Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1937 — Page 13

From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

Spends Fine Night Abogrd Zephyr; Train Was Doing More Than 90, but

Hardly a-Sound Disturbed Silence. |

ENVER, June 2.—I've ridden many a night on" Puiiman cars, but I’ve never spent such “a perfect: traveling night as in - my berth on the Zephyr. : : {8 bed at midnight, just out (f

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Creston, Ia.” Everybody else in the car was asleep when I came back from riding on the engine. Even the porter was asleep in the washroom. It was “as quiet as the grave in that darkly curtained Pull-

man aisle. Honestly you could hardly hear a sound, although,we were doing better than 90 miles an hour. The bed was soft. There was no dust or grime. The porter had left my blue light on. I undressed and piled in, and was alseep almost instantly. And I| never awakened nor even stirred until 7 a. m. I looked out and we were going through Akron, Colo, out on the lone praireeee. : All wight long, so far as 1 know, there was not a tremor in pow Ih that car, or a bump, or a sound. i The people wha sat up all night in the coaches couldn’t have done as well as I did, but they probably did all right. 1e coaches were what took my eye on the Zephyr imore| than anything else. The Zephyr carries two coaches; they’ll hold more than 100 people; and you ican ride this super-train from Chicago to Denver without a cent of extra fare if you'll sit up all night. | In the daytime I prefer the coaches to the Pullmans. The seats are softer. The whole atmosphere is pleasanter. I sat up there all the time when 1 wasn't nosing around for information. The porter provides pillows free. At mealtime you eat from a tray at your chair. You get breakfast for a quarter and dinner for 35 cents, and they're not sandwich affairs either. In one coach you can smoke. - There is a self-clos-ing ash tray in the back of the seat just ahead of you. Coach passengers can use the cocktail lounge, in the car just ahead.

” Zephyr Carries Hostess ;

HE Zephyr carries: a hostess too. Margaret Graham was our hostess. . She was a Latinishly handsome girl in a gray suit that looked like a suit and not a uniform. She says she spends most of her time in the coaches, as that’s where they seem to need her most and like her ‘best. Scme people don’t want to ‘talk to her, she says. For that matter, she doesn’t like to talk all the time herself. Maybe you read some time ago labout so many of ‘he airline hostesses- getting married to pilots and passengers they’d met on planes. Well, hostesses on trains are pretty new, but Miss Graham says one of

them has got married already.

Miss Graham says there's just one thing about the Zephyrs she hasn't experienced, and she wants to do it sometime. That's to be in a small town and watch the Zephyr go through. I understand what she means, and I'd like to do it too. I.thought about it when I was riding up in the cab. We went through some of those little towns at 85 miles an hour. That must be a real thrill, to stand on the ground, close up, and watch it.

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OME of the towns have speed ordinances, and we J had to slow down to 65. A friend of mine in Chicago says he has seen the Zephyr go through a little town west of Chicago, and that it just cleans the town out. He says paper and dust and stuff fly around for five minutes afterward. He always stops half a block away when he hears the crossing bell ringing for the Zephyr. 4 I'll bet you never had a free meal on a train. That's where I've got it on you. I had breakfast this morning as the guest of Dining Car Steward G. W. . Kiesling. He asked me last night to be sure and get up in + time to have breakfast with him. The most expensive breakfast on the menu was 85 cents, so I didn't feel like taking that. But I did take the next one, which was 75 cents. Had strawberries and everything. But all the other passengers would have been sore if they’d known it.

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'Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Midshipman Entertains First Lady _At Party at Naval Academy.

