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Beauty of P lace Names FASHIONS IN
HUMAN FOOD
Robert Lois Stevenson always 0011, "TA0114011" 0818t8I1 at MO time the
tended that the most bortutifel place preach word oi,o,,dr„,., 01)100 1(1 to 11)10
names in the world aro those of North
Amerlea.
Londoners can visit some Imantiful,
ly newel placee without jeurneying
far from home. William Sharp re.
lates that "Matthew Arnold, from
whem 1 first 1181' id of that lovely 1300k,
inghameldre region now nnule easy of
refuel by railway feeei Rielunans-
\With, that valley of the Chess where
leeed ti, ugle and where lie cene
Peeed mo much In prose and verse,
said to me: 'What a haply fortune
to be at native of a region like this,
with such delightful names as Mentes
und Latimer and Chesham Bole and
Chalfont Ste Cillo,,- Norman ruses in
ole Saxon homesteads.' " Kent, too',
poseesses 8(1(1)0 fameneleng mimes.
"Some almshouees at Celibate, near
Gravesend," writes Samuel Butler,
"have an inscription stating that they
belong to the 'Hundred of Iloo in the
lele nE Grain,' What a lovely refrain
for a ballad:. ".
The 'Ity which we call 'Florence"
is by Italians called Firenze. The
name of the British capital is to the
French Londres and to the Italians
Loudra, 137 English speaking people
the Austrian capital 18 referred to as
Vienna, whereas the Austrians spell it
Wien. In addition to these differences
there may be cited Dunkirk aed Dun-
kerque, Cologne and Koln, The I-tague
and La Ilaye, Geneva and Genf.
What is the reason 'for these. differ-
ences? Is it to be eought in philo-
logical influences alone or is it to be
found in that somewhat contemptuous
attitude toward things foreign that
exists more or less in every land?
In the first meetioned case it has
been poieted out that had the word
the French would probably have
adopted the English form. But, the EACH COUNTRY HAS A LIMITED
French contend, no "London" name
was In use when "Londres" was SILL OF FARE.
coined, Tho Latin .name whereby the
British town first became known Mee -
whore was "Londialuin." The Jona-
Live case of this noun (the one most
often used in eelloq(1iel style) was
Lundini, It followed 11181. 18 the eon-
: Buttons Interchange of words and
their development into modern speech
'Anthill very easily became Londie 18
the speech of the Frenchmen. Tben,
as "1" is an indication of a Latin plu.
1
ral, a new difficulty mete When
Londini was accepted by the French
it was for some time treated, quite
mistakenly, just as a French plural
noun would be and spelled accordingly
—Londres. Londres made Rs way
from France to Italy, As the last two
letters wero silent, the Italians re-
ierted them, replacing them by the
favorite unaccepted -final vowel of
their tongue, "a," with the result that
the name of the British capital be-
came in Italy Londra.
Vienna in English and Italian and
Vienna In Spanish are simply relies of
the Mediaeval drys when Latin was
the universal tongue or the learned, 1
and the French Vienne is but a slight i
variation of Vienna. Geneva may be
explained in the sante way.
The nations have taken great liber-
ties with the name of the Dutch mt.'
tal, Gravonhage. With the English.
The Hague and the,,,French La Haye
wo have cause to be grateful. The
Spanish shortened the cumbersome
Dutch name into Haja; the Italians
, converted it into Aja, and even the
1 Germans boiled it down into Haag.
USE OF POISON
TO EXTRACT GOLD
CHEMIST IS THE MAGICIAN OF
MODERN GOLD MINE.
How Cyanide of PotassluM Is Used In
The Rand, South Africa, to
Free Precious Metal.
It will 1.00bably be surprising to the
aversge reader to learn that the ma-
terial and aseured success of unite
than one great gold field of the world
is due to the assistance of one of the
most deadly poisons known to man,„
The chemist plays 80 801811 role in Uro
world's drama, and it is not too nmeh
to say that he is the magician of the
modern gold mine.
