The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-07-17
HISTORY UP TO DATE
HENRY VIII GETS TOM MoRPs oP'N-
ION or THE NEW WOMAN.
Octavius and Antony Meet Again, and the
Former Gives the Latter Some Good Ad-
vice and Piece Of His NIind-why They
Had Their Quarrel.

After the death of Charles l 1t &C.
cured to Oliver Cromwell that now
was the time for him to assert himself
Backed by few soldiers of what han
formerly been the royal guard, he MADE
his way to the house of commons, ana
in menacing tone, which admitted OF
no dispute, he shouted, pointing to the
mace on the table, Take away that
beebaublel''
The mace, which was nothing but
short stick with gold knobbly knob ON
the top and which represented the pow
ers and privileges of parliament, was
Immediately spirited away.
Now, gitp' exclaimed the protector
in harsh voice.
The members of the "long parlia-
ment" slowly filed out of the house,
disconsolately counting the silver i'll
their pockets to see if they had the
wherewithal to pay for cab hire, and
murmured:
This is what comes of asking for
change for sovereignP
1t seemed to be pretty poor change,
for there wasn't the sign Of even half q
crown in the lot, and it was not until
the accession of Charles ii that Eng
land was fully decided upon a rigid
policy of monometallism.
H.
1t was some time after the execution
of Jane Seymour, the fifth wife of
Henry VIII of England, that that mon
arch was conversing affably with Sir
Thomas More.
''Say, Tommy" he remarked, with
smile, engaged as you are in writing
that book of yours, Utopia, should
think you would have had many deep
thoughts about women. Amt that SOP"
"Most Individually, SIRE" rejoined
the philosopher.
''Well, then," said the king, "what
is your opinion about the new woman?"
II should say, sire, " he replied at
length, that she was inclined to lose
her head.
With the recollections of the fates of
Jane Seymour and Anne Boleyn in his
mind, it was not strange that the phi
losopher answered thus, but he was too
local in his ideas, for it SO happened
that Catherine Parr, with whom Henry
was contracting an alliance, was SO sin
gularly fortunate as to survive her royal
husband or she would infallibly have
got it precisely where, to paraphrase an
old Anglo-Saxon smile, the bottle got
the cork,
The meeting between Octavius and
Antony is worthy of comment.
"See here, Tony remarked the flu
ture emperor Of Rome, II can't say /
like the way you're carrying on. It's
scarcely decent to say the least gave
you my sister, Octavia, for second
wife after the death Of Fulvia, and you
told me you were going to settle down.
What do find?'
"Darned if 1 lmowl" calculated An
tony. 81 haven't lost anything
"Now, see here, Mark, " replied o.
tavius getting warm, 81 don't want
any of your lip. 1 repeat, What do !
find? Simply this: Here you go ON in
the same old way with that baggage of
Cleopatra, making silly spectacle of
yourself when you might be earning the
undying honor Of posterity by winning
all sorts of glory in battle"
"To blazes with posterity!" said An
tony excitedly. "I'm looking out for a
good time for myself. Glory may be all
right for you and the other boys, but l
don't want it. Cleopatra is all right.
She's daisy I'm dead in love with
her and so is she with me-"
''Do you really think that Cleopatra
loves you for yourself alone9" queried
his brother in law, with a plying smile.
"Certp'
"Well, you are soft Mark, r" and
with a contemptuous sniff Octavius
; turned ON his heel and resolved to do
up Antony at the forthcoming b, tile Of
! Actium or bust.-New York World.