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body Of active. intelligent. and progressive
students as any country might well be
proud Of
\ i X
Surgeon General OReilly. in a recent
discussion regarding the healthfulness of
the principal armies of the world. said
thu. according to official figures for total
loss, being the combined rates for deaths
and discharges, the United States troops
stood fourth; after those of Belgium, Rus
STA and Great Britain, but far ahead of
all others. Another factor of i'm
portance." said Gen. O'Reilly. ''in judging
of the relative healthfulness of different
armies is the average duration of each
case of sickness: from this standpoint
the American army excelled all others
except the Prussian. Bavarian and Dutch
armies The average duration OF each
case in the American army was about
one-half that OF the Russian army and
a little more than half that of the British
army. With regard to special diseases,
the admission rates in the American
army were better than in most other
armies in the following instances; Pleu-
risy pneumonia. scarlatina, sunstroke.
erysipelas and epidemic cerebro- spinal
meningitis. They were much higher than
in any other army In the following: AL
cohclism influenza and mumps. Some
OF the diseases in which the rates were
better in the American army than in
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track, but every little while during the
remainder of the evening. he suddenly be-
comes grinny and shoots in some other
little nugget about the Atlantic City girl
thus keeping 1t alive in your wife's mind
When the duffer does take his departure,
you try to be blthe and clipper with your
wife, talking about all sorts Of things at
great speed; but-nix. nix! There are GER
mouth. and her eyes are sort of scroonch-
ed together.
''Er-by the way she says. some
hoarsely and ominously. that hazel-eyed
creature at Atlantic City. You never
told me about her-and yet you pretend
that YOU told me about everything.
cannot understand that sort of deception
deed I can't. 1t seems that you were
very much in love with the-with the
creature. 1 consider it mighty strange
that you never said a word to me about
that affair. deed 1 do
Then you're in for it. You try to dig in
and say that the Atlantic City girl was
just a foolish little snip of a thing from
GAINESVILLE Ohio. who was stopping at the
hotel with her mother, and that you just
hiked around two or three times on the
Boardwalk and on the music piers with
her. and that you never gave her a
thought after you quit Atlantic City that
summer. and all similar. But it doesn't
go. No, -doesnt-go-at-all. There's
long. long gabfest over 1t, and it winds
up by your spouse pulling the nlouchoir
and doing the weep thing and the house
is made miserable That's what comes
from having Mister Start Something on
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looking flushed and f1ustered. and, q
course, that drives the harpoon still
deeper into your pelt. You fail to recol-
lect that everybody looks more or less
flustered and guilty in such circumstances.
and you find yourself growing the in
quiry to yourself: George, hey? Now.
who the devil was this George, I'd like to
know? I never heard her say anything
about this George dub. DANCED queer she
never mentioned the piece OF Edam to me.
that's what it Is. She looks kind o. lit up
about it. too which makes it queerer. I'm
sure going to buck her up and find out
about this George lubber."
ask the cute little Miss Home Disrupter:
you? Who was the mug?'
But little Miss Home Disrupter, using a
different method from that Of Mister
Start Something. closes up like clam.
thereby adding fuel to the flaming condi-
ton OF your mind.
And after she goes out you begin to
bully your wife about this George fellow
that she met at the springs, and demand
to know why you'd never heard about
him. and your wife says he was a silly
little snoozer OF a college boy that she
paid no attention whatever to. and you
take that some incredulously. and--well
it's a sort Of gloom-rnaking mess, and it
throws a sort of pail around the place for
quite little spell.
Some Of us wish that Mister Start Some
thing and Miss Home Disrupter would
get married themselves and then 60 or
to Beloochistan to convert the heather.
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getting adjusted. When he was ready for
| picture Victoria suddenly began gal
| Looping in a circle. which made the artist
despair.
Il haven't brought a moving picture
machine here can't you reason with her? ?"
he begged.
We'll. sir. snap hcr-snap her while
she's steady" yelled the keeper.
But | don't want to take you on her
| head" protested the other man.
