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Orchids to Mar)
by Mistake
By CLARISSA MACKIE
(©. 1924. by MoClur* N«w«p*p«r Syndicate
"A box for you. Miss Mary," an
nounced Nora from the open doorway
of the living room.
“Ah, flowers?" asked Mary, a little
breathlessly, because do mao had ever
sent her flowers before. Of course,
* Jimmy Lane bad brought her violets
now and then —Jimmy was sentimen
tal about violets —but to receive a
mysterious box like this —square and
deep, lavender tinted and tied up with
ribbon—a box bearing the magic name
of the most expensive florist in town,
that was almost like a dream. A sud
den thought shattered the dream.
Perhaps Jimmy had sent the boxl
Now she had lifted the cover, pulled
aside the waxed paper and sighed with
delight,
t Orchids I
Of course Jimmy had not sent theinl
Her pulse quickened—who in her
circle of friends would send her
orchids? She, who was “almost en
gaged” to Jimmy Lane, could name no
man who admired her enough to r»«k
offending Jimmy. “Some unknown ad
mirer,” whispered Romance, when she
had searched the box for a card and
found nothing.
Mary was still gazing into the
hearts of the exotics when the door
opened and in walked Jimmy, unan
nounced as usual.
With her arms full of paper and
flower-filled box Mary lifted her shy
eyes to his face; her smile was as
lovely as ever.
Jimmy saw the orchids, stopped
short and stared hard. “Orchids?
Huh l”
“Aren’t they lovely?”
“Beautiful.”
“I ahall wear them tonight"
“At the club dance?”
“Of course!”
“Then you have changed your mind
about going with me?”
“Why—why— ’’ Mary's eyes spar
kled. Why not make her faithful
knight Jealous? “Why do you ask
that?” she ended.
“I brought violets for you to wear—
some other man has sent orchids; If
you wehr his flowers I suppose you
will go with him,” explained James
Lane doggedly.
“Oh, I never tbonght of that”
“Who sent the orchids?” he asked
suspiciously.
“Must I tell, Jimmy?” she asked
plain tlvely.
"Bult yourself.”
"Then I won’t —and I will put them
away In water and—" she stopped
short with the flowers In her hand.
Jimmy had picked up the box cover
and outside paper, and suddenly
roared with laughter.
“Amusing, isn’t it?" asked Mary
crisply.
He turned sharply, hls mirth gone.
“Mary, will you tell me who sent you
these flowers?" he asked gravely.
“I cannot tell you that, Jimmy,"
coldly (and it was the truth —she
could not).
“May I guess r
“If you can.”
He pondered a moment. “John
Flint,” he hazarded.
“I'm not acquainted with him.”
“Walter Mann.”
"He is engaged to my cousin, May.
I thought you knew that.”
“Young Lamaon—the pie-faced one?*’
“Pooh,” said Mary, flushing at her
own duplicity. Why not tell Jimmy
that she did not know who her un
known admirer was? But no, it was
a new experience, this one of trying
to 4 make Jimmy jealous.
Mary left the room and returned
presently with a vase of water into
which she put the orchids. First she
held them against the pale-gray gown
was wearing and admired the ef
fect of the delicate mauve tints,
touched with deep violet. Suddenly
she thought of the violets.
"Where are the violets, Jimmy?”
she asked.
“Didn’t they come?”
“I thought you brought them with
you—you always do.”
“Not this time—had them sent from
Kidder & Wld’s. Ordered them this
morning.”
"Rldder & Wld’s?” she asked
faintly.
He nodded. "I was there with Wal
ter Mann, and sent them along. Well,
I must get back to the office. What
time shall I come for you tonight—or
are you going to wear orchids?”
“I d-don’t know,” she faltered.
He looked down at her diminutive
height from his six feet two, and his
good-looking face whitened with anger.
His gray eyes blazed.
“That Is quite plain enough, Mary;
I surely do not mean to annoy you
with my attentions. I expected that
you would go with me because you
had said that you would, but I will
gladly yield to a more agreeable es
cort."
Mary—oh, so contrary—had lost her
lovely color and looked like a marble
cherub so white was ahe. Pride held
her lips fast and her tongue, which
could have so easily explained away
all the misunderstanding, was silent.
