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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1923-03-27

PARIS, MARIO 26.-Los funerales
de la insigne tragica Sarah Berrhardt
Sc levaran a cabo probablemente ell
lunes proximo.
FL cadaver ha sido embalsamado.
Ell jefe del Gobierno M. Raymond
Poincare estuvo esta tarde en- la casa
mortuoria, permanecienao ALI por es-
pacio de una hora.
Tambien estuvieraa los mas nota-
bles literatos franceses, presididos por
Camilo Mauelair Anatolio France.
Ell ex-jefe del Gobicrno M. Georges
Clemenceau, llego a la casa de la ac-
triz a las 4:40 dc la tarde. M.
Clemenceau mostraba gran emotion.
PAR1s, MARIO 26.-Empiezan re-
cibjrse c,,ntA ares de )teIsgramas de
todo ell mundo, en- cual eXpres9n al
Gobierno y los deudos de la irsigne
actriz Sarah Bernharlt ell testimonio
ce p6same el pesar que produce la
muerte de la mas alta representation
del arte universal.
Los Reyes de Italia, Belgica e IN
glaterra fueron los primeros que Sc
spresuraron enviar su condolsncia.
Asimismo Sc ha rscibido un cable
grama del ex-presidente de los ESta-
dos Unidos Woodrow Wilson y otro
del Rey de Espana Alfonso XIII.
Evening star., 1923-09-02

out in front and the only way he
could lose the race was to fall down
so he fell down.
After that race my tension was
called to how pretty the infield is
at this track SO took a look at 1t and
sure enough they had got little
lake out there with q couple of
canoes and u dozen swans that
looked SO nice and clean but no
cleaner than 1 was after the races.
Next we was all asked out to the
paddock which amt like the pad
docks at other tracks but at Sara
toga they have got, a great big for
est full of trees and before every
race the different horses trainers and
jockeys picks out different trees and
walks there horses around them so
as everybody can see them and some
of them certainly looked beautiful
but when the ones 1 bet on finely got
out on the track to race they thought
they was still walking around trees
The trees which the different train
ers picks out for there horses TO
walk around ain't picked out by no
guest work but if it is a bay horse
they make him walk around a bay
tree and chestnut horse walks around
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a horse chestnut tree and a black
horse walks around a blackberry
bush and etc.
All but five horses was scratched
out of the third race and I placed a
modest wager on a lady horse named
Last Straw which was where she
finished but Brainstorm which was
my choice in the, fourth race made
whole lot better showing as they
was only three horses in the race
and only two of them beat him.
DUT the fifth race was the feature
- of the day as far as we was con-
cerned as there was horse in
it named Hyperion which Bud Fisher
bad ;boughten, him and before the
race Bud took us out to. watch him
walk around his tree and the best
jockey in the, u. S. was going to ride
him and the horse walked around
the tree in great form and the people
watching him says that any horse
that walked around tree like this
horse walked around "a tree was
surely worth bet so pretty near
everybody at the track seemed to be
betting. on him and finely the buggls
Evening star., 1923-09-02
WHERE THE A. E. F. BOYS RISK LIV

off rumble. They were we'll out on
the sands. In vain did people on the
mount make signs to them
Lets run out there and bring them
back" exclaimed the young Ameri-
can, Happ Dunlap, who last week
was himself sensationally rescued
by two men of the Rainbow division.
I'VE could not get to them" an
swered the natives in despair THE
tide has already risen in that creek
and that and that. They are cut off!
They are quite lost"
Then the young soldier saw terri
BILE sight in peace time. Nevertheless
il seems to have taught him nothing.
Suddenly, the four gypsies were.
aware that the big frontal tide was
rolling toward them like a wall, now
that the lower levels had been i'm
perceptibly filled.
They We're seen running franctically
toward the mount. One jumped lit
tie stream He plashed-and disap-
peared. The others ran along it,
seeking a crossing. Soon they sepa-
rated. One was seen struggling, knee
deep. A third ran to his rescue The
Evening star., 1923-09-02