ASHINGTON, Tuesday—It was a delightful, cool drive to and from Annapolis last night. Nothing could have been more charming than the spirit of the young committee and their chairman’ who was obliged to take charge of me. He behaved exactly as though he wanted to have an elderly lady as his companion for part of the evening. I kept thinking of how much he must have been wishing either for the young girl who was certainly somewhere in the offing waiting for my duties to be over, which would automatically terminate his, or for some member of his own family. I noticed that a number of the midshipmen ‘brought their mothers to the party, which seemed to me a very sweet gesture, though I think the affair was more suited to the young. The decorations were charming, the setting very lovely. The young artist who drew the decorations had them cut out of cardboard and painted black Lo fill four niches in the ballroom. He should be made available wherever he may be stationed for work on decorations of any kind, for he certainly has talent. This being a warm day I did most of my exercise before breakfast, starting with a ride at 7:30 and a swim afterward. We sat on the porch after breakfast reading and discussing some of the news, until I suddenly realized it was time for my press conference. After the press conference, I took a young guest who is staying with me, down to see the House ot Repr@sentatives in session. We did. not have very much time and I wanted her to see the rotunda of the Capitol. As we walked through the corridors and rooms to reach it, I was struck, as I always am, by the strength of the statue which Gutzon Borglum did of John Greenway, which represents the State of Arizona in the Capitol. It is almost like seeing him alive, the statue has such a quality of strength and virility. ‘ From there I went to a luncheon given by the District Federation of Women’s Clubs, at which a * _ number of the wives of Cabinet officers, the national . president, Mrs. Lawson, and various other distinguished guests were present. : |

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RESIDENT ROOSEVELT had a lazy restful time

at his Hyde Park hideaway over the holiday week- :

end. There was just one wire open to the outside world in case a Supreme Court justice decided to resign. He'll get out of bed at any hour for that news. When Justice Van Devanter resigned you can bet the postman didn't have to ring twice to deliver that letter: In fact, the mailman didn’t bring it. Jim Farley ran all the way from the postoffice with it himself. : Anticipating future resignations I hear that West“erm Union may get up a form telegram called Supremie Court Special No. 70. How about a greeting for the President to send fto thé justices on their birthdays. Something like this: “Dear Judge, Congratulations on your 70th 4 birthday stop!!!” A few days ago’ Justice Cardozo celebrated his . 87th birthday and some meanies around Washington

: are saying that when he blew out the candles on his :

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1937

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Another famed and aristocratic, though nonroyal Englishman went into voluntary exile, as did King Edward VIII, when the thunder of criticism from pulpit and public grew too loud. And with the poet Shelley, as with the Duke of Windsor, there was a woman to share his

exile. . . . This is the third of six

Exile.”

articles about history’s “Lovers in

By MORRIS GILBERT

society. Wollstonecraft Shelley to find

But young Shelley, grandson of Sir Bysshe Shelley, Bart., and plutocrat, kept jumping the traces.. First, he made a runaway marriage with a pretty girl, considered beneath his social level although in comfortable circumstances. = Then he ran away with another girl who had the effrontery to be not only beneath his level but penniless as well.

Shelley from his earliest days, in fact, offended the code. At Eton, instead of playing games, he read books This reprehensible habit, which even Britain's most famous school could not correct, was the obvious cause of his downfall. Coupled with his flaming intellect, his pyrotechnic. personality, 1t made him, within a short time, one of the very greatest lyric poets that ever lived. But John Bull couldn’t foresee that, and at the beginning of the 19th Century wouldn't have cared anyway. - Eton behind, Shelley’s career in Oxford was short. Having pub- | lished a tract called “The Neces- ° | sity of Atheism,” he was expelled. His marriage with Harriet | Westbrook grew directly out of this event. Cut off by his father, ' Shelley was living in penury in London when a scnoolmate of his “sisters began to act as messenger. She carried Shelley his sisters’ pocket money, cookies, and puns. It was not hard for an impressionable schoolgirl of 16 to fall in love with Shelley. He was exceptionally beautiful, with vivid blue eyes, silky blond hair, a slender and resilient frame, His amazing vitality, his volubiliy, his pulsing sensitiveness also attracted. Harriet succumbed.

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HE was fresh and pretty. Her father was a saloon proprietor who had made money and retired. He forbade ‘their meetings, Shelley's reputation as an atheist and general nonconformist being widespread. More out of sympathy than love, he ran away with Harriet to Edinburgh, where they were married. This was, of course, a minor violation of the code. What followed, when he deserted Harriet for Mary, was much worse. He explained it, with his ruthless logic, by saying that his love for Harriet had died and that it was sinful to continue the form of marriage in such a case. Right or wrong, the world would have lost a quantity of its highest poetry had he been more obedient to conventions.

