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bale Carmak 5-Minute Biographies A " .Author of ''How to Win Friends and Influence People." ENRICO CARUSO His Mother Went Barefoot To Pay For His Mtifsic Lessons ' Caruso's magical voice was not merely a gift from the gods, it was the reward of long years of exhausting work —of patient practice and unflagging deter mination. In the beginning, his voice was so light and thin that one teach er told him: "You can't sing. You haven't any voice at all. It sounds like the wind to the shutters." For years, his voice cracked on high notes, and his acting was so poor that he was actually hissed during a performance. Few men have ever drunk so deeply of the heady wine of success as the im mortal Caruso; yet at the very high noon of his fame, when he remembered the ordeal of those early years, he would burst into tears. His mother died when he was fifteen, and all his life he carried her portarit with him wherever he went. She had given birth to twenty-one children. Eighteen of Hot Weather is Here- Beware of Biliousness! Have you ever noticed that In yery hot weather your organs of digestion and elimination seem to become torpid or lazy? Your food sours, forms gas, causes belching, heartburn, and a feeling of rest lessness and Irritability. Perhaps you may have sick headache, nauitea and dizziness or blind spells on suddenly rising. Your tongue may be coated, your com plexion bilious and your bowel actions sluggish or insufficient. PAUL GWYN PHONE2SB All Lines of INSURANCE Representing Strong Stock Companies Only—No Mutuals PROTECTYOURSKIN The smooth, velvety skin of youth is exquisite beyond words. Why burn and torture it by over-exposure to the ultra violet rays of the sun? Sun tan has its charm, but the glorious whiteness of an ivory skin is more beautiful. Keep your skin in the pink of condition with our tissue builders, vanishing creams and lotions. Express your 1 individuality by wearing the face powder best suited to your type. We have it for you. Let US be YOUR Druggists The REXALL Store fflßTyy "A GOOD DRUG STORE" See Your DOCTOR First— U&h Phone 42 n Then See US Elkin, N. C. them died in infancy. She was merely a peasant woman who had known little else but hardship and sorrow; yet somehow, she sensed that this one son was hal lowed by the fire of genius, and no sacrifice was too great for her to make. Caruso used to say, "My mother went without shoes to or der that I might sing." And he wept as he said it. When he was only ten years old, his father took him out of school and put him to work to a factory. Every evening after work, Caruso studied music, but he was twenty-one years old before he was able to sing himself out of the factory. In those days, he jumped at the chance to sing for his supper to a neighborhood cafe. He frequently hired himself out to warble sere nades beneath some lady's win dow. While the lady's tone-deaf lover stood out boldly in the moonlight going through all the Iftese are some of the more common symptoms or warnings of biliousness or so-called "torpid liver," so prevalent in hot climates. Don't neglect them. Take Calo tabs the improved calomel com pound tablets that give you the effects of calomel and salts, com bined. You will be delighted with the prompt relief they afford Trial package ten cents, family pkg. twenty-five cts. At drug stores. (Adv.) THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA gestures of admiration. Caruso, hidden in the doorway, would pour forth his soul in tones as mellow and seductive as Apollo's. Finally, when he got his first reaJ chance to sing in opera, he was so nervous at rehearsal that his voice broke and Splintered like falling glass. Again and again he tried, biit every note was a dis aster, at last he burst into tears and fled from the theatre. I When he actually made his de but in opera, he was tipsy. He was t so tipsy that the aundience c drowned out his voice with hoots and catcalls, m those days he was 1 only an understudy. One evening i the tenor who sang the leading role was suddenly taken ill. Caru- 1 so was absent. Messengers were j sent dashing through the streets to find him. Finally he was dis- 1 covered in a wine shop, about three sheets to the wind. He ran l as fast as he could to the the atre. When he arrived there i breathless with excitement, the 1 heat of the stuffy dressing room and the vine of the grape were ] too much. Suddenly the whole