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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday. June 17, 1912 oe Mem.’ The Summer Girl C= | WomenMearibrachars ‘TERHUNE ne a Ta Os Teliskorsy™ ee Copyright, 1912, by The res Publishing Co, (The New York World), No. XI.—GEORGE SAND: the Ugly Heartbreaker. ( NOUGH of you! 1 wish to see you no more. And yet—I cannot live without you.” So wrote a strange woman to a strange man. She wad Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin (Mme. Dudevant), He was Al- fred de Musset. She had a rough, masculine manner, assumed @ masculine name (‘George Sanda”), and had a bronzed, big-featured face, which Carlyle likened to a horse's. But she won scores of hearts. George Sand was the child of a French army officer. She was also the Breat-granddaughter of Maurice Count de Saxe, Marshal of France. Born in 180 passed her childhood in the army as the “Daughter of the Reg ment,” often wearing # tiny uniform and joining in the rough sports of the soldiors, At eighteen she married Cassimir Dudevant, a hard-drinking country gentleman, with whom she soon quarrelled. She obtained a lega! separation from him and came to Paris, where she tried to make a living by writing. She lived in a garret and at first earned only $3 a month, ‘Then she met Jules Sandeau, @ lawyer, who fell in love with her, ‘They began to write novels together under the pen name of “George Sand.” Bandeau quickly dropped out of tne literary partnership and ehe wrote In her lifetime George Sand turned out sixty novels and twenty plays. came quickly. She was hailed as Frai greatest woman novelist. tired of her and threw her over. She exclatmed in tragic fury: ‘My heart is a grave!” “From the number of its occupants,” retorted Sandeau, “I should call it @ whole cemetery.” By this The Summer Gir] (20272"¢ectce’) By Eleanor Schorer “CAPITALIZING” NEW YORK. CITY PLANNING COMMISSION is in the making. To- morrow noon representatives of some twenty-two civic asso- ¢ciations meot to consider plans, legislation and “s permanent @ommission with work and definite powers to the end that public | _ Smprovements shall proceed with and not in violation of a broad and | Pp farmonious general plan for the development of the city.” ; , 4 The Fifth Avenue Association furnishes the initiative. ‘The idea $s to extend to all parts of the city the care and protection that hare been exerted to improve the Fifth avenue section. Abolishing topo- | graphical or building evils, laying out city parks, “making the whole : darmonious,” will be the work of the commission. é ~ A large, far-sighted plan worthy of every encouragement. The E q crux of the matter, however, is in a remark of the President of he Fifth Avenue Association: © “Throughout this whole movement we recognize that if we are Be havo « City Planning Commission it must como from the city pe orn Therefore in making recommendations we are only > ing what we can to help along the sentiment already existing among ‘4 ome hs our city officials and to be of whatever assistance we can to e many other famous men were pleading for her love. Among them were Dumas, Prosper Merimee (author of Carmen"), Lisat and Alfred he poet. It was to de et she gave her heart. For three years © cantinued. ‘It was one long succession of babyish spats and recon- The climax came when they were in Italy. De Musset fell ill. A Italian doctor, Pietro Pagello, was called in. George Sand at once fell in ello and he with her, De Musset saw how affairs were going. jay he joined their hands, saying: 'You love each other!” Then hi Sand discarded Pagello hurried letters of entreaty a en (copying Ninon 4 clos) cut off her hair and t it to him as a of penitence. But he never fully forgave her. She wrote a story of thelr love affair, picturing herself as an !ll-treated martyr. And them and returned to France, Georzo She wrote him agonized > © It will be a great day, indeed, when New York as @ municipal Rerporation can be convinced that