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NKW YORK, l>eoember 2, 1910. ^
rfr 1 \ \ Muestioit is older
w\ than Thebes. The j*
N^W York answer "t(
actual employment ?
*-ci ;<r:.i general exterior of elderly ci
woen in \rn York. Th? y refuse to
- rrcji ier i 'api filiation is a word 11:1- ,
Known ? thent. f;
Yesterday. for iriy sins, i was com- t:
l-'llcd to \isit one of the great depart?
it store- oil. the wonderful elderly '
an.) old women tiiat I saw there! They a
>>h' .el\ t longed the aisles, alert, ehat- ti
tery. even ehipj?er. and sotne of them K
o nettish?yet they were elderly and "
'd' In making. for instance, for the n
"inter to which 1 had l?een sent. 1 T
.? (I for .? long distance behind a h<
.o)\ bound, it seemed, in t.:e ?me dltloi
S..e had supple. slender- t>
si strd. jrel plumpisb flgsre, ami car- \it
< J herself, quite without effort, too, q
t .--eemed. with dash and springiness. sl
s e wore one of those new designs of V'
orduroy dresses. * ?! brown in color,
i1 fur around the bottom of the dci'loih
hobble skirt. Her hat was a :
'i .g-a-Iiiig. '?f color to mat' b. with a 1!
1 1 h' inc little brown feat.ier sticking J
ip from the side. Of course, none of e!
er (air could be S'-en from the rear ?'
and it was from the rear, as I say. 11
at 1 saw her while making that long ,
ioln 1 ibo f1 . 1 ! * - % ? -.o h'.e-l
?.- ? unr. itruii > . 11 n u>^ imiu ii'^L ?" ,
catch her mot e along. Sue expressed 'a
niinbleness. keen intereat in life, a prolu
lling animation, a delight in the thing
t hand. Iler bronzed buttoned boots nl
..at' bed well tiie rttlor of her corduroy "
~dt. The feei Tiny incased were tiny.
One ciiu'd imagine her waltzing ex- ?
iremely well.
Of coarse, the ?rit? l.e.eof. his interest '''
thusstimulated, arranged. not without dlf
eulty. to catch a view of the ia< e of tld.s '
citable lady. The ding-a-ling hat !.- haf- "
ling, and It is necessary to s -heme and **1
oritrive to g'-t directly in front of the al
wearer of such a hat iti ord? r to view the B1
Itnennents zo effectually st rttnrd by the *
headgear. But enterprise initially has its S1
reward. I saw the face of the nimble ?'
ad.v. T
She was an old lady. I should liavo n<
"en more shocked ha.j I not had so l'
many similar experiences. She was not 31
elderly. but old; that is. if you would
are to call sixty-five. i-ay. old. What
mall wisp of hfr hair protruded beneath ?
the front of the ding-a-ling was snow- j
white. l|er laee was wrinkled and
pouched. Kven the extensive use of ros- tl
tnetlcs hail failed to eradicate that of- tl
feet. The countenance was all too rosy. aJ
and the rosiness was of a sort that the
rose could never Imitate; a sort of hizarre.
never-wa.s rose. I mean. But the ft
rye*, though faded, were bright and In- tl
dleati' f of perfect health. Wtrerthlw. d<
she wa? dcci?hd!y an old lady. No doubt
ti.< was awa:c of this. But that made no ct
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ide his n-ighty father, strroui'd'd by
lags ami trophi'S. vi?'t'"i by dreaming
*r' nriirm n and ih>' tourists if the world,
en. atb Mi'- ni; > ?Kiiii<- <11 lin- Invalid)
her?- fjnbh -.1 :-wtih'-rui:s : irii.i- tarough
i.?iI in11 !>!!' light.
They say that hi; should h" ;r-?.-ucd
roni the dread stud dismal JlabsburR
Kiili'S. lies ide trrriiie Matthias, in <laU\
larkm'ss lint for Kln'stJy lanterns !' ?mpiratfiis
and treasure hunters dittaii;
lood' iiiiiiinpI . pursue i* by the White
.ady and her i.iut of misty cinncr'jrs and
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I L'IIU llh'V .
It would l>e a historic ceremony. Ij*I; 1115
'aris with sightseers, thrilling T-"i
len with a sentimental s-atis fact ion, a;
tdep"ndent of parlies as was tin bringig
of Napoleon's body by Louis Philippe
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ifferenee. She wasn't yielding. That
as obvious. Indeed, there appeared to
e no valid reason why she should yield,
am far from even suggesting that she
in>uld have.
The 'bromidiom about "growing old
racefully" apparently has n different
nd perhap> better meaning in New York
tan it lias in some other places. The
lea among New York women appears to
e that they're going to look well t*s long
# they can?and then keep right on looklg
better or bt'->t. Why not? Why
iould there ever be any "slump" in a
Oman's appearance*? Tills is their phi sophy.
