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COMING ATTRACTIONS
The Minnesota Federation of Col
ored Womens' clubs will hold their
annual Midwinter Breakfast at Phyl
lis Wheatley House, Minneapolis,
Feb. 10. J. Young, Pres., M. Rhodes,
Chairman Publicity.
The Self Culture Club will give
their annual dinner at 607 St. An
thony, Feb. 9th.
Dinner will be served from 12
noon to op. m. Chitterlings cooked
by Mrs. Wilson and committee.
Episcopal Ladies’ Dinner, Feb. 23.
Chicken and chitterlings.
Keep off date of May 5. A May
Pole to be given by Kings Daughters
Circle.
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY NOTES
The Vesper Services presented by
the Phyllis Wheatley Auxiliary, un
der the direction of Mrs. Blanche
Mason, were most enjoyable. The
Glee Club rendered “O Mother Dear,”
“In My Heart,” “The Lord Is My
Shepherd,” “Seek Ye the Lord,”
“Prayer Perfect,” and “Now the Day
Is Over,” Mr. Ira Allen singing the
solo part in “Seek Ye the Lord.”
Mrs. Mae Glenn beautifully sang
“Dear Lord.” The ladies in their
uniforms of white with black ties
made a most pleasing picture. The
group deserves much praise for the
splendid work it is doing. Watch
the paper for its next big musical
event.
Phyllis Wheatley House had its
Annual Dinner Meeting Monday
night, January 31, in the gym, which
was beautifully decorated with pot
plants. The house was packed to its
capacity. Over three hundred people
were present. Tables were set from
the gym almost to the front door. It
was the best meeting ever held in
the house. A delicious dinner was
prepared by Mr. Duncan, chef on the
Soo Line, and Mr. Chavis of the
Great Northern, assisted by members
of the Auxiliary, and was served by
young men from the “University,”
under the leadership of Mr. David
Francis.
After the chairman of the board,
Mrs. Luther Oakes, commended the
group for the fine way in which they
had supported the House, the Annual
Report was read by Miss Brown,
Head Resident. Before reading her
report, Miss Brown spoke of the re
cent gift from the late Mrs. Mary T.
Wellcome of SIO,OOO toward a new
gym, and asked all to stand in silent
prayer in memory of the giver. She
reported that attendance for 1926
was 46,465, an increase of almost
6,000 over 1925.
Seventy-one applications were re
ceived for work. Twenty-two refer
red to the Urban League and forty
nine sent to jobs. The majority of
these applications were received in
the oflice after 5 p. m. and before
8:30 a. m.
The house owes much to the won
derful Volunteer services from the
high schools, university and many
other interested friends.
Too much praise cannot be given
the Auxiliary, which has been the
real backbone of the House. The
members have answered the call at
all times, assisting in making the
House program most effective.
During 1926 a full time worker in
the person of Miss Ethel Ray was
added to the staff and has proven
most capable. A full time boys’
worker added to the staff for the
1927 program for that year will be
far better.
The greatest need of Phyllis
Wheatley House today is a gym. it
is almost impossible for groups to
meet in the adjoining room when
a basketball game or practice is be
ing conducted. When right in the
midst of the meeting two or three
Players fall against the doors and
sometimes come into your meeting
uninvited because the doors opened
suddenly. Since our substantial gift
of SIO,OOO from Mrs. Mary T. Well
come and SSOO from our Musical last
January, we are sure some other in
terested friends will come to our
rescue that we may have our gym.
We are most anxious that our
gym building include sufficient space
to care for the Nursery and School
Home Economics, as these are abso
lutely necessary for our children
who are forced to stay home while
parents work, as our neighboring
nurseries are filled, and to prepare
the young and old to do the ordinary
daily duties well. We have included
the above in our two-year program
and we are praying and working so
when Father Time ushers in 1929
our Nursery and School of Home
Economics will be a reality.
The Masque by fifty men, women
and children was much enjoyed.
This masque vividly depicted the
House program. We take this op
portunity to thank all who assisted
in making the program a success.
Join the Northwestern Negro Busi
ness and Professional Men’s Associa
tion. Call the St. Paul Echo. Cedar
1879. 614 Court Block.
