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The New York herald., 1921-03-13

our train was hauled by an American
engine. Every freight train and every
freight yard we passed, down there under
Caesars walls, displayed an American box
car or fiat. But the raucous New York Cen
tral siren OF that engine had been changed
to 4 typical European tin whistle and with
it, voice its character had changed. too. 1t
stopped every place. There was no wagon
restaurant on that train for breakfast. But
the train stopped for dozen breakfasts
Past Toulon, with its old walls and its
fine new naval port; past Hyeres and into
st. Raphael, the first of the authentic col
onies Of white. red rooted and orange gar
dened villas with Its promenade on the sen
thronged with healthy. nice looking people
tramping In tweeds or hannels or spinning
In big motor cars. This, obviously was the
lifel Through Cannes Antilles ana Cagncc
to Nice. 10 Atlantic City, to the Promenade
des Anglaiscs and the QRdi dcs EfdtS-UniS.
TO more European editions Of THE New
York HERALD than copies Of the Petit Nicois.
To walters who didn't understand when you
spoke French. but remembered you per
fectly from the old days at the Knicker-
booker, or was II Jacks? 1t is the life. Most
ly for people from the good and thirsty old
o. s. A. or fog bound England, where you
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where beneath red and white umbrellas Or
out in the full sunshine oungcd everybody.
The morning session in the gaming rooms
had Just ended. The last cracks from the
pigeon range on the sea front had startled
is as Ne rolled up the hin and with our
own bus scores Of hundreds Of others Of big
private cars and little fiacres with the
rangy legged ponies of Monaco were dis
charging their freightS from Mont Angel,
from Nice from Cannes and from Mentone
Ii was The Hour of the dny. Women in
fur coats and women In white flannels men
III ulsters and men IN tennis clothes iof
one Is never quite sure whether this keen
sunshine Is or Is not warm thronEci WIN
good natured cdpscre about THE ti.e
tables and beleaguered the walters far Nei
mouth Cassls with lots of Ice U Is th"
hour when people meet on ali hc PRONE
nades of the Riviera. the hour when l'
serious plans for the dan ani ni-ht nre
made And Il i brief hour II Is itle
more than thirty minutes. i'y that im'
the groups had begun to hrcak np. to >ech
larger tables for luncheon, t. ruin away I"
their villas or hotels to act rcady fer thc
afternoon in the gaming rooms. At tie Nice
racetrack. on the links the tennis courts
the mountain roads or Tie pigeon range by
.
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American Railway Engines
Adopt European Whistle

We came happily to the Riviera Not in
the crowded wagon-lit from Paris, but
slowly on an amiablc train from Bordeaux.
And there was no wagon-lit In our ap.
proach to Marseilles Ten francs had Sc
cured us comfortable first class compart
ment to ourselves from Bordeaux through
the night until we awaked at Carcassonne
We waked to look out upon the ancient
Roman walls about which that very morn
ing throhhed the busy life of the Midi wine
growers. much as It must have throbbed in
Marcus Aureluss time. barring the fact
that they brought their wine to town that
morning In motor trucks and trailers
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Lent Brought the Old Crowd
Back to the Great Casino

