The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-20
EDITORIAL NOTES

IS EUllUKAHL NUlEO
 M Raymond Poincare. President of France, will today pass his fifty third milestone, having been born in Bar le-Duc on August 20, 1860 The emi- nent statesman who recently succeed 1 ed ''Papa'' Fallieres in the Elysee, comes of a family eminent in litera- ture and science. His father was ] brothers has also attained high posi- ton in the government His cousin, Henri Poincare. the famous mathema- l tician, was elected to the French Acad- eny in 1909. The family name of the 1 President was originally Poing-carre | meaning square-f1sted.
 1 M. Poincare is the ninth chief-of- state since the mighty structure of the French republic was reared on the ruins of the empire in 1870. In the opinion of many observers of Euro pean affairs, he has already shown a fitness for the high office that entities him to rank among the greatest of the nine.
 1 M. Poincare early gained an enviabIe reputation as a lawyer. and was one l of the leaders Of the Paris bar where ] his eloquence, wit and humor attracted wide attention. He was only twenty seven when he. was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from his home | district. He carried on a personal 1 campaign, visiting all of the 172 com munes of the arrondisaement. The op- l position was based principally on his extreme youth, but to this he replied, | fsI promise you that 1t is a. fault of l which will speedily cure myself 1 At the age of thirty-two M. Poin- care became a member of the govern l tlon. a position requiring ability of a high order. Next he was chosen finance minister, and afterward Pre- i mier of France.
 Great as was his success as law i yer M Poincare in his young man hood had an ambition to become Journalist, and wrote many "thrillers" which were published in a Bar-1e-Duc newspaper. Since then he has at- | tained such ability as writer as to be elected to the Academy. Tn ap- pearance he has been described as "un l gainly,'' and his face, although pleas ing and intellectual, is far from being moulded on classic lines. He is scarce l ly more than Napoleonic in stature, 1 being only about i've feet in height gray, and his eyes, which are small and piercing. are also gray.
 Mime. Poincare, the first lady of re- publican France, is of Italian birth, and the President is her second hus- band. She married M. Poincare after ! ne haQ snct6Q as a0T I0 W CT III S0SNi1IS a divorce from her first husband, a German who had been an attache of the Kaiser's embassy in Paris
 Julia sanderson, star of s@The Sum shine Gfrl,'' will celebrate her twenty sixth birthday today. but. despite the fact that she is in the full flower of her youth and beauty, she wishes it distinctly understood that no matri- moniaI candidates need apply. Miss Sanderson recently secured a divorce from Tod Sloan. the jockey, and she had to coin new word to express her l joy Its perfectly phospholorus to be single once more!'' she told the re- porters, and added, 'sNo more matri- mony for me!"-twhereat the scribes went out into the night, weeping si- lentIy. Miss Sanderson was born in Springfield, Mass. and began her stage career at the age of five. with Fore paugh's Stock Company in Philadel- phia- She was only seventeen when she married Tod Sloan, the celebrate jockey According to testimony given at the divorce hearing, the wedding bride had departed. Sloan was found eating breakfast with one of the wo- man guests on the morning after the banquet, and, when thesM houEekeeper renonstrated with him for his neglect of his bride, Sloan only remarked, JAW, calm yourself Rosenary.
 In all of the seventy monster ies of the Trappists, or Order of the Reformed Cistercians, the festival of St. Bernard, one of the founders of the society will be observed today. The Trappists program for the hon bring of the saint begins with the chanting of the divine office short ly after one o'clock in the morning. During this ceremony the Abbot, cloth ed in mftre and crozier, imparts a special blessing to the monks. The office is followed by private masses. and ethen comes the solemn pontihcal mass In the afternoon solemn pom tfhcaf vespers are sung, and the sol emn benediction of the most blessed sacrament is imparted.
 There are five Trappist nnonasteries in Canada, and four in the United States. the most famous being the Abbey of Notre Dame du Lac. at La Trappe near Oka, in the province of Quebec No other religious order inn poses such severe discipline upon it's members Absolute, silence i9 the rule, and the monks spend their days in unceasing toll. earning their mea- gre sustenance by the sweat of their brows-
 St. Bernard, who died 76O years ago today, used to say to applicants for admission to the monastery, If you desire to enter here, leave an the threshold the body you have brought