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The Washington times., 1925-06-24
THE GATE-POST
BIZ Harold Phillips.
n EUsrybodys Conf

Nichols less respected in the thater
worker Of miracles going to try and work another She will
Make the Castle Square Theaer IN Boston at the beginning
Abes Irish Rose" the playhouse
for what is expected to be record breaking The unique
thing about this is Miss Nichols faith in taking
theaer of the beaten highways and generally considered
has With several
the best heates in Boston offered to her by the booking
Miss Nichcs turned them all down. confident she
roll breaking with "Ab double
profits Boston the big city in the country which
yet to The discussed Nichols piece
The Washington times., 1925-06-24
Hours at Fairgrounds

School and municipal Fairgrounds
will be closed at O'Clock this sum.
mer. instead of 8 o'clock. Play
grounds at school buildings will re-
main open %from to o'clock in
the afternoon. Municipal grounds
will be open from 10 o'clock in the
morning until o'clock.
The Washington times., 1925-06-24
Youth. Killed on Coaster

MARION, Ohio, June "a. -
Leonard Hoffman, eighteen, Of
Gallon. is dead, and Miss Roxalena
Garcelon, eighteen. OF Charleston,
s. c., is in critical condition in
City Hospital today after having
been thrown from a roller coaster
at an amusement park here. n
The Washington times., 1925-06-24
Snake Sleeps With Man

PHILADELPHIA June 24.-Mrs.
Carl Dietrich, wife of Pennsylvania
railroad fireman, saw a ratlasnake
sharing the couch of her husband.
both man end snake asleep. She
cautiously awakened Dietrich, who
jumped from the couch and killed
the reptile.
1t measured twenty.eight inches
and had thirteen rattles.
The Washington times., 1925-06-24
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Solution to Monday Puzzle.
The Washington times., 1925-06-24
Wliten Skin
sssh Lemon
The only harm.

The only harm
lie s s W a y t o
bleach the skin
white is to mix
the juice Of two
lie m on s with
three ounces of
Orchard White.
which any drug
gist viii supply
for a few cents.
Shake wei in a
bottle, and you
The Washington times., 1925-06-24
By FOntaine Fox
The bonneville Trolley

n4E LATEST TACK The SKIPPER HAS TAUGHT OSWALD,
his pE7 WOOD PICKER, is 10 PIck CHICKEN N
CASE n4E CAR HAPPENS 70 Run ovER oNE
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hollowness Of my past life to my son.
i have confessed to my magnanimous
wife, Marie Gallise. And now con-
TESS to the world.
FINDS LOVE HOLLOW
In humility, mixed with pride, I
now broadcast to the world that D.
Annunzio, the "poct-lover," has tested
clandestine love and, at the age of
seventy, has found it hollow and with
out glory.
broadcast my story to the world
so that the youth of genius will re-
gard me as figure symbolizins the
futility of profligate love-making.
At first i intended to spend the
rest of my life doing pcnancc as
hermit. l tried it for two years, but
this experiment did not bring peace
to my distracted soul.
Finally was desperate in body and
soul, and my son, Captain Ugo DAN
nunzio, brought about the reconcilia-
ton. AS result, today by Maria
di Gallisc, on whom our gracious king
bestowed the title of Princess Monte
nevoso, presides over my household
just as she did a quarter of a century
ago when began the role of "prodi-
gal husband"
Learning that his mother, humilia-
ted by the life had led for so many
years, was about to finally settle in
Paris, my son went to her and begged
her consent to take back her pro Sgal
husband, now old and broken in soul
and body.
My son pleaded with his mother to
abandon her intention to exchange her
native land for n residence in Pairs.
He then came to me and in persua-
sive tones urged me to agree to a
reconciliation. / commanded him to
stop. Reconciliation l told my son
that could not agree to a reconcilia-
ton. A reunion must be brought
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splendor Of a renaissance prince until
my debts impelled me to return TO
Paris.
1t is true that I lived in splendcr.
Not having found the pleasure 1
sought for in love, sought for peace
in splendor. 1t is also true that my
debts impelled me to retire to Paris.
Again my restless soul sought ad-
venture in romance and responded to
Ida Rubenstein's worshipful admira-
ton for me. ida Rubenstein, famous
Russian danccr.) 1 was her hero
and she worshiped me like god. 1t
appealed to my vanity, but my re-
Spouse was short.
In consequence. went to the Ri
viera, where 1 announced to the
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Early Efforts in College Fail of Com
plete Success, but Boy
Keeps on Trying

