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what the poet says of women in gensraI:-
Heaven gave to women the peculiar
grace,
To laugh. to weep. to cheat the human
race.
She can make butter and scold the
maid, she can sing MoOre's melodies and
plat her folds and caps; she cannot make
rum, gin or whiskey, but she is a good
judge of the quality Of each from long
experience in tasting them. therefore
offer her. with all her perfectious and
imperfeetions, for the sum of 6fy
shiIings" %
The woman was finally sold 10 one
Henry Mears for the sum Of twenty
shillings and Newfoundland dog. Man
and wife parted in perfect good temper.
Mears and the woman going one Eay,
Thompson and the dog sBotheE,
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sensational experience. It happened al
Danbury, on little half mile dirt track
where they used to run the trOtting races
at the Connecticut State Fair. Local pro
moters had arranged a meeting, and
Bruce Brown was to meet me in the feat
ure event of the day. We got of to a
f. start, and, picking up speed quickly,
the two cars roareL into the first turn.
Swinging round the backstretch, I man
aged to shoot into the lead, nosing my
machine aheaGS Of Bruce-Brown's, and was
sweeping along at an awful pace when
suddenly I heard the sound that all driv-
ers fear.
It was a deafening explosion, the burst.
ing Of my front tire. A moment later I
felt the car gradually rising from the
rear. Faster and faster it rose, until
jumping into the air it spun on its front
wheels and crashed in a heap. 1 remained
at the wheel, because driver never leaves
the wheel If he thinks there's a chance.
But there was no chance. The upset came
so quickly that was caught I only re-
membered a great cloud Of dust that hung
trembling, a streak that swept by in smoke
and fame, a sharp pain in my legs, and
t1en-
The next thing knew a burly special
policeman was holding me in his arms.
With his right arm he supported my body.
With the other he was holding a whiskey
glass 10 my mouth and pouring its contents
down my throat. I remember him say
ing:-"YOuH be adj right now. This viii
brace you up. Just walk a bit" Then
he Withdrew the arm with which be had
been holding me and stepped back. The
he did 50 I fell in a heap on the
track Ny two legs had been broken and
neither be nor had realized it.
That accident disabled me for ten weeks.
Sometimes wonder how it was that my
skull wasn't broken, too.
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at a crazy angle, and, realizing what I
had done, twisted the wheel with my
left hand just as the front wheels were
plunging into a ditch. Somehow We re-
mained righted and, tearing along the
ditch, jumped back on the road. By this
time the momentary paralyEadon was
over, and with both hands on the wheel
took up the chase. Why that car didn't
turn over with US beneath Is beyond
me.
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could gain on him. So along the back
stretch where I wouldn't be caught and
blamed for taking chances 1 forced my
car to the limit. The roads were rather
rutty at this point on the course and
often We were bumped up and down on
our seats. Still I drove faster. I needed
every second could get.
Then came the accident. As I was
looking down the road, figuring on how
close 1 could shave the turn ahead, l
heard a splintering sound. The next mo-
ment the seat broke beneath me. I was
thrown to the floor of the car with both
hands hanging to the wheel like a man
falling from a window grips the ledge.
couldn't see where I was steering. l
might be headed for destruction. Indeed
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Of It was sickening. he made such q
race Of it
Then a man came running up and said
that Zengle had broken down too, that
he had also blown a tire, that he was hav-
ing q terrible time putting on a new one.
Then my mechanician, who was work
ing feverishly, slipped on our tire and,
giving a mighty push, missed his hold, fall
ing headlong. By this time had bound
ed into the drivers seat and started the
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then the car began to shake to the roar
ing of it's 200 horse power engine. Faster
and faster we few. For thirty feet at a
time the car was not on the ground-just
leaping through the air and crashing
down on the sand as il it were going
through the beach. And always the wind
kept hOwling and the front wheels doing
a weird dance.
1 was Just beginning to lose conscious
ness, to loosen the grip had on the
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engine just Is my mechanic, scramblIDs
to his feet. jumped in beside me. We
would catch Zengls and Eini
Opening wide the engine shot round
the park remember passing a gray
blur. zsngls,s car that had inst got going.
passed the 6nish line with him behind
thought had won. Then the gray
racer swept up the stretch. over the line.
had its time taken and won. I had lost
By bare seconds, lost after a heartbreak-
ing race Of two hundred miles.
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Harry knight teRs hot0 he saved Q
MANS life at Indianapolis q year e1o.
BY HARRY KNIGHT.