The circumstances of the separation were, however, terribly painful. The ethereal realm in which Shelley’s mind moved was hard to climb to. Harriet, first grieved by his desertion, presently sought solace. When her reputed

NEA Staff Writer ERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY'S exile from England was more than voluntary. He had lost certain civil rights, the Church was antagonistic, he was at the mercy of: Only away trom England were he and Mary

comparative peace, far from:

the attacks of his compatriots at home. His worst offense, from the British point of view, was that he was a traitor to his class. As a country gentleman, heir to such worshipfui matters as a title and a fortune, he belonged to the Upper Orders.

lover left her, and she was expecting a child, she drowned herself. Shelley’s two children by this marriage were denied him by the Court of Chancery on the ground that he was an atheist. True, out of regard for Mary, he and she were presently married.

} #2 in.» ues love and exile were, in a way, exceptional. That was because they grew out of: principle and what he took to be

the highest moral causes. Disciple of the social philosopher Godwin, he believed in man’s perfectibility, scorned worldly position and wealth, and preached a Supreme Spirit who had little in common with the Old Testament Jehovah. Idealistic, impulsive, chivalrous, there was nothing of the libertine about him, nothing of the Regency hell-rake which his friend Lord Byron so notably exemplified.

Mary Wollstonecraft -was the daughter of the brilliant writer of the same name and the philosopher Godwin. Mary’s mother died at her birth. Godwin married again, and it was at his house, where Shelley came to glean the wisdom of the author of “Political Justice,” that the lovers met. Presently, they ran away. It was typical of Shelley that Mary's sister ran with them. It was a rough crossing to Calais. - They journeyed to Paris in a cabriolet drawn by three horses abreast. There their money ran out. Shelley borrowed from a lawyer acquaintance and the trio proceeded, afoot, toward Switzerland. They bought a small donkey to carry their possessions. The donkey was so: weak that presently this curious group of three young English people found themselves carrying the donkey. Very shortly they were homesick. Back they went to England, where Shelley “had the sensation of standing always in the pillory.” In England, the first child of Mary and Shelley died, and a second was born. The Shelleys fled again. And again they were accompanied by Jane, who presently changed her name to Claire, had an affair with Byron and a child by him, Allegra. . Shelley went home to fight for the custody of his two children in Chancery and lost. When they departed again for the continent, he never returned. Infant mortality was high in those days. Baby William presently succumbed. Then little Allegra. 7

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LL the time he was pouring forth his magnificent poetry. “Queen Mab” was the first important work he issued. Then in quick succession came many others, “Alastor,” “Adonais,” “Prometheus Unbound,” the “Ode to Liberty,” the “Lines of an Indian Air,” and the host of lyric poems so remarkable in their beauty and passion. 1

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Shelley, Like Windsor, Left England Under Fire

Entered -as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Rebeldgainst codes-and conventions, Percy Bysshe Shelley ( right) paid the price—

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Mary Shelley (left) as his loving companion in exile. “They built a great pyre on the beach and placed Shelley’s body on it. Incense, oil and salt were cast on the flames, wine was poured on the poet’s body.” ... Above: A reproduction of Louis Edward Fournier’s famous painting.

found an almost perfect counterpart. “Ever at the back of his* mind dwelt his ideal of perfect physical beauty united to perfect spiritual beauty.” Maternity and the trials of their strange life had their effect, however. Shelley's persistent and bewildering genercsity, the demands on his purse, the fantastic family troubles of “the Godwins, coupled with Byron’s casual treatment of Mary's sister—all these matters were a constant worry. “Behind them was England, eternally censorious. Shelley's childlike idealism and impulsiveness worked occasional hardship on Mary. She was obliged to put up with her loverhusband's spiritual affinities with several women, including her sister, about whom British rumor was particularly. vicious. In Italy, the beautiful Emilia turned up to trouble Mary. Emilia was a gloriously handsome Italian, living for want of money, in a religious house. She and Shelley became violently attached to each other, but always on a platonic plane as far as he was concerned. It is probably true that no one less incontinent than he ever

lived. He became so engrossed with a passionate poem which he was writing to Emilia that he

. was unaware that an Italian no-

ble had volunteered to marry her, even without a dowry, and car-

ried her off. This spiritual betrayal hurt him deeply. : 8 4 N Pisa, for the first time in years, the Shelleys’ lives seemed to be growing rationally comfortable. There was a charming and increasing circle of friends. Shelley’s financial worries were less: grave. J . =: Lover of flowing water, his ear and spirit ever attuned to its lovely sensuous movement. Shelley’ could not swim, and he was an execrable, though determined, sailor. He bought a boat, the Ariel. : With another landlubber he set sail from Leghorn for Spezia, to rejoin Mary, who was at the latter place. There was a fresh breeze blowing and a sea making up. The wind began to whip, and haze obscured the view of watchers ashore. They saw the Ariel take in her topsail and then the storm hid her from view.

