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BEAUTIFUL TOWN i'm SOUTH FRANCE

view" of Pau-baluStraded terrace other
wise grandiose than that of st. German
noble mansions continue the architec-
tural line of the Chateau-Royal, ancient
Parliament house and Hotel Gassion
Great among them is the Lawrance
town house, now in notary's hands for
sale. on property division. II some out
slider does not bid 1t up within the next
three months, Miss Walker or some other
canny investor will gather it in for the
upset price of $4,000. Here's your
chance. George, to get into society. APP
ply to Maitre Rigoulet. Last winter. al
the sale of its tapestries. paintings, fur
niture and art objects, all the dealers of
Europe and America gathered in Pau.
While young William I-awrance and his
sister, Lady Vernon. bought In much, the
breaking up OF the great collection was
inevitable.
Boston, / think, claimed the elder Mr.
Lawrence. In any case, his family fame
was swallowed up In that of his wife,
the rich Miss Garner of New York, and
the yacht tragedy at He'll Gate, which
of her brother into her arms. her hus-
bands guardianship and the Lawrance
mansion at Pau.
All. me, what counting! The eldest girl
married the Marquis de Brateuil, who was
such friend OF King Edward that the
young Prince Of Wales was recently sent
to spend six months with them. The sec
ond orphan girl espoused Sir Gordon Cum
mfngs-and stuck to him. The third be-
came Countess Won Moltke of the Danish
branch of the great marshal's family.
Miss Lawrance, as / told you, married
Lord Vernon. and their daughter has just
married the rich Raoul Duval of Paris.
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No American could call Pau a title mar
ket. Plain Americans have SO intermar-
ried that the family qualifications are in
tricate. I shall not try to unravel the
Kings, Huttons. Harrisons, Winthrops.
Livingstones Wrights, Potters, Wheelers.
Morrises. Tiffanys, Storeys and Johnstons.
The present Graeme Harrison is from
Virginia. Edward Livingstone halls from
Virginia and New York. His father, Jas
per Livingstone, was the first American
master of the hounds, In 1868. And
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, wouldn't
you guess him to be from Maryland?
Love made the matches-untrammeled.
breezy. A young Philadelphia doctor
came and won a New Orleans heiress who
had been brought up from babyhood in
European "prejudices." 1 refer to Miss
Helen Connolly. daughter of James Con-
molly of New Orleans. He is the DR.. How
ard Speakman who was put in charge of
the Wright brothers by the Pau munich
patty to see that they got everything
they needed. Even after marrying, he
returned to become surgeon in the Man
York and a professor of the New York
Post Graduate Medical College. But the
pull of Pau is strong. He finally threw
:,ll over to come back and be vice presi-
dent of the Aero Club.
In another prominent New Orleans FAM
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actually artisans and little shopkeepers
In Pau at that moment. The natal Ber-
nadotte house, moldy, rickety, siX-room-
ed and occupied by a carpenter who
works in the back yard, bears a COM
memorative tablet: and when, later, King
Oscar came to visit it. the honors had
TO be done by collateral relative the
Conlte de la Cree.
1t mattered nothing. 1t is the Ameri
can colony.
cause IL is made up equally of Americans.
English and French. For similar, rea-
sons. the club is called the English Club
because its secretary, Eustache Barron,
is an lrishman, born in California of "a
Scotch mother.
fhe Barrons still have oil properties
near Santa Barbara. A daughter mar
of the only remaining French Canadian
family that has kept one of the ancient
baronies of Louis XIV. The Baron
de Longueil himself married another
American girl of Pau. the widow of a
Mr.. Barrows.
The club is important, because. as
Eustache Barron says. there is moth
ing in Pau but an earthly paradise.
quiet social life, golf. fox hunting, ten
MS, CTOQuct anu anu dii
but the latter depend on the men who
compose the club. 1t is not stand
offish. nor villa limited. Quiet Ameri-
cans who come to the hotels to spend
month or so in winter ought to ask
for membership-they easily get to
know some member. after which life
becomes worth while.
The tone was set fifty years ago by
cultured old families OF Boston, New
York. Philadelphia, Baltimore New
Orleans and other southern cities. They
were not deemed absentees. although
the Thorn house in New York. dag
onally across 9Th avenue from the old
vanished Manhattan Club, was kept
closed for years Why, they have been
burying in Pau for half a century.