7 racing career has
beeen a comparative
ly short one. I sat
for the first time in q
bucket seat only a
few years ago. 1
have not been driving
half as long as most
of the men whom I
will meet on Ne
mortal Day. Yet I
have one experience
that from the rest Of
my life stands out
like a fash Of fame.
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until my mechsnician grabbed me up and
lifted my head to where could see the
road was in the grsvest danger Of my
life. Thrown to the floor of that car,
unable to see the road ahead, it was only
Providence that stopped Us from jumping
the course and crashing into the ditch.
Robert BHrman broke q teorIGs record
toheH he drore racing car at q speed Of
III miles an hour over the sand Of Day
toHa Beach, Fla.
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steering post, to close my eyes, to yield
completely to the drOvslnsss that had
come over me. when. vita last instine-
tive movement, shut OF the engine.
How long the. car bowlsd along with the
power gone I don't know When it
stopped. though. man came running up
crying. Bob, you've broken the worlds
recOrdF' 1t was some moments before l
could talk. The breath had almost been
driven from my body. Then I told him.
''weil, I never want to again"
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BY RALPH MULFoRD.

7 most sensational
moment was neither
an accident nor the
fear Of an accident.
1t was = delay that
cost me the Fair
mount Park race and
aS2,oo0 cash prize in
October of 1910 Ny
car -as entered in
the 600 cubic inch
engine displacement
class, but I was com
peting for the grand
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ny is It that you
newspaper men are
continually asking
for thrilling expert
enees," how il feels
to travel eighty niles
on hour to win q
race? Generally I re-
frain from talking
about them. I have
not thought anything
in my career worth
the telling. But now
there Is something
which may interest
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w ask me 70 tell
you something about
my most thrilling
moment on the track.
What you ask is
hard. To most of US
they are all thrilling
moments In the
years l have been
driving racing cas-
five years, to be e1-
act-I haye had, I
suppose, as many
close calls as any
driver. I have shot
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from a track and gone ripping through
4 tense. have scraped my wheels against
the car racing.beside me. have skiddsd
from course and crashed into a great
boWldsr. And always have escaped.
There was one time, though, that, now
think Of it, was undoubtedly my most
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DC@ Lue mAQQie OF
the Indiana Trophy
race there came to
me the most thrilling
experience Of my
racing career. I had
caught and passed
Robertson and was
trying to increase my
lead. I knew that
Robertson was hav-
ing trouble with his.
car, but I also knew.
him 10 be one u the
cleverest and most
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~ NJ 4AS Two e1pe-
riences stand out.
One happened when
I was a little boy. I
had a dream. I
dreamed that / was
in bed and that some
body put me and my
bed into a cannon.
Then the cannon was
fired, and !, bed and
all went tearing
through the air close
70. the ground, faster
than the bullet. And
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you know. in that race Oh, yes, but
I an forgetting. You want to hear some
thing that happened to me. Very well.
I was racing in the twenty-four hour
contest at Brighton Beach two years
ago. 1t was a mighty hard race Two
concerns had entered cars with the an
nounced intention of breaking the worlds
record. They were both after it Now, the
drivers of these cars set a frightful pace
for the dangerous Brighton track. To
keep near them the rest of US had to take
all sorts of chances I remember when
1 was chasing them around.the paddock
turn that I was brought closer to death
than ever want to be again.
Eaten away by the terrific strain, my
two front tires blew up with a roar.
Spinning around, the rear of the car, de-
Bcribing a great arc crashed into the fence.
What my feelings were in those flying
seconds cannot tell. I only know that
I thought more of religion than at any
time in my life. I remember the grind
Of the brakes. the screaming contact Of
spIintered wood scraping alongside me.
I remember how the car, tilting on its
left wheel, rose, swayed, hung for a mo-
ment as if about to OTerturn, taking me
and my mechanician to destruction, and
then it righted and crashed down on
four wheels was safe, but when I
Jumped out I was trembling.
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TELL you I've been
In 50 many races
that it's a hard thing,
you know, to pick out
one of them and say
that it put you the
very devil Of a fx. ]
think, though, the
track races are apt
TO cause more acci-
dents than road rae
inS. That's why
there'H be some jolly
fine smashup= out at
T,dia1onoIiE NJ
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it blew a gale, harder and harder, until I
felt the muscles Of my neck straininE. It
was awful to face that resistance. It
drove ny back against the seat. And
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"HGghie" Hughes, Hervy little Eng
hshmoH, tells a story of on Gocident ckiok
IS apt to happen to any fobo drive racing
vars.
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pits down and then shoot on a crazy boil
into q nearby field. That's all remem-
Der. That night they told me had
saved somebody's life. 1 think they
exaggerated, but it was an experience ]
shall never forget.
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And q is to the road race tkGt zee must
again tHrn 70 hear the experience of Joe
AatsOn. While Joe M0tsOR tOas i0inHino
the indiana Trophy, race held ttoo years
ago near Chicago, he to0s aEmost killed.
BY Joe" MATSON
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4 bursting tire Is feared by al race
drivers. Ralph De PaIma tsIIs t0hGt hap
psnsd to him a. the result of tire e-plo-
ron. ..
BY RALPH DE PALMA.
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Ralph AEltord k6s SH escitin0 story Of
a road race in FsirmoSnt Park, PhH6deE
phi0, ttco years ago.
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iaring drivers l. thegame. He was hard
inisher. I needed every second that =
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Teddy TetsiaS, 'ohO broke sooriSI
record at saHtG MO"ioo, tells th1lRao
story.
BY TEDDY TETZLAFF.
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when avOke I didn't fan on the aO0r.I
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BY ROBERT BURMAN.

