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Mishaps t“ Astonishing Mrs. Abercrombie Fate’s Twelfth Blow for the lH Beauty Who REINCARNATED Thi* Drawing, by Harry Clarke, Eminent British Artist, to Illustrate a Tale of Poe in Which a Woman Comes lack to Earth, Is Symbolical of Milo kbercrorftbie’s Philosophy of Her Bad Luck. "It teems as if I were paying for some sin in a former life,” She Says. POOR Milo Abercrombie! Is her lone run of bad luck fated to dog: her forever? She has just received the” twelfth trushing blow in a series of almost in credible personal misfortunes. All her friends are wondering whether this is the end of the jinx, or whether Destiny Is getting: ready to make it a baker’s dozen of woes with some fresh unfore seen calamity. “Why have I been forced to endure 11 this torment, this agony?” wails dilo. “Unhappiness, misunderstanding, remorse—it almost seems as if I were paying for some false step in a previous reincarnation, some sin in a former life.” No matter \vhose fault it is. she has certainly had a tough time of it for the past ten years. Mrs. Milo Magda lene Abercombie, the former Baroness Wilhelm von Brincken, San Francisco Society leader, and acclaimed bv Har dison Fisher, famous artist, “Cali orma’s greatest beauty.” seemed at first a child blessed bv Hie gods Her star was or the ascendant at the moment Mr. Fisher set. his approv ing stamp upon her loveliness. And then— Her father died. „ Her mother died. She married a German military at tache. who was convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to prison. She encountered terrible divorce dif •culties to marry a second time. She was sued for debt. NAMELESS PORTRAIT Painting of Milo Abercrombie by tbo *■ Viennese ArtUt, Er- *•! neat Linnenkamp. * Ha Chose Har a* “Ona of Amarica'a < Fiftaan Molt Beau- 7, tiful Woman." But Wkan tbo Pictura 3 Waa Exhibited, ^Her Nama Waa Omittad. Was forced to appeal to a charities organization for aid. Got nervous prostration when her name was left off her portrait in an art exhibit Was engaged for a stupendous pan tomime—which never materialized. Was repudiated as a fiancee by a man to whom she thought herself en gaged. Heard her spectacular charge against her husband dismissed. Was publicly censured for her attack on him. And—lost the custody of two of her children! The crowning blight on Milo’s peace of mind came when the San Francisco Court of Appeals denied her petition to set aside a decision in 1927 by Su perior Judge Pat R. Parker, who or dered Cecilia, 7, and Laurence, 5, re moved from the “hysterical atmos phere” of Milo’s home and handed over to their father, Lieutenant-Commander Lyman K. Swenson, of the U. S. Navy. Milo, b niece of former Congressman John Milo Abercrombie, of Alabama, once kidnaped the kids and fled with them to Portland, Ore. Later she re turned. In the subsequent court pro eeedings there were startling charges and countercharges. Milo swore Swenson was a “terrible person.’’ It was her duty, she conceived, to “save’’ hi* children from him, especially his daughter. But the Court gazed coldly at this idea. “She was instrumental,” read the final decision, "in inspiring and promoting a scheme directly involving one of the children, which had for its obvious purpose the ruination of the respondent’s character as a man, the bringing about of his complete dis grace as a naval officer and the de struction of the affection which his children had heretofore manifested “Intelligence—Character Are Vitally Important” WALTER C. TEACLE, Preiident of the Standard Oil Company of A fit Jeriey. . T * HERE is no standard recipe for success. Hut there are * two ingredients of vital im portance: Intelligence and character.” This is the belief expressed by Wal ter C. Teacle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. A third scarcely less necessary quality is per aistence, he adds. 1 The long-argued question as to whether the college-educated man has a greater chance to succeed than his non-collegiate rival is sanely and subtly I analyzed by Mr. Teagle, who at fifty | one 'is the head of the world’s mightiest petroleum organization. “Whether or not a youth goes to college doesn’t materially affect hi» success,” is the opinion of Mr. Teagle. —Says W. C. Teagle “It i», of cour*«, «ru« that tho cellege trained man who ha* mado tho right use of hia opportunitioa baa Bora tooli to work with and a broadar capacity for underatanding than th* boy fraah from high achool or ahop. “But if in acquiring a college train ing he falls into easy ways and loses the urge to get on, it is his own fault He will pay for his indolence when he goes into competition with the young ster who takes his work seriously. "I have never known of any dia crimination toward an employe because be has or ha* not a college education “The decision as to what a young man shall make of himself lies largelj with him. If he is of the type that deserves recognition in the business world, he will get it, even if his schoo' ing stopped with the three R’s. Let me impress on you that there is no single qualification for success. Long observation of the personnel of a big organization has convinced me that with a reasonable amount of intelli gence and character anyone can sue ceed. if he carries through to the very end the tasks assigned him. “Give me the fellow who will atick to hi* job until he find* the anawer, in preference to tho brilliant performer who arrive* at a aolution he can t guarantee in half the time. I never knew a man to loao a job who gave it hia whole-hearted effort*, no matter how lacking he may haye been in bril liance or campus background.’ These words carry convincing weight, coming as they do from Mr. Teagle. For he is a college graduate and a trustee of Cornell University, which he left to plunge Into the oil business. It is also a suggestive fact that he was born into an atmosphere of more than comfortable competence, but also of hard work. At thirty-six he was president of the Imperial Oil Company of Canada, and at thirty-nine president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. He is today one of the foremost figures in the industry, with a passion for acquiring facts and an extraordi nary memory in their retention. SECOND HUSBAND ieut.-Cotmr'ander man K. Swtnion, I. S. N., Granted Custody of Hit Children, Cocilia, and Lauranco, 5, After Milo’a tartling Charge* Had Bren Diamiited. 1 Lost Money, Fame, Two 4 Husbands, ^ One Fiance —and Two of Her Children for him. "The trial court in unmis takable language declared the charge to be utterly groundless, and a careful examination of the testimony has convinced us that no fair-minded person could have reached a different conclusion." I “I'm licked,” sighed Milo. “Not enough money to keep on fighting." She had tried to col lect a judgment against Swen son last year. “I and my babies are destitute." Then 6h« was sued for unpaid rent, broken china, telephone bills and "missing linen.” Milo first married Baron von Brincken, of the German Consu late, at San Francisco. Two chil dren were born to them. The dashing nobleman was popular—till the war. In 1927 he was convicted of conspiring to foment an Indian in surrection and given three years on McNeil Island, F< t» ral penitentiary in Puget Sound. Milo didn’t ask a divorce until 1919. She got her decree and the restoration of her maiden name. The Baron, still in love with Milo, shortly got a chance to prove his devotion. Lieutenant Commander Swenson had come woo ing Milo. But his religious beliefs did not acknowledge Milo’s divorced state. In the eyes of his church she was still the Baroness. The Baron, also Cath olic, had been married before, to a Mrs. Alice Rocdel. Could it be shown, therefore, that the Baron and Milo, In such a view, had never been really married in the eyes of the church? Mrs. Roedel’s identity was satisfactor ily established, and the knot was cut. In 1920 she married Swenson and they, too, had two children, the young stem who figured in the later legal quarrel. Ernest Linnenkamp, of Vienna, was touring the United States, painting portraits of America’s "fifteen most beautiful women.” Milo was one of FIRST I HUSBAND Baron Wilhalm ijj raa Brinckoa, At* * tacho at tha Gar man Consulate in San Francisco, Before the World War, Whom Milo Divorced After He Had Been Con victed of Conspiracy. them. But, horrors! When the exhibition was opened, there was no label on Milo’s picture. She might have been Miss No body. Milo took Per to bed, sufferim from “nerves." Another tribulation swept along in the wake of Mme. Barry-Orlona, con nected with the production of a pan tomime, “The Resurrection,” sponsored by the Salon of International Arts Milo was cast as the Madonna. There was a musicians’ row, and “The Resur rection” didn’t materialize. At Honolulu Milo had been intro duced once to Lieutenant-Commander Hugo vV. Koehler, U. S. N., by hei The ABC *8 of General Knowledge How and When Families Travel Baaed on Pleaaora Trip* of 12 Houia or Longer Source t Surrey Made by Good Honaekeeping Magazine October, 1929 Chart By FUELING FOSTER Today the Motor Car Is 38% More Popular Than the Railroad for Pleasure Trips Lasting 12 Hours or LonSer WM Every 100 famfliee who traveled took 122 Iripa each year, tiling theae five method* of IranaporUlioo 176 lime*. Some need their owa care and the railroada. aome uaed bnaaea, railroada and elranuhipe, etc. Of the 176 timee mentioned: 8S were motor can 60 were railroada 25 were etramehip I in re 6 were pabHe bnaaea 2 were airplanca Although Summer Is the Most Popular Time for Tripsv31% of Those Who Travel Stay at Home in the ._ Summertime The nrrqr revealed that 100 families who tm eW look 122 pleasure trips each year, which meant that tome look two, others three or snore. Of the 122 trips) 69 were taken in the Sommer 2S were taken in the Autumn 16 were taken in the Winter 12 were taken in the Spring u second husband, from whom she was by this time divorced. Koehler, trans ferred to Panama, read in a paper that he was engaged to “Some error,” Koehler told the imagine Milo’s feelings then! have been deeply humiliated,” Milo declared, her big eyes wet with teats “This is a most unkind blow of fate. I cannot possibly understand press ‘I MADONNA LIKE Milo Mt|Jal*ni Abercrombie, Son Francisco Society Leader. Tbie Clastic Cottumo She Hoped to Wear in tbo Pantomime, "Tbe Resurrection,*— But for Varion* Reason* Didn't. At Loft She I* Shown with Two of Her Children, Cecilia and Lanrence Swenson. how this false rumor got about It is all very distressing and annoying.” Now Milo’s lost her children, failed to find a chink in her husband's legal armor, and been chidden by a judge. “Am I atoning for some sin in a previ ous life?" Milo asks herself. “If so, I have paid—and paid—and paid. How much longer must I keep on paying?” By OMEMm-GiriM-MH As the Rainbow— (On theRicerbank) —sr ——— ‘The rainbow hover*, untouched above." IQBTLY she steps along, Lightly she dances. And all her words are light and innocent. Like sunlight on a waterfall She sparkles into smiles capriciously Uer moods as many-hued and elusive As the rainbow. She goes with many men, Fifty or a hundred — does it matter t Each one »» love tcith her, Each for a different grace. One for her low toned laughter. One for her unslful eyes, One for her smooth skin. DELICATE a» a camella, i One for her lips.... And each one eight 11 the rainbow tltpt Like a fog through hit eager finger, And hovers, untouched, above him. They turn away, one by one, baffled, To look for a human touch else where. And never a one of them dreamt that the. With unutterable longing, Each night prayt for a lover— The vague and childish, Cherished hero *i» her heart— 44The rainbow hovers, untouched above.4*
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