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New Britain herald., 1921-12-17

team because they certainly did everything in order to turn out a good team"
 The next to he called on was Cap tain l'eneman He said that at~the beginning of the season the prospects were not good but thanks to the team | the result was far different, He | thanked the team for the way In which they responded and expressed the hope that next season may he | marked by equal and even better sue | cess.
 George Murtha. was the next on the program and he spoke a few words about Next Years Prospects" He | hoped for good season next year and he said that If the school spirit is good and if the student body gets | behind the team the year will be successful,
 Due to good fortune, T. A. D. Jones, head coach of the Yale team, was 1 present to give talk on "Clean | Athletics" Mir, Jones was greeted | onthusiastically by those present and he said that he was very much pleased to be present at such a time in the football history of the New Britain High school. He said that he was pleased to hear that the team has had championship season.
 | Praises Aldrich. | "I find that your coach stands id l the good and clean in athletics. The team was evidently imbued with the ideas of the coach and, as q result, won the championship. 1t should mean a lot to Captain Fieneman to be called the best captain that Coach | Cassidy ever worked with l, also, W orked with the finest captain that I ever worked with. His habits are ir- rcproachabc and his spirit is the best I ever saw. Mac Aldrich typiiies Yale spirit. His team was loyal 1o him and it's college and they played clean, hard football.
 T played there when champion ships were taken for granted at Yale Not one of the captains whom l had at that time was as great in victory as Aldrich was in defeat
 'I witnessed the Yale e-ikarNard game and it was one of the best ever saw It was d hard game, but the winning of it did not mean enough to the teams to make them resort to things underhanded.
 "Mr. Cassidy is interested, not in turning out winning teams, but in turning out better men. There is nc finer shortcut than through football Play the game clean and hard and never resort to underhanded taCtiCs'
 17 Given Sweaters. | To bring events to a climax Prin- cipal Louis r. Slade then awarded sweaters or letters to seventeen men In his introductory remarks Mir Slade said that he hoped that tho message which Mr. Jones brought tC New Britain will remain with the students of the high school.
 Those who received sweaters were Bentz, Bray,S Cherpack, Rakowsky Nesta and Zehrer. Letters were pre- scented to Collcy, Davis, lfencman Griffin, Landino, McCabe, Mahoney
 Murtha, O'Dell, Schaefer and Will Hams.
 After the presentation of letters ant sweaters dancing was enjoyed unu Ill o'clock, music being furnished by
 Warmers orchestra of MerlIen. Th' patrons and patronesscs were MT and Mrs Louis r. Slade, Miss Duguit
 and Miss Harvey. The committee il
 charge of the affair was: Everett Will
 Hams, chairman; Lester l'icncmal
 and Edward Delaney.
 Appropriate programs, containing
 pictures of the team and captain
 games played and other interesting | nf admission was by program.
New Britain herald., 1921-12-17
City Items

Your Xmas Nictrolas at Morans'.-- adNt.
 Have you your ticket on the Isabella hope chest ?-adVt.
 Lawrence Summers of Grove street has accepted d position with lee ana Price Co. of l'tchburg. Lee and Price are the compilers of the city directories.
 Victor Records, C. l.. Pierce & Co., -adNt
New Britain herald., 1921-12-17

that that was all. l was president of court-martial over there and l want to say l would rather take my chances with such tribunal than civil court of justice.'
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
sVAMPS" WHO MADE HISTORY
BY JAMES c. YOUNG
20 BY Mcclure Newspaper syndicate1
a QUEEN OF TRAGEDY, ON AND
OFF THE STAGE.
BY JAMES C. YOUNG,