But now, Shrove Tuesday and its carni-
walls being done WITH have come not the
denizens Of the Riviera, but the denizens of
the Casino. They are we'll known types.
The sort of folk that used to throns the
lobster palaces of Broadway or any other
place where wealth and fashion, il not re-
fnement, constitute n passport These are
the people that make the real gay life" of
the Riviera. They probably think they
have come here for change but close
examination Of their daily schedule and n
comparison with the same schedule i'm Lon
don or New York indicates that about the
only change Is that during that brief half
hour or so when after rising late, their
many engagements permit them a brief
stroll out Of doors they pay the cold re
spect of a passing glance to the scintllating
Mediterranean rather than to Piccadilly or
Fifth avenue. Barring this single incident
during that hour when the chorus girls re-
mark. "My Gawd amt the sunshine aw-
ful :" they live the same lives as always
And this year they seem to be leading
them harder than ever. Stakes have run
notoriously high at the Casino and the
Sporting Club at Monte Carlo. The bac-
carat rooms nj Nice are invariably filed,
and even The terribly monotonous games Of
boue in the municipal casinos are well and
heavily patronized. Here, as every place
else, money has n new value. People
barely turn their heads to look Mt soll-
taire diamond ms large as a hazelnut; It
would take the Koh.l-Noor to get real
thrill along the postwar Riviera.
For the ordinary mortal the result Is
horrifying. Unless you came early and
made m lronclad agreement to live en- pen
sim throughout the season single lunch
con II likely to cost to-day as much as your
entire days expenses two weeks ago. Two
weeks ago In the fashionable restaurants
the prices Of all but very few extra spe.
claties were plainly displayed on the menu
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cards. Now you wander through a maze
of priceless" culinary marvels. And when,
no matter how discreet your choice has
BEEN you call for your bill it will exceed
your widest expectations. Many an Ameri-
can has sat down to lunch care free in the
idea that dollar in francs was worth
thought that not even a restaurateur could
catch up with that difference. How grossly
he underestimated the hotel imaginationl
1t must be said, however, that this state
of affairs is only true at such establishments
as all over the world are erected and gar
nished with tinsel to catch that genus, one
of which is born every minute. And all
through the motley crowd one catches occa-
sional glimpses of good people here for all
the really good things the Riviera has to
offer. The other day on the terrace of the
Cafe de Paris, just outside the entrance to
the Casino at Monte Carlo, facing the little
circle of turf and palms around which the
hacks and the char-a-bancs and the limou-
sines roll, sat Admiral Guy Gaunt, so long 4
familiar figure in Washington. Hard and
brown, an old soft collar over a decidedly
miscellaneous neclltie, tweeds that hadn't
seen an iron for many day and with
decidedly miscellaneous white dog on the
end of a leash the Admiral sat slipping
zone of those things l like and never can
order" with n half dozen men and women
pals as hard and brown and cheerful and a.
un-Casinolike as himself. The Admiral had
done eight miles on the road, two other
men admitted to eighteen holes Of golf on
Mont Angel and two of the women had
just come from a long stiff morning of sun
beaten tennis.
That night in the Municipal Casino =,
Nice saw Winston Churchill gayly making
franc bets on the boue. But Mr. Churchill
had played four periods of polo that after
noon and he was home and In bed Mt Cimlez
well before midnight. So, largely like all
the rest of the world on the Riviera "you
pays your money and you takes your
choice" You can stay I'm Nice and believe
you are In Atlantic City: you can stay In
the Casino at Monte Carlo and believe you
are in n sort of glorified ana enlivened
opium den, or you can plunge into the most
varied natural beauties in all the world
where the Alps meet the sea.
Probably nothing i'm this world has suf-
fered so much from It's own admirers as
have the Alps. Mr. Baedecker describes
them I'm meticulouS terms of feet high, miles
from the cab fare Great poets have made
the Alps one with the beautiful hgments
of their own Imagination. And lesser souls
no less impressed. have had to content them
selves with mere alluslon to these noun
talns rs ''The Alps"
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Big Winnings Reported
az Monaco This Season

And that afternoon despite the sunshine
outside. tie Casino was full There was
one crowd TINT cnmc early u l. doubtful
II they had eaten lunch. They were there
when the doors opened and they We're first
In ana In the chairs around the tables Poor
looking. almost shabby men anu women,
looking old whatever their axe Nigh, hc
Most of them held little note books before
them with endless sequences of figures,
Continued III ThGd Page.
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history Europes pleasure ground has
Riviera entertained throngs than the 9so
world Monte Carlo CASINO
Nice OF
To
Mediterranean THE NEW YORK
there His full
printed herewith it Illuminating
the soldiers who thronged the
villas the In their stead host OF
whole different
nd Europe
during the four years of the war a--
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rich profteers. True, the Riviera
visitors, but the crowds on the wht
A Ind America contributed a billie
during the four years of the war.
BY JOHN McHUGH STUART.
Special Correspondence to THE New York
HERALD.
MONTE CARLO, Feb 2S.
D EOPLE still 20 to the Casino. In fact
the Casino is crowded. 1t is crowd
ed with people speaking English
English Americans and Germans. The Ger
mans speak English harder than anybody
and they try to dress the part.
All of them throng around the trente ct
quarante tables, the roulette wheels and
the baccarat Inside the Casino the atmo-
sphere is the dull greasy, gray of London,
Paris and Berlin. Outside a gorgeous world
is flooded with sunshine of the purest gold.
Green hills sweep down to the sapphire sea,
unbelievable white villas surrounded by un-
0elievable golden oranges bejewel the hill
sides that sweep up to the far away crown
on snow capped Alps. And the sunshine
lures one to lie full length on the stone ter
races and let 1t soak in.
But the Casino Is full all through the de-
licious morning, all through the golden
afternoon and far into the silvery night.
The Casino is FULL tearooms are full, restau-
rants are crowded, and far into the next
dawn people sit about calcium lit dance
floors. drink tourist champagne and revel in
the jazz of score or more of bands in al
most every one of which Is some former
leader of THE Silver Cornet Band of Feura
Bush L. S. A." or some other silver cornet
band left deliberately stranded in Europe
by the a. Il. It.
The season has just got under way. Ever
since the first Of December the real denizens
of the Riviera have been flowing here from
all over Europe to villas large and small all
the way from Cannes to Rapallo and filing
the smaller and more permanent hotels.
These people are not much seen in the
Casino. They are the real supporters of the
golf courses, of the polo clubs, of the race
meets, and of all the wonderful healthy
outdoor life that is possible on the Riviera
the Casino and all its little brothers to the
contrary Notwithstanding
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H@4m%
ll@A&&@@Mf
FOR SAFE R0ADWAYs
So'ns Kind Of Protection Should Be
Provided to Keep Carr From
Skiddino OF Dirt Roads.

