ONE OF
THE DIVA'S
RETINUE
COB
een *
By FANNIE HURST
{(@® by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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ROUND the herole figure of
Camilla von Stroheim had al-
ways whirled entourage.
She had been a prima donna
since she had flashed, at a robust
seventeen, a magnificent Brunhilde,
upon a publie that welcomed her per-
manently to its bosom, For the first
fourteen years of her triumphant
career, during the lifetime of Herr
Graf von Stroheim, one of Germany's
magnates, she had three times toured
around the world in operatic and con-
cert capacity, her
wike,
After the
Camilla had spent most
in America, traveling in
tours with her daughter, three or four
maids, and a
special valet whose exclusive duty was
success always in
death of her husband,
of her time
continuous
secretaries, chauffeurs
to care for the dozen or so Daschunds,
which invar of the
diva's
inbly made up part
da I
n born in the Waldorf.
York city, christen
ated
teen she wa
to occasional
ples, narrow-sh
sighted,
ble, from
beauty
that had
Curious, but von Stre
ably too busy
had ne
conscions of these nhy
ings of he:
her. She lavis)
indulgences
with the
Own career,
demonstrat
for Paula; a
“AT.
Mv
would nioth
angel-fa
Stroh
you?
Angel
might
question,
x time
no lady’ naid, no
tendant of any
HSReur,
kind whatsoever, could
bring to von 8 heim dative
kind of relaxation aT ‘
the fingertips of her & "t Paula
soul and
She was on call In the watches
the sy
i from
served
body
of the night, when grea diva,
: talk
her moth
given ti
She was
opera house, when the diva, Im.
patient wanted
: throat
syringe. She was on call with the
schedule;
train
hotel
schedule } the frall
and pasts
doomed to wall n th rake of
grandeur,
Until she
ever
wane
was about nineteen, how.
hite
In. Her adoration of her mother was
go colossal that it dwarfed her
of relative Von Stroheim was
like a great sun in
Paula's life, throwing its fierce, power.
ful rays ev The
tempers, the temperaments, the moods,
the vag g& of her mother, were the
indicators, so to speak In the life of
Paula When von Stroheim smiled,
Paula smiled Wken von Stroheim
threw glassware and gilk to
shreds, Paula’s little soul quailed with.
in her. But it must be said for von
Strohelm. that whatever her moods,
whatever her fluctuations of tempera.
ment, her attitudes toward her ehild
were chiefly those of adoration.
Ags the members of the entourage
and the sychophants who hung on the
outskirts of the retinue that surround.
ed the great prima donna used to say,
Pet-cat was her sole reverence. Pet.
eat was the only creature on earth
she really loved. And fiercely Paula
loved in return ; worshipped the flower.
strewn ground on which her mother
trod, had no thought of self, hecanse
hers was bound up in the magnificence
of von Stroheim,
Tt wns when Panla was nineteen
that there wedged into her life an
emotion that was new, terrifying and
ecstatic, A secret emotion, which she
would not admit at first even to her-
self, and yet as It became more and
more apparent It was wonderful to
He on the cot she invariably occupled
at the foot of her mother's great hed,
and let these strange ecstasies sweep
over her In floods of enchanted sen.
gations,
Paula was in love with the small
blond accompanist who had joined her
mother's retinue a few months pre.
vious, He was a German fellow, teu.
tonic, blue-eyed, yeollow-haired, who
spoke English as fluently as he spoke
his native tongue, a brilliant musician
with promise of a fine career of his
own, after a few years of apprentice
ship as accompanist, Von Stroheim
was not ensy to serve in this eapacity,
Her experience with accompanists
was varied and full of all kinds of re-
gretable experiences, They came,
they went. She was known as a
these realizations did not
sense
values
the
ervywhere ahout her.
tore
“holy terror” to the planist§ who had
served her and young Meyer Gluck
was not unaware of this when he en-
listed as her planist,
Of all his predecessors, however,
Gluck had been the most successful.
Von Stroheim liked him; had taken
a fancy to him from the start, She
petted him, she babied him and had
personally nursed him through a heavy
grippe cold which had overtaken him
in Seattle on one of her cross-country
tours, She even had a name for him,
as ridiculous in its way as Paula's.
