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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-03-14

The pupils recital at Central
College Monday evening brought
a good crowd of music lovers.
The program throughout showed
thorough and careful preparation and
was received with much more
applause than is usually accorded a
pupils recital.
A son BY a strong male voice
always pleases. So the numbers OF
Mr.. Mcpherson and Mr.. Smock, which
were well sung, were highly appreei
ated. The violin solo by Miss Clark
and the piano numbers by Misses
shelton, McCarty and Smith were
exceptionally good.
The program follows;
Piano Soio:-Murmuring Zephyrs.
........ ........ Teasea-NienzGnN
MISS RUBY SMITH
Violin Solo:-Polish Dance.
.................... Sehar70enka
MISS ELvA CLARK
Vocal Solo:-Flower Song, from
Faust. Connod
Mr.. ROBERT MCPHERSON
Piano Soli:- (al C%anzonetta SehAeff
~ Mazurka. Waehs
Miss NETTIE MARVIN
Piano soli:-(a) I'm tour de yalse
(bl Al rouet. c1b,,effI
(cl Adieu 49,.
MISS LUCILLE MCCLURE
Vocal Soli:-ta) Light. ,NefaAnger
(b) Bedouin Love Song.
............. Pfnsnfi
Mr.. WILLIAM SMocK
Piano Soli:-tal Song Without Words
q .............. HoeNe
10y Sorrentina Lack
MISS Ivy SHELTON
G Piano Soli:-ta) Minuet. Refnoetge'
J. d. Hark, Hark the Lark
........ 4. Sehabeyt-Liss
A. tc) Brautgesang Jense'
MISS LUCILLE MCCARTHY
t. Vocal Solo;-A Gypsy Maid am T..
....... .................F a'Fs
- MISS DOROTHY CARTER
Piano ~Solo:-Silver Spring. Bend
MISS FANNIE SMITH
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LOCAL BRIEFS.

Elton Greer spent Sunday in Hig-
ginsville.
Theodore Bates spest Sunday in
Kansas City.
Miss Dora Meet spent Sunday in
Kansas Civ
DR.. Il. Is. Mcdaniel spent Sunday
IN Kansas City.
capt. j.. p. Ardinger spent Mon.
day in Page City.
MI. and Mrs. Gus Weber spent Sun.
day in Higginsyille.
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mines FOr SaIe.

1 have some extra good coming
3-year-old mules-just right for farm
ers-that / am willing to sell.
JOHN r. PORTS,
2-2Ot3wk Lexington, Mo.
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Mrs. Alfred Franklin Smith and
her pupil, Miss Pauline Sellers, re-
turned saturday night from an ex'
tended trip to san Antonio, Corpus
Christi, Warning Fort Worth and
other points ia Texas. Mrs, Smith Is
much Improved 50 health.
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Mrs. Chris Schawe met with quite
a painful accident at her home Mon-
day Afternoon. She fell, FRACTURE
ing a bone "a her left forearm.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1908-03-14

Bilious attacks, sick-headaches indiges.
ton. constipation, dizzy spells ~ these
are some Of the results OF an inactive
liver. Ask your doctor il he endorses
Ayers Pills in these cases. The dose
Is small, one pill a~Chedllme.
=nads hg so :. Q. AYR o.. Lowell, nEaN
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The lucky Quarter

Is the one you pay out for a box Of
DR.. Kings New Life Pills. They bring
you the health that's more precious
than jewels. Try them for headache,
b~illiousness, constipation and malaria.
If they disappoint you the price will
be cheerfully refunded at Crenshaw
g. Young's drug.
- "
Mrs. r. B. Betfie and daughter,
Miss Annie, spent Sunday in Kansas
City.
Mrs. r. A. Edmonds went to Kansas
City Saturday evening to visit rela'
tives.
Miss Clara Shoop Of Kansas City
visited Mrs. W. A. Hill in this city
Sunday,
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For Sale.

Good yellow seed corr in any
quantity.
Phone 4O4 J. W. hartley.
2-22t2mo.
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of bunting proprietOrs of base ball clubs
cheerfully spend as much as hundred
thousand dollars for Players salaries and
other expenses in the course of a season.
and it is estimated that to follow the pen
nant fights at close range the great Amer
can public pays at the gate $7oOO,ooo
every year.
