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2- MARY PICKFORD RECALLS HOW , , , -,-, Movie Statf However, Denies Mother Ever Rah Boarding House Many Places DABXIXG OF THE FILMS BEIXG INTERVIEWED BETWEEN SCENES TTWTP J "- til ' I I -1K' I ' V VSi. T AT HER LOS ANGELES STtDIO. CKWRT: fif ' fl I L " I - J 1. . - . ' . RARE treat for readers of The L Oregonian begins today. illti Pickford tells how her widowed mother did sewing and kept roomers; of her stage debut at the age of C; how she Jumped from one ene-njght stand to another, living In cheap hotels and sending home half f her pay; of her odd meeting with David Griffith and the days in the old Blograph studio; her first appearance n Broadway. These and other Incidents pathetic, tumorous and heroic, are described with a wealth of detail by the world's weetheart. They were narrated to Eayden Talbot, who set them down on paper and who supplements. In another column. Miss PIckford's words with his own interesting Impressions , f the famous actress. What other writers hare attempted to tell about Mary Pickford from sec- nd-hand knowledge, the little star reveals about herself. Never before has an authentic blog raphy of this kind been published of the girl whose smiling face Is known to millions and whose charm Is every where. , This is her own, real story. THE LOSS OF THEIR DADDY. II If ART'S story begins with the iVl days of her mother's widowhood, hood. "Muvver." Mary had asked, "what are we going to do wivout daddle?" It was a problsm the widow had not yet given thought to. Until now few problems worthy the nanfe had come within the experience of Mrs. Char lotte Smith daughter of a well-to-do Irish family In Toronto, Hennessy by name, and object of a dozen suitors' affections in her recent school days. What, indeed, were they to do with out their daddy? Mary Gladys Smith even then, aged 6, would be a tower of strength for the mother. Not only was Mary Gladys wise beyond her-years. Of vastly greater importance, he was intensely practical and helpful and fertile In a creative imaginative way. Whatever happened, however black tha future, the mother knew that Mary Gladys would be a cheering, helping co-worker. It was as well that this was so. For the other two children Lottie only S, and Jack Just learning to walk meant only con stant care and trouble, and would mean nothing else for a long time to come. The father had been an ambitious young Englishman purser on a steam ship plying between Toronto and Buf falo. An amateur athlete of no mean ability and overflowing with good health and spirits, he refused to treat seriously the accident which finally resulted In his death, until it was too late. The Fatal Injury. Homeward bound across Lake On tario he had been fooling about with some of his brother officers, high Jumping on deck. As he cleared the obstacle his head struck against an unnoticed overhanging spar. The force of the blow knocked him out for a few minutes. On his arrival at home he still had a dull pain in his head, but dismissed It laughingly as of no consequence. And so several days passed and each day the pain grew worse. Reluctantly he agreed to an examination by the family physician. The medical man promptly and gravely overrode his insistence that ne rejoin his ship and resume his duties as purser on the Buffalo-bound voyage. In the end the frantic wife, suddenly chocked into Jhs .realization of the truth, gathered eminent brain spe cialists at the bedside of the dying man. But it was tco late for human science to avail anything. It was too late even for an operation. With the death of her father, Mary takes up her own story. XT l.IFK." As Told by Blary Pickford ' TO HAT DEM TALBOT. (Copyright 1921. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate and Hay den Talbot.) WE WERE poor, of course but not so poor as one writer made it appear. Mother did do sewing for money and she did take la roomers bat she never ran a boarding honse! And that's what this writer said But it Isn't true. We never had boarders. I'll admit I can't see much differ ence between roomers and boarders, but when that article appeared I know It made mother very angry and upset And, I suppose, there Is a difference whan you come to think about It In any event "the truth la that wa did not ever, at any time, take In boarders. One of oar roomers knew the man ager of the local stock company. He tad taken a fancy to roe, and had encouraged me to recite my pieces for him. One day he went to my mother al told, her she was sure hi friend the manager wouli giva me a job Id the theater, if my mother didn't ob ject. Thank heaven for my mother's good common sense at just that moment.' Not that I haven't thanked heaven many times since for that same com mon sense with