And they certainly live up to
nd exemplify it. Dark or neutral tints
1 raiment niav satisfy theui in their
uuth or middle life. Tin* rainbow 1 as not
trough colors for tin-ni when they i>? utne
elderly. Their plausible idea is to
eutr.iliz the eIY?- t of age with nightess.
They keep up to the moment of
isliior.. if. indeed, tiiey don't remain in
ie \au of it. True, thty somen hat. owr?
the use of cosmetics; luit. when It
iinns tn 1 I at cr* .1-. ? l .. ? .-.tw,. .. ? -
, ..Uv, -u i?n- tuuu(;i I w .
veil (lie women who don't need cosmetics
t all. for cosmetics now are distinctly
le thing, even for the peachie.-t cheeks.
Oliioii ha.- mi proclaimed, and tln-re i
i evading such proclamations.
Anyhow, the mature or maturing woman
o\\ lias what novelists call the pus.
he nov elists themselves are making their
eroints women of forty or even well btond
jt. The woman of twenty-live or
ilrty now is a,bread-anu-butterisii young
arson, lacking in experience and mellowess.
Hut in no city of the world do the
ulte mature women more confidently
tap t'neir fingers at Fat iter Time than
iev do in New York. At the matinees
ju will tied quite as many elderly or old
omen as young misses or matrons; and
iev arc no less bed iked up to within an
tch or less of their lives than the quite
oung women. Walk behind them as they
iter the theater, and you easily imagine
leni to be spunky young matrons
mroughly enjoying themselves and their
othes. Oct in front of them and you see
lat. instead, they are elderly or old
dies thoroughly enjoying themselves and
leir elotlies.
I am acquainted with one great-grandtotlier
here who attends two bridge pares
and one poker party every week: and
i the remaining nights she goes to the
leater. I suppose she is quite seventyve;
hu? she practices calisthenics and
?ep breathing in her room for nearly an
our before breakfast every morning!
"Is the new jdea of an old thine, the old
ling being age, of courso. *1 mean to
le In harness." says this cheery old lady,
rter spending the morning visiting her
randdaughter's baby; and then she gets
erself up regardless and trots off to a
rand opera matinee. For. to the view
r the New York woman of ripe years.
Ime is no reaper until he reaps! It is
ot a bad view. Maybe, after a while.
ie old boys will adopt the same outlook
nd system. It would not hurt them!
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rllF growing supremacy of the elderly
has reached such a stage. In fact,
ta? now there seems to he a likelihood
tat it will be imitated. Yesterday I
*ked a famous wigmaker if there liappned
to be any truth in the rumor that
tshlonahle women are going to take to
ie eighteenth century custom of powering
their hair.
"Why not?" was his reply. "It's bemiing."
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tvho had as miirh, at least, to fear from
Narpleonie pr< stige as the present repllMjo.
Yesterday it was one of those old plans,
la-Id tn iii silfiu-f-. Today it is ii: every
l-'reneh month. Rostand's letter ; > Qn<-i ti'i-fTmicliart
-mhos op the general sentiment.
"Kvklentlv. til" bo<lV does l:i.?l belong to
i*?i tmiMii mi ' laniriiiui?'. .\i:u c.uit'.iit;
i lit* ii will have 1>j car:> whisk brooms
along with them when powdt-red hair
attains :i \\ ;?I? vogue!
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TJ1K reversion to antique customs is
becoming a sort of fad with both
sexes. It is an odd thing to see a modern
young man. done up to the nines in
evening clothes, taking snuff. Y*t that
is becoming a quite usual spe. tacle in
New York. I saw three or four groups
of youngish chaps exchanging snuffboxes
in the lohby of the New Theater the
other night. They took the snuff with
all of the airs and sidelong twists of the
head that are supposed to go wita that
sort of nicotine indulgence, criticised one
another's snuff, examined one another's
sntiffhove.--, and apparently were just as
much in.crested as if they had been comparing
cigars or cigar eases.
j lie snuif-taking naoit among youngish
members of the gilded gang has neen
growing for some time. ii is based,
say the devotees of the new-old habit,
upon a desire to quit the use of tobacco
in more insidious forms. They say that
by the use of snuff the.v are enabled
q.il'Hh */x lriiAi?b nPP f ho lt!j hii i?f *^ivw\l.r i r? cr
* !?_? I'/ nil"* ' '41 *?1V HUI/II W1 ."illi'ltl lip)
cigarettes; tlie pinch of snuff taken at
the cigarette-hungry moment removes
quite effectually the desire for the ciga- :
rette, and thus spares their lungs. The :
doctors, it appears, indorse their switch
front tobacco m stnokable form to to- ,
baeco in snuff shape. The medical men
say that snuff-taking is far the least in- 1
Jutious method of using tobacco, and 1
that it is about ten times less harmful
than eigarottes. it. may well lie that |
the young men who take snuff as a regular
thing really are actuated by mo- 1
tlves concerning their health; yet one >
can't lose sight of the fact that they i
seem to be at least equally a<-tuated by ,
motives of faddishness; for 'tis a somewhat
ceremoniously nifty tiling to take '
snuff. 1
Moreover, they thus give themselves an !