The keeper let her go and coolly lighted
| a cigar and then Victoria stood still long
enough to be taken. An argument now
arose. the artist declaring that one expo
/ sure was enough. but the literary man
| wished another. Victoria, however, quick
| ly convinced them that they were through
| by performing a jungle dance across the
| yard. which terminated vis-a-vis with the
| artist. The now quite paralyzed partner
| OF this movement refused the honor and
| started for the door. But in the inner
room he stumbled over a bale OF hay and
/ fell fiat on his face. On rising to his
knees he was dismayed to find Victoria 8
nose I'm close proximity to his own. and
quite collapsed. His hat. coat and camera
were brought out by, his friend. an, both
decided that photographing wild beasts
was not such fun as they had been told.
/ Victoria is a half-grown African two
horned rhinoceros
| X X 4 X
He was one of the men who had helped
to win the war with Spain by being in
readiness to engage the enemy at mo-
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paw around in the shadowy corners of the
Atlantic City hotel portico and exchange,
and tagging her nav all the time SOS
you could stake the girl to roller chair
rides and all like that hey? Te-he-he!
Jaw. can that stuff. for heavens sake, y
you growl at him. and then you turn to
your wife with assumed carelessness of
manner and say to her: Cant you see
the pickle-head Is only kidding your
"Oh. is he?" raps back your wife, with
the lis That's what you say OF
course. you'd be bound to say it, But
it's little bit too circumstantial to be
just Kidding
Tell you what. old boy. 1t 'ud be money
in my pocket IL could look as bovinely
innocent as YOU can in some circum-
stances" slaps in Mister Start Some
thing then, just gurgly with the fun he
is having. Don't remember telling when
you came back that summer. hey, that
you'd met the one-the one-and that you
had it so bad you couldn't sleep, and
that If the haZel-eyed one refused to have
you. you meant to take a runnin' jump
into the Potomac at the foot Of 'Leventh
street-dont remember single thing
about that. do you. pal?'
You long to leap at him and hurl him
into the gas logs. but you can't do that
or anything similar without sort of CIV
ing a certain substance of actually to
what he Is saying, and SO you try to
switch the subject. using as cool and self
contained a tone OF voice as you can.
Maybe. after a while. you do succeed in
getting Mister Start Something Off that
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the Russian army were dfphtheria, cry
sipelas, malaria, pleursy pneumonia
scGrlatina. trachoma and varfola. The
admission rate for dysentery in the Brit
ish army was less than that of the United
States army. but the former had death
rate of DIG per 1000. while there was
no death from that cause in the latter.
The death rates for malaria were also
greater in the British. Dutch. Spanish.
Russian and Belgian armies than in the
United States army. although the cor
responding admission rates were much
lower. The highest admission rate. 1921,
was attained in the Dutch army: the
next highest in the United States army,
1.179.93, and the lowest, 34S. in the Rus
sian army. The highest death rate, SCI,
was recorded In the British army. the
United States army having the next high
est rate, 5.2S. and the Prussian army
the lowest, 1856"
\ X X \
Yes. I am in. pretty good training" re-
marked Herbert Parsons. who. besides
being a representative in Congress. is
also chairman Of the republican county
committee of New York. And about
this time these two are likely to furnish
him with all the activity his strenuous
young nature Graves.
You seem to have come around to
thinking that Gov. Hughes would make a
pretty good candidate for President"
suggested the interviewer.
Mr.. Parsons eyes took on an distracted
expression. Il knew a man who once
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Certainly he had another laugh at my
expense then.
Once. with an air of profound disgust
over the incident, he said to me, Well
when the bunch of NUTS hit the top Of
| the bend. there was the jock on mine
sound asleep in the pigskin, dreaming Of
the old kale, and he never nudged him.
self out Of that slumber stuff until a
piece of cheese belonging to man hated
sneaked to the front and copied the cush
by as far as from here to Ireland.
lis 1t really possible. I asked him in
some surprise. for jockey to fall asleep
on horses back during the progress of
a race"
You can easily see that at the outset
of my experience with Mr.. Ullman I was
perfect wonder at compiling racing
stories.
Again telling me about one OF his own
horses, This morning glory Of mine.' he
said, could traipse mile in nothing by
lantern light. but when 1t came to sure
enough racing with the colors up he was
a pond lily anchored at the bottom Of an
artificial lake
"Of course, had to get him to explain
the meaning of those floral terms, which
| sounded pretty enough. but which weren't
very clear.