The man who invented the pennant idea
has cause to feel proud of his inspira-
ton 1t is the most profitable one In the
history of sport
The average man who goes to see a
foot ball game or a track and field meet
knows little of the contestants personally.
He is interested in the result of the con-
test He cares little about the person
atty of those who bring it about. that is.
providing he is not student or an alum
nus Of one of the colleges competing.
But in base ball 1t Is different. Every
man on both teams that enter into
worlds championship series Is known 10
the public. Their fads. their strength.
readers by the newspapers in most limit
less detail from that day In the early
spring when the manager calls together
his candidates to take them south on
the training trip until the maj chapter
of the excitement when the rivals for the
worlds premiership come together on the
diamond.
The men who have survived the stress
of a summer and come into the last great
series we'll merit all the rewards they
will get, for during the six months or
fighting they have been submitted to the
very limit Of strain on minds as we'll as
bodies.
No wonder deeply marked lines come
into the faces of the veterans!
All summer they have been compelled
to exert the last ounce of strength and
speed to maintain GOODNESS and courage
and never let the thinking apparatus pc
come clogged no matter how terrific the
conflict.
And a sense of responsibility to the
other players is Cot the smallest cause OF
suffering.
The pitcher who loses control or who
relaxes for a minute to put over the plate
the easy ball that may be converted into
a run-producing drive faces the fear that
his slip may send the pennant elsewhere
The Individual Players Part.
The catcher who grips the ball care
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President Roosevelt I shall now ex-
plain. was not overpleased with Char
trans portrait OF him. When. therefore.
Senator Beveridge OF Indiana began tell
ing him what have told you here-how
the Wentworth whose Candle TO Saint
Genevieve' he had been admiring in the
Corcoran gallery was the American Mar
auise de Wentworth who had painted all
these famous portraits-he was at once
interested in the proposition TO stand for
another picture.
II am going to have her do mine" the
Indiana senator confessed to him few
days later. And that settled It President
Roosevelt stood rirst for his portrait. that
Of Beveridge being begun after. and only
catching up to 1t later in Paris.
And OF all the portraits OF grave states
men she has done. the marauise prob
ably can point to that OF Beveridge as
being the only one whose order might be
looked on as a tribute partly to the lady.
partly to the artist. For. since Senator
eral Federation OF Women's Clubs at Bos-
ton this summer. there Is no doubt that
he will be the first President OF the United
States elected after the ballot has como
into the full possession of women.
4
When I had the luck to secure. the
photograph herewith of the Marquise de
Wentworth in her Paris studio. the sena-
tor from Indiana who said. Unless the
love of money and display has dried your
women's hearts," stood there noble I'm his
white vest, framed in gold and double
vanished.
Beside him stood the study OF the
Roosevelt portrait. while on the easel at
which the Marquise Is seen working was
the recently begun bust portrait OF the
daughter OF Count Breneta-d' Usseaux.
Below the tapestry. to the right. hangs
the study Of Pope Leo XIII on his DEATH
bed
or course. even the American men
painters who. in Paris. sometimes pre-
tend that they do not know much OF her
work are In their secret hearts proud as
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Doubtless they feel that others need
their praise more than she needs II. For.
indeed. It Is an aggravating fact-little
those who have cause to know it-that
in the great French governmental gal
lery OF the Luxembourg. whose paintings
are bought on first privileged call out OF
whose works hang upon its walls are
whistlerNand Cecile Wentworth.
Wait. you'll say. What of the foreign
room!
There is the foreign room. We all
lave seen it. But we all have not seen
the same pictures in 1t.
During six months that small room is
hung full Of Dutch. English. American.
Spanish and divers other modern paint
ings bought out of the Salons by the gov
eminent
Then that lot disappears. 1t disap-
pears for two years. Another lot OF
foreign paintings gets its turn to hang
six months on the walls OF the foreign
room. Then another. Then another. There
is not room for all at once
But Whistler's portrait of his mother
and Cecile Wentworth's best seller Of the
Rue de Rivoli called Faith" hang per-
manently in the Luxembourg halls with
the French. STERLING HEIIIG
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ere there make no boast OF the fact

were there make no boast OF the fact
now.
Making De Reszke Wrathy.