opportunity to indulge in little phases of
.ioy over their ancestry, for they can and J
do produce noble old snuffboxes that were
used by their progenitors of the snuff- 1
taking age. thus having something visible 1
to indicate their actual possession of four
or live generations of "line." Meantime,' i
tlig dealers in antiques are having a .
boom market in old and maybe-old snuff
boxes, and in time the snuff-takers will '
be using Thurinan bandannas and other 1
accoutermcnts of the ancient habit. Kor 1
all of which it is to lie rememtiered ihat *
the taking of snuff, to be tnlerabto in the <
view of extremely iinical people, must be t
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fSAPOLEOTf WITH AXSI
(S^-^-RaEaBIVING TBI
am all for uniting father ami son. * * * ;
" ' Pat her, who gave me victories for :
my shroud!" " \
And (lie author of "ffAiglon" concludes t
with a picture of the baby King of ltome, 1
surrounded by slim martial cupids. sound- i
ing trumpets over his birth. Another r
pictiirc, lie says, remains to be realized? 1
"the victories of France rpuhd the coffin l
as round the cradle!" i
Will it be difficult? The movement is c
surely spontaneous, starting in the municipal
council: a republic has few op- o
portunities for funeral pomp and splen- r
dor, and the Aiglon is a Paris craving of jj
long date. Put to explode it Into such h
spontaneity there la alleged a favorable ]
hint from Austria. i
Kmile Massard lias been to Vienna.
Quentiii-Bauchart. the municipal councilor
most active in the matter, married tlm
granddaughter of flcn. Cambronne?who
said a had word at Waterloo. Is it a he- "
ginning ot' Bonanarllst propaganda, fol- f
lowing on the marriage of Prince Victor s
and Princess Clementine? The republican
Figaro calls it "noble initiative." Have
Parisians to take account of Austrian mo- 1
tives? Austria recently displeased with the e
republic for financial reasons? li
Sentiment in "roused by the forlorn sit- 0
nation of the body. True, it lies beside that
of his mother, Marie I.oulse; but as r
Rostand emphasizes, the coffin is mere _
crumbling wood?in had state, according
to recent French visitors. ?
in a word, the imperial burial vault of
the Capacities Church at Vienna is not a
good, permanent resting place for an en- ^
tire body in a simple wooden colfln. When
a member of the imperial family dies j,
they preserve the entrails in a vault of
the great Btefansdoni Cathedral, the heart .
under the Church of the Augustlns. and ,.
onlv the empty, dried and embalmed
body-frame goes to this Capucines under- '
world.
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Now. the son of Napoleon and Marie o
Louise was not divided up tn tills manner, t
Was it a continuance of tlm systematic u
doing away with him bv Austria and the c
s
allies thai became a legend ilnrlncr the
Austria. says wustmul. And it J.- a
beautiful thought in ennvoy to the invalids
by way of t ii * Pluro Vendoine
the wooden eofiPi that lies in the <"apueiues
*er pi. N(i political ih.tefvention
should mar tin- truly ! "reach funeral <>f
liim v lioso death caused young republicans
to weep. It may be <Jiffi?-u:t; but L
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NEW YORK I
"Xot very hygienic, though, is it V" iio
was asked. artil lie laughed gleefully.
"What do women care about the bycrion
io nn<-4 n f if nrliut t hot- tl'o lit t i
IV, CIIU III 11, II ?? UUL inc.) " UIII ? ?
do Is becoming?" said iie, witli profound
truth.
The women are powdering their hair
now for parties, some of them, lie said;
and he expects that hair powdering will
be in full blast pretty soon. Women don't
care for gray hair, but they like white
hair, he explained. (And I remembered
that whenever young women see ail old
lady with snow-white hair they invariably
exclaim: "Isn't her hair dear!") The
idea seems to be that a voting face is
made to look more piounnt and interesting
undei white hair; and so they are
going to have that effect artificially. I
sliotiid think it would boom the maniet
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boy's lifetime and forma the groundwork e
of Rostand's play? t
The play is, naturally, romance of ^
strong contrasts; and sober documentary r
histor: does not hear ii otit cntirei*? l'
while j ? leaving a painful doubt. ?
I'll" chid s birtii, as "King of Rome."
w.is hailed i n< husiaste nlly not only by
Kr;;nee, but all Europe, as a guarantee
<>' peace- uniting (he parvenu French
war power with the faintly of kings.
