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VILLA IN HIS GLORY. i i Picture of the Bandit When Things t Were His Way. I % We were awakened in Torreon by t shouts of "Viva Villa!" and the music i of a military band blaring snatches ' -of syncopation a la Irving Berlin, in- t terspersed with Spanish Fandango. i The general's car was opposite ours s on the next track. Charlie Chaplin couldn't have drawn a bigger crowd, i T on cr Urioo novolrv H'OTP nflfiSlTIP ' HUCC VI vu ? t*?i j ? V. w 0 our windows. The men were mount- 1 ed on horses that looked as if their ] 1 ancestors were veterans of the cross- 1 town car service. In their packs the men carried everything from kindling j ? wood to babies. i Pancho Villa received us amid the j click of typewriters in his office, an ( observation car. He wore a gray ( sweater that looked as if it might be ' ^ th? survivor of a hard football sea- < ison. No tailor's iron had ever played tag with the creases in his trous- t fa \ *ers* , 1 He spoke no English. His eyes i were the eyes of a splendid animal, t the pupils dilating and contracting i constantly as do the pupils in the $ eyes of a panther. When he was in- < troduced he said nothing for at least j !v, a minute. He looked through the i back of your eyes, the leaping flames < in hie own blazing black eyes seem- ] ing to test the metal of your mind. i He told us he never drank liquor? j "j it was the sleeping sickness of a ? man's soul. He wanted to liberate } "the poor peon, he said, to drag him i from between the millstones where \ he was being ground in abject slav- ( ory by the hands of wealth and pow- < er. He had no education. He could j * write his own name, but if you stop- j 2 ped him in the middle of it he had \ to begin all over again. Would we like to see his bathroom? < Now this bathroom was the par- ] ticular pride and pet of the man who j I I might have conquered Mexico. It ( II was one of the half dozen bathrooms ; II in captivity in the entire country, if ] I I observation and persistent search j count for anything. We said we'd ] have to be shown. , So we were led through several i cars comprising the general's suite, < ^ . to a box car in the rear of the train, j One-half of this car was partitioned ] off into a sort of ante-room to the bath. The piece de resistance of this ] x lounge was a brass bed such as finds < favor in the more ornate of the Har- i lem flats. Over it was spread a ] Tripe? of frineed yello.w and silver ] ' satin brocade, a peon in loveliness. Scattered over the brocade were a number of hand embroidered slumber t > - pillows with edgings and insertions of real lace. Nothing like the old banx dit days in the mountains with a gun ^ * for a pillow, this. "For my siesta," . explained * Gen. Villa, indicating the brocade. 'x It seems that right after the big boss had his bath, which was in the middle of the day, it was his wont to \ stretch himself out for a snack of sleep. It really is a most worthy custom, the siesta, one we leave too long fij&yr overlooked. I ^ The other half of the car boasted a white porcelain tub, a shower and ^ hot and cold water. Gen. Villa turned on the faucets himself and made us feel the water to prove he wasn't Yc.'.r - * % . romancing. Arross the end of the car was a pianola. The pianola is not considered a bathroom requisite, even in f' in the most modern metropolitan j apartment, but the general had his < own ideas about fixtures. j * "I borrowed three of them," he ex- < -* 1 uu ~ -3 V, ft piamea, waving UIS iiauu luvvaiu LUC mahogany masterpiece. "I kept the \ best one and gave the two others < away." t . Here allow me to explain the sig- < nificance of the word "borrow" as 1 here used. When there is a battle in ] Mexico the victors go into the town and grab anything they want. Of ; course the general gets the pick of . the plunder, the men taking what is ] ? -left in order of their rank. This is < called "borrowing." < From Torreon to Monterey we s traveled mostly on the floor of the < cars to avoid collision with any Car- i ranza bullets that might wander Paredon three o,f the men of the par- ] through the car windows. From s ty went to Saltillo to a governor's i . banquet. They spent an entire day, paging neckties for themselves, final- < ly ferreting out three of the ready made kind that had been left over i / from a Christmas lot in Chicago. 