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How Hermann Oelrichs Will Win a Fortune from
w3-r nis Y OUthTiii -Mint hAJ hPintf Hnnrt I Ji-iti
He's Twenty-one.
T
MUs
Margaret
Andrews
and Her
Police
Do.
Society
Think
Young
Mr.
Oelrichs
May
Claim
Miss
Andrews
as a
Further
Reward
for
Staying
in the
Straight
and
Narrow
Way.
0 feci glad that you tiro going to loso $500,0001
What a raro and exquisite sensatlonl
It 1b tbo sensation which Airs. W. K. Vandor
bllt,. Jr., Is about to enjoy,
Already sbo Is tasting In anticipation tho dollghts of
giving up $500,000,
Mrs. Vandorbllt Is tho youthful aunt of young Her
mann Oelrichs, Jr. Ho Is tho son of her older Bister,
who Is tho widow of the Into Hermann Oolrlchs. Ho was
tago at his aunt's wedding,
Sho boHher nephew $500,000 that ho could not ab
stain from 'drinking and tobacco untU his twenty-first
birthday. Within a month, In all human probability,
sho will have to pay her bet,
Young Hermann Is ono of the most promising youths
physically In the Four Hundred. Ho In a rider, a foncer,
and has won all sorts of golf and tennis prizes. Of
course he is a daring automoblllst, but that is hardly
n credit to a young man with lots or money, and Is
llkcty to shorten his life than to mnko It happier.
Ho Is tho son of a father who was as strong as nn
ox and was quite noted for being tho most powerful
man in society. Ho could swim for four hours at a tlmo
and could hold his own with tho gloves against a pro
fessional prise fighter. In spite of hls strength and his
powers, Hermann Oelrichs died a comparatively young
man, and his Ufo was far from happy. Ho loft Ills
proporty away from his wlfo.
Two years ago young Hermann Oolrlchs was nine
toon years old, Just at the ago when llfo begins to
offer Its greatost temptations to the rich and well
favored. At that ago a youth In New fork society has
all tho opportunities that send him to swift moral and
physical ruin. Ordinarily ho has too much money to
spend, money with which ho can woo tho means of
perdition. Bvon If ho has not actually too much cash,
ho can, as tho scion of a wealthy family, obtain all tho
credit he needs to ruin himself.
Mrs. Vanderbllt saw tho pitfalls that lay befpro her
young and attractive nephew. Sho knew them from
blttor exporleuco. Sho had had better opportunities,!
perhaps, than any woman of hor ago in society to seo
the harm that wealth ian do' to a young man. Sho
was married to tho oldost son of William K Vander
bllt, ono of the greatest millionaires in America. Her
husband grow up with tho prospect of Inheriting up
ward of $30,000,000. T
Young Vanderbllt became known years ago as tho
most daring amateur automobile racer In tho world.
.Ho founded tho best known of all automobile racing
prizes. In turn ho becamo a patron of flying. Every
sport that interested him received his gonorous sun
port. Ho did not neglect tho stago.
Mrs. Vanderbllt know well that wealth and sports
did not bring happiness or long llfo. Many exponslvo
vaults and tombstones marked tho premature end of
men of hor family and acquaintance, who had begun
llfo by having' ton good a tlmo.
If a young m-i has no tnccntlvo (o work, no ex
traordinary mind that Impels him to do something, ho
Is almost cortaln to yield to tho luro of tho wlno cup
nnd the voice of the siren.
Perhaps Mrs. Vandorbllt saw that hor nephew wns
In dangor. At any rato, she dotcrmtnod to gutdo htm
on tho path of abstlnonco. and Industry In a very orig
inal way.
"Why don't you do somo real work, Hermann?" on
Inquired. "Can't earn enough to make It worth while," said
tho youth carolossly.
"How much would you consider worth whllot" en
quired his aunt.
"Oh, $100,000 a year, or so."
"Well. I will alvo you a chanco to make It."
This caught tho young man'o attention and drew
his thoughts away from cigarettes and whatovor other
worthless object they wcro contrcd upon.
His aunt then made a wagor with him that If ho
abstained from all Intoxicating liquors and tnlaccq
until ho was twontyono yours old, sho was to pay him
$600,000. If ho tallod to make good ho was to pay hor
$500,000.