Son of Napoleon, li"lr of the empire,
born in tin- Tuilerics. he lived three 8
years in France, the baby-idol of Ku- n
rope. After Napoleon's abdication the i.?
allies confided hint to Francis II of A us- j|
It in. liis maternal grandfather. He never .
saw Franco again. But, just as Napoleon
at St. Helena continued begging for '
his boy in vain, so the eommon people ti
of France continued buying copies ef ir
his various portraits, whose supply never s]
equaled the demand. f<
The legend is that lie was treacherous- w
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A LITTLE while ago it was announced
that Lina Cavalieri was indebted to
buttermilk and a whole lot Of the same
for her really pgaciiy complexion. Then,
atop of that, a very high-grade New York
medkal man who was interviewed on this ^
subject pronounced buttermilk to be tue w
sure-enough maker of fine complexions 11
and ahead cf all other specifics or treat- ic
merits for that purpose. And so the buttermilk
craze is in full swing among New J'
i ork w omen. * ir
At all dairies, uptown ami down, you'll "1
find groups of women sipping buttermilk hi
during all of the daylight hours, and m
lucre are buttir.u'ilk counters In toe department
stores where nothing hut tiui- ^
lermilk is dispensed. The dairy folk re- 'l
port that tlie;, art unable to keep up jl)
\. it I: the demand l'cr buttermilk, and Hie 'J1
manufacturers of artificial buttermilk are J*
uilmr rfnv- ami liiol.t ubifts. A trrear n
many women have taken to making- but- 1'
termilk at home by the use of the lactic
tablets. and the women who don't catc
for buttermilk are set ting; about the ta.-U
of cultivating the taste. You'll hear
mauy an "1'gh!" among them at the
dailies where they drink the sou - >111ft; pi
tint they go light ahead drinking .1 a 1 t-r
the same.
Heallv. there are prettier thingi in iife aI
than to see : pretty woman engage.!. pi
very inui-li against 1 er taste anil will, in
ill-inking clabberish buttermilk; but it is ...
the tiling of the hour, it is ttie tiling to
do, it ii the maybe-oeautifier of skins ni
according to Hoyle <wiiich isn't tlie but- St
teimilk-indorsing doctor's name), and if g.
one doesn't care to look at 'em sipping *
buttermilk tsometimes thrcugh their
veilsM one doesn't have to, of course! l>t
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At'.\ FIT A LI ST with imagination is m
building in this town an apartment pj
[louse eclipsing In design, construction c0
and equipment some of the most expensive
apartments on Riverside drive, F;
which nevertheless is going to be for }'a
t lie occupancy of folks of moderate
means. The apartments will vary from
two rooms, with kitchenette, at $360 a sa
year, to apartments with ten rooms and th
three baths, at $1,800 a year. The apart- 1,1
ment house will be eleven stories high
and will occupy a full block. It will con- '
Lain for the exclusive use of its tenants wl
a country club with grill, billiard room 'vu
md library, a swimming pool and Turk- ,ari
fh batiis, an emergency hospital, an IV
apen-air playground with sailboat pond,
iricycie and roller skating tracks In Inclosed
playground, with kindergarten,
solation rooms, bowling alleys and the jj0
nost complete electncai installation ever ve
ilaced in an apartment house.
None of the rooms will be smaller than at
ixteen by twenty feet, and some of the co
iving rooms will be as large as eighteen ^ii
>y twenty-four feet. All of the bedrooms, on
lining rooms and parlors will be outside <
-ooms. Only kitchens, pantries and bed- re,
ooms will be on the insid \ The kltch- pi,
?ns will have kitchen ranges, aud will \V
ontain provision for the incineration of shi
farhage. A novel feature will be the out- ve
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5 CHILORBtl OF" TORA
y "killed by kindness,'* growing up a
gilded princeling in a corrupt court. He
,\ as lfjd into pleasures weakening to l'.is
ender years while cunningly deflected
rom healthy exercise. Rostand makes
dm turn the danger, nobly aided in secret.
though late. There is no Deed to
>elieve that the danger existed. The
ieroic explanation of the Aiglon's death
s quite sufficient, ft says that he died
>f sorrow.
lie had the education of an archduke
if his times, lie was not prevented from
<*ading all about ids* father and his cainlalgns.
On the other hand, they kept
dm isolated, stricth. from France, the
h-ench and all Bonapartist sympahizers.
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The Aiglon lived in a glided prison.
;o living, he developed a veritable cult
or his father, and desired only to reemble
him. Ildcognizing that he could
lot begin as emperor of the Frenchhough
aware that he had been proclaitnd
Xapoleon IT by the chamber of the
undred days?lie craved for the throne
f Poland or of <! revue. successively
iromised and withheld from him. Foloiel
of a poor Austrian regiment, lie
ras not allowed to command his men.