precious timepiece given me by the
employees of the State Department.
/ did not give much attention TO
athletics during college. My principal
exercise was walking from my board
ing place on College avenue up to my
recitation and back and downtown and
back, as l had frequent occasions TO
run errands for DR.. or Mrs. Jones.
Although i played games to some ex-
tent. l was not an expert at anything
except jumping. When / played
baseball / was usually assigned to
right field, where my inefficiency
would least embarrass the club, and
was placed last on the batting list.
BRYAN PRIZE JUMPER.
In my younger days L had been
more conspicuous on the diamond, but
my prestige waned when the round
bat was substituted for the flat bat,
and when the ball began to be thrown
instead of pitched. The curve ball
always was a mystery to me, and L
never secured sufficient control of the
muscles of my face TO restrain the ex-
preston of surprise called forth by
the curved balls that passed me I'M
impeded in their flight.
But when it came to the broad
jump, l had to be reckoned with. l
was somewhat proficient in the high
jump, but the only thing in which
excelled was what we used to call the
standing jump, known technically,
believe as the broad jump. used
weights to jump with. and began at
nine feet when I entered the acad-
envy. l gradually increased the dis
lance until won n prize with a rec
ord Of IL feet 4 inches.
would commence jumping as soou
as the frost was out of the ground.
and jump until was sore. and then.
would continue jumping until the soIss :
ness disappeared. was in many,
jumping contests, but one competitor
after another fell behind. I remember
one good-natured rival, Charlie Chr
ter, who when he discovered that his
efforts were hopeless, vented hisEdis.
appointment in the following good ma
tured rebuke:
Bryan" he said, -my father al
ways told me never to speak Of anSs
one unless l could speak well ot-hinl-
Whenever 1 speak of you / always
say you are a good jumper
BAUM JlMf hESOhD.
/ have thought Of this many tim ;
since, when a stranger. introducing
himself, would say: MY Bryan. !
must say that you are a man Of WON
derful physical endurance. i know
by that compliment that he Is a Re-
publican. He wants 10 spesS kindly.
and he can say this without making
any political concessions.
1 also had record of nine feet ia
the backward jump. / do not recall
but one man who surpassed 1t. Thrre
is more art than strength In this
jump. a good deal depending upon -
balancing as 70 use the weight Of tbs
body without being thrown of cn"'s
feet. Very few can jump any eonsiil-
cradle distance backward. aud the
number Of those who can jump thru
jumps backward without falling. ~
still less.
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Great britain. All riEhts reserved It-
production prohibited.
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My flights of fancy in my early
days made short pilgrimages, but it
was not until l met EIeanora Duse,
the greatest tragedicnne of all ages,
that / was really captured.
DROPS DUSE
The world knows the sad story
the sad story for Eleanora, the sad
story for me.
Our lives became linked together.
For the first time / loved as / was
loved. To her l dedicated what the
world has termed "my greatest prod
uct," FRANCESCA DA RIMINI,
and at her feet l laid the laurels that
it won from me.
But as the years passed my rest
less soul looked for new conquests.
While our respect for each other re-
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about by request on my part in
tones of humility and repentance.
1t must be she who would become
reconciled, and !, the sinner, must
go to her on my knees, confessing all
and begging for mercy.
/ told my son he must take a letter
which I would write to my Maria, his
mother. That letter / shall never
make public because it is sacred, be-
cause it is hers.
Her response to that letter in her
wonderful magnamity was Il do for
give"
Thus ends all the previous colorful
chapters of the career of a man whom
God endowed with genius which he
partly wasted on the altar of clan
dcstine love.
Twenty-Five years ago at the height
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much more interested IN the subject
matter than in the form of prescnta-
ton, that my use of his advice has
been unconscious rather than inten-
tional. AS our absorption of ideas is
gradual and constant, / do not know
to what extent l am indebted to him
for the settled opinions which / have
formed on public speaking.
think that instruction in gcsticula-
ton becomes valuable as one forgets
the instructions and moves his arms
and body without thought of the in
structions. 1t is hard to be graceful
in gesticulation when one is thinking
about the movements to be made.
But the training that one receives,
both in the incubation Of the voice
and in action, finally becomes a part
Of him, second nature. and he obeys
without thought the suggestions that
he has received.
HAS PROPHETIC DREAM.
But to return to my story. I'm
dauntcd by previous failures, en-
tered the defamation contest in my
freshman year, taking as my subject
Bernardo del Carpio," dramatic
piece recommended by Professor Ham
ilton. As this would be my last chance
at defamation prize, worked hard
to prepare myself--so hard that
dreamed Of it at night and thought of
it by day. This, / suppose. accounts
for the fact that two or three nights
before the contest i had a very vivid
dream which contained n prophecy
- ha tun Araa
/ have had.
/ thought that the contest was over
and that we were waiting the an
nouncement Of the prizes. One of the
committee ON awards came out and
wrote on the blackboard the names of
the winners. could not make out the
name of one who won the first prize,
but could read my own name very dis
tinctly as the winner os second prize.
BUYS TWO BOOKS.
When the night for the contest
came, / was awarded second prize,
and Ralph Haynes. whom none Of us
expected to win either, was given first
prize. These prizes were paid in books
which we were allowed to select. In
my dream ] selected morocco-bound
Bible and copy Of Shakespeare
presume / had been thinking of these
as the books / would choose in case
was successful. Probably Mrs. Jones
had been consulted. At any rate,
bought these two books with my prize
money. and they are still my precious
possessions.
We had an essay contest in the
sophomore year, and l won the first
prize this time with an essay entitled
Labor" My father, / recall, was
more pleased ut my success in writ
ing than at my superiority in dccla-
nation. He said that he would
rather have me proficient in the OK
preston Of my thought than in the
expression Of the thought of others.
Having made progress in both writ
ing and delivery, | now looked for
ward with confidence TO the oratorical
contest in which writing and delivery
were combined. l selected for my
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of my venturesome spirit, ! attempt
ed to obtain a, divorce. After hard
battle failed to get the divorce but
obtained separation at the time i
cursed the laws of my country. But
now twenty-five years afterwards, at
the age of the Biblical three score and
ten, thank the laws of Italy which
made it possible for me to get di-
vorce, and which now make it pos
siblc for me to pick up the thread of
my life with my wife where l had
dropped it so abruptly.
Even though physiognomically I
neither claimed the part of great
lover in my younger days, to my un.
doing, possessed a great fascination
for women. This harsh fact is that
l was a homely looking man when 1
was young.
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Commoner, as Youth, Finds Big In
terest Is Public Speech, and
Prepares Career
j, By VIM. J. BRYAN.
Edited and corrected by Mary Baird Bryan