I world began to spin like a merry go-round. And when Caruso walk ed on to the stage, pandemonium broke loose to the theatre. ( At the end of that performance, 1 he was fired. The next day he was ; so heartbroken, so desperate, that he made up his mind to commit ; suicide. He had in his pocket only one , lira—just enough to buy a bottle of wine. He had had no food all day. And just as he was drinking his wine and planning how to kill ■himself, the door flew open and in dashed a messenger—a mes senger from the opera. "Caruso!" he shouted. "Caruso, come! The people won't listen to that other tenor. They hissed him off the stage. They're shouting for you! For you!" "For me!" Caruso cried. "That's silly. Why, they don't even know my name." "Of course they don't know it," the messenger panted. "But they want you just the same. They're [ shouting for 'that drunkard'!" When Enrico Caruso died, he was several times a millionaire. His phonograph records alone | earned him over two million dol : lars. Yet he had been so seared by the poverty of his youth, that ' up to the end of his life he wrote down every expenditure to a little book. Regardless of whether he bought a priceless bit of old lace or carved ivory for his collections, or tipped a bellboy, he made a note of the exact amount. He was haunted by all the su perstitions of the Italian peasan try. To the day of his death, he feared the Evil Eye. He never crossed the ocean without first consulting an astrologer. He nev er walked under a ladder, or wore a new suit on Friday. And noth ing could induce him to begin a journey or start a new undertak ing on Tuesday or Friday. He possessed the rarest and most valuable voice to the world, yet he smoked to his dressing room while he was putting on his make-up. When people asked him if smoking wouldn't hurt his voice . he merely laughed. He scoffed at dieting; and at every perform ance, just before he stepped on to the stage, he took a nip of whis key and soda to clear his throat. He had left school when he was ten, and he practically never read a book. He said to his wife: "Why should I read? I study from life itself." Instead of reading, he spent hours over his collection of stamps and rare coins. He had an ex traordinary gift for caricature, and every week he contributed a cartoon to an Italian periodical. For years he suffered from ex cruciating headaches that tortur ed his senses and made him scream from pain. As he grew older, his astonishing vitality be gan to wane. He spent more and more of his time in the quiet of his study and cared less and less for the plaudits of the throng. Finally he succumbed to a brood ing melancholy and spent hours poring over his newspaper clip pings, cutting them out and trim ming them and pasting them to his book of memories. Perhaps the greatest and hap piest moment of his life was when he first held his daughter Gloria to his arms. He said over and over again that he was only waiting for the moment when she would be big enough to run down the corridor and open the door of his studio. And one day to Italy, as Caruso stood by his piano, that very thing happened. He caught the little girl up to his arms, and with tears in his eyes, he said to his wife: "Do you remember I was just waiting for this moment to come?" And within a week he was dead. iCopyright, 1937) • Women Control The Chair Flatfoot—My son might have have been President of the united States. > Yeoman—What happened to prevent It? Flatfoot—He got married and his wife wouldn't let him go Into politics." NEWS FROM THE WS Dobson, July 5. The Moore family moved into their new home on the Mt. Airy road last Friday. Mrs. Moore and baby, Jimmie, have returned from a visit td her mother, in Winston-Salem. D. T. Sparger is building a home on Kapp St. which Mr. A. H. Wolfe and family expect to occupy when it is completed, Mr. Wolfe having recently been elect ed Supt. of the Dobson High School. Mr. and Mrs. Colon Spoon had for week-end guests, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Tilley of Max Mead ows, Va., Mr. and Mrs. George Barton of Ohio, Mrs. Lillian Se lectman of Washington and Miss Vera Sawyers of Westfield. Mrs. J. T. Threatte returned from Bennettsville, S. C. Tues day after an extended visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brasington. She was accompanied home by her sister, Mrs. C. T. Osborne, and son, Colon, and daughters, Marguerite and Nancy Ruth, who will