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New Britain herald., 1928-10-16

Like cue Offstage breaking IN
upon a moment fraught with ex-
quisite peril.
John swore and reached for the
instrument.
Sybil put her hands to her hair.
smoothing it guiitily.
Goodness. she cried. lit must
be awfully late shouldn't have
stayed so long. l did~'t know"
It's for you" announced John.
Mrs. Moore. l think"
He handed her the phone. and
lighted a cigaret.
"Oh. Sib!" Mabel's voice over the
wire. THE baby's sick!'
SYPHILIS body stiffened, and her
knees grew weak.
I'm be right home" she said
quietly. and dropped the receiver
mechanically on its hook.
Then she turned to John.
My little boy is sick" she told
him softly. and ] don't want ever
to see you again."
But Sybil!" he cried, and put
out his arm to detain her.
''Oh. John. Id go crazy II any
thing ever happened to TEDDY
love him so," Her voice brok.
Historically. You don't know how
| love him."
She was dragging on her coat.
John tried to hold It,
wait a minute" he remon
strated. You needn't run off like
this. I'll drive you home"
mo, I don't want you to-"
She was getting her things TO-
gether gloves and little lacy
handkerchief. and her Jade vanity.
She pushed him from her.
PLEASE stay where you are. Don't
you see. DON'T WANT YOU
ANY MORE! Oh. please
PLEASE! l don't want you. I'm
going HON to Teddy. l never want
to see you again"
She dabbed at her eyes with the
back OF her wrist. childishlv
"Goodby." she said, "goodby."
The house vas lighted from toi.
to bottom. Mahel's car in front, and
Nalerie's and another with a doc
tors cross.
Mrs. Thorne was in the hall. red
eyed and trembling, fidgetins with
things on the table. When she NV
sybil, her face contracted so that
1t looked like an ugly mask. and
she gave little moan like an ami
NAL suffering. The place smelled
Of doctors
SybiI experienced a strange feel
ing of physical detachment. as If
something had suddenly left her
body. She took off her coat. ana
moved toward the stairs. She knew
that she was curiously quiet and
wondered why she did not scream
and cry.
She heard her mother whisper.
she doesn't know
And still she stood there. at the
foot Of the stairs.
Tad was on the upstairs landing
with white-haired man. They
came toward her. and the white
haired man took her hands. and
murmured. Then Mabel came down
the hall. and flew to her. and put
her arms around her and kissed
her. Tad drew her close when
Mabel let her go. And then every
one was very quiet for a moment.
only looking at her.
II know" she told them. Teddy
Is dead"
The white-h haired man. who had
disappeared In the bathroom. ap-
preached her with glass.
"A sedative." he announced pro-
fesstonally. Just drink this. and
you'll feel better"
Impatiently she waved him aside.
How foolish all this fuss. As If
sedatives amounted to anything
when Teddy was dead. She put her
foot on the lowest stair. and found
1t was heavy. so that It was an eff
fort to move It, Then she placed
her hand on the railing. and
mounted awkwardly like an old
woman They suffered her to ascend
half way. keeping SO quiet that she
felt like a performer.
New Britain herald., 1928-10-16
(TO BE CONTINuED)

(What had happened to little
Teddy? SYPHILIS cup is filled to
overflowing--in the next chapter).
Evening star., 1928-12-23
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

