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sight is q very different and more consum-
ing passion than that which is known in
America She called Mr.. Elliott and
whispered to him: "Who is that?" ''Why,
that's your lover In the play" was the
reply.
Trembling, she took her place for the
first scene. But. Raquel, with all her
great art, found herself conquered by love
and asked to have the picture making
postponed until the next day. She said
she could not proceed.
The man she met was Andre Roanne.
That afternoon he went home in Raqueps
automobile, and from that time Raque1
Meller and he have never been separated.
So, the lover of the play became her
lover in real life.
Raquel Meller is playing at two places
in Paris every night. She is appearing
in one of the commonest of the revue
theatres, where usually only the lowest
types of people come, far away from the
centre of the city, yet she is crowding
this theatre with the most fashionable
audience which can be found in Paris.
After she finishes here she goes to a
dancing cabaret where, again, she does
her programme.
After seeing Raquel Meller perform,
one can understand how she would be
able to accomplish the impossible with her
art. She is absolutely unique. There
have been singers before with greater
voices, but never before has there been
anyone with such a delightful quality of
tone so suited for the work which she is
doing. Her voice seems to be a part of
the intense feeling and extraordinary
sentiment which she puts into her work.
And she accomplishes the most astounding
effects without effort or exertion. For all
her effects are made without gesture and
with, what would be to some one else, an
immobile face. But the divine art which
shines through this mask makes the face
of Raquel Meller, when she is singing, a
most interesting study.
She sings in Spanish; and when you are
listening to her you do not realize that
she is speaking a foreign tongue which
you do not know, for you understand
everything she is saying.
Sarah Bernhardt, who has become a
great friend of Raquel Meller, says she
artistic of the century. And Maurice
Maeterlnck, the master mind of things
artistic, says that Raquel Meller possesses
those rare artistic qualities which create
such a profound impression that only
three times in his life has he had like
emotion; once, when young, seeing
Mounet Sully; another time when still
very young, seeing Sarah Bernhardt, and
then later with Duse.
While Raquel began her career with
the vulgar songs of the Spanish cafe
concert, now she specializes in dramatic,
almost gruesome effects. Her first great
est success in Paris was a sad song of
disappointed love called, eel Relicario"
One of the present successes is the song
of girl who finds her lover condemned
to be hung and wants to follow him to
the grave to be with him in death. The
manner in which Raquel Meller portrays
the grief and devotion of the wretched
woman is most intense. She becomes
delirious and in her frenzy hears the roll
of the drum announcing the execution.
The anguish is too strong forher and she
AssSs
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err Of the cathedral,
in a w or k 8 h o p
where the robes of
the bishops and
priests were en-
bellished with fine
needlework.
AS little Raquel
worked, seated in
the window of the
shop, feeling the
freedom that gave
her happiness, she
s a n g as 8 h e
worked. 1t w q 8
not many days UNI
til the renown of
her voice and man.
ner of singing
b r O u g h t
crowds, w h o
stood on the
street in front
of the shop to
b hear this little
. son g b i + d
'"S1 A m o n G the
common peo-
- pie f til e
quarter h e r
re pu t a t ion
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Barcelona. Her remarkable
skill in .embroidering soon
found her a position in the
old quarter Of the cathedral,
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Rotten Spots in Several DennaGrks.

GOVERNOR McMAsTERs, of South Dakota condemns
extravagant gasoline distribution Three cents per
gallon could easily be eliminated from overhead by
abandoning unnecessary filling stations Of which there
so per than needed to meet requirements
Kansas City alone has 4O and could get along with fourth
of them.
Federal regulation Of the industry would check such
wasteful management-dt common expense.
Senator Brookhart packs volumes for reflection into
single sentence he the Syracuse State fair
that the farmer gets 81 Of abor dollar and labor 80
of the farmers. The folk between take the fat
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WORDS FROM
THE LIPS OF
WISE MEN
N trouble to be anxious 10 to
have your trouble doubled.