: PRIZE always stirred me to ac-
"A tivity and a recollection of the
influence of the prize upon my studies
has led me to stimulate students to
similar activity by establishing prizes.
The principal prizes / have estab-
lished are in the public school at
Normal, Neb., the precinct in which
our suburban home at Lincoln was To-
Gated, and in some nineteen institu-
tioDs of learning, seventeen of them
state universities in which / cstab-
lished q prize for the best essay on
the science of government.
When Mr.. Philo S. Bennett con-
suited me in regard TO the best use
of some money which he desired to
leave by will, ] recommended similar
prizes, and upon his death, distribut-
ed for him funds for the establish
ment of such prizes in twenty state
universities.
Soon after I reached Jacksonville
] attended an oratorical contest in
which Illinois College participated.
Fred Turner represented Illinois Col
lego that year, and / was one of the
most attentive of the audience. Look
Ing ahead five years, conceived the
idea of being the colleges representa-
tive when / became n senior. With
this end in l.Dw. began to take an
interest in declaiming.
AS | have said elsewhere. my prac.
lice in declaiming began when / was
very young, and was continued in
high school and in college societies.
FAILS TO WIN.
But now ] had definite purpose,
and it spurred me on TO practice. Near
the end Of my first year in the acad-
envy / entered the defamation con-
test for that year. using for my sub
feet Patrick Henry's peroration. "Givc
Me Liberty or Give Me Death, I
thought that l had acquitted myself
rrcditably, but i did not secure either
the first or the second prize.
But / was not at all discouraged. I
entered the contest again the next year
when / was a senior prep, this TIM.
nsing the "Palmetto and the Pine"
piece selected for me by Mrs. Jones,
who always took n deep interest in
py contests. | came in third. falling
Just a little below Will Glover. the
lon Of the Presbyterian pastor, who re-
teived second prize.
l digress here to say that received
the usual training in public speaking.
Professor Hamilton was our in
ttructor. He was large man with
btrong face and a piercing eye. He
rather leaned TO the dramatic and rec
bmmended dramatic pieces to us. !
rather preferred the oratorical style.
He complimented me by saying that !
leclnimcd the oratorical pieces so
well that he could not be Of much as
distance TO me along that line.
HOW BRYAN SPOKE.
He trained rs in nodulation Of the
Foicc. gesticulntion. etc, and | pre-
mme that his instructions were benz
hcinl to me, although / have been 20
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Finds Contentment
at Last With
Woman He Tried
to Cast Off Quar-
ter Century Ago.

