Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 229, 9 July 1919 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1919.

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM

Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Palladium Printing Co. Palladium Building. North Ninth and Sailor Streat Entered at the Post Office et Richmond. Indiana, as Sin ond Claas Man Matter. ' - MGXOEH OF TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS Th Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the ' M for republication of all news dlcpatches credited to It oaf not otherwise credited In this paper and also the locaa news published herein. All Hants ot republication or spew" etal dispatches herela are also reserved. 1 Congress and High Prices ,The Indianapolis News favors a congressional investigation of high prices in certain commodities. Its argument follows: The apparent fear of congress to investigate high prices because the situation is "loaded with dynamite" is not well grounded. The bitterness of the public's complaint is not against prices that are fairly high, but those that are unfairly high. As one congressional leader said, farmers nre getting higher prices, and labor is getting more pay than ever before. As these two classes constitute a very large percentage of the population it is evident that they will not complain against honest prices that are largely the result of their income; nor do other people, understanding this situation, complain seriously of such prices. Prices now can undoubtedly be divided, as they have always been, into three kinds comparatively few that are too low, a great many (most of them indeed) that are fairly reasonable when production costs are considered and many others that are entirely too high. It is the last that are arousing the public wrath and that

The last five years have been crammed to re-

pletion with spectacular scenes and thrilling inci

dents of human life. We have witnessed the conflagration of a world, the rape of little Belgium, the sinking of the Lusitania, the battles of submarines beneath the surface of the ocean and of airships in the sky, the revolution in Russia, the entry of America into the war, the battles of the Argonne and Chateau-Thierry, the surrender of

the Germans and the signing of the treaty. We feel, however, that the greatest of all these spectacles has been reservd for the last, and that the trial of the former kaiser will be the most solemn and impressive of all these events. Not that it will be so to the eye of the body, but of the mind. We do not anticipate that it will be staged in such scenes of splendor as the trial of Warren Hastings, nor characterized by the eloquence expended there by Burke and Sheridfoa and Fox, nor last for seven years, as that did. The setting will be simple and sombre, we presume; the eloquence will be that of facts, not wounds. The time will be short. The interest will center not so much in the personality of the man on trial, for it has shriveled and shrunk under the pitiless exposure of the truth until the world regards the man who "bestrode the world like a Colossus" with profound contempt. It will center upon great moral questions. It will have for its objects the methods of a military autocracy; the rottenness of the philosophy that "might makes right;" the fatal consequences of treating national agreements as scraps of paper; the rights of weaker nations as against the stronger, and, finally, the evidence that this world is under a moral government and that when men or nations "sow to the wind they will reap the whirlwind."

Whatever the findings of that august court

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

SHEHERAZADE The marvellous tales that Sheherazado told to Kins Shahrlar. stories of love and adventure and mad magic, cannot be attributed to any one author for the very good reason that there never was an author. They are popu

lar stories that, perhaps about the year 1450, were put Into the present form by a professional storyteller, presumably a Persian. In primitive communities, where few of the people can read, and where books are difficult to get, these professional readers are in great demand. They pick up here and there tales that appeal to all and bind them into a long narrative. Some people have thought that Homer's long poems originated in this way. Everywhere in the near east the traveller finds these story tellers today. An eager audience collects to hear them, each paying a small fee for the privilege of listening. The entertained declaims as he walks to and fro and always stops his narrative Just before an exciting climax, so that he will be assured of listeners on the morrow. His audience follows his recital with breathless interest, especially when he illustrates thrilling episodes with lively pantomime. Year after year these groups of listeners gathered centuries ago. The story-teller discarded the tales that did not hold the attention of his listeners. Gradually the process of elimination went on until only the best were handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation. Then some unknown benefactor of mankind had them written down and connected them with the framework of Sheherazade and Shahriar. And these are the Arabian Nights that havo delighted children and grown men and women for decades.

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Prom an old paintlnf? the portrait, of couree, Is pure imagination on the part of the artist.