What value do we place on a human
life? To judge by some Of the roads
over the country it is not much. Lives
Are lost many times where q few dol
lars or u little extra time would make
a road safe enough so that taking q,
ride along them on q rainy day in an
auto would not be such q h~air-raising
experience as is often the case now.
says a writer In Successful Farmer.
Recently a friend OF mine was driv.
ing along q road within a half mile of
4 small town and ran into q ditch six
feet deep, upsetting his car and smash
ing things up generally. though he es-
capped unhurt, and had no one with
him. Many complaints had been made
about that road. but nothing was done
by anyone. On either side the ditch
came within less than two feet of the
roadway, and there was not even a
ridge or anything to ward the wheels
off and keep them from sliding over.
When hundreds OF automobiles are
owned in every part Of the country
and it is impossible to always keep
off roads when they are slippery, it Is
not morally right and should not be
legally right to leave them In a condi-
ton that would make an accident un
der ordinary conditions possible. Dur
ing the last two years l have beer,
riding around considerably and we
have been in places where 1t was very
dangerous driving. and often came up
on such places with no chance at all
to avoid them. In one case we crossed
q bridge after n light shower. and on
the far side found that 1t had caved
away to within six inches of the road.
though that was solid. For a rod the
ditch war not two feet from the road,
with nothing to check a slide into 1t.
A very steep Hill began just beyond
the bridge. Dur car could not make
the hill, and we stalled, and had to
back some. The least bit OF skidding
would have been certain to have car
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UNITED STATES GOOD ROADS
Work 10 In Progress In Every Section
20 Give Country Superior
Highway SyGtem.

The time Is rapidly passing when
theb bad roads Of America can be point
ed out as a ~reprQach. In every section
OF the country work Is In progress to
give the United States a system OF
loads which will compare favorably
with those Of other countries. Roads
are being built at 1885 different
points. Fully 10000 miles OF road have
been approved by the secretary OF az
riculture. 1t is estimated that this
construction will cost the country near
~ 500. OOO. 600. At the end OF June
1920, the government reported that 2.
l18 different projects, o. q total OF
1900 miles Of roads, had been com
pleted.-BOys' Life.
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One Good Point.

