Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 38

3P THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, SUNDAY, 'AUGUST 15, 1926. mt X' Suf 1 vf urn mm am imnwKwwiim msi i imi imiiwm 1 i it v. Getting What One Wants All a Matter of the Right Colors, Names, Thoughts -Y (5, it tS ll 1 ji yJL Ai ffitf s. rfrw lm.rhi S0 fillW' and Numbers' According to Miss Rex ford, 2 I 'll 'kit Who Thinks It Proved by Her Smiling Own Romantic Achievements happily over what Mi Rex- ford firmly believe the accom plithed solely through what calls her "mental radio" prizes. And always also there has ever been a grist of solemn Jonahs and long-faced Aunt Fannies in every generation to stand about and lugubriously explain that there "ain't no royal road" to health or wealth or a best young man or woman.

Then the doctors they say HEALTH, wealth and love are undoubtedly three blessings almost universally desired. And since health, wealth and love have always been so poignantly coveted, men and women are ever iecking new secrets by which they may attain these precious DARLING OF STAGE TELLS OF WOOING At 52, Cccilc Sorcl Courted Youth She Loved; Rescued Ilim From Ancestral Castle, a Prisoner of Own Family. I ve onstrating ner tne- I- i ory about the deep 1-1, Vv- I significance of num- I 1 vi sv 1 bers and names and 1 1'X showing why Or- Y. 0 cella Rexford just -'r'r'1' rishi name for I 1 to i I her health hereditary, all depend- ing on how your grandpapa behaved himself, the naughty boy. As for wealth, each new million dollar realtor or stock broker or beauty surgeon or what not will solemnly describe the nervous indigestion or hay fever he got while getting his first million.

He'll add that a man pays, by George, in his sweat and blood for every dollar he makes above, say, tsventy a week. And then love. Yes, Indeed -love. Well-Quits a few years ago a Roman gentleman, by name of Horace, remarked that It Julia had a feeling for Brutus, Brutus was sure to reciprocate by having a very strong feeling for Chios. And Chloe, to keep tho painful ball rolling, would be sure to be head over heels In love with her boy friend, Agrlppa, who didn't care a string for her at all.

Yes, this lovo goal was harder than a man's first million, harder to attain than tho firm anchorage of say a wildly floating kidney. Everything was so all messed up in life, and men and women were all such stubborn folks. So for along time the philosophers and tho flappers have agreed. Nobody could be sure of getting anything, especially love. And then a lady who comes from California ran her Angers through her curly bobbed head.

She smoothed out her sky blue pink Kw'n sho Is a color psychologist, among other things, And she spoke like a young porson who kno-As It all. "Stuff and says she. "It's easy to bo healthy. It's easy to have all tho money you can spend. It's dead easy to gather In the kind of husband a girl dreams of.

I know for I've taken tinto mysslf all three. How did I do it? Why, simple, my dears. I Just went out and called them In on my mental radio." Well, well, well, all rather perplexing! Especially when this young person, whose name, by the way, la Orcella Rexford, concludes: "There's not a ribbon clerk alive but could bo a millionaire it he chose. "Thera's not a longing old maid heart but somewhere there's a longing old bachelor heart to match. "There's not a case of asthma or housemaid's knee or nervous digestion or bay fever but, somewhere, there's also the cure on the mental radio.

I guess I know. For I operatt my mental radio every day In the week wiih marvelous results." Po Misk liexfnrd very solemnly explains. And so, of course, ws all must most solemnly listen. Now, at K- J' i t' Jj -7 'J s.y- v. My sweetheart almost quivered at the suggestion.

He said ho had no talent for the stage. bo added, "I have Insensitive arm muscles. You can stick a doson pins through them and I will not feel the pain. Can I use this on the stage?" All, 1 thought, the boy has both tha quality and the will to shock. "Why not pose as an Indian fakir?" I said.

"I will secure a contract for you to appear on the Tails stage, and let the audience stick pins and pen knives Into your arms." The boy soon mastered the art. He could even swallow knives. Ho was becoming the "rage" of the music hall fans. Cine day, while he was sleeping lu his room, be was made a prisoner and driven to tho Segur castlo In the Ardennes. Of courso at the time I did not know what had happened to him.

Hut it never for a moment entered my mind that bo had taken voluntary flight from me. I searched for him like our primitive ancestors searched for a mate. I Anally hired an army of detectives who, alter a long search, discovered that my love had been a prisoner In his father's palace, closely guarded by hired sentries. My detectives informed me that a rescue was Impossible. At night he slept behind barred doors thut woiy faithfully guarded.

1 hired an aviator to watch the castlo grounds, survey the premises and signal to mo when the time arrived for a descent. Within a short distance from the castle I was ready to take flight in another airplane and rescue my sweetheart. Days passed, and there was no opportunity for a descent. Then I had a powerful niotor car take Its station on the road bordering the castle I secured the aid of a young actor from the Comedie Francaise, for I was delermined to win the man of my heart. Finally, as a consequence of a signal given to me from my sentry in tho clouds, I drove the car half a mile further ahead, and my loyal actor friend descended.

