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the other to the hall world. But,
mind you, in both cases, the patrons
are people with long purses. No grande
dame would think of going to Trou-
vile; few, if any, OF the demi-mOn-
DANES would care to visit Dieppe,
There You have it in a sentence.
Trouville is the resort of the fast
women of Paris, and the fast men Of
Paris and elsewhere almost exclusively
Il is said that 500, 900 people visit Trou
vile each summer, at least so, 600 OF
them are women whose lives are not
exactly above reproach The hotels
theatres and clubs are magnificent.
The cost of living is corresponding
high-perhaps higher than anywhere
else in Europe. Only those who have
money, and plenty Of it. can stand the
pressure
The women who patronize the place
are the elite of their class Their
turnouts are superb; their coachmer
and footmen are exceptionally impos
ing. Their teas and receptions are in
strict accordance with the social code.
The eilded unfortunates who supper
the place come thither for rest, not tc
ply their trade. Hence, whatever i'm
proprieties there may be are not often
sively conspicuous The casual mex
perienced visitor might readily mis-
take the character of the place. Plenty
of high gambling there of course is, as
at most Continental resorts. Barring
the shady character of its clientele,
Trouville does not differ materially from
other European resorts-certainly not,
from other French resorts
Dieppe is in strong contrast to Trou-
vile. The very best Partisan and
English society may be found there in
force each summer. In word, it is
the French Newport. 1t is opposite
Newhaven, on the English side of the
channel, has very fair bathing facili-
ties and provides excellent hotels clubs,
opera, vaudeville and gam bling by way
of attractions. At Dieppe, that Euro
pean institution, the bathing carriage,
if l may so call it, is particularly in
evidence. Fancy tiny wooden house
on wheels in which my lady can drive
down to the beach and right into the
water, don her bathing dress on the
way and thence emerge into the water
via portable steps and you can picture
this purely European vehicle. The
season at Dieppe runs only from
August Is to September Is and the
are proportionately high.
Another one of the chain of summer
resorts on the French side Of the chan
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The king OF the Belgians said 10 a
friend OF mine who asked him TO stand
godfather to an infant son. II should
feel delighted did not feel in vein OF
ill-luck. and unluclty people should be
avoided" He said TO another person:
The world has no idea what an evil
influence tracks me" His sister Char
lotte is q lunatic; he lost his son: he
adopted his nephew. and he died also.
The Princess ClementiRe. his daughter.
has never got over the horror of seeing
her governess perish in the fire at
Laeken palace. which DESTROYED the
building and endless family relies. pa-
pers and treasures OF all kinds The
tragedy Of Meyerling was perhaps. TIE
greatest blow of all One son-iI.-lav
persisted IN il. and the other came out
OF il a black sheep At the court OF Aus
tria. The Congo state is rot yvha. the
king had hoped It was going 20 turn
out, and has impoverished him. The
burning OF his papers N the I.aeken
fire has thrown his affairs into diso-
DER. 1t would now seem as though hi,
crown were TO 90 down IN the hurlv-
burly Of socialist revolution. and Bel
GUM tn be again the cock pit OF France
and Germs ay.-London Truth
Burning Diamonds
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Burning D.Sacods-
Tha diamond, IN sufficient heat. viii
burn like charcoal
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markabl than that of her sister IN
fortunate. He regards her as a won
der, both relatively and absolutely.
He declares that, handicapped as she
Is. she need not fear to BE measured in
.cllectually with other girls who have
bad every advantage
Helen Keller has not only learned to
read by the raised letters and to com
municate swiftly by means OF the
touch. but has actually gained the
power of oral speech and can under
stand what anyone says by merely
placing her finger delicately on the lips
and under the chin. Prof. Bell spoke
OF finding Helen one DAY in one of the
institutions for the blind in Boston.
sitting in the midst of q group of blind
girls who could hear and reading aloud
10 them.
Since she has learned to speak one
of her delights is to tell stories to her
little sister Mildred. and she Ills these
with the most quaint and beautiful
sancies, weaving in all that she has
learned in her lessons, or heard from
other people, or remembered from past
reading. for she never forgetS any
thing. Helen has already read more
hooks. including the classics. than
most grown men and women.
