The Blyth Standard, 1930-03-20, Page 6This Is Anastasia I had visited Madante'1'chaikowsky and
found her to be indeed Anastasia. But
Anastoola was sick, penniless, 'terse -
Interesting Statement by the cubed, 1 had every confidence in my
sister's judgment , and yet I could
Son of the Tsar's Personal
quite believe even her, BM 1 nutmeat
Physician and One -Time ly was greatly upset, and as 0000 as
Playmate of Anastasia. 1 could manage it, went to Europe.
Early in May, 1927, I arrived (11 the
A DRAMATIC LIFE ancient Bavarian castle of the Duke.
of Leuchtcuberg, who at the time way
By Web Botkhn offering refuge to Madame Tchn1110(0-
sky. At first she refused to sec me. 1
I think no mystery 1(1 tho annals of waited from day to day. One after -
royalty is more romantic than that of noon, while I woo to the hall, the door
Grand Duchess Anastasia, luso known opened and before me app0ared-Ao-
oe 910dame Tchalkowsky, who now aeta0ia.
dwells secluded near New York, the It Is difficult to describe the s1009
guest 01' a eerinbl Miss Annie Burr I experienced, but. 7101 the fleet nos
Jennings, melt I knew her to be Anastasia,
To me there to no mystery attached There could he not the slightest doubt
to the case of Madame 'I'cltalkowsky, about it, Shoo likewise, 'recognized
I not merely believe her to be Anes- isle at once and o1) the saute efter110011
tesiu-1 know that she is. The guest she singled out from the many draw.
el Aliso Jen1iegs is the youngest loge I brought to show her these
daughter of the late Emperor Nicholas which I had glade in Siberia.
11., and the only surv100r of the Eka. Iter situation was pathetic. ting
1) 0101larg massacre, Because 1 have 0111) relatives tried to have her arrest -
officially and actually withdrawn from ed, kidnapped, There had been several
the case, I can for the first time sand attempts on her life. German news•
I hope for the last) relate what I know papes, allied with Anastasia's mule,
of it. were waging a ruthless campaign
1 have known Anastasia etude elle against shoe, trying to prove that. she
was 00vetr and I was Dight, Sho has (('00 a Polish peasant. The Duke of
never been very pretty, though her Leueditouberg was losing his 110111. It
blue eyes are exactly like her father's. was all mysterious and dreadful. I
She was always gay, witty, possessed felt myself plunged into the Middle
of a great sense of humor and, when Ages, There Seemed to be ((o ex -
she wanted, delightfully kind. The planation for it nil, but at all costs,
courtiers considered her an adorable Anastasia had to he got out of Europe.
enfant terrible, and her cousins I promised to try to do it.
thought her a little nuisance. We In June, 1927, 1 was back in New
ween to play together, and I thought York, but nobody wanted to listen to
her charming. me. Some of my friends thought I
Some nine yam's after I first saw was embarked on some unscrupulous
Anastasia, we all found ourselves in political adventure. But at hue(. riles,
exile i0 Siberia, Tobolek was truly a William 13, Leeds, the former Princess
God -forsaken place, 250 smiles from Xenia, offered to receive Anastasia,
the nearest railroad, buried from Oa and in February, 1928, Anastasia final.
tube' to May in snow, with the tem•
pe'atnre at about 40 degrees. ]i'ehren.
then: below zero.