In thdt moment she hated orchids,
Jimmy, and her unknown admirer.
“You have no right to forbid my ac
cepting flowers from any other man,”
she said suddenly.
Jimmy stared at her with unfriend
ly eyes. “I merely asked his name.”
“I cannot see that you are inter
ested," said Mary wickedly.
'■‘No? Then I am afraid that I have
not made myself very clear,” said
Jimmy coldly. “May 1 not withdraw
from the honor of taking you to the
dance tonight? Thank you so much
for—all—that you have been to me.”
He stumbled Into the hall, picked up
hls coat and fled from the house, ap
pearing at hls office in a horrible tem
per with every one.
Mary stared blankly at the closed
door. What an Idiot she had been.
Merely to satisfy her own vanity—to
make Jimmy think that some one was
sending her orchids.
Why, she loved Jimmy Lane. The
color flamed Into her face now.
While she stood there, dazed, the
door opened and her cousin. May, en
tered. She was a pretty dark-eyed
girl, dressed for the street.
“Mary, dear, you have got my
orchids, and I received your violets.
I hope you don’t mind my opening the
little note Inside. I only rend one line
when I discovered that it was from
Jimmy; he wouldn’t dare propose to
ine, now that I’m engaged to Walter.
Here, I can dry the stems on my
hanky, going to lunch with Walter and
must wear his orchids. Good-by, my
dear, and heaps of Joy to you.” She
kissed Mary and flew away to meet
her lover.
Mary went to the telephone and
called Jimmy. “Please, Jimmy,” she
said In a quavering voice, “don’t be
angry. I have just read your note,
and Is it too late to give you an an
swer?”
“Never too late If It is ‘yes,’" mut
tered Jimmy.
“It Is ’yes, yes, yes,’" confessed ro
mantic Mary.
“And the orchids?”
“May wore them away, they were
for her. It was a mistake.”
And Jimmy never told her that he
knew It nil the time for he had been
with Walter Mann when the flowers
were ordered.
SCOFFS AT OLD HARDSHIPS
Aged Woman, Bom at Sea, Fought
the Kanakas, Call* Life
Uneventful.
She must have been seventy. A
mild, gentle old lady with faded blue
eyes and a faded, diffident voice. Her
frail, veined hands rested limply in her
lap as If the slightest movement would
snap them at the wrist. She wore a
plain blouse of gray flannel and a
rusty black dress without shape that
covered the very tips of her square
toed shoes, writes J. D. M.
Sitting holt upright tn her chair,
hardly moving her lips when she
spoke, she seemed to be made of glass,
brittle to the touch.
I had been told that of all the resi
dents of Noumea she had lived the
most strenuous life. Yet she said:
“Why, no, nothing's ever really hap
pened. No, I don't think so, not real
ly."
And then I found out that she had
been born on a trading schooner some
where up In the Ranks Islands, and
that her mother had died the week
after, and the schooner had been at
tacked whea it anchored off Mota,
where the dead woman was to be bur
led.
She had been christened Mercy be
cause the attack failed.
She skinned 20 years of her life with
the comment.
“Father always said I should have
gone to school —but I liked the sea.”
Then she married and went to live
In a shack near Oubatche at the north
ern end of New Caledonia. The Kana
kas were "pretty quiet,” but one night
they came knocking at the door while
her husband was away. She opened
the door a crack, and in rushed four
of them in their war paint “and all.”
She shot two ot them dead. The others
fled.
“But they caught Tom a while la-
Then she went to keep house for her
three brothers, and nothing more hap
pened to her except that "sometimes
the Kanakas were pretty nasty if they
had been drinking.”
Two of her brothers lost their heads
on such an occasion, and she only
saved the other by dragging him 20
yards to shelter. Even then—
"What with tending Harry and the
baby, and keeping my ears open for
those Kanakas, and thinking of Will
and Hugh, I got no sleep that night.”
After that hef days were eventless.
Her son was a good boy, now living in
Australia, making money. She kept
house for her brother Harry, who
couldn’t do much for himself because
his "leg never mended quite proper.”