They feared that the Napoleonic genius
light blaze out in him.
He hoped that it might.
He mourned to death at twenty-one
eeause he lost Ids hope.
Thus, Parisians recognize him as a
^rench boy whose remains they wish to
escue from the black Kapuziner erypt?
ailing the rescue that lie hoped while
ivtng from the llabsburg palace just
hove it in the bright air.
He is al a disadvantage with casmated
rchdukes. For outsiders the dismal
ibyrinths have unsavory reputation. The
aults under the Augustins (court
liurch) are ostensibly connected with
he palace by vast subterranean passages
sed by the court 011 groat funeral oc
asions. In them, (luring Kossutn s
truggles, a band of Danubiau confedrates,
seeking entrance to kidnap the
niperor, was treacherously let to penerate
half way?and then mowed down
y cannon. Their shrieking ghosts dash
onfti'odly through a maze of secret
assagec. while in unknown chambers
ihber wraiths of faithless servants, lost
on years hack, hunting for treasure.
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The rapin ine? vaults are dominated l y
he terrible Kmperor Mai bias. who
uards crown jewels and state secrets
ever found hy his successors. The title
t that they will be discovered on'y when
lie Hahsburg dynasty lias \ i t si I need,
fere. too. hides the White Lady (not to
e confounded with the one of Iteiiini an-1
te skull that warns the members of 15to
nperial family just before they die. The
kul.l is unique. in that it is a real skull,
juiul on tite bed, chair or ial?le of the
arned one. It is always carried hack
f-doors storeroom for vegetables. Adtining
the kitchen will he an indivhlual
tinidry operated entirely by electricity,
he emergency hospital will he ?quipped
>r all minor operations, and the isohtoti
rooms will he for children w ith the
teasles and so on. The tennis court will
c one of tite best in New York In the
inter the tennis courts will he flooded
nd ice skating made possible.
It is needless to say that the folks who
ant t<? heroine tenants of this splendid
utablishment, now in course of constrneon,
are standing in line with tlieir aplications,
and every <>11? of the apartlents
already has been snapped tip.
CLARENCE X.. CULL EN.
Lese Majeste.
MR JOHN HANDLES, represent.tig
' England at the foreign steel masales'
banquet in Chicago, praised Anicr an
business energy and alertness.
"The following 'conversation," said Sir
shut "which was overheard between ft
lanager and a clerk in tlie waterworks
P a certain English town '-ould never
ave occurred In America \Vhat tlie
lanager said was tills:
" "I am compelled to ask yi.n, Smith>n,
to change your dcsl; to tlie floor heiw,
for you not only sleep din ing wo:kig
hours, but. to make matters worse.
3ti snore so loud tliai you continualiy
ake up our revered superintendent in
le next room.* "
DOCTORS OF PLANTS.
For tlie last twenty years T have been
caching that what botany is suffering
0111 is that ii is generally too academic
kj 1101 sumctentiy i:i touch with tiie
actical needs of mankind."
I he remark was made by Prof. Farmer.
it. 5s.. head of the botanical departent
at the Imperial College of Science.
>uth Kensington, who is at present entged
in the organization <>t" a new deirtment
of vegetable physiology and
ithology at the college,
in brief, the new department will train
new race of "plant doctors"?young
en who trill be as well acquainted with
ant diseases as with the character and
nstitution of plants.
"The tendency nowadays." said Prof,
irmer, "is more and more to study udmced
science from tlie point of view of
i application to industry. There is a
nstant demand for young men who are
de to deal with plant diseases and plant
nltation. The demand is far greater !
an I am able to supply. I could send 1
ree young men abroad tomorrow if I '
id them to posts each worth ihOh a 1
?ar. 1
'The demand is largely in connection
th big tropical and colonial industries. 1
ch as rubber, sugar, tobacco, cinchona 1
id cotton growing. It should be borne ?
mind when considering the scope of 1
e new department that the sole value (
a very large area of our colonial pos- *
ssions denends entirelv on the vuinn 1
their vegetable products and that mil- 1
inn are lost every year through pre- 1
ntable causes. .
'There Is ample scope for such work
home as well as abroad. There is
nstant trouble among our crops with '
seases, many of which at present are
ly imperfectly understood.
'The words 'plant physiology' as conined
with the new training mean simir
looking at plants as going concerns, s
e* intend that the new professor who a
all direct the department shall be the /
ry best man available." a
-REICH<3TADT
with fearful veneration to tlie Capucines
vaults.