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away from his native England, far from the thunder of critical voices—with

Three days later a letter came addressed from Leigh Hunt to Shelley. Mary opened it, in terrible fear. ‘Pray write to tell us how you got home,” it read, “for they say you had bad weather after you sailed on Monday. . . .” In six days a coastguard notifiled friends of Shelley that a body had been washed ashore from the séa. The fish had eaten away parts of it. But the figure was In the jacket pocket were volumes of Keats and Sophocles. They built a great pyre on the beach and placed Shelley’s body on it. cast on the flames, wine was poured on the poet’s body. The human ashes and bone were buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. e So died a great rebel, a great poet, one of the flaming names of England, His greatness lay in his passionate and proud self-ban-ishment from all that he considered ignoble, commonplace, and lifeless in his native land.

Next—The exiled Louis Napoleon and the beautiful light lady.

NDIANA is one of 30 states which have financial responsibility laws for automobile operators, it was

| learned today.

According to automobile insurance circles, 50 per cent of the drivers of American motor cars are not “financially responsible.” In other

‘words, every other driver 1s unable 'to make monetary recompense ‘should his car destroy property or kill or maim members of the public. Interlocked in the problem—which states have sought to solve for more than a decade without yet reaching a fully effective formula—is the whole question of traffic safety, and mounting- death tolls.

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JHE first attempted solution was enacted into law by Massachusetts effective in 1927—a so-called “compulsory insurance” statute which required every motor vehicle operator to indemnify himself against | causing injury or death through (1) an insurance policy, (2) a liability bend, or (3) the deposit of $5000 in cash or securities with the State Highway Department.

This is the 11th year in which the pioneering Massachusetts law has been in force, and it is the consensus of most ot those who have studied its effects that it has failed miserably. . . It has not promoted traffic safety" as evidenced by Massachusetts accident tolls still proportionately as high as those in other states, and the charge has been made that the universal possession of insurance policies has encouraged rather than deterred careless driving. It has increased and not de-

creased the cost, of liability insur-

ance, which is abnormally high in Massachusetts, in comparison with other states. It has sky-rocketed annual losses of insurance companies, with the

‘result that the average “loss cost

per car insured” in 1935 was 36.1 per cent above the average loss cost in 1926, the last year before the law became effective. It has prompted “ambulance chasing,” manufactured perjury and crooked insurance adjustments.

” n 2 PEE all these factors, repeated efforts to repeal or modify the statute have failed in Massachusetts, the last repealer

being voted down this year. Why has the Legislature faileq to act? At least a partial answer is given in this statement by the Governor's secretary two years ago: “The disadvantages of this law far outweigh its advantages, but . . . “You must not forget that there are crooked lawyers interested in this—shysters who gain their living by manufacturing perjury. There are crooked doctors who can testify, without batting an eye, to the frightful: pain of an accident vietim who never received a scratch. And the woods are full of crooked insurance adjusters ready at a moment’s notice to approve a settlement with the knowledge that a portion of it will be ‘kicked back’ into their own pockets.” There are, on -the other hand, conscientious supporters of the Bay State method who continue to insist that admitted faults in “compulsory insurance” are traceable to administrative methods rather than to the principle of the thing. Possibly the most conclusive evidence .against compulsory insurance,

however, is that no other state in

Indiana, 29 Other States Have Auto Financial Responsibility Laws

the American Union, nor any province in Canada, has elected as yet to follow Massachusetts’ example. Thirty United States jurisdictions do have at the present time socalled | “financial responsibility” laws. All such laws are substantially the same, varying only in detail. Two model “financial responsibility” laws have been prepared, one by the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, the other by the American Automobile Association. : ” 3 ” N general, all such laws penalize

the driver (or owner) of any car,

involved in an accident who may be unable to pay judgments assessed against him by depriving him (until he pays the judgment and establishes “financial responsibility” against future mishaps) of the right to own or operate a motor car. It will be noted that this penalty applies after an accident and involves, to some extent, the principle of “locking the barn after the horse is stolen.” To remedy this admitted defect, it has .been suggested recently that such laws might be strengthened by adding a provision already affective in New Hampshire, which empowers the State Motor Vehicle Commissioner, on his own motion or upon petition by the injured person, to investigate any accident, ascertain financial responsibility of those involved, and, if it appears that the person who probably will be held liable for damages

is not financially responsible, to re-

quire that person to furnish security for any judgment that may be obtained. If this security is not forthcoming, licenses and registrations are suspended immediately.