IT CANNOT be doubted that Adrienne
4 Lecouvreur was a vampire. But 1t
may be believed that the hearts which
she broke were mended, whereas her
own was shattered past repair. AT
thirteen Adrienne appeared In q neigh
borhood company Of children, speak
ing the lines of the great Corneille
with dramatic power which gained
her some celebrity. And she was
scarcely fif&en when the opportunity
came to join company Of provincial
players.
She was twenty-five when Paris t1rst
saw her. She had spent ten bitter
years In small companies. She also
had at least four serious love affairs
with more or less prominent men and,
In her own words, she was done with
love. Il know that one doesn't die of
grief" she wrote. and the line has
lived.
1t was in 1717 when Paris glimpsed
this delicate beauty, and Immediately
she was the queen OF her time. And
love, which she had renounced, would
not let her alone. For a time she patron
lied half the great men of Paris, then
cast them aside. But the vampire was
not to go uncaught. In 1921, after four
years of success enough to have turned
any head she met Maurice de Sake.
held by many to be the greatest sol
der and adventurer Of his time.
Immediately Adrienne loved him
and three blissful years followed. Then
the duchy of Courland was offered for
sale, with the rights Of reigning duke.
This was the chance of De SAKE. Adri-
enne knew that If he succeeded she
would lose him. But she pawned her
jewels to help obtain the money. II
appears that several other women also
helped. But with this war chest
raised by women De Sake was not
successful. The money escaped him.
He came back to Paris, broke. Adj
rienne took him in, and was happy.
Then the duchesse de Bouillon,
very rich and very disreputable
great lady, cast her fancy upon De
SAKE. Adrienne protested vehemently.
There were scenes, heart-wrenching
grief News Of the impending break
spread to the bouleyards and the
duchesse was mentioned in anything
but complimentary terms. for Adrienne
was the darling of Paris. Then she
took suddenly Ill. Poison" whispered
Paris, and looked at the duchesse,
but there was no proof. Adrienne
died broken-hearted vampire.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
THE WOMAN WHO KILLED
GENIUS.

"a NY one IN the least familiar with
"A the writings of Honore de Bal
FAC. perhaps the greatest novelist Oh
France. must have been stirred by the
white heat Of his Imagination. just
conceive such man at the age OF
thirty-three, on the tide of his first sue
cess. He was being acclaimed every
where. Letters poured in from admir-
ers. Among these was simple mis-
sive signed "The Stranger mailed
from Odessa. A woman had written 1t.
In this letter the unknown Invited
Balzac to answer her through news
paper advertisement. Eagerly he did
so, and soon another letter came. The
writer was Evelina Hanska, the young
wife of man twenty-five years older,
and mistress of great fortress-like
castle In the Ukraine, Russia. The
burning words of Balzac drew her to
Neufchatel. Picture to yourself how
both must have felt before and after
they met. She was tall, elegant, high
born. He was fat, short and not hand.
some. He says himself that she drew
back astounded when she saw him.
But IL was not long until the woman
saw In the mans remarkable eyes the
genius which was his. They loved and
parted, she returning to her lonely
castle and he to endless work.
Certainly the love Of Balzac must
have been a tribute which pleased the
fancy of Evelina Hanska. But her
heart seems to have been as cold as
her castle walls. The two correspond
ed, and she toyed with the great man.
There was her husband, whom she
would not leave. Balzac assented and
saw her at infIequent intervals over
a period of years. But though she
would not leave her hoary husband
she would not let go of Balzac. Her
letters leased, cajoled, and led him on,
followed by her reproaches, tears, jeal-
ousy.
For seventeen years Balzac's devo-
ton endured. Nine. Hanska's coquetry
was the great sorrow of his life. Then
the husband died. She wrote to him
"''e hS "Cht VII LO ludI DlSdh huSStd
where she lived. Again, there were
delays. She would promise nothing
He came back to Paris and after more
letters again started for Russia. It
was in March, 1850, that he arrived,
his heart almost CONCEALED by the cold.
And at last his evil genius consented
to bestow upon him the happiness he
bad sought so long. They were mar.
ried and started for France in April.
But Balzac was near the end. In
Dresden he fell seriously ill., She went
out shopping and returned with Won
drous string of pearls.
But Balzac rallied and they went on
to Paris. There he had prepared a
rare home for her, filled with art treas.
ures. He, at least, was happier than
he ever had been. She revealed In the
Paris shops. Five months later Bal
FAC died, victim of the Russian cold
on weakened: heart. When the end
came his wife chad gone to her ROOM"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

ns could hardly housework ot nad;c;ns FROM
nos hep me- Lydia
INV houseo and took 1t with results
publish medicine friends and
An Ilno,s CHESTER A. BALL, R. Is, Fayette Ohio
R raAois woman relates her experience:
Rad was never trouble kept
interest in homework
back alcohol room without raging with Rubbing
me as sona a vegetable Compound
The sos; A. McQuIrTY $40 St. Bloomington Ill
by Mrs Casen Ball and Mrs Meoutty
aais h4 b struggle on
beside the dsi1 and day out slave
from those su be sage5 or work saerps
m ana troubles which very Foundation in 5
e wnen nature gives ny 1n, ee
Ssr St would only experience Of tbe,s tS I mm
FOR conditions II Compound
woman ss the United
reside who has this
tme ask you
and medicine hasSs years this
to % Private Book upon aAiments Peeu-
tyda ~ Pinkham MessDa Eee qpon rsquesS W rlso
contains valuable informetHt" Lynn Masssehpsetss
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
Correct EnqIish.