In swell lugubrious surroundings lies
Napoleon's son. kiilf Freneli by blood, all
French by birth and spirit, in a moldering
wooden coffin far from Archduke
Rudolph s bronze sarcophagus?Rudolph,
most modern of tragic archdukes, the unhappy
hero of "the Mystery of Meyerling."
pendant mystery to that of John
Orth, connected with ti:e long f.eries of
catastrophes that have struck mercilessly
on the Habsburgs?as if to avenge the
Aiglon.
When Napoleon III arrived in power
one of bis first acts was to begin negoeiations
for the return of the body. "Return"
is the right word, because the boy
was born in Paris and was forcibly torn
away from Paris by the allied kings.
In 185T? the cession was almost agreed
upon.
In JS57 there was a biteh. Whether
the final failure of the project was a
cause or result of the war with Austria
in 1 Sot , a great deal of time has passed
since those days; and some one seems to
have received a hint that the moment is .
propitious.
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Those who see political meaning in the 1
marriage of 1'rince Victor have a Ma- <
ohiavellian reason why Austria might tie f
disposed to tempt Parisians. Should the 1
body of tie Aiglon he deposited in the ^
Juvalides with titling pomp tlie natural i
and innocent softening of the population t
toward "the poor hoy," as Rostand calls
him, might he ?alculated as a favarable j
atmosphere for Bonapartist propaganda? p
if such he planned. The heir to the dual ti
throne of Austria-Hungary is said to he f
a deep reactionary politician, with plans y
that will surprise the world. Among a
Siam's New K
Many Chang
^iHOWKA MAIIA VAJIRA VI 'Dir. h
i nis is ino name wnicn, uespiie *its
anything but harmonious tone, 8
it is confidently expected, will, before ^
many years have passed over the head ti
of its youthful owner, be known h
all over the world as that of one of j'
the old world's most progressive rulers, j
It is the name of* the new King of c
Siam, who recently, midst great ae- p
claim and rejoicing, ascended the w
throne of his late father, King w
Chulalongkorn. b
There are very few, if any, person- t?
aiities in royal circles more interesting j!
than this newly throned monarch.
Living in the midst of superstition, c
reared partly in Christian lands and ci
partly in the land of his birth, it is
a surprising fact that King Chow fa
is endowed with traits that mark him A
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THE SEW KI\G OF SIAM. ?
is wholly different from the men who '
ruled Siam before him. This despite
he fact that his father was one of the hii
nost willing of eastern monarchs to of
idopt European customs. j(t
The new king, whose coronation, dur- ,
ng the early part of November, was
narked by a tremendously joyful season
at Itangkok, tlie capital, is a flu- ar'
shed diplomat. He is not only a '
liplomat. luit he is a trained soldier
ind an intellectual scholar. He is an e"'
luthor, and lias written books on his '
latlve land that have been well rereived.
tj"
King Chowfa is master of several lll<
anguages, and has written several
eally good plays. He is an amateur '
ictor of distinguished and recognized
ibility. 1,a
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Since a youngster the new king lias (al
shown a great liking for literature no
nd ha? read the best effort* of Rritish, Ii
unerican. French, Herman and Siamese to
utliors. King Chowfu has just passed Kii
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hem is one which might make use of a
"strong" France to her profit. Who
inows? Talk like this is in the air.
Is the Freneh republic on its guard?
IVill it discourage the movement? It canlot
make itself ridiculous by running
ounter to I'arisian sentiment in the case
)f a poor boy's body.
L.oui*-Philippe dared not. in the parallel
ase of 1110 father. While lie feared the
Ronapartes and renewed the decrees of
anishment against them, he did not
linch from sending his son to bring back
he remains of the great Napoleon.
It was in 1S40, when France and Kngand
had become great friends. The Konipartists
clamored for the body. Paris
entiment awakened. England graciously
icceded; and the Prince de Joineville,
'ommanding a squadron and the fears
>f his own heart, fetched the remains
rem St. Helena for the mighty ceremony
vhich placed them under the dome of
he Invalides. x
I:
:S: XThe
avenue of the Champs Elysees was
urid with funereal torches?the iron
stands erected for the purpose line it still,
m eacli side. At last Napoleon entered
Paris under his Arc de Triomphe, just
ompleted. At last his dying wish was
gratified: "I desire that my ashes repose
?n the harks of the Seine, in the midst ;
>f that French people I have so loved." ,
>Vas the wish far-seeing? Ten years
ater, his dynasty again mounted the
hrone. *
While the body lay in the Chape! of St.
erome. the Architect Visconti executed !
lis plan of genius for a monumental tomb :
leneath the masterpiece of Mansard?the
iome which "transforms the Fnvalides >
rom a hospital to a palace and a temple." I
"isconti opened directly under the dome i
great circular cavity which remains 1
ing Proposes i
pes in Country i
i
is twenty-ninth birthday. Iledias had r
aus far a remarkable career for one j,
o young.