sands of the bay. OF late years,
thanks to the dyke uniting island and
mainland (the tram passes on itO.
these numbers have much decreased.
The last catastrophe dates three
months back A peasant, with his
wife and little boy, crossing from
Genets by the shortcut of the sands.
were seen to turn slightly aside from
the market-day route, marked clearly
that morning by red pennants on long
poles. At once the sands seemed to
open beneath them. The three strug-
gled. They sank to the necks in
some eight minutes. A rescue party
had arrived with long, broad planks-
too late! The victims gave last ago.
nizing glances at one another's heads.
Then there was only smooth, wet
sand,
The ''sneaking tides" are quite as
bad.
A month previously wandering gyp-
sizes camped under the walls of the
mount. A little before the hour of the
rising tide, four started out impru-
IDENTITY to look for clans BY igno-
rance they paid no attention to the far
Evening star., 1923-09-02

blowed and the horses went around
to the starting pit. and pretty soon
the barrier was sprang and we all
looked to see how Hyperion was do
ing and they seemed to be something
missing the picture and it turned out
to be the best jockey in the u. s..
who had fell off his horse 6 #. from
the barrier and was setting in the
middle of the track rubbing himself.
The track was muddy but the
jockey was Sande.
Well Hyperion went all the way
around to the finish line but they
wasn't nobody to whisper sweet moth
fngs in his ear and the other entries
was giving him the horse laugh SO
he finished in the special place re-
served for horses who this writer
bets on.
They was so many horses in the
last race that everybody forgot who
they was backing and 1 can't even
say who win but / know who did not
and all and ali when the races was
over and we was riding back to
town the entire party Joined in the
singing Of "A Perfect Day"
RING W. LARDNER.
Evening star., 1923-09-02

fourth gesticulated in the log. Then
the fog hid the scene. Screams wers
heard for ten minutes
EvEN ships of considerable tonnage
IL have been swallowed by the
sands. In 1870 the owner of a seven
ty-ton sloop was notified by his cap
tain of such a catastrophe. Not en-
tirely believing the story. the owner
tried an experiment. He had great
stone, weighing 1000 pounds. chiseled
in the shape of a cone. To it he at
tached a cord eighty feet long and
fastened the other end of the cord TO
a broad plank, 10 prevent its being
lost,
In the evening, when the tide was
out and the sands were dry. the ship
owner deposited these objects on the
sands near where the sloop, with It's
masts and sails, was alleged to have
sunk.
1t seemed good sand. 1t bore he
heavy weight. A night and day
passed. Still the stuff was there. But
the next morning when he went to
see the 1.000-pound stone had sunk,
the cord had sunk and the plank had
sunk-nobody knows to what depth.
Evening star., 1923-09-02
EDUCATION MADE AGREEABLE
Leacock Talks About Jazzing Up knowledge

The situation is there; the idea j.
good. and, whether one agrees or not
is. at least. as brilliantly original a.
even the best of our recent novels. Blu,
find it necessary to alter the presen-
tation of the plot little bit. As re
edit it. the opening of the calculu,
runs thus:
On a bright morning in June
along path gay with the open
ing efforescence of the, hibiscus
and entangled here and there with
the wild blossoms of the convol-
vulus-two magnitudes might have
been seen approaching one
another. The one magnitude, who
held tennis racket in his hand
carried himself with a beautiful
erectness and moved with a firm
ness such as would have led Prof
Murray to exclaim in, despair-let
it be granted that A. B. (for such
was our hero's name) is a straight
line. The other magnitude, which
drew near with a step at once
elusive and fascinating, revealed
as she walked figure SO exquisite
in it's evry curve as to call from
her geometrical acquaintances the
ecstatic exclamation: Let it be
granted that M is a parabola."
The beautiful ma gnitude Of whom
we have spoken bore on her arm
as she walked a tiny dog called
vi (his full name was Velocity, but
he was called vi for short).
Guided thus along their respec-
tive paths, the two magnitudes
presently met with such sudden
ness that they almost intersected.
II beg your pardon" said the
first magnitude very rigidly.
' You ought to indeed" said the
second rather sulkily, you've
knocked vi right out of my arms"
She looked round despairingly
for the little dog which seemed to
have disappeared in the long
grass
Wont you please pick him up?"
she pleaded.
Not exactly in my line. you
know" answered the other mag
nitude. but tell you what I'll do.
IL you'll stand still, perfectly still
where you are, and let me take
hold of your hand, I'll describe a
= circle.'
'Oh, aren't you clever" cried
the girl. clapping her hands. What
lovely idea! You describe a
circle all around me, and then
we'll look at every weeny bit of
it and we'll be sure to find VII"
She reached out her hand to the
other magnitude, who clasped IT
with an assumed intensity suff1-
cient to retain it.
At this moment third mag
nitude broke on the scene-a huge,
oblong, angular figure, very diff
cult to describe, came revolving
toward them.
M" it shouted, Emily, what
are you doing?"
My goodness" said the second
magnitude in alarm, "it's mama"
l may say that the second insall
ment of DIR. Murrav's fascinating ro
nance will appear in the next mum
Der of the Illuminated Bookworm
the great adult juvenile vehicle .
the newer thought in which thes,
theories of education are expounde<
further.
tCopyright, 1921 - I.
Evening star., 1923-09-02
HAS "PERFECT DAY" AT SARATOGA
Horses All Finish In Ring Lardners Special Place