A Franklin mother had been teach.
Ing her three-year-old son correct Eng.
fish and told him he must never say
"ain't."
One day, while eating his dinner, he
stopped abruptly and said:
Mother, you mustn't ever say
amt for it's a naughty word"
"Yes,' said mother, "you are right,
Robert, but what shall / say?"
He looked puzzled and then his face
lighted up and he replied:
why, mother, you must say 'scuse
me-" meaning excuse me."-Indian.
apolis News.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
THE CURSE OF ENoLANDn-A
WOMAN.

XXTHEN young Charles II of Eng
wv land was refugee in Holland
after his father had been executed,
stanch loyalist by the name of Roger
Palmer came to him with a large sum
Of money and plans to gain the throne
for Charles. Palmer had a nineteen
year-old wife; Barbara. At sixteen
she had am intrigue with a famou,
rake and now threw herself directly liz
the Faith Of Charles.
On May %, 1860, the king returned
in triumph to- London by the efforts oa
Palmer and other loyalists. He found
Barbara awaiting him and hurried
through the days ceremonies that he
might join her. Palmer was so strons
loyalist that he surrendered his wife
to Charles. and in reward was made
duke of Cleveland.
Barbara developed an Unsuitable
passion for wealth and gambling. Shs
was not even true to the king; bus he
lazy cyHfe. looked on good-natuHedly
Her contn@l over him and wild eStrav
aganceA gained her the lurid titlR ~Tht
Curse, of England" 1t was she whs
founded the fortune of the duoal hous.
of Marlborough giving the firsa duke
them al poor nobody, his start In life
She bsRght him a place In, the army
whore. he afterward rose 10, be thai
famous duke of Marlborough who WOE
faE England such notablnp victories.
Historians of the day. say that Bar
liara often lost as muxlh as 100000 4.
a siasie evenings play. al fabulous sun
far that time.
Barbara was one OFF the most beauta
f,aa women of her time, with regal car
rtage and seemingis perpetual youth
She ruled the inapleBt Charles at will
debating policies of state, making o,
running fortunes; as her fancy chose
She made powerful enemies, but NJ
long as hec' control endured owe,
Charles she cared little for the opinio,
Of others II became dangerous fo,
her to go about the streets Of London
so great was the hatred against her
and she adopted a royal style, travel
ing with mounted bodyguard.
But the tickle Charles at last fire.
of her and she saw his attention turnet
to other women. One by one she ont
witted them until France sent owe,
Louise de la QUnrouaiile, pretty littI,
vampire, with 81 .ructlons to swa,
Charles In negotiations between IN,
two kingdoms, And Barbara lost he,
] tilt with Louise.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
EVOLUTION Of a Name.

II thought your wife's name was
Elizabeth"
$50 1t Isl
'Then why do you call her Peggyr
"Short for Pegasa."
What has that got to do with itr
"Why, Pegasa is feminine for Pega.
sus."
"WelI?"
well. Pegasus is an immortal
steed."
what of that?"
Ssh! Not so loud. She's in the
next room. You see. an immortal
steed is an everlasting nag, and there
you are!"
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
THE WOMAN WHO RULED
ATHENS.

