The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-20

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 France from interference, and enabled
 Italy to complete her unity by taking 1 Rome in 1870.
 In the forty-three years that have 1 passed since the flag of Italia unita' l was ihoisted over the Eternal City, and l the Quirina1 replaced the Vatican as
 the center of temporal power, Italy has l become a world-power. In the last few years the country has suffered somewhat from a constantly increas- 1 ing tide of emigration, which is now 1 turning toward South America. The l birth-rate in the North has also de- creased, and Italy is now facing the same problem that confronts France. The war with Turkey, resuluttung in | the annexation of Tripoli was under I taken as one method of solving the 1 Italian soil.
 l Robert Emnet, the Irish patriot who
 was executed for treason in Dublin 110 years ago today, declared in his mem
 orable Speech of Vindicatton,'' that 1 Irish-Americans will prove the truth i of that statement by erecting in | Washington magnificent monument l to their hero and martyr. The bronze statue of Emmet will occupy a niche l in the rotunda of the National Gal 1 lery of Art at the Smithsonian Insti- 1 tution- The sculptor, Jerome Connor, secured for his work the death mask l of Emmet which was made by Petrie, l by the light of a lantern in a grave yard, after Emmet's head had been
 severed from his body.
 1 "Col. CeciIie'' is the popular name | of the Germans for their future Elm 1 press the Crown Princess Cecilie. bet
 ter half of the bellicose and belligerent 1 eldest son of Europe's war lord. The | pretty Princess, who will celebrate her
 twenty-seventh birthday today, is a l colonel in the Second Si1esian Ora | goons, and she never misses an oppor-
 tunity to don her striking uniform and l lead her men. The Crown Princess is i always @dashing figure at the Kali l ser's army naneuvers. The wives of the other married sons of the German l Emperor also hold the rank of co1- onel, and his daughter, who recently became a bride, rides at the head of
 the famous Deaths Head'' Lane CTS.
 Princess Cecilie was born Sept 20,
 1886, the daughter of the late Fried
 rich Franz III of Mecklenburg- 1 Schwerin. She was nineteen when she married Crown Prince Wilhelm,
 and her first child a boy. was born
 July 4. 1906. She has two other sons, Prince Louis Ferdinand, born in 1907,
 and Prince Hubertus. born in 1909.
 The imperial youngsters have an Eng I fish governess, but the eldest, Prince | Wilhelm, who calmly calls himself
 William the fourth,'' has just been given into the charge of military tutor who will drill him in army fash l ion and educate him. for his future duties as Emperor of Germany. The Crown Princess is fond of gay
 ety and social life, and spends her days in whirl of settlements and
 pleasures. She is famed as the best
 dressed princess in Europe. She has.
 no great liking for the stiff and for i nal etiquette of the court, and on one occasion she had the crown removed from her motor cars, so that she might
 travel about without being recognized. When the Emperor heard Of it he dered that the imperial crest be inn
 mediately restored Unlike most roy ay mothers, the Grown Princess has not personally supervised the nursery regime of her children.
 The Princess Cecilie and Prince Will helm first met at wedding, It is said that he proposed to her in lit
 tie tea house at Murttz. without hay ing troubled to consult his father about the match. The future Elm press of the Germans is of Russian an- cestry, and her beauty is of the Mus covite type. Except for her nose. her features are almost classically regu- lar. Her skin is of a transparent pal Ter, her eyes brown and very large, and her hair the color of rich mahog- any.
 | Sidney Wilmot Winslow who plan
 ned, organized and now controls the shoe machinery trust, was born in
 Brewster, Mass, ffty-nine years ago today. He learned the shoe business in his fathers crude little shop, and from that small beginning he has be- come the American ttczar of foot wear,'' receiving $1o0.o GOO year as pres ident of the ''trust' which the United States government recently attacked Upton Sinclair, novelist, socialist and essential monogamist g will cele-
 brate his thirty-h birthday today. The author of "The Jungle" which upset the worlds stomach and result ed in great reforms in the meat pack ing industry, is native of Baltimore
 He secured a, divorce from his first wife on account of her unconventional relations with Harry Kemp, "the box car poet of Kansas, and last April he married Miss Mary Craig, Kimbrough- a southern woman who has been 3 1