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She Fell in Love With Her Own Beauty— After Winning a National Contest She Stole 118 Dresses Which She Wore Only Before the Mirror in Her Own Room /( SELF-ADORER "According to her confession, Maud would •pend hour* trying on tire frocks, preening kerielf before the mirror. Those ere* nings of self-adoration continued until the police . appeared and spoiled ill - h#r dre*"-” M HER HEAD TURNED Maud Hall, Lovely British Suburbanite, Who Developed a -Marcietue complex Aftor Winning England's Beaaty-Quoon Contest. The Aftermath Wu a Jail Sentence for Stealing Costly Gowns From the Shop Where She Worked at a Manikin. By MARY DOUGHERTY SHE wouldn't marry anything but her own mirror.” That’s what they said about Maud Hall, of Cathorn, a suburb of West London, England, after she won n beauty contest, and fell in love with her own face. Maud wasn’t accustomed to fame. She was the daughter of a middle-class family, and since her school days she had supported herself by acting as a manikin in a smart shop, where cus tomers consider even a beautiful girl still a servant. Suddenly a new life dawned for her. She was catapulted into fame by being selected out of 50,000 entrants as the most beautiful girl in England. The newspapers carried her picture and stories about her life; the stage and screen made flattering offers, com mercial concerns offered goodly sums for her services, and hundreds of men wrote, begging her acquaintance. Not a few proposed marriage, and among these were men famed on two conti nents and wealthy beyond any dream that humble Maud had even known. Naturally her head was turned, and later, when she was sent to prison for stealing 118 dresses from the fashion able dressmaker for whom she worked, it was discovered she had developed a “Narcissus complex" to an amaxing extent. Narcissus, it will be recalled, was the boy of mythology, who so loved his own beauty of face that he became fasci nated with his own reflection in a pool and stopped into the water and was drowned. The suggestion of the fabled tragedy in the life of Maud Hall is seen in the fact that shortly after the prize for her beauty was awarded to her, she begged her mother to give her a full sized mir ror for her own private use in her own bedroom. The Hall family lived in moderate circumstances. Maud’s father was a carpenter and made a wage that was none too large to meet the ordinary de mands of his family. Luxurious fur nishings were certainly not ordinarily to be bought from the budget he allow ed his wife for the upkeep of the home. But, a daughter who had just won a beauty contest, one loved and adored bv her family, was not to be denied, so Maud got the mirror. —~~ i Then, like Narcissus, Maud fuuwL,. all else but her own beauty. ShiMtirM in love with herself, an(| her senses became dulled to every other con sideration. To gaze upon that beauty and to adorn it so that the speqfecli became more engaging, more saSSfyAr* ing, became her obsession. vShe t wanted to make the picture reflected in the mirror still more lovely to-'fraze upon. She was satisfied her own face could not be improved. It was already perfect; but the picture lacked a do “First Prove Your Worth”—Owen Young OWEN D. YOUNG Former Ambassador and Official of i the General Electric Company. IF one were to step up suddenly to Owen D. Y'oungr, point an accusing finger and say: “Mr. Young, to what do you owe your success?" that rangy ringmaster of European diplo mats would be embarrassed. So the information had to be got out of him by stealth, as it were, in spite of the fact that he himself always thinks in the shortest distance between two points. And it comes to about this: “Sell what you have to sell first and demand payment afterward. In other words, don’t exact a price for your services until the other fellow knows what you can deliver.” Owen Young told that to the di rectors of the General Electric Com pany when they hired him as general counsel back in 1913, with the title of vice-president tacked on for good measure. These directors offered him a big salary, but he wouldn’t take it. “If you pay me that much,” he said, “you probably will be afraid you are overpaying me. Underpay me until you see how well I do.’’ In a year or so Owen Young was head of the General Electric. So it must be plain his system worked. “See things through the cyea of your associates and don't try to run away from them,” is another of this man’s reasons for his success. He took that into the corporations he managed and later into the discussions which brought about an agreement among the nations as to the debts which fol lowed the World War. One of the most impressive traits in this master financier is his refusal to hurry. It is especially impressive in this age when everybody seems to be rushing from one place to another on the most urgent business. You won’t find Owen Young a party to any of that Nothing, ap parently, excites him and he is not at all impressed with the idea that in acceasihlity must follow importance. Of course, the accomplishment for which Mr. Young is best known to the public is his management of the reparations commission. It was here, too, that his cardinal rule for success —team work—stood forth. By DR. H. L. HERSCHENSOHN, (Phyticimn and Smrgamm ) AS an example of a broken bone, we shall consider a fracture of the thigh bone, the femur, at about its middle. What is said about the healing process of this bone is es sentially true of any long bone in the body. The ends of the femur are covered by a layer of smooth tissue called car tilage, or gristle. This is highly polished so that the movements at the nip and knee joints may be smooth. The rest of the bone is cov-( ted by an envelope of tissue called periosteum (peri=around, osteum—bone). So many blood vessels, nerves, and fibers paijs from this tissue right into the bone that the periosteum adheres quite closely. The body of the femur is a hollow thick-walled rod of bone. The space in side the rod is filled with marrow, a soft material consisting of a considera ble amount of fat. When a fracture occurs, the broken ends are rongh and sharp and more or less separated one from the other (Fig. 1). Although the periosteum is torn, its continuity is not always completely lost if the displacement of the frag ments is not great, a periostal “bridge” i I' tail, and that was beautiful clothes in which to enshrine that beauty. Her family’s income was not