RETURNS TO BEGIN DUTIES AS HEAD OF WAR COLLEGE

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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS

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BY THE PRINCESS SHEHERAZADE Condensation by Alfred S. Clark

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oner guilty. Its feelings toward the royal culprit are worthy of remark. It does not cherish vengeance. Tha crimes, it thinks, are far too vast for human punishment. What atonement would there be in the physical death of a man who has been responsible for the destruction of millions of his fellows? To shoot, electrocute or hang him would be pitifully inadequate. He should be left for his punishment to God atnd his guilty conscience. But we feel that he must be restrained ; must be shut away from his fellow men, and prevented from working any further harm. His punishment must be symbolical. From the trial of this monster and the universal spread of the moral ideas and ideals developed in it, we look for the greatest stride of progress in the ethical life of the world which has ever been taken in a single step.

should be investigated. There is no public de

mand yet for a cut in wages or in the amount! may be, the world has already adjudged the pris

paid to agricultural producers, but there is a strong and growing demand that profiteering be stopped, and an increasing conviction that it can be stopped if the authorities have the courage and energy to act. As is generally known, high prices feed largely on themselves. Men feel that they must charge such prices because other men charge them. In this there is often justice based on increased expenses ; but in many cases prices unnecessarily high are charged because it is felt that people are used to paying high prices and that they can be charged with impunity. It is with cases like these that a congressional investigation would have principally to do; and with the powers that can be granted to an investigating committee it is not believed that it would be difficult to throw a flood of light on the subject. If unfair prices can thus be reduced to fair prices, it should have a generally good effect because every price reduction reduces the people's living expenses just so much, and with any considerable

number of such reductions it would be possible;

to reduce even the fair prices to lower levels without injustice to those who have traded honestly instead of profiteering. The resolution now before the house rules committee providing for a committee of five Democrats and five Republicans to investigate the high cost of living, and make "recommendations as to such law or laws as, will, in its judgment, reduce the cost of the necessities of life, stop profiteering and punish the guilty." should have prompt consideration. Some such action as this is urgently needed, and timid congressmen need not fear its results. It would do no harm to any dealer that was doing business on an honest basis with only a fair margin of profit, but it would, if comprehensive and thorough, do hami to the profiteering class, and that is the place where harm should be done.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

WON'T BE NO JENNY RANKIN Cleveland Plain Deader. Ohio may have a woman candidate for Congress a year hence. And if she gets elected, it's a safe bet that she won't burst into tears when she records her first vote on an important issue.

The Trial of William Hohenzollern

The vicarious substitutes who are offering to

expiate the guilt of William Hohenzollern suggests emphatically that a knowledge of the responsibility lor the starting of the war and its atrocities exists in Germany. The Cincinnati Enquirer views the trial of the ex-kaiser as one of the biggest ethical problems of the day, advancing a reason with which all may not agree but which nevertheless offers a discussion of an interesting phase of the problem. Says the Enquirer:

MAX IS WOUND UP FOR GOOD Dallas News. It would take something more than a crush of worlds and a wreck of matter to make Maximilian Harden cease crying in the wilderness.

ter and when she besought her father to wed her to King Shahriar, it was cause for grief to the Vizier. For each day was it Shahriar's wont to put to death his bride of the day before. It befell, however, that Sheherazade had her will. As she had hoped, the king was wakeful and to beguile him, she began a story of magic. Dawn broke before she had finished and so eager

was Shahriar to hear it all that he gave no order for her execution. For a thousand and one nights did this befall while Sheherazade told tales of love, war and sorcery, of kings, beggars and rogues, of lands where diamonds were more plentiful than pebbles and bigger than eggs, of intrigues in the lanes and bazaars of Oriental cities. In towns and deserts and far islands did necromancers work their wills. Horses flew; dogs talked; mermaidens and creatures greater than whales peopled the deeps; ogres and enormous apes crept out of forests; birds so great that their wings darkened the day swooped from the skies. Here too were lovers in palaces and hovels, bold and cowardly, yet all so enamoured that they swooned at the very thought of the beloved. Underlying all was the colorful Orient, with barbers and porters jostling caliphs and princesses in the thronged and picturesque lanes of three cities whose very names conjure up romance Bagdad, Cairo and Damascus Now these are the best liked of Sheherazade's tales: The Story of Aladdin's Lamp. Of Aladdin, son of a poor tailor in China, a prankish scamp. An African magician guided him to a subterranean cave where he found the lamp that summoned the genie. Out of nothingness did this genie spread banquests for Aladdin and robe him in rich raiment. He provided him re-