Still more exciting was that famous
dinner. at which. as q dual attraction
with such world famous singers as
Madame Nordica, Jean de Reszke and
Emma Eames. a negro baby was brought
In on plate in the altogether. while a
waiter loudly announced that there was
no white meat 1t is said that the famous
tenor was SO enraged over this that he
announced his determination never again
to sing at private affair In this country.
no matter what the remuneration.
w. X. Vanderbilt, jr.. got praise for a
dinner where after the soup had been
served the guests were conducted to a
pool where they speared the fish that
were to be cooked for the next course.
Silent Smith," since dead. gave a dinner
In the winter time, where I'm order to find
means OF spending more money than
had been expended for any feast OF the
season he confined his menu entirely to
midsummer dishes. and had the tropics
ransacked in order to get them.
c. X. c. Billings also made a big sue
cess with dinner in which all the guests
were on horseback. and the horses drank
from the wine coolers.
Years ago Ward McAllister. then the
arbiter of fashion in this country. fore
saw the coming of a condition when no
one could hope to get guests for dinner
without having provided entertainments
including singing by the greatest prima
donnas. recitations by the most noted
actors. dancing by the premier danseuses
of the opera. vaudeville acts by the most
noted of performers, and boxing by skilled
pugilists. But even he did not see that
society would furnish from its own ranks
the men who would do the actual boxing.
There is Anthony Drexel Biddle, men,
Der Of one Of the bluest blooded of Phila-
delphia families. man with home at
Newport a:.d connections with the elect
of Europe.
1t was not enough that he should give
a boxing exhibition with Jack O'Brien. a
discredited pugilist. at a fashionable club
in the suburbs of Philadelphia. but later
he actually acted as second to O'Brien at
a bout held at a regular Philadelphia box
ing club. In this contest O'Briens an
tagonist was a negro. but Mr.. Biddle
found himself right at home in the COM
pany.
The vagaries of Alfred Vanderbilt would
furnish many additions to the circus
theory, and If society continues at its
present rate 1t may yet be billed with
three sheet posters.
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to the two cities that have produced the
champions of the respective leagues.
In every town of the United States. all
the way down from the major league
cities. through class A, B and c. to the
veriest bush" league. the struggle for
base ball supremacy. for final honors. is
the most followed issue of the day. The
fury of a presidential campaign, the ex-
cltement of diplomatic crisis or stock
market fluctuations are as nothing COM
pared to that fevered inquiry:
What's the scorer
The question has sometimes been asked
by those who have never been inoculated
with the base ball virus:
what Is the psychology of this yearly
Dase ball frenzy: what is there about it
all that will make men wait in line for
hours 10 see a game. or when admission
TO the playing field Is impossible, cause
them to sit on roofs of nearby houses
rather than miss the plays?"
The pennant." is the answer
base Daii mas perhaps never justly esti-
mated the debt 1t owes to a system Of
having clubs organized into leagues with
nag as permanent symbol of victory
And when something even beyond the
pennant of league is offered, when a
championship OF championships becomes
possible. IT Is no wonder that In the popu-
lar mind it Is trophy more alluring than
any prize ever devised as reward for the
triumph of speed and Drawn.
victory In other sports brings no such
ic"dIu. 1Heie are cups In some sports,
medals in others. but no such trophy
takes the place in the popular mind that
the championship does. because the public
knows comparatively little Of the other
sports. Only a portion follow golf, tennis.
foot ball, for instance:
More persons are interested in base
ball than in all the other sports COM
bined. hence 1t becomes little to marvel
at that a worlds series bringing together
the best teams of the two best leagues
takes a mighty hold on the mind of the
public.
Real Value of Pennant.
The pennant itself is OF little intrinsic
value. Take the most expensive. The
kind used In the American and National
Leagues costs 500. that sum being ap-
propriated annually.
Yet to get that hundred dollars worth
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great painter; that she painted Roose-
velt?'' 1 said to one who was giving me
this usual sort of answer. He is a we'll
known American painter 'And don't
you know she painted the Queen Of Eng
No? Good for herr he answered
lightly. Yet he knew the facts as well
as l. Standing between the Roosevelt
portrait and that of Queen Alexandra in
the Paris salon and alternately glancing
at each 1 happened to have heard this
same painter playfully observing at the
time:
She has given Roosevelt the meek look
proper to henpecked Americans In pres
ence Of ladyi'
He continued that when Chartran paint
ed Roosevelt he had caught and fixed the
elephant, the lion hunter. on immortal
canvas. Then another American painter
observed gaily:
why. you're paying her compliment.
