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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1918 7 , \\ ps \ KS | _ F Twelve-Year-Old Soldier oo ley Ga W be 1h Vo | nk OS Love Letters War's Bravest “Boy Hero” ee — i 4! From a Candidate to a Candidatess And Winner of Six Medals = The Thrilling Exploits of Paul Togolevitch | Meier liiaec ial Moll dinar | (13th Training Battery F. A. C. 0. T. 8.. Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.) q EPISODES IN THE REMARKABLE CAREER OF THE 12-7EAR- sth ili, tie. a, 0th aks We eas Paul logolevitch, Son of a Russian Cabinet Minister, OLD BOY SOLDIER, WAR’S YOUNGEST “DECORATED HERO” C "Wan beh Atle to WIIG to you Tait: Weak, Bor 1-wab BOSON TAL Ran Away to Join the Army—and Then Adven-! ))); ale ppt ¥ <A : ' the handle on the door of the only saloon in a mining town on ‘ ae y - groob OFF f | pay day. Iam in my fifth week in the training area and haven't any ‘ tures . Began, More Thrilling Than Most Boys: : 3AG0 GERMANS ahi more spare time than a darky going past a cemetery at midnight. If t Even Dream Of, for This “‘ Boy Corporal. Bee WITH MACHINE def ae we do happen to have any spare time on our hands, we generally bi With fifty men and a single machine gun he held 2,490 Germans at ; : ts ’ | discover that there is a soe brush between us and the spare time, We polish those birds four dozen times a day, but they don't seem to | appreciate it. And you can’t set away from your shoes, because wher- ever you go, your shoes go with you. } The only possible method of escaping from your boots ts at taps, but whea you wake up in the morning there is Mr. Boots waiting for you. I've polished those bunion garages until the shocstrings have muscles in ‘em. re AL RAR KL IUES AAS RGATIE TOBIN OP BARE RAS PIIAS IND RRNA PRA PIR Sia day while his regiment retreated, then stole plans of German lines from @ sleeping Boche officer, Captured and with a broken leg he escaped, bringing back with him three German officers as captives. In a fight in the woods with a detachment of Germans he single-handed killed two. wapnded five and, with a broken shoulder, held survivors prisoner until relief came. This is a queer army, Brighteyes, First, they tell you to shine your brogans so that you can see your face in ‘em. Then, as you step along and try to see your face in ‘em, your B, C. stakes you to five HIS is tae story of the bravest boy in the war—and the world. demerits for not keeping your lamps up in the soft Kentucky ozone, T His name is Paul Iogolevitch. His father was Surgeon General | | ; j } hs “ae Still, it’s easy to figure out. If you're right, you're wrong, and if you're in the Army of the late Czar Nicholas and also one of his Cabinet |): 4 5 : 2 py wrong, you're wrong. You don’t need any adding machine to get Ministers, To join the Russt Hs ' , j that stuff. from home pat ad was WAIVE AAPL ALA (00 STUD | Still, figuring it out on your celluloid cuffs, this course of sprouts old. Three times we was caught and sent back, but)!” % isn’t so hard. It's easy if you know how, I think I could do the en- the fourth time he succeeded in enlisting. In four] {RAN BN oe eRrED , | “ v i Bage , tire course standing on my head. A lot of the fellows do do it that months he had won his first medal. Before he was! NO WAS. .D Pita ie ®t” % Wigs ) way. retired from active service he Mea five other dec- | J/AT IZ YEARS OF AGE A fi ‘ eis fe 3 4 But I didn’t start this letter to talk about myself. orations, sad been wounded often and seriously, had) }.°:,)) sy i It isn’t necessary for a man to talk about himself out aere. Just been taken prisoner, and, finally, gassed. He 1s now re-| boot a couple of commands in dismounted drill and his officer will cuperating in this country, hoping again to see active | save him that trouble. By the way, they call this the artillery out ‘Hgsanm service and to accept the Major's commission which 13) here, but so far as your Roger is concerned, it's the walktillery, 1 have By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World ) ee ee ee eee ' promised him when he is of age to receive it. been walking five weeks out here and haven't got anywaere yet. : ‘The story of his adventures, modestly as it is told by this slip of a! be | The commands puzzle me up like a cross-eyed armadillo trying to ‘ Youngster—ae is only five feet three and essentially boyish in appearance. -| KILLED. OR f 4 i read a Mongolian proclamation. Here is an easy one , 4 makes even the legend of d’Artagnan scem tame. His first medal was/| CAPTVREO te er) p \ ; ORR PAVE | “Sit down! Stand up! What the h— are you moving for?” They © given bim for gallant service in rescuing @ car filled with physicians who|) (% GERMANS rege \ , TOGO LEVITEH | get more intricate as they go along. I've only goiten as far as the * |S had been surrounded by Germans on their way to the front lines, He; IN A ORUT: N 3 ‘ - { first three pages in the book and I am hoping tiat the war won't last , 4 charged with his men, for the twelve-year old had been made a corporal : } | any longer than two pages more. If it does, your Roger is up Salt _ when sent into the trenches because of ais expert marksmanship. At this | River with a busted paddle. However, I don’t want to devote this letter 3 time he received a shrapnel wound in the shoulder. entirely to my own worries, so I want to ask you about those socks CY Not long after the Russians were retreating. With fifty men and one| you started to knit for me. he last pair were fine as they just fitted is 3 machine gun Corpl. Paul made a stand in a small, badly she¥ed village, | over my shaving outfit and make a fine set of bags. If you can get a > and although he was attacked by a force of 2,400 Germans, he ield out till | little more wool and knit me a larger sock for my poker chips I won't 4 his regiment got safely away. “When the action ended,” he says simply, =: ‘ aoe have to hide the outfit every t!me the B. C, decides to inspect our squad 8 “there were but two of the fifty left and we were very, very tired, but! Bis ‘ ts = i in ths i Aff room. wt there were not many Germaps left, either. When we could stand it no! taeda! ch 1 AW Say, hon, it sure is a tough Job keeping that equad room clean, ~longer we ran and managed to hide ourselves in a cellar. We had to stay a , / : A ARAL | ‘here are more corners in a barracks than there are hops in a flea, Ry there for thirty-five hours, and they were long, long hours, for we had no food.” ) >) ‘white crouching in the darkness @————____ You can't keep dust out of the corners, and every gob of dust means a barrage of demerits. When this wer is cured and the Kaiser is back in nis cage again we're going to get merried and I'm going to buy ! ios Sa Phonabediate ve pnem. | in front of me. It was a long marca, a railroad. I'll give the tracks to some poor family and hang a couple een - pEnageas Ae, ouster catyaple |EUt T dared not stop to rest or to lot of iocomotives on the Crown Prince's nect for a lavaliere. cans and plane trom a sleeping Ger-| cnc’ Cut must keep them covered Then you and I will live in the ¢ ouse, where there aren't with my revolvers every moment. ; 4, eceived Bt. {3 man officer. For this he r a Those twenty-five miles were very, George's Cross of the Fourth Class, 1015 tong ones, If I had not been lame latter he had escaped to his OWN! i would have been nothing, but it wan! 4 lines. He also received severtl| ie itty ana Tw, hee . é wounds during this adventure, iy habs Lidabhed uss sot hae nip a a? Wien he next went into action he |, mbimantivel et ae and could > Sosa captured and taken sixty miles Gk eur Blane Cn 0 our own men, y inside the German lines, “As @ yn une es good to me and, 4 % prisoner,” he recalls, “they tried to Phe Calone not 30 enough for m : + get information from me, but I would | el wanted me to go to the} any corners for dust to get in Yours until they wear N. Y. University Erects Eight Barracks Buildings in 13 Days EW YORK UNIV TY has set} s and t w « i for the new) f raw hats in Iceland ROGER. aled inside, conforms to the army ; Evacuation Hospital, put 1 would not ; t dimensions ’ tell them nothing, even though they ' put L would not | i —, . rt ng corps in 8 hall 1,600 tortured me, They thought that by| SY | Not because 1 was auch @ bray GOT VALUABLE MAP UT SUFFERING A BRaWweN EE nis building was the Stet of High pressure fiarvation and torture they could | Mots Oat barause I was afraid my FROM SLEEPING GERMANS LEG HE MARCHED “THREE [ere ona coeelene needea ed. There are gas and force me to tell many things, One ould get me back again if 1 ; Solel MILES of a group of eight n ° We ! Si-ée% my guard, to torment me, of-| 44 So T remained on duty, and be-| ° PRISONERS “TWENTY FIVE LES newly inducted soldiers at the uni- tables on whieh I versity. The entire «i hot, and soup kettles n diamet A iwashep by steam cleans 3,000 pep roup was com- “yq) feed me some strong tobacco, 1| fre very long my leg got quite strong | and I could get abo ve ' ° ° ' jleted in 18 days from the time the|th fe ears ss ced |e ote ters Ge ms Sees Is It Possible to Love a Plain Woman cypedagher oe Re eh ra ' = -djed, for it made me terribly {ll and | f the third class,"¥ he ended. ea Prisha Head ob tia department | ROL? { Ps ) cf al engineering at the! One of the university's graduate ; my throat swelled together. 