On tho groat gold field of the Wit-
watersrand, In the Transvaal, 6,000
feel above the level of the sea, nug-
gets remain, as they have ever been, a
dream, whatever the experiences of
the "forty-niner" of California or the
"foselcker" on Australian 131 Dorados
may hero been. The golden lure that
made Johannesburg the most cosmo-
politan of cities in Africa Is nowhere
visible, while its actual existence is
only evidenced by unsightly belching
smokestacks and mountainous masses
of "tailings," or fine white sand, It
is with these letter, or rather with
their evolution, that it is proposed to
ilea! in this short exposition of a dead-
ly poison's active but beneficial in-
fluence.
Visible Gold Thing of the Past.
The nature of the gold deposits of
the Rand is such as to render most
of the individual nettles anything but
nee'ing propositions under systems, at
one time at least, found perfectly
feuxible in other parts of the globe.
There, on the Ridge of the White
'(Vetere, whence comes at least one-
third of the world's wealth, visible
gold Is a thing of the past, and the
Precious metal is hard 'held in what
may be termed an iron hand; for not
centent with imprisoning it 10 mere
crushable stone Nature has still
further secreted her geld in what is
known to geologists as iron pyrites,
111 these tiny shining specks, which
to the unit:Wed seem the "real thing,"
the life pursuit of millions is contain.
ed, and no amount of crushing will
extract it. It is here Oar friend the
chemist Mines upon the scene with
his stuff, three drops of which solu-
tion would mince to kill a man,
Net all gold, however, is so tena-
ciously held, and it') obtain this from
what is knowfl as the "free milling"
ore the rock is beaten under mighty
iron stamps weighing 2,000 pounds
each until—in a fine send and mixed
WW1 water—It is Poured in a muddy
.ee`e.e.teFe'77eSeterei..
flood direr copper plates covered in
mercury (quicksilver). These catch
89 the "free" gold, leaving the still
water borne sand to be carried away
in little wooden canals or flumes until
In huge vats capable of holding hun-
dreds of tons it is collected In order
to tinderge "medicinal" treatment.
Swift and Deadly Poison.
Now while the water is being drain-
ed off the vats a word about the origin
and nature of this mysterious agency
which liberates gold almost as quickly
as it can destroy the life of man and
beast. As a salt in beautiful snowy
cubes it is known as cyanide of potas-
simn and is a salt of hydrocyanic acid,
or prussic acid, the well known swift
and deadly poison, Quantities of the
cyanide having been dissolved in
water to an approved strength, the
solution is poured upon the sands in
the vats until they are submerged by
a few inches. The cyanide solution
immediately begins to exercise its
reactions by attacking the gleaming
pyritic crystals and eating out the im-
prisoned gale so that what previously
looked like a collection of diamonds
under the microscope now presents
the appearance of furnace slag.
After a few hours of this treatment
the gold is, almost tq a grain a ton,
in solution, and, deadly as ever, this
is run through pipes into long, narrow,
Partitioneeextractor boxes, the coin-
Partments of which are filled with fine
zinc shavings. As Is seen by the brisk
bubbling of hydrocyanic acid gas
which ensues, the gold Is rapidly taken
up by the zinc, which discolors and
"rots," ultimately becoming a thick
black sludge resembling nothing so
much as filthy river mud. But what
precious mud!
How "Mud" Is Treated.
At the end of the 10011111 the flow of
solution through the boxes is tem-
porartly stopped and the unaffected
zinc is removed, and after Bee addi-
tion of 8111111 or limo has cleared the
coal black I quid the pine mention 11
carefully siphoned off as C10:10 118 pos-
sible to the muddy deposit—which, he
it remembered, is gold and not to be
trifled with. This literal "9117 dirt" is 1
4111011 scooped up into pans and left to ,
dry for a time, after which it is placed
in a calcining furnace on a thick iron
plate heated to a cherry vote This Is
to burn off the zinc which half suc-
cumbed to the chemical action of the
syanitie, and after very careful ravel-
ing with iron rods for the purpose a
chocolate covered powder remaine,
Here we have the long suffering gold
1n another form. The powder is then
(hewn off with meet care—for 11
"dusts" very easily and there are bet-
tor ways of breathing an atmosphere
of gold—and, being mixed with atm
proportions of clean sand, carbonate
of soda and borax, Is placed in plum-
bago emibles and subjected to the
fierce heat of 1,000 degrees which the
smelting of gold dementia.