II is touching 10 see the eager CROP
Sngs of this prisoned intellect after
the knowledge that the best OF us,
with all our eyes. are often as far away
from as she. During her early years,
on account of sore peculiar notions Of
her parents, religious questions were
not obtruded upon her. I'll child at
the age OF nine knew nothing of God
Or of Christian teaching. She had at
tributed everything in her fanciful
way to mother nature. One dav. how
ever, some over-zealouS woman told
Helen lot Of things which she be-
well-heing. The result was that Helen
was thrown into a state Of great men
tal distress and wrote in her diary that
might a thoroughly agnostic view of
the subject of her origin, which indi-
Gated reasoning powers. considering
the untaught condition OF her mind. Of
z high order.
Helen Keller is to he Prof. Bells
guest for sore time in Washington.
iIie has known the little girl ever
since she was six years old and loves
bier dearly. Helen is fine French
scholar and has recently received a
large price for q magazine article,
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SCMMFRlNG AT BADEN-BADES.
mel is Etretat, which is, as it were, a
respectable annex to Trouville. It is
frequented mostly by well-to-do bour-
geois ard is pretty expensive place.
Otherwise, it does not differ much from
Trouville.
Boulogne-sur-mer is also on the
channel, being the receiving port for
the line of steamers sailing from Folk
stone on the English side of the chan
mel. 1t is very old town and some Of
its buildings are very antique dating
back for centuries. 1t is more English
than French. With English one is sure
to get along everywhere; with French,
perhaps
Axle Bains. located as il is almost
in the center of France away from the
seaside and without particular attrac-
tons, can hardly be spoken OF as a re-
sort of fashionables. 1t has its springs
and its baths but little society"
Bierritz. all but on the rench-Span-
ish frontier, is chiefly famous as the
place where Bismarck, then German
minister 10 Franco had his historical
chat with Napoleon III, Emperor Of
France. in 1861. Both were there for
their health. both tested the spring
water ana both took long walks in the
morning. Meeting one day and dis
cHssing various topics Bismarck boldly
announced his desire TO unity the
thirty nine Prussian states and asked
the Emperor's friendly aid Napoleon
smoked his cigarette aud fairly laughed
when Bismarck offered 10 give him
Belgium as reward FOR his aid say
ing: Il can get that myself when
want it, why should help you?" He
subsequently told his aide-de-camp.
Flerny. that that fellow bismarck is
fool" but on the memora bic Septem-
Der ?, 1870, after the battle Of Sedan.
Bismarck ironically reminded him that
Germany had been unified and without
the acquisition OF Belgium hr France.
0stende, IN Belgium Is sort OF
counterpart of Trouville with certain
differences Not the Ieas. Of its attrac-
tons is the palace OF King Leopold,
which IS only one hundred yards o. so
distant from the Ku-saaL The place IS
a seaport of conside-a bic consequence,
being the Belgium terminus of line
of London steamers In one resDec:
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dom come together, the Prince gener-
ally appearing on the scene in company
with two or three of his feminine ad-
mirers few days after the Princess
has gone away. A list OF the names OF
the women with whom he has visited
Homburg would make exceedingly in
teresting reading. |, myself, could
mention four or Ave American ladies
with whom / have seen him there, but
for bear Like Wies baden, Honburg
has an international clientele, all the
nations of Europe being represented
Carls bad is the smallest of the "a
nous continental resorts and generally
has the biggest crowd. The crowd is
an ola podrida including lots of Amer
leans Its springs are famous and
thousands visit the place on their
account 1t is little else than sum
mer resort, and is as it We're a town
especially built for summer trade
1t is provided with more cottages and
fats and private houses than any other
of the big resorts and in this way is ex-
ceptional, life at the other resorts
being mostly confined to hotels and
clu bs.