which she is abun dantly gifted but I'm especially thankful that it showed itself right then. I suppose most mothers, even In these much more enlightened days and In cities less provincial than To ronto, would object strenuously to. the idea of their S-year-old daughter's going on tha stage. The Stage mm I Found It. But to such mothers I'd like to say a word right here and now. And t speak from experience. There are many worse places than the stage and many worse environ ments than actor folk create. I was in tha world of the theater for ten solid years. In that time 1 played many parts. In many compa nies, under the worst possible kind of conditions. But In all that time I never heard a word spoken, never saw an act committed, never was con scious of an unspoken thought that would have been out of place in the best home on earth. To the stage I owe much of my In herent faith in human nature. To the men and women who were so un failingly kind and considerate even to those men who were chronically profane (but who forebore to swear in my hearing) and to those women who, to make easier the pain of realisation of quasl-fallure, had turned to smok ing and drinking tout who never smoked nor drank in ray presence) to these gentle actor folk I am and ever shall be grateful. For they all, without prearrange- rr.ent, without perhaps conscious in tention, conspired together In a com mon purpose to make my girlhood as clean and good and optimistic as a girl's can be. Wherever they are at this moment God bless them all! Visit Hade to Manager. Mother took me to the manager her self. He was kind to me, and prom ised to give me a chance the very first time he put on a play 'that called for a -child actress. Of course I was ex quisitely thrilled at the idea of going on the stage. With other children of my own age had "acted" In neighbors' garrets. with bent pins the admission fee. Of course! What child hasn't! But I had loved it more than much. Although, so far as we have ever been able to discover, there never was an actor before in any branch of our family it seemed as if I must have inherited from some unsuspected WORLD-FAMOUS JOURNALIST TRAVELS 6000 MILES TO GET STAR TO WRITE OF HER LIFE Hayden Talbot Relates How He Got Movie Queen to Narrate History No Printers Ink in Whole World . . Can Do Her Justice, Is Declaration. Note. To Induce Miss Pickford to nar rate, word for word, the story of her re markable career. Hayden Talbot, world famous Journalist, traveled nearly 8000 miles, from London to Los Angeles. It was Mr. Talbot who soma years ago came to America to get Roosevelt to talk for London readers and succeeded and who waa the first Journalist to enter Germany after the war and to write a remarkable series of articles. Below he gives an Inti mate glimpse of the way In which Mary co-operated- wltn mm, once no nau suc ceeded in winning her consent BT HATDEX TALBOT. ISS PICKFORD is a real girL" The speaker, one of the departmental heads of the vast busi ness organization whose sole reason for being Is the world-wide appeal of a slip of a girl to tens of millions of cinema patrons, was concluding his appraisal of his employer Mary Pickford. Unwittingly, perhaps, he epito mized the most striking characteris tic of the little screen idol. For above everything else that is just what Mary Plckfordl is a real girL Those whose acquaintance includes actor folk will appreciate the signifi cance of this statement by recalling the trait common to almost all mum mers, a seemingly Ineradicable ten dency to act at all times, to live un real roles in real life. In such as these the mark of the actor is as plain to see as the odoriferous aura enveloping the fishmonger, however far moved from his market stall. Not so Mary Pickford. Yet perversely enough, the little girl with the deep blue eyes and wist ful, serious manner is strongly op posed to letting her world of wor shipers know her aa she Is. As "Tess of the i Storm Country," as "Pollyanna," as the pathetic heroine of "Daddy Long Legs" as 'a screen artist and nothing: else would Mary Pickford be known. Often as she narrated her story to me, a faint smile overspread her fea tures. In the twinkle of her eyes was just the suggestion of the mis 1TTE source a real passion for the theater. Now that a really, truly manager had promised I should play in a -really. truly play I was on air! ' That first performance stands out indelibly in my mind even now. It was tha most wonderful thing I ever went through. I am' sure , nothing again will ever equal the joy that was mine that night I wasn't a bit afr&ld. I loved it. It was fairyland taken bodily out of fairy books and made real to mo tor me to enter and leave, to live in a while, and then return to the mun dane sphere only to dream