“But I like It here,” she smiled. “It’s
nice and quiet. Noumea is quite a
town now.”
When I left she was standing over a
wood fire preparing her brother’s sup
per.—Adventure Magazine.
Returning the Favor.
A clergyman who was getting
trimmed came to himself with a start.
“Finished, eh?” he said.
“Yes, sir,” said the barber. “I fin
ished some time ago.”
“Then I must have been Indulging
In a nap. It was very kind of you not
to waken me. The rest has done me
good and I am very thankful to you
for what was quite a refreshing sleep."
“Don’t mention it, sir,” responded
the barber. “It’s only a fair return. I
attended your church last Sunday."—
Boston Transcript.
Loitering Around.
“But surely, dear,” said her best
friend, “you’re Jumping to conclusions,
aren’t you? You say yourself that he
hasn’t even suggested—”
The simple little thing smllfri softly.
"No,” she answered. “But he’s loiter
ing with intent.”
THIS ESKIMO HAD GUMPTION
Werk of Natlvo Woman, Who Wat
Bole Survivor of Arctic Expedi
tion, la Marvelous.
Those who have followed the dally
press during recent weeks have prob
ably noticed the disastrous and tragic
ending of the recent Wrangel Island
arctic expedition. In the account of
which Ada Blackjack, an • Eskimo
woman, figures strikingly, says Mad
ison Cooper In the Flower Grower.
For fortitude, courage, resourceful
ness, religious merit and all around
gumption, Ada Blackjack serves as an
object lesson to many of her brothers
and sisters of greater opportunities
and enlightenment Compared with a
person of the strongest mental bal-,
ance and with the greatest physical
endurance and experience, the accom
plishments of tills mite of humanity
(she Is less than five feet fall), are most
marvelous. While nursing a dying
companion, confined to hls bed for
weeks, this little woman performed all
of the duties nec&sary for an exist
ence In the polar regions, Including
cutting wood, trapping, hunting, cook
ing, etc. She even during this time
learned to use firearms and shot seals
to help out the scanty food supply.
The real worth of a human being Is
only demonstrated by necessity com
bined with opportunity. Under circum
stances which we of the so-called civ
ilized races of the earth would prob
ably have succumbed to discourage
ment and disease, Ada Blackjack rose
triumphant and never showed the
“white feather" or what our modern
slang calls a “yellow streak.” If Ada
Blackjack is a good representative of
her race, truly the Eskimo has never
been valued at hls true worth.
ORIENTAL FAREWELL QUIET
Forms Sharp Contrast to Roars of Oc
cidental Crowd as Ships
Leave Port.
As the big liner steamed out of port
a hoarse, deep-throated roar shook her
tan and black funnels; and a lesser,
wilder cry burst from the thousands
alongside. Roses pelted down from the
decks above, arms whirled like pin
wheels, and deafening crowds screamed
their farewells.
But In the throng a little pool of
silence brooded undisturbed. Six Im
passive oriental faces formed a half
moon of silence as old as the Dawn of
Creation. Sphinxlike, through im
penetrable almond eyds they watched
the whirlwind sweep the crowd. What
was the going of a mere vessel to such
as they?
Up on the ship's higher deck stood
a lone oriental figure whose almond
eyes focused on the group. A thin
yellow hand lifted the black hat hori
zontally in the air, a fleeting ghost of
a smile ruffled the Impenetrable eyes.
Nothing more! The yellow faces be
low gleamed strangely. Six hats rose
simultaneously Id air. No waving,
no yelling, no cries. Only a shadow
of a smile In the watching almond
eyes. The crowds raged on, shriek
ing, running, weeping. But the Orient
stood silent, smiling Its Impenetrable
ancient smile. —New York Sun and
Globe.
Cold Bhrinks Everything.
Nearly everything shrinks as It gets
cooler. As there is the same weight
in less volume any given volume
weighs more. The cooler anything is,
the heavier Is any given volume of It,
with the Important and vital exception
of water. Water has the peculiar prop
erty of getting heavier all the way
down the scale until the temperature
of 39 degrees Fahrenheit Is reached;
then It begins to expand again until It
freezes and afterward. As a result,
a given volume of water at 32 degrees,
or the temperature at which It freezes.