ION another occasion he was trying to
describe for me famous two-year-old
champion that developed wonderful speed
and weight-carrying ability.
why, say. he said. that little scraT
of thing was only as big as a guinea
pig a Chihuahua dog, but he could
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Of manner she's sitting rigid and frozen
and waiting for the rest Of 1t.
What girl dye mean?' you inquire of
Mister Start Something. wishing that he'd
been caressed on the neck by some sharp
part OF an automobile while on his way
to your home. "Whatcha talking about,
anyhow? You've probably got me mixed
with somebody else. I never had any
truck with any girls in Atlantic CITY.
either hazel-eyed or goldenish chestnut
haired or any other kind. Always went
to Atlantic City to rest, and kept away
from any lzg1gg.n' around girls. otop
that hashueshing. YOU"
"Oh, listen to the old snake.' laugh
ingly exclaims Mister Start Something,
giving his knee a whack Of enjoyment.
And look at the straight face he keeps
about 1t! Hey. Bill. you're too good for
matinees. homes. Injun you are. Look
at his you-wrong-me map-ha. ha, he,
he"
Your wife pretends to be caressing the
kitten with one hand while she drives in
some hairpins with the other. But you re
next to all of those curves. and you
know perfectly well that she's geared up
to concert pitch plus over the funniness
OF Mister Start Something. and that, so
acute is her hearing in such circum-
stances, she can easily detect the sound
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! your visiting stan.
| Then there's that fish-faced friend OF
your wife. little Miss Home Disrupter.
She's on the Job right along, too.
| Miss Home Disrupter knew your wife
| long before you ever met her. In fact.
they were girl pals. Well, Miss Home Dis
rupter drops in every once a while. and
she picks out her psychological moment to
! inaugurate something. She is, however,
more Machiavellian in her method than
| Mister Start Something.
by the way. dawling," she says to your
wife. with her arm about your Wife
waist, II met a man at party last night
who looked so much like George"
George who?" inquiries your wife OF
her, absent mindedly; she Is thinking OF
something else. is your wife, and. any
how women never pay much attention to
what other women say to then-unless
the conversation shows tendency to lead
to the rocks.
"Why. George Moonkaffe, that beau OF
yours that was SO crazy about you at the
springs that year when-oh, forgot!
suddenly terminates the cunnin' little Miss
Home Disrupter suddenly glancing In
your direction. thereby perfectly convey
ing the impression that she knows she, s
inadvertently uncoiled some great secret,
and then glancinS at your wife with
carefully framed-up Forgive me, daw-
ling" expression.
But the bait has been grabbed by you
|. all right enough. You feel yourself Still
fleming in your chair, and, try as you may
you can't help but cast sidelong looks OF
inquiry at your wife. You find that she
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married the show girl. and now the fin
ger-snapping individual is wholly outside
the breastworks. with scarcely chance
Of ever getting inside them again.
In Simple Fashion.
In comparing this just-accomplished
marriage of the Vanderbilt girl to the
Hungarian count person, and all of the
hiShfalutin details of the same. one finds
room for reflection in comparing to it the
utter simplicity and Observation-Disclosures OF
the courtship and marriage of George
Gould and Edith Kingdom.
George Gould first saw the Miss King
don of the DAILY programs of those days
1T was nearly twenty years ago. as said
on the stage of Days Theater. 1mme-
diately 1t was all over with this scion of
the house of Gould. He capitulated, horse.
foot and artillery. But it was not so easy
FOR him to get his introduction. He ap-
pealed to Augustin DAILY, who was mighty
careful of his stage proteges, and failed.
The best Daily would do for the young
millionaire was to introduce him to the
young actress mother, for the purpose of
letting the mother decide about the in
PRODUCTION TO the daughter. DAILY, how
ever, was decent enough to give young
Gould perfectly clean character in doing
this-which he could do without in the
least stultifying himself. for George Gould
was the most restrained and cleanly-lived
of all OF the multi-milionaire first sons of
the noted financiers Of the past genera
ton.