n my life two expe
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BY HUGHIE HUGHES.

TELL you I've b,
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BOUT the middle n,
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eleverest and most
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OU ask me to ten
The herald., 1912-07-11
Burning CelluIoid.

Burning cellulOid is one Of the most
difficult and dangerous kinds Of fire to
cXtinguish. An investigation by DR..
Pnnzer Of Vienna has shown that.
while the substance does not ignite
spontaneously, decomposition cOntln-
ues after the danes Of piece Of burn
Ing cellulOid are eXtinCui>hCd ana does
not cease even when tie material il
plunged into vessel of caybouic acid
or steam. Oxygen from the air hot be-
ing necessary for decomposition, water
and ordinary chemical eXtinguishers
have little effect on CcliulOid fires. De
composition takes place at temporal
lures between 22O degrees and 365 de-
grees L.. and may Ue started by an
open flame or even hot stove. When
slowly heated the celluloid first sOftens,
then blisters and finally decOmpOSes
suddenly, sometimes bursting into
flame. The products are gases, liquids
and carbon The white fumes from
combustion form an explosive mixture
with air, and the COlorless gases con
tain poisonous carbon monoZide ana
nitrogen oxides. As these gases. ex-
poSive and irreSplrable. are intensely
hot. moreover, it is almost impossible
for firemen to get near celluloid blaze
IN a building.
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How to Keen Roses Fresh,

Proper care of cut flowers will double
their lease of life. Even dollhouse
roses, usually the shortest lived of bios
SONS. can be made TO retain their
beauty and fragrance for two weeks II
one will take the trouble to boil the
stems. To do this set pan of hot Wa
ter on the stove and when the water
begins to boil place the stems of the
flowers in the water TO the depth Of
one inch. Hold the flowers carefully TO
prevent their touching the sides or bot
tom of the pan. Allow them TO boil tif-
teen or twenty minutes. Remove the
flowers and clip off the portions of the
stems that were in the water. They
are then ready TO be arranged in the
vase or bowl Many persons have poor
success in keeping cut flowers because
they do not put fresh water into flower
vases every day. The stems of the
flowers should he clipped every day IL
enable them to take up more water.
Never leave cut flowers in warm
room overnight. Set them in a cool
place.-KansaS IndustrialiSt.
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A Touch of Human Nature.