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It Should he Possible to Teach Whole
Races to Eat the Valuable Foods
of Other Lands,
One of tile great problems of the
War was complinated by the likes and
dislikes, the childish whims fixed by
age, with regard to the great food
Maples of the world. Each country
had some food of its own that seemed
abeolutely necessary to the life of its
people, and when they were unable to
get what they wove accutomed to it
took almost literal starvation to drive
them into trying something different,
For instance, tbe Commission for
Relief in Belgium were seriously
handicapped by the Delgiame refusal
to oat ooro ineal, which thcy consider
ed to be food only for chlelcens and
bogs. In England, also, people used
cam meal with the greatest reluct-
ance,
Canadian are enormous e000rnous oonsun1ere
of milk; it is abuost impoesible for
us to imagine our kitchens continuing
without milk; yet the nuly milk sold I
In densely populated parts ot China
is human milk for babies and invalids.
In Japan, although cows have long
been used there as beasts or burden,
kneov how to themtliemn untll
after Westerners landed in 1353.
There is now no dairy industry
among those hundreds of millions of
Orientals; yet they are as strong and
healthy as we are,
The Influence of Taste.
811100 the sense of taste determines
60 largely what foods we shall eat,
let us analyze this tasting organ of
of and see what the relation is
between it and the nutritive value of
foods. The pleasure of taste or its
anticipation increases the flow of
saliva, and that starts the digestive
processes of the stcmach and intes-
tines. Experiments with animals
show that the palatability of rations
is a highly important element In nutri-
tion. Although a ration may possess
all the necessary food ingredients, it
will fail to nourish the animal proper-
ly if it is not palatable. But the Pal-
ate is not, as many persons suppose,
a guide to the detection of poisons, ex-
cept that many of the deadly alkaloids
of plants are extremely bitter. Ex-
amples of the failure of taste to pro-
tect us may be found in the death of
children from eating sweet wild pars-
nip, in the accidents from eating the
deadly amanita, mushroom, in the
poisoning of cattle from the eating of
the loco weed, and in the danger from
rhubarb leaves that are too Md.
Taste is, furthermore, pefatliarly de-
pendent on sight. Last year the writer
brought home a butter subtitute
made from cocoanut. It was white
and of a different texture from but-
ter, and the children declared they
did not like it and could not possibly
eat is. 1 blindfolded them and gave
them little pieces or bread, some but-
tered with dairy butter and some
with tbe cocoanut substitute, and con-
vinced them that they could not tell
the difference by taste alone.
What, then, Is this wonderful sense
of taste given us for if not to culti-
vate? Of course we can get along
without cultivating it, just as we can
hobble along without sight or without
hearing. A man once proved that he
could live and work thsee hundred
days at a stretch on nothing except
potatoes and milk. There are hund-
reds • of thousands of poor Afghans
who live for eight months of the year
011 1101(111111(1)0118(3 n.nd wator. There
aro millions in British India who
scarcely ever see anything except Hee
on their tables. Those are the uncle.
veloped peoples of the world, so far as
601180 of taste is concerned.
Extend Renee of Diet.
We make use of on0 sense Of taste
thousands of times a year. We talk
nbout it as we do about the weather,
eainceseently—yet, just as we 118111
our knowledge ot the weathev to the
email but Important part of it that wo
happen to be in, 80 the range 01 our
taste is too often limited to the few
things wit11 tvhich we aro 0181111(10,
If we can only cultivate Et national
taste for Et wide variety of foods, wo
can do much to increase the adapta-
bility of our race to its rapidly chang-
ing environment. 'We can well take a
lesson from the Japanese, who have
introduced lessons In the cooking of
foreign foods into their girls' echools.