Exhibition Of Prints at the Library of Amer
can Artists Represented Paintings View at
Normal School.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Recent accessions at the Public Ii
brary and lists of recommended read
ing will appear in this column each
Sunday.
Aeronautics.
Chamberlain. c. D. Record Flights
CLARK; ~. Y; E. Elements of Aviation
CARRIER, P. E. Building and Flying
Model Aircraft. SZP-G 1862.
Jacobs, A. M. knights of the Wing
SZ-J 15k.
LIE Page, W. L. The A B G of Flight
Sz-L55.
Patrick, M M. The U. S. in the Air
Sz-P27u.
Literary History and Criticism.
Garrod. H. w. Byron, ls24-1s24
zYA-B997g.
Jones, Llewellyn. How to Criticize
Books. zY-J72h.
Leo, Brother. English Literature. zY-
More, P. E. The Demon of the Abso-
lutte. New Shelburne Essays, Vol
| H. ZY-M812d.
Ponsonby, A. A. w. H. More English
Diaries. ZY-P776a.
Fiction.
Annunzio. Gabrielle d.. The Triumph
of Death.
| Atherton, Mrs. g. F. The Jealous Gods.
harrington, E., pseud. The Empress of
Hearts.
Beer. Thomas. The Road to Heaven.
ErSkine, John. Penelope's Man,
Halnsun, Knut. The Women at the
Pump
Hueffer, F. M. A Little Less Than
Gods.
McFee. william. Pilgrims of Adversity
Walpole. Hugh. The Silver Thorn.
Woolf, Mrs. v. s. Orlando.
Marriage.
Groves, E. R. The Marriage Crisis
| KWM-G918m.
Groves, E. r. and G. H. Wholesome
Marriage. KWM-G918w.
Groves, E. r., and Ogburn, w. F.
American Marriage and Family Re-
lationships. KWM-G9l8.
Neumann, Henry. Modern Youth and
Marriage. KWM-N39m.
Religious Music.
Barnes, E. s., ed. Unison Anthem
Book. VYRB-B26.
Benson, L. F., ed. The Smaller Hym-
nal. VYRH-B44.
Coleman, Mrs. s. N. The Psaltery
Book. VXPL-C67.
Handel, q. F. Samson, Oratorio, n. d
VYRO-H 193Sa.
Sawyer, H. S., ed. Denisons Christmas
Songs and Carols. vYRC-Sas.
Shields, E.. NJ, ed. and comp. Junior
| Hymns and Songs. VYRH-Sh63j.
smith, H. A.. ed. The American Stu
| dent Hymnal. -Sm57
thompson, H. w., and others, comps,
The Choirmaster's Guide. 1924.
VYRH-T37.
The Watch Tower Bible and Tract So
ciety. Songs of Praise to Jehovah.
VYRH-W29.
z1ttel, c. A. Organ Accompaniment for
the Chants and Hymns Contained
In st. Mary's Manual. 1924. VYRH-
'Z6.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Rivera Sets New Record
For Ruling Modern Spain

Gen. Primo de Rivera's dictatorship
has now handsomely beaten the record
of the longest lived government Spain
has had since the death of the last abb
solute monarch, Ferdinand VII. in 1888.
and day between 1858 and 1868, held
the record for nigh a century, but now
Gen. Primo has been in office for over 5
years. Indeed he is so firm In the sad
die that he would seem to have a long
ride before him. The opposition, though
worried, has not lost its wits and ID
sedulously spreading the story that, like
the clown on horseback. the reason why
he remains so long in the saddle Is be-
cause he does not know how to dis
mount.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
''Gentleman'' Beggar
Gets Jail Sentence

Begging is very ancient and noble
profession. It is comforting to learn
that he great age of mendicancy is
by no means over. In the day time
Max STUNNED, who has but one leg, sat
on the floor of the Anhalter railroad
station in Berlin and collected aims.
But when his work was over, Max,
his pockets filled with more money than
most respectable Germans can earn in
the same time, repaired to quiet place
and from package took an excellent
costume--suit, shirt, collar and tie, and
shoes-changed into 1t, and until the
following morning, lived like gentle
man." But unfortunately Max had a
habit of, taking lodgings in good houses
and of departing after time without
paying the bills. The inevitable hap
pened and a defrauded hotelkeeper rec
ognized in the beggar of the railroad
station the former defaulting lodger.
So the story came out and Max came
in for six months. It was not the first
time.
Evening star., 1928-12-23

by Cadwallader Washburn, whose latest
works, the Riviera series, are now on
view at Dunthorne's.
The only local artist represented Is
Benson Moore, and his representation
is of comparatively early work.
A number of wood block printers are
represented, among them Lankes, and
there are several color etchings by CO.
temporary etchers that have pleasing,
though not altogether convincing, quail
ity.
Dating back beyond the present are
portrait engravings on copper or steel
by Ffquet after Nauteuil, Coydel. Le-
brun and Rigaud.
And still many represented In this
comprehensive showing have not been
mentioned.
A T the Myrtilla Miner Normal School,
in this city, was held December IA,
Is and 16, under the auspices Of the
College Alumnae Club, composed largely
unusually interesting exhibition of oil
paintings by Laura Wheeler Waring, to
whom a first prize in fine arts was
awarded by the Harmon Foundation
last year.
Some years ago, when an exhibition
of the works Of negro artists was shown
at the Dunbar High School, Mrs. War
ing Cthen Laura Wheeler) was repre-
sented by an excellent drawing in char
coal of figures with landscape setting
So excellent was this work that it was
later reproduced in the American Mag
azine of Art. Since then the artist has
not only continued her studies but made
marked progress. Her exhibition here
last week comprised nearly 40 paint
ings, portraits and landscapes in oils
and several sketches in pastel. 1t in
cluded the prize painting, a portrait of
Anna Washington Derry" an admira-
bic Characterization of an old-fashioned
negreSs. It is a study in browns and
grayS, well composed, executed with the
utmost simplicity and portraying not
only the features Of the individual but
certain racial characteristics which are
fine. Her portrait of "An Orphan Boy"
typical representative of his race,
with an appealing expression of visit
fulness and pathoS, was also notable
for merit.
The majority of Mrs. Warnings por-
traits shown in this exhibition were of
negroes of the wealthier class, probably
painted on order. their colorful, up-to-
date costumes affording the artist op-
portunity for picturesque effects. Her
landscapes were chiefly thumb-box
sketches about by 8 inches in di..
mensions and showed impressionistic
tendency.
The painter is a native of Hartford,
Conn. Her education in art was begun
at the Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts under Chase, McCarter and
Evening star., 1928-12-23
Italian Newspapers
Losing Circulation