THAT courtesan should have
4 ruled Athens, perhaps the great
est seat of culture the world ever
knew, seems strange to us now. But
Aspasla was woman of parts, who
taught eloquence to such men as Soc
rates and Pericles. Her home was
q meeting place for the most brilliant
figures in the ancient world. The time
which we consider was the Fifth GEN.
fury before Christ, but our learning
has advanced very little beyond the
point reached by that group which
gathered around Aspasia.
She had many loves, and between
times discoursed upon art and philoso-
ply. Her beauty and her learning were
equally celebrated. Socrates, an ex-
tremely ugly man, forgot his philoso-
ply In love of this remarkable wom-
an. But she soon put him aside for
Pericles. the gifted, handsome figure
then arising to ascendency. Pericles
studied eloquence at her feet and
learned to love her, too. He divorced
his wife and went to live with Aspasia.
but could not marry her because of a
law which forbade noble Athenian to
wed a barbarian" Aspasia came
from Iona, and the people of any other
nation were ''barbarians" to the
Athenians." II must be remembered
that the creed of the cynics, to which
Dtogenes adhered. held hings lightly
and seoffed at the passions of ordinary
mankind.
Aspasia's brilliant mind, joined to
that Of the noble Perlcles, son brought
hlm to a foremost position In the
state. He was the greatest ruler Ath-
ems ever had, and the guiding hand be-
hind his own was that OF the courtesan.
Then enemies accused her of heresy,
charging that she did not believe In
the gods, which we of course know to
have been merely beautiful fancies.
Pericies plead before the senate, with
fearful eyes, and saved her life. But
so great a man as Socrates could not
be saved and was put to death on the
same charge. Evil days had fallen up,
on Aspasia's group. Men whose names
we now reverence We're looked upon as
we would today regard anarchists.
They were called dangerous, unbsliev-
ers In religion, and many worse hilings.
Herodotus, the historian, ana Others
in that group had taken to retirement
Conservative Athens and the ignorant
would have none of their new
thought" Then Pericles died. Aspa
sia WINS left alone In the world. How
ever she may have loved her lord, i
was not long until she appeared as tn,
patron of Lysicles. This I.ysicles /.
said to have been herder at one time
who had gained money, He was an ig
norant, uncultured fellow, but unde
the guidance Of Aspasia rose to b.
one of the principal men of Athens. |
would seem as though she had deliber
ately chosen for her genius a task s.
difficult as leading to greatness a maj
who 20 little deserved 1t.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
She's SUFFERING.

A Detroit mother with one child
stated in court that she is not able to
get along on $4,000 a year. How
much happier we all could be We're Il
for not being compelled to read at
times of the suffering of others.-Dee
troit News.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

was eighteen--for a sonnet against the
government. He has passed periods OF
exile at Paris and im italy, alternating
with stays In prison. One of his pro-
tests wRs ngninst the measures pursued
ny the government Ana suppresainR the
Cuban tnsurreetian. He founded a re-
publican newspaper, of which he was
editor. reporter and reviewer. He
estnbIished publishing house to an
sroduce TO spain the great works of
European literature mt popular prices,
this wns but one OF the attempts he
bns made, sometimes at the risk OF his
fife, 20 bring his country into the cur-
rent Of modern thought. He was elect
81 TO che Cortes, and became the leader
OF his pursy. He devotea his time mt
present entirely 90 literature.
In his novels he began In che usual
Spsnish why with pictures of LEGAL
Trcyineigl life with the types md the
rictures of which he WIS familiar. hut
he deals not merely with pictures, his
stories ais have mn object in which
their strenuous author IN REently an
sereHted He lacks restraint, HIS pas-
sion for Independence In without
hsuDis, he carries his admiration for
fhe realism OF Zoln 10 limits which
shock our more restrained habit OF
mind, bat desnite the opposition which
" has encountered mt home and
nbroad. the author of seFhe -Four Horse
snen of the apocalypse In rapidly be-
cen,fnE ono of the most widely read
of living writer's.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
So considerate.

Two golfers sliced their drives into
The rough and went in search of the
balls. They searched for long time
without success, dear old lady watch
ing them with kindly and sympathetic
eyes.
At last, after the search had pro-
feeded for half an hour, she spoke to
them.
Il hope. I'm not interrupting you,
gentlemen" she said sweetly, "but
would it be cheating If 1 told you
where they are?''
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

yicente BIasco
Thanex was born
I'm Valencia, Spain,
I'm January, 1867,
tfae roR Of O pro-
prietor of a dry
goods shop. He
attended the UNI
vep~ity OF vaien-
ella and received
a degree Am law.
He was against
the established
or der from mis-
college days. AS
a result he re-
ceived the first of
a series OF inapris-
Onxnemta when he
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

If a man is success he knows ii;
If he Is a failure all his neighbors
know it.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

We all have wealth that we can
dispense to others: Kindness.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

The fit of tafTor-made suit. often
depends on the pockets.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09
The TRIALS OF
A HOUSEWIFE
How They Have Been Endured and How Overcome by
LYDIA {. Phkhans Vegetable COMPOUND
Experience of Providence Woman