When still a young man his father, B
ling Chulalongkorn, dissatisfied with e
he opportunities for education offered
y liis fatherland, decided to send htm
a Fhigland. and placed nim under tiie
utorship of Prof. Basil Thompson
.ater lie studied British military methris
at Sandhurst, and subsequently
assed a creditable examination and t
.as admitted to Oxford I'niversity,
here he. graduated witli honors. v
So pleased was the old king with
is eldest son's success that he caused ll
?n of Prince Chowfa's stepbrotliers T
3 he sent to Eton to receive an Engsh
education. f,
A little less than five years ago King
howfa created quite a stir in literary t
ircles of France when h* published '
11 interesting volume telling in quaint
ut charming style the mysterious ami ?
urious folk lore of his native land,
bout the same time several of his
raniatie productions were staged at
udapest. and attracted much attention,
ot solely because the young monarch
nislicd his education in that city, but
pcuuse of their merit.
The new Kin* of Siam knows every
ovemeut of the intricate-British am!
erman military tactics. Me lias mas- '
red tlie science of soldiery to the last it
tter, for not only has he studied at a
mdhurst. but he has been a cadet C)
Potsdam, and lias been attached to .
urhura Might Infantry at Aldershot.
King Chowt'a operates a typewriter 01
itli tlie ease of an experienced ste- ic
jgrapher. He was pleased"with the firs! t;
acaine lie saw as a youngster, and t!
dered one made especially for him,
itli a keyboard of Siamese characters.
The old King Chnlalongkorn was '
eased with the idea, and so tickled
at his stin had caused .tlie inaupura- -ri
hi of lilt Siamese typewriter, that lie
dered all manuscripts presented at "
ml to he written in this manner, it ;
as not long before tlie typewriter
came ntueh useil in Siaiu.
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Recently tlie new king paid a long l'i
sit to this country, and showed great u'
terest in the big workshops and t|,
unicipal offices tlirough which he was si
own. J*1
Siani is in great need of reform in tp
itnv ways, and tlie people believe that ea
ng Chowfa, with tlie wide experience rt<
s brushing shoulders with the rest ^
the world lias given him, is eminently th
ted for tlie task that lies before him. th
ving Chowfa rules over approximately of
1 million nprsnns I If thpsn uiv millinn. sa
, - ?..~WV > > ? (tlllHUHO .
? in Slam proper. J*
Phe first reform that it is believed the '
ung king will undertake is that of the
ucation^of the masses of his subjects. "'
Vith the exception of a few schools in ,^
? capital, education is now entirely in '
? hands of the priests, the boys going to trJ
? temples for instruction between the to
ps of e'ght and thirteen. Qf
"he teaching is most inadequate and on
mentary. By the precepts of the Budd- h01
no money is accepted, but the pupils 0f
? obliged to dig in the temple gardens, tin
other labor or make presents to the in
ests Instead. Girls, If they are not tTl
ight by their brothers at home, receive cot
education. br<
t was the educational facilities offered an<
the youth of America that impressed nui
ig Chowfa must at the time of his visit a
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open, b;ilu>tiadcd. that the world may
lean and look down on a magnificent
mausoleum cut from u oli.l block of r?d
poiphyrv. This ,aster whs the sift of the
<'7.ar Nlch da* I. and brought with great
difficulty and expense from the hanks of
l.ake 1-adogn
Surrounded by '"aryatlde* ::.'l groups of
}|Q Titl Afu on !?t ! > ? .1 f i , mi f . nolo. ?.' n ! I
Europe. tloffiidt'il by the black marble
tombs of Ma-slutls i?uroo and Bertram,
behind carved bronze doors. lie-; the bod
in the coffin broug I ft mi St. llelena
Even Victor Hugo, persecuted |>j Napoleon
III. desired that the 1 -tter? of the
famous "I desire" be made of sold.
"How much would it cost, i to government?"
ho asked a specialist.
"About '_'l>,"Od francs, monsieur." t\ as the
i epl>.
"That same evening I went to Thier - "
wrote Victor Hugo In his "Things Set-:; "
" 'Von are right.' said Thiers, "the letters
shall be gold. I w II give the order.'
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There is room for the Aiglon beside hla
father.
For a tomb, it is the lightest, most
airy, cheery tomb that mortal remains
rest in. bathed in glory and dancing sunbeams.
never lonely, circled round by
silent-stepping tour sts of all countries,
whispeiing reverently.
1 say touris.s; lr.it among the tourists
1 have picked out, twenty times, the
French who ever ntingle with them.
There are always French folk unJer the
dome of the Invalides.
<?o any day; and you will see them.
They do not whisper. They stand dream
jng. They hase nothing of the detached
tourist manner. They dream of French
glory.
It is past, but it s theirs.
The Atglon Is part of itWould
they revive It" Perhaps not.