“Pet-boy.” The young man flushed
whenever she applied it to him, even
after months in her service, It made
him feel ridiculous, and at heart he
wis & shy, serious, ambitious, fellow,
full of dreams of ultimate pianistie
triumphs,
Paula found herself also harboring
these dreams for Gluck. In the hotels
where their retinue camped on its tour
from city to city, her greatest joy was
to find a place near the door of Gluck's
room, and stand there listening to his
practicing, as it came in
arpeggios long
hotel
Paula was in love,
avalanche
down the impersonal
corridors,
Overwhelmingly maternal mas von
Stroheim was in her treatment of this
girl; ardent, emotional, demonstrative
and indulgent, was not between
them, at far as Paula was
concerned, any relationship that ad-
of the minute
heart, chiefly
there
least so
mitted of a revelation
mind and
admitted, because
this time, had owned
ular. At was prac-
| much of child to her
mother as she had 'n at nine. Paula
WAS no
gecrets of the
it musgt be
up to
Paula
none in
nineteen she
Stroheim
{wo ren
occunie
of her
problems
subtly had
ww, that von
tion of the fact
* (Tesle
an adult,
her
her
them there were
nt on, and
Came more f 1m
ieim becan
gr
rushed up
mother who
father”
happer od
luck had been married
magistrate A
faced little
von Stroheim A thunder-
was to reverberate through
RON
that neither von Stroheln
nor young Gluck were
the heart and soul of Paula.
the same unobtrusive, willing
heim, if
relentlessly,
riage,
possible, was more flercely,
maternal after
Paula was that
gentle, so
of her well-being ;
fully
as stepfather,
eight years the senior of Paula,
What
so gradunlily
Glueck
80 enger Lo success.
that
conscious
it is
of it
doubtful if
was
to be remedied. It is
even desired a remedy, =o all-embrac-
doubtful
sedative was the claim of von Stro-
helm upon his heart and mind.
showered him with the magnificence of
her affections, just such as she had
showered Paula. She smothered him
with Indulgence, with endearments,
and with a quality that transcended
his own, and just as it had transcend.
ed Paula's,
At the end of the second year of
this strange marriage, there was gery.
ing the great von Stroheim, not only
the daughter who walked quietly in
the wake of her magnificence, but the
young teutonic-looking husband, who
had receded By this time, in what was
to be the permanent role of accom-
panist and member of the diva's re
tinue, A
From eity to city, from country to
country, wanders this magnificent enra-
van de luxe, the extravagantly person.
nahle prima donna shedding effulgence
everywhere she goes, and in her wake,
adoring her, the little daughter named
Paula, and the little husband named
Gluck,
——
Cas Destroys Metal
Many gases were developed during
the war for one purpose or another,
nnd one which was designed to at
tack the individual was found to op-
erate in a much more effective and
humane manner. It has a very rapid
corroding action on metal so that a
gun subjected to the fumes is ren-
dered utterly useless in a few hours
Insects Destroy
Many Farm Crops
Thirty-Six Pests Cause Near-
ly Half of Harm—Some
Is Preventable.
{Prepared by the United States Departroent
uf Agriculture. )--WNU Fervice,
About 6,000 species of Insects col
lectively destroy $2,000,000,000 worth
of property in America each year, ac
cording to J. A. Hyslop, chief of the
insect pest survey, United States De
partment of Agriculture. Thirty-gx
pests cause nearly half of the dam-
age, and at least two-thirds of the
damage Is preventable,
Mr. Hyslop recognizes that
tary estimates of Insect damage
not be precise if for no other reason
than the fact that destruction of part
crop by an insect
money of the
mone-
chan
may enhance
value remainder.
destructiveness of the pests,
Most Notorious
of the
Hyelop
Insect.
insect
Most
world,
under-
boll
notorious
Mr, says, Is tl
crop, or cotton
worth $163,000,000 To this must be
$1,600,000 a year that growers
gpend in an the
weevil,
Next in destru
pest of the
which, becat
ding, Is
enr worm
Its dest
toimnnt §
tempt (0
ROJO MW) on the
OOO EK) on Corn,
Sweet cor S500 (0)
Collectively,
F100 O00 (0K),
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and fores
ii (iy
to suppl)
Years
Damage Buildings.
or white a
on t!
comfort of in
of diseases tro
i
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5 SAW (ED)
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y fx 13 00
to keep dang
quarantines
out of this country
Satisfactory Storage
for Potatoes in Pits
Properly constructed pits
nrovide
cheap but satisfactory
throughout the
tntoes uel
The spuds should be placed
harvested but
given a light covering
save A, E. Hutchins,
eialist, University farm, St. Panl
must he to keep them dry
well ventilated, he cautions,
the ground freezes the covering should
be increased,
its should be made in well drained
good size is four feet
and as long
width and depth will
for five
Ventilators should be
As soon ns
only
yer
are
and
when
taken
and
soils. A deep,
gix feet wide,
Pits of the above
hold about
feet of length,
be placed on
be xix inches In
feet long
Complete directions, including sim.