of the gorgeous mysteries that lived behind the footlights! y Tay Is (IS Week. Not a whit less, wonderful was that first salary envelope, with its crisp, new five-dollar bills three of them! Fifteen dollars Almost as much as mother received from her roomers! More than she earned with her needle in the same length of time! Why, It waa nothing less than marvellous! I can remember now that the won der of It all struck me chiefly because tha money was real real money to come from a land of perpetual make believe! ;. Had the salaries these players re ceived been as unreal as the roles they played, as the gloriously happy. artificial lives they led behind the footlights I should have still felt that they were to be envied above all people. To share in their joyous hours, and to be paid for it in actual coin of the realm well, It was quite too wonderful! i At first my chances came infre quently. For weeks at a time the stock company's bill would include no child's part.. At such times I would be nearly disconsolate.- But theq would come the "call" that beautiful, psofessional word that above every other means most to your actor- in finitely more than a mere summons to work, a notification that salary drawing Is to begin again. For ten years until I was 15 I worked in the theater. I gave to my work all the enthusiasm, all the study, all the zeal which a child in love with what It Is doing will give. 13 It too much to say that In this period I learned my business, add learned It thoroughly? I wonder! In any event I smile often when I thnk of the many wise, gentlemen. chievous heart of her. At these mo ments, I glimpsed the Celt in her the Celt that kept alive laughter in the heart of this 27-year-old girl In spite of 22 years of the hardest kind of work. No printers' ink In all the world can do justice to this wonder woman. To use It is as incongruous as would be the use of blacksmith's tools on a Swiss watch. The finest vellum, an old-world quill pen these the ade quate equipment and then the grace of a Byron, the poetry of a Burns, the sentiment of a Barrle, the fitting mental qualifications for htm who would limn the likeness of the girl to whom a world owes (and pays) great tribute. The Real Woman. She told me many things and I ap preciated and understood her view point He would be a very stupid man Indeed who failed to appreciate and understand anything she said. And yet How is one to tell the story of Mary Pickford however scrupulously one may try to remember always that the tale must be confined to her reel, not real, personality and banish from one's mind the thousand and one warm, human, fascinating, magnifi cently simple qualities ' that go to make her the best thing given us to know a woman? How can I ever begin my task, re stricted as she would have me restrict it to a consideration of her profes sional career and hope there will be In the telling of the tale any part of the truth I know about her? And such truths! They are too Inspiring and clean to be denied expression! After Her Divorce. I saw her one day shortly after her return to Los Angeles from the little town in Nevada where she had won her freedom from her first husband. The local newspapers were full of the divorce, reflecting the ' whole world's morbid interest Reporters by the score. In person and over the STJXDAT OTIEGOXTAN, Mary Flekford. y with large tortoise-shell spectacles ho sigh deeply and give vent to pro. found regrets that motion pictures should have recruited their most suc cessful stars from among the' ranks of amateurs with no knowledge of the world of the spoken drama! . Unquestionably not a few men and women without experience In the spoken drama have reached important places In the silent drama. As the new art grows In richness and more and more proves its right to exist as a distinct and separate thing un doubtedly there will be many new luminaries whose experience will be confined exclusively to' portrayals of roles before tbeamera. But for the life of me I cannot see why this should be held against the art And how at least It Is not true that motion pictures Include only actors to whom the spoken' drama is a sealed book. Scorn of Movies Noticed. I realize the prejudice ' that exists against motion pictures compared with the spoken drama. One would have to be deaf and . blind -not to realize, it ' For ten . years I myself looked upon the "movies" with all the up tilted-nose scorn which ronly ignor ance can excuse. In those days, of course, . motion picture theaters were of the. cheap, peep-show type, i The 'pictures them selves were absurd crudities. But the fact remains that in those' very, same days I was learning astGladys Mary Smith all the, rudiments' of .acting which subsequently were to enable me to win my