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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1932)
yw w w e e e e e e e e The Advocate Send T h e ir Storie* Firat to tho Illua- tra ted F e a t u r e Section ■ l* < • .* • ■ I l . ('* !«• «• A d w r tto tn g R » ^ r r « f i i U l l f t » THK ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION— January 9. 1982 Com ing Stories by E d w a rd L a w to a D oroth y W e it E d w a rd W o r th y J. A . R o g e r * 4 4 ^ ^ a A A A A A A A A A i ■ O k K iH m rn ru»!» is ru m a m u wr.ra im t h i : Norfolk’s Scarlet Lady i t i l i » km n on Takes a Long Vacation Fentehurch Street was Scandalized when Tanzetto the Magnificient Moved in Hr W IL L B ILL SPOTLICHT Tanartto Johnson opened her eye* am] »lerU hrd hrr supple brown body luminously. The *un, streaming Uirougti the filmy ngtalna, lighted up • rtctUy fiiruuhrd bedroom. and played hop- ■kip and-lump with tho g limey curia ul tier » e l l niodvllrd head Kicking the cover* off. *hr lay In bed. Iier shapely leg* croaacd In gay abandon Hhe liked to enjoy thin e »tra period of real, the aort of real that rvery hard-working clllsrn want*, but never get*. Hut Tanaetto waa not a hard work ing person With the aaalalanre ol a woman who came In now and then, »tie managed to keep her I ouae In order. OUier than thla. »he had dime no real labor Ui hrr life And why ahoukt »hr? Hadn't alie alway* been beautiful? Hadn't men alwaya told her ahe waa too pretty to do any workT They had told Iwi that when »lie waa a younger girl down on I tale trad .Street, that un aavury part of Norfolk She waa Juat fifteen year» old then, but »tie had been wtar lb what they meant That waa Juat alxtren years ago During tlial tune ahe had K . Ä Ä Just out of a b»th waiting for him [ with open arms They celebrated his home-coming In lively fashion that day. There; was plrnty to eat and a lot of win* to drink. It was ten o'clock. Al had gone up town lor a short time OlUe Canty. Tansetto's real boy friend, walked Into the house. He frightened her. Site told him to leave. She captained to him that It was dangerous for him lo hang around now. She offered him more money. OlUe Just stood there and smiled and then clasped her to him In the old way »lie loved so well. Tanzetlo forgot Al. forgot every thing And then something hap pened There was Al standing In the By LOUIS R doorway Ollle saw him In the mirror an d ^ia d e a dash for the back door R ee fers C r a z e H its C a p ita l This was easy practice for him. And there stood Al. blood In his The reefer erase has hit Washing- eyes, looking do«m at the cowering loo. It waa slowly being imported and frightened Tanartto So that from Harlem But It came In a was what lie was putting out his hard earned money for, to support rush last month with the engagement of Louie Armstrong, peer of trumpe that are of spades, who ran away He struck hrr a glancing b! blow ter rs. at the Howard Theatre. and then railed the police. He told Tobacco stores are reporting a de them that she had robbed him of mand fot tlie Mexican weed. There 1100 Hr told them she had lured were so many calls for reefers at hu him Into her house, had made him tobacco counter last week that Louis drunk and gone through his pockets Garges. Temple Luncheonette pro It was an old spiel prietor. asked a tobacco distributing The police knew Tansetto's reputa agency whether It had them In stork tion; they remembered the angrr of or could get them for him. Seventh the citizens In the neighborhood. Street shops are selling reefers at 25 They wouldn't believe tier story. They cents each wouldn't even accept her *500 bond Those who want the weed reason money They believed Al Williams, a that If Louis Armstrong ran play a comet like nobody else can. they drunken seaman, rentchurch Street’s scarlet lady has gone on a long va- would like to get dopey and find out what they can do Even gals are ration, taking to the habit Yet those who THK END. know Armstrong say he is ruining a brilliant career But nobody could clown like he does on the stage with out being under the Influence of reefers or something Not even a doctor and a nurse ran keep him off the habit Hr must have one before each performance. *' **• t“ ~ » >* vj * V'r. a . h.d ju., •lep p ed out o f the bath. Relto dolma ill waa not a woman to let opportunity slip through hrr Ixautl- IiiIIy tapered finger» She waa think trip to South America. oil tanker snd made trips as far ing about those years Site tiated llila ugly, white seaman, a* South