suffi cient to buy what she craved; her own small salary was too modest to buy more than plain working clothes. But in the store where she worked were lovely, shimmering, spangled things; creations of fashion experts who knew how to make dresses so as to-emphasire evenr nuance of color, every delicacy of line. So, Maud worried no more over that problem. Narcissus took flowers at hand to beautify his brow; Maud took the dresses at hand to make her a more charming, attractive reflection in her own mirror. At first she took only one or two. is so easy, she took more each L‘“ ’Iy one night she took six. wg when she reached her ome, sne would go direct to her room with her package and deposit it there. After dinner she would return to her bedrdMfl and, according to her later conf«H$ons,. would spend hours trying on the "frocks, preening herself before the mirror. When it was time to re tire tlie dresses were hidden away and no one, not even her mother, ever saw them until the night the two detectives, who had finally tracked her down, broke open her secret hiding place and hauled them forth. Net once bad she worn one of the stolen dresses in the presence of any eye but her own! Why should she, when all she craved was delight in looking upon her own beautiful body, becomingly arrayed? Later her mother questioned her as to why she hadn’t married one of the Indian princes who proposed marriage. Or, perhaps, the son of one of Eng land s rich nohlemen, who had begged her marry him, or any one of the hun dreds of men who had courted her. Her answer was that a husband would want to caress her, when what she wanted waa merely to keep her beauty to herself. During this time her family often wondered why she seemed to prefer What Happens After You Break a Bone In Your Thigh Th* Abort Sketch Show* the Prof rexive Strpi Developed a* a Broken Bone HeaU. In the marrow space a similar proc ess then occurs (fiff. 3). Here the inter nal callus, so called because it is on the inside, acts like a plug, holding the two fragments of bone to gether. The last process in the repair is the formation of a middle callus which extends from the wall of bone of one fragment to the corresponding wall of the other fragment. This cal lus becomes contin uous with the other often remaining. the connection of the periosteum with the bone is loosened for a short distance on either side of the fracture. The whole region involved in the break become* filled in with blood. This is ultimately changed into a soft mass. On the under surface of the periosteum* that is, the surface nearest the bone, there is a rich layer of cells which have the power of form ing new bone cells. The new bone that occur* here is called the external callus because it is on the outside (Fie. 2). , i*o ii'K- «;• As the middle callus becomes stronger and stronger, the calluses on the outside and inside become ab sorbed and may ultimately entirely disappear (fig. 5). The middle callus is permanent. This union possesses such strength that were the bone to become injured again, the site of the previous fracture might remain solid, the bone breaking at some other place. At least three weeks is required for the healing of a broken bone. Copyright, 191*. inuratUaogl Fmuu« Buriat, I no. SrtM Brlula Bight* Bm«t«C hep own room, why »h# forbade any of them to disturb her while the was there. "She’s probably studying some language, or maybe practising for the stage," her father would say, proudly. “Some day we’ll all be surprised to find out what she is doing." And surprised they were . . . but not, at first, by Maud. Even after her exposure as a thief, she still insisted she had known greater thrills from looking at herself in the mirror, wearing the beautiful clothes she had stolen, than she had ever en joyed from the adulation that came to her from thousands of sources when she was proclaimed the winner of the beauty contest. Curiously enough, she had not been especially conscious of what a lovely face she possessed until the day she won. the priae. She hadn’t even sent in her picture, and hadn’t the slight est notion any one else had done so. Later, it developed her mother, Mrs. M. Hall, had, in her maternal pride and in a desire to surprise her family, kept the fact a secret. The mother’s remorse is best de scribed in her own words: “If my child had not won, sha would never have known anything about it," explained Mrs. Hall. “Now(l wish with all my heart and soul that my hand had withered before it addressed and posted that fatal picture." IN MERRIER DAYS i nn o n«p (hot of Maud Hall. Smiling and Bright' eyed, Offers No Suggestion of Abnor mal Psychology. Yet So Deeply Did She Fall in Love with Herself lltat She Ran Afoul of the Law. “When Maud was told that she had gained the prize, that the had beaten 50,000 beautiful girls and was Eng land’s beauty queen, she was wild with delight. “It colored her entire life, her out look, her very soul. She was showered with letters, with appeals for inter views, for dinners and dances.’* When the police revealed the as tounding facts. Mra Hall, questioned as to why she had never inquired what was in tbfr packages, explained she had so much confidence in her daughter that it had never occurred to her they needed any inquiry. “I thought maybe they were theatri cal costumes and that she might b« getting ready to accept one of the offers she had received to go on thr stage. The judge called Maud Hall “in ordinately vain.” Others said she waa “daft,” and some people charitably in clined will wonder and murmur, on reading her story, “Poor girl, God help her!” A By CLARE MURRAY"GirlPod-Artist - — Poanfltn..lar- --- “And heaves the ragged edges of machinery into place.*' * THEY call me peacemaker . . . The oil on troubled seas . .. And say how fine it is, and enviable To be born a diffuser of harmony. (Oh, bitter retort, expire!) May they, for their comfort, Long believe That harmony is exhaled like a perfume! The oil indeed Soothes tortured steel grating on steel. Cools red-hot cogs. Pours itself into hostile crevices, A A D heaves the ragged edges of machinery Smoothly over each other into place. ^ So more friction. Aching hones are eased. Sensitive nerves are quelled. So more pain for the warring factions. Tet into the oil Have gone the grit and heat, The ache and the agony. From each new struggle Its depleted stream flows on, A vein in which these things _ Throb, silently.... ® "
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