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...many years, Phillips Brooks House has carried on its valuable service of supplying Boston settlement houses with instructors and entertainers. The program has been worthwhile not only for the charitable institutions but for the workers themselves. Some men have received an opportunity to test their teaching ability by actual practice; many have welcomed the chance to study the customs and conditions of another social stratum; all have experienced the exhilaration of volunteer service work. Hitherto, upperclassmen have responded in large numbers; but now House interests have diverted their attention. In altering its organization to fit new conditions, the Phillips Brooks...
...about the "menacing fortress." Snapped the President: "British garrisons remain in many of our ports. ... But we are not without means of action. . . . We have great strength in the United States. . . . Do not forget that in the Peace Treaty President Wilson imposed as a condition on Lloyd George a settlement with Ireland. ... If the English are our best clients, we also are their best customers. Certain English ports' companies would be ruined if our cattle did not arrive. We are not so feeble as they think. They can not starve...
...plantation. Aun Fan, a midwife, "catches" the plantation hands' pickaninnies when they are born. Except for Big Pa, Blue's mother's wonder-working grandfather who back in Africa had been great King Taki's oldest son, Cun Fred and Aun Fan are the most influential people in the settlement. With them Blue's father, going farther afield himself, leaves Blue to make his home and fend for himself...
Blue makes friends with Man Jay, the settlement's bad boy and with Cooch, the bad little girl who knows "where babies come from and everything." Best of all he likes Cricket, a little orphaned "bright skin" girl, half white, half black. She lives with Blue's Uncle Wes and his wife Missie, works in the cotton fields, whips the okra bushes to make them bear. Everybody prophesies a bad end for the "bright skin," warns Blue to keep away from...
Things do not go well with Cricket and Blue. Three months after the wedding she miscarries the rich stranger's child. Blue hides her shame, but Cricket is sick of the settlement, its people and its life. Even her love for Blue cannot hold her; she runs off to New York, joins Man Jay in Harlem. When, later, they return to persuade Blue to give her a divorce, Blue cannot understand what it is all about. After a fight in which Cricket defends Blue against Man Jay, Blue lets his love go. He will see her again, no more...