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New Britain herald., 1927-01-14
SOCIETY TAKES
 PLACE ON SCREEN
Lady Peel Of England Recently
 Did Comedy

Hollywood, Cal, Jan. 14 R - Dramatic talents of gentle birth no longer blush upon the drawing room air unseen. They are cast upon the movie screen in full view of the null titude.
 Society and nobility are contribut- ing to the picture ranks, especially since the war made refugees of some titled personages.
 Lady Peel, the wife of Sir Robert Peel, made film comedy. Off the lot she Is British peeress; during working hours an actress. As the lat tera she is professionally known as Beatrice Lillie.
 Mario Carillo is the nom de- cine ma of the son of Filipe Caracciolo, Duke of Milet. and scion of an an- cient family of Naples, who played in Torrent" and 'The Barrier" He, too, keeps his identities apart.
 Barons and Generals Wilhelm Won Brincken, technical | expert, actor, and research man, first came to America as military consular attache for Germany. years ago. He bore the title of baron and the commission of lieutenant. The war took away his job and he gave up his title to become an American l citizen.
 General Theodore Lodijensky was once commander of the Russian Inn perial Guard. bodyguard of the czar. The war and revolution sent him 1 from his native land, fugitive. To- day he may be found as technical 1 expert.
 There are a number of others in pictures who claim connection with nobility They include Nathalie Ko- vanko, Russian actress, and Tour i janski, Russian director. Some bread contains as much as 1.9 per cent alcohol, according to re- | cent experimentS at Cornell college
New Britain herald., 1927-01-14
WHAT'S NEW FOR
 WOMEN ID WEAR
Fashionable PaTiSians Trim Hats
 With Coins

New York, Jan. fl Limited Press) The fashionable Parisian not only spends a great deal of money on hats but she trims them with coins. Chinese coins with holes in the cen- ter are strung together to form hat bands for smart felt shapes. Long Chinese fingernail protectors of gilt metal. studded in semi-precious stones, are also being made up into spike hatpins for spring bonnets. iThe Chinese wear these~ two-inch long nail protectors on their fifth finger.
 Among the unusual handbag ac- cessories are small fiat cases of metal or enamel containing what appears to be a package of safety matches. In reality the matches are tiny lip stick On the point of each stick is sufficient lip rouge for an evening. | Fur cuffs are being used on slip on and gauntlet gloves for sport wear. Usually very narrow band of spotted fur or beaver finishes the top of the gloves.
 | Lop-sided necklines are to be found on several smart afternoon
 frocks This neckline would be square in front except that one side , is cut considerably lower than the other and Is trimmed with a velvet bow. 4 similar bow is often repeat- ed at the hip line. Velvet bows and velvet ribbon banding are popular trims for georgette froclls this sea- son.
 | The familiar peasant blouse Of white cotton, embroidered down the front and on the full sleeves in gay colors, is now being worn with black
 or navy cloth skirts and matching bolero jackets. A wide hip sash of bright red silk ties at one hip In a soft bow. This makes an effective
 frocll for the school girl.
 i A simple dinner frock which can be used to augment the winter ward
 robe Is made of small patterned all
New Britain herald., 1927-01-14
house in good order.

house in good order.
 Not so particular about his own garb, Marin usually wears a ware use" or blouse similar to those of workmen. his neck adorned with an old fashioned flowing blue bow tie studded with white polka dots. His shoes are sturdy things made more
New Britain herald., 1927-01-14

healthier to walk; second. because 1t helps the eOvernm- -4lt economf3e. When really have to attend an im- portant ceremony I simply hire . classy car for an hour or a day." READ HERALD CLASSIFIED AD1
 FOR YOUR WANTS
New Britain herald., 1927-01-14

tractor has the word, as a title for himself, on his window in gold leaf lettering.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-14

Some bread contains as much as 1.9 per cent alcohol, according to re- cent experiments at Cornell college, Iowa.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-14