America and the Caribbean ft had been a great Jump, moving but »he liked him as a boy friend AJ loved Tanartto with a real pas from Halstead Street to Keutchurch Street Halatrad Street, with Ite low becaii»* he s|ient money on her big sim. Promptly at J I i In the afternoon, doorways, dim ly-lit hallways, red money, loo Anil then lie didn’t come lamps, and aluittered windows, be - lo town often He v u m town once he opened the front door with his rvery three months. His »hip was an Innd which women of uncrrtalu repu own latrh-kry, and found his love tation peered out and called softly to the while and colored men who walked lei»urely by. Everybody In Norfolk knew what Halstead Street stood for Why. It was the open market where bodtc» wrre lined out. wlirre love waa spilled • • • freely to the man who had money In MA1HSON. WU — visiting Beloit took him to tlie railroad station, hi» pockets add lust In hts eyes. College from which lie graduated 36 bought him a ticket, gave him a letter T a x S tu ff Well, ahe had left that nrlghbot - year* ago. for tlie 'lr»t time In 30 e I sent him to Beloit A list of delinquent tax-payers was hood behind She had bought a house years. Cliarle- Winter Wood, tmpor B rya n W »< J u d ge recently published In a dally rag It on Frnlrhurch Street, where roapec taut figure In the "O rr n Pastures" "T lie boy proved to be all that the read like a "Who's Who In Washing - tatile people lived Kentcliurch cast and undersludy for tile tr ie role banker thought he was He worked Street, where |>roplr went to church, "De Lawd.’’ was hailed bv III* student his way through college. In hts senior ton " body and faculty here fast Sunday. • • • reared decent families, sent Uielr year he w a s elected a s one of the Mr Wood who hsd been Invited lo eight contestant» on the home ora children to college; that’s where ahe M ia* Lion be tlie special guest of the college by had dated to move and buy a house torical contest He chose as his sub Stnd your Embarrassing Moment President Irvin- Mau-er. received an ject the character of Jean Val Jean, A voung woman was dining alone to the Editor and it wilt be Yea, it was a master stroke ovation as ht spike at chaiirl and of Victor Hugo's 'Les M iserable»' He published. In a public place the other evening. The realdente bad raised a clamor vesper service with every seat taken oil the honor st the home A smart guy on the make sent her a One Shoe Off. One Shoe Or. that echoed and re-echoed, but she and later addiessrd capacity houses carried contest. He non the slate contest had stayed on That’s wliat the In at two other meetings composed of and was sent lo represent Beloit Col- My most embarrassing moment note by a waitress asking her name fluence of a wealthy while customer dllsens of Madison. Including one at leg at the Interstate contest, which happened one morning when I w a s and telephone number. She answer could do for her Preachers presetted which llie 1,000 colored employes ol that year was held at Galesburg. II- running from one street ear to an ed; "Miss Edith Lyon. Columbia other My slipper suddenly became sermons, mass meetings |ias»ed reiui the Fairbanks Morse Beale Company lltyts and th« combined congregations of lazy and stayed behind, while I was 3892 " The sap called the lion house lut urns, but Tanretto paid no herd "In that day the Interstate contest left running, one shoe on and one at the loo and asked for "Miss Lyon." th* sis colored churches here made The faintly who had owned the up the bulk of the audience. w a Judged by stg Judges, three Judges slior off A young mail whom I had • • • on thought, who never saw or heard repeatedly tried to impress, witnessed home needed money badly. They were Oarst of Prrsy the eonteslant. and three on delivery glad to get a price that was more Not O p en ly, A n y h o w The actor w a s the dinner guest of The three Judges on delivery that by dilemma, and gallantly Rescued the than the value of the properly shoe and returned It to me with the President and Mrs. Maurer. ice- Co-eds may not smoke in the new "Haven't you forgotten Tanartto laughed She had lived presldent and Mrs. I am is Edward year were none other than •ViUlam remark Bryan, ot Nebraska. 