The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-30
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

1 to ask me to say something more
 about my impression of him as man. I can only give an imperfect ac-
 count as I was thrown with him so little on account of his missing con nections and delayed trains. heard after D. m. that he had arrived at the Tutwiler. and worked up to 20
 minutes to and then went to call upon him.
 I was told that he was in room sos and without sending up card or wait | ing to get him over the phone, I went
 up and knocked on his door. loud voice said. Come in.' and in I went, to get quite a distinct shock, for in bed with his hands folded across his
 breast. lay the count.
 | I gave him my name and told him
 that I had called to pav my respects and to see if he had any outline of I the address he was to deliver. still holding his original position. he asked me to be seated. Evidently I showed
 my surprise at finding him in bed within less than half an hour of his | lecture engagement. It must have | been look also of sympathy, for he motioned me to him and I was soon
 sitting on the side of the bed. 1 =
 l If stranger had dropped in he would have thought that we were very dear friends or relatives. for he was
 pouring out his troubles to me. And he was surely in the middle of bad I fix. for getting in late he had un
 dressed to make ready. thinking that his dress suit case would be up every
 minute. But some one had blundered and it had been left at the Terminal station. debutante whose coming ou. gown had failed to arrive in time for her party could not have taken it more to heart than did the count, because
 his evening suit was lost.
 l ! tried to comfort him by telling him it was a nasty" evening, and
 that the crowd would be cut down and
 not inclined to be critical if he ap- peared in his business suit. but he felt as lecturer that he must wear the 1 regulation costume de riguer or be l thought a boor. I think T had him {, relenting bit when ran came and
 bell boy with the much delayed valise
 entered. and out of Bed sprang the lec- ] turer in a race to get 10 the church on time.
 Now. I am nothing if not curious fand what's more. if I can satisfy it by
 asking questions. I nave no hesitancy 1 whatever in propoundine them. The l first thing which attracted my atten- and thinking them Russian, I asked about them. to be told that they did not come from his country but that he I had bought them when in London. | then spoke of the fame of Russian i leather. and he said that his shoes
 he was independent of shoe makers.
 as he had learned the art at the side of his father.
 It was an easy step to other articles | of wear, and proudly showing me his white dress shirt. he requested me to feel the sleeves. which I did. and
 knew that they were made of the finest
 linen. I was taken aback, however, at least 10 years old. But" said he, that was characteristic of Russian
 made products before the. advent of l the bolshevists" He then asked me to | examine the material of his dress suit 1 which was made mot in Germany" but | last like iron.
 l Why do tell you about the counts clothes? For reason: they were like
 the wearer. ".all wool and yard vide ! in looks and character I will never forget to my dying dav the great like ness of the son to the picture of the { father. taken in peasants cap and wearing a peasants gown. It is my favorite one oS the great Russian. The count. into whose face I was look | ing, might have sat for it and none would have been the wiser save the in- innate friends of the family or the relatives. It was a striking resem- 1 blance and almost like seeing the man
 who dominated two centuries.
 was struck with the ruggedness 1 of the man. He seemed to have both physical and moral strength, a man I not for the drawing rooms, but for | the fields. I had the hope as I was | trying to size him up that he was the incarnation of the spirit of Russia. for 1 if he is the composite Russia. she is not dead as was so tragically an- | nounced by Princess Radziwill. in her at the First Baptist Church To me he has the culture of the 'intellect- uals'' sweetened bv the teaching of hu- | man brotherhood. according to Le Tol- | stoi. the aristocrat who voluntarily ] left, his rich estate to live with the peasants.
 | As we came out of the Tutwiler | said T will hail taxicah" How far l is it?" he asked. "Oh several blocks, ! to be told. Whats the use. Let's walk. :. And so we did. had brought him
 down from the second floor of the Tutwilers and fearing he might stumble on the winding marble stairway. [ 1 caught hold of his arm. hut he brushed me aside. and said "Oh that's tot l necessary: I can make it myself" I 1 later tried to catch his arm to guide him across the street. but he was inn | patient at being helped though 1t was not for lack of courtesy but merely an asserting of the fact that he was 1 O alA T