Care Given Flowers Urged For Human Beings

| By G. JARS and rumors of wars, strikes, lockouts, murder and sudden death—the human race wending its rocky way from the cradle to: the grave. And, speaking of the human race and what's wrong with it, here’s an observation that may explain why the path of life is so rough for us humans; Our longtime friend N. D. C. spesfing: “Mom wanted to go to the flower show. So, of course, we went. The flowers were all beautiful. Tulips were glorious. So were the roses and various other flowers. “The uniformity of all of the flowers attracted my attention. They showed what [results could be attained by careful and intelligent cul-

ture. But while Mom was looking at |.

the flowers I was studying the faces of the people—mostly women. It seemed remarkable how many homely women there were. Not so many young—mostly middle-aged and old. l sl =» = o EARS ago 1 visited an exhibition at the Chicago stockyards and saw what had been accomplished by man in the breeding of cattle, sheep and hogs. You see the same when cats, dogs and chickens are on display. Also splendid results at a horse show. But the only exhibit of human beings we dare have is that of babies. “Back in the ’80s when I was a reporter in Toledo I sometimes stood on Summit St., between 5 and 6 o'clock and watched slope-shoul-dered, thin-chested girls come from the factories after their day’s work was done—and wondered what kind of children they would breed. “As I looked at the flowers, I thought of the Dionne quintuplets, born to a poor Canadian couple who

already had five children born in

B. P. practical poverty. Had the world’s attention not been drawn to them because of so many coming at one birth, most of them would have died for want of proper care, nutrition, sanitation and medical and nursing care. They were the flowers of humanity and all the world wanted them to be healthy and prosperous.

2 ” ” * ND I wondered what kind of bays and girls, men and wom-

en there would be if every child were born of a well-fed, comfortably

housed and medically cared for.

mother—and then were nurtured as scientifically as the Dionne babies have been.

“Recently I read a wonderfully interesting letter in a newspaper from a poor mother who already had several children and was expecting another. her husband wouldn't be able to give the coming baby a chance, she wanted to give it away. Then came letters from kind-hearted, babyhungry people who wanted to take that baby when it came and take good care of it. Then a touching letter from a mother who had given a baby away under similar circumnstances, and had been yearning for it ever since, through long, lonely unhappy years of mother-longing.

“Then came other good souls to help—to get the father a job and so help the family that that desperate mother cculd keep her baby when it’ comes. The story brought out the natural good ang sympathy in people and was better for the soul than a barrel of wise editorials. “And finally about all that comes out of this is that wish we could raise human beings with the same scientific care that we give to “the raising of flowers.”

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Riverside Park Has Won (So Far) »Over Cupid, So Coleman, Lawyer For the City, Still Is ‘Bachelor.

F you drop in at the 8 Amusement - Park of a Saturday afternoon, like as not youll run across a-tall, rangy young man surveying everything in sight, That would be John Coleman, a lawyer in the City At=

torney’s office, who has a proprietary interest in the place. I mean the park, of course. I don't know just what Mr. Coleman’s interest is, and it’s none of my business, but I know it’s enough to

keep him from getting ~married. He said so. 2 Mr. Coleman and I hit it off right from the start, because the way things turned out, he likes the merry-go-rounds as well as I do. Tve seen a lot of merry-go-rounds in my day, including the one Clifford Jones put in his picture, “The nival,” with which he won the Prix de Rome the other day, but if you give me my choice, I'll take the one Mr. Coleman has out at Riverside. Right now is the best time to, see it because Mr, Coleman has just finished putting 1000 new pounds of paint on the horses, and it’s the most gorgeous sight you ever saw. Every horse got eight (8) coats| of paint. The saddles on the horses got a coat of burnt sienna which came straight from Mt. Vesuvius, says Mr. Coleman. { Mr. Colefnan didn’t stop with the horses, however, . pecause besides the horses, the Riverside merry-go= round includes the rest of Noah's Ark, too. I counted a rooster, a reindeer, a couple of dogs, lions and pigs, an ostrich and an elephant. They" all got eight (8) coats of paint. And the reason Mr. Coleman used 1000 pounds of paint is because he has 36 animals hi heel. I guess it’s one of the biggest merrys- . go-rounds anywhere around here. Why, the wheel alone is|58 feet in diameter. Anyway, it takes 1200

