The National tribune., 1910-09-01
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DoWager Queen Alexandra is breaking
very rapidly, that her face shows wrin-
kies, that she has grown deafer than
ever, and that she seems to have lost
all her vivacity. If Queen Alexandra is
peglnnlng to show wrinkles and age, it
is probably because she has ceased
enameling her face, and the old dead
SKIN is now displayed for the first time
IN some 40 years. If it be true that
alexandra has given up this disgusting
practice, it is more than probable that
At viii have its effect all over the world
and even reach to American women. 1t
is undoubtedly true that American wo-
men have given themselves up very
largely to this sort of treatment of the
face, and, if not going that far certain
ly calcimining it with rouge and powder
until they look like nothing so much as
the wax dolls in show windows. Alex
andra introduced two fashions that can
be well given up, the one just referred
to, that of enameling the face, and the
other the wearing of the two-and-a-
ilalf-inch-wide dog collar of jewels.
Queen Alexandra enameled her neck
and shoulders just as she did her face,
and was looking like 20-year- girl,
but she was unable to cover up the
fearful cicatrice on her neck, caused by
the scrofulous blood which affiicts all
of the royal families of Europe so as
young girl wore this dog collar, which
OF Nii1l liiuC was ColiCu Tie <AltAdIluId
collar. When you see a jeweled collar
of that character you can be pretty sure
that the neck of the woman who wears
1t is hopelessly wrinkled, and that it is
used to hide a defect rather than to
enhance beauty or display jewels.
William Javins, 26 years old, at
tempted suicide in Washington the 9TH
er day because a girl to whom ne had
been attentive married the other fell
low. Ali the damage he did to himself
was to shoot out four of his upper front
teeth, which probably fixes him so that
no other girl will fall in love with him.
IF you really want to know what Es-
peranto means. here is the more or less
lucid explanation given officially by the
International Convention:
Esperanto is an attempt to dissent
nate in the whole world a language neu-
trally human, which, not intruding it
self in the internal life of the peoples
and aiming not at all to crowd out the
existing National languages, would give
to the people of different Nations the
ability mutually to understand each
other, which can serve as a peace
making language in the public institu-
tions Of those countries where different
Nations fight among themselves about
the language, and in which can be
published those words which have an
equal interest for all peoples. Any
other idea or hope which this or that
Esperant;st has with Esperantism is his
purely private affair, for which Esper-
antism does not answer. An Esperan
fist is any person who knows and uses
the Esperanto language, being entirely
equal, for whatever purpose he uses it"
NJ. Jusserand, French ambassador,
left Washington few weeks ago to
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the statue of Washington presented by
the State of Virginia and which is to
stand in Paris. They had great doin's
there, largely military, with a heap of
French notables and a good many
Americans. The band played the Star
Spangled Banner" as Count Chambrun, |
brother-in-law of Congressman Long
worth, of Ohio, great-grandson of La
fayette, unvailed the bronze, which was
vailed, not with the Stars and Stripes. I!
but with the "Sic Semper Tyrannis"
flag Of Virginia. When NJ. Jusserand |
made his speech he said, among other
things: America is the only country |
with which France has never fought !
France is the only country with which |
America was ever an ally" And he |
added: mo gift could be more valuable |
as no part of America is dearer than
historical Virginia, the birthplace of
the United States"
1ica of the Houdan statue, which |
stands in Richmond, Va. There won't |
be anything for the French to object to
in that trim little statue. 1t was the
fashion in those days to wear retreat
ing foreheads, and so Houdan put
forehead on Washington like a Flat
head Indian; also he shaped for Wash
ington. instead of that distinguished
gentleman's ungainly legs, as dapper a
pair of limbs as ever were clothed in
skin-ught knee breeches, silk stockings
and paste-buckled shoes. The statue
which Virginia presented the Govern
ment along with that of Lee is a copy
of the same bronze figure that stands in
Richmond. 1t is a well-known fact that
Gen. Washington stood six feet four
inches in his stocking feet Notwith-
standing this, Lee is fashioned in bronze
to overtop Washington. Lee was a
spare man. He had but very lit
tie the advantage of Gen. Grant in
hight. He was about six feet, which
would make him, if fashioned proper
tionately, at least four inches shorter
than Washington. The Houdan statue of
Washington makes him trim, dapper
dandified and band-boxy, when 1t is
well-known fact, because his knee
breeches, silk stockings and shoes are
in the National Museum for anybody to
see, that Washington was long-legged,
ioose-jointed, rough of exterior and
OI d rlOer tnan mdnlkln.
The statue in bronze which the French
have received will please them all right,
because there won't be particle of
the 'shirt-sleeved'' statesman seen in
that bronze; but, all the same IL bears
about as much resemblance to Wash
ington. the real man, as it bears to
Beau Brummel.
Former Representative Shallenberg-
er, of Omaha, Neb., who was elected
Governor of Nebraska two years ago
and was trying for a second term, was
turned down at the primaries by Mayor
Dahlman, of Omaha, who won by less
than 200 majority. Gov. Shallenberger
has demanded recount in IL of the
Counties. believing that there were in
accuracies which will lead him to VIC
tory when the ballots are recorded
properly.
Mrs. James S. Sherman. wife of Vice
President Sherman, who has been seri-
ously i'll from a physical collapse, and
who was taken from the Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore up into the Adj
rondacks. is very much improved in
health. Her devoted family believe that
she will be able to assume her official
duties in Washington just as usual in
the Autumn.
President Taft has recently been rak-
Ing up his ancestors He visited Gov.
Draper, of Massachusetts, last week