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Show B ?:-l'iS?;l Record Breaking Values Upon This and I B Other Valuable Sections of the Human Body I B JHHHREgV" Which Show That the Increasing Cost of I B Jm m Living with What We I I JyIf JJli I yllF font, ihm baa been called "the de plsed member of the body." lias Joined the march ol increasing price? The toe ha? reached the appraised value of 5 1 ' This is true not merely of thai arrogant member of the group, the head of the toe family, the great toe. The weakest, humblest of the quintette, the little toe. shares In the enhanced values of the scorned extremities, All of the persons whose phoiographs are shown on thift page have had their toes Insured With one exception the amount of the insurance was one hundred thousand dollars per toe. Well may the big toe maintain its pride, that has been 6hown since man was created, by remov- fl ing itself slightly from its neighbors. Yet the little toe may assume such arrogar.ee. for if it were lost six figures might have to be invoked to make up the deficit. Mothers will rejoice at the news, (or fl they are the only persons in the world who have ever before hela .he toes at their true worth. That they considerd them pre-cious pre-cious they have shown every time they do-llghtedly do-llghtedly pinched the little pink member and cooed. 'This 111 tie pig went to mar-ket." mar-ket." The little pig has indeed, gone to market, and its market value is $100 000. a tenth of a million dollars fl Mistingette. the bizarre Parlsicimc, who has visited this country and will come back again to head a French review, caused a Hurry In the toe market. When the woman who is the rival in ugliness and fascination of the famously ugly Po-laire Po-laire arrived In this country she said: "Vou see. I am grotesque Like one of Degas's pictures. But my legs, bey are precious. For any little toe thr.t may be Injured I am to receive SK'O.OOO" Other dancers revealed for the first lime tilo appraised value of their toes The vi-jl vi-jl brations started by the fascinating though ugly Mistingette started counter vibrations vibra-tions cross currents of new? It developed lhat if Anna Pavlowa, the famous Russian dancer, stubbed her toe she might receive a tefeth of a million dol 0 lars That is, provided she stubbed it bar! rough. IUoidkln's toes are worth their weight in diamonds. A smashed toe. a performance perform-ance lost, and a hundred thousand dollars would be added to his fortune. Nljinskv, too. has insured his light fantastic?. fan-tastic?. The owner of the limousine that ran over them would have to pay the price of 20 limousines, provided he sued him for damages For It is written in the insurance in-surance records that their value la ten timet ion thousand. Yet when it is considered that these three live by their toes and that in ease of injury to them their means of livelihood would be gone, the sum does not seem so gieat. In one year Pavlowa's performances perform-ances will bring her nearlv that sum.-Vers sum.-Vers Maxwell the girl who, Helleu Bald Is the most beautiful woman on the American Amer-ican stage, has also had her toes insured. Miss Maxwell was modest. She was content con-tent to Insure the croup of "pink little-pigs' little-pigs' for $10,000. Although, as all of Miss Maxwell's admirer asjree. vhe might hive Insured them for ten times more had she asked Mistingette is a French woman. She has foresight and a sene of values. How she came to insure her toes Is most amusingly told by one of her closest friends I ounging on the blue silk couch in ber blue evpt hung room Just before she came to America, she stretched herrelf luxuriously and yawned The movement disclosed her ten toes, thrust pinkly belo" the coverlet of blue satin. "Precious things!" So she apostrophized them. "Would that our loeliness were as well known as the ugliness of my face. If It were I should say to those who dare to speak of my horse face,' 'Ah! But regard re-gard the pink mice of my feet 1 And those who complained of by 'owl eyes' should hear 'Tim consider