| Show Valentino Valentines sOwn Own i Story of Life I i MY tf Sill ALSO IE ron FOR RACING R AUTO BUT nUT BUTi i Guess i DESERVED IT rr Y LE TI O ho lie hind 1 lied ond n a n dis- dis distinct this flair for speed In this in of ot hl Ills uk own 1 inU- inU inato 1010 story of ot his Ills life lite lie he tells Itow lie ho 0 gayly 1111 diced on the motor trip to toNIce toNice NIce to fitts ar Cuts at nt the lies Lea lins Many and anti many a II tinip Ic hc I tool took my life lite be- be be between tween my two wo careless JUelss auth l filing tiling It earthward ard Iy i It nard ord seaward only to hll hac It to me laughing intact una unafraid fr Ami ulI poor I nearly drove my nty frantic nut But tile the lie thrill of pe speed 1 a Mas upon me tIle Ever l ver faster f ninety faster faster ter ninety miles tin an ln ir nea Read l K ly as s lio 10 tics des lovely oely as women as On on- on ony only iy y The Great Loter L can them you to realize after nIter reading this In- In In Intimate tile the the cause of ot The Shells Sheiks power oer o o cr feminine cart Written for Inc Copyright 1926 The Tho New York Evening GRAPHIC All rights reserved Tho The speed I had maintained on our motor trip to Nice was be- be beginning beginning be beginning ginning to tell on the th Natacha combination of speed and dis- dis distance distance dis distance tance Not to mention the dl- dl disagreeable dis disagreeable agreeable facts of ot dust and dis- dis disarray disarray dis disarray array which bother men so lit lit- lit little tIe tle that they frequently forget or neglect to consider how much they do bother women Bourges I 1 must say Is where Philippe the tho Beautiful and his lt Italian llan wife an Este Esto os or Medici I 1 forget which lit Ite burled buried The Tho cathedral was closed as we sped by an anti and 1 as we wanted to make Nice In the thc evening we wc kept going XAI NER NEROUS M-I M OUS We Ye had to go 0 through Gren Gren- Grenoble Grenoble oble There are two roads to toNice toNice toNice Nice One Ono goes through to Lyons the other goes through Grenoble and Dijon Of course it can be used ani only In summer In winter It Is full tull of ot snow and ond quito Impassable Realizing that I had quite a aspin a aspin aspin spin ahead of ot me I went right righton righton righton on regardless as Nat Natacha cha would doubles describe describe- It were she writing my diary for tor mo me And I 1 described I will admit against myself a series of hair hair- raising hair raising turns on two wheels wheels- wheels and sometimes on one I have havo declared myself Ins Ins- Immune Im Immune mune from the gambling fever but I must admit that I 1 have havo a distinct flair for speed So much Co that I drove Natacha nearly frantic She told tol me that she expected ever every revolution of ot the wheel would b bo the last one one- one for tor the tho wheel for foe her and for But Dut the gods behig with us we finally arrived In Nice at ot 9 o'clock In tn the tho evening and evening and no iso thanks to me inc either I was told in rather rothel accents by EASY EAST Fort FOU TOURISTS Perhaps she was right As a 0 matter of tact fact not only the tho gods but the roads were with me on my trip to Nice Kice The Tho roads are aro exceptionally good and ond in each town there are aro huge posters where one can see the tho names lIames and the directions without the bothersome slowing Blowing down and Inquiring hero here and there and or- or ev everywhere The Tue characters on tile tho posters poster are arc fully six inches high so that one can cAr decipher them easily going ninety miles all an hour which is practically If 1 not literally what I did Oh OIl HR es and I 1 had another help too too-a too a very great one I flatter myself on my sense ot of direction but perhaps I should first ot ol all 11 flatter latter th the Royal Auto Lh vl o r Paris This commend commend- commendable commendable able organization made nude me mo a arhart of the tile town and roads Each separate and Individual town has a a red I stone tono with the number of the road in black thereon thus dramatically d af definitely marking It Even the roads play the Rouge et Noir Nair For or Instance the cities from Bourges to Grenoble number lumber tho the road yo 0 o 6 C So even Iven if It you pass Poss the sign unseeIng unseeing ing It if you take lake the wrong road Cay ay say No and j-and 7 and 1001 look at the you see that you Oll are wron wrong and rid are guided back to the tho right When I Indulge In Inslight slight fIt ot If boastfulness about the imi- imi sent nent and dexterous fashion in I navigated