top and there streamed forth a cloud of smoke. It collected, and behold! it was a genie, so huge that his head was in the clouds. He would have killed his rescuer had not the wily fisherman insisted that never could he have come from the bottle. The silly genie squeezed himself inside, whereupon the fisherman clapped on the top, nor would he remove it until the genie swore to serve him faithfullq. This oath it was that led to the finding of the ensorcelled prince with legs turned to stone and the lake wherein swam fish of four colors that had once been men. After marvellous happenings, the prince was made as other men and the fish were men

and women. And the fisherman was so rewarded that he was the wealthiest man of his time. Of Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura, beautiful beyond compare, and of how each saw the other in sleep and was smitten with great love. But when they awakened they saw not one another for they had been brought together by genii who had carried Badoura out of China

to the confines of Persia. Grief so

Maj. Gen. James W. McAndrew., Major General McAndrew has arrived in Washington from overseas to assume his new duties as head of the army war colletre. He formerly was General Pershing's chief of staff. He is the first officer, of hijr'n rank at least, to return from France wearing four overseas service chevrons, denoting two years of active dutv abroad durinsr the war.

Good Evening BY ROY K. MOULTON

TRAGEDY It was 3 a. m. Her husband was snoring. Stealthily she arose and groped In the dark for her husband's clothes. Finding them at last, she proceeded to search the pockets. "Foiled:" she wailed between chattering teeth. Then she descended the stairs to the hall. On the hat-rack hung her husband's overcoat. She delved into the pockets one by one. "My God!" she cried. "The letters I gave him are gone. He must have mailed them." Thoroughly unnerved, she went back to bed. Walter Pulitzer. PHILOSOPHICAL DAVID An adv. in the "Queensland News" says: "Dave Lewis begs to notify that he has started business on his own hook as an up-to-date restaurant, and hopes that his many friends will dam well stay away and give him a chance." THE COLUMBINE Like a jewel trembling, At a lady's ear. In this lovely woodland place, Lo! I found thee, dear.

Among the dazzling beauties In haunts of royalty. E'en in the courts of Solomon, None was arrayed like thee. Doris Kenyon.

Street Car Service Is Resumed In Cleveland

Dinner Stories

The young man brought some verses to his father. "Father, I have written poems." What! Let me see them Instantly." The father read them over carefully, the tears slowly welling to his eyes as he did so. Finishing the last one he threw down the manuFchript, folded the boy to hi3 breast and sobbed: ""Oh, my poor, poor son!" "Are they so bad as that, father?"

'Bad? They are excellent! They are

(By Associated Pressl CLEVELAND, O., July 9. Street car service was resumed here early

trtilair f Vi flet nlnta Clinks',

morning, when 2,600 employes of the Cleveland Railway company went on strike. Settlement was reached after a four hour meeting last night of the citr council. Mayor Harry L. Davis, and city officials, with President J. J. Stanley and other officials of the street car company and members of the carmen's union sitting as a committee cf the whole.

Children's Hair Cat; Parents Storm School

CBy Associated Press') ABERDEEN, Scotland, July 9 The parents of children attending an elementary school here have shown their resentment against the action of the nnthnrlties in rnttlnE- off the hair of

real poetry! My boy, my boy, you will j p.iri nliriiiR nf the. school.

