Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
One Ready to Publish Book of Verses
at Eighteen Years of Age.
SCIENCE INTERESTS THE OTHER
Robbery of Baroness de Zuylen.
Story Philosophy Of "Futurism."
Boy Is Brigand Chief.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS, April IN Edmond Rostand
has gone back to Cambo. where he is at
work on Faust and other plays.
His two sons, Maurice and Jean, who
came to Paris with him, enjoyed the trip
enormously. They are two charming Eel
lows. The elder Of them. Maurice. speaks
English like an Englishman, and bids
fair to become a literary man of no
mean reputation.
Although he is not yet eighteen, he has
a volume of verse ready for publication.
He has done a large number of clever
TRANSACTIONS from the English. He has
translated two Of Shakespeare's plays. a
great deal of Byron's poetry and a vol
ume of Mark Twain.
His father has made him promise TO
publish nothing until his eighteenth birth
day anniversary. The book of verses will
be his first printed contribution to the lit
erature of his day.
Jean Rostand, who is sixteen, is a scien-
tific prodigy. His ambition is to be an
astronomer.
During his stay in Paris his father
gave him a magnificent telescope, which
he Will put upon the top of the hill above
Cambo. On his eighteenth birthday an
niversary Jean Rostand is to have an OBJ
servatory of his own from " hich to study
the stars
Robbery of Cimiez Villa.
Baroness de Zuylen de Nyvelt, nee de
Rothschild, has been the victim of rob-
berry at her villa of II Paradise, Cimiez.
She had friends to dejeuner last Friday
and they spent the whole afternoon with
her.
About 8 o'clock she went to her dress
ing room for gold cigarette case. AS
she was searching vainly foc it she found
that other articles of value. including
jeWelry, had also disappeared.
The baroness had not been near the
room since ] O'Clock and had left the
door open. usual. Her maid had not
noticed anything strange.
The total amount of the loss thus sus-
tanned is estimated at $500. The police
are carrying on an investigation, but so
far without success.
A new and strenuous philosophy has
been discovered. "Futurism' is its name
M. Marnetti, Franco-Italian poet, is it's
founder.
The doctrine is for strong men, 1t will
be that of plain men, too. There is none
of your subtle nonsense about it. such as
Nietzsche persisted in complicating his
philosophy with, thereby putting off the
strenuous young man in a hurry. For the
latter .'futurism' is the very thing.
Its manifesto says:
The essential elements of our poetry
are courage. audacity and rebellion. Lit
erature having hitherto exalted pensive
inacti0n, ecstasy and Slumber, we will
glorify aggressive motion. feverish insom-
MIA. running, jumping, boxes on the ears
and fisticuffs.'
The manifesto goes on to mortoring:
A racing car, with the pipes of its ra-
diator-like serpents with explosive
breathing. is more beautiful than the
Victory of Samothrace.'
New Philosophy "Futurism.''
"Futurism'' is expounded in a dozen
more articles of faith briefly thus:
"F'ighting only is beautiful All master
pieces are aggressive. Let us look behind
us no longer. Time and space are no
more; they died yesterday. War is the
sole hygiene of the world.
I'VE preach destruction, ideas that kill
and contempt for women. We will pull
down all museums and libraries; we will
fight moralsm, feminism and ali util-
tartan cowardice. We will sing of ar
senals, factories, railway stations, iron
bridges, steamers, locomotives and aero
planes.
1--WE launch this manifesto in Italy be-
cause we want to rid Italy of her gan
creme of professors, Psychologists, cicer
oni and antiquarians. We will rid her of
her innumerable museums, which are SO
many cemeteries.
Museums are fit for inva1ids, not for
us, the. young, strong futuristS So let
fire burn all the books and water flood
the museums and the glorious pictures
be swamped. The oldest among
are just thirty. We have ten years be-
fore for fulfilling our task. When we
are forty let younger and more daring
men than we be good enough to throw us
into the waste-paper basket like old man
uScriptS.
A delightful retort was overheard in a
railway carriage on the Paris Ceinture
the suburban railway the other after
noon Among the travellers We're All ED
erly priest and three young men, who had
the bad taste to chaff him. The priest
was evidently curate of a small country
parish, and had both the roughness and
the shrewdness of the countryman.
Have you heard the news?' one of the
young men asked the cure.
No he replied. Il left home early. and
have been out all day, so l have had no
time to read my paper.
We'll, then" said the young man, you
will he gald to hear that the devil is
dead"
His companions roared with laughter at
the poor joke But the laugh turned
against the joker when the priest pro-
ducing half franc from his pocket
said.
VIII you accept this. my friend? We
are told to be kind to the orphan
Brigand Chief at Fourteen Years.
Asnieres, the lively suburb of Paris. has
the dubious honor of having harbored in
its midst the youngest brigand chief per-
haps known, a boy of fourteen. How this
lad was able to direct a formidable gang
of thieves and robbers, and have under
his orders otbar outlaws several yaarc