N trouble to be anxious is to
have your trouble doubled.
Self love exaggerates our faults
as well as our virtues.
Generals and preniers spring
not from seed corn-men must
exert themselves.
The end of wrath is the begin.
ming of repentance.
Sorrows remembered sweeten
present joy.
A common book will often give
you much amusement, but it IS
only q noble book which will give
you dear friends.
He who seeks a mansion in the
sky
Must watch his purpose with a
steadfast eye:
That prize belongs to none but
the sincere
The least obliquity is fatal here.
-Cowper.
You can only govern men by
serving them. The rule Is with
out exception.
Mans best companions, innocence
and health,
And his best riches, ignorance Of
wealth. Goldsmith.
To be pre1udiced is always to
be weak.
We are best Of all led to mems
principles by what they do.
To know the true value Of
books and to derive any satisfac-
tory benefit from them, you must
first feel the sweet delight of
buying them-you must know the
preciousness Of possession.
Those who are persuaded that
they shall continue forever, can
not choose but aspire after a
happiness commensurate to their
duration.
Copyright, 1923. by Newspaper
Feature Service. 1nc)
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LUCY LOWELL
ON "SNARING"
A HUSBAND

A THOUF1TFUL English woman
"a -Edna Fortescue, the
writer announces that
girls should angle for the middle
aged husband.
He is best all the way round,
she says, and she offers several
reasons why.
First Of all. she says. he Is
so delighted to find q pretty,
young. vivacious creature, full a.
vim and brightness and anuse.
ment in his home that he asks
no more than that she continue
to be at her best.
And the wise girl who nnarries
the middle-aged man acquires, to
her great advantage-Miss For
tescue's opinion, not mlne!-"po'
sition he. has built up by years
of endeavor, practical wisdom he
can distill, security and repose"
Now this may look like wisdom
to English women-but not to
American girls, thank goodness!
There's a sort of joy in achieve
ment running through the blood
of Uncle Sans daughters that
rather chills at the idea Of ex-
changing vim, brightness, amuse-
ment and youth for board and
lodging.
I do not believe any maid OF
Maine nor any daughter Of Vir-
ginia or Illinois or New York
cares much about schooling her.
self, as one would practice part
for the stage. to be always at
her best" in return for position
ready made and loaned her, so to
speak.
Our girls are altogether too
human for such mode OF life.
I believe everyone Of them Is
sufficiently possessed of the sport
ing instinct to want to take
chance on making goOd-earn-
ing security, repose and position
with. her man; provided she
loves him so much tnat she
wishes to start out on the long
road of matrin.oEy and home
building with him.
What If she strikes hardship?
It is not the smooth easy way
that draws husband and wife
close and makes a real marriage.
1t is helping each other over
the rocks. Faith through adver-
sity, patience in waiting, SYM
pathy, courage. The memory OF
these things stands. clear and
shining. long after the first in
tense love OF youth has given
way to commonplace affection.
No, I don't think the American
girl will be converted to the
idea of the middle-aged husband.
copyright. 1923, King Features
Syndicate. InC
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HEROINES OF HISTORY
HOuv Friend Lydia SaUed George WoshingtOns Army.
BY MARK STUYVESANT.