The mart who is particular in what he 1
CROSBY'S KIDS
etz'
,s'o me 600Yij MOTHER
Hornet as a Paper Maker
That a hornet 18 both a maker ot 1.
paper au able 'builder we know
even bufort., VMS NT'
hltmi I 1'4,7,1. TPA tit'' proceseee by i
which the paper ls made and the
rdaborately planned asst. is Nth t vows
shrouded in mystery own they were
;:t1111le,1 by Cheried J7,11e1., 14 Freneh.,
Hum w11.).., inseet-liN
3)119 attraeted much attention.
Janet tumid that a hornet's patios -
(asking tostiosts will hear cominvison
with those of our ordinary paper mills.
Til' lioris.t seeks sotim rotting tree,
removes a plow, of wood, and chews it
till he produces a ball of pulp about 11!
quarter of an inoli In diameter, Laden
wit', tills, he flies to the nest. The
search for a sultablo piece of decayed
wood and the chewing of 11 have con.
mined nut more than :fix 011111808, tied
perhaps only two. Clinging to the
(1)311113 with his middle and hind feet,
the worker jiggles the ball ttf 'pulp
with his fore feet, chewing it coattail-
onsly to make it More plastic and ad-
hesive, After sufficient chewing he
disposes of the ball In repairing 00 in
ea s is handicapped, 1",300°,1080 buildlitg additions, Selecting a suit -
knows who has traveled with Bitch a able part of the nest, lie attaches the
ono. The cook dreads to have him ball and then drags it, leaving behind
come to her mistress's house; the a narrow strip of paper.
hostess is chagrined to see her best As the ball of pulp is unreeled it is
efforts wasted on a Well thut her guest shaped by the inseet's j11W8, and by
refTtes.incessant tamping along the Joint it
whims of a child's taste givel 18 glued to the sheet of which 11 11) to
way in many eases to a likiugfor the I form a part. When 3110 ribbon has
very things that at first it seemed int -
possible for him to eel. Whet adult
fails to remember his childish abbot-
rence of tomatoes, green olives.
Roquefort cheese or salad oil? We
do net acquit•e those tastes merely by
growing older, for grown-up Cana-
dians do not fancy all the delicacies
of other lands, The Chinese taste for
ten -year-old eggs, for example, is hard
for us to understand, although they
are really no more hitense in flavor
and smell than Limburger cheese is.
It is also hard for us te appreciate
kava, the popular drink et Samoa,
which the women make by thoroughly
chewing up the roots of the pepper
vine and then mixing the mass with
water. The Maoris and the Mexicans
have a fondness fur live grubs that
seems strange to us; and so, too,
doestbe fondness for high -tasting
game in England. Canadians look up-
on the high game flavor as an indica-
tion of the "presence of ptomaines."
Learn to Like New Foods.
If such extraordinary tastes as
those can be cultivated, is it not pos-
sible to teach wholerens to eat new
foods that are valuable and nourish-
ing? The usefulness of doing so has
been clearly proved by the danger
that a nation with a need fashion in
'food runs when war threatens the
8U9917.
There arc many new foods readily
available for our use if we can only
learn to like thene The soy bean ot
China and Japan offers a striking ex-
ample. In Japan it covers, I am in-
formed, a larger area than any other
crop except rice. Hundreds'of varie-
ties of it exist In Japan and in China,
and the uses for it are many more
than ours are for the navy and kidney
beans. In both countries the products
of the soy bean take the place of
11111lcb.
1tiien we tenne to recognize the full
value of the soy -bean curde, or "tofu,"
and of the soy cheeses, and learn to
use them to supplement our milk pro-
ducts, and when we come to- appreci-
ate the fine meat 'flavor of aoy sauce,
which is made by fermenting soy
beans and wheat together, there will
arise a demand for hundreds of mil-
' lions of bushels of that remarkable
field bean. Besides centaining a very
valuable oil, the soy bean has in it
vegetable proteins that are easily di-
gestible. We Occidentals have used
animal fats and animal proteins from
milk, which is literally wrung by hand
from llie udders of patient cattle, and
have derived our high flavors from
the protein of their dead bodiles•
whereas the Chinese and the Japanese
have in tame part taken their protein
hem soy -bean milk and their flavor-
ing from the fermented soy sauce.
