The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1920, Page 15

thy FRIDAY, SULY 16, 1920 King of Parisian Dudes Passes; ~ Ends Career Like Ouida Novel eet» Nephew of an Emperor; Wed Daughter of Ex- President, Caused Suicide of Pretty Actress. Duke de Morny Gained Notoriety o in America by Fight- ing Duel With Harry Vane Milbank as Result of J. Coleman Drayton’s Divorce Suit Against His Wife, a Daughter of William’ Astor. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. E was son of the half-brother of Napoleon Ill, and his physical double He was the “King of Parisian dudes.” , He fought a duel with an Englishman, Harry Vane Milbank, and ‘Was wounded by him. He drovs ‘e to suicide the little Russian actress, Feygine, and was hooted im the streets of Paris when he attended her funeral. He married Senorita Carlotta Guzman Blanco Ybarra, whose father millionaire and a former President of Venezuela. She obtained a court separation of their estates, asserting that her hus- band’s debts threatened the ruin of her fortu wen ere a travelling And the name of this picturesque adventurer ig the Duke de Morny, whoae death hag just been announced —the finis to a career which reads like , a novel by Ouida, ‘The Duke de Morny's grandmother was Hortense Beauharnais, daughter of Josephine, the great Napoleon's first wife, and Hortense was also the mother of Napoleon III. The father of the recently deceased Duke de Morny, Duke Charles de Morny, took a leading part tn the coup d'etat which made Napoleon Ill. Bmperor of the French, was made President of the French Legislative Corps in 1854, and practically ruled the empire until his death in 1866. ‘The son of this man, however, won his fame—or notoriety—with more startling, if jess solid, achievements. ‘The Beau Brummel of Paris during hig dashing young manhood, he set many a sartorial fashion—for exam. ple, the bob-tailed dress coat. I tried unsuccessfully to popularize a dress coat of claret color, He once appeared at a club in the role and costume of ballet dancer, managing his short skirts with grace and skill, He had many love affairs, among them one in which a Russian dancer, Feygine, was heroine—and then’ vic- tim, for he ia said to have driven her to suicide and to have been hooted evem by cynical Parisians when he attended her funeral. But he won, most of js headlines in Ameri¢an pers through the re- port of his alleged duel in Belgium vith Harry Vane Milbank, an Eng- lishman, ‘Though later denied, the following strange story obtained wide ciroulation; ‘The duel, it was said, grew out of divorce proceedings brought by J. Coleman Drayton—and afterward withdrawn—against hie wifs, with Hallett Alsop Borrowe named aA co- respondent. Mrs. Drayton was a e—he had, among other ex. photograph gallery at an expense of daughter of William Astor. The Duke de Morny and another were usked to be a court of honor and say whether, n the circumstances, Mr. Borrow and Mr. Drayton should order pistols for two and coffee for one. The court of honor decided t this duel, but Milbank, ti second of Mr. Be tly offended because of tion ‘of the highly int ing correspondence over the matte According to report, the lie was passed between the two; they met on the Belgian coast near Ostend; De Morny was wounded in the hip; he wanted to have another shot but was forbidden by his seconds; the English- man—Milbank—escaped uninjured, De Morny was taken in a small boat to the steam yacht which had borne him to the rendezvous, and the whole affair created a great stir, Milbank was the son of a York- shire baronet, one of the heirs of the Duke of Cleveland; at thirty had run through a fortune ‘of a million and a half, and had fought numerous duets —among them, a trio with the-hus- band, father and brother of a German lady, all of whom he killed. Meanwhile, the Duke de Morny had married a piquant, pretty little South American brunette, Senorita Carlotta Guzman Blanco Yt was exceedingly we she brought him as abl Je and although they had three chi she went into the French courts, eight years ago, and asked for a separation of estates, on the ground that her husband's debts threatened to engulf her fortune, The courts granted the petition of the Ducliess. And