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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-20

'1ovely Molly Leppell." afterward Lady
Hervey; Mary Bellenden, who married
Colonel Campbell, afterward Duke of
Argyll, and Lady Mary Wortley Mon
tagu. The spot in the garden in which
on pleasant days these three graces
strollcd with their attendant SWANS is
still pointed out at Richmond a.
Maids Row" The Countess of Bess-
borough, sister of Georgiana, duchess
of Devonshire, was another reigning
toast The countess daughter, Lady
Caroline Lamb. who married Lord Mel
bourne. served as the original for Lady
Kitty in Mrs. Humphry Wards Mar
riage of William Ashe."
The lovely Cummings, one of whom
became. Duchess of Hamilton and
Argyll and the other Countess of
Coventry, were perhaps the most nota-
BILE English beauties of their day.
Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire. a
power in eighteenth century politics,
will not be forgotten so long as Sir
Joshua Reynolds portrait of her sur
wives. There was also the matchless
Sarah Siddons. unsurpassed in beauty
as in her histrionic art. The rivals of
her Grace of Devonshire-the Duchess
of Gordon-popularly called Jenny of
Monteith. and the Marchioness of Sails
bury, each had her court of admirers.
1.-The Maid of Bath the fair singer.
Miss Eliza Ann Lii1ley, who became the
wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was
another famous belle. Anne Conway,
the Honorable Mrs. Damer, was noted
as much for her beauty as for her
genius in sculpture Poor cynical old
Horace Walpole gave to her the admi-
ration of his declining years and be-
queathed to her a substantial fortune
in his home, Strawberry Hill.
y y
Lovely and unfortunate, the charming
Fitzherbert appeals to the chivalry of
an age when kings are not so highly
thought of as when George Nv. in
weighed her into a secret marriage. In
spite of the fact that the first gentle
man of Europe, in his gentlemanly way.
denied the marriage and authorized Fox
publicly to repudiate it in the house of
commons, the reputation of this beau
tifuI woman was finally cleared by the
opening of the documents, letters, etc.
which were by royal command after her
death locked up in the Bank of Eng
land and kept there until King Edward
magnanimously ordered that they
should be made public. OF course under
English. law Mrs. Fitzherbert could
never have been queen of England, but
it is interesting to know that in the
eighteenth century three women-the
Empress Catherine, wife of Peter the
Great; Nine. de Maintenon, wife of
Louis XIV, and Mrs. Maria Anne
Smythe Fitzherbert, wife of George ".
although but of the people them
selves, by their beauty raised them
selves to be the equal in power and
position of any royal woman of the
ancient dynasties.
ALICIA MEREDITH.
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to keep marriage scheming mammas
and old maids contented and happy.
Experience has shown that no kicks
Will be made about the most awful
food if eligible young men are around.
So the wise proprietor who charges
the youths nothing or next to nothing
for their board evens things up after
this fashion.
Not Made In Heaven.
And are matches ever made in this
way? Sometimes, when the girl has
money For the young men who hang
around the piazzas and firt rarely
have a sou of their own. If they had
they would be staying at private
houses. Very few millionaires are al
lowed to run around loose and I'M
chaperoned, l can tell you. There are
several eligibles at the hotel where
am staying. but, bless your hearts they
are in such demand at the different
cottages for dinner, bridge, ETC., not to
speak of automobile and yachting trips
to Newport. that no one but the night
clerk ever sees them as they wend
their weary way to their rooms to
snatch the remainder of the nights
sleep.
Occasionally one gets a glimpse of
them sitting down to a late breakfast,
and the pretty girl who is down here
with her mother doesn't waste any
more of her good evening clothes
around the hotel, but blossoms forth
in the most exquisite of costumes
every morning She comes down late
to breakfast in the paIest of pink and
the most delicate of blues 1t must be
a raging headache, I'm sure, that can
remain Indifferent to such a picture.
Down by the Sea.
On the bathing beach this same girl
is a dream also, for this is her other
chance. Every one meets there, cot
tagers and hotel people alike, SO she
wears distracting silk bathing suits,
with little handkerchief caps to match
One of them is in the new shade of
cobalt blue (between Alice and tur-
quoise), embroidered with black and
white in panel effect down the front
and back. The stockings are of silk
TO match, and the cap is of the same
SILK With three points. each tipped with
a tiny white tassel and tied handker-
chief fashion.
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RS-
90