+" o the editor: 1 suppose the
most of the readers has Wis
tied Saratoga, where they
have the horse races dureing
dog days and maybe that is why so
many of the horses acts like dogs
but any way last month was the oc-
casion of my first visit to the cele-
brated spa and for the benefit of
those who has never been there will
try and describe my first day at the
spa.
In the first place we left n. Y.
City on the we'll known night boat to
Albany and arrived at the capital of
N. Y. State about AN. the next
morning and we got off the boat and
went to a hotel to get breakfast
which / ordered a veal chop and
some wheat cakes and got the veal
chop and when that was gone we
clumb in 4 car and drove up to Sara
toga a distance of about Al miles and
man took us in a place where the
only way you could get a cocktail
was go up to the bar and ask for a
cocktail.
So after a vile we went out to the
races and had been told to overlook
the layout and see how beautiful
was it as it is suppose to be the
prettiest race track in the U. s. but
they was just time to plant'a bet on
the first race and then watch it and
I wished now that I had went around
admiring the scenic beauties instead
Of being SO anxious to plant bet on
the first race which was a horse
named Mirthful that seemed to think
the race track was a mass of detours.
mind her and he come in without no
jockey.
Between the first and second races
had time to admire the scenic Won
ders and the first one to catch my
eye was Jack Dempsey's new suit
which asked the ladies on the party
what color was it and they agreed
ON mauve. Had quite a nice talk
with the champion and was careful
TO make it nice as. I don't like to
make scene in front of so many
Strangers.
r ATER in the Pm. a, photographer
IL insist 1t on takeing a picture of
and Jack and Bud Fisher in a group
and when the picture is published, in
case they don't put our names under
1t, why am the one that is sanding
next to the other two.
Also seen Jack Kearns and s.,ked
him what kind of luck h. vas have
ing and he asked me to SHIT up.
The second race was a jumping
race and my favorite was horse
named Irish Sea and at the end OF
the first mile and half he was way
Evening star., 1923-09-02

really monumental book the same
chance that is given to every other
work of fiction in the modern market
First of all, 10 wrap it in what is
called technically a jacket. This is of
white enameled paper, and on it is a
picture of a girl, a very pretty girl, in
a summer dress and sunbonnet, sit
ting, swinging on bough of a cherry
tree. Across the cover in big black
letters are the words. The Calculus"
and beneath them the legend, "the
most daring book of the day This,
you will observe. is perfectly true.
The reviewers of the mathematical
journals, when this book first came
out. agreed that prof. Murray's views
on the calculus were the most daring
yet published" They said. too. that
they hoped the professors unsound
theories of infnitesimal rectitude
would not remain unchallenged. Yet
the public somehow missed it all, and
one of the most profitable scandals in
the publishing trade was missed for
the lack of little business enterprise.
My new edition will give this book
its first real chance.
x X X X
7 admit that the inside has to be
/ altered-but not very, much. The
real basis of interest is there. The
theories in the book are just as inter-
esting as those raised in the modern
novel All that is needed is to adopt
the device, familiar in novels. of
clothing the theories in personal form
and putting the propositions advanced
into the mouths of the characters, in
stead of leaving them as unsupported
statements of the author. Take, for
example, DR.. Murray's beginning. 1t
is very good-any one will admit it
fascinatingly clever, but it lacks
heart.
1t runs:
"If two magnitudes, one of which is
determined by a straight line and the
other by parabola. approach one an
other. the rectangle included by the
revolution of each will be equal to the
sum of series of indeterminate rec
tangles."
Now. this is = quite franklyIdull.
Evening star., 1923-09-02
Continued from Third Page.)