Differences in smoking tastes are recognized by New Yorkers who fre- quently have callers. American cig- arettes usually are kept handy even if the host prefers Turkish, English, French. or some other kind. One theatrical producer smokes 8 popular brand of domestic cigarette but keeps gold-tipped flags for visitors who might be used to them.
New Britain herald., 1927-01-14

To .'fealtor" and "mortician," has been added the word "electragist." A West Thirteenth street electrical con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

And the general meanwhile goes
into his study to catch his breath.
He wipes the perspiration from his
forehead and tries to put the unruly
mustache into place. Beside him. on
the wide Empire sofa, sits his wife.
She watts fan said to have belonged
to Marie Antoinette. Again she is the
low-yoiced, quiet. retiring wife OF
everyday life.
And now" asks Jurej Of me, half
in fun, what have you to say about
our little ball tonight?"
The answer is naturally a compli-
ment.
yet" he continues, IT thought 1t
might interest you to see how we
amuse ourselves here Did you notice
the high spirits when the mazurka
began? All! dance and music-they
are the very soul of the Russian peo-
pie. A cigarette?"
He laughs good-naturedly draws a
deep breath, and adds: But you
mustn't think that we know only how
to sing and play. Not at all. Look
at all the officers here this evening !
| Tomorrow morning each one will be
at his post again--in the front ranks,
in the barracks, at the desk For
| there's work to do. To be sure, they
carouse now and then. Youth must
have it's way. In an emergency, how
ever, we know where they are.
do you realize that if | summoned
| my chief Of staff and commanded him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Memory Wizard Explains Method Used
In Performing His Feats for Public

/ of bites of food he took during one
month. Qn case you are unable to
guess approximately, the exact num-
Der was $50 bites) He got to count
ing the number of steps used in doing
chores around the house and the
number of steps from the front porch
to the post office, 4 miles away. He
bought a yardstick and measured the
distance from the house in which he
lived to a spring in the woods. He
still remembers that it happened to
be 223 yards.
AT II he left school through failure
to pass the seventh grade. A few
years later he received an offer from
vaudeville circuit on the condition
that he would memorize the popula-
tons of all cities over 1000 by the
1910 census
He did this in three weeks, work.
ing from six to eight hours a day.
And now he has a handbook Of 80
pages crammed with memorized facts.
He is stepped in statistical scholar
ship and dripping with facts" says
DR.. Jones. HE is under a compul-
sion to talk shop at every opportunity,
and when on tour his letters read like
an abstract from an almanac. No
statistical morsel is too slight for his
notice"
He has, then. evidently cultivated a
familiarity with figures since his child
hood. But what of his native ability?
Has he a gift for memorizing? If he
were submitted to ordinary memory
tests in which there were no figures
written down on paper which he could
study, how would he show up?
DIR. Jones decided to find out.
He asked the expert to repeat digits
given to him orally. He could not
repeat more than six figures in a row.
He was tested by the paired-word
method, where simple one and two
syllable words are learned in pairs
and then one of the words is present
ed on a card to the subject, who is
supposed to recall the word that goes
with 1t. Here the memory wizard
made score of only 80 per cent. The
average score for college students is
"A per cent. He was given the mar
bic statue test" where the subject is
supposed to remember as many diff
ferent parts of the statue as he can.
after having had a look at it, The
expert remembered "a parts.
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And the coup succeeded. For three
years 1 taught geography" he con-
tinued, lin a school near a railway
station established by the Bolshevists
themselves. Have you any idea what
1t means to cram cities and rivers
and mountains into minds like that?
Oh, it was terrible! l had to walk
eight versts each morning through
cold and snow, darkness and slush.
But on my starvation wages we
elIed out a scanty living. For weeks
we had nothing but sour bread and
dried mushrooms. But we were left
in peace.
"Only once the inspecting commits
sary voiced a suspicion. Isn't this the
former Gen. Jurej Michailowitsch?' he
asked, going straight to the point. l
pretended rage, explaining that the
general had been killed in Moscow d
year before, and that I had seen the
corpse with the long, black Chinese
mustache frozen into the snow. I all
but had a hand in the affair myself,
l added. The commissary went and
never returned.
"Stil we did not feel safe. / do not
recall just how many plans we made
for flight. None seemed practical, but
finally I happened on a pass to Riga
that had been made out before the
war. We substituted the name of a
Lett, and with this passport made our
narrow escape"
While Jurej was speaking, Nadia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
THE THROW OF THE DICE '$$$%
BY PRINCE WILLIAM OF SWEDEN .
dFndM
TO

