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WOMANSENSE
"LOVERS
STILL SIGH
TOMB
AT JULIET'S
'ERONA, Italy.-Romeo is a forgotten name in the city where the world's greatest love story unfolded. But Juliet is a name that still stands for undying love and eternal romance.
The tomb of the lovely daughter of the Capulet family is a lovera' shrine. There is no evidence of the final resting place of. Romeo Montague, history's greatest lover.
T home where Juliet was born IN Bill the Sceno of lovers' pilgrimages. What remains of Romeo's home is a shabby, ill-kept courtyard which houses a stable and blacksmith shop.
Of a population of 200,000, Verona has more than 4.000 Jullets and just about 100 Romeos
Romeo Ignored
recelves
Juliet, who lived out her pillful love story at the end of the 13th century, still
"fan mail" from lovers all over the worl Remco has hardly received a single
By ALDO FORTE
The cloister where Jullet sleeps 15 bordered by chestnut trees and Supremes. A wooping willow droups its slender branches in mournful embrace of the crypt.
als in a shady corner, sole
Into French by Pierre Bolstenu In
1500. Shakespeare, he said, pickedi it up from the French.
Solimani said:
The clolster. Is gay with bright
"Shakespearo was incorrect. finwers. Stone seats are there for Pomen was not what Shakespeare lovers who come here to exchange maac him. I doubt that he com- A bust mitted premises of their ardour,
suleide, 03 Shakespeare of the Poet of Stratford-on-Avon wrote, in this crypt after he found Juliet sleeping because of the secret ration given her by Friar Lawrence to save her from young Paris. I think he was killed in the moonlight duct with Parls when he was found the sleeping Leauty." bidding farewell
guardian of the tomb of Jullet.
Appeal to Juliet
in a small marble letter box labelled At the entrance of the crypt "Mall for Juliet." Besides the nun- dreds of notes dropped in by visitors, thousands of letters arrive addressed to "Juliet Capulet, Verona, Italy,' The letters are collected by the custodian, Eltere Solimani, and filed
away..
..
Solimant is 52 and has been custo- alan of the tomb for the Inst 10 years. He was coaxed into showing come of the letters which arrived recently from the United
States. One came from Newarks, N. J1, an-
was from a girl who said she was 27 end "very much in love,"
to
Asked why his only son had been baptised Luigi instead of
Romeo, Solimani snorted the final derision of the great Romeo,
"Bu, Romeo was a good-for- nothing drunkard and a swordsman. was always quarrelling, He wesn't the man for my Jullet."
lle
note, although le sometimes fets other from Washington, D. C. On Homely Utensils Please
mention In lovers' notes to Juliet.
Juliet's tomb of gray stone, three feet by six, rests on the banks of the Adige River in the crypt of a smil chapel which was erected, with a cloister, in 1010 by the commune of Verona,
More than two inches
of stone have been hacked off the top of the tomb in past years by souvenir-hunting visitors, Napoleon's wife, Marie Louise of Austria, set
shoul the biggest record for collecting stone
chips and had n necklace and earrings made from
"Dear Jullet, your tragic love has deeply moved the entire world. Please do your best so that my love may likewise move the heart of my boy friend that he may love me as 1 love him."
With a shrug, of his shoulders, Solimant questioned the veracity of Shakespeare's tragedy. He said the story was first written by Luigi da the pieces of the tomb. She had Porto in 1523. then rewritten them set in gold.
ether Italians and finally translated
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By HELEN FOLLETT
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A good shampoo acts as n scalp treatment. It is about the only time that the glorious crown gets any hygienic attention as the hair brush seems to have gone out of cireula- tlon which is a great pity. Brushing does a good house-cleaning job, not is Invigorating to the growth. It only removing surface dust but snaking out dead shafts.
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Less than a tablespoonful of crenm Rinse the hair first. is necessary. Friction in the cream, being careful to work along the hair line, front, sides and back where most of the dust collects. Spread out fingers rubbing. and thumbs, give the scalp a good
the
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BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Walk with Jack Scarecrow
-The Shadows Visit Hlawatha-
By MAX TRELL
"COME around at midnight when
the moon is full, and we'll go visiting," Juck Scarecrow sold to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow- children with the turned-about namics. Knarf and Hanid promised lo come. But they didn't really
mean it.