now, at sixty-one, passes one of the most spectacular figures in the foreign scene of Burope’s old-time “gay lite"—truly enough, for Americans, “one of the men you read about,” a dot 4 comfort- income and a small fortufle in Star Soprano of Vatican Choirs A Fourteen-Year-Old Boy HM sweetest feminine voice in throat Rome j# in @ male Luigi di Tommaso Pacchelli, the finest soprano of the Sistine Chapel choirs and star soprano of the combined Vatigan Choirs, the greatest <Inging organiaation in the Eternal City, la the poasessor of the voice. He has the distinction of having sung efor the Pope more times than any person of his years. Luigi is fourteen yeurs-of age. He 18 aleo the only male who has ever sung the role of St, Joan of Are, which he 4i@ in opera at the Augustinian Theatre two years ago, Hpiscopal parishioners who were fortunate enough to listen to the singing of Blatchford Kavanangh at Grace Episcopal Church, Chicago, @ few years ago, will probably show keen concern in compa the voices of the two boy sopranos. Pacchelli is a find of Angelo de Santi, President of the Pontifical In- stitute of, Higher Sacred Music, Ever since he reached the age of reason— usually put at 7 in [taly—he has un- dergone vocal training, so that now his voice is the best trained voice of its years in Italy, Pacchelll will come to the United States this autumn mwith the augmented Vati- can Chol, ih: The Jerr [imfly Copyright, 1920, by Tue Pree Pubiisuing Co. (The New York Rveuing World.) Or MREECTLY happy, or seemingly 60, Mrs. Jarr was eagerly scan- ning the fashion papers. The children were fighting and squabbling over thelr paper dolls and toys on the floor. Gertrude—the last faithful servant girl alive on earth was cheerlly singing and breaking dishes in the kitchen, Mr. Jurt sat near, reading about Babe Ruth's home runs in the sporting pages of the even ng papers. Mrs. Jarr looked up. and “How you can spend your time reading that uninteresting Stuff in the papers gets me!" she said, “lL Just looked over what you are reading now a few moments ago, and of ull the jargon! It's all about people ‘dying at first? and ‘Ruth lifting ar aeroplane out of the garden.’ There should be a law against printing such unintelligible jargon." “Say no more my lady! more I pray;” chanted M Say no Jarr, "I peeked at that dressmaking dope you're sopping up there, and ‘talk about jargon! How about ‘the pan- nfers will be more bouffant and the vogue of the flat drapery im decided- ly on the wane, The short skirt, from its very tendency of being cute, presages itt early taboo!’ How about that, kid “1 wish you wouldn't use that ex- pression ‘kid,'" said Mrs, Jarr, “It always grates on me; and the chil- dren hear you say it, and of course they use it. Why, Willie said to his grandmother, just the other day, when she was telling him he'd never get to heaven if he was a bad boy, ‘Don't you care, kid!"” “I didn't say that, maw,” little boy. “L sald ‘kiddo.’ “It's all the sume, Willie,” replied Mrs, Jarre “You should be more re- spectful to your grandmother, What would you do if dear grandma was to die and go to heaven and you never saw her any more?” No signs of alarm at this dire sup- o'erspread the youthful features of Master Jarr; he simply shook his head and sal “Why does grandma go to my bank yand take out carfare to go home with? cried the position LET'S Go HOME JOHN WHERE ARE No FISH HERE Be READY WITH THE NET! HE IS COMING } By Maurice Ketten ITS A BIG FISH ! HE (S PULLING RUS When I asked her why she didi Paw for carfare she sald she had never asked him for anything in her life and wasn't going to!” Mr. Jarr grinned behind his news- Pp but Mra. Jarr detected htm. She, gave him a glance that was suf- ficient to inform him that she would take up the question of his attitude oward her mother some time when the children weren't around to hear hi wear, and returned to the dis- sion of the relative merits of sport- ing and dressmekera’ jargon. “Anyway, the words you see in the fashion articles are never low or vul- xar," she finally remarked to Mr, Jarr, “They are all refined expresnions for refined peOple and are comprehended, by even the average intelligence, but those accounts of baseball games are