The Washington times., 1922-06-07

upon her tomb might be writ
ten; "Here lies one that made
the world happier by her talent.
beauty. and Kindness"
Stirpiculturists will be inter-
ested. with the rest of America.
In Miss Russell's career.
When this writer, aged nine
teen, reporter for Charles A.
Dana's New York Sun, was sent
to interview Lillian Russell at
the Casino Theater. Miss Rus
sell sat in her dressing room,
nicely chaperoned by her moth
er. Mrs. Cynthia Leonard. Mrs.
Leonard said: "Young man,
let Lillian be a lesson to you,
IL you ever get married. Be-
fore she was born / determined
that she should be very beauti-
full and have a fine voice and
! kept my mind on that all the
time until she was born. Now,
look at her, and listen to her.
1t was advice easy to take.
Mothers of little girls still
to be born will be interested in
the determination and success
of Lillian Russell's mother. Lii
han Russell is one of five dis
tinctly American stage person.
alities of the past half century
the other four being Mary
Anderson, Minnie Maddern Fiske,
Ada Rehan, and Julia Marlowe.
Senator Lodge praises Presi-
dent Harding for mot soaring
too high" Poor praise. Mr..
Harding won't thank him for
1t. The man that never goes
too far never goes far enough.
That's a true saying.
Nothing is disgraceful, ex-
cept failing to try. A story
that illustrates 1t, sol Vert
helm told yesterday to Abe
Stein, who had heard it, but
listened politely. Please do the
same:
A gentleman from Poland,
for the first time, found him
self outside a race track
without money to buy a ticket.
A man with no ticket merely
said: "I'm Morvich's trainer"
He was admitted. Then came
Morvich's rubber and his
jockey and both went in with
no ticket. That was the cue
of the Polish gentleman. Walk
ing up to the ticket taker
he said: 81 am Norwich him
SELF" not knowing that Nor
vich is a race horse. ~,
He did not get in, but he
will have q good business for
himself some day. He Is not
afraid to try. %. 49,.
Another cut in railroad
wages. This time 400, 900 skill
ed shop, mechanics have $780,.
100000 q year chopped from
their wages, a cut of z to 9
cents an hour. That's crafty
ing to railroad stock owners,
who feel that railroads exist,
primarily, to pay dividends.
That news was on last nights
front page. The financial page
said: bright outlook for Katy
oneratinp income in 1922,
largest in company's history"
"Katy" is Wall Streets pet
name for the Missouri. Kansas,
and Texas railroad. That also
As gratifying to stockholders.
The Government may hear
more about these cuts at the
next election, and then. again,
it may not. Politicians rely on
the old saying: "Workmen talk
a good deal between elections,
and line up in the old way on
election day"
Not all wage news is bad. In
New York the building labor
ers," formerly called hod-car- .
riers, signed up for two years
at 81 a day. A few years ago,
when Lillian Russell was sing
ing at Tony Pastors, .hod car
riers got 50 a day and less.
Which is better for a nation,
and especially the next genera
tion, 81 or So a day to feed,
clothe, and house a workman
and his family?
Science slowly, steadily works
10 diminish suffering. Only a
little more than 300 years ago
Eufamc Macalyane, a Scotch
woman of high rank, was burned
alive on Castle Hill. at Edin-
burgh. Her crime was hiring
Agnes Sampson to help dimin-
ish her agony at the birth Of
her twin sons. Now doctors
give chloroform occasionally,
and the mother isn't burned
alive for taking it. o.. ....
Only seventy-five years ago,
Sampson, young Scotch doctor,
begging for permission to Use
chloroform in child birth. was
opposed by clergymen, who said
he was irving to "avoid one