Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-06-03

Month of Sundays.
Far months am told. many people
on the lower east side have believed
that one of the ears daughters eS-
capped the bUlSheviki. who would have
murdered her, and managed to get In
New York There is not an atom OF
known fact 10 Justify this rumor. hut
one of these days it may rise to the
dignity of the tradition of the lost
dauphn of France. writes Herbert
Corey in the Chicago News.
Her old nurse saw her the other
day." the girl who was being involun-
tarily nodded to my form in last nights
subway crush told her friend. 81 know
girl who knows her old nurse. She
says there is no doubt of it,"
The nurse talked with her, accord
ing to the story. They met face to
face on broadway car. and at first
the little princess tried to deny her
identity. But the nurse knew her
and loved her too well. and so the
cars daughter told her pitiful tale.
She had been left for dead, hut
servant found that spark of life re-
NAMED and struggled her body out Of
the Dit into which the c0rpSes Of her
father. the emperor OF all the Rus
sias. and Of her mother, the cZarina.
and of her roya! brother and sisters
had been thrown.
Romances In the Siums.
The story of the cars daughter Is
to the last degree improbable, but II
is not quite impossible. 1t might have
happened. though one may he certain
that II did rot But If II did happen.
II would he the most natural thing In
the world for the princess to come to
New York. This is the nStural repoS-
tory for old world ronlances. II Is n
greedy. badmannered. pushing, gut
tural. good-natured, bullying. bringing
generous city-and there are more in
credible and true stories packed into
that district south of Fourteenth street
and east Of Broadway than all the
movie directors in the world could
SIobl III ~ l!loillll vi tNtiIhuso'
Within the last week I have heard
of the legitimate holder Of title
whose business here is blackmail. OF
man who was millionaire In Mos
cow and who Is living on the earnings
Of his pretty daughter, who clerks
downtown. OF French 'countpss"
who was once figure In the gay
world in Paris and who now Is shoe
clerk OF leader of the Apaches Of
Paris. who has become a respectable
business man. OF the captain of a
German ~ boat who Is hOokkeener.
Such are the takngs of but few
days fishing in the waters Of east side
gossip Not one Of these tales may
he true. | haven't looked them up.
Put they are pale and lifeless com
parpd to some of the proved stories
that have come from the slums. Run
away banker. crushed aristocrat pro.
fpssional murderer, fanatic. adven.
turer. unfortunate-every tragedy In
Europe one thinks sometimes, has an
echo in these dark streets.
Sne'S being ASSI''IdtCu.
Two months ago a nice little girl
from Cincinnati came to town as pri-
yate secretary for the head Of n big
western concern. She Is quiet. demure
and ladylike--but with full share OF
western independence and sef-respect
and pep. The first week sheswrQte
home 10 her mother:
"This Is detestahle town. ] am
forced TO ride to and from work in
the subway, in WHICH am mauled
about by 'rOwds of foreigners They
Iostle each other like cattle. they are
odorous and they are incredibly i'm
polite. II seems sometimes that ]
shall he physically unequal to the
strain Of pushing and showing through
these subway jams II Is rare to seq
a man offer Il seat to a lady and then
he is westerner, No one has ever
said Excuse me- to me-"
Yesterday she wrote:
Home again after the uptown battle
In the subway. no longer resent the
pushing and showing of the crowds.
Poor things, some of them are half
speechlpss with fatigue They are al.
most faintlng on their feet. One gets
more pay In New Y0rk-but one pays
In strength and courage dispropOr-
iionate price for every dollar"
That night she went to movie and
had a cOrking good time and this
morning she refused her employers
offer TO transfer her to a western town
She said she was growing sort Of fond
of New York. ''''