 if 1 tried to do it by blowing the fire whistle in the ear & | & Grace had to go up & get him oyt of there room & wile we was up stares the door be!l rung & ‘1 come down & every body was in the house again by this time so I opened up the door & there was a bum there that says he was the right cf & says who owns this house & I own it come in & have & drink & he says nothing doing &' the best thing ‘you can do is get your hat & cote on & come a long with me I says what for & he says disturbing the piece & I says who says so & he says thsts none of your busness ;?ml u{-tyou.lrl its my busness & got to sl me your warent & who sined it before 1 will .lo l‘onz with you & that had hi ju h the stares & buted in bet, I oficer & told the of\ to st it & the oficer told him to shut his mouth & then what d Curtis do but take s crack at the guy & the Buy started to pull his club & then I horned in & took it a way from him & he says Well I dont need no warent now_but your arested for resisting an oficer & I says whose Boing to arest me & he says you will find out 80 then he went a way & 1 thot we was threw with him & we shut the door & Curtis was ready for a nap by this time so we Jayeq him on ‘the sofa & Grace brot in the stuff to eat & we was laughin &nd jokeing a bout the smart uee[ constable when the door bel again & there was the u:: l'“r;u: 2 othe; ith Bim 1 hadent no sooner opened up the door than he pulled his gat on me ‘Well Cherley te ke 1t shert I had to go & long. with & they :Onlflelnt .'ten Sy up own town to hea: usriers & Jack & some of lb.qhagl r:t Mfi: oyt and show them wi who & they wanted Curtis to but when they Scen him layed eut on the sofs they past him up & I was the goat & 1 couldent let on how more I was be- capse Grace & the rest of the women was haveing histeriks & evry thing olse 50 1 says geod night to Grace & smiled at her & the rest of the women & told them te mot worry then I went a way with the 3 gpys & they locked me up. Well Charley I dident get no sleep because I was trying to figger out who put up the job but it come to me all of a sudden this A.M. that it Wi Hamliton & Carpenter & when 1 ast the oficer was it them he wouldent say nothing so you see it :/n"lhem & 1 will make them swett ar it. Well Charley I was teoken up be- fore the justice the 1st thing this A. M. & the justice was a good fel- low & they wasent no hedy there te complane agin me only the oficer & when he found out who | really was he wouldent say nothing & says he was sorry he pulled me in but it wasent hiy falt. & near sick -because papers how we was givin & doing the foxey trot middle of the st. Well Ive wrote you a long letter Charley but I guess I had some news for you even if it was bad news but the next bad news will be a bout them stiffs that pulled it off. Kindest to Mary ‘FRED A. GROS. Allison, 11l. Feb. 4. * k k% ROTHER CHARLEY. Well, Char- ley vou know the old saying & bout the 1 that laughs last gets the best of it & the day after tomorrow I will be the 1 thats laughing & Humilton & Carpenter will wisht they was in a hole some wheres hide- ing & they will find out that they aint no body cant put nothing over on Fred Gross & get any thing but the worst of it. 1 got evry thing fixed up & 1 aint sald nothing to Grace BY STIRLING HEILIG. PARIS, June 2, 1921. XPLOSIVE shells from German “Taube” planes were falling on Paris in 1914. The invading armies were approaching, the 2rench defenders were retreating. Soon 1o terrific German howitzers would be n range of Paris! Crash ! blown up. i’oincare. hich a dead | izht be worth more than a live one. ‘I the intense French popularity of m 1921 * % x % L icular hope of ever seeing him agal 914, “rance last July. aw the offect of his appearance. .n_Rheims, that day. by special invi- ation, to view the ruins which re- nained complete and total te f the new city plan of Rheims drawn 1p by the American architect. George .nd_state. ~hose houses were all blown heir neighbors' cellars our tring of motor cars wound from one nakeshift factory to amother, to have ¢ puthetically pointed out to us that theims was working in her desola- fon. Before the strafed cathedral, rdinal Archbishop lLucon had be- n his explanations. Suddenly. there