Frederick H. Gillett, Speaker of the House of Representatives: "In giving an account of my election to the speakership of the 68th Congress, The New York World ignorantly referred to me as George M. Gillett."

Benito Mussolini, Italian Premier: "In a full page in the Corriere della Sera (Evening Courier), Milan journal, appeared as an advertisement the following:

. . . I say, and I authorize you to repeat, that your chocolate is truly exquisite!

'MUSSOLINI.'

"I said this in praise of Perugina's chocolate.'

William Jennings Bryan: "My head covered with a skull cap, I made an address before the Brooklyn Jewish forum on the subject, What The World Needs. My solution was that obedience to God's laws, is the one and and only thing needed to set all things right."

Walter E. Edge, U.S. Senator from New Jersey: "Mrs. Edge and I were slightly injured when hit by an automobile while we were crossing 16th Street, Washington, in a rainstorm. I sustained a deep cut over my right eye, requiring several stitches. Mrs. Edge, who escaped with bruises, was confined to our house for several days."

Ben Hecht, novelist, playwright: "Charged with sending obscene matter throught the mails, Wallace Smith (illustrator) and I will go on trial Feb. 4 before Judge W. C. Lindley, of Chicago. The name of the book which caused us trouble is Fantazius Mallare.

Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania: "A canoe which I was paddling up the Yellow Breeches Creek near Harrisburg, capsized in the rapids, pitching me headlong into the swift current. Being an excellent swimmer, I reached the shore, where my wife helped me from the water. Drenched, hatless, I walked more than a mile to a farm hourse. Next day I was none the worse for my chilling experience. The newspaper made a great joke over the fact that I had been 'wet.'"

Florence Reed, actress: "To 'decide a wager,' I dressed up in the old woman make-up that I wear in The Lullaby and collected 28-c- by begging on the streets outside the Knickerbocker Theatre, Manhattan. As a result of the publicicity which attended this stunt, I received a letter from the West Side Gospel Mission stating that 28-c- was sufficeint to buy a loaf of bread and a pail of coal. My press agent was quick to announce that I sent the 28-c- to the mission, plus a check for $25, 'to show she was as well off as most beggars.'"

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