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When company came unexpectedly a South Side matron found herself in something of a quandry to prepare

afflicted both that they sickened and sufficient food for the extra plates at

were insane from sorrow. Then althe dinner table. She managed to messenger from Badoura journeyed assemble enough by using a little of far over land and sea until he found j this and a little of that, and things Camaralzaman and returned with him j would have passed off beautifully but

to China where the lovers were wed- for Elizabeth, aged five.

ded. But while they were travelling to Camaralzaman's land, he wandered away. Badoura dressed herself in his raiment and passed herself for a man. It belell that she found favor in the eyes of a king and was married to a princess. And Camaralzaman too came to this land and knew not his wife who heaped honors upon him. At last she revealed herself and 'was known as a woman and Camaralza-

tinues of slaves, bearing basins heap-1 man took also to wife the princess ed high with precious stones, who car- j whom Badoura had married and they ried to the king Aladdin's suppliance ! were happy together, for the hand of the beautiful Princess Of a merchant who, awaiting death Badroulboudour. In a night did the, at the hands of a cruel genie, was

All through the meal Elizabeth care

fully watched each person at the table. Finally father, who was eating baked beans, held up his fork with the inquiry: "What's this, a little piece of meat?" Then Elizabeth clapped her hands and gleefully inquired: "Oh, papa, did you get it?"

"Blaw-w-w!" Gabriel's trumpet sounded. East and west the graves began to open. From one of them crept a San Francisco man a former golf fanatic.

genie raise a palace of glowing won-j joined by three old men, one leading! He rose stiffly, dusted off the earth of

ders, of shining marble and gold and

silver, with windows encrusted with

NOT SAYING WHICH COUNTRY Pittsburg Dispatch. Mediocrity, says one critic, is the key-note of

many s new ministry. In which case Germany worse off than some other countries.

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DOESN'T KNOW YET HE'S DEAD New York Telegraph. What William J. Bryan would like to know, I suppose, is whether the raising of the blockade will again admit him to the first page.

a gazelle, another two black hounds, j ages, kicked a couple of casket handles

and the third a mule. Now it is relat-. and looked over his headstone. On it

diamonds, emeralds and rubies with ! ed that the gazelle and the mule had j was inscribed a lot of noble sentiments fragrant gardens and open courts. So ' been wicked wives transformed by j in which "devoted," "beloved" and the Aladdin married the princess and magic and likewise had the hounds ' like appeared. A sad look came Into

they knew great joy. But the ma- been evil brothers. hen the genie his eyes.

om men, women and children, women predominating, gathered near the school, it being understood that the doctor was about to apply the scissors to other pupils' hair. However, it was impossible to convince the crowd that the doctor had left earlier in the day, whereupon the school windows were wrecked and damage amounting to over $1,000 was caused Forty policemen were required to keep order in the crowd which was estimated at firteen thousand.

Detachment Of Americans Will Go To London

NEVER READS TRASHY LITERATURE Indianapolis News. Among things that President Wilson will not give his attention to are the back numbers of the Congressional Record.

WELL, WHY NOT DO IT, THEN? Shoe and Leather Reporter. Perhaps the surest way to make the world safe for democracy would be to make it unsafe for the Bolsheviki.

HAS MORE'N 2 PER CENT KICK IN IT Philadelphia Ledger. Oil in troubled lands does not bring peace to Mexico.

Topical Novelists Live Only a Butterfly Day

gician returned, stole the lamp, and in

a trice transported the palace and the princess to Africa. Then was Aladdin woeful, but by magic he found his beloved, poisoned the magician, seized

the lamp and came to China where he i

and Badroulboudour lived happily ever afterward. The Story of Sinbad. Of Sinbad the sailor and his marvellous voyages. Wherein it is related

that Sinbad landed upon what seemed

an island but which was a great fish, that sank into the sea And of other I

was told these stories of enchantment,

he was so diverted that he spared the merchant's life. About Haroun Alrashid And of many tales concerning the Caliph Haroun Alrashid and his going disguised into the lanes and bazaars of Bagdad where he chanced upon strange people who told him strange stories of magic. Once he supped with three ladies of dazzling beauty and with him were a porter dazed

with the magnificence he saw and

hree mendicants, sons of kings

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wnich one marvels most at the adventure with the roc, the bird so huge that it feeds its young with elephants. Sinbad had fastened himself to the roc's leg and it bore him to an im

penetrable valley strewn with precious i

ventures and sufferings and he re

warded them. And again he encountered a beggar who implored him to strike him, a youth who spurred cruelly a mare upon which he rode

infr himVpif ,7 cw denly from poverty to affluence. Their w,wnl u BJ Stales too did he hear and them too Sbi1e,.tr;aL.Vulture- ,A"d of ! did he reward. Nor should Abon-Has-

