The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-03
Beauty Is Power - Loves of Million aires, Henrys and Others - Nature of Gratitude Aim We Got Fun With the Ins UT Tn C e Money-Anguish of Lost Jewels.


 millionaire, who will settle s3o0.O0o on her, and take divorce. She will be taken over by another millionaire, elderly and divorced. Beauty Is a power It conquers thrones by con- quering those upon the throne.
 It was so of old. The manner of the thing has changed, but not the principle. Read of Mahommed and his loves. Henry the Eighth had more wives than the greedest AmeriA can millionaire permits himself. Henry the Eighth divorced his with an axe. which was something the method pursued by Henri Landru. French Rluebeard. recently rendered a head shorter. VIrginius Mayo is taking a degree in social disapprovaI, before a New York court, for sin1i- lar enterprises. He proceeded in an irregular unauthorized way to the qualification of lust.
 
 What is gratitude? A lively sense of favors to come. a cynic said. Not so long ago thousands were saying about the Salvation Army, that while stars shine and waters flow and man proposes in the moonlight, this price less organization would be gratefully remembered.
 Comes the time. Salvation Army is part of Community Chest. rt's the chance to prove that memory is longer than a passing thought. Who says Community Chest Is not for him. repudiates the Salvation Army and the past, forEets promised gratitude. | and neglects a deserving cause. This 1 won't happen; at least. not many 1 dimes.
 War in France was an incident to l tho Saivatonists. The world saw their nettle, ths kind of heart which 1 took coffee and sinlkers up to cannon l fire and on to first line trenches I1see sS e war. Battle i% fought every | day. Many are wounded. Salvation l rescue squads find these where they l have fallen. give first aid. and ulti- | mate restoration to moral and mental | health. The Buddtes will not for get,
 A Cleveland woman said: TIT Joe | died suddenly what fun we could | spend." He did. The pouce are | looking up the deaths of five other ghusbsnds. Men do this sort of thing | oftener than women do. A husband 1 to moSt women is pearl beyond price. not to be traded for many in sIrance policies. The woman kills sometimes for 1ove. and sometimes for love turned to hate. but not often, fortunately. for money.
 
 Buck Bailey and Harry Sttnger, 1ohiIsde1phia, loved the same girl. They shot at each other. Both are dead. The girl is free to marry some other man. She's luo girl. These fboys harked back to the ngle. They would not have made good family men. The primitive beast was too Is good only in moving pictures.
 
 2 Croker, in his last days gave dfrec- tions for the arrangement of his own tomb; placed the slabs personally lecided upon planting tte ivy; took consolation ip knowing that his re- mains would be safely put away It harks back to ancient yearning for Thus did Egyptian kings. The pyramids are tourbs they 7.uiIt. now rifled. Primitive man connected the preservation of his body, with the immortality of his soul. The feeling is transmitted. Tho who can afford it build costly $ tombs. Their relatives buy expen- sive caskets dramatically sealed.
  Ansorge. congressman. offers some thing intelligent for the liberalization of the VoIstead act. bill for a na- tionaI referendum on 3.75 beer and light wines. It would be better to make the referendum in form of an to the constitution, then the vote might have some effect. A mere senttne ental expression wouldn't help much
 Mrs William Avere1l Hartman lost her pearl necklace. worth s25o.ooo. "I was frantic she says, ''and thought my pearls would never be found." They were found behind the lining of an automobile What suffer sngs do women endure. who leave their | jewels about when they wash their I hands; or n1islay those pretty hand V bags, in which so many or them carry all their wealth of Jewels. It is g d doubtful if ever a jewel paid its way. I The misery of fear of loss often Is r more than the satisfaction of posses (