present position in the film world as Mary Pickford. Public Attitude Noted. But it isn't I. the real I, the public cares about It Isn't to see me they pay their money at ,the box office. I know it isn't - Would you like to know what really happens anjr night In any home In any town where a picture of mine is being shown? i. Well, after supper mother tells father that she Is taRing-the children to a picture show u.id asks if he would like to come along. TVhat's the picture?" asks father. telephone, were clamoring for a state ment When she received me in the seclusion of her little bungalow I found her In the nags and dowdy makup of the heroine of "Hop o' Me Thumb,"- later to be renamed "Suds.1 (The world's exhibitors were im patiently awaiting completion of this "release." 'The play must go on. The mummer can Indulge In no such lux ury as a respite so long as the camera is in. working order!) For all the world she seemed like some poor performing little dog, very tired and very hurt from many un deserved beatings. And so I was for sparing her that day. We could go on with the interview later. But she Would not have it so. "I've spent as much . as 15 hours In a photograph studio without stop ping to eat," she explained with that characteristic little Smile I had come to know so well. "I've seen the photographer and his assistants cave in and my maid quit under the strain. I'm used to it Tou can get used to most anything, you know. What shall we talk about today?" - A Dream of Happiness. And then she added: "If only women and men, too, for that mat ter knew how easy It Is for happi ness to stay. All that's necessary Is youth. Youth is happiness. It's only when we lose the one the other goes. And for married men and married women youth can always be. For when their years grow many they can always live in the hearts of their children." There was no despondency in her tones. The soft light In her eyes showed plainly enough she had no thought of being herself In the cate gory of unhappy women who cannot fulfill their destiny. On the Contrary the assurance of great happiness U come illumined her whole face. "And you?" I asked. "You keel your happiness so?" Her eyes made answer. There was no need of the spoken wordl PORTLAND, MAT 29, HER MOTHER SUPPORTED i 1 1 ... . . , , . , .. - . ... , , Declared Worse Than Stage and Many Environments Also Are Considered Worse. AMERICA'S S EETHEAH'I" ' "A Mary Pickford picture," mother says. "Mrs. Morrison saw it last night and says it's good." "Not for me," says father. "Mary Pickford bores Die to death just a bunch of curls and no brains! I don't like that kind of stuff. I like a man's story with something to it" "How can you say such awful things, daddy?" protests 10-year-old Ruth, daughter of the house. "I think JMary JPickford's 'durable.' f ''Sometimes she's good, volunteers Johnny,' his father's son. "Gee, I hope they got a good fight in this picture or something!" t. . . : Tak the children, mother, and en joy yourselves," says father, bury ing himself in the evening paper. And there It is. The next day, and' for weeks to come until another of my pictures Is shown in. that town I hold no place at all In the concerns of this family. Why eh6uld I? After all. it is very wonderful, of course, to have proof come to you every day that your work is appreciated and that characterizations you have tried NEXT TO MOTHER, TEACHER INFLUENCES CHILDREN'S LIVES Sheba Child's Hargreaves Points Out Mistakes That May Be Made by . Parents in Attitude Orer Delegation of Their Authority to Outsider. BT SHEBA CHILDS HARGREAVES. EARLY In September after, the ( child is S years old, he enters ,. ?new era. ' Before this time be was little more than a baby, whose training fell entirely upon his mother. The home was his small world, but now all this is changed, his education has begun, he !has outside Interests, he ley so to speak a man of the world. Leading a child to the school on a bright morning in September and leaving him there among countless other small children is one of the hardest tasks a mother is called upon to perform. i v The child from this time on must make his way alone, mother is not there to soften every blow, but the mother if she is a thoughtful woman realizes that her child needs an out side influence In shaping his char acter, he needs just the rough ban dling that he is very likely to re. ceive ' from the other children, in fact, he must rub shoulders with all sorts of children. He must learn to give and take, to play fair, to fight his own battles without whimpering to his mother when he goes down to Inglorious defeat His education 13 by no means confined to the things which he receives from books, the publio school Is a general all around educator, there is as much to