as & hush. The cardpial stopped short. A smile of charmed surprise transfigured the sour and worried eatures of Senator Leon Bourgeois. The Murquis de Polignac pushed en- husiastically to the open, where a solitary figure stood, and pulled the solitary figure, with love and laugh- ter, to the circle of his colleagues of Rheims and Pari It was Mr. rick. unannounced, undreamed of. He had come, practi- cally alone, to see the devastated re- zions, on his short trip of last July, eady referred to. The two hundred spapermen were quite forgoiten. exclaimed the mar- ‘Her-ri!” echoed Mayor Roche, he municipal councllors mur- ri quis. while t * * % ¥ mured DID you ever take four giris oyt in a motor car, and after sweating ever spark-plug and magneto in the dusty road an hour or so, have 8 cool lad bob up, concerning whom the girls were crasy and couldn’t concesl it? it was for the gallant two hun- ggga Herrick to right of them, Her- rick to the left of them. Cardinal Lucon began his explanations of the cathedral over again, with his hand on Mr. Herrick's arm. The photeg- raphers stopped taking pictures of us. The Prench public fawned on Mr. Herrick, touched his coat-tails reverently. ‘They drew him to the banquet hall. And blushing, Joughing. inarticulate with emotion, he went—the beloved guest of & ban- quet made for others. ‘The thing was big enough to u any man, byt Herrick hai great p sion Such a ene “may lift a y, where another jook over a wall.” the gist of his impromptu e e that ‘newspaper luncheon in the smashed Hotel de Ville of horse,” as_they man had “best nof asking by what faylt these 52'?.‘,.‘“..“. happened, but let's get to stop them!” w?\rtkfl-l:? moment Mr. Herrick was a private American citisen on & private tourist trip to France—his fAirst since he h.dhnllull'“ i mber, s ;::epr!lldelllll candid et chosen and nobod: at would l: as : et of his ac % the Prenc him (o¢ them, which I think may be nknown in America, will be :::‘::b‘:nd. nevertheless, 50 long. as poster collecting endures in the world. Ambassador Herrick made a poster, to be posted up on Paris houses og- cupled by Americans. It is the one oster of the war which nobody can guy in Paris, because no Frenchman who possesses & copy would part with it for any money. It was prepared against the arrival of the Germans in Paris. Quoting from memory, it de- ciared that “in this house live Ameri- with their furnity! &:: ernment woyld seek cass of vielations,” hat effect. these posters the n A “Taube" shell fell beside the Ameri- san embassy. Ambaassdor Herrick, busy vith proofs of a poster, came near being “You might have been killed,” said Then Herrick gave his answer, sublime 1 1914, plain American in 1915, rococo n 1920 and enbalmed in all French \earts in 1921: ‘There are situations,” he said, “in American ambassador ) this true anecdote is summed up Iyron T. Herrick, who is about to re- urn again to France as our ambassador T is & rare thing. probably without precedent, for any foreign nation to; rdently desire in advance that any par- icular American be sent to it as am- »assador, yet silently, without any par- Mr. Herrick has this proud and diffi- ult position. He is a legendary figure of Half the people of France know vho he is, and with emotion, yet they ould scarce believe their eyes when he )obbed up, as a private citizen, on the iort summer trip which he made to 1 was in Rheims and We were, in fact, 2 couple of hun- dred newspapermen of all the world, ford. and accepted by municipality The Germans had paid 10thing. Through a hundred streets into long before Im threw with them they will be cralling on there hands & niece byt I guess you under stand Charley that T aint trying to do no more then just scare them & of corse the women Wont be pulled in or nothing like that but just a pinch & a little story in the papers. Thats a plenty eh Char- ley. Dont say nothing to Mary a bout {1t Charley because she might spill | some thing a bout it to Grace in a {letter & T aint sure yet that | am go- or no bedy else & hout it accept Bob Barnes & I guess you know who he is Charley or if you dent you should ought to. Hes the sheriff of Ceok Co Charley & they aint nothing 1 cold ast