(During the Past Week the Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Following Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines.)

Baron Krupp von Bohlen: "Still in the Duesseldorf jail, I have grown considerably thinner."

Charles Dana Gibson: "While abroad I conversed frequently with M. Clemenceau and lunched with Mr. George. Both are well."

The former Crown Prince: "Women Around the Crown Prince is a book promised by a Leipzig publishing house next month. Advance reviewers say it is mild."

Miss Muriel McCormick, eldest daughter of Harold F. McCormick and Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick: "Society gossips, dismayed by the scarcity of my affaires de coeur, have decided that I am in love with a man who was killed in the war and whom I never knew. He is Lieutenant George Alexander McKinloch, whose family has an enviable position in Chicago. I make almost daily pilgrimages to his tomb in Lake Forest and his mother and I visit spiritualist mediums."

George Bernard Shaw: "Said I: (in a debate at Martin's theatre): 'We are all partial robots. It is merely a question of how many hours a day we should be robots. I want to be a robot for two hours a day so that the remainder of the day I can be G. B. S. Give me the most mechanical job you can find. Send me into those soul killing occupations which are always denouncing, so that I do not exhaust my intellect.' "

Christopher Morley, famed colyumist: "Ten sonnets, fourteen lines each, I wrote, and read before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. My text? 'The herb, Lunaria, ceremoniously gathered at set times, laid upon any lock it makes it flie open.' "

S. M. Shortridge, U. S. Senator from California: "Mrs. Miles Poindexter, writer of Washington gossip, says that Senator McKinley (Illinois) and I are much sought after by the fair sex. I am married. So is the Senator from Illinois. 'Senatorial sheiks,' the headlines called us."

H. M. King Albert: "As my mount galloped about the Chateau de Laequen, he caught his foot in a hole and was thrown, with the result that a bone in my wrist was broken."

Mrs. James V. Converse, 17-year-old daughter of Harry Hayes Morgan, consul-general to Brussels, and twin sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, recent bride: " I am incorporating the Thelma Morgan Pictures, Inc., with $100,000 capital and will produce big, sane, and sound 'specials'. I will be my own star. Hitherto my chief experience has been in Junior League shows."

Benito Mussolini: "The Boston Transcript declared that I would 'have Mount Etna suppressed in a day or two.'"

Col. Edward M. House: "My personal collection of political papers dealing with war and peace I gave to Yale. I myself am a Cornell man, but Charles Seymour, Professor of History at Yale, is my good friend."

Andrew W. Mellon: "The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church issued an official and formal statement on the subject of Canadian liquor. Referring to me the Board said: 'We suggest to him with the best of good wishes that he be a watermelon on this occasion.' "

Ignaz Paderewski: " My concerts for the benefit of medical research in Paris were misrepresented by a German paper which declared that I am really helping Poincare and Foch to promote the manufacture of poison gas. This libelous paper belongs to Herr Streseman, sometimes spoken of as ' Germany's next Chancellor.'"

Thaddeus H. Caraway, U. S. Senator from Arkansas: " My two young sons have taken jobs as bellhops on the Shipping Board liner, George Washington."

Norman Hapgood, Hearst editor: " I have just returned from Russia. As I walked down the gangplank of the S.S. Berengaria I told reporters I'd rather live in Moscow than in any other foreign city."

Herbert George Wells: "I was dressing for dinner. . A woman called and was shown into my study to wait. When I entered she talked excitedly about suicide. I went to call the police. Meanwhile she gashed her throat with a razor. It was later discovered that she was wearing only a nightdress under her long coat, and that she was an Austrian, Guttenig by name, who had translated several of my popular works into German. The affair remains mysterious."

Joseph P. Tumulty: "I am suing the Staten Island Shipbuilding Company for $97,500. Why? Because I saved them $1,000,000 in an argument with the U. S. Shipping Board and sent them a bill for $100,000 and they paid me only $2,500 for services rendered!"

John H. Clarke, former Associate Justice, U. S. Supreme Court: "A stray dog (whom I had befriended), deranged by the heat, attacked me in my home town (Youngstown, O.) and damaged my clothing. Police killed the animal, and the local flurry of excitement abated."

Miss Margaret Wilson: " I am anxious to arrange a boxing match between Joe Lynch, world's bantamweight champion, and Frankie Genaro, American flyweight titleholder, the proceeds to be donated to some worthy cause, which I have not yet divulged."

J. Hamilton Lewis, former U. S. Senator from Illinois: " Arriving in Mason City, Iowa, for the State Bar Convention, I found that all the station buses were occupied, so I chartered a delivery truck with a butcher boy driver. Said The New York Times: 'The youth lectured Mr. Lewis on the benefits of American citizenship, assuming from his far-famed whiskers that the former Senator was direct from Red Russia.'

Rt. Rev. Philarefos Joannides, Bishop of the Midwest See of the Greek Catholic Church: " During my consecration in Chicago, the usual question was asked: ' Is our new bishop worthy of the honor that has been bestowed upon him? ' As though by prearrangement, eight men shouted in unison: ' NO!' Order was restored when city detectives seized the agitators."

Le Marechal Joffre: " Soon after the war began the poilus gave up their red trousers and took to horizon blue for safety. But I stuck by my red pants. Last week for the first time I donned horizon blue."