be learned on the playground as in the schoolroom. Delegating Authority Difficult. Next to his mother his teacher has the greatest power for good over the child: In fact during the hours when he is in school she stands in the place of parents to him with full authority over him for the time being. It i this delegating of authority to an other person which is so hard for parents, especially mothers. There Is always the lurking fear that the teacher will not understand the ways of the child or that she will be harsh with him. But, if the mother could only realize, this very lack of under standing on the part of the teacher is the best possible thing for the child. Heretofore he has been the center of the universe, the home has simply existed for him and revolved around him. But in the school he takes his place with perhaps 40 other children who must share the atten tion of tha teacher. Taken for granted that the teacher loves children; she would not be teaching school if she did not, the work would be Intolerable for a per son who did not love and understand the young; then ehe may safely be trusted with the training of the child She .views him from an' impersonal angle which is entirely impartial. She loves him no more nor no less than she loves the other 39. If he is a good, obedient child with an aver age Intellect and a willingness to work be will have no trouble in the schoolroom. It is true that some chil dren are naturally more likeable than others, but few teachers allow their personal likes and dislikes to affect their attitude toward the children who come under their control. Parents Likely to Blame. If Johnny comes home with a tale of being mistreated or carries the Idea that the teacher Is "picking on him ' John's record will bear looking Into. The chances are that the Idea of par tiality was planted in John by the unconscious attitude of his parents. They naturally resent the fact that anyone has authority to correct him, and may even have no better Judg ment than to sympathize with him and draw him out in regard to the I 1921 YVBl FUR HER PORTRAIT .V NEW TO, I'tJU'lCTUAlK Air.il CUAItai. hard to make effective have been favorably accepted but I should -be very stupid and frightfully conceited If I took any of It seriously any more seriously than It deserves. It Is all very well, I suppose, but It would be the rankest nonsense to take the phrase "World's Sweetheart" literally. At most it can mean noth ing more than that the roles I play are naturally and necessarily the kind that evoke the largest possible meas ure of sympathy and affection from the audience. " But it isn't me, the real me, they sympathize with or love. It's the girl of the author's imagination, the un real character ?: try my best to make seem real. 3." -' I've never played a part that even fajhtly resembled myself. It would bo stupid of 'me. to think of doing such a th'ing. It would make such a completely uninteresting characteri zation. That -is the reason I hold firmly to the opinion that nobody in the world outside my family and per sonal friends can have the slightest matter. He,' is always perfectly will lng'. 'to give his side of the story, which taken alone would seem to bear out his statements. But the thought ful parents, the father very .likely, as women are. inclined to swift and faulty judgment 'where their young are concerned, nfay ask at this Junc ture, Just what Johnny has done to iincur the wrath of the teacher and bring down trouble on his innocent head For Instance, Johhny report? that he has been severely whipped for some trifling cause such as eating candy in school. Now In the eyes of the parents this offense would not merit such severe punishment, but a little skillful cross questioning will reveal the" fact that this is Just the culminating offense of a long series of overt acts and that Johnny richly merited the punishment. Now I do not wish to be so unkind as to aay that Johnny will lie about such things that happen In school, but I will say that he is very apt to color the truth, many grown people will do the same th ntr. While there may be an occasional teacher who is not fitted for the schoolroom, still she Is the exception that proves the rule. Ninety-nine times out of the hundred the trouble rests with Johnny, and In case a parent believes that there Is a clear case against the teacher, it is only fair before sympathizing with Johnny to go quietly and hear the teacher's side. If after mature aeiiDeraiion the parent still holds the teacher at fault of course steps must be taken to set the matter right, but It is best not to be hasty even here. Too Much May Be Expected. It Is all too common In these latter days to expect too much of the school. Formerly the three Rs were taught with much wielding