Is lighter than w ater at 39 degrees and
rises above it before freezing begins.
The Ice being still lighter, floats on
the water. If water did not have this
queer property, Ice would form on the
bottom of bodies of water, there would
be no protection of the surface by a
layer of ice from further cooling and
many rivers and lakes would freeze
solid, killing all the fish. The summer
sun would never be able to melt all of
the winter’s Ice.,
Story About Queen Victoria.
Since Strachey’s biography of Queen
Victoria stories about her have been
rife. One not yet widely disseminated
concerned Sir F. Bertie, who was un
dersecretary for foreign affairs In the
days before he was knighted. Mr.
Bertie had often to visit the queen,
and used to announce bis arrival by
telegram. Finally, one day, Victoria
Is said to have remarked to him: “Mr.
Bertie, I must ask you to be good
enough not to sign your telegrams an
nouncing your arrival ‘Bertie,’ as It
makes me expect my son, and causes
me disappointment”
Posting Him.
A young curate was visiting the old
women of the parish, and felt 111 at
ease.
One old lady of great experience
asked him If he was nervous, and he
replied that he was. She then offered
to advise him.
“You read a bit," she said, “you pray
a bit and you gives me a shilling, and
then you goes.” ,
"All Aboard 1"
Old Colored Mammy—lse wants a
ticket fo’ Florence.
Ttcket Agent (after ten minutes of
weary thumbing over railroad guides)
—Where Is Florence?
Old Colored Mammy—Setttn’ over
dar on de bench.—Princeton Tiger.
Richard E. Newton, one of the old
est members of Ames Lodge, is quite
111 In the General hospital.
StJPPLBMRNT TO THE NORTHWESTERN BULLETIN
PROBABLE SHIFT
IN CITY RACE IS
LACKING IN FACT
Dirge of Registered Voters said
to be (%use of Appeal Made
by Association
To impress the voters with the im
portance of registering under the law
as passed by the last session of the
legislature, the voters association is
sending out letters urging voters to
register for the spring election. The
persons to whom the letters are sent
are asked to pass the letter along un
til It reaches six friends. With this
method it is expected that an impetus
will be given the already established
movement.
Every business day from now until
election day will be used for the in
terest of the permant resident who
desires to use the ballot. The specific
purpose is to increase the number of
registered voters to an appreciable
number,.
Importance Shown
The following extract from the let
ter, sent out explains the purpose:
“As you know, every voter must
register this year under the new per
manent registration law passed by the
last session of the state legislature,.
Every business day from now on is
a registration day with the city clerk,
city hall. Go there at any time and
qualify, for once registered, always
registered, provided, you remain in
the same precinct and vote once in
two years.
“It is important that every eligible
citiben in Saint Paul register and vote
at the coming spring election. The is
sues at that time will be of vital
importance to us all, and unless we
are registered we will not be allowed
to say how they shall be decided.
“Will you please help? And will
you keep a record of those to whom
you send this letter supplementing it
with any Information as to result and
mail it to G. N. Briggs, 451 Endicott
Building? I will be obliged to you
if you will make this an early dona
tion to the cause.”
Again, the local Negro Business
League’s program is materializing.
The League has interested itself in
housing among our people •and Mr.
McCracken heading this committee
has had the assistance of the Execu
tive Board in placing the matter be
fore a large contracting firm.
Fred D. McCracken, our energetic
real estate ageut announces a $200,-
000 housing program for our group
to be located in the Rondo Street dis
trict. The houses will be five and six
room types of bungalow. The pro
gram is already under way, six of
them are no wunder construction on
St. Anthony Avenue between Avon
and Fisk and will be sold on a month
ly payment basis. This will go a long
ways in relieving tbte housing short
age among our group.
Comedy, Song
And Dance Fill
Theatre Bill
Broderick and Felsen Headliners
at Seventh Street Theater,
Minneapolis.
Comedy and song and dance will
feature next week’s variety bill at the
Seventh Street theater.
Much is expected from Jack Brod
erick and Buddye Jane Feisen, head
liners, in their colorful dancing, as
sisted by Verne Rothaar at the piano.
