Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-12

filled up again with the part of a sponge,
wherein was vinegar n other confec-
tions against the pestilent airs; the which
he most commonly smclt unto passing
among the press, or else he was pestered
with many suitors."
Proud, pitiful Wolsey! One hour the
practical master of a kingdom and careful
of any contact with the "base herd;;" the
next toppled ovc::, ruined, disgraccd, with
out Il home or friend! AS the minister of
Henry VIII he directed the glittering pa
geant of the Field of the Cloth of Gold; as
a broken Ole. man he died neglected in the
monastery OF Leicester.
At a later date the orange figures in a
romance of English history equally scan
daluus, but less tragic. The Restoration
had brought the loose living Charles IT. to
his own, and among those who welcomed
his return to London was a pretty girl of
10 who sold oranges at the theatres. She
was poor, obscure, %unknowI; he was the
ruler of Il realm, yet seven years afterward
the two were on terms Of intimacy, and
whoever wanted IL favor from "Old Row
ley" as the monarch was called, had to
secure the support Of Nine. Nelly Gwynne.
In those seven years she had passed from
the pit to the footlights and charmed the
town with her acting. Then 1.-The king
sent for Nelly" and her histrionic tri-
umphs were ut an END. 1t is of her early
struggles for u livelihood that Lord Roch-
ester sang:
But first the basket her fair arm did suit,
Laden with pippins and Hesperinn fruit;
This first step raised, to the wandering pit
she sold
The lovely fruit, smiling with coat Of gold.
The orange girl did not abuse the power
obtained by her doubtful elevation. She
wa Il popular fuvorite of whom n poet of
the time wrote:
All hearts fall a-lnapins wherever she comes,
And beat night and day like my Lord Craven's
drums.
To her is due the founding of the great
Greenwich hospital, and from her descends
the ducul house Of st. Adams.
Rather more than Il century ago some
curious and close observer of London eX-
istence published a pamphlet entitled,
"Low Life; or. One Half the World Knows
Not How the Other half Lives" A pas
sage which has to do with the subject I'M
der consideration reads:
The wives OF genteel mechanics, under pretensy
o. going to prayers in t.icir apartment, take II nap
and a dram, after which they chew lemon peel to
prevent being smelt.
AS every one knows the orange flower
wreath, of charming fragrance and pure
wilderness, is an essential in the costum-
ing of the bride whose wealth and social
position demand the display of a public
wedding, but the fact may have been less
observed chat all the lands where the
orange and the lemon grow are lands of
romance inc adventure. Mention India.
and the mind reverts to tales of valor ex-
tending over the vast stretch of time in
tervening between the conquests of Alex
ander and the last despairing stand made
against the British invader by the heroic
Lion of the Punjaub." Asia conjures up
visions of the Caliphs and the Crusad-
ers, Of Haroun al Raschid and Saladin
the invincible, Willie over northern Africa
and southern Europe spreads the unfadiug
memory of the wise, valiant and learned
Moors. Brazil is linked with the name of
Columbus, and in Florida Ponce de Leon
sought the fountain of youth, while the
name of California is insepurably associat-
ed with the far off, indistinct, yet musical
chime of the mission bells that called the
Indian convert 70 prayer and summoned
home the f1ocks, ere the fierce rush for
gold swept away the peaceful cloisters on
the heights or blythe Paciic's waves.
FRED G. DAYTON.