of the birch rod now we tolerate no harsh methods ir Imparting wisdom; the child Is led gently along the flowery path of knowledge, or if ha refuses to be led the teacher la expected to carry him. and many children being lazy by na ture, are simply carried from grade to grade with little or no effort on their part If there is failure to make a grade the teacher is blamed for it and the pasents absolve them selves by saying that full authority- rests with the teacher, and yet If tne teacher resorted to old-fashioned methods of imparting knowledge when gentler methods failed It would not be tolerated for a moment The cry that .children are inefficient aftei finishing the public schools is ire- quently raised and in many cases there Is grim truth In the matter, but the fault Is In the lack of co-operation between parent and teacher and not in the system Itself. There Is nothing in tne course or study of our public schools which is beyond the power of a cniia or aver age mentality, in fact the course is purposely planned to meet the needs of the normal child, so that if a child fails to meet the requirement there Is something wrong. The trouble is one of four things: The child is ither lazy, incorrigible, physically unfit or of defective mentality. Now the most common of these causes will be ad mitted to be laziness and incorrigi bility and it Is hardly fair to blame the school system for a conaition which was brought about by the leek of early training in the home. A en In the schools ana tne teacners are blamed for the utter lack of moral training which Is so painiuuy appar ent In many children. Many children receive practically no moral training except what Is taught in the schools, when really school could only be ex pected to supplement and strengthen YORK, ANOTHER ART THAN THE I'HOTOGRAI'IUC BEl.tti Hfcl.lKl) I PO Interest in my real individuality. I bold this to be true "in the case of every actor. Private Affairs Discussed. To be one's self on the screen or on the stage is not to act at all! Where fore an actor who really wants to amount to anything in his profession tries always to ne as different as pos sible In every role he plays from his real self. Doing this, and in tha doing estab lishing one's actor-self in the affec tions of one's audience, makes it most Inadvisable to destroy all the illusions so created by deliberately showing ore's self to be quite a different per son in real life. But altogether aside from the mat ter of good Judgment there is the matter of right to be considered. How much right has the public to know about the personal side of the men and women who furnish their amusement? I realize perfectly that the work which properly begins In the home. If the schools are really defective, which is not likely, there are few American parents who are In a posi tion to lay their fingers on the trou ble, for they receive their information entirely , at second-hand, they have never really been ins)de the doors of the school. Answers to Correspondents. Dear Mrs. Harirreaves: I have been reading with a great deal of interest your articles on children in The Sunday Ore gonian, and wish to express my apprecia tion tor the good, sound advice you have given. In our little town we have Just organ ized a Community club and one of the first things we have undertaken la to clean up the town. .At our next meeting we are to discuss ways and means of teaching oar children to respect public and private property and take pride in helping to keep the town attractive. I thought perhaps you might give us a few helpful hints. Thanking you in advance. MRS. M. D. S. It seems to me that the best way to teach children to take pride In their town is through some form of organ ization. Children love clubs and so cieties where there is some definite work to do. Properly managed your children will clean up the town for you, for once their interest Is enlisted they will give their parents no peace until the cleaning up Is done to their satisfaction. They take pride in keep ing things In shape if they have a hand in the work, and they learn more In that way than they will by cut-and-drled Instruction. Suppose you organize a children' auxiliary to your community club. Choose a leader for them who under stands children see that there are plenty of short-term offices to b filled. There must of course be badges and plenty to eat See that the most troublesome boys you have In your community hold offices; they will work off their surplus energy In building up Instead of tearing down If they are properly managed. You would be able to obtain helpful literature by wrltlrg to the State Librarian at Salem. FOX FARM IS STARTED 1000 Kennels to B Built on Tract Near Spokane. SPOKANE, Wash., May 2. Incor porators of a company