n CONFESS my liking for big hotels
"a has vanished.
= One doesn't seem to meet really
nice" people at them any more
.Wadays we are getting so English
IL we must all have our country
places, and if we don't have one We
hire a cottage for a month or 50 and
invite our friends down for week ends
This keeps from unutterable loneli-
ness and at the same time allows us to
pay back some of our winter obliga-
lions.
The up to date woman is too fond of
her comfort not to have her own pri-
vate Veranda. heaped up with cushions
and fancy fiXings- She has no mind to
carry on her limitations within earshot
of the Embroiderers' league, and she
won't eat canned food.
For all OF these reasons and a few
more it can be easily seen why the big
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never forgot that they had royal blood
in their veins and were so much more
popular than the reigning house that
doubtless, as the sovereigns of France
declined in favor. they may have
dreamed of supplanting them upon the
throne. The young princess died in the
twenty-third year of her age leaving
a son, Louis Joseph Henri. who was
to be the last and the most unfortu-
nate of the brilliant house of Condo.
Marie Antoinette. who came to France
ten years after the Princess of Condos
death, took a fancy to this portrait
which was in the best style of the great
Natter. and added it to her private COL
lection at Trianon, where it was given
a place of honor on the walls of the
music room. There it hung until the
queen presented it to the family of the
Count du Montdesir, whence it came by
devious ways to the walls of the New
York museum.
Jean Marc Natter. French court
painter of the earlier half of the eight
eenth century, painted most of the
highborn bellies of his time and coun-
try. He was to France what Reyn-
olds. Gainsborough and Lawrence were
to England. The eighteenth century
may be said to have been the era
Of beauty, for during no other period
have there been so many women
famous for beauty or the power which
beauty gave them. Early in the CEN
tury Nine. de Maintenon occupied a
throne through the spell her beauty
cast over the heart of the aged Louis !
XIV. When Louis XIV. succeeded his |
grandfather, in 1715, a new series of
beauties most of them as frail as they |
were fair fascinated the French court. |
Queens of France in all but name, |
probably the Marquise de Pompadour |
and the Countess du Barry exercised |
greater power than any other women of |
their time.
Nine Necker, wife of the director |
general of finance and mother of the /
famous Mime. de Stael. was celebrated |
beauty in her day. She was the one |
and only love of the historian Gibbon |
The Marquise du Deffand, the friend of
Votaire. presents remarkable exam
pie of retributive justice. In spite of
her intellect, she was all her life |
hear coQuette, but when seventy |
years of age became the victim of |
hopeless passion for young Horace
Walpole. who described her as "a
merry old woman who says smart |
things that are repeated wherever
60" Mile de IEspinasse, who was at |
one time the amanuensis and compan-
ion of the Marquise du Defand. is sup
posed to have been the original from
which Mrs. Humphry Ward drew her
central character in Lady Roses
The Countess Stephanie |
Felicite de Genlis, another famous belle, |
was the daughter of a poor but noble |
family. She supported herself and her
mother with her music until she mar
ried the rich Count de Genlis. A lovely |
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arabic in the
rinsing w t er
and drying on
the window pane.
Yes, l know it
looks horrid
from the out
side of tn e
house, but it is
so convenient.
S p kin g of
large sailors,
you ought to
see a big white
sailor that was
worn at the Ca
sino the other
day. 1t was of
chip with a taft
feta edge. and
the trim ming
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-20

SUNNI er hotel
has no attrac-
lions for her.
Probably there
isn't a hotel in
the land where
the sufferin G
6 u e. t d 0 e sn't
have to eat
"a ed things
more or less.
and. then, after
a dinner where
the vegetables
n q V e b e @ n
French" string
beans and other
"tinny' condi-
mentS, the I'M
fortunate may
go d Wn tn e
nnn a hit nnd
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Unfortunately the young man is be-
coming scarce article in summer
hotels Proprietors have been known
to import them specially from town and
give them room and board free in order
Proprietors hare been knonnn 10 irnnnrt then
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you can't use the same veil more than
three times.
Lace wells can be had for as low as
95 cents, and you can wash them as
often as you like, putting a little gum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-20