Ishchl is venture to say, practically
unknown to Americans but none the
less it is the favoritesresort of the EN-
press of Austria and the mem bers OF
the Austrian court. All the Arch
dukes and Archduchesses of the Aus
trian capital go there every year and
SO do the aristocracy of the Austrian
capital each of the big guns having
palace for himself or herself The
place is a quiet, restful one and is rare
visited by Americans
The resort of the Imperial family of
Russia in Libau, on the coast of the
Baltic The Car and his family and
court intimates go there every sum-
mer for rest And they get it. Instead
of living in splendidly appointed hotels
or palaces they occupy cheap wooden
cottages and live like peasants
Peterhof is the Versailles OF st. Peters
burg. with which it is connected by
short line railroad. 1t is provided with
magnificent fountains, parks, hotels,
cottages, palaces and clubs, and is
fully equipped with public gambling
houses 1t is a great resort for the
aristocracy of ST Petersburg on sum
mer evenings, the twenty-five miles in
tervening between it and St Peters |
burg being quickly travelled
LDE GRIMM
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ANCIENT CRADLES.
Babes Were Rocked in All Ages Since the
World Began.

i
Babes Were Rocked in All Ages Since the
World Eegan.
Theocritus in one of his idyls de-
| scribes how Alcmena washed and
sucked the infant Hercules and his
brother Iphicles and put them to bed in
a big bronze shield. "a beautiful piece
of arrnor which Amphitryon took from
Pterelaus, his fallen foe" And as she
made the great shield revolve and rocls
she sang lullaby: '.Sleep, my babes.
sleep the sweet sleep from which one
boys; happy be your rest, and happily
fare until tomorrow morning. Sleep
my babes
Ever since the world began mothers
have been rocking cradles and singing
lullabies. From time 5immemorial the
problems have existed: What can we do
with this baby? Where,can we put it
SO that it will be safe? How can we
manage to secure few'intervals of
peace and tranquility? How can we still
its cries and whines? Howcan we teach
it to walk? In word, how can we
emuncipate ourselves from the absorb
ing tyranny of these sweet ba hes, our
offspring?
The solutions which have been in
vented by the solicitude, the ingenuity.
and the instinct of mothers have taken
the form of cradles. swaddles, leading
strings and go-carts,. The variety Of
these inventions is considera BILE, and a
description of them would form. per-
haps, curious chapter in the history
of hygiene and domestic economy. But
where can one find the elements for
such a history? Poetry and legend
might be suggestive to a certain ex-
tent. We may figure to ourselves the
infant Moses exposed on the banks of
the Nile, Graded in an osier basket
We may remember the poetical Greek
name for cradle, which is the same as
the name OF the winnowing fan or bas-
ket,, the traditional cradle of the infant
Bacchus. Referring 10 the monuments
OF the graphic arts we may find repre-
sensations of basket cradles, and also of
little beds on rockers; for the instinct
of mothers. it would seem. has ALWAYS
prompted them to seek ready means of
an oscillating move
ment to the infants bed. In manu-
scripts of the ninth and tenth centuries
we find pictures of cradles formed of
part of a tree trunk dug out, with holes
bored through the sides for the passage
of straps intended to tie the baby down
in his bed. These dug-out cradles are
still common in modern Greece. Final
ly, when we come to consult the manu-
scripts and bass-reliefs of the fifteenth
century, we notice that the cradles are
no longer mere baskets or beds on rock
ers. but little swinging beds suspended
between two pillars, the prototype of |
the modern beycelonnette.-Ha |!
Bazaar.
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and all payments by those who can
sfforc 70 make them are employed for
the good Of The poor OF the district.
r he duke Is general in the Bavarian
army. ana Is the brother of the en-
press OF Austria In 1874 he married
Us hls second wife Princess Maria
Sosepha Of Braganza. who assists him
IN his charitable work. His eldest
daughter by this second marriage is
Princess Sophie, born in 1915. she
has inherited her fathers skill. and is
Ibis principal assistant in his work as
ian oculist. The duke always enters
this consulting room by seven o'clock
I'm the morning: ami The Young nrin-
cess takes her share IN soothing the
ssufTerers and enters with enthusiasm
into the charitable work. As an ex-
lample of the dukes skill. it NAV be
mentioned that he recently removed a
splinter OF iron from the eve of an iran
turner. an operation which had deied
tthe skill of several other ocrlists. The
duke is the heir presumptire to sac
throne of the palatinate of Bavaria.
as mis- elder brother, I.udwi-, who
married comnoner, has renowned his
right.