Oversight
"These photogrephs you took of as
are not at all :attisfactery, and I re-
fuse to accept them."
"What's wrong with them?"
"What's wrong? Why, my husband 1
looksInto 11 1)111)0011."
"Well, that's no fault of mine, ma- 1
that before you had him taken."
dam. You should have thought of
Work has started on construction
of the irrigation system into the
Taber district, Alberta,
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reached a length that varies front half
an inch to an Melt awl a half the hor-
net returns pearly, but not quite, tn
the pfent boginning and deposits
a second strip, soon niter that 11 1111N
Will 80 011 to completioss
After a certain stage in tbis singe-
vvork of veto truclion. has hese
reached thut3101,1 Id the Miro ',kismet;
front her royal scelnalon awl perferms
a most ardonishing otwration. carry -
mg a hall of p1(11) of her own, she
p1 1.011 Mt one leg 1te 1 eadins and
deposits ff eifenlar ril:bon of minor.
Less agile than the workers, v;le, coin-
plete their labors in two or three min-
utes, the queen requires at 1(4(001 31 1)1)
utlitutes for her anti'.
Instead of building annexes to the
hive, the hornet may use half the hall
of pulp in cell Itibilue, although
whole bolsi of very line pulp are mall -
area for this special puria/se. 10 prin-
ciple, cell building In exactly like t3,
process described, but the paper ifeed
is liner and tile work is carried on
with greater care, Like a good a001.1 -
4i111, the worker retouches the nodst
cell after completion, smoothing down
inequalities and finishing the walls
with exquisite attention to detail.
Although the paper of which the
cells and envelopes are fashioned is In
itself perilously weak, the neat eau
sustain an astonishing weight of
larvae awl hornets, which speaks well
for the engineering skill of the builder.
$1,760 the Square Inch,
Which are liable to fetch the big-
gest priefea entre old books or rare old
nictnilmesg?
A
the most valuable books in
existence are a copy of 3110 Mazarin
Bible, printed on paper, and sold for
$13,450; the same book, printed on
vellum, which brofight 017.200; lloece,
Croniklis, Edinburgh, printed on vel-
lum for JamesV., which changed hands
tel $19,e00; and the femme Psalter -
num 111st and Schoeffer, which pro.
(bleed as much as $20,250 when 1380-
11/1111 Quariteh purchased it.
But these sums fade into nothing-
ness beside the prices paid fur old pic-
tures. Franz rials 'Old lady" was
purchased a few years ago for 3117,-
000. The top price for a Romney is
$206,S50; for a Holbeln, $360,000; for
a Velasquez, $400,000; and fur a Rem-
brandt, $500,000.
Worth more than any of these is
Raphael's "Panshanger Madonna,"
sold in 1914 for $720,000. This picture
is painted on a panel measuring 23
inches by 17 inches, 2 inches thick.
It cost, therefore, about $1,760 per
square foot.
--eta--
They Were Just Waiting.
The very peppery president of a
manufacturing company in Ohiamakes
himself so disagreeable over trifles
that 11. 15 a delight to the 0190 who
work for him when something occurs
to upset his arroganee.
One cold winter morning he was
storming through the plant and, as
usual, looking for someone upon whom
to vent his ill -humor, when he caught
sight of two nien idly warming them-
selves by the fire in the forge shop.
In a rage he roared:
"What are yen fellows waiting
Lan?"
"We're waiting for pay day and five
o'clock," one of the men replica with
a gTrhiell.president milled the superinten-
dent and ordered, "Discharge these
two fellows at once,"
"I am sorry," said the superinten-
dent meekly, "but I cant discharge
those men, They belong to the Lake
Shore Railway, and are going to switch
our cars just us soon as 000 finish
loadieg."
