Husband's Week

Only at a few selected seasons, such as Christmas and Eastertide, does Signor Benito Mussolini abandon his august bachelor existence at Rome and journey to Milan, there to live for a few days with his totally self-effacing consort Donna Rachele Mussolini.

Last week Il Duce was husbanding in Milan, but in addition he:

P: Conferred with Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey of Turkey concerning a new commercial treaty which is expected to provide the opening wedge for Italian commercial penetration in Asia Minor.

P: Embraced and chatted confidentially with famed Poet-warrior Gabriele D'Annunzio who has completely recovered from a recent illness.

P: Inspected the new and extensive hydroelectric developments near Milan and also the Royal Vittorio Emanuele III Cancer Institute.

P: Paid a flying visit to the offices and adjoining printing plant of his onetime newspaper Il Popolo d'ltalia, now conducted by his tousled-haired brother Arnaldo. When Brother Benito strode in, unannounced, at the busy hour of midnight, he found Brother Arnaldo hard at work in his shirt-sleeves and bade him by a gesture to continue. Passing on into the news and composing rooms Il Duce greeted many an old employe by name and by clapping him in fatherly fashion upon the back. Pausing before the ink-stained composing room roller towel he beamed and cried with mock-heroic satisfaction: "It's just as black as ever--the color of a good Fascist shirt!"