Very few of those who glance at Sir
Thomas Lawrence's portrait of Lady
Peterborough in the Metropolitan mu-
woman whom it depicts was one of the
most beautiful and most powerful wo-
men Of her time. In the same art gall
lery is another portrait of a beauty
once famous. The canvas shows a
young woman dressed in white with
leopard skin knotted about her Shout
ders and a bow and arrow in her hand.
She is the Princess de Condo. Charlotte
Godefriede Elisabeth de ROhar- Soubise,
born in 1877. when Louis XIV. ruled
France and Nine. de Po3npadour was
a young girl fifteen years of age with
ambitious thoughts in her pretty head.
The De Rohans were not a particularly
scrupulous race, and her father, the
Prince de Rohan- Soubise, who hattered
the petticoated powers behind the
throne, had the benefit of De Pompa-
dour's influence in making brilliant
matches for his children. Charlotte
Elisabeth, who was as lovely in mind
and character as she was in face and
form, was married in 1853 to Prince
Louis Joseph de Bourbon Condo, the
great grandson of a hero of France and
the heir to its richest and proudest title.
The palace of the Condos at Chantilly
treasures, and when the Grand Duke
Paul of Russia was entertained there
early in the reign of Louis XVI.
ne described it as more magnificent
than the royal abode. The Condos
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l1rn

- REF is beauty's reign. If you
would know how brief, stroll
"a through one of those galleries
49, in which hang the portraits
of the bellies of a past generation The
painters art cannot imm ortalize their
charm. Gone from the scenes of their
triumphs, soon even their names are
forgotten. and faces that once stirred
a continent for good or evil interest
only the passing critic. to whom they
are merely the forms through which
some master of the brush conveys his
message to the world of art.
Among the wealth of pictures from
the old world gathered to the United
States in recent years are many por-
traits of fair DANES who by right of
loneliness once commanded universal
homage unlimited power or wealth be-
side which that of the most opulent
multimillionaire seems paltry. These
may be seen on the walls of the Metro
politan Museum of Art in New York,
the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadel-
phla. the Corcoran gallery in Washing
ton or the Public library in Boston, as
well as in many other American col
Iections. They are unnoted, unrecog-
nized, these beauties of a bygone day.
Visitors care only for those canvases
that have a story to tell or bear the
name Of some famous artist and pass
with an Indifferent stare portraits be-
hind which lies many a forgotten world
romance.
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stare at some impoverished natives"
vegetable garden overgrown thick with
things 1t makes my mouth water even
TO write about, some of which. to ag
gravate matters. seem actually to be
going to seed for lack of some one to
eat them.
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Paying For What?

And the guest of the big hotel is pay
Ing anywhere from $50 to 500 a week
for the privilege of being herded with a
lot of undesirable people, fed any old
thing and charged extra for ali the
proprietor's ingenuity can contrive.
1 say undesirable people with rea-
son, for who are half the folk one meets
at summer hotels? No one really
knows, and it is well they keen their
Identity secret. l could tell Won nanv
story of undesirable acquaintance in
vacation time, when appearances were
all one had to go by. and the return TO
town proved a startling revelation.
There is a species of woman who will
always go to a summer hotel. I fancy
she is the main reason why such
Institutions keep alivei I mean the
mother of no particular social position
with manageable daughters. Having
little or no chance during the winter
months to marry them off she trusts TO
luck or love at first sight among the
guests where they stop in hot weather
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-20

REF is beauty's reign. If you
would know how brief, stroll
through one of those galleries !
in which hang the portraits
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-16
We Welcome
The New News.

The first issue of the Pensacola
Evening News, formerly the Daily
News, appeared yesterday, with the
name of w. B. Crawford at the head
of the editorial column as editor and
manager, and the union label show
ing. Mr.. Crawford acquired owner
ship at L p. m, Immediately union
lied the shop, put to work a union
crew at noon, and got out an abridged
edition on time.
In view of the fact that w. B.
Crawford has occasionally, and. very
lately, for a few weeks, been connected
with the editorial force of The Jour
nal, we can have only the kindliest
feeling for the Evening News, TO
which The journal extends the hand
of good fellowship and for which 1t
would bespeak all reasonable support
on the part of the public.
While yesterday set half measure"
as it were. the paper showed what
good crowd of good men can do in an
emergency, and constituted a pretty
safe criterion that the new paper (for
it is virtually so) will be an afternoon
paper that will reflect credit on its
home town and help to promote the
interests and good name of this city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-16
FLORALA HAS
FINE OUTLOOK
Probable New Road to Tap
the New Pensacola-An-
dalusia Road.
Special to The journal.