deep. The "lise" sucks in its victim.
Now you are in to the armpits.
Even to the armpits, they say, you
can save yourself. Spread your arms
out wide, so that the body forms
cross-that holy symbol. Sure, 1T
scares the demons. Also. it prevents
your sinking deeper. Then cry aloud
for help. But all contortions are
futile.
In truth, there is but one better way
If you have time. The instant you
begin to sink, throw yourself fla. on
the belly, spread wide the arms and
legs, to make the most extended sur
face possible. Then wriggIe back to
safety like a snake,
X X y X
TN olden times. when the sentry on
i the tower perceived such a drama
in the distance, he sounded the alarm.
All knew what II meant-"Pray for
one who sinks.
The man on the tower was there
to do 1t.
Thirty or forty victims used to be
annually sucked down by the quick
Evening star., 1923-09-02

A stormy c before her
c. c. Ca c.
The tempest gathers DER her.
The thunder rolls, the lightning
smites 'em
And the rain falls ad infinitum
In vain the aged boatman strains,
His heaving sides reval his pains:
The angry water gains apace
Both of his sides and half his base,
Till, as he sits, he seems to lose
The square of his hypothenuse..
The boat advanced to X+2,
Lord Ullin reached the fixed point O.
Then the boat sank from human eye,
OY, OYa, OGY.
x 4
DUT this is only a sample of what
- can be done. I have realized that
all our technical books are written
and presented in too dry a fashion.
They don't make the most of them
selves. Very often the situation i'm
piled is intensely sensational. and If
set out after the fashion of an up to =
date newspaper would be wonderfully
effective.
Here, for example, you have Euclid
writing in perfectly prosaic way,
all in small type. such an item as the
following
"A perpendicular is let fall on a
line Be so as to bisect it at the point
c, etc, etc. just as if it were the
most ordinary occurrence in the
world. Every newspaper man will
see at once that it ought to be set
up thus:
Awful Catastrophe.
Perpendicular Falls Headlong
on Given Point.
The Line at C Said to be Completely
Bisected.
President of the Line Makes
Statement, etc, ETC., etc.
am preparing new and very spe-
cial edition of my friend Prof. Daniel
Murray's. work on the calculus
venture to say that when my new edi-
tion is out it will be found on the ta-
bles of every cultivated home and will
be among the best sellers Of the year
All that "a needed Is TO give to, this
Evening star., 1923-09-02

And Whiteman told me how at a
party given in a big London house
that was closed for the summer the
prince had personally served the
champagne to all the members of the
band. -
My drummer will never get over
it-being served by the Prince OF
Wales" he added.
When the band resumed it's dance
program it was interrupted by a spe-
cialty dance performed by Wanda.
Hoff, an American dancer and the
wife of Mr.. whiteman
I noticed that the prince danced
every dance. His partner, was told.
was Mrs. Dudley Ward, wife of Com
mander Ward, NJ. p. a comptroller in
the royal household.
X ~ X
THE prince and his party-his
i young brother, Prince Henry. and
Prince Paul of Serbia and two attrac-
tive ladies, in addition to Lord and
Lady Mountbatten and Mrs. Dudley
Ward, were at his table-remaine
until the lights were dimmed. Then
they filed out with the crowd, entered
Two big motors that were waiting
for them and sped off in the dark
ness. There was no ceremony about
their leave-taking and nobody seemed
to pay any particular attention to
the prince or his guests. except a
funkey who struck a match to light
another long cigar that his royaI
highness produced fronr>a huge pocket
case. If Paul Whiteman had not
called my attention to two Boobies"
VINO were standing just outside of
the entrance | would not have been
conscious Of any special precautions
as result of his presence at the
supper club
The other night, or rather the
other morning, when We left one OF
his parties there were half a dozen
Boobies outside the house" said
Whiteman, but as rule he goes
everywhere without any fuss
The Prince of Jazz told me more of
his amazing adventures with British
royalty. The first time he had been
asked to play for the Prince of Wales
shI i'iooh MUSE, the 1drh Lane resi-
dence of Lord and Lady Mountbatten.
he was actually prevented from ap-
pearing by the ministry of labor. Be-
cause he did not have as many Brit
ish musicians as Americans in his
band lie could not appear at a pri-
vate entertainment
And there was no way Of getting
around the bush,'' added Whiteman
Il simply didn't play. However, |
got everything Strengthened out by
hiring British band at the Grafton
Galleries. and by alternating with
them it gives my boys rest.
After the way I've been received
here it won't surprise you whenI tell
you that I'm coming back after a
brief vacation i'll America" he con-
fided
The Embassy Club often gets a
smarter crowd than we do at the
Grafton Galleries" he went on mod
estly, l thought THE Prince of
Wales goes there once or twice
week, but he seems to like our music
best His favorite show isn't Bright
er London l want to put you right
about that. He's been to see THE
Nine O'Clock Revue oftener than any
show in town. There's a girl in that
show-Be8 trice Lillie-whom he finds
most amusing. She had a number
called The Girls of the Old Brigade
and he laughs his head off at it. She
reminds him of his grandmother
some of her mannerisms. But it is
all bunk about his attachment for
her; she's fine girl. happily married
and with a youngster. It's Just pure
admiration on the part of the prince
when he likes any one or anything
he doesn't mind showing it,"
Evening star., 1923-09-02