Caroline Thorn, whose first husband
was a French La Chaise and who
afterward married Mr.. Sorchan-now
perhaps the oldest living representa-
tive of the old-time colony of Paris
was inferred last winter in the family
vault at Pau. Her nephew, William
h. Thorn. who was master of the
hounds in 1880. never married. His
cousin. Alfred Torrance, was killed in
. stseplechase race at the Croix de
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leaps a gate with ease that no beast of
the Pau pack can peek his nose over for
an instant. Yet I've heard them crit
icised as being nervous, even neuras-
thenic. burrowing into their straw and
sleeping all day Gf they were let to do it,,
fleeing from the gesture of raised arm,
too affectionate and gentle. LAP dogs
and small of bone. Well, time will tell
They go cub hunting next week.
Boston claims the present master OF
the hounds in F. II. Prince, astonishinglM
reckless and lucky jumper. even now
that he is some forty-ive years old. The
Prince house is on the famous Tarbes road
lined with rich villas four miles out
of Pau, then twenty miles as straight as
an arrow, smooth as billiard table,
forty feet wide and as shady as bower
with vast, square colonial brick pile in
its grounds. They have two sons, nineteen
and seventeen, great riders in the Con-
cours hippique. Mrs. Prince was a Miss
Norman, daughter of a mayor of Boston.
Boston had an earlier master of the
hounds in 1884, the sporting Nelson VIM
throp. In the past few months two very
famous representatives have died-Thom-
as Burgess, who succeeded James Gordon
Bennett as hunt master some years ago,
and his great friend, Charles Morse, jr.,
who has a brother still living i'm Boston.
The two old friends We're inseparable,
and each died. it is said. from worrying
about the health of the other A Boston
family OF the younger generation is that
Oi y. n. Wright. Iney entertain largely
and are at the head of all kinds of fes-
tivities. including the candy lessons at
the Bouzom tearooms-
:; !;
Young girls in the colony of Pau are
simply bound to have the real accom-
plishment of candy making. They may
fall down on cake, but none would dare
to marry before knowing how to make
nine kinds of sweets, from almond paste
to candied figs.
When you say Pau, you say the Bou-
King Edward said it. So, also, King AL
fonso, only recently again. when Alphonse
Meillen. the archeologist and historian
of Bearn-Navarre, presented him with
the gold-hilted play-sword of his father,
Alphonse XII, as child, which had been
lost since Queen Isabella's abdication.
They do not require club membership.
but If on entering the Bouzom cake-shop
gay and futtering with daughters and
mammas--you cannot pick up some well
coming smile you'll feel SO lonesome
that you'll pay your bill and go. But
here's the charming thing of Pau-the
second or third time you will stay with
cause. You see, Pau has not been rendered
cautious by mannerless tourist rush,
To be an American is a good passport.
Nine. Bouzom, who was a girl with
the German empress, had the honor to
give candy lessons to both sisters when
their aunt Emily led them, with the
mysteries. The place is used to royal
ties and high nobihties. And here we
are American again-the girls of Pau
have spent their time in lodging titles.
Some were unsuccessful. Take the ceIe-
brated Lawrance wards. Along the
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pile in the center of the terrace, re-
built from the ancient chateau OF the
Gassion family, was as much great
club of nice families as a vulgar hotel.
i am not afraid to advertise IL, at this
distance; Pau and Gassion are one.
The notable Mellon family can make
Pau easy for the unacquainted stranger
il they want to. Alphonse Mellon, his
torian of the Pyrenees, correspondent
of learned societies. told me that when
Miss Catherine Wright visited Lescar,
the ancient burial cathedral of the
kings of Bearn, she began translatin9
rapidly and easily. the middle age
Latin inscriptions. To the EXPLANATIONS
of the party she replied. quite simply
II deserve no prize. 1t is my state In
life. you know, ] am professor of Latin
i'm a college at home"
No prZe--with all these prizes going
Why, in any case. should not the mayor
have one? OF the Post girls, one Miss
Sarah. married Benjamin Morris Of the
New York family that has been so long
identified with Pau. Alfred de Lassence.
handsome mayor Of the sunny little city
and related 10 the Waddingtons. desired
Whereby Paris and most continental
cities owe clean streets.
Thus dealt the American girl who mar
ried the mayor.