Florala. July 15.-There is consid-
cradle talk of another railroad for
F1orala. On Friday and Saturday it
was rumOred that the Central would
build a connecting branch eight or
ten miles long to tap the proposed line
from Andalusia to Pensacola. There
is strong probability and good lea-
son to believe this ro1d will be built,
and If it is built, Florala viii have a
competing line to the deep water city
and it stands to reason that we will
have better freight rates.
The L. and N is doing considerable
work around here, most Of which is
in the improvement of the extensive
yards. The steam shovel and their
tanks are being put in much better
shape than ever before.
Two men were badly scalded at
the turpentine plant of the Florala
saw mill by the bursting OF steam
pipe. The distillery at which the
men were working is one OF the few
at which turpentine is extroifed from
slabs, saw dust and pine knots. 1t
is a very large plant.
Superintendent Mckinney, of the L.
and N, was in F1orala and met the
business men of this section at the
Colonial hotel, where the matter of
building a new depot was discussed
Among the plans considered was one
to erect handsome passenger sta
ton on the former site of the depot.
However, Mr. Mckinney stated that
the railroad people WIRE willing to
submit the issue to the people, by
way of petition, and these have been
thoroughly circulated.
Mrs. Chas. c. McRae and Messrs.
H. A and o. c. Smith were summoned
to Georgia by the serious illness of
their mother
The whiskey question is becoming
acute in this county There will be
bills before the legislature, now in
session at Montgomery, to either es-
tablish dispensaries at Florala, Opp
and Andalusia, or create a law pre-
venting the sale of liquor at all towns
in Covington county except those
three. Both the dry and wet sides
have Hobbies at the capital.
The local telephone exchange is
undergoing a thorough overhauling,
and the central Office is being moved
into the SCARCE building where new
put in A line will probably be built
from Florala to Laurel Hill, as it
now extends some four or five miles
in the direction of that place.
Several Walton county schools
opened Monday, and some of the
teachers were in F1orala en- route to
their schools. Among them were Miss
Chrystine ellis, Miss Myrtle Names,
and Miss Gussfe Storrs. The latter
is the daughter Of the editor of the
DeFuniak Breeze.
William Page left Sunday for Do
than, where he will enter business
college.
Dr. Williams, of Dohtan, was among
the business visitors to Florala on
T. E. Turner, proprietor of the Flor
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-16
COTTAGE HILL.
Special TO The Journal.

Cottage Hill, July 15.-Mrs. Walters
and Mrs. Levey are visiting in Pen
sacola for a few days.
Two pieces of property changed
hands here a few days since. ]. X.
Youi.ey, of Port Orange, Fla, has
bought the Lutz property and will oc-
cupy the same about October I. Nj.
Barrow has bought the property late
" occupied by w. H. Smith.
The peach trees that were so late
in ieafing out this spring have seem
ingly regained their usual vigor. The
seasonable rains have been great
benefit to them.
The cotton crop seems to be doing
very nicely in this action. The early
planting is now in bloom, and prom
Uses a good yield.
Mr.. Mills, of near Quintette, is now
shipping pears. He is the only one
in this section who has a good crop.
He estimates that he will have two
car loads.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-16
INTERESTING SUIT
IN DADE COUNTY.
Alleged That Northern Man Was
Given Whiskey to Induce Him
to come to This State
to Work.

The Miami Metropolis says: The
special term of the Circuit Court
opened this morning to commence
the weeks grinding out of cases,
Judge Minor S. Jones presiding.
The case of G. Hermanson against
the Florida East Coast Railway Com
pany, claiming damage to the amount
of 100000, was called, but owing to
there being but three jurors present
from the regular venire, the court or
dered a special venire of nine jurors,
to be selected from the bystanders.
The case above mentioned grows
out of an alleged action on the part
of an agent or agents of the defend
ant company. the plaintiff alleging
that he was given doped whiskey and
enticed to come to work on the Flor
ida East Coast Railway extension and
when he came to his senses, was in
Baltimore, en- route to Florida. The
case promises to be an interesting
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-16
BOWMAN IS
NINETY YEARS OLD