1 could) After thie bis commanding omcer M h P tt O 2 ‘of mechanical r i J neat swallow at all, not even the| tried to keep Pau) out of ae but! as uc as a } e UY ne . university, supervised this rush job|engincers, John Lowry jr, was ree i § j e y 01 he university sponsible for the rapid erection of wate:, hose were very bad days,| the youngster indignantly refused to / 7 Pee) : in construction, t B H* wut, not being able to swallow, it| be treated “hke a baby," onvucs heat (The Fourth and Last of a Series of Articles on Love.) |thorities having contracted for the|the barracks, Being engaged exten a . ~ . ‘ eit : 1 ty de-|eree’’ yn of arrac! s soon as it | sively in Gove nt work, he was did not much matter whéther I had / W@# out on a scouting expedition, a & tiful enough who succeeds in pleas-,lier, Many women called pretty de- | ere n of the barracks as soon ai t t “any food or not. | Stealing through a forest bye By Nixola Greeley Smith ing the man she loves, Such women And| was learned t New York Univer-|able to throw in a large force of men, to be termed beutiful. he came Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Press Pub # Co, (The New York Brening World) sealed | 18 doing the work for New York Unle ver ; = “I was many days in this prison| Upon a little hut in which he felt ae. yare few, ac L. Mencken, | m of these women are unmar-| sity would become an S A, T. C.| transferred n other G ment ab) to make my es-| there were G. elt sur 5S it posible to love a plain woman as much as a pretiy one? wh se of Tied. It is not only possible to lov work that was finishe Mr. L 4 whet c - vl ermans, akg nose Defense 0! amp. Mr. Lowry, eens eo : eee. Witte revolver Teil wars eimen T/ehould (reply. to this question oy saving thatit| (ete : : homely we [Se cape and get to within twenty-five] in ether hand he crawled close ne. Ut r miles of the Russian line: The buildings are completely .| so they can be kept comfortably heat- | ed by the big cantonment stoves.| The site of the first There are double floors throughout more there Is double sheathing on the out- ement that a is just as possible but not go easy. ; husband As & woman, however, I must find the answer to|tenth eh declaration with) But every the conundrum now being discussed in the Strand and|which I © totally, Sanh Pearson's magazines by looking about me at my mar. | there is far more t nt £0 in da ried friends. jeray’s much quoted assert ! ate ~ In Amer least, 1 ts still falrly safe to assume! ay Woman devoid of anaconinume, Pay@anese Schools Insure Hot Weather Comfort that every wife ts or has been loved by her husband,|°4" marry aay man she wants, And) a Now, are the wives we know better looking, physically,|/ %™ bY ho means sure that even a 1 hump disgualifies her or mentally more attractive, than single women of the} Beauty, even more than mi ty at cost, 1 had] "Then the fight way on," he to walk, of course, and it was very| ‘There were twelve men in that hut. 24 dangerdus for me because | was un-|TWo officers and ten privates and { armed. And I had also to steal my| had all I wanted to do. Ah, 1 was! food, for I did not dare ask for any.| lad that I had been taught to shoot ABut one can live for a long time| Quickly and to shoot straight. Thel jpon raw vegetables, 1 was very| two oMicers [ killed and five men 1} jopeful when only twenty-five miles! Wounded before I was shot and my jere between me and our lines,| shoulder was broken, but I could atiil though I soon found that 1 had re-| use my one revolver and now I had is only a woman's | pretty we says, te in one day ee wee enewe Saige iia Q same age among our acquaintances? As we answer that) « ” ced too quickly, for f ran right] only five t ' ‘ y | a matter of g phy." Darwin Biitices artisact, on seiner eg [er fil tg bap oan, a ‘ Y question we solve the problem, 1 say frankly No. Inj ported that African savages dislik Rimant, a sergeaut and a private.| dered them to three ok pes I or-| Sumer fact, jt is a common observation that unmarried women | the appearance of white women, who, They were hiding in a house and] they did 9 and they became my writ | show & greater desire and make a stronger effort to please than women | they sald, A like potato flow- me, . oners, But I had to hold them threed who have boarded the Matrimonial Express, For men are not alone in) ers,” and preferred the dusky, nose- “It did not take them long to make] houre there until help came and 1| He Jocular philosophy which finds utterance in the husband's query, “Why | tinged sirens of their own ra ifiwe @ prisoner once more and I was fu-| could surrender them to our officiais,| "UM after a car after you have caught it?” | There Is a noticeable difference In Gertous. 