New Zealander Proud
of HU Native Land
As soon as you arrive in Auckland,
New Zealand, you feel the peculiar
character of this most original of
dominions: a blissful land where the
1,600,000 British settlers—for the oth
er nationalities form only small and
transient groups—are producing and
exporting precious raw materials and
engaging in sports of every conceiv
able kind, which they pursue with in
credible verve and enthusiasm.
They are also fully convinced of
their superiority to the rest of man
kind and of the unique privilege they
enjoy in living in these islands. They
have their reasons down pat.
We must not smile at the question
naire to be filled before disembarking
in New Zealand. In it you must
promise before the Almighty to be
good, to observe strictly the wise laws
of the land, and, finally, to remember
that the experience of spending even
a brief period of your existence in
these islands is something to be proud
of for the rest of your life.
On making inquiries I learned that
there is a little unemployment—not,
to be sure, because there is no work,
but because the English Inhabitants
prefer to leave hard labor to people of
other nationalities. The several hun
dred Italians here all find good em
ployment In building railroads. —Ar-
naldo Cipolla in La Stampa, Turin
(Living Age).
Men Sought Means of
Flying Centuries Ago
Flying in motor-driven airplanes had
Its birth December 17, 1903, on the
sand hills near Kitty Hawk, N. C.,
when Wilbur and Orville Wright
achieved the first authenticated flight
In a heavier*than-alr machine, but fly
ing was in the minds of men centuries
before that.
The story of man’s longing to fly
comes down in hundreds of legends,
mixed with fact, about individuals who
flew and those who tried it and died.
Probably the original flying legend is
the Greek story about Daedalus, who
made a pair of wings with which he
flew, and his son, Icarus, who took
them out one day and came to grief
when he got so near the sun that the
wax wings melted.
Giovanni Baptisti Dantl, late In
1400, is said to have flown across the
Piazza of Perugia, Italy, in what seems
to have been an authentic gilder. It
was about this time that Leonardo da
Vinci began to study the possibilities
of flight from the scientific angle and
made a helicopter of paper, wire and
springs that really lifted itself. Fol
lowing this there were numerous ex
periments with gliders, some of them
successful, but not until 1903 did the
motor-driven plane conquer the air.—
Milwaukee Journal.
Big Feet Caused Downfall
Difficulty in obtaining a pair of
boots large enough for his feet led
to the downfall of Rocky Whelan, once
notorious bushranger of Tasmania.
Rocky worked alone and had a nasty
habit of shooting wayfarers in the
back. He acquired his wardrobe by
the simple process of taking whatever
articles of clothing he needed from
his victims. But he had very large
feet and was unable to get a fit in
his usual manner. So he went Into a
bootmaker’s shop to buy a pair. A
constable who had seen him in an
other part of the country spotted him
as he entered the shop and followed,
effecting a capture Just as the outlaw
was trying on a pair of boots. Whelan
was executed a few days later on the
gallows.—Sydney Bulletin.
Immortal “Serenade”
Schubert wrote the “Serenade” to
suit the words of a poem by Ludwig
Rellstab. A number of Rellstab’s
poems were originally sent by their
author to Beethoven, who declined to
do anything with them because of the
state of his health, but who recom
mended that they be turned over to
Schubert. This was done after Bee
thoven’s death. In 1828 Schubert
wrote a number of fine songs, which
were brought out after his death un
der the title of “Swan Songs.” “Sere
nade” is No. 4 of the Swan Songs,
which include six others written to
Rellstab's words. Schubert was born
January 31, 1797, and died November
19, 1828.
A woman with a particularly dis
agreeable expression bad been hold
ing forth to the mRn sitting next to
her at the dinner party.
“Ah,” she said at last, “my husband
has always been lucky. As a child he
was thrown by a horse, but wasn’t In
jured ; as a youth the Ice broke be
neath him, but he wasn’t drowned;
and as a young man he was caught In
an avalanche, but escaped uninjured.”
“Yes,” put In the man, quietly, “but
strangest of all he has now been mar
ried to you for 20 years and Is still
alive." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele
graph.