and circum circum- circumnavigated circumnavigated navigated the roads It If I may use useL a L nautical terni for tor motoring I Iam Iam am ire gently but firmly reminded ot it the tho many and Ingenious de- de vices dt-vices Ices placed along the tho way to a 11 young man from front going And honesty compels me flu to admit that I didn't de do- do servo dc-servo servo ervo a 0 great deal of credit ex- ex except ex except ept for the fact tact that I kept tile the car ar on the road when it had overy very appearance ot of o leaving It it wheel by wheel TRiBUTE TO WOMEN Natacha was nervous enough I All Alt women all beautiful wo- wo wo women men rien surely are highly delicately ond nd very finely organized They are arc strung like a n priceless Stradivarius They respond as all an apple tree treo r to April breezes I But Hut if It Natacha hud had not had as aswell aswell yell well a nerve of ot steel and So an appreciation for fol what sho lie could see of the scenery as aso we o sped through it tt no isO doubt I would have havo been even more mora unstrung than she sho was It 1 is trying to think that every revolution evolution ot of the tho wheel is going to 0 be bo tho the last I know know-I know I sup sup- suppose sup suppose pose I always have thought thought- thought that hat I am more or less protected by the tho gods Swept as It t were by y their wings for I have havo taken and ond many a time my life lite between my two careless hands I and nil have flung It earthward sky sky- sky skyward ward art 1 seaward only to havo have it returned to me laughing Intact and unafraid A VC S RIU JI Natacha says Bays she thinks the gods have nothing to do with motoring and and less to do with motorists of my particular genus or species or whatever you ou call them But Dut the point of this nIghts nIght's writing Is that wo we finally and so- so securely se securely arrived at the tho Chateau Choteau Juan Les Pins tonight at nine nino o'clock The stir and and welcome the giving and taking of the tho story or of our trip the tho solicitude and ond mutual talk and excitement I will tell when hen I write my diary tomorrow It has been alt all that I could do doto doto to write what I have written hero here tonight O Natacha at cha says that I seem to be bo possessed ot or and by this diary of mine That no doubt with with my last breath I would Inscribe some theory some philosophy or some detail of ot the trip we are taking I have havo written this lIsle installment tonight not only practically but literally with pain IL HANDS DS POWERLESS My hands practically and liter liter- literally literally literally ally refuse to close My Index fingers are all but paralyzed pricked my hand with witha II U pin and J I will ivill swear that I couldn't feel all it-all it all from Irons grasp grasp- graspIng grasping grasping ing the wheel as I have been grasping it on our ride from Avignon and Paris I 1 have calluses all over both band hands and my shoulder and andI I arm muscles are horribly out of I commissIon from the terrific pumpIng up and down in the nar- nar narI narrow narrow nar narrow row mountain passes Somehow iI I I dont don't complain The Tho trip was joyously worth the pain I feel now and and so is writing in this diary ot or mine Whenever I arrive in a new I spot or ot whenever a certain lapse of the journey has bas reached its end I am om compelled by a a furl furl- furious ous desire to get et it all down in I black ind nd white I must have been bitten by the phobia ot or the autobiographer I think it comes largely from my love of this trip and my desire to Immortalize It to ta give it permanence and last last- last lasting in lug ing life lIe By Dy writing It all down with with- without without without out forgetting so much as a thought I may moy be able to distill a certain essence from It to re- re remInd remInd re remind mind me of If It tt all In other days daya Or I can take Paris and Dean Deau- Deau rUle Ule London and Normandy and ond Juan Les Pins Pina and keep them all with me wherever I am wherever I go Concrete Intact mine as I 1 found them themA A L E DAY Y But Dut now I shall shall go 0 to bed And surely sure surely I shall sleep tonight It if never I have hare slept be- be before before be before fore I can feel sleep drugging my weary eyes until the lids close of their own accord and I have havo to open them again by sheer force ot of will I can feel sleep creeping up up covering my limbs my arms my tired head as though a warm gar gas garment garment ment were being drawn over me softly almost Imperceptibly ob- ob obscuring obscuring