simply studies in slang, fot wort) anybody's efforts to attempt to glean their meaning. That held Mr. Jarr for a while and Mra. Jarr continued: “Yes, what you saw about the short skirt 18 only too true, They are guing out.” “I saw with you,” sald Mr, Jarr, ing out shopping” “I don't go shopping often the money!" said Mra. Jarr. then she started to sab. “Gee whiz! Do I say a word when “It was go- Lhavent And you make @ remark Ike that?" asked Mr. Jarr, interrupting her before u review of her wrongs would add to her agitation, “Wasn't [ about to say I'd like to get you some fine, now things?" “Why shouldn't you?" replied Mra Jarr. “I'm sure t deserve them, A simple dittle dress or two wouldn't cost so much and everything at the Aas stores is being reduc And that comforted Mra, Jarr. Women don’t mind not getting things so long as they are promised them. ‘ yours going out yesterday 4 (eSELFISTINESS*€ SUDDES By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) would have been gone, free of all pal In one moment of | madness the Would have inflicted untold Injuries N a hospital in the metropolis two People ae suffering from an at- tei ot eld mpt to commit suicide a@ the ana gone scot-freo of pain ‘them- remult of & pact arranged between selyex, Nothing could be more cruel, them, Defluntly these two declare | W one of these people should have said to the other is this: “Let's luok at it squarely. Let us admit we fare miserable, that life is even un- bearable, Through our acts, their intention of doing it again, on the plea that they cannot live with- out ch other, neither of the parties own being free to marry however, we ave helped to make The extreme selfishnene of thelr act things ne they are.” We have a duty Uvidently never has occurred to them. tin he fair and eauare with the wthees Fach of these parties is married, Let us move all energy (o make them ‘The woman in the case has a husband way out I. Perhaps, who loves her dearly, and the man Mj'0 knows, the Some wien has a wife and threo children, to say — “yather Time has a way of work- nothing of otherrelatives involved in the affairs of the two families, Yet these two assume to decide everything for all concerned, By doing with themselves, they think they hu solved the ing out things. Let us wait, In the first place, the life that was Kiven to us is not ours to take, And secondly poor soldiers are we that we the firing line of life at the battle Yet the are young. We must meet Teticteds the future that I@ before us, no mat ter what it Who are we that we dare throw on the shoulders of others t the odijum and sorrow that will come they are brave in taking thei? own “hen So funn. & lives. Perhaps they haye even gone i Mehta 80 far us tO rogard their deed 18 Coe eet ee neta frat ba i ‘ always. Let ua stop, f they would only just consider the ‘to the silent cry of others as well as real situation, they would realize what (0 uityens™ 7 2 ao of living—Just because they can't if eye would-be sulcide would do have what they want. I know of go, there would be fewer shame nothing more selfish than fo 1% graves und leas aftermath of woe » face the bitter ha \ the or years the families of these two, fering on innocer \ had they succeeded tn thi vould shame to decide one's own destiny In have suffered—aume of them pe ‘8 wa for all time would have borne the And worst of all a the acme of brunt of tt all. Yet thoy, the suicides, ceifishness Italian Postcards Have Been Cut in Size The postcard shown at the left the the gives exact size of cards now being received in this country from italy, Are American = manu facturers passity up a bet? FRIDAY, JU the Blokes That Live 6n Showballs. ‘ By Neal R. O’Hara. ‘ ” Copyright, 1020, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) i ie high cost of living doesn’t bother the poets because few of 'em have any living at all. Beef at as poems at $1 a word. Ther as there is in poison. poetry aren't found in the metre, and ways blank checks, Poets are born, not made—the same as suckers. You can’t spot-a poet at birth because he doesn’t have any + ways develop early, A kid that at the age of two will eat anything that'u handed to him has the makings of a poet, Being able to eat anything