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To my mind. far more interesting
place TO the philosopher is Trouville
We have no counterpart of it in
America 1t might appropriately be
entitled the summer city Of the demi-
monde. Located, as it is, on the Eng
lish channel at about the same distance
from Paris as Dieppe-namely, about
six hours by rail-it is as distinct from
Dieppe as black is from white. The one
is resort OF the haut ton; the other,
Trouville, of the demi-monde. The
one caters to the fashionable world;
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SUMNER TIME ABROAD.
Famous Resorts Where Fashions
Devotees Gather.
Baden-Baden, Trouville, Dieppe, Aix-C0-
Bains and Others-Gamblins Hotel 3
and Club Life-American and Eu-
ropean Resorts Contracted.
Copyright, 1921

There are fashions in summer resorts
as in all other things. In Europe, the
summer resort lines are even more
closely drawn than in this country. To
be sure, one finds much the same peo-
pie at Newport each year, and at Sara
toga, Cape May, Atlantic City and As
bury Park. So far as the summer re-
sorts of the continent are concerned.
however, any one who has made the
grand rounds can predict with almost
absolute certainty just who the princi-
pal visitors at each place will be ten
years ahead, always subject to the re-
vision OF that grim editor, Death. For
instance, the Prince of Wales always
shows his rovalistic self at certain
places; so does the German Kaiser, SO
does the Car of all the Russ;as, so do
hundreds of personages less nota bic,
but distinctly personages none the less.
These blue blooded folks, for some
reason or other, feel it imperative upon
them to present themselves each yea
at the same places. And they relig
iously Go it. Why? I'm sure l don't
know. But | do know that they do it
How do the summer resorts of Eu
ropes Four Hundred differ from those
frequented by their American cousins,
our OWE 400? Well, | don't know thai
they do differ essentially. There's more
Of the hotel and club-life and more
gam bling, perhaps, at the great CONT
mental resorts. But after all human
nature is pretty much the same the
world over. And the swells of Europe
who trace their genealogies back half
dozen centuries or more are not So
very different from the American swells
who figure out their pedigrees six or
seven generations back and then have
to give it up
The titled and otherwise aristocratic
Europeans who pass the summer at
the popular watering places have their
being on much the same lines as Amer
ica's fashiona ples. They ride, they
drive, they walk, they battle, they
dine they entertain, they gossip, and
they do all manner of things fashion
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NI1l|| ::;sgle
Ie pRETTtFsr saeY IN WICHITA.

THE pRETTiEST BABY IN WICHITA.
There is an opportunity for some one OF
the many pretty ba bes in Wichita to
have present. of $50. as that sum is
offered for the first prize, with smaller
yet liberia! amounts for other prizes, to
the prettiest babies who have used lacta
ted food. Full particulars for warded free
by Wells, Richardson e. Co., Burlington,
VT, sole proprietors OF lactated food.
known in hundreds Of homes as "the food
that saves babies lives"
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HELEN KElLER's GENIUS.
Blind and Deaf, Yet She Talks and Writes
to Perfection.

VSinu anu UeAf, 1et SIC .aiHs anu WITCH
to Perfection.
There is now in Washington. the
aemporary guest of Prof. Alexander
Graham Bell. beautiful little girl who
,vas born blind. deaf and dumb Her
name is Helen Keller, and, though
Handicapped by the loss of the two
most important senses and as yet bat
thirteen years old. she already shows
brightness of intellect that promises to
make her famous as writer
Prof. Bell, who told the thrilling and
pathetic story of this second Laura
ing of the national academy of sciences
In Washington. considers the case of
Eelen Keller as incompara big more re-
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. ROYAL OCULiSI.

Ihe Grasd Work Dcne nv Duke Carl The
ot.or or Bavaria.
Duke Carl Theodor Of bavaria now
shss three hospitals in active service
for persons suffering from diseases of
the eyes. One is at Meran, another at
iNiunich, and third at Tegernsee. At
fhls last he passes most of his time.
Voor patients are treated without cost,
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He Dreamed IN Pung.

He was DOING in the corner,
In d big chair by the IRE:
He was nodding IN a manner
That in time was ap. to tire
His good wife saw him nodding
And she walked him "a a trice.
What's bad she said. "Oh, no." he groaned;
''It's noddy, but it's nice.
Detroit Free Press. :.
