The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-10-20


friends. talked about cholera, and no
body dared whisper poison" though
everybody knew. There is another IA
nous ring. 1t belonged to great ex-
plorer-a heavy band of gold. with
cameo having the face of "A beautiful /
woman cut i'm Il. But the cameo is
like a lid and lifts up and under IL is |
vegetable poison that. softened by a |
little heat. will kill two or three men, !
and this one man took IL rather than |
ride TO the guillotine in a common |
cart.
In a little town near Vienna an enter
prisng American gir found and never |
was satisfied until she had bought the |
wedding dress Of Marie Antoinette. Like
all OF the house Of Hapsburg she had
given her marriage gown and veil To
some poor church. where the lace might
be used as a veil and the dress he cut
into vestments. Here il was waiting its
turn. and the frock worn by the girl
bride Will probably remain always a
souvenir. a something that has his
tory and one that is so delightful Queen
Victoria counts among her treasures the
walking stick that Bonnie Prince
Charlie forgot when he started Oft that
morning TO fight the battle OF Culloden.
1t was discovered afterward and shows
on it's handle that IL has carved on one
side the head OF Wisdom and on the
other the laughing head Of Folly.
From all the world over we hear that
Jewels were never worn to such great
extent as now, but nobody wants just a
diamond band The diamonds must be
set i'm some strange way and must have
been worn by some great and good wo-
man or some great and bad woman.
Which would you rather have. the ring
of nun who gave her life to prayer or
the ring of Catherine the Great? NO.
no; no explanation is necessary. Human
nature is very much the same all the
world over but you know they did have
such odd things in the days gone by.
When a worker in trinkets devoted
year to cutting out a ring or designing
a rosary, then they were worth possess
ing.
That poor empress OF Russia, poor be-
cause she stands equal with the poorest
woman living or dead claimed 10 have
had a piece of the tree upon which
Christ was crucified. and this tiny bit of
wood is in perfect shell of diamonds,
while II rests on an altar made espe-
cially for it, draped heavily with fine
laces and before which lamp burns
forever while a sister of charity never
ceases saying her prayer for the whole
wicked world.
Apropos of wonderful rosares, girl
who has plenty of money, and. better
still. good taste. picked up in Japan
rosary formed of huge beads made of
dark brown. highly polished wood. Each
bead is hollow and cut i'm sort OF lat
ticework, go that through IL can be
seen the little gold god that literally
grins out at each one and about which
the bead itself must have been cut
Undoubtedly il decorated some famous
temple. since its great length-it is "a
feet long-would suggest that II was
not intended for home use.
BY the bye. even I'm the hour of sick
ness ! laughed and laughed and laugh
ed again at an old Scotch story as IL
was told me. A Scotchman was having
slight contest about money with the
driver of a hanson. 1t was a matter
of money, for the Scotchman does not
lessen his life and weaken his heart
by quarreling over anything else but
money. The driver on the high seat in
sisted that he had not been given
enough. The fierce looking laddie from
the land of the mountains threw him
self into a dignified attitude and said,
Mon. mon, dinna ye ken that ! am a
Mackintosh?" "Oh. boshi' answered
the cabby. II don't care II you're an
umbrella. You have got 10 pay that
sixpence." So, with dropping crest, the
Scotchman gave the siXpence and felt
that he was i'm a country that was no
good
like that sort OF pride. like the sort
of pride that when pennies are scarce
, makes one happy because ones grand
father came of what our Scotch cousins
call guide" blood. IL is very good To
| know that ones progcnitors were re-
! spectable.
Your grandmother may have been
queen OF the washtub yesterday and
ride in her carri8ge today, but II she
washed the clothes we'll she did her
duty I'm that state OF life I'm which she
had been placed and you owe her re-
spect
Your grandfather may have been a
respectable farmer who worked away
i'm the haynclds until one day a railroad
wanted to go through his land and he
made them pay FOR IL. You can afford
10 be proud of him lie was a good.
honest farmer. and that is more than
can he said Of most Of the present day
politicians.
All OF "you-uns" and all OF 'we-uns'
may have been born OF respectable and
we'll behaved people. who wouldn't have
known how TO wear "A corOnet. but still
it is from the great middle class. i'm
dustrious and economical. that all the
wealth I'm this world comes. But wealth
is not everything. There is something
i'm being Macintosh. for it gives one
respect for oneself. and the right
sort OF self respect makes the right sort
of man or woman You and ! both like
the good things OF life. We like to be
Miss Mufet should. for I have 4
| special liking for curds and whey and
/ think they are just as good out OF an
/ ordinary bowl os DO eaten from the finest
Of fine china
Like beautiful things. possess them u
YOU can but du not let the rage OF tn,
/ collector overcome YOU. The man viii
One idea grows very tircsume Ills on,
idea H. always the great value of th,
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