"But if the schemer in Vienna with one
loot upon the throne of aged Franz-Joseph
has a plan to push Napoleonic prestige, he
can try it. He can give up to Parisians
the body of their Aiglon.
Thev will accept it
STERLING HE11.IG.
She Knew.
/" HIKK J< ?E KXGLKMA.V. leader of the
Miatnis. was talking in Peru, Ind..
about bis tribe's claim against the government.
"We Mianiis v. ill never fall into the
same trap twice." said. In the eu'tivated
tones of a university man. the handsome
chief. "We know from experience what
to expect. We are like the beautiful girl
who accepted the hand of her millionaire
employer.
" 'Yes. Clarence.' the girl said, patting
the millionaire's scant gray hair. 'I will
marry you, but 1 have one request to
make.'
" 'Name it, my love,' said the doting
old man.
" 'Let me select,' she replied, 'my successor
at this desk.' "
The Right Spirit.
tt A 1'AI.NTEK. ' .said Itobert Flemi, in
one of his luminous adoresses hi
New York on art, "should have something
jf Constable's feeling.
" "I hear you sell all your picture??'
*aid Constable to a younger artist.
" 'Why, yes," was tile reply. 'I'm pretty
" n o t- I Init't v<iti WS-.11 All
lUI iuii<ivr mat ?? ? ? . ^* c j wU -?
fours?"
" "No." said Constable: "1 don't sell any
if them, find I'll tell you why. When
I paint a bad picture I don't like to part
vith it, and when I paint a good one 1
ike to keep it." "
ier?\ Me was heard to inake the statenent
more than once that his country one
lay should enjoy the same advantages if
ie lived.
One thing King Ohowfa, it Is believed.
Mil never meddle in. and that is the
eligious views of Ills subjects. Adniration
for absolute religious freedom is
me of the lessons he learned in America,
it any rate it may lie predicted that
ving Chowfa will make a wise and good
uler. It' he profits by the things lie lias
ieen given an opportunity to investigate
ie will more than fulfill the wishes of his
ubjects who are seeking relief from pre?<
nt conditions.
Gymnastics.
|*T*HH late William Vaughn Moody,'
* said a Harvard instructor, "wai
.ell liked here. In fact, we liked UH
caching as much as the public liked his
lay of 'The Great Divide.'
"Moody hated gossip. One of our p*opssors
had a nasty, venomous tongue,
nd one day this gentleman appeared in
hapel with his hand tied up.
" "What's the matter with htm?" some
lift asked.
" 'Oh. he's been trying to hold his
inguo,* said . '< dy."
Dour Prys for Buckwheat.
Intone a t!.: nod> for the huokwheat
alio. 1'mione by the fiatent breakfast
jods of an effete age, which allows
self to he cheated with gravel, bran
nd sawdust, the buckwheat crop, aconling
to millers of New Jersey, has
pen overproduced, not because the farm's
raise too much, but because the Amei an
people eat too Mttle. Here is a pretty
tie for a rising generation. Consider
ie dignity of the buckwheat tradition,
"ith tlie tlrst frost came the mystic ritea;
ie hatter crock was sc? for the niclii
ca r tli?> iircpluce. or. in later times. art
icent t'? the stove. The cakes iwhic'u
llcrt a breakfast plate> were baked 011 .4.
r?e hat-iron warmer, three at a time, and
..e.l \.jih a mason's trowel: none genu.
it': -i Thus all this talk about eating
> <?itast is unseholarly, and
. .. .. ! \v:tn a spurious cake no target
tan a modern bread-and-butter plate,
ive of the genuine made any jacket
grht until noon: three caused little eyes
1 bulge (though a growing boy is on
corl jis having been able to "chew,
iough be couldn't swallow any more");
x made a grown man's meal and seven
ade a "regular gorge." The norma!
iman stomach would not contain nine,
ough eight were known to have been
ten at a sitting. The cake itself was a
ph. golden brown with a crisp rim.
irticnlarly toothsome. When young one
e the center and saved the rim to
e last, as we save frosting. With
e cake came a jug of the purest brew
maple sirup: others liked them with
usage, though this was an acquired
ste. It was also customary to cut a
tall square out of the center of tha
ke as a pool for the sirup. The moral
sue was the tendency of the rakes to
ow cold on the platter if cooked faster
nn consumed: and many a stoical charter
and generous disposition was
lined on the yielding of the warm cake
the younger children and the eating
the cold. For a cold cake to a warm
e was as friendship to wedlock?wholeme
but unsatisfying. Even the element
domestic tragedy once entered when
p cook spoiled the batch by mixing
plaster of parts by mistake. The exeitions
of a whole family follow that
ik. Buckwheat cakes were the entirs
pakfast. Other food was a mockery,
d to descend to oatmeal or even doughts
after such sublime refection betraye<t
base mind. ^