the high lustre of my burnished toenails.'" After the contemplation of beauty fob low consideration of its commercial value 'Sinco they are so beautiful, end because t'lov are so accomplished they should be worth a great deal to me. To do 3 i sure thev are, for do they not earn my living In tho revu. ? True! But it is not enough that they bring me money when Tell What if they should be sick Horrors! Hor-rors! Or malned' Or lost'" She drew the blue satin coverlet over her bead and shuddered Af'er the fourth shudder she rang for her maid "Dress me at once in my mo'e-ckln mo'e-ckln gown and cloak and hat, Cecile. I am going to call on my advocate." 'Monsieur the Advocate listened with interest. in-terest. "Assuredly you are corroct, my dear mademoiselle," he suid. "There is in London a firm called Lloyd's Of Lloyd's It is said that they insure anything. Not that the exquisite termination of your feet which I ha e, pardon mc, observed many times with superlative admiration at tho pwues. may be dismissed as anything. Permit Per-mit me to make my meaning quiti i ear Lloyd's insure the urrueunl." Madomolsplle Mlstlngettc's toes twisted about each other In her velvet boots "My toes are unusual," she murmured "They are. my dear mademoiselle, absolutely abso-lutely unique.' The courtly advocate bowed unlll !ns forehead grazed the dancer's dan-cer's angular knees. Whereupon be drew sharply back and stroked his brow It was as though hi thought dom had collided col-lided with a pair of prickly pears Thereafter There-after he believed nil tals he beard of Mis-tingette's Mis-tingette's spearlike angularity He wrote to the Royal Exchange In London Lon-don Lloyd's signified its extreme pleasure in insuring the famous loes of the celebrated cele-brated Mistingette. The polirv read "legs " but the legal construction of the Insurance In-surance extended to the toe Should Mistingette Mis-tingette trip upon the Ice while skating and break her toe the six-figure insurance would ne cbiiectlhle. The policy phraseology w;is quite clear. "For any Injury to Mademoiselle Mislingette's legs or any portion thereof." Vhe toe, anatomists i say, Is an extension, and so a I portion, of the leg Even an a 1 bay may bo part of a river I Bvery dancer's bogy in an In-Jury In-Jury to her toe. The broken toe is the spectre of her dreams, her nightmare, the sword of Damocles ever suspended above her he i She lives, as It were, benatu th shadow of her broken toe. BtSS& -JBKeM ' I 1 b i lng seal nrrived. Iij handed It to the graceful grace-ful Russian, who executed ex-ecuted a pirouette be- i sides paying his fog. Vera Maxwell is , young and without much knowledge of tho , ' world save that which ' turns on the Broad wa; insist i I 'hough hor toes ' plus her lovely face are m her fortune, it had not occurred to Miss Maxwell, aged twenty-four or thereabouts, to have her means of livelihood insured 1- rom an elder head came- the suggestion. While youth usually flouts tba advice of age, istute young V. Miss Maxwell acted upon it Wherefore a visit to a lawyer, V c onsultation w i t b Lloyd . ot I. jndon, and an insurance policy for $10,000 tor Ml IS Maxwell's pn tr t and profit-bearing feet. M a uric e, whe proved he was as good a soldier as ho is o dancer, in-i' in-i' cured his graceful Vcr 1 "fnsued To" Anna '''wSeqNh. Jpfla .-mi Whose r - . Toes Are " Worth Ten l imes as Much as Vei a Maxwell's, According to Lloyd's Anna Pavlowa had a recurrent dream ot losing her balance, falling forward and screammg, while the audience rushed out of the theatre in a panic. She awoke sobbing sob-bing from this dream and lay awake for wretched hours reviewing it and dreading its realization To her dancing partner, Mordkln, she told this dream. Said he: ' You can banish the fear Insure them." She followed his counsel. He followed her example. Both insured thefr graceful legs and the nimble toes thereunto appertaining apper-taining for $100,000 N'ljlnsky, bebirr apprised by an alert Russian Rus-sian who resided In London, that Pavlowa iind Mordkln had dlsplnyed such prudr.e. himself sought his lawyer. The lawyer paid a visit to the Royal Exchange. Presently Pres-ently a huge document bearing an impos (Q 10ro. International Feature Service. Ice. Nijinsky - V Who Could jjP of a Mill ion Dollars Verc His Toes Disabled pedal extremities for S100.00O the pair. Indeed, a tenth of a million appears to be the standard plce. for toes with legs thrown in for good measure, as one hundred hun-dred thousand dollars Is the compensation usually asked for a broken heart, even Great Britain Right Hcicrvtd. jfi Mordkin, Another . I of Great Dancers r" mjjh anatomy the organ of sentiment T.