that is an asset for a poet, except in the case of drinks. comes your wa: The real poets of to-day discover that modern poetry has and 1s de- cliffed. Nowadays the magazines only use poetry to fill in the spots where they expected ads. And a guy that writes poems on autumn and spring has to live through tho other two seasons. Half the poets that praise “Beautiful Snow” are the blokes that live on snowballs, Poets have long hair and short lives so long as they live on poetry. It's the footlight dames who discover the poetry of motion that make the dough to-day, Barefoot women fre taking in more for the Broadway fhanagers now than the “Barefoot Boy” ever rolled up for Whittler. Art is long,gbut skirts are short— and that's the brand of poetry the crowd eats up. There's .only one kind of podéts that are making money to-day, And those are the guys that guess the missing fifth line in the daily prize- winning limerick, Bide Dudley is feeding more kids from the toil of his pen than Virgil and Ovid did. And the bird that wrote jingles of Spotless Town cleaned up as much as the soap that he praised. Shakespeare was a poet, It's true, but he was sharper than the rest of Pauline Furloags © On Heallén Copyright, 1920, by ‘The Press Publtabi FOUL BREATH—Mrs. Davis F.— ‘This may arise from so many differ- ent conditions and the treatment must be according to the condition which causes foul breath, Indigestion, con- stipation and decayed teeth are some of the causes of bad breath, A little bicarbonate of soda in water before ana after meals will overcome sour acid stomach DISINFECTING DISHES—P, M.— Dishes from the @lck room should always be disinfected. Scrape them well, then plunge into boiling ‘water to which « good handful of borax has teen added, Washing soda is also excellent PROJECTING TEETH—Alma G— any reliable dentist correct child while she Is: still 1 1 would not delay tak- M this in Uh Bo young 4 An Appealing Late Summer Hat this summer before the fall hats are \ For, unlike the gas company’s cinch, the profits of ¢ we have a dainty feather turban of LY 16, 1920 Half of the Chaps That Praise “Beautiful Snow” Are $1 a pound is as much in their line ¢ is as much nourishment in poly the dividends of blank verse are al jong hair at that time, but they ab . Few*guys can develop that tadpnt Homers don't happen every day, not even with Babe Ruth in the lineup. The trouble with all the poets to- day is that thetr stuff lacks paprika, The poets that are mopping up now are the ones that rhyme “so long” with “oolong” and “kiddo” with . “pekoe’ and have It set to jazz musig, It is foolish to write a poem for the ages when thero are 5,000 vaudeville singers ready to murder it now. The best way to write a poem that will live is to put it in a dead lan- guage, It was Homer's verse in Greek and Virgil's stuff in Latin that made those languages, dead. Other important poems in the dead lan- guage are “With the Stein on the Table” and “The Face on the Bar- rgom Floor.” These masterplsees will, go ringing down the foyers of time together with “They Were Only. Playing Leap-Krog.” There is only one rule for making a poem immortal, and that is the rule that three strikes are out, That's what made “Casey at the Bat) = succes! the mob. For Shake always chopped up his poems in five-act portions with an eye to a Broadway produc- tion. Homer also cashed. in big; but 7 \ } i Cries Gad Beauty | . 4 Co, (The New York Evening World.) mys ing her to see.oné, as it will chatige the shape of her mouth té a marked degree. a ROUGH HANDS—Katherine G— If you ‘dry your hands thoroughly every time you wet them you help materially. in keeping ti smooth and white, Yes, vant cream is also beneficial. This t® not easily made in the home, FAT ON SHOULDER BLADES Mrs. Lila F.—This ts the last and the hardest place to lose flesh, according to the many letters [ get from stout ers. Nothing but the most strea- nous exercises and heavy roller mas- > sage, with a roliing pin, will help ree move it and you must wear a corset, meanwhile. Yes, the obesity lessons have appeared in book fonm, TATTOOING—Henry C.—From the many {nquiries I have recently made about this 1 understand that tattooing cannot be removed. 4 i aad out. G