The doors which open from the side
walk into the lobby of big building
are heavy ones and are very hard to
open. Yesterday a little hunchback
stepped out of an elevator on the first
floor, followed by great big man.
The hunchback reached the doors first
and threw himself against one. Al
though he pushed with all his might,
he couldn't open it. Chagrined, he STEP
ped back, and the big man stepped up
Noticing the look Of humiliation on
the face of the little fellow, the big
man said:
"Tve got sore wrist. Come on; let's
see if we both can't open it."
The hunchback and the big man bott
pushed on the door, and Of course il
opened. The two went out smiling.
The big man had no sore wrist at all
Two or three people looking on fell
like cheering for him.-New York Tele
graph.
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a Correct Answer,

Senator Bailey once was chairman or
q committee to examine candidates Tor
admission to the bar in Dallas county,
Tex. In the case of one candidate Mr.
Bailey reported to the judge presiding
that In his opinion the aspirant for le-
gal honors had not duly qualified. hav-
ing answered correctly but one of the
questions put to him.
"Only one question" asked the
Judge. well. what was that OneT
II asked him what freehold estate
Is" replied Bailey.
Gan important question" commented
the Judge. "And what was his replyT
He made it without the least hesita-
tion," observed Bailey with n slight
smile. The fact is. of course, in his
favor"
We'll. what did he say?" demanded
the Judge impatiently.
He said" responded the chairman.
that he didn't know."-New York
World.
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THE HERALD

shall hold their Office until the next annual
election under this charter.
All meetings of the stockholders, whether
general or special, shall be held after notice
of such meeting shall have been given by
the secretary and treasurer, in writing, TO
each stakeholder delivered either In person
or by mail, ten days prior 10 such meeting
ARTICLE SIXTH.
AT the termination of this charter by
Limitation or otherwise, the business or az
fairs of this corporation SHAH be llquldateu
by two commissioners to be appointed from
among the stockholders convened for that
purpose, after ten days notice as above re-
Guired Said commissioners to be elected
by a majority of the shares OF stock present
or represented at such meeting and voted in
perSO" vi 4 GRTicLE SEVENTH.
This charter may be changed or altered
or amended. or the corporation shall be DIS
solved or ordered ljquidated by vote OF two
thirds of the capital STOCK present OF repre-
vened for that purpose after ten days notice
as required above.
No stakeholder shall ever be held respons-
lille or liable for the contracts or faults or
this corporation in any further sum than
the unpaid balance due TO the corporation on
the shares owned by him, nor shall any
mere informality in the organization nave
tho effect OF rendering this charter null and
void or exposing any stakeholder TO any ia,
bility beyond the amount OF his unpaid
stock.
Thus done and passed, in my Office at New
Orleans Louisiana on the day, month and
wear herein first above written, in the pres
cnce of Gaspar Pictri and George W. Moore,
both competent witnesses or lawful age, re-
siding in this city and parish, who have
hcreunto signed their names with the SAID
appearers and me, notary, after due reading
OF the whole.
CSignedI Frank II. Thomas: John Russo,
and others. c. Pietri. Geo. W. Moore.
BENJAMIN DRY, Not. Pub
|. the undersigned recorder OF MORTGAGES
| in and for the parish or orleans, state on
| IouiSiana. do hereby certify that the above
and foregoing act Of incorporation OF The
| ApoIlo Company was this day duly record
ed in my Office, in book 1883, folio -
New Orleans. La, June 26th. 1912.
(Sgned) EMILE LEONARD,
by. Recorder.
true copy Of the original.
| New Orleans, Ia, June Goth. 1912.
| BENJAMIN DRY, Not. PUB.
! iuly II 1S % aug ]
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CHARTER.
of THE mccoy COMPANY, INCORPOR
ATED.

OF THE MCCOY COMPANY, 1NCORPok-
oN ATED.
United STATES OF AMERICA, STATE
OF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF ORLEANS,
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
Re II known, that on this 1eth DAY OF
Juue. In the year Of our Lord, one tnousahd
nine hundred and twelve, before me, Aftnur
A. Moreno, a notary PUBLIC, In and Tor Ins
parish OF Orleans, state OF Louisiana, duIy
commissioned and qualified, personally came
and appeared A. ]. Mccoy, n: v. Mccoy, c:
w. MCCOY, John C. Lawler, John A McSoy
and i. +. Mccoy, who declared unto me tnat
they do hereby form and bind themselves
as well as such other persons as may mere
after join them, into corporation Ior
term OF ninety-nine years, from date nereoI'
nnder the name of the Mccoy Company, In.
cornorated- with a domicile In the City OF
New Orleans, State Of louisiana.
ARTICLE ].
The purpose of this corporation snalI pe
To carry on q general contracting business
TO construct pavements, roads, levees, drains,
sewers and to demolish and erect buildings,
structures and works and improvements OF
every hind. nature and description, to buy.
and sell merchandise and other products,
and TO act as agents for all kinds OF PROD
nets and for everything that pertains to the
Aforesaid business and generally doing and
eneaaing In any other business, or enter
nrise connected with or growing out OF, ger
name or incidental to any OF the purposes
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GUARDING His Job.

