The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1922, Page 19

__" THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1922, Ts" "TwoMenTradeNames to DodgeGypsy: To Repay Man Who Saved His Life, Edward Strietback Took His Name, Rex Glenwood, to Transfer Curse Gypsy Had Laid Upon It—Now, to Be Himself Rid of Evil Spell, Seeks New Name, Nicholas Merrijune. By Nain Grute must not be made at once, but a year i thence. Strietback consented to that, {Prprrignt, 1922 (New York Evening World), +} y Press Publishing Company. too, and the two young men so DWARD A. STRIET- Strangely met went each his way. BACK had the courts The publisher's clerk was as good change his name to as his word. Waiting the prescribed Rex Glenwood; nowby year, he went before the Probate due process of law he Court on Sept. 12, 1917, and had hia is having it trans- name legally changed to Rex Glen- formed into Nicholas wood. That moniker seemed to fit Merrijune—all because of a gypsy’s him as well as his old one, and, as ourse. the years rolled on, the young man, Hither this young man, who is a who was without relatives or close iPlerk in the employ of the Standard friends in Cincinnati, almost forgot ia ‘Publishing Company in Cincinnati, is that he ever had been known as ‘ 7 spoofing the lady with the scales of Strictback. even-handed justice and the sword of Then a surprising thing happened. ‘@xecution or else he has had an ex- One day a few weeks ago Glenwood Perlence in the realms of superstition met on the street in Cincinnati the Ghat deserves to rank as unique. Man who had wished the name on Listen: ; him. The stranger was greatly In the summer of 1916, according changed. He was no longer the grimy fo the legal papers he has filed tramp. Now he was fashionably through his attorney in the Probate “ressed, prosperous looking. He ex: Gourt of Hamilton County, he was Plained that the shifting of the curse on with cramps while bathing in had worked, that he had sidesteppeo the Ohlo River at the foot of Correl the Jinx and had emerged again into Btrec# in Cincinnati and would have the land of milk and honey. A rela @rowned but for the quick action of a tive had died and left him a@ pot uf fhan who happened to be rowing a Money and he had married again and skiff nearby. This man, a grimy W8S supremely happy—in a state of ‘ dgranger, apparently a tramp, threw bliss marred only by the compunctions | YM rove to the struggling, Strietback of conscience. @nd drew him ashore. The stranger went on to explain that Overflowing with gratitude, Striet- he had lied in a measure about the back asked the stranger how he could Curse business and that it was to cor- fepay him for saving his life. rect the evil consequences of that lle “By discarding your name and tak- that he had returned to Cincinnatt. ing mine,"' replied the man. “My name," said the stranger, “‘is Btrietback regarded him in amaze- ment. Apparently the stranger had spoken in all seriousness. Any idea that might still linger in Strietback’s mind that he was joking disappeared assthe fellow went on to tell the reason of his strange proposal, Some years before, the stranger . ‘ * 4 ‘ gaid, he had been married, established Y ies y Ht } war rm Me in business in a distant community a LLL B @4 prosperous, ‘Through some mis- chance he incurred the enmity of a Sypsy, who for revenge placed a curse upon him and informed him that he would have nothing but constantly re- curring ill-luck. He did have ill-luck— oodles of it, His wife died, his home ney, who filed an application for the change of name jin the Probate Court. This application must be pub= Ushed at certain prescribed intervals for thirty days, at the end of which time, If no good reason be presented to forbid, Glenwood will be entitled to use his new moniker. Warned, then his place of business ‘was swept away by fire, and he was reduced to abject poverty, a condition in which he remained at the time chance placed it within his power to ave the life of Strietbac! That name ts Nicholas Merrijune, ting it properly set, I spent thaten- “Nicholas came easy enough,"* tire year cursing the name of Rex Glenwood explained. “I always did Glenwood. I cursed it for breakfast, lke that name. It has a sort of dinner and supper, on going to oed Classy sound, For a Ume, however, dol > - was up against it for a surname, AN desperation, “icc and on getting up, and constantly I was up again ding to the between times. Whenever I ‘ad Then one day I heard somebody say age eas haps na Sn ag pt that on the curse nothing else to do I would coneen- something about the merry gal : rave me and follow the name I had trate with all my mental power and June, and {t came to me just Ike curse. The gypsy, mollified by the . Fe Dee ee eR ae NE diverted, but said there was only one for he had not bargained on taking "the gypsy told me that if at any reporter asked Glenwood. way in which the curse cuuld be lift- \ on a curse. Suppressing his indigna- time within five years the man who ‘‘Not a bit,"’ replied the young man ed and thut would be by having some t however, and reflecting that if had assumed the name I had wished sporting, a curse. lone take the stranger's name by lecal 4 jinx had been wished on tim it the curse on should again change his Then why are you having your Iproceég. If that were dono, the gypsy \ got to going yet, for no mis- name the curse would lose all its name changed ag a y J explained, the stranger would be re- vad befallen him, he bade the potency and would be at an end for E juat_meut to be on the sats Jeved bf the spell of the devastating hivat 4 stranger proceed with his al time, That 1s why I have hunted side. t you up—to put you wise so you may All this sounds Hike a folk tale of BR eit Pa Wee ern sty n I told you to walt a change your name again and evade the Middie Ages. If any one doubts mportant to Strietback, the curse ot Glenwoddananavar wae! filme te: Nott that Fooulaiba, rellevediot! Near HetorD 4aking the mime or Rex (ik its 1923 authenticity he will find it all ome not follow the name. you when,I told you it was, L came ! ly by getting s ne Glenwood,” the former curse-tovsr which, the stranger turned set down in the records of the Hamil~ Aeletonck consented to take the back here expressly to find you and else to t my name. What sho @ 1, “Was because T wanted to on his heel and disappeared ton y Probate Court. tranger's name—Rex Glenwood. ‘The release you from your pact PAGRae Gap 1% would isan Asie i Five years! ‘The time would be up “In this enlightened age it seems er warned him, however, that, for ine youlie ohana: eee Mer one. wis n accordance with the Sept. 12, 1922, No time to lose! So Impossible that such superstition pertain xeasons concerned with tho What I told you a C'eypsyte Mt He the: “robe , lions, [figured that a thought GfXnwood. He told his story should exist,? said Willlam HR pxercisepOt the black art, the ahange Ailteeagten ivi! feekark Goal gaa wie’ Goccala’ 4 rie cma etue'lis NearcOMBHE to Nevampletime tor pete to Gi As CAMtery @ Closinnnll attorx Lusdars dudpmet soat soln { nogmegitine nnn nee TOES E RG EF EKER eRe an eae