With theatrical grease paint ho impersonated a ruined old rustic, peculiar to the region. Ho entered the grounds and the guards did not susurct him he- Miss Orcella Rexford who t' claims to have found the man BY Tili.l of I he Krmrh MnKf) rnrii, Aug. 14. 1 am the "rmtat proposed to" woman tn Ihs world. Thin Is not, an Id! bnnat.

Neither sm I reckoning the tons of thousands of silly litters any well known nnd popular act res may receive In tha cnurso of her long career from silly youths swearing Jove and devotion. 1 lmve in mind tha actual proposals from illglhle men bitIouhIv offering marriage. Hut for :0 yrnrs I rr ftisiMl them all; Bone of them appealed to my fancy. Finally the day tamo. It came like a lli-'liinlnn flash In a clear summer sky.

I foil In love. I hnd slwiiyg maintained that when that day should arrive, would disregard nil accepted usages and battle for the ohject of my love, it necessary, evon after tho fashion of an American cowboy or a caveman of Zunhaxl. I said, "When 1 find the man I lovo It would not matter even If ho did not love me; 1 would court, him, and, If I could not win him by courting, I woifld enny him oft by force." The evenllul day came, and It came this way: It was during the last days of the war. 1 was then a mere youth cf 52. I was traveling from Taris to Bordeaux on an ordinary day train.

I occupied a compartment with a private tuli'ler who wns returning to his rugiment lu groat anxiety, for be was due for a severe puniahnwiit for having "overstayed'' his leave of ahseiue. He had visited his bachelor haunts In Tai ls, and the ronsdousnos on his part that punlishnioiit awaited him was worrying him. I found him more sensitive to humiliation than to the actual hazards of the battle front. Too much worry finally exhausted him, and he dropped Into deep sleep. loved him! bad found the man for whom I had been hunting these 35 yean, I'nknown to him I Improvised my shoulder as a pillow tor his head, and when he awoke be found my yes looking down Into bis own.

'jlv niRn was too young? I then a'nd he It! Such considerations I ignored. But my man vil Ouillanme do fiegur, the heir of a French aristocratic, family which was so old that lta hide of presumed respectability was thickened d'liing many Ken-frations to a stage when tin modern bullet could make even th slightest dent in it- Our romauce could not be consummated in marrSace, for tho war was still going on; It bad to survive the armistice, and it did. Then came the next critical phase. My love's family learned that their son was about to marry an actrefs, much older than be. lie was instantly deprived of bis allowance and great pressure was brought to fores him to relinquish his We discussed the subj-rt very frankly.

He explaimd that he bad no means of earning even bis own livelihood, let iiloue providing for me. He would adept any agreed allowanco frnin me. His then friends had invited me to talte a trip with them to Alaska, and I listened in on my radio and heard him calling me. I would meet hlra up north! So I went to work. I bought myself a complete trousseau, my wedding gown of white tullo, with all tho colors of northern lights fluttering from the bodice In tulle draperies.

I took along yards and yards of pink and blue and yellow and violet China silks to decorate the church where we would be married, my Ideal man and I. At last we had reached Dawson City. He came to me to consult ma about numerology and his vibrations. He sat down opposite me, across the table in my improvised studio. And I told him "Tour name is all wrong! You must change It!" always hated he said.

Tick me any name you "On the spot I rochrlstened him Gain Gregory, as that, I found, Is the name which, for him, means health, wealth, happiness and love. Then he asked me to choose his colors for him, and I selected hira suits with grass green stripes and snuff-colored waistcoats with a dash of orange piping all bright and striking and successful wore the colors I chose for him. And he did not balk. "Then I read to him from one of my books hard words, sarcastic words, to test him. You see, I was weary of these low living men who had hitherto proposed, and I wanted to see how bo would pick the false from the true." This is what Miss Rexford read: "Eat as much as possible.

Always drink plenty of ice water. Don't think of what you eat, nobody knows anything about diet anyway. Scorn all information about calories, vltamtncs and such nonsense. Eat plenty of candy and drink quantities of soda water, ginger ale, liquor and such, as these will give you diabetes and cirrhosis of tha liver, besides helping you to get rid of your teeth. Read gloom literature and don't forget that anybody who is cheerful is probably a hypocrite Miss Rexford had read thus far, when the newly christened Gain Gregory held tip his hand.

"Ptop, stop!" he said. You can't Jest with me that way. You're just testing me! Useless. For long I have been tha Hygienic Man, ever since I first read your works. My dear lady, I do not smoke, I do not drink strong liquor, I do not chew or use profane language.

And I adore you. I'm going to marry you as sxm as we can arrar.ee the details. I knew you had come tha moment I saw you. For I have been radioing for you these last two years." So he spoke. Mi.s Rexford ha-1 met her Ideal.

The X- -1 she loves by meant of her mental broad-caatinsr but who refused to marry him until ne changed his name to ona that suits her theories 'y cause he was an accomplished I character artut end Imitated the I dlal.it of the district. He was Miss Rexford was really getting in quite a tad way, for she aa she explains, had made up her mind to be married only to the Ideal man. But let her tell a little of her experiences, at this Juncture, tall them in her own words. "I started In, feverishly, to radio. Of course, I made out my blue print first.