world that I had relinquished The,
pleasures Of the world.
The succeeding period vas a pc
Rod Of torture. / was tormented by
my past, tormented by the conscious
ness of life lived in error. 1t was
during this half insanity that l mos
with n serious accident when 1, fell
from second-story window, injur.
ing myself severely. And it was
during my convalescence that I wish
ed to enter a monastery. But soon
changed my mind and returned to-
Italy. s.fl
TORTURED By REMORSE. j,
There learned Of Buses death.
oh, how the news tortured me! I.
spent many sleepless nights. Her
beautiful image haunted me, point
ing at me an accusing finger. "She
died Of broken heart" 1 could hear
whispered from every direction of
my bedchamber.
again declared that / was done
with tho world. 1 burned my Pet
tiers, and engaged deaf and dumb at
tendants. / punished myself ky deny
ing myself to visitors.
Then q voice came to me in a
wakeful vision. 'D'DAnnunzio," it
said, you are searching for peace of
mind and soul. You can only OBJ
tain these on the altar of humility"
1 heard the command: Confess:
even today it is not too late to find
the peace for which you are search
ing"
Confess to whom?" at first
asked. "Eleanora, whom I had
wronged, is no more. Whom else
must / ask for forgiveness?"
The answer came to me: your
wife, from whom you were separated
twenty-five years ago"
have asked my wife's forgiveness,
and through her magnanimous re-
Spouse. 1 have received that peace of
mind for which l had been searching
for so many years.
This is the final chapter of DAN
nunzio the Lovers Romance.
Copyright. 1925.
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1 caused women to love me.
l return penitent because,
at the age of seventy, look
ing back at my conquests, l
new see the folly of it all.
Instead Of a glorious life, I have
spent my genius and energy in max
ing women love me.
The world has named me and perhaps
Justly, "the poet-lover." Poet was,
and as Italy's poet would like to be
known. Poet and patriot is the hon.
orable title / should have sought. But
today, from one end of the world to
the other, / am known as "D'Annun-
zio, the most profligate lover"
Yes, l am pertinent, and as pen
tinent husband ! have returned to
my first old love, Maria di Gallise,
Princess Montencvoso.
Two days after I received my wife's
forgiveness / read in a Paris daily
the leading headline, "Poet-Lover's
New Romance" Every letter in the
words "Poet-Lover" is like dagger
thrust at my repentcnt soul. "New
Romance !" That is appropriate. 1t is
the greatest romance of my life to be
able to return, forgiven, to my love
of early days.
RETURN is GLORIOUS"
/ also read the headline, "D'Annun-
zio's Sensational Return to His
Wife" Oh, how these papers play
with such sacred objects in frivolous
headlines. Sensational? No, it is not
sensational. 1t is glorious, glorious
to be forgiven glorious to return from
loves empty adventures to love that
should have been.
So, after years Of indulgence in
counting women and being courted by
many, / realize in tragic sorrow, the
emptiness Of it all, and today l find
solace in confession.
l have confessed, at seventy, the
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over Sal that | made up my mind
that when / got married it would be
TO a girl like that" And / compared
Sal, as he described her, with the
lady whom he married, I could not
but think of the completeness of that
change in the human heart when one
begins to love the things that he once
hated and hate the things he once
loved.
FORGETS THE MONEY.
The third incident is connected
with Sans wedding day, shortly after
he entered the ministry. The day be-
fore the ceremony, Sam called on
me.
Bryan" he said. 81 want you TO
do me favor. AS / am minister
/ am afraid the preacher will not be
willing to accept fee from me. So
j will give YOU the money and you
can hand it to him.
1t so happened that when he died
OF course 1 responded fayorably,
and took the coin away with me in
my pocket. / framed a little speech
to be made to the minister when it
came time to act as Sans paymaster.
Ntnl we'll. hlleE inc
gratulations l took the minister off to
one side and began to deliver Sans
message.
When I reached the proper point /
put my hand into my pocket and to
my amazement discovered that / had
changed my pants. The minister had
TO take my word for the fee until 1
could go home and get the money and
hunt him up. Whenever 1 saw Sam
afterward this embarrassing episode
was sure to be recalled.
What a smoke little fire kindleth.
All these recollections we're unloosed
when I thought of being defeated in a
thesis contest by classmate who was
once a tramp.
PLANNED FOR OXFORD.
It had been decided by my parents
that after / finished college my edu-
cation was to be elaborated by the
addition of a postgraduate course Mt
Oxford, England. My father was en-
thusiastic upon the subject Of educa-
ton, and my mother fully shared with
him this desire for the children. When,
not long before fathers desk, 1 sat
by his bedside and in the presence
of my mother took down at his die
tation the words Of his will, he ex-
pressed in a paragraph this ideal
which had led him as a poor boy to
make a successful struggle for a class
zeal education.
He directed that all Of his children
q was then 20, and there were five
younger than myself should have the
best education that the generation af-
forded. Not long before he died he
bought 30 calves, which were to grow
until l graduated at Illinois College,
and then were to be turned into
money, the money 10 be used for a
year ut Oxford for me.
he owed security debts TO the amount
Of about $4,000. the lasger part rep
resented by note given by a man 20
his sister,. which father endorsed. In
settling up the estate IL seemed best
TO sell the cattle and pay off these
security debts, so that my trip TO Eu-
rope was given up. My mother took
enough ,of tho. druft money 40 .pur-
chase Tor me q gold watch. which /
carried until il was replaced By the
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Altman of Many Loves Finds at End
of Long Trail, That Love"
Is Empty Glory.
By GABRIELLE D'ANNUNZIO