him to do for me that he wouldent do om acct of what I done for him wile he was running for sherif. Well Charley I will half to tell you whats comeing off & how I got the tip to pull off what Im going to pul off on them. The little irish gir] that stays with the babys evnings some|ing to tell Grace. F. A. GROSS. times was here Sun. & her & Grace * ¥ ¥ ¥ was talking & the girl knows the Allison, 11l. Feb. T girl that works for the Hamiltons next door to us & the Hamiltons high- er girl told this little girl a bout Mrs. Hamilton bellonging to a auction | bridge whist club that meets evry Thurs. P.M. & insted of playing for a regular prize like a pair of silk stockings or some thing, they all suck in a $1.00 a peace & theys a bout 12 of them in the club & the 1 that wins the prize takes the $12.00 BROTHER CHARLEY. Well Charl the deds done & its all over & th was a story in the papers this A.M that would knock you dead & Im | going to buy up some extra coppys of the papers & send you some of them & you will sce if 1 fixed them swell heads or not oniv it came near being a bad mix up on acct of this dollars in_cash mon, Mrs. Carpen- : ters 1 of the club. Well Charley!bons head deputy Parker thut Bob here BolnE o oy sy Afier to- | pored a few glassis of currage down morrow to Hamlitons house & may be vou guest all ready whats come-| jop & when he got ready to work Ing off. . e was all lit up like a church & When them swell society dames is| went up & pound it on Hamiltons haveing there little auction bridge front door & when the higher girl whist game -1 of the deputy sherrifs opened up the door he pulled his is going to walk in on them & make | gun and she shrecked & pretty near 2 pinch see Charley. [ guess thats a |fainted & then Mrs. Hamilton come bad idear eh Charley. Of oorse Bob|running to the door & she must be couldent come out & make the pinch | a pretty game bird Charley because t him in | #he looked the gat right in the face bad but Res FOINE to Kive the fob to a | & Ast Parker what he wanted & he ‘deputy, name Parker thats no good & Showed her his star & says the place Bobs trying to get rid of him any way | Was pinched & she says what for & & If theys any trubble comes up he told her for being a gamblcing | Parker will be the bird elect it to house & she ast him was it a joke or some thing & he says no & she | tace the musie thing & I & h | ast to see his warent & he says he story for the Chi papers & they wont | (o€ under orders from the sheriff & then she told him to come & set be no chanct of them not hearing a | bout it eh Charley. I will downi& he come in JUEEIRE, thEMEun ¢ 0| a round in his hand & 3 or 4 more that. of the women pretty near fell dead Wel] Charley I told you I would get ' & it would of been just like him to back at these birds & make them take a shot at them but Mrs. Ham- wisht they had of layed off of me & !ilton finely got the other women his throte before he went on the I | him self_becyuse it would | | HE Sunday Star's Special Correspondent | 1 in Paris Tells of Joy Among the French Ovel‘ Return of Hefl’icl{—wat-time Ambassa' dor Who Won Hearts of People of France by i Remaining at His Post When Thousands Were | Fleeing City Threatened by Germans—Her- rick's Trip to’ France as a Tourist and His | Reception 4 AMBASSADOR MYRON 7. HERRICK. Original study by Heuri Reyer for ;hl :lllll ezhibited in the Paris Salen T ——————————————— et et ey et ' cans only, they belleve. rushed to the | the chambers =nd the governm. empassy in those bad days for the pro- | you told him your mu.ufiign '.'m";‘,,' tective poster. Prench folks siwod in follow the othars ic Bordeaux. shere line. as well—ind each, they Ui | you could render . but to obtained a poster! Did they sophisti- | remain 1n ou might cally ¢laim to be Americans? Wio | perhaps be able to save the monu- knows? In the French thought. the nent d spare hurman lives. American ambaspador. of tender heart | “So,” continucd Le Corbeiller. “we and pitiful, gave hint to bis distriby- |are guthered here 1o honor in you the tors perhaps. to waste no time in in- |incomparable friend, the most moble quisitorial investigatiena. and generous man, who, during the Thig, they think, is wby so