New York, July 15-The Ri. Rev.
Dr. Thomas Bowman, senior bishop Of
the Methodist church, who lives in
Orange. n. J., will celebrate his nine.
tieth birthday to-day. Bishop Bow.
man has the distinction of having
lived longer than any other Methodist
bishop. He is we'll preserved is
seen almost daily on the streets Of
Orange where he walks, and he is as
interested in the affairs of his church
as when he was ordained in 1893.
During his bishopric he attended al
least two conventions in every state
in the union He mas Travelled around
the world twice and has OBLIGATED az
religious gatherings in Mexico Ell
rope, India, China, and Japan and las
dedicated more than 900 churches
He retired from active work six
years ago.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-16

1t may be we'll for Mrs Roosevelt
to establish a new general style by
abandoning the use of corsets, but
it is to be hoped that, the hipless
woman already being fashionable. -
the abandonment of the corset will
not eVentuate in the waistlcss
woman. What would become of So
ciety? Where would you take hold
of woman when you go to dance
with her? How would you manage
if she sprained her ankle and you
had to carry her? We may be mar
tistic, we may be foolish, and all
that, but it seems, as nearly as we
can figure it out off hand and by in
stinct, that women were just natural
ly intended to be taken hold of, and
the waist line is the best place
We ever found. 1t won't do to efface
the waist line.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-16
WILL MILTON
BECOME DRY?
Ladies Have Organized
With View to Put the
County on Prohi-
bition List.
Special to The Journal.

Milton, July 15.-The ladies of Mil
ton have organized Woman's Tenn
perance League, to assist in the work
of helping to influence the voters of
this county to carry a dry county
They have been doing some interest
ing work.
w L. Fillingim, night operator at
the depot, left last week for Bluff
Springs to attend the wedding of his
brother
Mr.. ]. Ed. Creary, of Corinth. Miss,
spent last week with friends and rel
atiVeS here and at Bagdad
Mrs. Crawford and children have
returned to Centreville, Ala, after a
pleasant visit with Mrs. Howard
Bates.
Miss Clementine Gentry spent Sun
day with friends in Pensacola
Mrs. w. c. Tharp is visiting -,la-
tives in our vicinity.
Superintendent E. L. Mcdaniel was
visitor to Pensacola Monday ard
Tuesday.
Mrs. T. F. West and children left
Wednesday to spend several weeks at
Richmond and the jamestown Expo
sition.
DR. H. E. Eldridge left SATURDAY. for
an extended trip to Mobile. New Or
leans, San Antonio and western cities.
He will be absent about three weeks.
Messrs. James McHugh and Dave
Kuslcnan were among the travelling
statesmen from Pensacola last wesk
Mr. and Mrs J. Clayton, of Mobile,
are visiting the family of i. NJ. Rhoda.
Mrs. CLAYTON was well known here
as Miss Hankins. She is niece of
Mrs Rhcdl
Miss Daisie Archibald of Evergreen,
Ala, is visiting Mrs. D. G. Diden.
Mr.. Jewell Johnston, after Spcod
ing a few days with his people, re-
turned 10 his studies at Montgomery
on Monday.
Mr.. ]. Bell. travelling out of St
Louis for a large dry goods house,
spent several days here this week.
Miss Clara Nesbitt, of Tampa, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. William Davl-
son of this city.
Messrs J. H. and Fred Pilditfh
have severed their connection with
the Stearns and Culver Company. and
are now in Pensacola, but will leave
shortly for their old home in Michi
gan.
Mr.. A. P. Hardee was a business
visitor to Pensacola Wednesday.
Mr.. Malcolm Hannah, OF Pensacola,
spent Sunday week with his parents
in the city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-07-16
No Time for Blind Tiger.

al championships which will be held
in Philadelphia on August 8 and 10.
The news that Germany will be rep
resented, the first time that men have
been sent across in many years, ei-
citing interest and records are be-
ing hunted up and inquiries made 10
the speed of the men. Among
those coming are: Singles-Adolph
Muller. Viking club, Berlin; doubles.
Carl Ernst and A Won Casa; four
oars, Regneller, stroke, NJ. Hoffman,
G. Golammer and R BOerger, bow,
Hellas Rowing, club, Berlin.