Their stage Bettings are said to be
most artistic.
For laughter purposes only is “The
Doings of Dr. Louder,’’ a playlet of
fered by Hugh L. Conn, Charlotte
Willard and Maurice Downey. The
plot concerns McGuire from the
Klondyke, who calls for relief at the
office of Dr. Louder, a deaf physician,
with a stammering office maid.
Other acts on the bill Include Wil
lie Dunlay and Bessie Merrill, musical
comedy favorites, in a comedy skit
with music, "So Long Broadway;”
Calvin and O'Connor, comedians; the
Australian Waites, “the world’s
greatest stock whip manipulators,”
and Hiro, Suml and Keyo, Japanese
acrobats.
The feature picture for the week
will be "The Breathless Moment,”
with William Desmond.
One of the leading milk dealers in
Freehold, N. J., is Mr. John Jones, a
colored man.
The eight states having mulatto
populations of 100,000 or more are
Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, North
Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana,
South Carolina and Texas.
Sen. Johnson In
Speech Agrees
With Reduction
Says Policy Will Eliminate Usual
Method of Selecting Im
proper delegates.
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Cleveland, Ohio.—Senator Hiram
Johnson, a candidate for President of
the United States, seems determined
to make “Southern representation in
the Republican National Convention,”
one of his chief Issues In the fight for
the nomination. While it is claimed
by the friends of the senator that his
light is "sectional” and not “racial,”
nevertheless many of the voters of
color who had calculated on turning
their eyes towards the "Golden
Gate,” are somewhat mystified. The
senator is reported to have said to
conferees that what he desires is to
“see the delegates and patronage go
where the votes count,” and that, if
elected President, he will appoint all
Northern colored men to Federal of
fice. To date, the senator has made
no statement on cutting down South
ern representation in Congress, but
this is hls Cleveland statement on
cutting in conventions:
“The selection of a president be
gins with the apportionment of dele
gates to a national convention. Just
as pollution at the source of a stream
will pollute tlje whole stream, wrong
and injustice in the selection of dele
gates to a national convention will
permeate and taint the very conven
tion itself.
Reduction Justified.
“The selection of delegates from
certain of the southern states had be
come so corrupt and had created so
many scandals that finally the Repub
lican national convention iin 1920
passed a resolution commanding
within a year the Republican nation
al committee to adopt a just and
equitable basis of representation in
future national conventions. The na
tional committee obeyed and within
the year acted, and while its action
did not constitute ‘a just and equita
ble representation,’ nevertheless, it
reduced the delegates in southern
states where there is no Republican
party.
“The reduction was a mere Btep in
the right direction. It did not do jus
tice to the real Republicans, but it
furnished the basis for further reduc
tions. This work of the national com
mittee, solemnly done after full hear
ings, a few days ago in Washington,
under the orders of our opponents,
was nullified and the scandalous and
unfair representation accorded south
ern states in past conventions was
again given them. ,
"I speak of this outrageously un
fair selection of delegates because
there is a real service that we can
render, both our party and nation and
because there is a fundamental prin
ciple at stake. The service we may
render is to have conventions which
honestly express the will of the Re
publican party, and beyond that, the
principle for which we strive is that
this government belongs to all its
people, the Republican party belongs
to all its members, the people them
selves are entitled to govern the coun
try, Just as the membership of the
Republican party is entitled to gov
ern that party.
"These southern delegates are se
lected, as you know, and as I know,
by commands issued in the city of
Washington to a very few Federal
office holders in the different states.
A nomination by delegates thus se
lected, in number grossly dispropor
tionate, is a reproach to the Repub
lican party. Our democracy is but
an Iridescent dream If year after year
we permit a few bosses either to deny
the right of expression to all the elec
tors, or where that expression is giv
en to thwart it by hand-picked south
ern delegates. Popular government
In those states where there are no
primaries is a sham and a farce.
"A nomination made by delegates
from states without presidential pri
maries in conjunction with purchase
of hand-picked delegates from south
ern states is not made by the Will of
the party but In spite of it. The
recent action of the Republican na
tional committee is a reversion to the
abhorrent conditions from which we
thought we had emerged. It is this
system upon which we war, and it la
this system I challenge In this cam
paign. It is, in the last analysis, a
test of popular government.”