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sices Newly Painted R. COLEMAN says the merry-go-round came to Riverside by way of a Mr. Miller back in 1902. At that time Riverside had a dance hall, a barbecue stand, a| couple of pitch games, and the old Canoe Club. Ybu ought to see it now. It's 21 acres big and contains [19 devices, all of which have been painted up just like’the horses. On [There's a lot more to tell you about the merry-go= For example, you'll have to go far tol see al better job of sculptured horses. Theyre a lot better, for instance, than some of the statues in University Park. Mr. Coleman says the horses were ca] ved in Germany, and I'm inclined to believe it, because I've never met a man outside of Germany— |any rate, not since the turn of the century—whg has .seen a horse long enough to know what it looks like. And anyway, I don’t suppose there's any place but Germany where the horses part their hair in the middle the way Mr. Coleman's do.

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Weigh 150 Lbs. Each

R. COLEMAN'S horses weigh 150 pounds apiece, no matter whether they are running or the jumping kind. Mr. Coleman has both kinds. Most of them are made of poplar, but some are made of oak, thus proving again that Mr. Coleman is right, because I can't imagine anybody but a German taking the time to carve a horse out of oak. Mr. Coleman’s merry-go-round runs counter clock= wise, which is the way a good merry-go-round ought to run. I know why and I'm dying to tell you. It's because most people are rightfooted, and step off things that way. If a person tried to step off a

. merry-go-round that was going clock-wise, or like a

coffee grinder, he would impart a spin to himself and be thrown for a spill. See? < I'm happy to ‘report, too, that Clifford Jones, the Grand Prix boy, has his merry-go-round going the way it/should. Shows some artists have their eyes { fF s open. NE

A Woman's View

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

Protests Windsor's Daring to Use Women's Pet Ailment—Nerves,

N behalf of struggling womanhood, we protest certain precedents being set by the Duke of Windsor. They: tell us he has lately finished a lovely sweater, knitted by his own hands, which he presented at once to his fair Wallis. Now it isn’t this gesture of devotion we question, Nor is it the knitting itself that upsets us. The thing we are truly alarmed about is the fact that any man would dare to use that ailment which has always been a special privilege of women—nerves. The Duke presumes upon feminine good nature if he thinks we shall sit silently by while he incites his fellow males to take refuge, either from a too curious public or even from meddling archbishops, in a nerve ous breakdown. He goes too far there, entering terrie tory which has always been sacred to our sex. Nerves indeed! What is the man thinking of? King or ex-King, he can’t get away with it. For that malady has served frail womanhood ever since history has been recorded in books. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy and Abraham’s wife made use of it. When Fanny Burney and Jane Austen lived and wrote it was called swooning; next it became hysterics, and ‘now it is nerves. Right well it has served women—so well indeed that we don’t propose to allow any man, even royalty, to sneak it away from us. : : Let Edward of England go on with his knitting, But if he hopes to remain enshrined in feminine hearts we don’t want to hear anything more about his nerves. : :

New Books Today Public Library Presents— Le

UR Jatest book on learning |to ride horseback, RIDING, by Benjamin Lewis (Derrydale Press) is one of the most practical, clear and attractive volumes on the subject that we have ever had. The author studies each step in horsemanship in detail, He begins ‘by describing plainly and with excellent photographs the parts of your horse, then reins, bridle and saddle. When this lesson is finished you are thoroughly familiar with all necessary termine ology. Next you become acquainted with your horse, and ‘learn how to mount, how to hold the reins, and how to attain a balanced seat—acquiring security and ease in addition to appearance—and how to dismount. : : Having obtained confidence in these points, with your horse. standing- still, you are ready for instruce tion in starting the horse, turning and stopping him. After learning to maintain a steady seat with: the horse in motion, the next lessons are on the gaits of your horse walk, slow trot, canter, and extended gallop. Finally, for the experienced horseman come the chapters on jumping. Every step in the. lessons has been clearly photographed by Eugene Friduss. The book is one that no rider can afford to: miss, for with its aid even the experienced can see and correct his faults.