ple diagrams, for making and using
storage pits are contained in Special
Bulletin No. 83 of the Minnesota agri
eultural extension division, This book-
fet also discusses cellars and ware
houses, as well as the general subject
of potato growing. It may be had
free by writing Malling Room, Uni.
varsity Farm, St. Paul,
ns needed
100 hushels each
five feet, These may
and three
ery
diameter
Improve Cream Quality
by Frequent Delivery
In reference to the age of cream and
the established fact that beyond four
days cream does not keep well on the
farm, the understanding and accept.
ance hy the cream producers, that
eream should be delivered within four.
day periods, is growing.
Perhaps an even more important
step is the system now In vogue
whereby the cream agent is not paid
a commission or compensated in any
manner if he pays the top price for
undesirable or low-grade cream,
A closer check Is also carried on In
connection with transportation com.
panies and they are made to assume
losses when there is an undue delay
in transportation or an undue exposure
that causes deterioration of the
product,
There Is no doubt that these funda:
mental control factors, if earried out
and pursued by everybody in the busi.
ness, constantly, from day to day, will
have the effect of Improvine cream
quality from year to yesr,
sy
Spraying Potatoes
During August Bes.
Grower Will Be Well Repaid
for Careful Work.
the month
potato erop
which
and,
August Is usally
or breaks a
therefore, the potato grower
well repaid for careful
this month, in the
und plant disease
Ohio State university
makes
ing in
insect
the
spra}
opinion of
specialists for
Whether heavy rains occur in Au
gust and September or the drought
continues, It Is equally important to
spray, say the specialists, During
normal August weather troubles
bother potatoes in
one is the hopperburn
the other Is sunscald,
flar in
the
withered
two
Ohio, they say;
disease and
They are Bim.
kill
The
becomes
appearance; both start to
leaves at the tip or margin
portion turns brown,
dry and brittle and tends to roll,
All the food that is
gy f
stored in the
potato tuber is ma? actured hy the
leaves, and when
dle
CARes
leaves ripen
permaturely, or
the
redu
cut down
tato yield is
ists,
Plants that
hoppers are not
burn, and bordenux
the pot
two wav
protects
Wruoe Crm ard
Clover Superior
Pasture in Corn Belt
dR v h forma the hi of
ure
growth
of summer
8 failed to pr
the
i in this 1
wa during hot,
» plant
wits are deep. It
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entitle
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The ant presents an inexhaustible
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longed to live In the midst of a
primitive society, he literally
find one in the ponerine ants of the
north—dwellers of the damp sun-
flecked soll of our deep woods, and
shunners of light,
They live their lives entirely un-
der ground, writes C. Parker Hask-
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ton, save jor the flying queens and
males, They may be seen In midsum-
mer cautiously warming thelr young
under the coolesteand dampest of
stones, While the larvae lie neg
lected In the brood chamber, the
quedns work as do the workers, for
the colonies may number but ten or
a dozen individuals all told. The
members ight among themselves
for the spoil scattered half dissected
on the floor, as the first humans
fought in the early day of man's ex
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The ant offers a wealth
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problems, What Is the
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one
may
of soclo.
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-fi vickous
garb-—to Its
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factor, while
brood of
parasite
host, and
instinct
destroy
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The cowpea is always a
crop.
good hay
- " -
‘here Is a wide choice of cowpea
varieties. The Whippoorwill and New
Era are hay and seed producers,
* » »
As a soll building crop for compara-
tively poor soils, the cowpea has out
standing advantages, It will do well
on quite acid soils lacking in lime.
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There are more than 500,000 species
of insects known to science, and an
amateur gardener often feels that at
jenst half of them are camping out in
his backyard.
4 - -
Go over the budding currant bushes
with a copious shower of nicotine so-
fution, Currant bushes are the great.
est nurse plants for aphis, which will
speedily go to everything in the gar.
den,
* * *
For the home garden it is desirable
to make successful seedings of snap
beans, inasmuch ag it = certainly Ime
possible for one plagiting te continue
to produce beans during the entire
frost-free season,
» - -
Although prunes for drying purposes
are not usually thinned, both prunes
and plums which are to be shipped
fresh require thinning to produce a
desirable size, says the Oregon experi
ment station,
purities, the @imtment,
aling, remowes pimples or
ure and smooth,
Shaving
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