Eventually Gould met Miss Kingdom in
the parlor OF the little Brooklyn boarding
house. where the mother and daughter
lived very economically-for the young ac-
tress' salary was small and most of it had
to be devoted to dressing the parts she
was then playing. For more than a year
George Gould paid his devoted addresses
to the young woman of the DAILY COM
pany. and when he asked her hand in
marriage she told him that he would first
have to get the permission of his father
and Jay Gould, in those. his final years,
was q pretty stern sort of a man. Young
Gould went straightway to his father and
told him all about it. He said that he
wanted to marry Miss Kingdom and
meant to, telling all about her connection
with the stage and SO on.
Bring her here" said Jay Gould to his
first born.
That night George Gould brought Edith
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tering Syriac or modern Greek. Mr.. Ull-
man found to be very entertaining
sympathetic and agreeable man. He talked
quite like a human being when the talk
was on ordinary subjects. But when he
got on the subject Of racing-well. he
might just as well have been conversing
in the Eskimo language so far as my un-
derstanding him was concerned; until
learned the wonderful dialect Of racing,
that is.
"He would start to tell me. for instance,
an amusing story about a favorite that
had been taken care of'-fxed to lose
that Is
WELL he'd start to ramble on, that
one, you pipe. was all rugged to romp FOR
Sweeney. and
Sweeney I'd break In. Sweeney:
Why. you haven't mentioned that gentle
mans name before. What did Mr.. Swee.
ney have to do with
For a moment Mr.. ,Ullman would look
puzzled, and then he'd laugh.
oh he'd go on. Sweeney Is the lob,
you know, that all the stiffs and dead
ones trudge for. But you can put it some
other way II you want to. Just say that
the favorite was framed to hop for the
end book and
Then end book? I'd have to inquire
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SOCIAL INNINGS AND FINANCIAL

daughter. Marjorie, Is already raving,
raging beauty.
that at least nineteen out of twenty of
the so-termed smart people OF society
who attended what has been cattishly
called that contingent party" OF Mrs.
Gould's had never before rested their
eyes upon that sumptuous, gifted. I'M
usually beautiful and intellectual woman.
Everybody was there-except the AS
tors. Not single representative of the
tribe of descendants Of the old rurrier OF
the last century graced the occasion by
outsider. tells tale OF uncommon stub
bornness.
Signs Of Revolt.
For once. however. 1t seemed as IL the
great majority of the upholders OF the
reign Of old Mrs. Aston had rebelled
against her iron authority. They were
all there. and they made much of Mrs.
Gould. Now she is regarded as lad
mitted'-barring the fact that she is yet
to be countenanced by the Aston crowd.
Social prophets saw in this an indication
that the revolt against the sway Of Mrs
Astor, which has been secretly fermenting
for some time is about to flame into oper
rebellion. The insiders say that the
real crowd" including so many of the
Astorites,' consented to take up Mrs
Gould after all these years, at the be-
hest Of Mrs Stuyvesant Fish. who has
grown to be the social power next to Mrs
Aston and who Is ready to step into
that rigid old lady's shoes. Mrs. Fish
likes actresses and singers and such like
pairsons-always providing that they are
what is known as clever. Mrs Fish
makes so much of Ethel Barrymore. and
keeps that gracious young woman jaunt-
ing about so necessarily with the smart
clique. that the lovely Ethel has little or
no time left In which to learn how to be
an actress. But the Aston people have
yet 10 meet Miss Ethel. Mrs Fish is
showing" Maxine Elliott-who, it's said
never by any chance even meets up with
Nat Goodwin. her husband, any more
everywhere about in the New York social
Businesses, so that the dusky Maxine
postponed her stage opening here for four
or five months this theatrical season
But the Aston crowd has yet to meet
Miss Elliott socially.
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK, January 81. 1908.
r T Is not SO simple matter. after all.
to gain admittance to New York s
. more or less clofstered Four Hundred
The task may be easier when Mrs. Astor.
now very old and feeble. passes to her
great reward. notwithstanding what Ia
commonly alluded to as her senility, she
still maintains her position as social
dictatress. She clings to the traditions
of the ancient regime-holds to Faubourg
St. German ideas OF exclusiveness. Her
dictum is or was. law to her followers.