8ci. tor something. Cinderella?" dorms at Howard University. In Ihta neighborhood for seven years Holden together with a company of Jennings Ingalls, of Kansas, and Oovcrnor Hhe had entertained her colored and friends Vice-President Holden who Taylor, of Iowa, three of the fore whltn boy friend* her*, she had was an nltti'ial of Uie school during most orators of America In that day palnt#il the house, bought soft rugs, Mr Wood's student days, described “When Mr. Wood came on the plat rich furniture, arranged a tile bath W (M id s entry Into Beloit and told In form It was alter t l o'clock In tlie with bullt-ln bath tub on a level with teresting early Inridrnt* In IBs career evening and the audience was weary the floor, and made her home one of In a specially contributed article In It was a test of any man's skill to at tract Ihr attention of his auditors the finest In the block. She was llv* the Beloit Dally News " It was In IR98 that Mi Wood came No sooner had this man opened his lug In grand style on the money to Beloit,' wrote Dr lloldcn, "bear mouth and started Ills oration than given Iier by a long line of lovers of IIIYotl w m n n ilt In (lo t io n recen tly to d en y o rd in a tio n to (.o th e r M . r o lle r , younc both races. And that bath-room ing a letter of Introduction from It was iierfectly apparent that he hart i r t d i u t a o f » t h r n lo ilc o l te m in a ry . fo r h i* hold » t a t r m r n t . **1 do not b elieve in h e ll— th a t the audience with him to the very la, a lit e r a l lake o f (Ire and b r im s to n e ." H r r . M r. » o i l e r »a id , " T h e o v e r a t e peraon 1« Charles L. Hutchinson, president of with ila tile» and Its sunken bath tub r o n r e iv r d w ith % d o e trto e w h ieh lla m p a G od as a ru th less ty r a n t in stead o f a G od • ( The Corn Exchange Hank of Cht.ago. close. was the talk of the town. lovo.** "The marks o f (he Judges on de “ Judge Bloom of the Chicago Su Who eared If the people In Fcnt- -------------------------------------------------♦ fly the REV R R BOSTON churrb street didn’t notice her. or perior Court, had been In the habit livery gave Mr. Wood respectively, Methoiiist Eptscopal. Retired !W, 99 and 100 Even these high 1604 Druid HiU A v e . that (heir well-bred children looked of having Ills shoes shined each marks could not overcome s low mark morning Just before he entered his B a ltim o re . M d . away when she passed them on the office by a young colored boolhlark that he got on thought from one of street! One morning he heard the boy rr- the other Judges. However, he came Words Often Misused N o M a te ria l Fire She got up and surveyed herself In pcating verses from Shakespeare Hr away from that contest with the see- the full-length mirror. Hhe was still did It so well, that tlie Judge had ond prize and lie was received bv his Do not say. " It was a tr er I flic I believe "H eir a ravishing beauty for all her thirty- hint to eomr to his «nice and In Beloit friends with much enthusiasm scrap Say. "tight." one years Her curly, black hair, her vited Mr. Hutchinson and another and appreciation as though he had tVurds Often Misspelled is tlie place re man. golden brown skin, well f o r m e d friend to lira, him declaim several been a white Addict. Observe the two d's. -------- o — - — breasts, beautifully curved hips. That number*. served f o r th e Hunts Often Mispronounced Beef ami Veal was what men wanted to see on a "The two men were deenlv moved Auction. Pronounce the au as In "wicked," but I do woman and that was what she half •lid as Wood walked out of tho ofTU-r Veal Is the flesh of a bovine animal "haul." not a s o In "of." to soil. Why worry? Why work? Wily Mr HuU-litnaou walked r/ltli him and between two and 12 weeks hi age not hold that they Synonyms asked him whether he would II' to and It Is hue grained, light pinkish care about conventional people and Worship (verb), adore. Venera te, will be punished tlielr silly Ideas of right and wrong? have an education. The bov replied brown In color and free of an Inter it vara, reverence, idolize that he would Ho tlie great banker mixture of fat In the lean Meat Hhe did her toilet, taking Infinite took him to the Hub Clothing Store, from rattle more than thiee months Word Study with materia pains, and then went down to break refitted him from head to foot with In age and under nine Is railed calf C L A R IF Y ; to make or become pure fast. This was Hundsy, the day At such clot lies as s boy might need for Beef Is the flesh of rattle one year mid clear "W e should tlo some! n'ng "71r> " ' Williams waa to come home from his a college year, bought him a sultesae, oi more In age. —The Pathfinder at once to clarify the situation." Charles Winter Wood Honored by Alnia Mater after Thirty-six Years Embarrassing Moments V ENGLISH