beauty, harmony and dignity in s @apital make one of its strongest and most lasting asscts, and that the charms of the city itself necd as careful guarding as the liberties at individual citizens. oy Stik. :. Grime sus ay, ~~“ FLIERS IN OIL. HE MUCH-TALKED-OF SALOME, the Regnault painting fot which has just brought $96,000 at auction in Paris, was boughs \ some years since by the Marquise Landolfo Carcarno for 99,600. “Profit” over 2,600 per cent.! Other pictures at the same | Gale which sold for from $10,000 to $70,000 were worth thirty years @go a tenth as much. "> By the same token Paris is telling « story of « young man who . years ago inherited the modest sum of $30,000 in hard cash. h had lawyer and friends begged him to invest it in solid securi- i ja ¢ the young man was hand in glove with a lot of scapegrace : Seed ne’er-do-wells and denizens of Bohemia. The moment he got \ i mis money he began to give himself airs, played the patron and ac- i, = yeired an amazing collection of queer canvases and sketches at lordly See ae Ries be 908, he elev kek veh kekel akekalalakalalal ak tat tt tte Fe) ly, aghast, implored the courts to help them, with the u @ [ j 2 : tak Geeult that some $10,000 was rescued from the hands of the spend- Mr. and Mrs. Jarr Par e of a @hrift and put into family securities. And to-day? To-day the «s ide’’ Wandle of family securities is worth about thirty cents and those crazy ‘ Sorrow Ride Just for , Change. Ganveses represent an enormous fortune. OO elt lel flak kakehel Lal of of of of oh al ol ok tole YF) ‘ ay Moral: You're most likely a fool, but you never can tell. bad ‘il pig aetes [apg tng dhalyshate ie yao fg Ucn lnneocatinent f i iy ‘the Uttle boy he had just missed run- : T. AXIS STAY CHE AP—ELSEWHERE. ‘Yes, he does!" growled Mr. Stryvor.| ning over. “Every time I take this car out it costs} "I think the lower clawses send their WASHINGTON PHYSICIAN, who knows South America and er at his ease, “but what something happens, This car has killed two People."* And Mr. Stryver patted the door of the car as though he approved of its de Musset promptly wrete his own version of ft, depicting her as « serpent George Sand was now in the zenith of her fame as a writer pee i breaker. She wrote for eight hours each day. All Europe read T'll bet he gets @ good Heking,” sata] men who had loved her were drawn—sometimes mercilessly—as heroes ef these Mr. Stryver. “If you do hit them thelr| stories, Lisst said that each of her admirers was @ butterfly that ebe caught parents raise an awful row; and if you| by honey, then aled on the pin of jealousy or of beredom, and finally vive don’t hit them they, their parents, set ee in her ae Zs them out on the road again to trap some = ‘I hope {t won't eccur to-night,” sald Jarr, "No such luck,” said Mr. Stryver gloomily, “And what—what, I ask you record, me at least twenty dollars. If I gojchildren out in front ef automobiles en "Yes, before I got it it ran over an| alone there's nobody to talk to. If I) purpose!” declared Mra. Stryver. a. g has just returned from a trip there, gives interesting facts Iped 7 Hi A q ., i hit @ tree and broke his neck. I wish| have to pay the bills for entertainment, | w! bis brow and huskily remarked in a newspaper interview about high prices in Rio de Janeirc the same thing would happen to thia| and if the machine breaks down it costs|that he was glad they had missed the New York World), and the ma- ~The doctor describes how he paid $16 for a pair of shoes that in ® Mr, and,Mra, Stryver sat glar- chine veered across feet and Mew York would have cost $4, 87 for a plain straw hat, 50 cents for a A old man, and the chauffeur that took it| take my wife she’s fussing and snarl-| Mrs. Jarr, sick and faint from fright, Cut to test it was thrown out when it]/ing all the time. If I take guests I/ was not ablo to answer. But Mr, Jarr P Buenos Ayres. He declares that those two cities are the most thieving incompetent that’s running it] THEM nothing"— child, \ Gapensive in the world to live in. Copreight, 1918, by The Prem Publishing O8 | now." ‘At this point the fteur threw the ing at each other as their au missed the curb stone and a lamp post by half an inch, mobile sped on its way this ple: * ‘The next affair—perhaps the greatest of her life—was with Chopin, the come Bottle of beer, 60 cents for mineral water and $5 for a watch crystal! |ant summer evening, the Jarrs, guests|—does a man get out of an automobile,| “And look at that chila! Ran right in of an automobile owner into! poser, He was loved of many women and ot priplspedl a They were iil i at Then note what he s. . on the joyride at the Btryvers' expense, fake who owns a high priced one like front 06 the car! Did you ever see the sult! A friend of mine hit @| matched in every way. Yet their love for each other was intense and long a a t back th ani the ¥ ‘ Be IT 18 INTERESTING TO REPORT THAT WHILE [bli oss a Gla coat bee] Mfr. Jarr murmured that he thougnt| ‘Tivs incident gave all in the car a sate lasting. She nursed him through long ilinesses and seemed io keep him alive by h i . . BRYTHNG BLSE 18 HIGHER IN BUENOS AYRES THAN er own vitality and will power. Yet they quarrelled bitterly, as did George I suppose he'd ’ 4 . tween their host and hostess. -_—_ Sand with every one who knew her well. Chopin begged her to marry him. She | BERE, THERE 18 AN BXOBLLENT TAXIOAB SYSTEM, “Only that I know you are enjoying been held up for w whole lot of! refused, Wearying of playing nurse to a sick man she sneered at him ae a oom YOU CAN HIRE OARS THERE AT 50 CENTS, GOLD, AN it," sald Mrs. Stryver, turning to Mrs. | eeteatants ipyeli, and finally lett him. Sheela ae soon afterward, weeping - HOUR. THE UNRENTED TAXIS vi Jarr, “I'd order the man to turn around ;| at her failure to keep her promise of letting him expire in her arms, MIDDLE OF THE STREETS." MATE ARANDS EN SER and go back, I never ride in this car) S cas aera GRA reed hy George Sand outlived her attractions, but not her fame, She died tn 1876, : but what I get @ splitting headache, Do nhey et bce ‘ Bh ee honored as one of the master-minds of the century. ‘+ Even the most expensive cities in the world have sense enough yen know why I wanted to go through pltheh et S : je Park?" ” ®¥ regulate and cheapen such comforts and conveniences as their cab | Mie Mare thought it was because Mr. A sen @eevices so as to serve the citizens and attract the visitor. Stryver didn’t, but she anawered tho lo nothing of the kind!’ “We'll go out to the The May Manton Fashions q The Aldermen of Buenos Ayres have been intelligent and open- Mae teres vag Pee gepegperesag el ; i eX { i] | tleneck Road #0 » tialnded enough to take a lesson from the cities of Europe, ant. ~~ "due fi] | “I won't go there. ‘There's no musto,”* E 7 What th f t tropolii ? - “No,” sald Mra. Biryver (they were retorted Bre. air ‘ ” Ee plain blouse - are the signs of a great metropolis whispering), “I wanted to go through Mrs, Gisyver, made with a big ,» Would New York recognize them? the Park because the machi RA ap Ea Pe a collar ds the smart ied ing—look behind and peer © Sanep oF ENG one this summer and it ia a nel chauffeur would have been arrested and } r Wl | nging ragtime, do your Ia es} i Btryver would have had to pay another M ‘ : ’ THE IMPERISHABLE PLATFORM. fine, and that would drive him wild, ne lah figures, back 7 "el irs. one is made vory simp), ‘ Our proper business te improvement, Let our age de the ANG (per MP /GHG BAYA: apne: BAe Ce eh 100 ee PR AE with plain sleeves teex age of improvement. Ina day of peace let us advance the arte “T never go out in this machine, baled hs Née wots for ne man; but. the Hele Senne? oe @o you know?" retorted fr. aro stitched to the arm. A’ Of peace ang the works of peace. Let ua develop the resources Mr, Stryver to Mr. Jarr, to put the lat- watt for any main who chooses to keep her waiting. Stryver. cs pelt sae it Hy loess at of our land, call forth ite powers, dulld up its