"Well, that money Ib as good as In my pockot' was
tho young man's comment When tho wagor was con
cluded. '
But In the months to como lie found It was not ensy
to bo temperate and self-denying In tho fash'onablo so
cloty of Now York and Newport, Many a time ho hnd
to sit for hourB whllo overy lmngtnablo kind of Intoxi
cating drink was being consumed. It Is tho boredom
that Is so trying tn Buch cases. Then no had to sit for
moro hours while his friends surroundod hint with
clouds of cigar and clgarotto smoke.
He persisted In working tor bis wagor, howover,
and tbo result of his porslstnnco was that ho grow
stronger In mind and body, a batter sportsman and a
moro popular member of sooletv.
Ho had an auto raco with Vincent Astor on tho
sauds of Second Dcach at Nowport. Young Oolrlchs's
car caught Arc, but ho kept going until ho won tho
raco and then had to drlvo Into tho ocean to put out iho
flro.
Ho has constructed a wlrolcss apparatus on tho roof
of his mother's mansion, at Flfty-BOvonth Btreot and
Fifth avenue. Ho was always a mechanical genius, for
In his Infanoy ho built a motor yacht
' Young Oelrichs has boon very attontlvo to Miss Mar-
oi Androws, ono of tho most Interesting young girls
of tho Nowport colony, who makes hor dobut this year,
Thero Is a friendly rivalry botween him and Vincent
Astor In this direction,
Lately ho has been working hard as a law student
at Columbia University. Evorywharo ho Is known as
"tho rich boy who never smokes ot drinks."
Next month tho $500,000 falls duo, and no ono has
any doubt that young Hermann Oolrlchs will got It.
Working for It has mado him n splendid young man,
and that Is why his aunt will bo glad to loso tho monay.
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Is It Really Such a Misfortune
If a Woman's Hair Is Red?
RED i fashionable color
for woman's hair just now,
. but In many periods and
countries to have rod hair meant
to test tho depths of misfortune
even, o. death. Wo know now that
rod r Is an added beauty from
tho artist's point ot view, tor It
Is almost always accompanied by
a beautiful complexion, and the
red-haired woman Is tho cynosure
ot all eyes at the opera or tbo re
ception. Queen Ellzabett considered that
she was most attractive when
wearing a red wig, and others
have shared her predilection for
this color, so that now no ono with
a wealth of auburn trestles would
dream of trying to alter their
ooior.
A great Jerman doctor let It be
knovtu that ho as biessed with a
wife "who could make tea hair as
white as a Uiy," but no modern
woman would wish, to patronlzj
her.
A story is told ot a woman
whoso lover had an unconquerable
antipathy to red hair, so Bhe ap
plied to a quack to have the color
altered. He replied that this was
his wife's department, and that
sbo would furnish the lady with
a leaden comb and tho anti-Erythraean
unguent which "after two
or three applications will make
you as fair or as dark as you
please."
Prejudice agalust red hair runs
back even to Egyptian times, for
in that land of Jecided opinions
and strong prejudice! It was tho
custom to burn alive somo unfor
tunate Individual cursed with red
hair, so It was decidedly uncom
fortable to have red hair In Egypt,
,'as no one know whoso turn would
como next. -
That tho Chinese shared this
prcjudlco against . red hair Is
proved by t,helr epithet for the
English, whom they called "red
haired barbarians" or "red-haired,
devils."
The great exception to this rule
among ancient nations Is the
Romans, for since tho time' ot
Nero they have praised red hair
In the highest terms. They pre
ferred a dark red, almost brown,
such as we term auburn, and
modern RomanB share this liking.
It Is said that among the patrician
families of Roma and Florence
there Is an abnormally large num
ber of red-haired -vomen. Modern
Greeks share- this predilection
with tho Romans an. they height
en the reddish effect ot the hair by
wearing dull gold ornaments,
Petrarch's Laura Is described as
having bad golden red hair, so the
poet wrote:
"The snare was set amidst those
threads of gold
To which Love bound mo fast"
One of the most frequent 'causes
of the prejudice against red hair
in Christian countries undoubted
ly goes back to the tradition that
Judas. . the betrayer of Jesus, bad
red hair, and most o' .the artists
paint him thus.' Sbakespouo re
fers to this In "As You bJce It,"
when Rosalind says ot Orlando,
"His very hair is of the dissem
bling color," nnd Celln answers:
"Something browner than Ju
das's.'' The Brahmins wero forbidden to
marry a red-haired woman, and,
as has been said: "The populaco
of most countries, anfoundlng
moral with aesthetic Impressions,
accuse red-haired peoplo ot various
shortcomings." Henco, supersti
tion has assigned to hair ot a cop
pery tlngo, when it adorns a wom
an's heud, the worst traits; and "all
tho petty vices, all the lamentable
shortcomings to which femininity
Is heir haVo been laid to tho red
dish crown."