Our party of exiles was placed n
two houses, across the street from
each other. 1 found myself in ono
house with my father, my sister, and
several members of Ole Imperial
Suite. The Empress was very anxious
to have Ins sister and myself study
and play with her children, but for
501(0 mysterious reason, the revolu-
tionary Commissars stubbornly re-
fused permission for this. All we
could do was exchange greetings
through windows, and send messages
by my father, who, as personal physis tasia's rights were made officially be -
clan to the Tsar, was allowed to visit fore then. Anastasia 000010ed 1117
the prisoner, With the eldest Grand promise filet I would try to save her
Duchess, Olga, I exchanged verses, fortune for her. Meanwhile, however,
and for Anastasia and the little heir she quarreled with me and with every
1 drew funny pictures. 1 body else, until she was completely
It was a dreary winter, but it would
have been drearier still had it not
been for Anastee ia, Not yet 1.7, sine
managed to keep her courage and
amuse others even at the darkest me -
moms. My father reported that the
Grand Duchesses were always trying
to cheer up theft' father, who had
plenty of reason for gloom, Almost
every day the guards threatened to
shoot us all,
In the spring of 1918 my sister and
I were forcibly, separated from our
father, who was 1 01001 with the im-
perial Family to Ekaterinburg. We
were left in Tobolsk. Soon afterwards
Tobolslc was captured by the
"Whiles." We 1ve'e saved. But what
of the Imperial Family and our fath-
er? We knew nothing. At the first
opportunity I molted to Ekaterinburg,
arriving there with a detachment of
White troops, about a week after the
whole Imperial Family and my father
had been shot.
in 1920 I escaped to Japan. In 1922
ly reached the United States.
I thought that now her troubles
were over, bet I was much mistaken.
The mystery began to clear up. Tho
Emperor had left a fortune to his
daughters in England. There was al
so looney and real estate in Germany
and Finland. Anastasia's relatives
had long been searching for that for-
tune, but couldn't locate it. It was
Anastasia herself who anally gave 1110
necessary information.
To add to other complications, it
was just in the summer of 1928 that
the money had to he given to Atlas•
tasia's aunts, unless a claim for Ants•
isolated on the Leeds' estate.
Nevertheless, Anastasia's fortune
was duly rescued and tied up tri the
banks. And then Anastasia's hosts de-
livered an ultimatum, She was eith-
er going to renounce her 0181010 and
let her aunts inherit her money, or
else she was to leave their house in
48 hours.
As a 00nsegcleuce of this decision,
I found myself one day with Anas-
tasia and au American friend, driving
in a car along the Long Island high.
ways. What were we going to do?
We had no stoney, and even we who
had befriended Anastasia had been
mysteriously threatened. We took
ler to an attic on Fifty -Sixth Street,
New York, occupied by a certalu John
It, Colter, a journalist 10110 had al-
ways championed Anastasia's cause.
Luckily she was satisfied with a vege-
tarian diet. Colter and I had just
enough money between us to buy her
lettuce and a tomato for supper.,
The other friends cache to the res -
I arrived in the United Stales. Where- cue, Anastasia whit to live in Car-
avel' I went I heard of rescued Grand (leu City, Lond Island, and remalued
Duchesses, I even met some of them, hidden there until she accepted the
• 1t came to a point when every an. invitation front Miss Jennings.
nouncemeut of another "discovery" of I must say that Auaotaela lino been
a Grand Duchess caused 1110 to fly into totally misrepresented by cher own ad -
anger, he'ent0 who, in trying to provoke
Then, in 1925, I read a cable from more sympathy for her, and explain
Germany about tine discovery in Bele away her often bewildering actions or
112 of ;n Madame Tchaikowsky who statements, have created a wrong pie-
claimed
ieclamed to be the Grand Duchess An- two of her. She can indeed be 90101116
astasia; The same afternoon a report.. 0rdng and exasperating, But in this
er called on rhe. 1 declared enphatl• her personality has not changed. She
catty that Madame Tchaikowsky was can be witty and kind, but she is still
either 14 71-00(1 01' a lunatic, the enfant terrible, and that can he
Several months passed, and I began very trying in 'a grown person. Slho
to shear about Madame Tchaikowshy salters from all the idiosyncrasies
again, The information was battling 00111111011 to royalty, She Insists 01'
and disturbing, At length I began to most rigid observance of court eft.
investigate the matte' earnestly. The queue. She hates everything ass0ci•
more 1 Investigated, the more I had ated—like the Russian language—
to admit that this pretender had a '10 11.11 he' fearful family tragedy. It is
good case, Sho herself seemed to re. on these grounds that she considers
stain completely indifferent to her it insulting to be (1005toued, Her ad -
fate. Nevertheless, I remained highly liorents started the very harmful myth
skeptical, that she lost her memory ant forgot
At last, late In 1920, I received a Russian. Anastasia's memory is
hysterical letter from Illy sister. Site amazingly good. Actually, Russian is
SMATTER POP— Make the Job Worthwhile.