Pau was always clean and noWery. But
il panied these girls, who live so daintily.
to see bits of paper dropped upon the
sidewalks. They said to their friend Eu-
retta: You're the mayors wife. Get
busy"
To obige his wife. de Lassence first
employed lot of old men to pick up the
bits of paper. They were not sufficient
for the scattered handbills. The old men
ran crazy, up and down. We can't keep
up they wept "our old backs are brok-
en-
stop them giving out the handbiils."
said the mayors bride. who was Amer-
can.
1t is against the law he answered.
II cannot forbid an advertiser making
you a present of a bit of paper"
Never mind the law" she answered.
AS she was bride he didn't. IL worked
like a charm. The advertisers, who had
brought some speculative suits. were over
influenced by citizens. Soon Paris caught
on. There the claims for damages were
numerous They were dealt with lad
And other cities saw
that it was good.
And so, today all over Europe, city
streets are clean of flying handbilIs, rot
by law. but by arbitrary civic decree--and
all because an American girl of Pau de-
sired that her play town should be im-
maculata, STERLING 4iEiLsli
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Berney. The Torrances. indeed. have
been so prominent in Pau that they
have a boulevard named for them
Mrs. Torrance. who gave the Pau
kennels. stills lives. in a beautiful
villa. very charitable and influential
OF the younger generation there are
the Thorn-Kings, a nephew of W. K
Thorn and actually president of the
golf club. 1t is the oldest links on the
European continent. being founded in
1885. and accounted second only to
those of st. Andrew
Philadelphia is a household word in
Pau by reason Of the Ridgways. The
famous Henry Ridgway, who was twice
master of the hounds. had for mother
that brilliant and esteemed lady whom
all Americans in Paris looked up to
from the early sixties. when she shone
as one of the four bellies Americaines of
Eugenie's imperial court. Henrys sister.
the honored Dowager Marquise de Ganay
who has lived to see three generations Of
her descendants. and one of them at the
head of the all-powerful and exclusive
Jockey Club-still keeps her property at
Pau For wife he chose an American
girl, Miss Munroe of the Munroe Bank of
Paris When he died. only a few months
ago, he left daughter, Miss Eliza beth,
and two sons. Dick and Charley, aged
twenty-five and nineteen. and so Ameri-
can In spirit that they find it hard, at
times, TO accept the French ''consigns.'
which means an unexplained rule, and
Pau laughs at amiabe stories of their
independence.
Charles Wheeler is from PHILADELPHIA.
So is DR.. Speakman. So is j. Wadsworth
Rogers, whose mother has a. beautiful
villa. She was a Miss Wadsworth of the
great land-owning family Of western New
York state Also. Mr.. Smith of Phil
adelphia, as l am told. but who had been
hunting with the meath hunt in Ireland.
has just presented to the Pau kennels
twelve of the best dogs of his pack
which dogs attract great curiosity. They
are American-bred foxhounds. and Mr..
Smith has been fifteen years bringing
them to their present perfection of points
All prize winners In the kennel shows of
Boston. Philadelphia, New York and
other cities, great things are predicted
OF them. One. dog named Speaker
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n Bau II c a r y
everybody who is
anybody married
an American girl.
In consequence,
Pau has the most
beautiful an d =
view in the world.
as Naples has the
most beautiful view
of the sea. La
MARITIME said it, and
L. a m a r tine was
right.
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Another consequence is that Pau has
the cleanest streets OF all the world An
AmericAn girl did IT,
Pau. also. is the only city where ladies'
bangs do really not uncurl, so dry the
air. so gentle are the breezes. In conse-
auence. Wilbur and Orville Wright made
Pau their aviation center in the old.
heroic days, five years ago.
When the Wrights quit Berlin, in 1909
the German empress said to them:
You're going back to Pau, You will be
happy there / was"
The German empress referred TO her
simple. breezy girlhood days at Pau,
where she was brought up with her sis
ter; and their aunt. the Princess Emily
of Schleswig- Holstein. took the young
Diana TO the hunt meets. golf. croquet,
tennis. races, teas and dances OF the
american colony
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There ARE slimpses-so the ladies tell
me-of the future wife of Caesar waltz
ing with a prince of the family of Ma
poleonss Bernadotte-which has become
the royal house Of Sweden: and as the
princeAy descendant of the Pau shop
keeper insisted on dancing in the regalia
OF his Golden F1eece-gold sheep hanging
by It's stomach from ribbon-it used to
bounce and fhif the girls on the chin.