1 < The governor had borrowed a swell palace for himself, but the ] three found they -were all out of or- ] der. They had the only neckties at i the table. The governor had been ] a fireman on the railroad a few ] months before and did not go in for 1 the fine sartorial effects. It was cold ' and every one ate with his overcoat i and hat on. The governor complain- 1 ed because the food was a little slow ] in coming. He sent for the chef. For < Violf or? Virvnf Vin onnHaroH at him UJL1 1AWU1 HQ OpUVlV* VU UV *UUi. "De gov'ner sez if youse'll keep on L your shirts youse'll have a bear of a r feed," explained the cheF at last. He was a Brooklyn hick. The women at the banquet all sat < L-,> ' f Jy ' ilong /one side of the room and matched the men making merry at ;he table. When the orchestra Mayed a dance the men chose their partners, went to them, stuck out ;heir arms, paraded once around the oom and danced around once more, rhen they led the women back to ;heir chairs and checked them. The vomen never said a word. I hope some of the suffragists will see this. Gen. Raoul Madero entertained us it the governor's palace in Monterey, rhey were selling water in the city ly the carat. The day we left Gen. Madero went to the front at 'the lead of 10,000 Villa troops. On the way back we went through ;he Villa outposts. The official Mrs. Villa, called Luz. gave a luncheon tor us at her house in Chihuahua lity. It was a large, square, hign jeilinged house with an inner court, rhe general "borrowed" it from some exiled enemy. We strolled up the front walk be;ween gun racks holding two dozen rifles ready for action and manned jy as many of the general's personil bodyguard. The first thing that greeted us inside the door was a life size picture of the lord and master )f the domicile. It was Mrs. Villa's favorite picture of her war lord. The official Mrs. Villa greeted us rordially. She is a plain, mild manlered woman with black hair and Dlue eyes. A crowd of beggars swarmed in front of the house. She sent a soldier out to them to distribite alms. A poor wretched, hobsling {hulk of a man in a soldier's iniform with a Villa button on his joat she had escorted to the cool shade of the veranda, where he could rest while the servants brought him food and drink. Her charities in :he city were endless: We waited in a pale mlue and gold Irawing room that might have been frnm o UVon/iVi nJiotaon ovrtant li t^u ii viii a i- i ^iivii cnai/^?u, gAv^f/i tor the artificial flowers scattered everywhere. Outside the garden was i wilderness of roses carpeted with pure violets, but they were spurned n favor of pink paper daisies and pale blue orchids. "I met my general when I was a poung girl in the mountains," said Dur hostess with a smile. "He is a ?reat warrior. He is the savior of his country." From a member of the household we heard that the general had met her in the little mountain village of San Andreas when he was a bandit, ;hat he had taken her to a dance and he afterward carried her away behind him on his horse. Be that as it may, she is one of the most ardent md loyal supporters. She wore black and many jewels of all colors in heavy gold settings. These too were undoubtedly "borrowed;" a platinum and diamond wrist watch jlasped around her wrist looked as if it had just left Tiffany's. Somebody had made an unwilling loan. The conspicuous person at ^the luncheon was little Elias, a tike of a 30v given to the general and his wife ilong with an automobile, some lorses, a lot of bric-a-brac and other plunder. Elias was the czar of the Villa household. He reached about :o your knee and his eyes looked like :wo black beads set in a fine case of mmmer tan. He wore a uniform :hat was an exact reproduction of the Villa dress uniform and when pou met him he clicked his tiny boots together and saluted exactly like a toy automaton soldier. At table he ite interminable bananas, pounding en the table in high rage when the attendant was slow in executing his orders. At a table adjoining sat four of the sixteen boys Gen. Villa was educating in a military, school near Los Amgeles. They were home for a vacation and Mrs. Villa was mothering them. They were devoted to her and Elias, anticipating their every wish. Later we went in a "borrowed" automobile, a stunning big PierceArrow of the latest design, to the new villa the general was building on the first piece of land he ever owned in Mexico. It was in the outskirts of one of the