1 at once resolved that I would) 1 did not dare relax my watch upon| Women may not give expression to TT erence jtype between French and American (Qnever be taken back to that prisoa,| them for a moment, though Cr ee area om uty cOver, Sils would be far better look-| beauties, “And limiting our survey wway, This they discovered, and one| this service my regiment gave me tha l@ha faa in ihe dhaone foe hath men leet un macives alone, | popu- | tiful Woman in New York.and tn Rio ay the Licutenant thought to make) Memorial Medal and I prise it very|and women is that you don't catch| to ie tife's crntet tyatna W608 SARCIFO CONIA De Pp BRINE to me Nfe's grea ysa Med be| person, my escape impo le, wo he drew jis | highly, any car foreve really at. M fod ay F revolver and shot me twice.in the leg,| While recuzerating from: the wound| it twice a day breaking it. Then he was sure I could] !n his shoulder he tou but have to run after | tractive women, but the typical cover | eee. a d the co t, after all, thi as nothing to] I eation: bx w not run away. I suffered much pain,| &!Ving Violin recitals—he is a grade Semi out brea! raat eahe | Aitt, With her saub overdovels | woman with but wsing some pieces of wood and| Ate of the Petrograd Conservatory of| possibility of loving a homely woman| Ved Chin Aid Pale-Bray eyes has £0 be preferred by men making bandages of my clothing, 1| Music. He raised about $50,000 for| as much farang lon he by no! isa : an &} pretty woman t managed to net my leg after a tashlon,| the Russian Red Crow and seen yey [ngaP pertnons to recommend Ber. | yoihy these aualltien to it was a very poor fashion, and 1 am| ftom Czar Nicholas « diamond star! ing sitdhe Bleue aan cwnnt loves werd tenuate 1 pelted Afraid it will neverte just right aynin,| He used his violin to another jood fingva' been (ahauih thavaye opine REA OR AOS FOERY clothes | cr we ‘i " } whether a woman js pretty Mit had to do, though, but for very) PUrpose, Wearing pivilian “many days I could not walk and my| @®4 carrying the : descent he tre. “ezptors did not bother about me so| ently slipped inside the much. All this time, however, my leg| !'P°* posing as a wandering German was getting better—yes, much faster] YOUNEHer He can speak Germs ‘than they knew, and I was watching| Perfectly, as well as Russian, Frene ler, And every women js beaa When a lamp of structure - i Service Wedding Ring for Soldiers’ Brides, | warm, lovely What is the difference between a riled its defect : > sight in its German now the service wedding |of hor chief joys. “Why not a token | that you could wear all your lite—| Pretty nd a beautiful woman? Mor my chance. At last it came. English and Chinese, On one occa, F inthe laieeh ioask of pris Jone that would tell the circumstances | people generally use these s © “One day 1 crept into room my cap-| "190 he discovered that certain very | that has been designed for] ‘the iWea sulk rcpt paked, | be lualve attribute of tors had just gone out of, leaving thoir| Me#vy Gerinan ardiltery reported by | / the brides of men who are] Just fine, and so the + sing woman over flv service wedding | i N Revolvers upon a table, They did not] the Russian aviators was only wood fighting the #) know that I had been watching, That| #24 cenvas camoufage. As a cor a ay utiles, ‘The tion's | "ng was evolved ng beautiful, any eharm It of an] It is of gold, with a star in sunken | ing person* under that height bein j relies t nd the Ope: " t " Y was all I wanted, 1 forgot all about] Wuence the Russians attacked in force VA] inspiration that came to] are of the same height and of polished | Pret: Hf beauty means anything g P omy bad leg. 1 could shoot with both] ®t this point, taking five villages and Miss Lily Mall, a Bronx|gold, The background of the star is|#! St means regularity of featu 1,600 pri ‘ hands, and when they came back 10| “Little Corporal ns girl, it promises to become |SUNk about 1.24 of an inch and is of | clearness of skin and a lovely cc yoom I hag thom! ‘Therc was po! gassed and fo roturned a. teatibe ab tan was Gull gold. For a more expensive ring | bination of form and color, eye ftimegto be wasted; 1 must get those| Mother, after experiences which sure. marriages. “To keep tho star on the back of the| Ne Word handsome heesengfar nel men to our own lines as qui: ¥ twelve-year-old has| A friend of Hall, the flancee of | hand the circle will be flattened, witn|® 'ree comeliness, A beautitu: as quich!y! equalled even in this greatest of all'@ soldier, confessed recently that sha | the flattened side toward the palm of! Woman may be tall or short, slender counted wearing a service pin as one' the hand, or stout, as it pleased God to make 5 Tow " | The above photorranh shows a class of scholars in a {t has been found that with their little bodies nude the Japanese school pursuing thelr studies wholly unclad.| children obtain a maximum of comfort in the echoole This is a new departure in the Japanese school prac-| room and, with consciousness of uncomfortable clothing tice, Probably because of the intense heat in Japan,{ absent, can pursue thelr studies with closer applications \ i i