Don't tsugh. said the YOUNG thing that
Was to he the .kaiserin, I'VE owe these
trials to honor!''' 'F;' : ~ t-s
Nor did she care "a rap that her part
ner- bad y crowd Of Rernadctte cousins,
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Special correspondence Of The Star.
PAU, South of France October Q, 1918.
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THE PAU RACE TRACK.
with glory and friendship. His widow
lives, and their son Is this Harry Hutton
who married Miss Kane. They have two
daughters. one of whom recently mar
ried brother of Eustache Barron of the
family that has oil in Santa Barbara.
Both girls are great horSewomen great
jumpers. ride to hounds, show at the
Hippique and continually win prizes.
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Certain such families. like the Huttons,
Livingstones. Princes. Forbes Morgans
and Clinches, have veriteble cult of
horses Edward Livingstone. who in his
younger days yaehted with james Gordon
Bennett, lives in his villa, Clermont. like
an old-time Virginia squire. Golf is his
other hobby which his wife shares with
him. The Clinches were the heirs of A
r Stewart, and old Mr.. Clinch was one of
the very few American members of the
Jockey Club, along with Henry Ridgway
Miss Clinch, the last survivor of the fam
lily. married French banker named Me-
rillon. and died, leaving two boys and a
girl. in their veritable show place, the
Palace Sorrento.
The Forbes Morgans came from the
south, great hunting people. Miss Forbes
Morgan married Wilfred Chapman, an
Englishman, and they have children be-
ing brought up in America. The late Mrs.
Harris Phelps was one of the expatriated
Pells. Her father was SO enchanted with
the mild climate of Pau that he willed
his daughter should forfeit all claim to
his property should she ever return to
1.-The accursed climate of New York.
which disposition the New York courts
promptly set aside as immoral. Mrs.
Phelps, succeeding to the Pell house,
built ballroom ard grand gardens. She
left one son, aged twenty-five and study
ing in Paris law schools.
1t is a giorified American village. Take
Miss Walker. notable woman who never
married. Aunt of the Countess de Ma
vailes. in her beautiful chateau outside
Pau. and with a positive genius for real
estate. Miss Walker has bought quanti-
ties of properties In Pau. l have heard
that she is perfecting scheme to bring
over sensationally large punches Of Amer
lean girl school teachers on long vaca-
tons. But who knows? / cannot vouch
for it-there is gossip in Pau also.
Some say that she got the idea from
Miss Catherine Wright. The sister Of
Wilbur and Orville-so I understand
might easily have remained in Pau
had she not been so passiOnately de-
voted to her brothers. They lived at the
Hotel Gassion five months. Then-as
forty years ago and now-the grandiose
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Its riches are insxhaust.

ibe the dig into ii, the you put into it.
luatiOe ample capital for anybody and anything. Only
the doubling poverty stricken What your father had
nothing uon Your will properly
it make you powerful and mighty any Of
Adam
Your natural endowments furnish all essential fnces he
Money and education sometimes simplify but seldom
struggles Those who rely solely either generally loco te
and derive benefit from the other you duplicate
what who his wits with skill
will seize what you can't defend
knowledge force, but simply adoiser Of octions
Unschooled thinkers have contributed the world
Learning profiess until it earning. We puyno
than he North. Those who teach nothing
egate the ranks and minor Offices Their recog
milton with their uniportant activities But
enterprise establishes its Leaders Be
lated by auos Of average because they make the
Average.
There enough your scalp to cut continents
shattered bodies netanorose the Sahara graa.
and drain the Dismal Brains and brains conceived
created and founded all the utilities of civilization Mine mind
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By Herbert Kaufman
ne Your Mind.

MlH IL
There ready roads Fame and fortune
do not provide highways Where many fare many SHARE.
Opportunity lies off the beaten track that's why there
much of it. There's alongside the trail than the
path itself We always urfeited with things
and Those who adopt conventional avocons and do
alter the conditions under which they work. find themselves
battling for hung But originality precious
every year. you discover goal develop
tory unappied principle you're worth your figure
Civilization +3a##
Don't be dauted by the estimates Of commonplace brains
Instinct usually confound calculation Imagination the
ultimate faculty. Its infinite
Given free rein, it is by prospecting the
possibilities Of mental laboratory in which fancy
with the unknown and the unsoU lens
microscope and telescope enaging ideas empires
reducing futures immediate Uisio 1t Digs and beats
among planets dons dining bells and the bed
it stalks seveneague boots and the feeble legs of Time
When independent precedent and utammeed by
tradition anscends all and Of weath
compared with which those of tabled Golondn and Ind Ell
dorado pittances.