many |tregic symmer of 1914, when death French families in Paris at this pres. and destruction hovered over Paris. ent moment hold the posters in iheir |assumed the splendid role of protec- reverent possession. It was mever tor and defender of our cit: i posted. It was never needed. Mr. Herrick could not but angwer. they held it, 30 the stery runs in| “It seemed to me, in those fateful Franee, like a palladium hoyrs,” he said. “that, as representa- Mousehold and their neighbors, in [tive of the greatest neutral power, 1 thowe days when frightful need ap- [should remain in Paris and use ali my proached—before the miraculous vic- {inflyence to save ite ari treasures tory of the Marne. from Lhe fate of Loyvain. For. while And they thank Herrick for it. it was trye that France heid the title * % ¥ & iand was owner, yei, in 2 larger sepse. 2 my own country and all ihe world A MAN must heve gracefyiness as|seemed to me to be joint owners in as well heart, I think. te make |that treasyre. and thul & sirong pro- such storles stick. When they stick egzinst the dese- grace will glorify them. Mr. Herrick quit Paris in November, 1814, after the great danger Lo Paris was copjured. On his return, last July, as @ private tourist his feet had but toyched the Paris pavement ::e they had him to lunch ol’ t‘r:llv Club, Aristide Brignd for the l B hoids in tryust for the inspiration of man- kind mber 2, 1914, at the wee, tha dent Poincare told me he believed it to be the intention of the Germans to destroy Peris if Franse did not surrender. He added that Gen. Gallieni was in command apd that Paris would be defended at ‘te. de Beaument for the In- state, Marcel Prevost for the French e Corbeiller for mu- [the outer gaies, at the inper gales :lalp::nyu‘:dx,"ucu ty"n‘(. and by the r of her 3 n:x It wes on lfim -eu:h- that ge would mever surrender. al- mounced the though beloved Paris be laid in ashes, The next day Gen. Gallieni, the presi- dent” of the municipsl council and others came to the embassy to speak of what could be dome for the safe gusrding of the great art treasure On September €. 1914, Ambassador tendered Mr. to express the gratitude of Paris fer his acts 1014, The Paris Hotel de Ville has proud dioge gale halls. Seldom Pad tey been more brilliant than on At when Le Corbeiller, P t municipal council, resence of President Poincare, Pri inister Millerand and his gover ment, repeated to “the friend of Paris™ | his “epigram on the “Taube” bomb. "'lneh words, prenounced at such a moment.” he d, “create titles te friendship and gratitude which know no prescription and are never for- ” "o Hocriek tovaily. "SThele entrance ed possible. prol fise (] delsy, {-n'%.fi"éfi M .?0-\' hag recely " & n | lowing telegram: “German genera! staff recommends that Americans ve Paris, via Rouen and Le Havre. They will have to leave soon. If they * x x % wish 1o go.” AlflAlfiADon Herrick jmmediately replied: “This embassy has for some time past been advising Ameri- cans to leave Paris and many have Riready departed. As 1 represepl many “important interests. here, T’ deem it imperstive to remain, te- gether with my staffl. Usder all eir- tan: T feel satisfied . that lg‘t‘g:n-" bable, ed frem in, - D(A intermediary Rome warning te o eclared to your spn that Sty of Bart 1d e dest: P s sy & moment's ave of Pn:-lu t n necess te protect, not only American prop- erty. byt other preperty intrusted to are.” w3 eare. 5 None presert at the Hotel de Vilie v Herrick received from Berlin the fol- | cammed down & teld Parker to have & seat & then she ealled her husband up in town & he called the sherifs {ofice & got a hold of Bob on tae | wire & of corse Bob told him it | must_be some miss take so Hamilton got_Bob to eall up & tulk to Parker & HBob told Parker to leave the women a lone & come back to hea: quarters & Parkcr dident know it to think but he beat it out of Ham 10 town & thuas But of corsa the diffrunt was to it called up ve them the story a bout a deputy sherrif radeing a sweil gambleing joint in Allison & 1 bet the Hamiltons & Carpenters weuld of gave there right eye to net have that stuff in the papers. Well Chariev don't say nething te ! Mury because | aint going to tell |Grace & 1 