andKn 0
ROME, Italy, November, 1925.
r HAVE returned to my wife, from whom parted twen
tyfve years ago, at time when was the worlds most
= spectacular Romeo l return Inundated and penitent
craving forgiveness.
return humiIated because at the height of my fame
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VISITS POOR HOUSE.

II ] may be permitted a DEPRESSION
here. when | went home to spend the
Christmas holidays, | went out TO the
county poor house, thinking that /
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manned, the flame of love began to
flicker, The separation was tragic,
and it became more tragic still when
my humble attempt to put my souls
confession into a story in book form,
"The Flame" was misunderstood by
all. The criticism OF the book panied
me. / still feel the pangs of it.
Eleanora Duse's establishment
drove me insane, not that the spark Of
love still flickered, but my very soul
ached with sorrow because l felt that
during the last days of our love my
attitude to her had not been chival-
rous.
FINDS PEACE AT LAST
1t was said at this period that !
dismissed romance from my life with
smile and lived in Italy with the
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HOW BRYAN SPOKE.

He trained rs in nodulation Of the
Foicc. gesticulntion. etc, and pre-
mme that his instructions were benz
icinl to me. although / have been 20
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Poet Dramntlst Patriot Known Modern Don Jul
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1925-12-26

Think soberly before you nuke reply"
SO hearty and SO quick was the re-
Spouse that the results were almost
blizzard Ike. Twisting and turning in
fantastic ways they fell to earth, filed
high the paths. and all but capped the
fences, and almost blocked the roads.
When morning broke, a truly Christ
mas day the world lay white as I'M
touched marble. Such myriad flakes
had fallen In the night that the ablest
statistlcian could not guess hew many,
and, oh, what joy Snowballs, snow
men and shedding. And coastlng, too,
on yonder hill. Such healthy winter
exercise, such rudy cheeks, such
mighty appetltesl
Who would have thought so much
Of good little snow had wrought
An aggregation Of tiny snowhakes
was putting value into the sleds which