spend sometime with Mrs. Threatte. N. J. Martin of Salem Fork vi cinity is in the Mt. Airy hospital having undergone a minor opera tion and his condition is satisfac tory. Mr. Clyde Wright returned to his home here Friday after 3 weeks study in his profession at State College, Raleigh. Mrs. F. F. Riggs and Mrs. J. W. Crawford spent last Wednesday in Charlotte visiting relatives. Mrs. W. L. Reece and Marianne /4rtU2f*tlf/ FRIGIDAIRE I ICE-ABILITY DEMONSTRATION A I NOW AT OUR STORE! " DON'T MISS IT! NO COST! NO OBLIGATION: J BL 2aJ?rGw^fiftl • Come in and see the enormous quantity of ice a genuine ,•: >T3ti; iflu SK 9 Frigidaire with the Meter-Miser can freeze in one day—cheaper than you could buy it at retail! How it keeps food safer, longer / / 9| —at miserly current cost! 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Greatest Ice I New Alt-Metal Quickube Tray with htstaot I Convenience since the first Frigidaire! a .•> fa he Bilim \ i "Tee mmmehH 9-Way Adjustable Interior: 2-Way Frozen- ONLY FRIGIDAIRE WITH THE METER-MISER IS COMPLETE IN ■HUnaL-L-—fli Storage Compartment, 2-Way Cold-Storage ALL 5 BASIC SERVICES _ stai 2V " *""" For Horn* Refrigeration I «J«lrh& Food-Safety Indicator on Outside of Door - Aatoiaatlc Tray Release j 1. GREATER ICE-ABMJTY 3. GREATER p R t q | D A I R E i F-114: The Safe Low-Pressute Refrigerant 2. GREATER STORAGE-ABILITY 4. GREATER DEPEND-ABHJTV I PnH§Mct c *"« ral Motors . - ; S.GREATER SAVE-ABNJTY »-»««.nim-nm, - Harris Electric Co. Phone 250 Elkin, N. C. ' . . ' i' ' r ' ■' Mock spent Wednesday with Mrs. A. D. Folger In Mt. Airy. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hill and family and Miss Eugenia Reld spent Sunday in Ashe county with relatives. Miss Julia Comer of Raleigh spent the 4th of July vacation, at her home in Dobson. Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Folger spent the week-end at Low Gap with Mrs. Folger's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Armfield. Little Miss Eunice Folger is spending sometime in Pilot Mountain with friends. Mr. Carl Felts of Galax, Va., spent Sunday in Dobson. Mr. and Mrs. Coy Brown, of High Point, are visiting the Rus sell family at the Methodist Par sonage. Margaret Sawyer of Jackson ville, Florida, is spending some- j time with her aunt, Mrs. Colon Spoon. , Booth Reid returned to his home Sunday at High Point after a brief visit to his sister, Mrs. C. W. Russell. Lon Folger, Jr. who is with the Redman Appliance Company of Mt. Airy spent the 4th vacation in Dobson. There's nothing rosy about the prediction that the United States will soon be full of pinks. Health-Wracking Functional PAINS Severe functional pains of men struation, cramping spells and Jan gled nerves soon rob a woman of her natural, youthful freshness. PAIN lines in a woman's iflce too often grow into AGE lines! Thousands of women have found it helpful to take CarduL They say it seemed to ease their pains, and they noticed an Increase in their appetites and finally a strengthened resistance to the discomfort of monthly periods. TTy CarduL Of course if It dowxrt help you, see your doctor. KLONDIKE GUERNSEYS COMPLETE NEW RECORDS Pour Guernseys, of Klondike Farm, Qwned by Thurmond Chat ham, have just completed new of ficial records which entitle them to entry in the advanced register of the American Guernsey Cattle Club it has been learned from Peterborough, New Hampshire. These animals include three and one-half year old Klondike Gay Generous 371,103 producing 12,719.5 pounds of milk and 536.5 pounds of butterfat in Class DD, two-year-old Klondike Hope 414,- 795 producing 12,170.4 pounds of milk and 626.8 pounds of butter fat in class GO; two-year-old Klondike Gay Heiress, 431,345, producing 10,638.8 pounds of milk and 570.5 pounds of butterfat in Class G, and two-year-old Klon- | !1 a a ii ii is LOOK US OYER # | Examine Our Stock. We Believe We Can Do You Some Good in Any Kind of Building Material. We Carry it All From Cellar to 5 Roof. I EKIN LUMBER & MFG. CO. "Everything to Build Anything" Phone 68 Elkin, N. C. Thursday, July 8, 1937 dike Happy Lass, 431,347 produc ing 11,012.9 pounds of milk and 553.7 pounds of butterfat In Class G. ift ft Malaria ODD coiSs Liquid, Tablets flret Salve, Nose Drops He^^ s 3 ° Try "Bnb-My-Ttam"-World's Best liniment FLOWERS Cut FVrwers—Funeral Designs Potted Plants Mrs. Grady Cockerham Phone 22 v , EBUn, N. C.
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