She painted what she saw
Now. art is long and time is fleeing:
and the artist may forgive. but the lady
may remember. Also. who began 1t is
a question. But when I asked five other
foremost men painters Of our colony how
they liked Cecile Wentworth's portrait of
the Archbishop of New York exhibited
in this summers Paris salon. and each
answered that he had not seen It, men,
DRY flew back to the Paris worlds fair
of 1900. when the American jury was
paining itself over the same lady's ex-
hibits
There's a we'll lighted cellar under the
Grand Palais." naughtily suggested he
who has not seen Roosevelt or Queen
Alexandra. You might put her down
there with the deadwood.''
Well. the saying got to the ears Of not
only the society lady Of the Champs
Elysees. but the girl painter grown up
from sixteen years of age beside admiring
eau. Leon Glaize and Henner. Detaille
calls her that Cecile who has such tall
emit" Good old Bonnat recently gave
her his own portrait. done by himself.
Gerome, in the last days of his life and
power. was ready to resent the least
slight offered to the work Of the girl
student he had helped.
So when the cellar proposition got to
those Olympians they fought 1t good
with notifications. and the howl that
went up from those who had thought
to turn her down when Cecile Went
worth's paintings were hung with peculiar
honor. and they had to seek their own
among the deadwood has its echo to this
day.
Doubtless Leo kits order for his por-
trait came to her through similar in
f1uence. She had painted Cardinal Fer
rata. who was nuncio at Paris. Previous
ly she had painted the Princess Viano-
Altieri, her friend, whose daughter mar
ried nephew of Cardinal tampolla. So
Pope Leo. liking the first portrait and
hearing much good of the second. was
in time persuaded to give the historic
order
The painting is now in the Vatican
and its reproduction. which, in
color. forms the frontispiece of the Ital-
ian Life of Leo KILL" is priced by the
faithful in all lands. all the more for it's
own faithfulness to the least detail of
the great pope's dress White skull cap
and slippers are piously preserved, as
relics of the sittings, by the painter, and
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from Baltimore to New York he found
a set growing up that was hungry to be
amused. The dignified ceremonies of
other days were beginning to pail on
them. The stately dinners and recep-
tons lacked the spice to make them
appeal to a set that was hungry for ex-
element So Harry sprung some novel
ties, and the success he won by them
is proof that when 1t comes to being a
society Snowman he is the p. T. Barnum
of the whole combination.
One of his first sensations was the cele
brated monkey dinner.
Jocko was the property of Joseph De-
ter. 1t occurred to Mr.. Lehr that din
ner at which Jocko and Mrs. Stuyvesant
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Fish should be the guests of honor would
be big hit Mrs. Fish. though a power
socially. apparently saw nothing gro
tesque in the idea of being fellow guest
along with the simian. Hence the dinner.
where the monkey dressed in evening
clothes, sat at the table, and was fed
with delicacies the same any other
guest. 1t is even said that he partook so
freely of wine that he was finally taken
from the table in a condition of maudin
intOXicatiOn.
The Dog Birthday Party.
That introduced Mr. Lehr as the i'm
presario of the bizarre. He followed the
monkey dinner up with a birthday party
in honor OF the third natal anniversary Of
his wife's Pomeranian dog. Mighty
Atom
of their mistresses were seated at a flow
er-decked table. and walters gravely
served chicken livers and mushrooms to
them.
The rag baby fad also introduced itself
in the Newport circus. Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish and Harry Lehr strolled proudly
down Bellevue avenue. each holding the
hand of a rag baby, whose bushes were
hid under the paint on its cheeks Just
what precautions man and woman took
to hide their own bushes, If any. the
chronicles omit TO mention.
At one function held at the Waldorf
Astoria not SO very long ago Chief
Joseph and several of his braves were
the guests of honor. They came in
their full feathers and ochre. and during
the course of the evening entertained the
guests with a war dance and a few
specimens of the war whoop. 1t is said
that this star attraction was handsomely
paid for. Chief Joseph and his men get
ting enough wampum to keep them in
fire water for long period
Other examples of the social circus are
many. There was the "nymph's ball. at
Newport, when the exclusive set, not
overdressed, disported like mermaids and
mermen.
