The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-03-19

- 'et q. every one clSe.
The 'prfhe u.s." by an elaborate dis
trlDutlon p money sometimes even
gold piece % the employees, made
| herself sold at the hotel. Real were
the beautiiIt draperies she wore; real
| seemed tn xhilarating jewels which
sprinkled liEa. at her throat, in her
hair, on h. shapely fingers; real
We're the 81 lie curves of her wonder
full figure aud real the beauty of her
| dark face II was all unquestionable,
so that, even though it was very I'M
usual for sueh royal person to travel
without aniernational preliminaries,
doubt was soon forgotten in curiosity
and anxiety 70 meet her and in delight
at her exquisite taste. That the lang
uaEe- she spoke was totally unrecog-
nizable and mat the special food
which her 3iares prepared over
| charcoal glow n the back gardens Of
the hotel Wa ported strange mere
ly added to peoples thrills Of delight.
First, merchants sent special repre-
sentatives 10 snow her their costliest
goods; next, news people came to in
terview. only one member of the
retinue spike English, and that one
very brokHnly He said the "prin-
cess camY from large island in the
Far East, hn island of untold wonder.
where all Isorts of marvels grew and
where .'gdms 0. purest ray serene,
the dark, iunfathomed caves of ocean
bear" she had come to England to
bring a message of good will to the
king of England from her father the
king, and to propose commercial re.a.
tons between England and her ISL
and.
This was published next morning,
and with that society stirred. Its
members called upon the princess"
and pressed invitations of all kinds
upon her. She appeared at their balls
in the most superb arrays that Orient.
alism had ever waved before the fas-
cinated Western eyes, Jewels of daz-
zling lustre charmed the sight, while
silks of the finest texture and of most
attractive hues CARRIED the exquisite
person of the Princess Cariboo."
Finally, state ball was given in
her honor by the officers Of the crown
in Bristol, for the next morning the
princess had to start for London TO
deliver her messages to King George.
A special golden coach was pro-
cured to send her in, and a military
escort to accompany her several miles
out of Bristol. Here ends the story OF
the Princess Cariboo. She never ar
rived in London. Only few OF the
townships along the highroad reported
her passage, and those were the hrst
few adjacent to Bristol. Rumors began
to float back after several months
that the princess was one OF the clever
young London actresses OF the day,
and her suite was formed of a num-
Der of destitute young noblemen.
1t was a sharp blow to his majes-
tvs officers in Bristol and to society
there, but sharper still to the mer-
chants of costly goods and jewels who
had left with her thousands of pounds
worth of the finest Of their wares,
and found themselves possessors OIL
checks on an Oriental bank which
turned out to be non-existent. The
hotel held the same kind OF checks
in payment of it's by no means modest
bill. Bristol was a sadder and wiser
town. It was, as German would
have it, "Orientiert''
What can we show in these days to
equal such wealth of fancy as that?
Michael Angelo as Jester.
Michael Angelo was perhaps the
earliest humorist to try the artlstlc
credulity of his neighbors. He carved
a statue Of Cupid, broke the arm on
and buried the statue on the site OF
old ruins where men were digging for
classic relics. When they found GU
Did the connoisseurs went wild over
it, and declared it authentic ancient
Greek. Michael Angelo produced the
arm he had broken of, and when ne
had convinced everybody that 1t htted
he laughed. A long time afterward
they laughed, too. But, after al, II
was not such a hard blow to tnelr
"connoisseurship' to have found one
of Michael Angeles carvings good
enough to be classic.
Louis XIV. himself was taken IN IN
a much more humiliating way by one
whose only art was lying. In 1867
iustA after he had returned from one
of ii ) most dazzling military successes
aga}hst the Dutch, Louis lie Grand re-
ceived word that an embassy from
Persia had just landed at Marsellles
on route to the French court to bring
saIutations and presents from the
Shah. Pleased that his fame should