Everybody must when they radio for a mate or money or health or what cot. write all the requirements down." This is what Miss Rexford wrote: "He must be kind. "He must be obedient. "If his name doesn't vibrate by numerology, he must change it. "He mustn't smoke, drink, chew or use bad language.

"He must eat, bathe, live, breathe according to my hygiene, worked out by mo." "I would never agree that he did not exist. I merely kept saying to myself, 'Somewhere be is wairir-; for me, my mate, my perfect t.us- liaud.1 And i.ne a in in on my mental radio all the Inferiority complexes and gloomy thoughts and weary musings any young woman Invalid with an Imagination can call in." Miss Rexford tells about some of her thoughts, Just then. One, particularly, kept running through her head. "You'll never be married! You'll never be married! You'll just he a cripplo for life! You're done! You've thrown your chance away!" Then, she says, though she didn't at that time realize, she first discovered her mental radio. Nobody, then, bad beard of any kind of radio, but it existed just the same and she discovered it.

"One night, when I was visiting relatives' in Maine, I lay on my saying to myself, There's plenty of health and plenty of wealth and plenty of love in the world. Ail I've get to do is to send out and mi! them At last, in a flash of secend sleht and youthful I sot up out of tha! and cut my plaster cast quit away itie ncjf morning I walked don to hreakfa.st, while ail my relatives a wise man said a long time ago, the proof of the pudding ts in the eating. Miss Rexford feels that the proof of the high power and no static of her radio lies In the results it has brought home, which speak for themselves, out of her mouth. "I started life a cripple," she begins. was Just out of college when I fell in love, I was a hero worshipper and be was my hero, until he lid something which smashed ray Moa! of him.

I told him I wouldn't marry him If be radioed for health, and got ii, though how I didu't yet realize. But consider my plight. I had no money, as my small Inheritance had been swept away, going from doctor to dortor hunting for health. But I started to study colors and numerology. That's the science of names and numbers and their Interrelated vibrations.

Finally I'd mastered tha secrets somo of them of color psychology, and I wanted to start out and tell the world. I had no money at all. I Just sat down and Imagined money-would come to me. And 1J, did in the form of a legacy left me by an old relative I didn't even know existed. "I took 113, bought a hat and a ticket for Tortland, Me, and gave my first lecture and made $75.

From that day to this, I've never been troubled about money. My own has come to me. AYhy not? There's plenty cf money lu the world and if we think propeiity thoughts Instead of mean, jover'y thoughts, we get what we thirk. As a man thinketh yes. that's the expianation." Health and a decent amount of wealth, MUs Rexford attained quite early, hut men lingered.

She wondered why. Finally she decided. They lingered, the brutes, because Miss Rexford had a high Ideal for her prospective mate. And she didn't just flatter and foed and pamper tha rascals when they came courting. So, with serious, scientific intent, Miss Rexford examined all desirous svialns who came courting, as she explains herself.

One other thing she also explains, with a bit of scientific puzzlement. That was that none of the Boston gallants-Miss Rexford was preaching color and numerology to the Eostonians thenseemed to appreciate her little pre-matrimonial quiz at all. However, despite, Miss Rextord'a stern sciences of numerology and and such, she never found her ideal man, though she was ra-dioine for him frantically. If one man would consent to change his name, in th demands of nurr.pro'.ccy, he mulishly refu4 to wear an orange suit with hrown dots S), cf course, tie match was all c3. And m-irpieu rv ir.e guards as a poor old peasant dghhor.

remain- im the ground f.r three diys, fltViy s.u-ieeded In obtaining an Int-rview with mv love, to whom he outlined our plan of campaign. As the result the Interview CMg.mi 'ed a hunt. With bis guards lu doe attendance he maneuvered serous the field to that section of the wall on the other side pf which my motor car was hidden. When that point was reached be pulled his horse closer to tho wall, suddenly rose In his stirrups, then stood on his saddle, and tiefore the guards could It tcr-nipt, he had fluni; himself over tha wail into ny waiting c.ir. drove at high speed to the villaga r.T.r..-.-..

iiir-ii iniu i as one of the parties to the con-Isplrary. was waiting to us in I iLuaikto. was the last man on earth. Ho told! me likewise he would never marry a woman who had such a temper as I had. 'We separated, I went me to pridft would cot permit It.

1 told him he must not be daunt- re must brit-e his family to tfrme by horiiir.g them. mutt gj on tte euge. I Hikies. at iea-i strong lar.gjageless man. And h-r a to evr ry one is to wear tho rich! colors and be jxdcJ deeped a tubercular bene, and 'he 1ctors came put rne in r.e ssy.

1 Knew, he w.is or, weeks away. it was broa 81 ast art'd to scream. Ami fro-i that piaster cast and 1 lay cow a to call day 1 was never a cri; ple again. I'd ry th to me on my mecr.a! radio. About i ret.

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