Show SPLENDID GIFT TO LIBRARY of Letters Let ter and Autographs Now Property Property Prop Prop- erty of the French Nation J f r The French national library has hns Just been enriched by a n great gift on the part art of Baron Edmond de Rothschild who has handed over to It the Incomparable incomparable parable collection of ot historic autographs autographs auto auto- graphs collected b by his mother Mine Mme Ja James es de do Rothschild I It Is h known all over the world as I tho the most complete and valuable collection col cot lection of l letters and und autographs of 11 il- I 8 The rion includes letters from Crom post Most ost of ot the former kings and queens of ot Fran Frane Including Philippe le Ie Bel Francois Francol I Henry IV IY Marguerite de deValois deValois Valois Catherine and Marie do Me Me- Medici Mediel did dici and Marie Antoinette There are also letters from Cram eminent public men like Sully and Colbert leading soldiers such as Gaston de Ele Foix Conde Turenne and Marshal faxe to say nothing of at poets and writer like VIII Villon on Bacine Racine RadDe Ra Ra- cine and Mme Ime de Sevigne WAY CAN ALWAYS BE FOUND Incident Going to Prove Th That t Man of Resource Seldom Need Remain In Hard Luck Of Ot course course there are hundreds of thousands of nC men who pay their own own way us liS they ther travel about the tIme world but it remains for tor nu un service ex-service man manto manto manto to play his way from New Mexico to Washington This Tills young man was n a n good piano player el find and this Is how he used his musical talent He Be would walk up to a house ring the front door bell and ask Would you rou like a little music Then he lie would tell the lie people hc was a 8 good pianist that he hue was traveling to Washington and that if the they had hud a piano he would go In and play pIny for tor them Once inside the would ask them what sort Rort of t music mu ic they ther preferred He could could l play U- U almost anything so It was as seldom he had to reply I dont don't know that In return fut fur the time pleasure he be gave gaye people he lie was always paid something Sometimes he lie got Jot a dollar sometimes more In one town he earned 21 UP lIe would travel el as far as his money would carry him him then he would put on another course of ot home concerts You see theres there's always Ii u way for aman a n man with ability to pa pay his way from where he lie Is to where he lie wants to go Tob Tob Dreier In Forbes Magazine |