Every human vtn himself talents that oufuaLue the
products Of Kimberley and the Rand filled the gold
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A BEAUTIFUL TOWN I'm THE SOUTH
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-20
Aunt Saily's AdDice
to Beauty Seekers

K C. F. says: my skin becomes
so greasy every summer, and this so
attracts dust and dirt that l have an
awful time keeping my face clean
looking. Can you suggest anything?"
The method mentioned in reply to
Eloise will overcome this condition
d. N. A. writes: How can l get
rid of crowsfeet and wrinkles about
the mouth corners?" Use wash To-
ton prepared by dissolving / OF. pow
dered saolixte In " pit. witch hazel.
This tightens the Skin, tending to
dispense wrinkles, and its tonic effect
is more than temporary.
Bloise says: "My freckles are worse
than ever this year, made doubly
conspicuous by pallid complexion.
Is there any cure?" Ask your drug
gist for an ounce of mercolized wax,
apply nightly like cold cream, remov-
Ing in the morning with warm water.
AS the wax gradually and harmlessly
absorbs the affected cuticle, not only
wifi the freckles vanish, but the new
ard Younger skin which appears will
have a healthy color. Probably you
will need to continue treatment a
week or more.-Woman's Realm
Adv.
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Cheyenne opens ovid West wesk.v

Cheyenne Opens wild West Week.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Aug. 20.-Chey-
enne today forgot this is the year
1913 and harked back to the days
when it was the extreme frontier post
OF the then great unexplored west
The occasion was the sixteenth an
nual frontier days celebration which
began today and will continue through
Saturday evening. During the four
days Indians from the agencies Of
Nebraska and Wyoming. cowboys and
cowgirls, all ACQUIRED in the garb
worn in the old days, will hold full
sway. To see them in the riding, rop-
ing. shooting and other contests fully
thirty thousand visitors are here.
There were eighteen events on to-
days program which included half
mile foot race In which only full
blooded Indians can enter; cow-pony,
burro and wild horse races: fancy
riding and driving; shooting, and rop.
Ing exhibitions of all kinds. Several
thousand dollars in prizes will go to
the winners.
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Moberly, Mo-, are guests of her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. John Kirch.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. J. Kirch moved
this week to the Houchens' residence
recently purchased by them.
Miss Nell Tower Of Beloit, Wiscon-
sin, is guest at the home of Charles
Hitler.
Colonel Joe Wavering spent Sunday
in Quincy with his family.
Mrs. j.. w. Hummel of Browning,
Mo-, and Mrs. w. G. Twyman of Col
linsville, Oklahoma, are guests of
their parents Mr.. and Mrs. j. S.
Sloan.
The grand jury has adjourned after
finding fifteen indictments. They
recommended some improvements at
the poor farm and as usual condemn
ed the county Jail. Incidentally they
spent great deal of the county 5
money in witness fees, etc.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hess and fam
lily of Bucklin, Mo, are guests of
county relatives. They made the trip
by auto.
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made the weather ideal and good
crowds are in attendance. The pro-
gram is very good one, with the
best yet to come. Be sure to attend.
Editor and Mrs. Elmer Hull and
baby arrived Friday from Kirkwood,
III. The former returned Monday.
Mrs. Hull and the baby will remain
for visit of several weeks.
William Sewers, aged A years, died
at the home of his parents Mr. and
Mrs. w. H. Sewers near Revere Sat
urday night. Funeral services were
conducted from the M. P. church at
st. Francisyille, Sunday at o'clock.
by Rev. e. M. Houchens. Burial I'M
der the auspices of the Masonic order,
The parents, one brother and one
sister survive.
Mrs. Clark Wilson of Kirksville is
the guest of her parents Mr.. and Mrs
Geo. Haywood.
q. B. Christy of Thomas, Oklahoma,
arrived Friday for a visit with Ka.
hoka relatives and friends. Mr
Christy was for many years editor OF
the Kahoka Gazette-Herald. His
friends were pleased to see him after
an absence of several years.
Owing to the continued illness OF
Judge NJ. l. Clay, probate court was
continued to Monday, September 8.
Circuit court adjourned Saturday tc
| the regular October term.
Mrs. Clara Eastwood and son o.