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...year-old daughter, so we answered the letter, were soon informed by a telegram to look for a Negro boy with a broom handle on a certain street corner. I looked and found a pickaninny at the proper time and place. 'Where's your broom han dle?' asked I. He picked up one from behind a fence. I gave him exactly $3,333.33. Half an hour later, a minister's wife, near our home, answering her doorbell, discovered on her front porch our daughter, partly nude, a bit drowsy from drugs, otherwise uninjured...
With the sending to the Fogg Museum of his collection of some 200 pieces of early Chinese pottery of the Han and Tang dynasties, Mr. Charles Bain Hoyt of New York has raised this branch of the Museum's possessions to a position among the three most important collections of Chinese pottery in the world...
Bluff and Bruises. Hankow or "Mouth of Han," takes its name from the great river Han which flows into the greater Yangtze. The city lies at the confluence, with Wuchang, the new Nationalist Capital, just across the Yangtze. Daily for months the Nationalist Government has kept its agents busy telling the Chinese at Hankow the axiomatic truth that if they would all rise against the foreigners, the foreigners would have to sail away, leaving $60,000,000 worth of property behind. Last week this new and surprising thought flared up in a chattering mob of Chinamen who had believed since...
...music in Milan. Tonight he was not so nice; why, he seemed positively mocking. Why did he not stop singing when she spoke to him? The cobbler, leering, continued his chant, and standing at his counter Miss Davis suddenly recognized the aria. "Ah, Gioielli . . . gioielli della Mad-ho-ho-han-ah. . . ." Jewels of the Madonna! She remembered now. The rings, the brooches-she had left them in the toe of her shoe. Arrested, Louis D'Ascali denied his guilt...
There's naught but care on ev'ry han...