The Laziest of Birds.
The laciest of birds Is the frog -
mouth. He sleeps all day, and at
eight, instead of flying about in
eearell of food, he sits on a limb and
literally Walt) fta, tha insects to come
and food him. He is such a sound
steelier that. yon can push him off his
1)431011 with a stick and not Wilk(' MM.
Flo inhabits Austral.,, and the I./lands
of the Indian 0, -an, In siso the frog-
mouth resembles the whip -poor -will,
and 'gots his name from his wide
mouth, !which serves as his insect trap. 1
Too lazy to fly for his food, liko other
birds, he crawls along the limb of al
tree opening his wide 111011311 and sna9-
ping it shut, catching what dies and
gnats come within his range. At night
ha perches with his mate (al the roofs
of houses, on fences, or stumps. Only
after the sun goes down does he Blum
any inclination to 111000 about,
An English Lad.
The Prince of Wales is an English lad,
And what is there more to say?
For out of the lists of Galahad,
Into the 111-s of to -clay,
An English lad has rode his heree,
Galloping all the way.
An English hid has galloped straight,
Clad in his shining mail,
Breaking the bloody spear of Ft,
On the quest of the Hely Grail;
And wherever the fiercest foes were
set
There did his arm prevail.
From Francis Drake to Jellieoe,
From Crecy to Cambrid,
An English lad has met the blow,
Leading us all the way --
And the Prince of Wales is an English
lad:
What is 'there more to say?
For an English lad is an Eiglish
Whatever his shield or crest;
Whatever the rank or birth he had
His heart still keeps the quest.
If the Prince of Wales is an English
lad,
His blood. is the best, the best!
A New Sun.
It is a mistake to suppose that the
face of the sky never develops a new
feature quite apart from the occasion-
al visit of a comet. New suns actual-
ly come into ken, stars which were
never there before.
The latest and most remarkable was
Nova .Bersei. a new sun, ten thousand
times as brilliant as Old Sol. It is
thought that a phenomenon like this
Is caused by a celestial collision lie.
tv;een two dead suns which have
been rushing together and gathering
speed far hundreds of years. When
the crash comes the sparks fly. A
speed ef millions of 011105 per hour,
and a bulk equal to tens of thousands
of our worried little earth. is sudden-
ly converted into heat, and a nee- seta
blazes out in the sky; yet oftener
than not so infinitely distant that it
makes no impression on the midnight
But it is well to be distant, as to
sky as seen by the naked eye.
such heat were generated in 0111' 00011
sun, although it is ninety-two millions
of utiles away, this world, and ail that
it contains, would shrisol 89 like a
wisp of wool in a candle -flame.
Conservation of Salmon.
'The reduction 111 the run of salmon
in tha rivers of British Colmnbia has
greatly increased the utilization of the
fish, When the runs were large, some
canneries merely used the large or
centre portion of the body, the re-
mainder being sold as offal to the fish
reauction works, to he converted into
ell and guano, or thrown away.
The canneries report that, at pre-
sent, aothing is winded in :my species
of salmon, as the supply is not equal
to requirements. The backbone is
never eta out, and the flesh bs used as
(lose to the head end 1.1111 as possible.
This closer utilization 111 a measure
offsets tho shortage of fish and in-
creases the supply which would other-
wise be eta a
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OF BEAUTY
MANY TIMES ZS THIS GIFT
PROVED A CURSE.
Lovely Written Whose AttractIona
Have Snored Them to Dishonor
and Death,
liolamla had Ifetelly recovered froM
the :sleek of carieton'a untimely
dEalo. W11011 OW W08t h.11/11. was Sud-
denly lior0111011 to hear of a tragedee
hardly lees terrilde the suichle of
another untetanding beentee Moo
Athertcm, says a London writer.