The decline in newspaper circulation
IN Italy since the Fascist press laws
went into effect several years ago has
been widely noted Some circulation
statistics from an authoritative source
indicate the lessened reader interest In
Italian papers. In 1922 when the Fas-
cist revolution began 500 news vendors
in Rome sold 100000 copies of the vari-
Gus papers. The population of Rome
has increased considerably, being now
we'll over 100000, but the number of
news vendors has decreased to 42o and
tnelr sales are now only 140,000 copies
Rome's leading morning paper. the
Messaggero, used to print 100000 copies
but today prints $4,000, of which $4,000
go into the provinces and $4,000 are sold
IN Rome. The leading evening paper
Gironale d'Italia, publishes 10000 in.
stead OF 100000 copies printed in 1922
The other important evening paper,
Tribuna, which for 40 years was the
official organ of the government Of the
day, today publishes 10000 copies,
Lavoro d'Italia, official organ of the Fas-
cist labor syndicate, publishes 10000
copies as every local labor organization
must subscribe. It's news stand sale in
Rome is 500 copies.
Corriere d'Italia, organ of the Catholic
wing OF Fascism, publishes 5000 copies,
while Popolo di Roma, second morning
paper, publishes 10000. Four extremist
Fascist organs-Tevere, Impero Bril-
lante and Piccolo - together publish
about 5000 copies. Italys greatest pa
per, Corriere della Sera, of Milan, is un-
derstood to publish about 900, 900 copies
as contrasted with 100000 six years ago
The Vatican organ, Osservatore Ro-
mano, said to be the only paper pub
lished without government supervision,
Is reported to have greatly increased its
circulation. On the other hand opposi-
ton papers like the Socialist Avanti,
lich once had circulation Of over a
glion, are no longer permitted to be
U4lished,
Evening star., 1928-12-23

Violet Oakley. There she won the
Cresson travelling scholarship, which en-
abled her to go to Europe for further
study. On a recent second trip abroad.
she studied under Boutet de Monvel
and sketched in France and northern
Africa. She shows her French masters
influence chiefly, perhaps, in her man
ner of portraying her subjects against
a background of plain color. Only III
four or five portraits In the recent exhi-
bition were such accessories as furni-
ture, books and decorative wallpaper
employed.
Mrs. Waring is director of art at the
State Normal School at Cheyney, Pa.
About $500 people visited the exhibi-
ton during the three days it was on
view here, and many sales were made
gratifying response from the artists
own race.
Apropos of Mrs. Warnings exhibition,
it is interesting to know that the Har-
mon Foundation in New York, through
the cooperation of the Federal Council
Of Churches, is assembling for a second
time collection of negro art which
will be shown at International Home,
other cities. There are prospects that
this collection will be shown in Wash
ington. It will, 1t Is said uphold high
standard Of artistic merit.
y X -
A r the Arts Club, 2017 I street, the
exhibitions change today. In place
Of those which have been on view fol
the past fortnight are now to be seen
works by a group Of landscape archi-
tectS of Washington and work by a
group OF commercial illustrators oi
Washington, the latter including Cliff
ford K. Bergman and the staff of The
Evening Star; Charles A. r. Dunn and
| the staff OF the Nations Business; Felix
Mahony, Marguerite B. Neale, Rochau
Hoover and staff; Advertisers Art Stu
dio, represented by ]. D. Irwin and
Iris Beatty Johnson; Commercial Art
and Mr.. Lohr; Wynn johnson and Mr.
INEW YORK is fast becoming one oi
the great markets of the world, its
auction sales vying In Importance with
those held in London. These sales are
| held under the Joint auspices of the
American Art Galleries, Inc, formerly
the American Art Association, and the
Anderson Galleries. To these sales
come from time to time for dispersal
the great private collections not only
Of America but of Europe, and tht
prices brought set q record as we'll a.
establish values.
An interesting sale scheduled for thu
first week In January consists of q
collection OF original drawings by mas
Evening star., 1928-12-23