Nikolajewna had come and sat
down at his side The years had
plowed deep burrows in her face.
Her expression was still anxious.
harassed, but there was also the old
gentle and heartfelt glance in the
eyes. In spite of everything she was
happy. She had suffered much. But
she had salvaged love.
And then" l asked, what hap
pened?"
With a humorous twinkle in his
eyes, the general answered, II stayed
with the Red Cross in Berlin for a
year. Then we scraped together our
last pennies and came here. At first
was gardener, then poultry keeper
After a year and a half thanks to
good connections, became director of
this park. So here we are, as you see.
That's what one would call good for
tune, isn't it?"
Good fortune! He had had horses
and motor cars, servants and aides-de-
camp, palaces and Summer villas,
art treasures and princely grants, not
to mention the power, almost dicta-
torial, by which he might have
modified a whole army within two
hours by ringing a bell And he con-
sidered 1t good fortune to have been
made director of animals in a rural
district in southern France Marvel
Gus, indeed Is fate's throw of the
dice! And. he was only one of many,
for around him were countrymen of
his who might have told, word for
word, similar story, except that the
end was perhaps position as chauf-
feur or Waterman in some apartment
house.
For a long time we fingered over
old memories. When l asked him
what he thought about the future of
his country, he merely shook his head.
Come and see my monkeys instead.
That's better than cracking a nut
that cannot be cracked. Come to
think Of it, 1 bought two white pea
cocks today-ever so cheap at that"'
He picked up his hat and cane and
toddled out into the garden. The late
afternoon sun touched the yellow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

as If he had stepped straight out of a
farce where he had played the role of
the willy lawyer who betrays his client
through the wife, held me as If in a
vice.
Suddenly the bus made a quick
swerve to give way to an approaching
carriage 1t was at a turn in the road,
one that had often noticed, since be-
yond it lay simple little geological
park imbedded in forest of myrtles
and orange trees. I had often won
dered what idiot had conceived of a
plan to place such a park SO far out
in the country.
"Jardin Zoologique" was the name,
in gold letters, over the entrance, and
that was all. Many times / had asked
the conductors who the owner was,
but they never knew. A short time
before my curiosity had been further
aroused by the fact that the estab
lishment had advertised in q. local
paper that it had a chimpanzee and
a leopard cub for sale.
The bus slowed down. In the rear
there was a commotion. A woman,
simply dressed, was trying to make
her way forward. After some scuffling
and an apologize Pardon, messieurs,"
murmured repeatedly, she managed to
reach the door. Our eyes met. Where
had / seen that face before?
Il don't believe you remember me"
she said as the bus stopped. "It was
so long ago. We live here. My hus-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23