A very kind-hearted mar could new.
er be brought to say an unkind word
about anybody. One day 4 friend ex.
p~Ostulated with him.
Look here" he said, its all very
well being charitable and all that, but
you can carry that sort Of thing too
far. Now, there's Blank. Can You
honestly find q single good point about
Blank"
The kind-hearted man appeared to
be nonplused, for Blank was q very
bad man. and it seemed impossible to
find anything good to say about him.
"Well," he said, at length. "you mus.
admit he wears a fine furlined coat r
London Tit-BitS.
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ried us owe the bank and for several
minutes 1t looked like we were to &C
down six or eight feet into a creek
1t Is not always that such places
are on unimportant roads. In fact the
frst place mentioned WAS on a main
travelled road between county seats,
and automobiles used 1t on long dis
lance travel. In the main 1t was a fine
road well kept. but there were two or
three places that were really danger
Gus, though this was the worst of all.
Wherever there Is a place at the side
Of q dirt road that has much travel.
that is deep enough to upset a car
that went down into 1t. some kind of
protection should be made to keep cars
from skidding Off. We are not consid-
ering the quick dash to n side from
careless driving or going too fast In
mud, but the unavoidable skid that is
bound to occur now and then. Our
roads should be safe in muddy weather
as far as we can make them for often
at such times we have to use their
with our cars.
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FINE CROPS SURE
Farmers in Western Canada
Jubi|ant at Prospect.
Splendid Winter Weather Has Put the
Naturally Fertile Land in sp'en'
did Condition, and Bountifu'
Yields Are Assured.

"What a delightful winter we nave
had is an expression that cou'u oe
heard almost anywhere wheh uhe
topic of the weather became the SUD
iect Of conversation. Not only ir the
Middle West and down east couid
II be heard, but also in the far west
up in the Canadian West. There
the same remarkable features mai
brought forth a wonderful winter eA-
listed. Reports from all parts OF one
country, from famed Medicine Hat !"
Alberta 20 Winnipeg in Manitoba III
dictate that all through the winter
season very little cold weather was
experienced. In December, we reao
that golf playing had put into the as
card all ice sports, that FARMERS we.V
caught ~"red-handed' blowing their
fields. In January, the Alberta yeo-
man got out his tractor ana IN MS
shirt sleeves was seen preparing
ground for the 1927 crop. During
February. in saskatchewan, n
farmer narrowed fifty acres ana
planted the seed. "Why. yes. VI
course. in March," said an iowa
farmer, who had just heard from MS
son, who was looking after the vest
ern Canadian farm. my boy writes
me they had some snow. and a rev
cold dips. but what did that matter!
The cattle and the horses came
through the winter in better condition
than they looked three or four months
ago. Grass was plentiful on the prai-
ries, the stubble was rich and valu-
able rs food, and the straw stacks
ard groves proved ample for shelter
Spring is now fully upon the West
ern Canada farmer, his machinery ts
all i'm shape for n springs work. n
he is looking forward to an excellent
4 year. Last, fall there was Il
splendid lot of moisture that perme-
a:ed the ground sufficiently to leave
a perfect sced bed. Indications are
now that the crop will 90 in in the
condition required for successful ger
mination. Then, with the heightened
days Of May and June, the many
hours of sunshine that they bring. ac-
companied by showers OF rain. ard
with a soil Of which there is none
richer nor more generous. there Will
he seen preparing for a ripening har-
vest the hundreds Of thousands or
acres ofIwheat, oats, barley, rye. al
falfa and corn that will make the
hearts of the Western Canada farmers
swnlA with pride as they reasonably
look forward to an abundant harvest.
There is a great deal that can be
said In favor of the climate Of West
ern Canada. The most important is
that those who live there. and have
lived in other countries. prefer it to
any they have experienced elsewhere.
1t is true the winters as a rule are
colder than are those in countries
lying much farther south, but it is
also true that they are tempered by
q dryness of the atmosphere that
makes IA lower temperature preferable
to that several degrees higher where
greater humidity prevails. Enerva-
tion and listlessness are unknown:
the air is bracing. but the cold is not
penetrating. Then the summers and
the autumns-they could not be more
Observation-Disclosures.
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Chimes Carry Stoves.

