Show I Rough Rider Silent Lover over Finds Lost Brown Eyes but She's Married For twenty twenty ht years he lie treasured her flag then found her her her- married I In the picture are shown Mrs A A. I I. I Serna and Rough Rider David L L. L Hughes I By DAN THOMAS N NEA EA Service Writer SAN ANTONIO Tex Tex Oct 1 AP AP-A AP A small silk flag tied to a ah h horses horse's halter Ju just t before beCore Tedd Teddy R Roosevelt Roosevelt's s famous Rough Riders Rider departed from here for Cuba during dur dur- durIng ur- ur Ing th-o th Spanish-American Spanish wa war started as strange a romance as ItS an anever any ever depicted on the silver sliver screen It was the of th thRough the Rough Riders' Riders history that uncovered uncovered uncovered ered this unusual game of ot h hearts arts David L. L Hughes a sergeant 1 in Roosevelt's regiment was the silent lover Josephine Mandry year 17 old San Antonio society maiden won ids his devotion and the respect o oan of an entire troop of Rough RIders Rider by her hel little show of ot patriotism o oa on ona ona a hot May afternoon COMES TO FIND HER A few Cew weeks ago 28 a ago o 28 28 years year later later later- Hughes came back to find his dream girl irl Victor Fleming director director di- di rector ector of ot The Rough Riders for foi Famous Famous' Players-Lasky Players was abouo about abou to o leave Hollywood for location at San Antonio when Hughes asked permission to go along as a technIcal technical technical tech tech- advisor It was his Us only means of getting back bark to Texas to search earch for his Josephine whose name ame he Ire did not know One day in 98 while we were grooming rooming our horses two young gIrls Iris drove up a buggy Hughes relates elates One of them came over overo overto overto to o me and asked If It she could baptize baptize bap- bap ize my horse I consented and sent ent one of the boys for a bucket of f water Then girl dipped her hand Into nto the bucket and sprinkled watEr water wa- wa tEr er on my horses horse's head repeating words similar to those thoe used n n a achurch church hurch baptismal BRINGS SOLDIERS' SOLDIERS CHEERS As soon as she was through the boys began to laugh laugh- saying that my horse lorse and I would be the first to tobe tobe toe be e Killed The girl became angry took ook a silk flag from her pocket and andied tied t t to the horses horse's halter saying say- say ing ng Laugh at that She won The boys all started to cheer cheel She was a beautiful girl I still remember what she wore And her herbIg herbig herig bIg ig brown eyes eves were positively cap- cap For twenty-eight twenty years vears I have her in my mind and wanted to find her I remember as asIre I she sl-re Ire left I said said Goodby brown eyes Ill I'll 11 come back He Ile came back back and and the aid i I of Noah Noah Beery and George Bancroft Bancroft Ban Ban- I croft both very familiar with San Antonio started the search for his dream girl whose name be he did not I know now Perhaps it t would have been better had the hunt prove proved 1 fruitless It would have prevented a gr great grat al disappointment When they met he he could not greet her with my brown eyes because she was was was' accompanied by her husband and year old daugh daugh- ter The The girl girl he waited for meantime became Mrs A. A L L. Serna wife of a local peace officer Famous Players Players-Lasky soon will send Hughes to New York where he will present the little flag to the Roosevelt Memorial museum |