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From the Louisville Courier-Journal. THE death of Amelia E. Barr reveals that her estate amounted to $550. Many of the immortals in literature have been small earners or so unthrifty that they died moneyless, but it is the fate of Mrs. Barr, ;:s it was the fate of "Onida," and as it pretty commonly is the fate of long lived writers of popular novels, to outlive her fame, as well as her financial welfare. Pathetic stories attended the death of "Onida". It :s said that she had for some time denied herself neces

sities to feed her dogs, to which she was devoted. When !

she died her name was a strange one to a majority of novel readers of the younger generation. A voluminous and a popular writer, she had outlived her vogue. There was a time when "A Bow of Orange Ribbon," "Jan Vedder's Wife'," "Prisoners of Conscience" and others of the many novels from the pen of Ameria E. Barr were found upon the book shelves of nearly every reader of current fiction. Perhaps they would be found nowadays in the attic of a majority of long occupied homes, among the discarded books from frequently weeded shelves. Possibly there still are calls for the Barr novels at circulating libraries, but the name of the author of more thaa half a hundred novels, at least thirty of which were widely read, hardly is known by readers under SO ears old who pride themselves upon being well posted

about writers of fiction. A novelist nowadays earns a living more easily by mediocre work than was the case in preceding generalions, but in a period of much writing and many new books there is smaller probability of winning a reputation which outlasts an average life. Many writers of fiction live to see their books go out of fashion, their first better known than later ones, and of novelists living, however "great" in the estimation of responsive youthful readers, is there one of whom a critic safely might say: The future will know him as well as he is known at present. Some of the most widely read novelists of the present time are topical writers. It is not within the bounds of probability that many of those who rely upon current events for their material will write anything which will be read widely one hundred years after the period of the life of the writer. It is not easy to think of one ot the popular novelists of the time for whom a century of fame would be predicted by any reflecting critic of books. Who, and where, is the Twentieth Century Thackeray? What novelist is creating characters which will survive in literature and in the conversation of polite drawing rooms as the Dickens characters survive? Find the novelist whose masterpiece twenty years old is being read as it was the year it was advertised by the publisher as a new book.

Sinbad blinded with a red-hot iron. And cf the terrible Old Man of the Sea who sat upon Sinbad's shoulders and could not be shaken off until he was intoxicated with wine and Sinbad slew him. The Story of the Forty Thieves. Of Ali Baba and his discovery of the stone that swung wide when a voice cried "Open, Sesame!" In the cave was the booty of forty thieves

i and Ali Baba took home sacks bulging

with gold and silver. The robbers traced him and in the guise of a merchant, the captain lodged with him. In the yard were stored great Jars,

j one filled with oil and the others con

cealing the thieves. Ill would it have fared with Ali Baba had not Morgiana, a cunning slave, detected the trick and with boiling oil scalded to death the wicked miscreants. The captain escaped but returned in a new disguise and again did Morgiana save her master by stabbing his enemy. So Ali Baba married her and his son and he lived joyously upon treasures from the cave. Many Other Fascinating Stories. Of the Magic Horse of ebony and ivory, so fashioned that its rider, by pressing divers buttons, could fly whither he willed. It bore a Persian prince to a great palace in a metropolis girt about with greenery. There he looked into the eyes of a princess and they were enraptured. It befell that they rode away on the Magic Horse, but before they were wed an evil man abducted the princess. The disconsolate prince wandered far and at last he found her whom he loved and again they journeyed through the air to his home where they were married with exceeding pomp and lived happily. Of a poor fisherman who drew his net from the sea and found therein but a brass bottle. He cut open the

san the Wag be forgotten, whse trickery in pretending that he and his wife were dead won so much gold and so

many laughs from the Caliph like import is the mad tale

King Solomon's

Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M., Stated Convocation.