Best Way to Leave
An ambitious young man was being
Instructed at his own request by a pro
fessor of elocution In the art of pub
lic speaking. The professor knew that
his vanity far exceeded his ability, so
he gave him one last piece of advice.
“When you have finished your lec
ture, bow gracefully and leave the
platform on tip-toe.”
“Why on tip-toe?” queried the
would-be orator.
“So as not to wake the audience,"
was the quiet reply.
Here’s another one on Allentown. A
visitor recently dropped In a restau
rant on the “main drag” and after
perusing the menu, ordered the native
dish of sauerkraut and spare ribs.
There must have been an unusually
heavy run on that savory platter, for
the Pennsylvania Dutch waitress
shook her head and said: “All.”
Wishing to be funny, the man re
turned: “All what?” She: “All over.”
He: “All over what?” She finally:
“All over with.”—Philadelphia Record.
Lucky
Napoleon Had Planned
Unification of Europe
But though he dismisses Fouche
from his ministerial post and has the
watcher watched, Napoleon cannot get
on without him and talks to him about
the most private matters.
“Since my marriage people fancy
that the lion is asleep. They will soon
learn whether I am asleep. I need
800,000 men and have them; I shall
tow all Europe in my wake. Europe
is nothing more than an old woman
and with my 800,000 men I can make
her do whatever I please. . . . Did
not you yourself say to me, ‘You let
your genius have its way, because it
does not know the word Impossible’?
How can I help it if a great power
drives me on to become dictator of
the world? You and the others, who
criticize me today and would like me
to become a good-natured ruler—have
not you all been accessories? I have
not yet fulfilled my mission and I
mean to end what I have begun. We
need a European legal code, a Euro
pean court of appeal, a unified coin
age, a common system of weights and
measures. The same law must run
throughout Europe. I shall fuse all
the nations into one.” —From “Napo
leon, the Man of Destiny,” by Emil
Ludwig.
Originality Shown in
Ordering of Funerals
Two Englishmen and one English
lady, who certainly did not know each
other, decided practically at the same
time to have fantastic funerals, Pierre
Van Paasen writes, in the Atlanta Con
stitution. Harry Armour, one of them,
twenty-four years old, who committed
suicide, left a note in which he or
dered that he w’as to be burled In
hunting costume, booted and spurred,
with rifle In his arms and a plentiful
supply of cartridges in his coffin. Then
there was Colonel Samson of Hastings,
who demanded that his corpse be
dumped in the middle of the channel.
We learn from the Dover Gazette that
his funeral had at least the compensa
tion of a “jolly trip on a bright, sunny
day.” In London, a young lady, Miss
Edith Koll, aged twenty, asked that
she be laid out in her best evening
gown, with dancing slippers and a
small gramophone in the casket. She
personally selected a number of jazz
records, which were buried with her.
All three expressed themselves believ
ers in the resurrection of the body. The
lady is the most original of all. When
that last morn comes, and Gabriel
blows his trumpet, she wants to or
ganize a two-piece orchestra, no doubt.
Dog*s Smart Trick
An old hunter says that on one
occasion a small dog belonging to him
chased and caught up with a very
large raccoon. The dog flew at his
enemy and tried to shake him, but the
raccoon, being quick, caught the dog
by the side of the head.
His teeth were sharp and his hold
firm, so that the dog found it im
possible to break loose. Suddenly, as
if a bright idea had occurred to him,
the dog began to drag the raccoon in
to a neighboring creek.
Once in the water the dog held the
raccoon under the surface, adroitly
keeping his own nose out, until the
raccoon released his grip. Then the
dog easily mastered the half-drowned
animal.
Not in This World
Men and women do not get along
well. The qnarrel is mainly about
money. A woman never seems to
care much because her husband isn’t
as much of a lover as when they were
first engaged. She doesn’t expect it;
and realizes she has cooled 9ff, too.
We have learned that these things
are natural, but men are still shocked
at the extravagance of women, and
women are still shocked at the stingi
ness of men. Is there any way of
coming to a better understanding on
this subject of money?—E. W. Howe’s
Monthly.
Comedienne
First Fossil
What is probably the first fossil to
have been collected by man Is In the
possession of Barnum Brown, associ
ate curator of fossil reptiles In the
American Museum of Natural History.