14117 what One wife there cannot be
fee slightest doubt that the scores 01
women beauty in the long run is noth-
ing more 00 less than a curse. Just
as In the far-off days It was a curse to
Cleopatra, or fifteen hundred years
afterwards to Mary Queen of Scots,
tfo It has been through all the stages
of Manful history.
From a Scottish Village.
Near the village of Davidson's
Mains, Midlothian, stanch; a school-
house willeh for a number of years
visitors emus from far and near to
have a peep at, it being the place
where another famous beauty re-
eeivea her early education—Evelyn
Thaw. A beautiful child she was, at-
traeting universal attention, even
when only ten or twelve; but how
many of those who smiled approving-
ly on her budding loveliness could
have guessed at the appalling tragedy
that W710 80011 to aloud the very dawn
ot her wemanhood a tragedy embrac-
ing the murder of the American mil -
Bonaire, Stanford White, the sensa-
te -mat trial and sentence of Harry
Thaw, end the wrecking of a Ilia
whieh a feW yearA previous was brim-
ful of nought but the highest hope.
Take the ease of one of those extra-
ordinary beauties, the Cunnings. So
exquisitely beautiful were those fair
sisters, it will be remembered, that
Iwiloll they walked out in the London
parks. they were provided with an
armed escort to keep the crewels from
inconveniencing them, Yet in spite
of the worldly advantages their beauty
procured for them—for one the heart
of a duke, for the other that of an
earl—tragic in the extreme were the
last days of one of these wonderful
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I When in the course of years her
beauty began to fade, she took to arti-
i ilcial meaus to improve her appear -
ante, and in the end so poisoned her
system that her life was despaired of.
The woman who was all sunshine and
happiness when the world was at her
feet, could no longer bear up when the
adverse wMds of Circumstances howl-
, ed round her castle walls.
The Friend of Nelson.
j "Now that I can be no longer beauti-
ful, let nie die," was one of her last
utterances; net surely a very exalted
or inspiring declaration to come from
j the lips of one fast approaching death.
I Though she has been in her grave
, nigh on a hundred years now. people
have not ceased to rave of Lady Ham-
; ilton, the friend of Nelson, the en.
chantress of the painter Rommey, the
woman who, from poverty and obscuri-
ty, rose to such fame and power as
to count in her train some of the most
distinguished men in Europe, How
many are aware, however, that at the
; very time when her beauty was at its
very 'might, the :air Emma wrote to
Greville that the was so abjectly
miserable that she proposed returning
; to Scotland, even if she had to walk
barefooted through the snow, deter-
mined thst to put an end to his life,
and after that, her own?
One of the loveliest women of her
day was Elizabeth Lindley, the girl
who eloped with Sheridan. "The
Beauty of Bath" was the name by
which this wonderful 1001111111 was
known in her younger days, yet at
ono time so aggrieved was she, by the
attentions of a suitor with whom sho
wialied to have nothing to do, that she,
in :mite of her youth and beauty, ect-
nally attempted to 9018011 liereelf,
What more exquisite -looking woman
than the Rod Widow, tried a few years
ago in Venice amidst scenes of such
phenomenal sensation? What more
meal power than hers, however, for
the destruction of the men with whom
she came in contact? Her whole life
was a resold tragic events, of love,
despair, murder, and self-destruction.
Even Royalty Cannot Escape.
No ono looked on Charlotte Corday
but raved of the unequalled charm of
her face and figure, her rich masses of
auburn lochs, her splendid -shaped lips,
her wonderfully -spirited expression.
Yet what more horrible end could
woman possibly go to than Charlotte
Corday! grely head more fair was
nove' forced under the blade of the
barn in 31 very' different circle from
Ciutrioita CloraitY ""l"' Antoinette
was another famous beauty whose lite
ended in pitiable tragedy, and in More
reel days what of that beautiful
friend Of 'Queen Victeule, the late
Empress 04 Austria? Singularly tin.
happy all her Me was that fair &ugh -
tor 0 8 mud race, but her sudden as -
Dissipation at the height of her power
came as a terrible blow to all those
associated with her.
In Abyssini4 the wife is alwayt
considered to be the head of th(