James L. Breeses famous "blackbird
pie" dinner is another example Of the
showmen's methods as applied to social
relaxation.
Here at a banquet given to some of the
most noted men. men socially and artis-
tically in the United States, the piece de
resistance was scantily dressed girl.
coming at a signal from huge pie, and
then dancing for the company The dis
closures of the Thaw case. with its pic
ture of the life of Stanford White and his
circle. did much to give this dinner an
undesirable notorety, and those who
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been hit by her blunt words are forced
into defense.
-drs. Astor is the oldest member Of the
family. Until advancing years compelled
her to lay down the scepter as ruler or
American society her sway was never dis
puted. Nobody who could not get an In
vitation to her two big annual balls was
regarded as being absolutely included in
the haut ton and the nights when she
deiened to show herself at the opera were
always regarded as the most brilliant OF
the season.
Mrs. Astors one aim, during her long
sway. was to maintain the dignity of So
cial life. She scorned the notoriety- seek
Ing, and her all-powerful influence held
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can to obtain sittings for their chosen
artist.
By what political or social pull she got
the order of Queen Alexandra I have
never heard a painter, male or female. of
our Paris colony explain. but 1 am going
to tell you about the Roosevelt order.
Long before that time, however, Chal-
lemel Lacour president of the French
senate. ambassador to England, and one
of the forty immOrtals, gave Cecile Went
worth the order for his portrait just on
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she often shows to favored friends her
pay-a rosary of topazes in gold.
Leo XIII liked this portrait more than
any other. Also. he came to know and
like we'll the humble daughter who had
done it and John Wentworth. the Ameri-
can. her husband who permitted her
artist in love with old world grace and
color and woman Of society, alive to social
advantages-to take the papal marqui-
safe and wear it,
So it happened that when they desired
a portrait of Pope Leo on his deathbed.
it occurred to no one to send for another
artist than this gentle protege.
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q season and deprived their fellows OF Q
chance to get some Of the rich financial
rewards that attend getting into the
worlds series.
1t took the great Hans Wagner whole
season to get over the mental anguish OF
having fallen down in the worlds series
with Boston in 1903. and Catcher Schmidt
of Detroit actually cried In the club
house for having missed the third strike
that would have retired the last Chicago
National League batsman. and let Detroit
win the first game of the worlds series OF
last year.
One who has never been in a club
house to hear heartbroken bunch OF
players talk over a losing game all re-
proachfully recounting the blunders, can
have any idea of how deeply the players
take crucial game to heart.
The present worlds series is the fifth
since the American League came into the
base ball field
In 1901 and 1902 the leagues were still
too far apart for a series to be possible,
and there was still some feeling In 1903.
but the owners OF the Boston and Pitts
burg clubs were game sportsmen. and a
series was arranged. in which. after maxi
ing a bad start. Jimmy Collins and his
Boston team downed Fred Clarke and his
Pirates.
owner of New York. declining to play. but
in 1909 New York won again. and played
the Philadelphia American League club.
winning four games out of five. This was
the first series under control of the ma
tional commission, base balls governing
body.
In 1906 the two Chicago clubs won the
pennant, but the American Leaguers
downed the Nationals. four games to
two. the result being great surprise.
Last year the Chicago Nationals won,
winning four and losing none. one being
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the strength of her work united to the
friendly tip of old Gerome. The portrait
now hangs in the French senate.
Another OF her earliest portraits is that
of Demaulde. president of the Historical
Society of France. 1t was ordered by
the learned Paris corporation. and hangs
in its building. At the New York Metro
politan Museum you can see her portrait
of Mcclellan. Well known to those who
have never seen either is her great por-
trait of Cardinal Vaughan. now hanging
somewhere in London. and which at
exhibition
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in check many of those whose preferences
tended most strongly in this direction; but
the instant her governing hand was with
drawn then came license, SO that now she
mournfully says there is virtually no So
ciety. worth while.
Society circus?
There Is much to warrant this charge.
Take. for instance. the manner in which
a distinguished man Is exploited when
he comes to this country.
He is like the white elephant for which
circus managers used to fight. only In
this case the showmen who struggle to
get him are beautiful women of wealth
and family. who are hungry for some at
traction that will give aid in their mad