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Mad End *£* Banished Beauty Ordered from Her Castle by the Baron She Loved, ' Vienna’s Loveliest Dancer Shoots Her Way Back to His PRAGUE The wages of love is—death. •So beautiful, starry-eyed Rosa " ittner, famous Viennese dancer «nd actress, found out when Baron Richard von Geymueller, Bohemian nobleman, ousted her from his castle they had shared for years. Rosa is dead. The Baron lives. But >robably with the sickening sensation f a man who has come out of a night nare, only to find the real world more •orrowful than the dream. For when love turns to hate and the hated loved one dies, love often returns—in vain. The romantic tragedy of Rosa jnd the Baron has stirred Czechoslovakia nore deeply than any event since the *ar. ' Their affair of the heart had mdured so long that even for the most REMORSEFUL Baron Richard von Geymueller, Bohemian Nobleman, Who Fell a Prey to Conscience Following Hia Love Affair with Roia Wittner, Beautiful Dancer, and Ordered Her from Hia Czechoslovakian Caatle. She Returned, Upbraided Him, and waa Killed by the Police in a Wild Melee. Itrait-laced minds in Prague it had* at. luired an aura of respectability. Then, too, often though not aiway.-. <here is the added interest in wealth and beauty affiliated through infatu ation. And that the Baron is one oi the richest men in Central Europe, and that Rosa was one of the most lustrous treatures ever born, no one can deny. ,The beginning of the romance was tonventionally unconventional. There were all the time-honored, classic ingre dients of such a meeting. The Baron had gone up to Vienna from his huge .Chechoslovakian estate, Castle Kamen iee and Lipou lor relaxation and amusement. He had, not unnaturally, sought diversion at the play, and at the Burg Theatre—intimate home of frothy traces and musical harlequin adehe first saw Rosa. The Burg is not frequented by the excessively sober-minded. It is the playhouse where the sprightly Kathie Side and—Is Slain Sehratt, beloved favonte of Kmperor Francis Joseph of Austria, made her most signal successes. Many moderns saw in lithe Rosa Wittner a sort of re incarnation of that vanished charmer. Certainly Baron Geymuellor fell an instant prey to the beauty, the distinc tion,'the grace of Fraulein Wittner. And none of the difficulties that beset the average man smitten with a stage star met him, since the no mM bilit> aie honored y®* in all social observ IjKfJ anrcp behind the seems. i % The long and the ■ HI short of it "a? that the Spw Baron awakened in Rosa’s breast emotions r kindling like his own. He persuaded her—without a great deal of difficulty-—to abandon her career and ac Vvw~ 1 “Rota returned to the castle ermed. She shot her way through e cordon of servants; en tered the ancestral main hall, wounding two lackeys.’' company him to his remote castle. There they ensconced thems elves, and there they gave thcm selyes up to such a whirl wind of mutu al adorattonas one encount ers only in the flavorous nov els of the nine teenth century French r o Time — sev eral years— passed. To the well d's eye. Itosa arid the Baron Stately Cattle Kamenice, near Prague, Where Rot* and the Baron Dwalt in Perfect Harmony for Several Years. Arrow indicates Window of His Study, Where the Final Fatal Quarrel Occurred continued at the same pitch of emo tion that had marked their affair from the start. Rosa’s stainless beauty, the Baron’s courtly devotions, seemed un affected by the passage of a long period. Everywhere, in Czechoslo vakia they were referred to as the “immortal lovers.” But a subtla serpent had entered their Eden. It took, not the usual Adapt Yourself to Tearn Play— Stone’s Advice to Youth CHARLES A. STONE *-|-*EACH every young employe I of your concern that he must make It easy for you to promote him.’’ This is the sane and seasoned advice to employers given by Charles A. Stone, member of the lirm ot Store and Webster, public utility engineer?, whose $100,000,000 organisation wi'l soon give tbe public • chance at profit sharing. "Swift perception, mitant respon siveness, to business as both a gener ality and an immediate condition, vital ity and sufficient ambition—those me the qualities that we most eagerly seek in engaging young men,” says Mr. Stone. “Promising material is rarely lacking, but one must dig for it. “For fairly obvious reasons, we draw on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for many of our person nel. ‘Adapt yourself to team play,’ I al-. ways tell applicants for jobs. ‘There’s little real success in store for you un less you do.’ And it is really wonder ful the way they respond to that ad vice. 7 “I am no believer in small salaries. We pay many large salaries. Nor does our profit-sharing plan fail to instill ambition of high voltage into our men. “The bad old *y»tem of putting a man into one job and keeping him there till he became a mechanical, wall-worn cog find* no favor with u*. I knew that lome employer* prefer to keep the human cog permanently in one groove. They imagine the maxi mum amount of efficiency i* extracted thereby. “But we believe in promotions, ad vancing every man to the limit of his capacity. In cases where exceptional men get offers that will afford them greater opportunities, we invariably urge them to consider them. “Close contact with employes— there is another vital factor in modern business success. We keep a regulai unvarying outjook'for talent. Reports are sent us at quickly recurring periods by the officers of our various plant* covering the .'hewing made by the men under them.” * Storm and Webster were classmate* al Massachusetts “Tech.” Later they made public utility engineering his tory. They have built ten per cent of all the installed electric central sta tion capacity of the United States. form of jealousy or weariness, but of a guilty conscience. The Daron had been, before be riiet Rosa, a man of the most scrupulous rectitude, of the most deli cat*- moral impulsions. In the first wiirl onslaught of his passion for Rosa he had laid aside his early repressions like an outmoded coat. Youth and the fire in the blood had banished—for the m.ife being—the code puritanical - But as the years rolled on and gray streaked the russet in her sweetheart'* hair, Kosa'* lord and master began to /eel the pmcer-Iike twinges of his neg lected pieties. Brooding, he meditated whether this situation was not vio lently in defiance of churchly precept The fruit of his reflection was the de terminatidn to break off with Rosa. But he dreaded to tell her what he had decided. She seemed to sense something omi nous, for she at last demanded of him w hat was the matter. He told her she must quit the estate. “Our love was a beautiful crime,’’ he cried. "It mu*t end.” Rosa received the shock with sur The ABC’s of General Knowledge Qualities Which Children Like Best in Parents Based on a Survey Made Among 792 High School Student# in an A vcrage-*ized Town in the Middle-Writ Source: •‘Middletown,” bv Robert $■ and Helen Merrell t.ynd. Harcourt, Brace & Co. Chart By FUELING FOSTER TRAITS DESIRED IN FATHERS Companionship Is Especially Desired in a Father. %prmliuc I imt **ilh Then* Hentiuned ■’prmnnj; nnir «un inrin, read. talk and pla» . . .. I.V't flMpt'din: ilieii opinion*. 301 Hpinp • ehiireb member . . .» 22% Kfinp a tollft* cradnaie. - . Ill nacsuit aWoul «*bai 9% Tm» at i»l fi»r Other ira.ii* wirnnnned Reverting Their Ofdoion* , 1.21 » . TV* I ,»1>8 400 300 200 - Mrmbrr * Co Ik*" UratliiM* f“ur*» traits desired in mothers The Home-Making Ability Is Especially Desired in a Mother, tirniioncH Being a good rook and houm keeper .... 433 Spending lime nilli thrm, »» read, talk and play. . .... 29B Never toting temper or nag* Bin*._ 22R Being a churek rotmler Rfiprrlinjt their opiniont..% IM Trial of iheae five.. 1,341 Ollier trai^ anenlioped ■ ■ * 243 ■Spending 1 nn* %0*hTl»cro t.*«4 Briny a Church klfmkfi Rfipn-iing Thrlr 0|)inion» i9J9, ImernsUotiat Featura tSmtci, Ico. Gtfat Britain Althti prising'Voolrtes.-. I Sub in is ,s i v e 1 > •hr let her maid pacV her bags and prepared to depart. But a •uddcji coantor-im pulse besieged her as her foot was on the door-sill. She lumeo wwara im Baron and with outstretched anus ini plored him not to sever their ]ov», affair, He was adamant, and refuseu. That night Rosa returned to the castle where the Baron sat in sombre LOVED TOO MUCH The Lovely, Sombre Features «* Roaa Winner, Viannaaa Dancar, 5bo Through tha Heart During a Brawl a> the Baron'* E*tat*. loneliness. He had Riven orders ths Rosa was never to be admitted again But she had come armed. With thi carefulness of desperation, she aho her way through a cordon of servant* entered the ancestral main hall; then wounding two lackeys, she confronted the aghast Baron in the drawing room A furious quarrel ensued. In tl.« meantime the police had arrived ai r when Rosa, by this time on the vers' of madness, put a bullet into one o them, the others gave chase, firing o? they ran. One of the shots took effect She sank mortally wounded on the tat race. Half an hour later she died. Her coffin was carried to the pra'< without a single mourner in attend ance. The Baron was too unnerved 1 the tragedy to move from his bed, ani Rosa'p family refused to leave Vierini tor the final rites. A simple shaft adorns Rosa*? grave The inscription reads. “Nlrr ruht e>v< Frau (lit *u ilcl grlicbt hat.” (Her* rests a woman who loved too much) Was it at the Baron’s order that thi legend was chiseled on Rota’s tomb Perhaps. For him. at any rate, tin wages of love js — grievous repent ant life. By CLAREMURMf-GirlPoel-Artist Perspective . .. n.m nunm^ (Qn the Riverbank) 1 ■ ■ “A Square of Blue Is All I Have for a View” A CROSS the court from where A i "* Is a null of bricks. 7 he length of it And Us breadth and height and a square of .blue. Stuck on its lofty summit Is all l have for a view. The sunf l have no light from it. The whole year through l railed at the wall. I hoped it would suddenly crumble and fall For darkening Ihr day and him king the view A nd l wished with spile For the wreckers’ crew To crash front mu sight._ Hut I left my dwelling and. traveled u while • r It ROUGH city and country mite on milt And now I am back again to fix My gaze an the wall And the name old bricks . And I love them all. For any minute 1 cun lrail My eyes to a visit each way fur Of frees and streams and a swelling sail Of a dinghy rating before a gal*. And IJiear the music of surging surf And feel the rhythm of galloping feet. The wall has lost its gloom for me Since 1 myself have learned to see.
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