the handsome cleaning uniforms were
in the majority. Jewels shone on the
necks of the ladies and around their
heads were diadems that might have
graced a queen.
Jurej Michailowitsch. his martial
fEure moving with measured tread.
was like a prince in his kingdom. He
forgot no one. For all he'had a friend
,, ly word, whether it was a Caucasian
princess or a timid little lieutenant's
wife, a gold-laced colonel or new
ensign from the country.
AT Jurej'S side was the genial Nadia
Nikola jeWna. Her plump figure was
Swathed in silver cloth adorned with
real lace; on her breast cleaned
jewel, large as a saucer, set with
many precious stones. Her shoulders
were bare. But on her hair, knotted
in the nape of her neck, rested the
Wanted heirloom-a tiara of heavenly
blue turquoises and diamonds, clear
as the sparkling waters.
X X X
NOV the mazurka begins. AS the
first meas of the music thun-
der forth from the stage the dancers
glide out upon the floor. Spurs clink
fringes of the epaulettes are tossed
about like a golden shower before the
wind; jewels reflect the light from the
chandeliers a thousandfold; soft gowns
hide graceful contours. Heigh-ho, how
1t goes, This is the mazurka--the
dance of dances in Russia, an express
sion of the minor strain in the Slavic
temperament inf1amed by passion, of
music and motion, of melancholy and
desire, of the wild storms of the
steppes and the signing of the forests
burdened with a weight of snow.
T1rpi whose dlfioG host Y1rp-
vented him from selecting a partner,
places his arm around his wife. They
dance-no, f1y-across the floor, just
as they used to do in the carefree
time of youth.
Nadjas face, drawn and slightly
anxious, begins to shine with an
inner joy. 1t grows younger; 1t sud-
denly becomes beautiful. The wrinkles
seem to have blown away. For look,
all you little wives of lieutenants and
spoiled daughters of nobility: Here is
Nadia Nikolajewna dancing with her
man! Still she holds him, still she
follows him in his dizzy flight across
the ballroom floor, his spurs clinking
and his mustaches standing out like
two black streaks. She is only 20
tonight. She knows that she is beau
tiful, that the eyes of the men are
upon her. She knows that in all of
Moscow no one is able to dance the
maZurka like herself.
With a crash the music comes to
an end. In a moment hundred fans
are waiting, like the wings of so many
butterflies. The dancers crowd around
the buffet, where the champagne
corks begin to pop. The drink, bub-
bling in the high. slender glasses, slips
down the throat like water, though 1t
is fiery, like the very spirit of
Dionysos.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Latin Europe Has Sidewalk Cafes

tables and chairs that, advancing
from both sides, almost meet in the
center.
Spain and Portugal, too, know this
adjunct of outdoor life. In Spain it
blossoms and especially in Madrid. In
Lisbon along the Avenida. Scurrying
walters not only serve customers on
the sidewalks, but also cross the road
way to the charming little parked
areas in the wide thoroughfare.
Far toward the other end of the
Mediterranean, Athens carries on the
alfresco traditions of southern Eu-
rope and maintains her sidewalk serv-
ice of food and drink. Turning north
you find the custom followed in
Bucharest, capital of Rumania, which
in this as in many other respects,
merits its title, Paris of the East
when you pass northward over
the line that divides the Latin coun-
tries from those of central Europe
you leave behind you the sidewalk
cafe as an outstanding institution. In
Vienna there are countless coffee
houses, but their customers are nearly
always served indoors. There, as in
Budapest too, are numerous beer
gardens, but the outdoor serving is
seldom on sidewalks. So, also,
throughout Germany, Poland and the
Scandinavian countries the sidewalk
tables are little in evidence.
Gross once more back to Latin in
fiuences in Belgium, and you find the
sidewalk cafe thriving. Brussels. in
fact, can almost be said to out-do
Paris. There are unbroken lines of
tables for long distances along some
of the principal streets and the entire
fronts of the cafes are removable.
Paris, however, will continue to be
the typical home of the sidewalk cafe
to most travellers. They are to be
found all over the great city; dirty
and dingy ones; modest ones for the
working man: bourgeois places; small
and middle-siZed ones; and the huge
establishments of the boulevards that
seat their hundreds of well-dressed
patrons. The PARTISAN proprietor of
a sidewalk cafe feels none of the re-
straint that apparently actuates his
Italian brother. He grabs at least
half of the sidewalk for his tables,
and if business pushes, he appropri-
ates most of the other half.
IF the visitor would know his
Paris he will not fail to spend half an
hour at frequent intervals in one of
these alfresco places of refreshment,
toying with cup of coffee, an ice, or
an apertif. feeling one of the most
active pulses of the city. Before him
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band would be glad to have you come
to see U.S.
BY all the holy saints This was
none other than Nadia Nikolajewna!
Before l had time to collect my
thoughts. she had disappeared under
the gold letters of the "Jardin
Zoologique," the bus had started
again and the park was lost in a
cloud of dust. But / did not forget
my resolve.
IN a few days / had stepped inside
the narrow gate of the park, deter
mined to see what had become of the
grandiloquent general from Moscow.
And there he sat, in the corner of a
balcony, with a refreshing glass of
lemonade on the table before him.
Jurej Michailowitsch. 1t was he,
and yet it was not he. The form
seemed to have shrunk and become
smaller, the back was bent, the chest
sunken. The long mandarin mustaches
had vanished completely; instead, the
mouth was incased in a matted gray
beard. The wrinkles IF the face and
the shrunken hands told tale of pri-
vations, of years that had not been
carefree. But his glance was still live.
ly, and his round, fish eyes flashed a
Fifteen years" he exclaimed. "And
such years. With a telling gesture
he stretched out his arms. l observed
how threadbare his old jacket was.
His voice sounded cracked and hollow
MY poor Russia!" he continued.
who could have believed it? A night
mare impossible to shake off, because
it is real!'
What happened" I asked
With that came a tale of dangers
and hardships, hunger and need, vio-
lence and injustice-just such a tale
as thousands of exiled Russians of to-
day might tell. Through the greater
part of the war he had served at head
quarters, but by chance had found
himself at st. Petersburg when the
revolution came. All exits closed, all
gates guarded. Reds searching every
corner, shooting OH the streets and
from the housetops, executing in the
yards, throwing bombs through win
dows of public buildings. No neces-
saries of life, no light, no fuel The
outside world shut off, the telegraph
torn down, the mails closed. But
somehow he had managed to hide
until the worst was over.
Twice he had tried to get across the
border with his wife, at the risk of
LIlSlk lives AHCy lldu OScil IdhcIl Jul
into a forest to be shot, but blizzard
came in the nick of time, and they
managed to flee.
Again, in the abandoned capital,
they fought hunger and poverty.
When Jurej thought his beard was
long enough-"it reached as far as
this" he said, pointing to his stom-
ach-he boldly went to a commisariat
and applied for a position as a teacher
of geography. Hunger simply drove
him out of hiding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-23
Better Freshmen.