This explains why so splendid a woman
as Edith Kingdom Gould, the empress-like
wife of George Gould. never vas taken
up by the inner clique here until very
recently II seems dinicult to imagine
by what process of reasoning the Aston
ties figured that Mrs. Gould would prove
to be other than an ornament to their
functions But 1t is certain that they
so figured It, and Mrs. Gould. the mis-
tress of Georgian Court. in New Jersey.
one. of the greatest palaces In the world,
and the wife of a man whose right to
entrance to a plutocratic society surely
always was obvious as anybody's OF
equal or similar origin, NAMED. through
nearly twenty years OF her married HE
almost wholly without the exclusive New
York social pale. OF course. she had
been on the stage. But other actresses
who married into New York's goldocracy
have been taken up.
AT the Plaza, a night only little
while ago. Mrs. Gould had her virtual in
itiat!on In what is termed New York 80
ciety. She appeared in a playiet. with
Kyrle Beliew-and an old. old-lookins
Kyrle he is getting TO he. too-and her
beauty seemed more dazzling than when
she was very young woman of the
stage, with Augustn Days company
Mrs. Gould can't possibly be much on
the hither side OF forty. You'd take
her for about twenty-eight. Yet she has
tall sons and young lady daughters
singularly handsome family OF six. al
handsome a pack of children as those OF
the Emperor OF Germany. than which
no greater praise OF the pulchritude OF
progeny could be written. and the eldes,
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kingdom to the Gould palace. Jay Goul
warmed to her instantly. The young man
took the young actress home, and then re.
turned to find his father waiting up FOL
him in the library.
"Well?" said young Gould to Jay Gould
whats your idea about the time when
you intend to get married? the father
asked the son.
In few months-as soon as we can
fix up the details" replied the son.
THAT won't do" replied the father
Get married tomorrow, you two. I'm
not particularly well. and 1 don't know
how long I'm going to last, and l want
that girl around my house. You two get
married tomorrow"
And they were married on the morrow
civilly and religiously, without particle
of fiubdub or flunkeyism, and it would be
hard to point to a more supremely perfect
or happy union.
A Passing Quartet.
It is pretty well understood by men in
the financial world over here that four of
the noted financiers of the time now
engaged in transferring their affairs to
other shoulders, with the purpose of re-
firing from their financial activities to
lives Of more ease during the present
year
These four men are Thomas Fortune
Ryan, ]. Pierpont Morgan. James Il.
Keene and August Belmont. 1t seems
difficult to think of the moneyed world
swinging along on its appointed orbit
without those four names popping with
every shift Of the wheel of finance. but it
is authoritatively stated that every man
of the quartet is ready to quit.
Only one Of them. in retiring, will be
making what might seem equivalent to a
retreat in the face of fire. 1t is COM
monty known in New York that most
tremendous crimp has been put in the
fortune of August Belmont. Gossip.
which. of course, can't be verified, is that
Mr. Belmont got into this mess through
trying to "buck'' Thomas F. Ryan-a job
that nobody, by the way, ever successful
ly got away with. Anyhow, a short time
ago August Belmont transferred to the
Rothschilds OF Europe q bunch OF New
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course. there's nothing else for him to
do but to hand the 2-cross to the phony
layer. and he kicks the favorite out from
the rap of the drum and fetches him
down to the wire by the difference be-
tween Rocky mountain and central time
and the phony layer and his brud get the
green ticket for the thorny patch for
theirs
Now, you are to remember that for
many years before this / had been edit
ing the home pages Of newspapers and
wOmen's departments, and the like.
leave 1t to any impartial person if that
kind Of narrative wasn't calculated to
make me think that I was having
rare bit dream.
"Once, Mr.. Ullman was telling me how
one of his own horses was left at the
post in an important race.
And there was L. he said when the
web went up. standing there with my
weight on my heels. rubbering over the
fence at a bunch Of dingers sitting in
tree outside the grounds
His meaning was, of course, that his
horse had been left f1atfooted when the
barrier went up, and that the horse-not
moment had been gazing at o cluster of
darkies in the tree outside Of the track
grounds. But is it reasonable to sup
pose that Ia woman's page. editress-
could ever have known that without an
elaborate calculation?
- 80 you were standing still" / said
to him. Oh then this wasn't a horse
race. but a foot race, and you we're