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THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS HOW TO PLEASE SAVAGE HEARTS
This Sarcee chief, shown wilih his swum, wears new treaty suit just
distributed by Ottawa. The Only 0)11101iem are 011000, apparently (00000sins
appealing more to 111m. :Medal is ono glen to Chief Old Bull Head 1l the
'70'0. Note the brass buttons.
the only language she knows perfect-
ly, het she insists on talking either
English o' German.
But 1f one doesn't violate a Nettie
mental of court etiquette by nslcht„
her questions, she herself will talk
freely of her past, 'iler last recollec-
tion of the night of July 17, 1915, is
that she saw the Commissar 1'our0)-
sky shoot the Emperor through the
head. She hid bel1hnl her sister Olga,
heard Olga stream, and lost conscious-
ness. She came to herself in a peas-
ant cart, traveling along the highway
with two Wren and two women. She
ryas covered with wounds and ronain-
ed for a long time send -conscious.
Later it was explained that the two
melt were among the Bolshevik shunt•
tug sgnud and accompanied the bodies
of the victims to the forest. They no -
(iced that Anastasia was alive, stole
her, and brought her to their farm.
They set out 1110 same night in a cert
and after many weeks of weary travel
they ruched Rumania, •
There Alastasla married one of her
rescuers and pro blit to a sou,
Soon afterward her hushed, Teher,
1iowshr, 001)) killed, Het' little son is
said to (have died. Anastasia made
her way to Germany, where she 10ant-
ed to fi5l her godmother, Princess
Irene of Prussia. Arrived in Berlin,
she threw herself from a bridge in a
fit of despair, but -was 1'0000011 by the
pollee. Since she refused to 1111100r
a 01)18)0 miesliou, she was placed f1
an insane ;asylum, 1l was tuere that
she was recognized by Russian ('1511•
oro who had known her in her child-
hood. They obtained her release from
the asylum in 1922. --North American
Review,
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date. Say, 'Back to the hangars' and
show }'0n know something about: an
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Gull Spans Ocean
To Escape Storm
Boston Museum Gets Black -
Headed Specimen, First
Ever Seen on This Side
Found at Newburyport
A Emmen) black -headed gull, tine
first ever recorded in Canada or the
United States, 10 now au exhibition in
the nmseum of the Boston Society of
Eatmral History, 3501. how or why the
mrd made the Atlantic teal which
has turned buck or killed so many
av11(1(0s, (10 one can say, but It 0001510
probable that the terrific gales which
1nsh0d Europe last frill were a factor
in bringing 0115 rare immigrant 10,11)0
United States,
The gull was taken at Nowburytiort
00 January 27 and was presented to
the Boston Society of Natural History,
It is a handsome bird, scarcely one-
quarter the sloe of the familiar her-
ring- gull, The plumage is white, with
the back and wings faintly dove•color-
ed. The underpart of the wing pel-
merfes are black with a wide white
0teipe close to (he edge of the wing,
The bill 15 Indian red and the legs and
toes coral la (01mm01' the head is
Week. .
Bird In Fine Condition
In spite of its long journey the bled
Mae fat and 111 11110 coalition, indicab
Ing that ittmust have landed some..
weeks age 1001 had lime to r00t and
recover .from its experience. 1t had
beau fac311117 on 0m111 shrimp when
taken,
Cormnen en on Thames
Jilack-hetided Balis breed from the
1IrItlsh Isles mod 11)101gih b]urope 10
Turkestan, In winter they range to
the Azores, the Red Sea, India, Chinni
and Japan. They aro common og' fie
Thames in Leinu, rvherethcy" be-
come tonne 90canse'of the food and
protection given them.
Along the shores they feed on small
fish and crustaceans, while inland they
often follow the 1(1005' iii search of in-
sects, worms and larvae, They are
not mainline guile of the species
which often follow vessels fon' days.
This makes the presence of ono here
the more remarkable, It has been
suggested that in one of the great
gales last fall the bird 1100 blown out
to sea mot became confused,
"Pity you Westerners 'who have to
get everything Clone in a life time; I
can wait forty or four hundred yea's."