0ECOND STREET in Philadel-
phia is but two blocks re-
~ moved from the Delaware
River and IL now one of the busI-
est thoroughfares.
But in 1777 this thorouRhfare
was a quiet residential street
lined with quaint red brick
houses like that Of William Penn.
who had been the founder Of the
colony OF which Philadelphia was
the metropolis.
In one Of these houses lived
a quiet little Quaker lady. known
as Friend Lydia" Although she
appeared peaceful and quiet to
those who saw her going sedately
to market or diligently knitting
by the window. in her heart was
anything but peace. The reason
was that across the street from
her house were the headquarters
of General Howe. the British gen.
eral. then in possession of the
city.
On several occasions the British
staff officers had used one of
Lyd1a's rooms as a meeting place
for secret conferences and her
blood boiled at the thought.
On a snowy day in December Of
that year. a message was brought
to Lydia that her room was de-
SIZED that night. The order car
r1ed the command that she
should see that her family were
all in bed at an early hour.
In her quiet way. the good lady
went around the house arranging
for an early dinner. and she
managed to get her family off to
bed shortly after 8 o'clock.
She had a presentiment that
there was a serious plan to be
discussed in her house this
night. So when the soldiers
opened her door and she heard
their boots shuffling up the stairs,
she trembled.
Lydia had not undressed and
gone to bed. She lay on the bed
worrying. Then she got up. She
felt that she must know what was
going on above her. He country
was in danger. Perhaps she could
avert a disaster.
Bravely she slipped out Of her
room in her stocking feet, crept
up the stairs and pressed her ear
against the keyhole. She heard
a long official order being read.
by the officer in charge. It gave
directions for a secret night at
tack on the American army.
which was encamped outside the
city of Whitemarsh.
Lydia slipped down stairs and
made her plans for the following
day.
She did not care to take her
husband into her confidence, for
il her scheme miscarried he
would be implicated and she
could not bear to bring trouble
to him.
What she must do, she must do
alone. she told herself. After
breakfast she resolutely told her
husband that she was going to
Frankfort to the mill for some
flour. I
Now. frankfort was a long dis
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lance from her home-five miles.
But the brave little Quakeress
took her bag and trudged through
the snow toward the American
camp.
Arriving at Frankfort, Lydia
left her bag with the miller and
hurried on toward the American
encampment. As she was wear
lily making her way through the
heavy snow, some horsemen ap-
preached her.
Her heart sank. But when she
saw the blue uniforms her spirits
rose as she signaled the leader.
Quickly and in very few words
she told her story. The officer
grasped her hand and hurried
back to his headquarters.
Lydia returned to the miller
and when she arrived at her
home with her heavy bag of flour,
she all but tainted with fatigue.
Several days later one of the
officers who had met in her house
came staggering into her parlor
and demanded to know If anyone
had been up on the night of the
memorable meeting in her upper
CuAIlD0Ts
Lydia demurely lowered her
head as she replied that the entire
household had gone to bed shortly
after eight.
AS the officer left her door she
heard him say:
II am altogether at a loss to
conceive who could have given
the information to Washington Of
our plans. When we arrived near
his army, we found his cannon
mounted and trained to blow us
to kingdom come and all of his
ttroops ready for action. We had
to march back like a parcel of
FOOLS"
Lydia bade him good-day and
fell to her knees to give thanks
for her privilege of being an in
strument in saving her country's
army.
Copyright. 1928. by Newspaper
Feature Service, Incl
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Once-Overs
TRY TELLING THE GOOD THINGS YOU KNOW ABOUT


TRY TELLING THE GOOD THINGS YOU KNOW ABOUT
PEOPLE.
Did you try telling the good things you know about
people while abstaining from speaking of their faults?
Why not begin today and for week speak only good
Of those you know? >.
You will like it and feel better pleased with yourself
You know how true it is that just soon as you hear
something unfavorable OF you feel impeed
it to
It is a streak in your nature.
You would get lot of life with less loss tn
yourself you would curb this habit of yours to
"knock, scott at, malign Others
you must engage in personalities say the good things
and leave the rest to the hopeless gossips or the few
malicious ones in every community.
Your life is not free from mistakes that you can
expect to escape notice in regard them and Won will
have all do to arrange your life tongues
cannot produce facts about you any
It is dangerous to throw stones unless you are looking
for trouble
Begin that experiment in repeating good things of your
friends and beginstoday
Feature Service 1ne>
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Subtle Woman

~ HICAGO-P riscilla's sugges
ton to John Alden was not
~ subtler nor more fruitful
than that of William Printer.
local restaurant proprietor.
Mrs. Leo Garfinkle, one of his
regular customers, paused at the
cash register a moment recently
and said to Printer, who appear
ed quite disconsolate.
"Why don't you get married
again, Printer? You are full of
life. I have n good woman for
you. will arrange a meeting"
mo. thanks" began Printer.
II cannot marry her. She is
not my style" Then he hesitated
for a moment. Now, If she
were you" he continued-"yes,
that would be a different mat.
ter"
The nuptials were performed
shortly afterward.
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Nothing Like Sunshine
It Kills Disease.

