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BOSTON SUNDAY POST, JUNE 27, 1920 DANCED HER WAY INTO HEART OF SON Foot May Have Been Responsible for Happy End of Love Romance in Boston Playhouse SISTER A POLICEWOMAN AT $1650 A YEAR His Father, a Country Doctor, Still Drives a One-Horse Nominee Proud of His Miss Elsie Cordon gives up her connection with the company week to marry George R. Dickinson of Springfield, Mass. She has forged to the top as a dancer in the big musical comedies. George R. Dickinson, son of the late Henry Dickinson, vice-president of the American Paper who will Miss Elsie Gordon of the company.

The couple will settle in Brookline after their trip. (Photo by Collyer, Springfield.) 'i hijyuti i jcuv Romance still only in the theatre, but back of the scenes. In a dusty little corner far back behind the Tremont Theatre stage, a wealthy lover sits and. waits for the girl of his dreams ali through the evening performance, every night, without missing! She flits down the iron stairway from her dressing room, decked out like a great pink rose, and floats out on the stage upon the arm of a handsomely painted young man. The strains of a delirious fox trot waft back to where the other young man sits on a dusty table, staring at the cracks in the wall.

A roar of applause tells him that Elsie has scored another hit with her wonderful dancing. He shrugs his shoulders. Elsie belong behind the footlights. He is going to get her next weekl The marriage license is in his pocket nowr! Yes, this is happening in staid old Bos ton And now going to give names and dates and The girl is Elsie Goi-don, of those fas- elnatlng dancers in the company. The young man is George K.

Diolclnson, vice-president of the American Writing Paper Company and Mavor Sprlngflefd in George Dickinson served his country in France, and being an enlisted man. he worked up by painful degrees to be a corporal in the IWth Infantry of the Y. D. He had ambitions of doing more, but the hospital claimed him waile he was a corporal, and after the w'ar he came bpck home unsatlshed and restless. Buslnes life appeal to him at alb He thought perhaps day he might like to write.

But he lacked the incentive, the Inspiration, the definite goal to work One night he came down from Springfield and went to the theatre with a friend from home. He care especially about were just a sop for his restless mind. The show was Miss It interest him in the a certain young dancer made her appearance. Elsie Gordon danced right straight into his heart that first night! George felt a sudden dynamo of inspiration and ambition surge through him. He grabbed his friend by the arm and said; "Look here, old man, I've got to meet that girl, and get her away from the footlights.

She belong "All his friend replied. "1 happen to know her when she was In Springfield with the show. go They went back stage, and Elsie of the dark, flashing eyes and brown curls felt her grip loosen on the hand of art. "I had always said I was never going to Elsie confessed to me In her dressing room the other night, while she shoved the foot over her rounded cheeks, "but that night I met George I remembered Suddenly a prophecy made by my girl chum, also called Elsie, last year when we were in a show together. She married a wealthy Westerner, and she said to me last June: I give you just a year to do the same here it is been engaged just three weeks, and next week be Swaps Stage for Cosey Home going to leave the stage, are I inquired.

"Yes; George want me to go she returned submissively. "Hr- even see this she giggled "He seen me do my latest dance! He says he want to rememboi me behind the footlights! men The dark eyes lit with laughter. "Well, anything George says goes with me! And would you believe it, we are going to live in a cute little house like the one on the stage that sings about. it wonderful? going to live in drive around in the car all I suggested. "Oh, came the emphatic answer.

"George is going to work. He says I inspire him to do something! He M'ants to write. sure he will a wonderful writer some day. He has lots of talent." And so without a qualm Elsie Is going to sacrifice her own talent to help develop her Her ballet teachers at the Metropolitan Opera House prophesied great things for her In solo dancing. But after all, the duet a.i peals to her more! youngest sister (right), Mrs.

Caroline Votaw, who believes her brother was born for the Presidency, and that a power bigger than his friends at Chicago gave him the nomination. (C) U. U. M. L.

Mijler (left), aged 76, the man who taught Warren G. Harding how to set type. He is still a compositor on the Marion, Ohio, Star. Hard own paper. (C) International.

man is known by the company he And by his relatives, too. man lives unto Thus Warren personality takes on more color and form in the public mind when introduced to the rest of the family. It gives an appropriate setting to the picture of the man. For instance, when you hear that father has nevier and that he intends, if his son is elected, to drive his hoss up Pennsylvania avenue on inauguration day, you have a key to Warren straightness and independence of Origins of Famous Sayings "He's as Mad as a This is really a corruption of "mad as (a'lrter) The word adder is in Saxon, and in German. SEND NO MONEY Mail coupon with we will send you this name and address and charming, fashionable Crepe de Chine All-Silk Dress postage free.

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Address I D. The old gentleman, now 76 years old. has the same ruddy, rugged health enjoyed by hl's son. and can use his legs like a boy. His profession of country doctor has doubtless had a lot do with his state of licalth, for he goes out in all weathers to answer the calls of those who need him.

He is loved by old and young. The fact that two of his patients are past 90 years old is as good an advertisement for his ability as a doctor as can be had! Many of his patients, who have moved out of reach, still write in for the spring tonics of his own making that they believe have kept them going long beyond their years. One of the most interesting members of the Harding family Is youngest sister, Mrs. Caroline Votaw of Washington. D.