to operate a silver fox farm here have purchased 20 acres of land six miles east of this city, where they plan to erect a complete plant for the rearing of the valuable animals. They have 31 pairs of foxes, which have been housed on rented land In that vicinity. Sixty-nine additional pairs are to be purchased and 100 kennels will Cocoanut Oil Makes a Splendid Shampoo If you want to keep your hair In good condition ba careful what you wash it with. Most soaps ana prepared snampoos contain too much alkali, this ariea the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and Is very harmful. Mulsifled cocoanut oil shampoo (which Is pure and en tirely greaseless) Is much better than anything else you can use for sham pooing, as this can't possioiy injur the hair. Simply moisten your hair with wa- an1 rnh It in. Ona Ar two tea- spoonfuls of Mulsifled will make an abundance of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses the hair and scalp thorough ly. The lather rinses out easily and removes every particle of dust, dirt dandruff and excessive oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leave It' fine and silky, bright. Huffy and easy to manage. You can get Mulsifled cocoanut oil shampoo at most any drug store. It Is very cheap, and a few ounces is enough to last everyone in the family for months. Be sura your druggist glve you Mulsifled. Adv. FAMILY - , f we are all servants of the public hn lan am .KII.Mn. n fx I . ....! In paid when we give to our work the J h..t that's In iia? X I can understand that publio policy demands that the Innermost secrets of a statesman's life be made public property, since the well-bring of a people Is in the balance. But for ui who at most are unimportant pur veyors of entertainment for a passlnir hour or so shouiii this baring of our Inner selves be necessary? I think not. Public policy coes not demand it. And from the actor', standpoint, good taste rebels at the thought On the other hand, every tiny de tail of my profeKjional career belongs to the public whlcn has been so gen erous to me. There is nothing I am not ready to tell about my work an.l It Is a tale not too poor in detail. Inas much as since I was 5 almost all I've known has been work. That Mary Pickford belongs to the public an.l about her I am glad to tell all there is to be told. (To be continued next Sunday). be built In a circular area with a three story watch tower as the hub. As accessories to the farm the com pany is to import several Belgian police dogs for guard duty, six Swiss milch goats to furnish milk for tha pups and 200 White Leghorn chicken to furnish an egg a day for each of the nursing mother foxes. Some of the animals now owned by the company are reported to be worth $1500 each. An Aged Stan Eloquent. New York World. The nubllcatinn of James Hryce's ! "fniern npmncrnof.i" received tha public attention deserved by an event of equal literary and historical Inter est. For It Is not only that a cele brated author has written a book of more than 1000 pages which will rank as an authoritative study of the sub ject treated, but that the book should be the work of an octogenarian au thor, a memorial to his genius given to the world at an nge long past that of most men's productivity. This Is the kind of achievement credited to the great masters of literature and art of an earlier age and Its perform ance by a modern is all the more nota. ble. What long and sustained reco.-d of literary Industry indeed I that of James Bryce! America was only in the second year of its civil war when he wrote his "Holy Roman Kmpira." Cleveland was in his first term as president when he published his "American Commonwealth" and "Mod ern Democracies" comis from his un tiring pen 33 years later and Just be fore his !3d birthday, which occurred on May 10. Three great contributions o the study of political history maa. at Intervals almost of a generation and a lifetime occupied with dutlra as professor, ambassador and publio man. Certainly an enviable snd In spiring record of industrious achieve ment. "Gets-It" Tickles Corns to Death First Stops AH Pain Then Peela the Corn Off. Don't try to fox trot on corn tor tured feet Get rid of your corns. If Make Tout Fsst H.pprt Remove Tboa Corns With "G.U-lt." you have never seen a corn tickled t death. Just apply a tew drops nf "Gets-It" to yours. Then watch that corn die peacefully as if It had gona to sleep. Soon It is nothing but a loose piece of dead skin Mat you can ' 1 I li i II I ' ! II III lift right off with your fingers. V. Get after them now. Your druggUt XJ Das oeis-iu ttu-. a inui or nothing at all If it falls. Mid. by H. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. Sold in Portland bv Owl Drug Co.. 21 stores on the Pacifio coast. Adv.