In Paris chemist suddenly gone mad, threw into the
street the contents Of his laboratory including billions Of
assorted microbes.
The people afraid Of plaques and other horrible dis
eases, but the Pasteur Institute treasured them.
One hour Of sunshine will kill all the microbes you
throw into the street Our best friend is the rays
carry with them actual B0MBARDNG FORCE that can
be measured it strikes the earth Those kill the
most vruent surely hail of machine gun bullets
would kill man, Earth would be unnhabable without that
constant fire from the
SUNLIGHT for DISEASE and PUBLICITY for official
CORRUPTION. Neither fails
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Subway in Rome

~ OME-Work will shortly be
begun on Rome's first sub
~ way, IL plans which have
been submitted to the municipal
ity by an American syndicate are
approved.
Many previous subway projects
have been abandoned owing to
the nature of the subsoil, it being
feared that the foundations Of the
Roman palaces and other arch1.
tectural treasures might be in
jured, but 1t Is stated that these
difficulties have been overcome.
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Let Americans Have the Profit
That Would Be Pleasant Change

The Panama Canal made profit Of twelve million dollars
last yearnot allowing any interest the American peoples
investment Mr. Coolidge asked to reduce the charges and
let ships go through for a lower price
Why not begin by letting American ships go through
FREE and thus doing away with piece of sloppy senti
mentality which has compelled American boats pay for
the of the canal after American taxpayers had built it,
which needs building up heaven knows goes through the
canal without taxation.
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Why Not Marry a Real
CAoxxo01noS
StOvepipe?
If That's What You Admire.

The soveppe dress has appeared at the Paris races AS
Mr. Berte describes it for Universal Service is dress so
narrow all the way UP and down from shoulders 10 the
ankles, make it look like length OF stoveppe
Any young gentleman interested in THAT kind OF dress
might as well marry stovepipe and be done with it,
young fitting into such dress Will not 1T very
well into the ancestry of the next generation
Women are intended be MOTHERS, not STOVEPRES;
they of both The Lord made
earworms without any hips also snakes and Inferior
monkeys Why is that kind Of shape called beautiful?
The mother Of Charemagne praised by Vlon as Bertha
With Big Feet could hardly have got Of her legs
into those stoveppe gowns But she the mother
of Charlenngne and that's better than appearing at the
races in stovepipe costume.
Young and women too remember that the first thing
health and that the mother of healthy children must have
surplus VITALITY and TISSUE.
"A wshbone can't lay egg It must have entire
chicken around it. Remember that in collecting your chickens
for laying eggs, your partner for life.
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Slavery, Olive Branches and Gay Kin

ETHIOPIA serf of successive conquerors hears the
- credulous tidings of manumssion Italy notifies all
African colonies that the abomnation of slavery must
be erased from her flag.
Abyssnia oldest Of its Christian kingdoms and the
last of the Dark Continents great slave mart canny
pecuates whether the advantage of entrance to the
League OF Nations worth the emancipation of 100000
bondsmen and probable insurrecton by their holders.
Rumor insists that the olive tree sproung the battle
grounds of China Mighty little else has been growing there
since Cathay began to tumble toward democracy.
Spain and Morocco continue at staemate Madrid
proaches financial difficulties.
General Wey1er proves successful IN the Meder
ranean than In the Caribbean IL Aphonso close
student of strategy he is Of pleasure that octogenan
would have been retired from service years ago.
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FirpO Is Not Afraid
That's so Per Cent of a Big Purse.

When the boaman afraid Of the storm
him: ''You carry Caesar and his fortunes"
Caesar didn't think ANYTHING COULD happen to him.
That accounts largely for his success.
Just interesting way our visiting friend Frpo
from the Argentine Before he fought Willard seems his
friends discussing the probable result turned question
Firpo and found him sound asleep
Presently just before the hour Of the fight he woke and
shook himself saying "Now I'll go over and beat that
fellow" And he DID it.
Mr. Fpo is slower than Mr.. Dempsey; he doesn't know
much about boxing But if he feels deep in his
Nov I'll go and beat that fellow Dempsey more
than make up for slowness and lack of science
There is nothing like feeling that you CAN do it.
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$4O,OOO,OOO Battleship
$4,000 Filler Could End It.