C. Proud Sister Is Police Woman Mrs. Votaw is a police woman! Furthermore, she continues to remain so even If her brother is elected advises her to stick! For it was he who urged her in the first place 'to take up the work. Warren was she relates, "I called him up and asked him how hefiiked to have his sister a police woman, now that he had been chosen to run for the presidency. He said he was proud to have me a police woman, if 1 were a good that he believed I Thus it may happen that some day Mrs.

Votaw will be railed upon to help keep order around the White perhaps when the suffragists get pish. Mrs. Votaw has been on the staff of the bureau of the district police department for the past two years and is rated as a officer, second Her salary is $1650 a year. She believes that being a police woman is her work, Just as much as politics Is very she says, know that you are trying to help Mrs. work brings her especially Into contact with the girls of Washington who through some misfortune have begun to go astray.

"When I am able to help such declares Mrs. Votaw, am proud to be a police She thoroughly believes in big brother Warren. She believes that he was born for the presidency, and a "power bigger than his friends at Chicago helped him to the For 10 years before coming to Washington Mrs. Votaw and her husband were missionaries In India, volunteering as self-supporting workers under the auspices of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Mr.

Votaw lost his health there, and on their return to this brother-in-law, Warren, whom he now try, went )nto the employ of his serves as assistant. High Regard for Mother Mrs. Votaw declares that her brother thought their mother tie ideal woman. For years before her teath. Warren sent ner flowers every Sunday morning.

had one she relates, "that none of us could break. We must keep our faces and hands cle-n. 1 suppose that was her medical training. She, as well as father, studied medicine, and they both practiced. i re member she used to tell the of the day that Warren skipped olT to school without washing his face.

She left all her housework, went to the school, and called out Warren, took him home and made him wash his face and hands. Then she took him back to school. "Later he realized the value of this early lesson, for when he taught schom himself a few miles out of Marion, he was always devising means for teaching his pupiLs cleanlinesA. He used to give little entertainments ev ry week at which all the pupils dre'sed up in their Sunday But with all gentleness, Warren Hard'ng is a good flg.Uer, Ither with fists or brain. Wh hA first began ed'ting his paper, the Star, he found bitterly opposed to him the editor of the other Marion paper, the Indepenn ent.

were at the back the oppo I ion, Harding being a gorous Republican and his rival a v'ol Democrat in a Democratic comm nlty. Harding stood his editorial slanders as long as he could, but finally It that his self-respect would permit him to main lent no longer. One day he put on his hat and went out to for the editor of the Indepe dent. He found him. "If you stop that lying about, Harding thundered, shaking big first under the nose, mop up this street with you.

And then go over and mop up your oti wltn What remains." Needless to siy, the Indeperdent attacks stopped abruptly, and later clr- rumsfances brought abcut an absorption of it the Star, under Hardings ed torship. Today paper ranks first among the secondary newspapers In the Unite Stites It l3 printed in a plant that Is ihe Irs word in modern new pap equipment, and Senator Hard ng boasts that he haa never experienced a strike or a sort i of labor trouble. After got ttfmly on its feet it was orginlzed a stock) company, part of the stock be ng dis- to the employe whose personal interest has had much to do with its steady increase in value. Remembers Old Friends Harding never fcmgets his friends, never forgets and never omits to return He has never forgotten the man who taught him how to ret type, who set him on the roid to becoming the successful newspaper man he is That man is M. L.

Miller, who now, the age of 76, is employed as a com- poslter on flourishing paper, the Marion Star. In the recent campaign for tion delegates from Ohio, Senator Harding travelled with Rufus Day, a of Mr. Justice Day of the Supreme Court of the United States. Day and Harding worked all through Ohio, winding up after a hard campaign in Cincinnati. It was long past midnight when they went to bed in adjoining rooms at a hotel.

Day had to go to Washington the next morning, very early, so he got up after a few hours' sleep, at 4:90. Before he was fully dressed Senator Harding came into the room. "Why, Day apologized, sorry if disturbed said Harding, who was visibly tired from his ceaseless speechifying, "1 left an early call, too; I allow a friend of mine to leave without saying It Rained Money From the Sky When Rug Was Shaken (Upper left) Senator Harding at the age of 22. (C) U. U.

(U right) Hardings younger brother is Dr. George and resides at Columbus, Ohio. (C) U. In his boss shay, father, an aged country doctor, expects to drive up Peni. avenue to see his son inaugurated next March.

(C) International. Spring cleaning, according to Antoinette Musso, pay. She shook a rug out of the window, and something tell. It was a box containing $5000. (Int.) Five thousand dollars! Just flew away! Everybody knows where the "First bank is, but it took Antoinette Musso, a fourteen-year- old New York girl, to discover the second.

Her spring cleaning was an expensive proposition for her dad. Northeastern College Has New Educational Ideas stores, which cut down overhead expenses and permit of the standardization of goods, have long been in successful operation, but schools, operating exactly the same principle, are a genuine novelty. It has remained for Northeastern College of the Boston Young Christian Association to take the lead In a movement that may be destined to become worldwide in its scope. Under guidance of a regional committee of men of large affairs, this institution, which started with boxes of chalk and four, is now to extend its work to the principal centres of New England as rapidly as may be pos- slble. A great national educational gramme has been authorized by the international committee heading up in an educational council, with headquarters in New York city.

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