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flashes. In Gloversville, n. Y, it
smote a young horseman, named
Fred Peek, instantly killing him and
the animal which carried him. The
storm had ceased, and the fatal
stroke came from an almost clear sky
an extraordinary occurrence.
In New York City, Martin Camp.
bell and Edward B. Newell, Of Brook
lyn, sought shelter from the storm
under a huge rock at One Hundred
and Sixty-fifth streets. The opening
extended ten feet from the enlran G
and such a refuge would ordinarily
be considered safe. But Campbell
was killed and Newell made uncon-
scious by a bolt. On examining
Campbel's body it was found pro-
fusely marked with scarlet lines COW
ering the breast. thigh and hip. His
neck was encircled by crimson cord
which resembled a crown of thorns.
Across the whites Of the eyes were
brown lines. Such tracing was never
before seen by New York physicians,
and an eminent physician declared
that the thunder-b bolt never hit the
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ANTIQUARIAN Treasures.

Recent excavations near Bologna
have unearthed ancient tombs con-
tanning many pottery vases and
wealth of bronzes-pins, knives,
razors, horse bits, buckets, and
boxes. The most uncommon find is
a small chariot of bronze, which has
been mounted in the museum Of
Bologna. In the Etruscan tumulus
of PIetrera other excavators have
found stores of cups called Euccheri,
one Of which has zones Of animal
stamped on its sides. Some are GOV
cred with gold leaf. Parts Of two ex-
quisite gold bracelets with pendants
of human heads and figures in en-
bosset gold leaf are in this find, to-
gether with a necklace of seventy
hollow beads, ribbed, and with
thirty gold pendants in the shape of
busts of women with breast plates at
tached. These and other objects will
be placed in the museum at Florence.
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HEAVENS ARTILLERY
MANY VICTIMS OF LlGHTNlNG'S
DEADLY BOLTS.
Over Two Hundred Year Killed in This
Country Examples Of Fatalities -- Ono
Found to Have Extraordinary Tracings
on His BODY.
Work of Deadly Fluid.

Last year over 200 persons were
killed by lightning In the United
States alone, and 1t is believed the
electric bolt is yearly responsible for
more than 1000 deaths throughout
the earth. From 1885 to 1892 2270
were killed by it in Russia and Eu-
rope. During the same period 700
were destroyed in Austria. Deaths
from this cause are also numerous in
France.
During recent widespread storm
in this country, it was demonstrated
that lightning seeks its victims pretty
much everywhere, even where pre-
cauti N Is taken to avoid its deadly
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when they discovered Mr.. Carlin was
killed. His body was black where the
lightning passed across him. His
W fe was always afraid of lightning.
She shut every window when the
storm broke, and sat in fear and
trembling, as was her custom on such
occasions. Her husband was abs0-
lutely fearless of lightning. The
conductor pipe stopped three feet
from the ground. Had it been car
ried to the surface itwould not have
entered the house and the killing
would not have taken place.
In Russia, in Northern New York,
Edward Fletcher, a farmer, while
loading hay was instantly killed.
The steel tines Of the pitchfork at
tracted the lightning, which, after
passing through Mr.. Fletcher
shocked his son, who was assisting
him. The horses ran away and the
hay took fire and was consumed.
Neither horses nor wagon bore marks
Of the bolt
In Nebraska a family named Car
ney shut themselves up In a room on
the approach of the stOpm, and when
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HEROIC measures will have to be
taken to check the epidemic of train
robbing which is sweeping over this
country. The success Of organized
gangs Of desperadoes in the thinly
settled territory west Of the Missouri
River has evidently emboldened
smaller rascals and it is to be feared
that all the petty thieves in the
country will be trying their hands at
holding up trains unless they are
promptly and vigorously dealt with.
The robbery Of the Lake Shore ex-
press at Kendallville shows that the
epidemic is spreading eastward. The
railroad and express companies should
take measures to meet the situation.
If 1t is necessary to place armed
guards on every train the question Of
expense should not be considered.
The bandits are becoming holder
every day, and the fact that they
usually escape injury or arrest has
rendered them more reckless. Moth
ing but the knowledge that they will
meet armed resistance will serve to
quench their ardor. Half dozen
men armed with sawed-off shotguns
on every express car would soon make
train robbing questionable.