institutions, pro- seneaehienedineniaeaians —- i Baers cae ine sree tae | coetnnee Fon RKC IE SEMEN MA In this case taci Te + mote etl ite great interests, and see whether we also, in our da en a man says “With all your faults I love you & Io CORE Hy Onis wad a fi Mr. 8 keep the front edges { © @n& generation, may not perform something worthy to be Hd Frisco Needn’t Boast. | decause a man can forgive a woman for anything on earth if only she will be Was 8 taeer for Mr. Birvver, ang and the edges of tho he sputtered, but could think of nothing insulting enough to reply. oe Meanwhile the car was speeding far out of town, past road house after road One might fancy the average girl were a species of ostrich from the house, unt! {t came within hall of the amount of raw flattery that a man feeds her before marriage and the two-|one where the chauffeur undoubtedly membered. Let us cultivate a true epirit of union and har- BIEL tf tony. In pureuing the great objects our condition pointe out A204, bet we act under o settled conviction and an habitual dng that these States are one country. Let our conceptions de - enlerges to the oircle of owr duties, Let ue extend our ideas edged cyniciema he expects her to swallow afterward, had his engagement. / | op tae «1 ver the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. For that lapiaesle personage whioeed y f dividual taste to ’ tle. Let our object be owr country, our whole country, and nothing Even an ardent npile suffragist draws the line at acknowledging the |the car of the highway and up @ wind ! ing hill and stopped before a rambling equality of the sexes when it comes to sharing the Morris chair, the morn-| edifice that bore a sign, “La Paloma ing paper and the cigarettes, Inn." ‘The Stryvers made no protest, and the party alighted. The fashionable tvoman has long ago stopped collecting old china, old| “Gimme @ highball!” growled Mr. furniture and old natsters, and is apparently devoting her fe to collecting new wedding rings, one both for Dut our country. And, by the dlessing of God, may that country simple frock and for Ateelf becomes @ vast end splendid monument, not of oppression end terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of Mberty, upon which the world may gase with admiration forever, (ef DANIEL WEBSTER. ” The Bunker Hill Monument. June 17, 1825, 4 the waiter, “we soft drinks.” —_<—»- HE WAS ENLIGHTENED, It ia said that the college-bred man of to-day {8 much bigger than his father; but somehow that doesn't seem to give him tho least control over a ‘We don't approve of the !mpertinence, ttle half-portion woman that his father could have managed with one but perhaps in the following caso the Pattern No, 740d—Blouse for Misses and Small 7468 \9 hand and his eves shut. grouchy street car passenger got no pattern Women, 16 and 18 years, cut in Sizes for misses of 16 and 18 years, more than he deserved. He had asked ; ve a conductor tf he knew when a certain Cal! at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANCON PACh ee Gitions an€ prover stepe of procedure. Music hath charms, and this (s the time of the year then that old tune| train tett, the North Station, i BURFAU, Donald Butiding, 100 Weet ‘Thirty pe Ao The main indu { growing of . | of Mendelssohn's has hypnotized meiny an unwilling man all the way to the Lei D r tive, aes of being answered In the nega! ), commer Sixth avenue and Thir:y-second street, t ©y mall on receipt of reais Er Be a stamps for anon pattern ordered, "7" St S08 Matt 2 oa ot understen " ‘ IMPO! — dar BEEN rane sclewe 1 etase to. Very | “How about the oose’s Monday | The fre of true love flames but ence in every heart—dut, alas, there| 16) on the care,” was ine conductor's | f ¥attorns.$ sig wanted. AGG two esate er lotacr Pore re hei erg S4rignd ef the coq: apecttully, v. BETTS. Ei N.Y. | morning greucht” Gre 00 many false clarme! quick reter.—Bosten iba M ¥ Melicmwinn ie Lia whe . saad 7 diab ian ag-ttown eye oy Ga Mena ee ¢ + teen aegenee “praetor * x :