"a CAREFUL study of the college
freshman of today shows that
he is a better man physically than
was his father when he entered col
lege. The change, of course, has been
small, but 1t has been in the right di-
rection. think that this Improvement
has been brought about by supervised
athletics and physical training in the
preparatory schools"
Such is the statement of DIR. Will
liam G. Anderson, director Of the Yale
University gymnasium, in an inter
view reported in Popular Science
Monthly.
Each freshman, shortly after he en-
tiers college, receives a thorough ply
Sical examination. The data obtained
from these examinations have been
tabulated and studied, and they reveal
the following things about the average
freshman of today, as compared with
the average freshman of 25 years ago:
The freshman of the present is
taller. He has gained, according to
the figures, a full inch in height. This
increase In height perhaps is more
apparent than real, for possibly 1t is
a result Of better posture. The aver
age young man of today stands up
straighter than did the average young
man of Is years ago.
The freshman of the present has a
better chest. He has gained an inch
in chest measurement. He is a few
months younger, and about a pound
lighter. According to the latest avail
able figures, he is a few months under
10 years old. His height is feet SO
inches: his chest measures 36.7 inches.
and he weighs 1912 pounds.
while this improvement is encour-
aging" says DIR. Anderson, "it does
not mean that most of the young men
who come to college now are free
from physical defects. In a recent
freshman class 339 men were round.
shouldered, 1862 were fiat-chested, 2S5
had HYPNOSIS, or stopped shoulders
and most of them had lateral curva-
ture of the spine. Nearly a hundred
of them had fiat feet and were threat
ened with fallen arches,
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Injury Epidemic.

Al epidemic of contagion is being
superseded by an epidemic of in
jury, says DIR. j. Howard Beard Of the
University of Illinois. While the aver
age life span has been heightened
from Al to As years in the last few
decades, the gain has come chiefly
IN the period under 80 years of age,
due largely to infant welfare work
ana better control of communicable
diseases.
The net gain in lives saved from
infection may be lost by fatalities due
to accidents, thinks DIR. Beard, stating
that there are now more deaths per
,OOO In the years between 45 and 90
than there We're 90 years ago.