The American batleshp Colorado is launched power
full fighting weapon Of the That ship cost perhaps forty
millions Its will number thousands its yearly upkeep
would support thousand American families and it
of date One single flying with bomb and tenthou
sanddoar flying machine could send that battleshp the
bottom.
Build fIaEnU machines.
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A SURVEY OF THE
WORLD IN FIVE
MINUTES
By HERBERT KAUFMAN.

VIE most important piece of information for several
million readers is Cy Williams thirty-sixth home
and his consequent election to the Ruth throne.
smaller and seelected circle will find equal thrills in
the of the marriage of Miss Vanderbilt and Prince
George.
But reader in a thousand will bother to learn that
unavorable weather baked the conclusive application Of
Enstens theory to the solar eclipse But FOR that matter
not person in hundred thousand (among whom the
writer unabashey counts hmse has the fantest notion
Of what Ensten's driving at.
Newspapers must be mental bazaars, with booth for
every human interest Todays stock Of especially
comprehensive
Japan revses estimates of deaths Tokyo and raises the
figure 10000 Ambassador Woods cables that yeight
Americans persisted in the disaster All correspondents
agreed that the primary problem of relief is medical
Typhoid following fast the drinking of putrescent and
infected water adds its threat the of cholera
The shock in India restricted the Calcutta
district.
Alrinach demon of earthquakes and shipwrecks is evil
IDENTIFY content with present mischief and again asleep IN
her subterranean lair.
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LIS quiet along the Adratic. Mussoni promises to
~ release hostage Greek islands the moment national
honor is satisfied And Italy" he proudly boasts,
"never breaks her word.''
Wires between Berlin and Paris smoking with dis
cussons There's actually chance of resumed negotiations
Stresemann indicates serious intent to mobilize private
wealth behind reparaon pledges and evnces readiness to
abandon passive resistance, given allied guarantees
that the Reich will be left intact should mutually
ceptabe indemnity basis be reached.
Argentina examines her potentialities cotton pro-
will be devoted to plantations cotton
looks better the Yankees Of South America than dollar
wheat and steadily diminishing cattle returns
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r rENRY FORD strikes CONSERVATION in the Industrial
- camp by providing homes for a dollar month and
furnishing electric light and water at cost to employees
of his nstpurchased Hebbard Lumber Company In LAsne
Mich.
The announcement at most unfortunate time for
bmnous operators seeking vindicaton from charges of
rent nrofiteernc and exorbance at company stores
Incidentally, you have heard OF red campaigns
around any of Henry's enterprises
Lieut. L. E. Sanderson speeds Marine Corps aeropane
t 238 miles an hour His machine carries metal propeller,
stronger and cheaper than Of Eliminated wood Thus
experiment possibility for the imminent flying
New York at behods great ashp coursng her
skvscrapers FRI establishes competence to build
cloud-lners with the best of them.
Tenhousand passenger eviathans the
globe bi-weekly already the ways of imagination
You will see them launched and will travel in them i
Kaufanl
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Anarchists, LOynIists and KLnnsmen.

United MINE WORKERS grow moro explicit in their
| accusations Of Soviet plots Moscow has literally
poured money into the Pennsylvania fields advised
uprsng the flooding and destruction Of coal properties
and officially financed bitter bloody propaganda, leading
only the overthrow of capitalism but of entire
system Of Government.
Samuel Gompers denounces Foster peril to organ
lied labor nvokes full federation membership to loyalty
scountenances union activities in politics. and pleads with
his followers confne their efforts economic and social
Ku Kux candidates swept into office by overwhelming
Portland Me- but submission Oklahoma decree
that kansmen must unmask and derobe in public offsets the
victory.