Providence, r. I.--"I took Lydia
e Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
for female trclble and backache.
ltbegan just after Hay baby was born,
and did the best could about get
ting my work done, but had awful
bearing-down pains so / could not
stand on my feet. read in the papers
about Lydia E. Pinkham e Vegetable
compound and the good it was doing
other women, and / have got dandy
results from It and will always rec
ommend 1t. You can use these facts
rs testimonial if you wish. Mrs.
HERBERT L. CAssEN, Is Meni Court,
providence, r. I.
Ohio woman for three years
could hardly keep about and
90 her homework she was SO I'LL,
Made well by Lydia e. Pink"
ham's Vegetable Compound:
Fayette, O.--s'For about three years
i was verynervous and had backache,
sideache, dragging down pains, could
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

Make your environment lest your
environment unmake you.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

r
y 1870 Marcelo Desnoyers was
lonely lad of nineteen years living
in Marseilles. A popular manifes-
tatlon In favor Of peace, at the
first news of war with Prussia, infiu.
enced him to leave the country and he
made an unforgettable trip to South
America, where after many failures
and a laborious existence, he became
an employee of Madariaga, the cen
taur.
Don Madariaga's fortune was enor-
nous. He had gained his first money
as q fearless trader, and with his
earnings had bought vast tracts of
land, devoting them to the raising of
cattle. Though he had capricious
and despotic character he nevertheless
felt certain fondness for his new
French overseer. One morning Des-
meyers saved his life.
Thanks, Frenchy," said the ranch
man, much touched. "You are an all
round man and am going to reward
you. From this day shall speak to
you as ! do to my family"
Desnoyers soon married Tulsa, Ma
dariaga's elder daughter, while a
young German, Karl Hartrott, recent
arrival at the ranch, married Elena,
her younger sister. Seated under the
awning on summer nights the ranch
man surveyed his family around him
with sort of patriarchal ecstasy.
4 -Just think of 1t, Frenchy," he said.
II am Spanish, you French, Karl Ger
man, my daughters Argentinians, the
cook Russian, his assistant Greek. the
stable boy English, the kitchen sery-
ants natives, Gallclans, or Italians, and
among the poems are many castles and
laws And yet all live In peace.
In Europe, we would have probably
been in grand fight by this time, but
here we are all friends"
Julio. the son Of Desnoyers, was the
favorite grandchlld Of Madariaga.
"Ah, the fine cowboyi What a pretty
fellow you arel" he would say. slave
a good time, for grandpa is always
here with his money"
One evening the patrons horse came
: slowly home without its rider. The old
man had fallen on the highway, and
when they found him he was dead.
The Hartrotts moved to Berlin at
once and the Desnoyers went to Paris,
each household In possession of an
'<enormous fortune. Besides establish
ksg his family in an ostentatious house
In Paris, Desnoyers bought a castle,
yiIleblanche-sur-Ma Marine, a mixture of
palace and fortress, where he could
put his rapidly accommodating pur-
chases Of paintings, furniture, statues
all those things which he carried
away from the auctions which 1t had
now become his habit TO frequent.
The only disappointment in Desnoy-
ers' new life came from his children
his daughter ChichI because of her in
coincidence and Julio because of his
ainless existence. Julio has had to
make a trip to South America In order
IN realize on bequest from his grand
fotber so that he might marry the fas
c,na+ing and frivolous Marguerite Lau
rler. with whom he had become in
fatuated.
suddenly the cloud of war cast 1t
ahadow over this family. The sell
anfficient DIR. julius Won Hartrott sal
20 b,s cousin: "War win be declare
tomorrow or the day after. Nothin
con nrevent it now. 1t Is necessar
FOR the welfare of humanity.
ON the eve Of mobilization Tchernoi
vuIfo,s had q vision l
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

Burglary as profession is apt to
prove rather combining.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

Act, or you'll react.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-09-09

hhkC AOh1 NAtoASAAS Va N@Ssf~t
returned to his home In gay spirits to
find the dreadful news awaiting hiIn.
Julio, his son. lay dead on the field Of
honor.
When he went to the burial fields TO
find his sons last resting place he re-
called Tchernoff, the dreamer, and the
four terrible horsemen riding ruthless
" over his fellow creatures whom he
saw in his vision, and the prophecy
which he then made:
"No, the Beast does not die. 1t is
the eternal companion of man. 1t hides,
spouting the blood forty sixty -.
hundred years, but eventually 1t re-
appears. All that we can hope is that
| its wound may be long and deep, that
1t may remain hidden SO long that the
generation that now remembers 1t may
never see 1t again"
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Boston, Mass, u. s. A. All rights re.
served Printed by permission OF, and
arrangement with, r. p. Dutton q Co.
New York, authorized publ1Ehers. Copy
right, 1918.