The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-21
LAID TO REST AT LAST.

IO A AASAs Lippincott's. Here lies her head on the lap. of earth. For the first time she rests since the
 hour of her birth.
 Her forbears for ages were folk known And thus in her days she was ''daugh-
 ter" and dame"
 She belonged to twelve clubs and read
 Horace at sight,
 And served on the school board with
 naughty delight.
 At the meetings of mothers she always
 appeared
 To tell them how little ones all should
 be reared.
 She golfed and she kodaked and auto
 mobiled.
 And whenever it pleased her she turn
 ed in and wheeled.
 s The luncheons and teas and functions Which kept her all smiles made her
 husband sore. When she'd nowhere to go. as she
 found one day.
 she lay.
 And now lies her head on the lap of For the first time she rests since the
 hour of her birth.
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 TRAGIC FIGURE OF
 EMPRESS EUGENE. 'There is no figure that speaks more pathetically of transient human great ness than the ex-Empress Eugenie." writes Lady Henry Somerset from Paris. Nor do I know any face which retains more markedly its traces of beauty and its stamp of. suffering. l have been told that when in Paris she still walks in the gardens of the Tuil- cries and furtively picks a flower from the spot where she spent her brilliant youth.
 Around every woman who has wrought disaster and who has claimed admiration there are always two i'm pressions-the one pathetic, tender ad- miring; the other that would represent her as the most foolish of her race, the evil genius of her country-but neither probably is true of any, from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Eugenie, Empress of the French.
 Some years ago she spent a day with me in my home, and as I looked upon those classic features and heard her gentle voice and saw the sad ex pression in herssoft. Spanish eyes re- alized that, although through the in- fuence of this woman thousands were made to suffer, none has suffered more than she and that probably the ambi- tion which made her goad the Emper- or into that fatal war was the mista- ken thought that she could build back the shattered empire by the means which in the past had brought a tran sient glory to France.
 The Empress has passed into old age and leads quiet life in her coun- try home, where. beside the tomb of her husband and her son, she spends her days in prayer and in waiting for those things which are better than the passing glory of a court which tarried but for day."
 TO DRESS FOR PHOTO.
 For the success or failure of a pho- tographer in securing a good picture much depends on the sort of clothes worn by the person who Is posing for a photograph.
 For instance, a waist of silk with a glistening or polished surface, cannot be made to take well in a photograph and will give a peculiar effect to 1t that nine out of ten women will not like, yet when kle fact is pointed out to them, they may refuse to believe it. Another thing that does not lend itself well to photographic purposes when made up into garments is goods of a posiliNe pattern, Sucn as large plaids, wide stripes and so forth. Dresses of those goods may look we'll on the wearer and perhaps in a few cases not detract from the effect in a photo- graph, but as general proposition they ought to be tabooed by women when having their pictures taken by any rho ographic process. Sharp con- trasts in pronounced colors ought also to be strictly avoided, and jet or other glistening or glittering jewelry should not be worn, for the light Is reflected from them sometimes in such a way as to spoil almost completely the picture. sun materials in dresses are also apt 10 act as a contributing cause to an uhsatisiactory photograph. Goods that will fall into soft and graceful folds Is the best for a dress to be pho- tographed in, for the artistic possibil- ities in its arrangement are well-nigh limitless. Sharp. harsh lines at the neck and wrist are bad as well. Did you ever notice that when woman years some chiffon or something of that sort about her neck the photo- graph is always more pleasing than when she wears a stiff collar or stock All of these things I have mentioned help to give a photograph that quality which causes woman to say it isn't entirely satisfactory, even though the features may be excellent Skilled photographers know these things and try to have their customers avoid them but often times persuasion is useless and then comes the kick" when proofs are shown that there is something about it I don't like"
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 CZARINA 4 SUFFRAGIST. The Empress of Russia is one of the