American and His Band Attract Royal At
tention, and Their Attendance Is Demanded at
Heir-Story of the Time When the Prince Per-
sonally Served Champagne to the Musicians.
Addresses Friend as Paul" During Grafton
Galleries Program.
Evening star., 1923-09-02


occasion of the Eton and
Harrow cricket match and
every table was taken or reserved.
But when told the head waiter that
had been invited by Paul Whiteman
q table was quickly provided and al
most before l knew 1t ] was seated
at the edge of the dance floor in
the most advantageously located
place in the room.
The band was playing and the
dance floor was crowded when I en-
tered. for 1 had arrived after mid
night and the gayety was at it's
height. 1t was easily the smartest
looking crowd I had ever seen in a
supper club. Nearly all the men
were in formal evening dress. and the
gowns and jewels of the women made
me rub my eyes.
When the music stopped. after the
usual encore. and the dancers re-
turned to their seats. Paul White
man left the stage, where he had
been conducting his band, and joined
me at my table.
What do you think of it?" he
asked, tugging at the beaverette on
his upper lip.
Its a wonderful crowd" l replied
II don't believe 1 have ever seen a
finer gathering of handsome men,"
YES" agreed the Prince of Jazz,
"for beautiful women you can't beat
New York; but when it comes to-
handsome men-well. the British
aristocracy still breeds the ftandsom-
est. And the handsomest man in the
room is sitting at the next table-at
your right"
x x :: x
n TATURALLY. 1 looked around. and
y at the adjoining table, at which
there were eight persons-equally
divided as to sex-waS a fresh-faced
youth, with merry blue eyes and fair
hair, lighting the longest cigar
had ever seen. Unlike the majority
of the other men. he was wearing a
dinner coat, but with a whitewaist-
& coat. OF course. l recognized him
instantly-his pink and white COM
<plexion and his finely cut features
made him unmistakable.
sou it right, TtpIled 10
Whiteman, after surveying the faces
or the men at the various tables
around the room. THE Prince of
Wales is the handsomest man I've
seen here tonight. Does he come here
often@'
Two or three nights a week" an
swered the bandsman. Hes fond
Of"
But the Prince of Jazz did not fin
ish his sentence. A waiter bent over
and whispered something in his ear
that caused him to turn around to the
princes table.
Paul" heard the prince say. will
you play the 'Nutcracker Suite? I'm
mad about it,
Acknowledging the request with
bow, Whiteman excused himself to me
and made his way to the stage, where
the band was sitting.
"The next selection will be Tchai-
kovsky's .Nutcracker Suite" he an
Evening star., 1923-09-02

the more the prince and his guests
drink the more correct they become.
You've got to respect these English
for the way they carry their liquor,
although I must admit they nearly
had my band drunk the oaher night