CBy Associated Press) PARIS, July 9. General Pershing will accompany a detachment of 33ii American troops who will go to Ixmdon to take part in the victory celebration there July 19. Col. Conrad S. Babcock will be in immediate command of the troops. The visit of the soldiers to London may be prolonged until July 26.

PARIS DOCTORS INCREASE FEES

(By Associated Press) PARIS, July 9. The doctors of Paris have decided to increase their fees and beginning today they wiil charge double their rates before thj war. Fees for services at night will be three times the pre-war rate.

TRANSPORT IS CRIPPLED

Tried To Bid On $6,000,000 t. 5. Property With $25,000

(By Associated Press) DETROIT, July 9. Monroe L. Bardach, of Albany, N. Y., manufacturer, arrested yesterday on an indictment charging an attempt to defraud the

And of ! government by pre-arranged bidding

of the in the salvaging of ordnance material.

(By Associated Press) HONOLULU, July 9. The United States army transport Dix, en route from Manila to San Francisco, reported today by wireless she had lost a propeller 250 miles from Honolulu. The submarine tender Beaver went to her assistance. The transport is not carrying passengers, and is not believed to be in serious danger.

humpback who seemed dead and of : signed and forwarded to Detroit a

the talkative barber who restored him

to life, of all those who had believed themselves murderers of the humpback and of the amazing tales that they related. So it came to pass that by the end of the thousand and one nights, Shah

riar so delighted in the cleverness of; Sheherazade that he wedded her again i with regal pomp and they lived hap- j pily ever after. j Copyright, 1319, by Post Publishing! Co. (The Boston Post). Published by 1 special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights re- j served. I

check for $25,000 which was to be used in bidding on material, valued at $6,000,000, according to United States District Attorney Kinnane.

REVEAL ANARCHIST PLOT ROME, July 9. An anarchist plot to attack the central part of Rome by means of hand grenades and other explosives was revealed just four hours before the time set for carrying out the plans. Sixteen of the conspirators were arrested.

CAR STRIKE ENDED

(By Assocrated Press) CLEVELAND, July 9. Strike of union street car men ended last night.

"Stella Maris," by William J. Locke, as condensed by Miss Mona Osborn, will be printed tomorrow.

Memories of Old Days j

I In This Paper Ten Years j Ago Today

v . John Dougan Rea accepted the professorship of Greek at Earlham college. Professor Rea graduated from Earlham and Yale University.

A $500,000 mortgage was recorded in the office of the recorder by the Richmond Home Telephone company. This was the largest mortgage recorded for a number of years.

Mrs. Mary Elliott fell over while calling on a neighbor.

dead

The Young Men's Business club invited the Spanish-American War Veterans of the state to come to Richmond for tne 1910 convention.

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK

A GENTLEMAN

Sometimes we forget that there are a great many Gentlemen in the world. But there are a very great many. Like everything rare and fine, however, they have to be sought after and brought out. I do not always know a Gentleman when I see him, but I always do know one when I FEEL him. There is a texture of soul to the real Gentleman that responds to the feel as when the fingers come to feel fine silk or fabric. One knows that something very wonderful is there. A Gentleman is always a silent force free from all glamour. A Gentleman moves smoothly along his way. He is never ruffled. He is never afraid. He is quite unconcerned with all the many confusions that try to thwart him from his way. A Gentleman is a gentle MAN but never weak, for gentleness is never a quality of weakness, but of strength. Gentleness is inspired by thoughtfulness, and thoughtfulness is inspired by control, while always to be self-controlled is to be strong. A Gentleman radiates all that he is. He conserves by giving. Always unobtrusive, yet he is always free and ready to serve. A Gentleman is no hermit. His is a life in the world among men and with men. If you would know a Gentleman when you see him, know the things that signify his heart. You always want him around. Children trust him, women admire him, and men form a league with him. Nature opens a path for his footsteps and every day in history is honored by his presence. A Gentleman is a friend de luxe.