The truth of the matter was that they didn't think Jack Scarecrow would be able to visit anyone. Thero The was, stuck on to a pole in the middle of the farmer's cornfield. How could he get off the pole, and go anywhere? And how could ho wolk with legs made of straw?
Part Midnight
It must have been a Httle past midnight when Knarf and Honid, who were fast asleep in the corner of the playroom, heard a tap-tap, tap on the window. They both
sprang up.
To their surprise, it was Jack, tapping on the glass with a small pebble. "Come out!" he said. "I'm waiting to go.” They both hurried outside.
"Come out!" Jack Scarecrow called.
"But where does he Bye? There aren't any more Indians In this town," said Hanid.
front of a cigar store," said Jack. "My friend Hiawatha lives in It's right at the end of this street. Come along. minute.....
We'll be there In a
Pony Express Was 'Air Mail"
Of Its Day
(Continued from Yesterday)
ONE of the 80 riders was different
from the others, all veterans of the saddle. skilled fighters
and
The
owners of brave hearts. "different"..rider was a girl, Jane, Wilson of Missouri.. This girl" woɛ America's first woman mail carrier. Westem history nicknamed her * Calamity Jane..who earned her. sad. nickname because her lator He brought her. Into so many troubled places and adventure.
As the mail system became more popular and letters, increased, the
The operating firm also. carried' rate was lowered to U.S.$1 a letter.
mall and heavier parcels over the same route by overland stage-coach.
The route followed the old Mor-
Sure enough, in front of the cigar store at the end of the street, they mon trail to Salt Lake City and from found Hiawatha. He was standing that point, it was really a torturous with feathers in his hair and A tomahawk in his hand.
"He's a wooden Indian" sald
Jack seemed to have no trouble walking. In fact, ho danced along, and now and then (when the wind blow) just floated in the air, over Knarf. tences and high garden walls, across brooks and ditches, ~ Knert and Hanid had quite a hard Job keeping up with him.
Wasn't So Odd
trip. But the mail men of the pony expresa tried to live up to the same slogan our postal service has today, "the mall must go through."
Bad roads and bad Indians failed: It really wasn't so odd, when you to stop them. But a different kind came to think about it, that n
much. Jn
"Whom are we going to visit?" Scarecrow should have a Wooden of a horse finally doomed the gol- Hanid finally asked as they crossed Indion for a friend.
loping mustangs of the pony ex- press. The "Iron Horse," as the Indians termed the railroad engines, marched, on the road of progress.
(To be Continued Tomorrow)
the railroad tracks
(Jack just
Hiawatha didn't say fcaped across them!) and began walking up the main street of the deed, he didn't say anything.. Ho town. No one else was about; for just grunted. But he was pleased by now it was really late and not to have visitors just the same. n single light was burning in any of the houses,
+
Before the night was over. Knart and Hand visited some more of There Jack said: "We're going to visit Jack Scarecrow's friends."
were several wooden horses, 0 my friend Hiawatha.
wooden swan, a wooden camel, a "Hiawatha! That's an Indian wooden giraffe and u wooden goat, namet" Knart exclaimed in aston- They were all on a merry-go-round, ishment.
And just before the sun came up, "Of course it is," said Jack. "My they visited a lady pouring friend Hiawatha is certainly
an Into a fountain. She was made of Indian."
stone. She was a statue.
Monkey Business Afoot
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By Fred Harman
"AND FROM THE WINDOW
OF THE SALOON -**
water
Rupert & Mr. Punch-
As Kupert nad expected the sintalk. bigure in the grass is his friend, Algy Pug Hi. get up." he erlen you don't want to snooze on a lovely day like this." Algy blinks and yawns and its up very slowly. "Hello, Rupert, you again?" he müuers grumpity.""""""Why are" you- ""always, so 'full'ot beans'? 'What do - you want to do?''k's much too hot for tat people like me to do anga thing at all. You old lazybones. laughs Rupért,'** Get up this minute- -de ('ll start: tickling you 1???-
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