havent told nebody omly [you & Bob Burnes of cerse & no |body eisc accept this here Mastin that moved in next Geor 10 us an the l1eft & may be T told vou about him makeing 50 much noise yre eve that 1 had to ge oll them to shut up but he was ail right about it & dident get sore but him was setting n ot Zoing in 1o town om the traim U A. M. and he scen me reading the peace in the papers about the pinch at Hamiltons & 1 guess he seen me laughing & he ust me what the laugh was & bout & 50 1 ast him if he could keep a secrit & he re so 1 told him all chy 1 dene it & ing him he layed | papers & g seat & pretly mear busted 1 says te him You knew that laughing the old saying a bout the luughs the last gets the best 1 rh so loud that he drownded oul the train Well Charley I bat it w, before 1 will be writeing U 4« bout them swell head over to call on Grace & th better after this then to in front of people thats as them and a hole lot bett Kindest to Mary. Fred A. Gross. (Copyright, 1921.) “NEW AMERICAN AMBASSADOR HOLDS THE HEART OF FRANCE,” SAYS STERLI NG HEILIG will forget the high emotioms whem Paris said “thanks” in 1320. Myren T. Herrick. private citizen, spoke With | feeling. us it seemed to us, for all Americans. 1t is inborn in the heart of the American child, he said. to turm 1o France. He reads in his primer the story of his country’s early struggle for ‘independence, intermingled with the aid of France. Later on he reads French history through the pages of romance, | One of the first books that fell ints his hands wa Miserubleg” of Victor Hugo, and in the same great writer's “Notre Dame de Pgris” his imagination “borrowed the loaging to ome day live your Parisiam life and share ‘your joys. little thinking that one day 1 should here represent my country and share your sorrews in” one of those tragic epoch-maki moments with which hirtery is plete—the most important eme of gil the centuries” His voice broke as he spoke: ‘“What pessible reply eam 1 ge make. overwhelmed as I am by ‘th honor? How can I acknowledge % tribute so wenderfuily expressed® 1 1find no words to voice my feehngs. i Mr. ambassador (Mr. Wallace) and i my American friends here todey ean | best understand how, under these cir- { cumstances. T feel the grip of our old | Puritan ancestry, that inherited reti- {cence which ties our tengues when i we would speak out our hearis. The | Puritans knew how to condemn, but ! hud few words for approbation. The j French people have the beautiful fae- ulty of forgetting evervthing but that which they can commend and praise.” President Le Corbeiller presemted Mr. Herrick with the gold medal of | the city of Paris. ! “In the dark days when you {in November. 1914, we had offer you but an old bronte token—s { poor littie bronze medal found in & drawer, because the mint was met | working: and on it was our regretted | president. Adrien Mithoyard, | knew what vou had done for us, { Herrick. the City of Pi { At a huppier date we ! offer you. he said. a rememb: | more worthy ef yourself and ys. H {is the souvenir. The case is mere clegant, the medal mere beaytiful wut the inscription and. the sentiment remain the same.” guin Mr. Herrick's veice breke liked the little oid bronze meda! left us. thing te and cauged 10 be engruved: To Myron T Gratefyl. woul well % = | #TOOD on the edge of the threns. There. lewning amuinst & mi pillar. before & background ef priee- less tapestries, stood the poily ses of Le Corbeiiler. absorbed. As Hermiek. istruggling for self-poseession, gulped ihm last phrase 1 saw tesars rum n ! the poilu's cheek. “He means every werd of it™™ the poilu_gulped. Ambassador Wallace put the mame to it when he said. there, at the Ho- tel de Ville: “Ambassador Herrick mot enly un- derstood the needs of Franes, but understoed her hexrt. The game spirit fills us all today, and we are proyd to remember that he did what every | American would have liked te do, and ;would ever be ready io de. for Lhe ‘sake of France!” | The new Amerioan ambassader hoids Frasoe the ireart of Prance—beemuge PFri Iheld the heart of Ameriag. Wili e be ubie Lo live up Lo this great leve ud confdence? Famous Wllit;;'-.let. 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