-' s.-ems to be missing, sometimes re- i$p ySPfT Iwi'j duee the .-mount to six cents. 'qf sSaijl .John Stern, the younc tenor ot jgS&k. 1 the Zlegfeld Follies, discovered, Jrjr ' ''fjlll after reading the criticisms of his J . w;''v: i-J;"? performance, that his throat is ', ' the. residence of a nlghtineule, or. Whereupon, t01'"iett1' Paderewski's magic making arms, (-. flHHqHaaB m Lki and Kubellk's, ere insured, as is jA' myfjgXISmn WjVk f taSJP well known, for $100,000 The Eng- TO MsB IsbbbS plication arose iimi what one fr might think color blindness In ... . . art, another might consider genius. Mistingette, Whose Legs, Being Her In other words. Mucha might Fortune, Are Largely Insured actually go color blind and yet b J those who saw his paintings might think he was simply working along new and original lines! It was. therefore, solemnly sol-emnly stipulated that In the event of the nrtlst putting in a claim for color blindness blind-ness a Jury of nominated experts, not physicians or oculists, should decide w bethei or not ho really was color blind according to art! This curious fact does not seem so extraordinary now as thn for since that time the whole crazy art of the Futurists, Vorticiit and so on have made thlr appearance with fantlstic ap plications of color that would seem to argue them blind, indeed, to the normr.l hues. There Is a chemist in New York a very distinguished one by the way whose i factory iense has been highly developed und is of utmost importance to him In his. research. He has had his sense of smll insured for $150,000! A stage beauty who has been threatened by more than one Jealous wife has an ex ceeding fear that vitriol may be hurled into her face to destroy her beauty. "Your face maddens nvm." wrote one Slew York wife "The oulja board has twice told me to cast into your face a substance that will end its wicked power I shall ak oulja whether it means gunpowder or vitrol When I know I hall act according to Hi.ti advice. Oulja, never errs, but sometimes it is not quite clear to the ordinary Intelligence." On receiving this disturbing letter the actress ordered her limousine. Heavily iff)' ' eib-d she drove to her lawyer's office on ij lower Broadway. MagaK What can 1 do wi'h this dreadful woman?" she asked. "Can she not be faK&JlP '' sent to Jail forever for writing such a let- cer? I cannot help it if her husband admires ad-mires me." K&irSl' -5 "First, madame. I would advise that ou do not receive her husband when he tails," ? if ''MKTt answered the cold-eyed mr.n of the law. ' I should not like to be so rude to a dis- H tlnguished patron of the arts," she murmured, mur-mured, sniffing gardenia smelling salts. Km -Then, more reflectivel 'My face is, in- E" ' i, my fortune I must at all costs keep t1 it intact I want you to hate it insured for a let me 6ce a million dollars.' H will urite to Lloyd's," answered the man of the law. The application has been made. The actress eagerly awaits the repi "Why should k not be favorable?" She argues "My beauty Is worth a mil- t&iH Ikn dollars to me." PHB Meanwhile she has ordereci thnt If anv 501 strange woman waits for I-er at the stage HSllffi door she Is lo be notified. Frequently she tBOS& oaves the theatre by way of the entrance to the playhouse Wjtjtfm Tho-e who .tn,-,w thls (rup ilKldenl mj dor what I hw'; ff, WJ&M "Why shouldn't it insure her face'" thev HsP3 ask , h , , i Johi Barrymore's rl I flUlnlng single That risk was as gr-1 f |