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Show rrmwmm nam n ...... I There Is probably no life that offera I more opportunity for Idleness than be-h jlng In iht diplomatic service :ind the . Women folk of the diplomatic circles U Ithlnk of lit lie other than fine Clothes i and society. J Most of the women sleep till noon, 1 attend a tea In the afternoon and another an-other social function at night Jus' now "society" Is dull here and man , I of the diplomatic women, as well a1 the men, are sojourninc In Paris Even many of the diplomatlcrepre-.nt diplomatlcrepre-.nt itives from South and Centrj.1 American countries have gone to Europe, Eu-rope, where wine flows freclv and there are no Volstead laws to lmpedo gaiety. Josephine Berrj 20 year old negro1 K'irl, made a law of her own, with B penalt of death attached for any one who conspired t steal her man " she believed thH punishment Just and when Ada King tried to steal ' her1 man" she infltcd It on Ada Maybe Josephine, only 'n Ignorant girl, lcarn-ed lcarn-ed Hum Uncle Sam how to muke laws, and how to fix and administer the punishment For now Uncle Sam. with great de-( liberation, Is going to slay her on the pallows Oct. 15 Just as Josephine slew-Ada slew-Ada In heat of passion for "stealing her man," as Josephine tersely put It at the trial. It is the doctrine of an eve for An eye ' and originated with the savages. This esse hns been put up to President Presi-dent Wilson and he has refused to ln-terfere, ln-terfere, although the two district nt-tomeys nt-tomeys who prosecuted her have re-t re-t d that the sentence be commuted commut-ed to life imprisonment. |