Chinese women wear practically the
same clothes In winter as in summer.
In the most severe weather, however,
they wear heating baskets under theif
cloakS.
These baskets are plain wicker ones,
such as we use for trash. Inside the
baskets charcoal warmers are placed
They will radiate heat for hours. The
charcoal Is mixed with chemicals that
generate oxygen, and thus the char
coal will burn constantly even thougi
It Is sealed in the containers.
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Il a Imagine the rest" said James
worthy. you don't need to hand out
the sickening details. A gang of old
beldames will come to our place, for
instance, and pull about five cents
worth of dandelions and then sit and
have a photographer make a large pic
ture of them; after which they'll eat
two dollars and eighty cents worth Of
ice cream, and q lot of sponge cake
and anything you happen to have in
n refrigerator. One Of the beldames
will be appointed a committee to write
up the affair for the newspapers, and
Mrs. Sidewinder will see that she gets
most Of the glory as the originator Of
the scheme, and next spring her hus-
band will be running for alderman on
the strength of it.
Nowadays the women never get
down to brass tacks and do real work.
They must make a society function out
of every little chore they 10. They
won't carry a dead cat out of the front
yard unless there's a photographer on
hand to make a group picture of ii.
II work can be r~eOrganiZed SO it looks
like a game they will be industrious
enough, otherwise they strike and send
congratulations to the newspapers ey-
planning that nc woman should permit
herself to be a drudge.
Zone ~able-bOdied nan will destroy
more dandelions in half a day than 18
women will in three weeks. The man
takes off his coa and gets down on hts
marrowbones and pulls dandelions. The
Is women lean against trees and fan
themselves with Japanese fans, and
try to look like SO many Mary Ander-
sons. and wish there was somebody
around to set them to music.
Women are becoming more and
organized themselves into clubs. l have
nothing to say against the club idea in
itself, Mrs. Jamesworthy. l want to
see the females have as good q time
as they can, within reasonable limits.
The men belong to clubs and lodges,
too, but they have halls in which to
hold their meetings.
1.-THE wouldn't enjoy holding
a meeting in a hall. They have to as
semble in the home Of one of their suf-
fering sisters, SO they can size up the
furniture and fittings, and be able to
say, when they. go away. that they
never saw such execrable taste. And
the suffering sister sees that her home
is a frost, and she makes up her mind
to give her heart-sick husband no rest
until he has chartered q string OF
painters and paper-hangers, decorators
and GLACIERS.
But this isn't the worst of ii. The
suffering sister who entertains the club
is expected to set up refreshments, and
she feels it her duty. as a good sport,
to furnish the best the market affords.
The last time the ladies of the Busy
Bunch club met at this house you
bought all the strawberries in town,
and at that period Strawberries were
shipped In from points 5000 miles
away, and when the bill came In. at
the end Of the month, l had a stroke OF
paralysis and an attack Of paresiS. It
you get up a dandelion party you will
want to- buy out the leading confec-
toner, SO I'll advertise for u man to
come and do the job"
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"Td like to meet that man. HI
plays Monte CristO with such under
standing"
'sIll Introduce yOu. hut he's Z tigh
wad. Went sperd a nickel."-LOu..
Vile Corr'er-JOurnul
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NEW CHARACTER OF TRAFFIC
Most Of Existing Highways Were Mo-
Constructed to Support Heavy
Loads Now imposed.

Most OF our existing roads were no'
designed with q view ofkcarrying thu
heavy loads now imposed upon them
end In new roads Il would seem thu
builders cannot realize the presen'
changed conditions and the new char
acter OF the traffic; In any q = th
problem IL not an easy one.
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worked together
at them. Things
that are tedious
when one does
them alone, are
interesting when
done by a crowd.
She pointed out
that the dande-
lions are becOm-
ing a terrible
pest, running most
of the lawns in
towns, and sug-
gested that the
women hold dan
deliOn parties"
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! His Step.

Fond Father-Before l consent to
the marriage, l must know this young
mans qualifications. Now. has he
great strength, endurance? Can he
keep Oh his feet despite eEtangIing in
fluences? Has he balance. poise?
Fanette-Oh, yes, daddy! Reggie
fox trOts divinely Life.
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Denied the CHARGE.

Kind Lady-You should brace up,
my poor man. Remember what you
owe to society.
Hobo don't w society Euthin'.
lady. What do yer fink I've been
~doin'-playin' bridge?-Boston Tran.
script.
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Catarrh Can Re Cured

Catarrh II = local disease greatly influ-
enced by constitutional conditions. It
therefore requires constitutional treat
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE
IL taken internally and acts through
the Blood or the Mucous Surfaces OF
the System. HALLS CATAR r III
MEDICINE destroys the foundation Ut
the disease, gives The patient strength by
improving the general health and assists
nature in doing Its work.
All Druggists. Circulars tree.
b. J. Cheney 4 Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
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Don't FORGET cuficura Taicum

When adding to your toilet requisites.
An exQuisitely scented face. skin, baby
and busting powder and perfume. rem
dering other perfumes superfluous.
You may rely on it because one of the
Cuticura Trio (Soap. Ointment and
Yalcum). Zoe each everywhere.-Adv.