It Is most unfortunate when a
young girl with reddish hair be
comes too solf-consclous, for she
Is thus apt to mistake looks of ad
miration for gaping criticism. She
may indeed uso tho precaution of
not standing by a pink-shaded
lamp, which accentuate ithe color
of hor tresses too highly, but It is
a pity If sho think herself tho ob
served of all observers, and lose
her charming unconsciousness of
observation.
Besides the old tradition ot
Judas having been red-balred aid
ing to create the prejudice exist
ing In many lands,, tho fact of tho
feeling against red hair in England
Is set down to the red-haired
Danes, who could not be regarded
save as invaders and barbarians.
It Is the suggestion of character
being Implied by the color of the
hair that has Influenced most per-
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sons in this connection. The Idea
that red-halreu pontons aro jigti
tempored Is very general, but it Ib
far from being true, and many
black-haired persons are jUBt as
hot tempered and even more cruel.
No one should worry because ho
or she Is adorned with red hair, no
matter bow curroty the red may
bo. Tho way to fight prejudice Is
to prove Its falsity, and If all tho
red-balred persons would mako a
compact of amiability tho super
stition about them would rapidly
disappear. The porson with red
hair can learn self-control Just as
easily as any jne else, and tbo at
tractiveness of tho brilliant col
ored hair may be mado to Increase
hor popularity.
As mon grow wiser they do not
Judgo by oxternals and rod hair
Is no exception, otherwise It would
not bo so fashionable.
Miss Andrews and Vincent Astor, Who Is Said to Be as Deeply
in Love with Her as Hermann Oelrichs.
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Grafting an Ear 300
Years Before Christ
DIGGING Into the Sanscrit of
th9 "Atharva Voda," a
writer In the London Lancet
discovers that a very good Imita
tion of modern surgery was prac
Used in India In tho third century
boforp the beginning of tho Chris
tian Era,
Tho great Indian surgical and
medical authority of that time was
Susburta. Ho had whnt some may
regard as sound views on medical
politics, and bis ethics wero the
highest, for be says, "A physician
experienced In his art, but dellclont
In tho knowledge of tho science of
medicine, Is condemned by all good
men as a quack, and deserves cap),
tal punishment at the bauds of the
King."
Again, "The patient who may
mistrust his own parents, sous, ami
relatives should repoae an Implicit
faith lu his owu physician, and put
his owu life Into bis hands without
tbo least apprehension ot danger:
henco a physical!! should protect hid
putlcut as his own begotten child."
But It Is In the chupters on re
parative surgery, on Hygiene nnd
preventive medicine that h shines
Ills pages' bear comparison with
tbo most up-to-dute treatises ou
those subjects.
"A surgeon well versed In tbi)
knowledge of surgery should slice
off a putch ot living flfcsh from the
cheek of a person devoid of ear
lobes In a maimer so as to have one
of ItJ ends attached to Its former
scat Then the part whero the arti
ficial enr-lobp Is to be mode should
bo slightly scarified with a knife
and the living fluBh, full of blood
and sliced off as previously di
rected, should bo united to It so as
to resemble a natural ear-lobo la
shape."
Sushurta says: "He falls an easy
victim to Internal and external dls
eases who drinks of, or bathes In, a
pool of water which Is full, of poi
sonous worms, or Is saturated with
decayed animal matter or Is defiled
with germs of vorm,ln or decom
posed animal organisms, or Is cov
ered pver with tho growth ot
aquatic plants, or I' strewp over
with withered and decomposed
leaves, or which lu any way is
rendered poisonous and contami
nated, as well as he ,who drinks
and bathes In tho freshly collected
water of a pool or a reservoir dur
ing the ntliiF."
With the help only of a few
short extracts It Is possible to con
voy a rough Idea of tho advanced
state of medical and surgical boI
euce u those early days In India
when Royal Universities existed at
Benares and Taxllla. The serious
attempt which was made to syB.
temattse the knowledge possessed,
and the form and variety of tnu
RUrlgcnl Instruments In uso are lnf
dlcatlous that the lndlaus had at
tained a high degree ot efficiency
lu theso sciences, which we must
supposo they subsequently lost, tor
we do not sec any Indications of Its
existence among the practitioners ot
uatlvo medicine to-day.