--Mahatma Uand9),
The Dentifrice
Racket
(Catherine Hackett, Washington News-
paper Woman, Formerly on the Staff
of the "Christian Science Monitor,"
Who Lays e Big Graft Open to the
Light of Day.
Do your teeth show 1he need of an
100101110 cleansing agent' Are you af-
llieled wil.h mtlelu plaques'! (h' suf-
1'nring from the pet icethental pain of
mala cluston? Canning down it few
pegs in the scientific lingo of modern
dentifrice advertising, are you per-
sanded that four out of live got pyorr-
hea, that you Imre acid mouth, or that
yam- gusts need 00ereiei1g'!
I'icic up any magazine, read a I'ely
tooth paste advertisements, end real•
ize the inadequacy of your college
chentl01 y courses.
Ora told, When dissolved in the
01111ra o' blood, forms a hyper-lotfie
solution of the sails of sodium, cal-
cium and magnesium, based on the
electro-chemlcal theory of hydrogen
ion cordial,
'('hose scientific terms might be
taken from a. Ph.11, thesis; but try it
on an expert chemist. Ile will tell
pm that it 1110310 nothing al all. If
you ask him fernier to analyze a $2
eau of Orn-Noid, he will tell you that
it coneist0 of a mixture of salt, bak-
ing soda, chalk magnesium, borax and
starch, which cost the manufacturer
about leu cents,
Ora-Noid is a typical example of the
hundreds of products so successfully
advertised 111 scientific jargon that the
Public spends annually over 560,000,-
000
60,000;000 for dentifrices. The utiles of
tooth paste squeezed out each year on
millions of tooth brushes which would
Would clean tihe teeth quite as well un-
aided, world reach serosal times
around the globe. A1ci a variety of
absurd beliefs concerning the physiol-
077 and chemistry of the human
nnouth have been so firmly implant-
ed in the public mind ,11111 it would
take another Law L'nforcement Coat-
missloll to stake 0 dent in the general
and mistaken belief that acid 11(0)101
Is abnormal aad healthy, that patho-
logical con(litlons such as pyorrhea
cum be treated by dentifrices, and that
anyone can have pearly white teeth
which are the envy of your Mende.
Such is the power of "scientific" ad-
vertising that Iwo statements from
the highest authorities which 5110011
have put most of the manufacturers
out of business have caused not 1110
least concern to tine trade Says the
American Medical Association, '110111-
fricehas in itself no magical or chem-
ical power to clean, and the best
mouth washes are warm water or a
solution of common table sell." The
American Dental Association elates
that the chief value of a dentifrice is
to establish a healthy habit of leaking
tooth brushes a morepleasant. pro-
cess, end that "no deut'ifrlce can be
used for so-called mouth correction."
Possibly the lest example ()fau ab•
solute misstatement of scientific facie
is the contention that 8011 'mouth,
the newly discovered national men-
ace, is an abnormal condition and can
be prevented by certain tooth pastes.
If the fact that the human saliva to
normally slightly acid, and that no
substance introduced into the month
lama Haire more than a temporary alkot-
lhhe 0050(1on, could once he got across
to the public, dozens of tooth -paste
manufacturers would be bankrupt.
:Tice _Anherlca 1 -Dental Association
states: •
The saliva is normally ;slightly acid.
;Mouth acidity or alkalinity cannot be
controlled by any induced eebiolooces.
Isere is a product advorttsed as 0
"cure for acid m0titll;;Semafor—"a
new contribution to Health,"Sentafor
offers 11.8 users a delightful game. It
is a red liquid au(1 "by eltasging to
white it reveals 101 -ten acids are pre-
sent in the mouth or throat," Since
acids are (1000(ally `p,eesellt' in all
mouths, the ,ante neve' fails. To test
the . "degree of acidity" one takes
mouthful after 1550017 1 till one can
spit reit. Could not a11 original hos-
tess devise a 501007or Competition to
see who 0011 spit red 111 the fewest
number of rinses?