ob obscuring me J We h have o had a delicious first day Natacha Natacha and I One of ot the really pleasurable excitements of ot life l is getting to to- to to gother gether in a family group after the tho group has been and dispersed for a a considerable period of time Natacha's mother and father and Uncle Dick Mr IIII and Mrs Hudnut came carne to Nicea Nice II a yea year ago to rebuild and do doover over the chateau which Uncle Dick had given oV ovar r to the tho gov gov- government gov- gov government government as a hospital during the tho ar war When hen he retired from from busi busi- business busi- busi business ness fleas the they came to Nice to settle down largely because it had bad long ong been heen a dream with them to do this very nry thing thinS They had lived in the Riviera oft off and on for tor years and always said that when Uncle Uncia Dick should have retired from busine business they would make malte Nice their perma perma- permanent permanent nent home REALIZING G DREAMS It seems to me a n fascinating no a very satisfactory an emi emi- eminently eminently emi eminently satisfactory thing to have havo known mown so well wall as they did what they wanted to do where they wanted to go and then to see take tahoe size snap r that dream urvan ina a dream very a eyes eyes before their very and mado to h hewn wn out ot of granite SeC ee tO 10 live for alt all who pus pasS the tho ilia Uncle Dick bought who had prince from a Russian Carlo and hall had played at Monte lo lost t all his money as s wo Natacha and I claimed about tho lovely peace peace- roamed that i tho th ful ci sloping grounds with the tho of ot this stilt still lingered lingered wi chateau fact could feel eel some some- somehow somehow ome- ome chateau One had tragedies how about it that tl lA little made mado a II a here hete been lived be- be because because to bear benr lighter a little easier beauty ot of the of the sheer cause place It n has hns J ua sense senCO grounds ground ot of and air the tho and the sun I have beauty must peace and and terror sick think calmed the fel fel- fel fellows fellow's distortion in many a a poor to lows low's riddled heart 1 liko like think so 80 at nt any ony rate CnA CHANGING A A U CHATEAU MuzZle Muzzie I After the tho war wa was over Land and Uncle Dick put the place need need- needed ot Of course It bock back in Shape alteration and re- re re remodeling cd ed a lot of ot after aftel mod modeling lIng and doing over five and years years and strenuous years at that Muzzle didn't like tho thio interior and so they did that all over originally of ot a LI again It was sort of Moorish design which Is all right for or a Russian prince but doesn't as a rule suit s the American taSte so well Muzzle Muzzie particularly layers Louis XVI and it has las taken them nn an entire year to make moke the tho chateau choteau Into a aLouis aLouis aLouis Louis XVI place As a matter or of fact they still have two t or three I rooms room 10 to ao Well of at o course they had bad to hear from rom our own lips all alt that lied had happened to us in iii tho the past year ear ho fact tact that our letter and th the papers had hod car car- carried car carried ried sled veritable bundles ot of those important happenings back and forth between us It is so much moro more exciting to say Such and such luch a II thing took place on such and ond such a 0 a da day and then to have bovo the tho family Oh and ana andAhl thi Ahl before your i very eyes t IL GOSSIPING We had to tell them where here wo we were living and whom we wo had Iad been blen seeing and ond what we wo were planning and how we e felt elt about this and how we wo felt about that We answered numerous inquiries about mutual friends and the friends of friends and all we knew about this or that birth death or 01 scandal All of the tho customary family gossip was ex- ex exchanged ex exchanged changed and then interchanged again We went over all of the de- de details details de details tails ot or our with trip trip with extras added on It was I great reat fun tun A constant round of Natacha o do doten ten tell me about this or Rudy I hear so 60 and so BO tell me mc is it true 7 Dont Don't miss tomorrows tomorrow's great instaLlment pr pf p Rudy's nudy's m torr atory The Great Lover Lo Natacha linger a In Nice and then turn fares faces southward The Sheiks Sheik's 0 ois own n is homeland L Ito Ho Hotell tells his lils heart thrills his Itis secret 10 lo loies es Ills his emotions He lIe pens a ord picture that hat Mould make your heart heat beat tile the faster Dont Don't miss It A GRAPHIC Feature |