The priceless relic Is an elephant’s
tooth dating back around 5,000,000
years and was picked up by Mr.
Brown In the ruins of the Askleplelon,
the medical school of ancient Greece,
where Hippocrates, the father of
medicine, carried on his studies.
Roman Numerals
The Romans had no symbols to In
dicate mathematical processes and
operations. Orglnally they expressed
every process and operation in words
of full length. Their mathematical
calculations were never simplified fur
ther than to abbreviate centum, 100,
into C; mllle, 1,000, into M, and so
on. The Romans were never reputed
specially good mathematicians and
they contributed little to the science.
ST. PAUL ECHO
So On, Ad Infinitum
A family moved from the city to the
suburbs and were told that they ought
to get a watchdog to guard the prem
ises at night So they bought the
largest dog that was for sale in the
kennels of a nearby dealer.
Shortly afterwards the house was
entered by burglars, who made a good
haul while the dog slept
The householder went to the dealer
and told him about it
“Well, what you need now,” he said,
"is a little dog to wake up the big
dog.” Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele
graph.
Prized Testimonial by
No Means Flattering
Have you ever been curious about
a letter tha,t some friend has written
about you to introduce you to another?
Then imagine how trying it would
be to have the letter in a language
you could not read ! In the early days
of the Hudson’s Bay company they
used to give “certificates” of good
character to those Indians who
seemed to deserve it. These the In
dians called "teapots,” since that was
as near as they could get to the pro
nunciation. They valued them great
ly, carried them around with them,
and always presented them when they
wished to do some trading with a
white man. One old Indian kept one
for years, presenting it whenever oc
casion offered, and never guessed
that what it said was: “This old fel
low is a regular scamp. Watch him
or he will cheat you out of everything.
He lies like the mischief.”
Ads, Items and Headlines
Ad in Exchange—A young girl, age
fifteen months, would like to learn
dressmaking.
They begin early these days.
Seattle Paper—P. R. Godfrey came
home Friday and stay until SHun
day.
He should have shunned the home
brew.
Headline in Exchange—Messenger
boy is found unconscious by bicycle.
A St. Bernard bike.
Atlanta Ad —Fresh pork sausages.
From pleased pigs that made perfect
hogs of themselves.
Southern News Item—Fannie John
son shot her husband while he was In
bed with a Winchester rifle.
A strange bedfellow.—Boston Tran
script.
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FOR SALE—Home-Made jellies, pre
serves, pickles and relishes, rea
sonable, 455 University.
Where Does Your Money Go!
YOU CoTl if y OU are trading with a merchant
JJolr\ and do not see his ad in this paper, ask
him why he does not advertise in your
race newspaper.
Make If you are willing to co-operate with I
the Echo and help build up a newspaper
/k that will fight for the interest of its race
in the community in which it is pub
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ItCWS" coupons out and paste them on your
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literature of firms seeking your business.
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The St. Paul Echo
614 Court Block Phone Cedar 1679
BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH
Bethel A. M. E. church, Thomas
and Marion Sts., held a special meet
ing last Sunday to elect trustees for
the ensuing year namely: Lee John
son, L. Day and C. Ross.
The regular Quarterly meeting
will be held Sunday Feb. 6th at 2:30
p. m. Rev. W. H. Griffin will deliv-
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ness and Professional Men’s Associa
tion. Call the St. Paul Echo, Cedar
1879, 614 Court Block.
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vited. Rev. J. S. Strong, pastor.
CAMPHOR M. E. CHURCH
Last Sunday found Camphor in
the midst of a self-denial rally. The
services were well attended and the
collection showed that the members
are really denying themselves. This
Sunday will be the closing of the
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rally. Dr. W. O. Sainsbury, D. D.
will preach at 3 p. m. At 7:30 p.
m. Attorney G. W. Hamilton will
speak on the progress of the race.
Mrs. J. P. Douglass, 655 St. An
thony is chairman of the committee
for subscriptions to the Echo, and
we are asking that all members and
friends of Camphor give her their
subscriptions.
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Phone: Elkhurst 1156
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