Since some copy -writer discovered
the popular appeal of 111)11 on the teeth
dozens of dentifrices employing the
well known principle of using an ltic0-
Hue or soapy medium to dissolve
10111'111, 1)1(00 hemi put on the market,
Here again the American Dental As-
sn0fatiou has thrown what 8110111(1
have been a bombshell with the state-
ment that "she (1011111 profession is
not at all agreed that mucin plaques
should be removed daily by the Elea 110
of an energetic alkaline means," Or.
Phos, "dental science's latest ilhh'-
acle";'Pepsodeut, "the greatest step
made in a half-eoatury's 80011Y 01
tooth -cleansing methods"; Pebeco, "a
tooth paste specifically created to cor'
rect unhealthy mouth conditions";
Listerine tootle paste;which "keeps
teeth gleaming white with almost no
10059 ig," offer cheap and common
chemical "gents under the guise 'of
00)0ntlfte discoveries to combat film.
Ilene is Mu -Sol -Dent, one of the
more exclusive and aristocratic of
this group, advertised 0.0 a product
resulting from extensive research un-
der the anspleos of the Mellon Insti-
tute. The fact is that a dentist named
C. Vogt, who held a fellowship at the
Mellon Institute, developed a formula
for removing mucin without the use
of soap, and tine -Institute issued its
regular certificate declarlog Dr. Vogt
to be the dlocoverer of this 10001010.
'Phis certificate, prominently featured
on the Mu -Sol -Dent label, concerned
only the chemistry of the prodaet (1101
not its extravagant claims. 'Realizing
that its certificate was being comities-
ciallzed, the Institute discontinued the
issuance of 011c11 certificates In 1921,
The American Dental Association round
that Mn -Sol -Dent is neither new in
principle nor results.
The most widely advertised denti-
frices are of two kinds: those that
claim to cure pyorrhea or other pathos
logical conditiofte which only an ex -
Pert dentist should treat, and those
which modestly limit their claims to
eleaaeiag or panelling the Loath, 1110e
the first class at your peril; the sec-
ond if you prefer theft` pleasant taste
to table salt or powdered chalk, which
aro equally efficient ,as clea1191;g
agents.
Some of the dentifrices which 01001
the flower to whiten doll or yellow
teeth employ such dangerous chem1
eats as hydroClllol'ic acid, A govern.
meat chemist placed an extracted
tooth overflight fit a solution of Dae
widely advertised tartar remover. The
next morning the tooth was the con-
sistency of a well chewed lump of
gun. 'l'a'taroff, "the greatest scien-
tific discovery of the age, which trans-
forms teeth immediately luno genes of
peal -like beauty," was found by the
American Dental Association to coin
sist of hydrochloric acid and water
with a trace of ahuninum.
Other pastes and mouth washes aro
termed "antiseptic and germicidal."
Chemical experts in the Johns Iiop-
kius laboratories tested 41 brands of
tootle paste, of which eight accounted
for 90 per coot. of the total tooth•
paste sales, for possible antiseptic ac -
lion. Not a single preparation was
found to be capable of destroying
01aphylococcus, one of the common
micro-organisms found in the mouth,
after a five minutes' exposure.
Nevertheless the public will Prob-
ably continue to purchase millions of
dollars' worth of tooth piste to re•
trove the "yellow mask," or to pre-
vent pyorrhea,
In Due recent advertisement is a
full-page piettiee of two shapely, silk -
clad logo, with the strange caption
"gleaning, tartar -free teeth," What
is the connection? Well, what you
save In n year by paying only 25 cents
a tube fol' this partiCular brand of
tooth paste will buy you a pair of silk
stockings. But think howmanypairs
you could hey with what you save by
using no tooth paste at all! --Now Iter
public.
"I thin); ,1V0 (01111 gat along ;i'ao to•
gather,"
"Well, it's. certainly time you were
getting along. It's eleven o'clock,
"Nations are playing 111(10 and seelc
with peace like chhtdreu,"—Edouard
Ilce'fot.
"The dividing line between success
and failure 18 just a 901111ne in thous•
awls of cases." --Bruce Barton,
By C. M. PAYNE
is