poorest sections of Chihuahua, surrounded by the adobe huts of peons. He called it Villa Luz after his wife. It was made up of fifty odd rooms, with stables for his favorite horses, ga-j rages, school rooms and secret stairways. On the roof 500 soldiers could be accommodated. ] Nothing was left to the imagination in the way of decoration. If there was a pansy painted on the wall it was the size of a dinner plate. I have heard that the enemy Has "borrowed" , vma l,uz ana is using it to stable horses. Its chatelaine and little Elias are exiles in Havana, where the general sent them with his brother for safe keeping. Before she occupied Villa Luz, the reverses of the bandit leader had begun. Never have I received more lavish hospitality than in the home of Pancho Villa. Leaving Chihuahua we passed a trooo of machine gun men. The guns were mounted on mules. Sammy almost wept at si?ht of them and would have deserted but we feared the worst and locked him in a state SLANG IN SHAKESPEARE. Several Modern Phrases Had IMstinguished Origin. "Good night," a terse ejaculation that has taken ranking position among the slang of the day, had its sources in no less authority than Will Shakespeare. It took a Hamilton college student to discover that the magic words were frequently used in Shakespeare's plays and with as much variety of meaning as we have ' been giving to them. "TV?ck {Hog that TJ-nnrlni j?ht' has the mark of modernity," declares this student, "is a sad mistake. In act 1, scene 3, of the first part of 'King Henry IV.,' Worcester says he will disclose a matter of Hotspur which is as full of peril 'as to o'er walk a current roaring loud on the ' unsteadfast footing of a spear.' To which Hotspur replies: 'If he fall in, good night!' " Many other bits of modern vernacular are from Shakespeare, the stu- < dent says; among them "Go to it!" i "You cheese!" "I am for you," "dead drunk," and plenty of others. And regarding that very favorite phrase, "Beat it,'* the student says this: "Every one from an ex-president to a newsboy has made use of these two words. Yet in act 2, scene 1, of the 'Comedy of Errors,' 'Luciana exclaims, 'Fie! Beat it hence!" 1 "After these quotations," he continues, "we are sure that Shakespeare was an old fogy or we are to think by stumbling on the Shakeonao roan ovftlomotinn <-Pnllv' t Vl Q f it i gj^^ax ^aix v/aviuuuuwxvu. u.i*^ vm%*v ?v was the immortal Teddy and not Bacon who wrote the plays."?Hart[ ford Courant. ?? The Multiplying Medics. One little doctor t Looks you through and through, Can't diagnose your case. Then there are two. Two little doctors, Failing to agree, Call a consultation. Then there are three. Three little doctors, Poke you o'er and o'er, Send for a specialist. Then there are four. Four little doctors, Wonder you're alive, Another brings a stomach pump. Then there are five. Five little doctors, .. Trying fancy tricks, Order in an alienist. Then there are six. Six little doctors, Preparing you for Heaven, In comes a D. D. Thon thoro aro spvpti Seven little doctors Decide to operate, Call in a surgeon. Then there are eight. Eight little doctors i Think it's in your spine, Ask for a neurologist. Then there are nine. / Nine little doctors, All of them are men, Send for Mary Walker. Then there are ten. Ten little doctors,Standing by your bed, Come to a decision. Find that you are dead. ?Kenneth MacGowan, in Collier's Weekly. A Baker's Horse. Some time ago, when Sir Aan Hamilton was reviewing a certain corps, a laughable incident occurred. One of the officers was mounted on a horse that had previously belonged to a baker. A wit in the crowd, who was aware of this fact, shouted out "Baker!" and immediately the horse stopped dead and nothing the officer could do would make it budge. Things were beginning to look serious when suddenly the rider was struck with a brilliant idea. "Not today, thank you!" he shouted, and at once the noble animal moved on, to the intense relief of every one concerned.?Tit-Bits. Not Bacon After All. Chicago, May 2.?Judge Richard S. Tuthill in the circuit court today set aside his recent decision in the Selig-Fabyan suit that Francis Bacon wrote the works generally attributed l ~ ~ _ tu onaKesjJtcu e. room until we were out of the danger zone. Without his Spanish we might have been backed up against some convenient adobe wall and shot at sunrise. 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