ters of the Dutch, English, French and
other schools-the collection of v. Win
throp Newman of New York City. In
cluded in this collection win be works
by Rembrandt, Rubens, Jan Steen, Da-
vid Teniers the younger. Van Dyck,
Constable, Cox, Crome, Gainsborough
Hogarth, Lawrence, Reynolds, Romney
Rossetti, Turner, Whistler, Boucher,
Fragonard, Tiepolo, Titan, Murilla and
VelasqueZ.
Invariably the collections sold are
placed on view and made available to
the public for week or 10 days before
the sale takes place. Thus the public
is given opportunity for acquaintance
with a great many rare works of art
during the process of changing owner
ship, and is proportionately profted.
X X n X
EOUR of our local artists have been
invited to contribute works to a
travelling exhibition shortly to be sent
out by the American Federation of
Arts. They are Richard Meryman Bur-
It's Baker, Catherine Critcher and Mrs.
Bush-Brown.
This exhibition has been assembled
chiefly from the works shown In the
Winter exhibition of the National Acad-
emy of Design, and will be shown first
in Fort Worth and then in other Texas
cities.
The American Federation of Art is
sending this travelling exhibition to
Texas for the nineteenth season, during
which time extraordinary development
in the field of art has taken place in
that great Southwestern State Mrs.
Charles Scheuber, librarian of the Car
negie Library, Fort Worth, and director
of the Fort Worth Art Association, un-
der whose auspices these exhibitions
have been held and the circuits ar
ranged, visited Washington during the
exhibition of cotemporary art at the
Corcoran Gallery and later visited Phil
adelphia, New York, Boston and other
cities. making a special study of art
museums.
IRON New York comes the interest
ing announcement that an exhibi-
tion of IL works Of j. Alden Weir will
be held in the Macbeth Galleries from
January to H. These are chiefly paint
| ings which have not heretofore been
publicly shown, but are considered
among the painters best works.
Weir is undoubtedly one of our
American masters and his paintings are
coveted and procured not only by pri-
yate collections but musums through
out the world. He is represented in
the Luxembourg, Paris; the Metropoli-
tan Museum, New York; the Corcoran
Gallery of Art, the National Gallery
and the Phillips Memorial Gallery, all of
this city, as well as in the Brooklyn
Museum, the Carnegie Institute, Pitts
burgh, and the museums of Detroit
Syracuse, st. Louis and Cleveland.
X X X
4 T the Yorke Gallery, 1000 S street
northwest. there will be shown from
December "a to January Is an exhibi-
tion of water colorS and etchings by
a group of cotemporary American art
lists. The list of exhibitors includes
Arthur B. Davies, Childe Hassam,
Charles Pendergast, Gordon Grant,
Clifford Beal, Hayley Lever, Robert Hal
lowell, H. r. B. Donne and NJ Elizabeth
Price Fuller notice Of this exhibition
will be given later.
Evening star., 1928-12-23
BOOKS RECEIVED