Old Sam had been seen for several
days patiently sitting on the bank OF
the Rappahannock river, near the dam.
holding his shotgun in his hand
Finally he attracted the attention OF
a passerby, who asked:
"well. Uncle Sam. are you looking
for something to doT
mo, subj" answered Sam: IT'S gittin'
paid 70 what rs doin'."
Indeed" said the other. "And what
may that be?"
"Shootin' de muskrats dat am under
minin' de DAM" answered Sam.
"Why, there goes one nowF exclaim-
ed the stranger excitedly. "Why don't
you shoot?"
."S'pose l wants to lose nah Job.
subj" answered Sam complacently.-
Saturday Evening Post
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prior notice shall have been given, in person
or by mail to each stakeholder. The said
commissioners shall remain In office until the
affairs " the corporation shall have been
fully liQuidated, and in case or the death
of one or more of said commissioners, or
other vacancy occurring in their numbers,
those who remain shall continue TO act, until
the vacancy is filled by a meeting Of the
stockholders called after ten days notice
thereof.
ARTICLE IN.
This charter may be changed. modified or
altered, or said corporation may be dissolved
with the assent Of a majority in amount Of
the capital stock, at a general meeting Of
the stockholders convened for such purpose.
after thirty days notice of such meeting
shall have been given in writing 10 each
stakeholder. Such meeting can only be
called by request of two or more stOckhold-
ers who own Jointly at least forty per cent
of the capital stock Of the corporation.
ARTICLE "
No stakeholder OF this corporation shall
be- held liable or responsible for its con
tracts or faults in any further sum than the
unpaid balance due on the shares of stock
owned by them, nor shall any informally
in organization have the effect of rendering
this charter null or Of exposing a stock
holder to any liability beyond the amount
of the unpaid balance due on his stock.
Thus done and passed, in my office, at the
city OF New Orleans, on the day, month and
year herein first above written in the pres
ence Of MeSsieurs Philip :. Gidiere and Au-
gust III. Ritter, competent witnesses, who
hereunto sign their names with the said ap
bearers and me, notary, after reading of the
whole.
Original signed: A w Berdon, Bernard
Meyer, +. J. Labry. Witnesses Philip :
Gidiere, 4. ii. Ritter.
J. VI. QUINTERO, Notary Public.
l. the undersigned recorder of mortgages
in and for the parish of Orleans, State oi
Louisiana. do hereby certify that the abov,
and foregoing act of Incorporation of th'
New Orleans Rice Company was this day
duly recorded in my Office, in book 100
folio =. New Orleans. La, July >, 1912.
CSigned) EMILE LEONARD. u. X.
A true copy.
J. VI. QUINTERO, Notary Public.
| july II Is % aug :
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How to Walk.

There is no virtue in a dawdling
saunter. The slow and languid drag
ging of one foot after the other which
some people call walking would tire
an athlete. 1t utterly exhausts a weak
person, and that is the reason why
many delicate persons think they can
not walk. To derive any benefit from
the exercise 1t is necessary to walk
with a light, elastic step which swings
the weight of the body so easily from
one leg to the other that its weight
is not felt and which produces
healthy glow, showing that the slug
gish blood is stirred to action in the
most remote veins.
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Bananas.

Bananas, If they are unripe, may be
used with advantage as a vegetable.
Cut the fruit in halves, stew them for
twenty-five minutes in just a little
water, drain. cover them with a cream
sauce such as you use for caulifiower
and serve them hot The ripe fruit Is
a delicious garnish to meat Cut round
slices from ripe, firm bananas, fry
them in butter and lay a few on the
top and round a broiled steak as 1t
goes to table.
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Domestic Strategy.

81 suppose you try to make your
home so attractive to your husband
that he will wish to spend all his spare
moments in it"
"Yes. / keep matches and cigars
where he may always find them handy;
there isn't a tidy or a sofa pillow or
anything Of that kind in his room, and
I allow him to have portraits Of his
father and mother hung in places that
are Just as good as those which are
devoted to the pictures Of my own par
nts."-Chicago Record-Herald.