One of the leading European news
distributing agencies has Issued In
structions to Its American manager to
cable full reports of all lynching* In
this country.
Secretary Davis t»f the Department
of Labor says: "Both workers and
employers in the United States are
better off today than are workers and
employers anywhere else In the
world.”
SANHEDRIN WILL
BE WELCOMED BY
MANY NOTABLES
One of the Most Significant Ses
sions in Race History
Set for Feb. 1
(By the Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, 111.—The Chicago commit
tee of one hundred in charge of local
preparations for the Sanhedrin or All-
Race Conference, the week of Febru
ary 11, has roused the people to the
importance of the gathering and with
the genuine “I will” spirit, the motto
of Chicago, real activity is in the go
ing. Dr. George C. Hall, chairman;
Morris Lewis, secretary; Dr. Charles
W. Burton, in charge of entertain
ment, and Claude A. Barnett, director
of publicity, together with other
members of the well organized com
mittee, are making adequate prepara
tions for the distinguished visitors ex
pected to attend. a
Splendid Accommodations.
The best homes of the city, in ad
dition to the hotels, will be at the dis
posal of the delegates, and a maxi
mum charge of $2.0(1 for*lodging and
breakfast has been fixed for the for
mer by the committee. Mrs. Ada Mc-
Kinley, 3201 Wabash avenue, is
chairman of the housing committee.
The committee headquarters are at
the Appomattox Club, 3632 Grand
boulevard. Delegates may write
either.
The Chicago committed is working
in complete harmony with Dean Kelly
Miller and the National Committee of
the Sanhedrin, and there is no ques
tion but what the gathering will be
one of the most important in the his
tory of the race. Large attendance
expected. One of the significant de
velopments is the Interest white peo
ple are manifesting in the “WHAT
IT’S ALL ABOUT?” Indications are
that the attendance will far surpass
expectations and will be highly rep
resentative of the best thought of the
group. Preliminary to the opening
of the conference Sunday night, Feb
ruary 10, there will be a “watch
meeting” at St. Mark’s M. E. church
under the auspices of the Associated
Negro Press. The event will be
unique.
Mrs. David Jordan has returned
from a pleasant visit with I'elatives
and friends in Fort Madison, lowa.
Let "fi
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“EVEN AS YOU AND I!”
The "powers-that-be” had decided
on their own initiative to take over
the responsillties of selecting the aa
sociates for a certain new comer in
the community. However they failed
to take Into consideration that prob
ably the new comer preferred to se
lect his own acqalntances and asso
ciates. ' ~
The direct cause of this story is a
young man, a college graduate—a
direct branch from one of New York’s
oldest and most respected families.
The young man had made s mistake,
as might even you and I. He got
started on the wrong tangent when
he first arrived in the community—
but he is making an admirable ef
fort to correct this mistake.
The new comer realised the worth
of this young chap and a friendship
developed that was mutually appre
ciated.
This companionship was very ob
jectionable to the “powers-that-be.”
First the yresorted to diplomacy—
It failed. Then they decided to use
pressure—ln urging the person to
whom the new comer was directly
responsible to use drastic measures
In handling the disturbing situation.
However, imagine their surprise to
find that the “impossible creature”
was a personal friend of his would
be persecutor. It is not necessary to
say that each of the "powers-that-be”
suddenly remembered that they had
a very important business appoint
ment at that very moment!
They have learned their lesson—
even as you and I!
—A BOOSTER.
SHORTCUTS
(Lincoln News Service)
Africa has but very few good har
bors.
King Tut must have instructed the
royal grave digger to plant him deep.
We shall soon learn whether he
was a descendent of Shem, Ham or
Japhet.
Galveston, Texas, boasts of a thriv
ing Negro Board of Trade and Cham
ber of Commerce,
Prince Bull-Wayo Cetewayo, age
70, of Zululand, Africa, recently mar
ried a Hopkinsville, Ky., maiden.
The colored postal clerks of Deni*
spn, Texas, have organized a branch
of the National Alliance of Postal
Employes. *