THE MYSTERY OF SEVEN GABLES
BY E. j. Craine, author of 1.-THE
| Mystery Of Black Eagle Island.
Illustrated by Ralph Dunkelberger
Philadelphia: The Penn Publish
ing Co.
SKITTER AND SKEET. BY Eleanor
Youmans, author of "Skitter Cat, y
etc. Illustrated by Ruth Bennett
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrin Co.
THE GOLDEN BOOKS+THE LAST
OF THE MOHICANS. BY J.. Feni-
more Cooper. Illustrated by Peter
Hurd. Philadelphia: David Nc
Cay Co.
RUSTY OF THE TALL PINES. BY
Frances r. Sterrett. Illustrated by
Florence Gardiner. Philadelphia
The Penn Publishing Co.
AUNT GREEN. AUNT BROWN AND
AUNT LAVENDER. BY Elsa Bes-
kow. Illustrated by the author.
New York: Harper & Brothers.
THREE WILDERNESS SCOUTS. BY
Elmer Russell Gregor. New York:
D. Appleton Sz Co.
THE KING OF MELIDO. BY Winifred
Peck. Illustrated by Florence Mary
Anderson. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
CONCETTA, THE CORAL GIRL. BY
Virginia Olcott. Illustrated by Cath
arine Smith. New York: Frederick
A. Stokes & Co.
THE PLAYBOOK OF GEORGE WASH
INGTON. BY Susan Meriwether.
New York: Harper & Brothers.
THE BOOK OF INDIAN CRAFTS AND
INDIAN LORE. BY Julian Harris
Solomon. illustrated by the author
and others. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
ST. DAVID WALKS AGAIN. BY
Christine Jope-Slade. Illustrated by
Eleanor Parke Gusts. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
THE BUILDER. BY Flora Annie Steel
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.
PICTURE TALES FROM THE JAPA-
NESE. BY Chiyono Sugimoto. Illus
trated by Tekisui Ishii. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
LITTLE WHITE COTTON. BY Helen
Hopkins Crandell Illustrated by
Helen @. Babbitt and Ethel G.
Blossom New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Co.
HAIL, CALIFORNIA A College Story
for Girls. BY Mary Ethel Oliver.
Illustrated by John Goss. Boston:
Lothrop, Lee g. Shepard Co.
TOOTLEOO TWO. BY Bernard Dar-
win and Elinor Darwin. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
WILD FLOWERS AND ELVES. BY
Elsie-Jean. Illustrated by Gerta
Ries. New York: Thomas Nelson &
Sons.
OLD FABLES FOR YOU AND PFC
TURES. TOO. BY Elsie-Jean. Illus
trated by Estelle Duval. Lettered by
Erik Frantz. New York: Thomas
Nelson 81 Sons.
MYSTERY GATE. BY Lucille Morrison.
Illustrated by Winifred Bromhall.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Co.
THE CHOOSING BOOK. BY Maud
Lindsay. Illustrated by Florence
Liley Young. Boston: Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard Co.
BLACK FOLK TALES; Retold from
the Haussa of Northern Nigeria,
West Africa. BY Erick Berry. Illus
trated by the author. New York:
Harper q Brothers.
DOCTOR DOLITTLE IN THE MOON.
BY Hugh Lofting. Illustrated by the
Evening star., 1928-12-23
BY LEILA MECHLrN.

A T the Library of Congress, on the
" second floor, in the great hall
IA known as the South Curtain, is
4 "a now to be seen q comprehensive
exhibition of nrints drawn from
Evening star., 1928-12-23

ClosSon and others as are found here Il
cannot be without honor. Among Tim
othy Coles engravings are portraits oi
Mark Twain and of George w. Cable
after paintings by Abbott Thayer, anc
an exquisitely delicate portrait of vii.
liam Cullen Bryant after a painting by
Wyatt Eaton. The fact that none OF
Henry VOLTS engravings is included In
this group is subject Of regret.
The collection opens with group OF
very distinguished works by Achener, a
French cotemporary etcher, who is
followed by Mr.. and Mrs. Arlington
British citizens who make their home
in Paris, but are especially well known
! here because Of periodic visits to this
country. Then comes, in order, Frank
w. Benson, represented by a group of
his etchings of wild fowl and sports
men. among which is to be noted an
excellent photogravure of one of his
| well known works, Geese Rising" D.
Y. Cameron is not represented at all
in this collection, although the Library
of Congress owns some OF his finest
prints. His sister, Katharine Cameron,
three or four of her delicate renditions
of flowers and inSects-bees, butterflies,
etc.
There Is a series Of beautiful litho-
graphs of Alpine scenes by A. Calame,
and not far distant two or more ex-
quisite etchings by Daubigny and Sc
ries Of his finest Venetian subjects by
Frank Duveneck-splendid works which
will always be priced
Emil Fuchs, who is painter, sculptor
and writer, is represented by charac-
teristic group Of figure etchings resem-
bling, as his work invariably does to
some extent pen-and-ink drawing.
Going little farther af1eld, one finds
: fine series of figure etchings by Heint-
nan in the Rembrandt spirit; and
her still, admirable portrait charac-
ri2ations 0ithographs) of distin-
guished personalities by Walter little
There is beautiful McBey, a war SUBJ
ject; fine Hornby, done some years
ago. showing a sunrise over the battle
field of the Marne; whole group of
Alfred Hutty's work, Charleston scenes,
trees (Which he better than the major
ity knows how to etch) and a view of
the Capitol.
Robert Logan and Louis Orr are both
represented by several works, interpre-
tations of architectural subjects strong
ly rendered.
The little English girl, who is now
almost, if not quite, grown up-Eileen
Soper-is represented by series of her
charming children's subjects, playful
and at the same time very artistic. An
other English etcher seen at his best is
Smart.
A Frenchman especially well repre-
sented Is Lepere. There also Is an ex-
cellent series Of Dutch etchings by
S'Grayesand.