The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-06
YOUR FIRST NAME

and katrines in England and America.
Among royal women who took the
name of the Alexandrian maiden were
two empresses of Russia. The first, the
wife of Peter the Great, was woman
OF humble birth. She was brought up in
the household of protestant minister
and married young Swedish dragoon.
After her husband S death, she was cap
/ tured by the Russians, and she entered
the service OF Prince Menshikoff, While
she was working in the household of the
! prince as Il servant. she attracted the
attention of the emperor, and he subse
quently married her.
After Peter s death. Catherine ruled
Russia, and she showed herself clever
and capable ruler Her act Of greatest
interest to the modern world at large
was the assistance she rendered the ex-
plorer Bering by fitting out his expedi
ton.
Catherine H., wife of Peter III, was.
according To some Judges, the greatest
queen that ever ruled in any land, not
excluding Queen Elizabeth But she
was un unscrupulous woman, with a
cruel disposition. She even connived at
her husband s murder
| With Peter ont of the way, Catherine
was crowned empress of all the Rus
siaS ~; and il was as empress that she
won the admiration and wonder Of the
world. She ruled with wisdom, did much
TO bring the civilization of Russia up to
that of the rest of Europe, promulgated
new laws, encouraged the arts. and di
rected material conquests for her coun
| try.
Five GATHERINGS have shared the Eng
llsh throne. Catherine Of Valois, or of
France, who married Henry ", is note.
worthy because she was the grand
mother of Henry VII. Three of Henry
Z ,,,fp prf,,r lao,
the fifth and the sixth-were named
Catherine. The charming Portuguese
princess who married Charles ii. was
another royal Catherine of England.
Still another famous royal Catherine
was the queen of Henry II. of France.
The queen of powerful country. the
mother of three kings. The mother-in
law of Mary, Queen of Scots, a capable
! ruler, the daughter of the strongest fam
lily in Italy, the niece Of pope-yet
Catherine de Medici is chiefly remem-
bered for the great blot which the mas.
sacre of ST. Bartholomew stamped, not
only on her reign, but on France,
There have been many other interest
ing GATHERINGS Of less fame than Cath
crimes of royal birth. Among them were
some five saints who tried TO live as
worthily as the Alexandrian martyr;
Catherine de Bora. wife of Martin Luth-
er; Katherine Gladstone. wife and be-
loved companion of the great English
statesman; Kate Claxton, the actress,
who created the part of Louis in
1.-The Two Orphans;' Kate Douglas
Virgins, popular American author and
worker among poor children; Catherine
Macaulcy, Irish philanthropist, who al
most century ago founded the order
of the Sisters of Mercy; Catherine
Marta Sedgewick, who wrote chest sell
| ers. among them "Redwood and
"The Linwoods, - some fifty years ago;
Kate Greenaway, whose dainty draw
iugs of children charmed Europe and
America; and Catherine Elkins, who,
for a time at least, must be as widely
known as any of these other famous
women.
| The saint who gave the world the old
est OF the jewel names was even more
myth bound than the saint who made
| Catherine popular For "in the days of
| Herod the king" says the Bible, "be.
! hold there came wise men from the
east to jerusalem Tradition soon
I fixed the name of one Of these treasure
! bearers from the mysterious east as
Jasper. II traced his iourneyings aud
even identified his bones; and wher-
ever the stories of his life were heard,
his name was adopted.
! il is Gasparc. Gaspardo and Casparo
in Italy; Gaspar in England and Amer
lea For some reason, perhaps because
of their more difficult pronunciation
and less pleasing sound, the names of
| the two other wise men never became
widely popular.
The most famous descendants Of this
popular wise man are Jasper Tudor, earl
Of Pomproke. son of Catherine of
| France and her second husband. Owen
Tudor, a partisan in the wars of the
Roses of the house of Lancaster, who
died IN l49S. Gasparo Balbi a Venetian
| traveller, who spent the years between
| 1879 and 15Ss in India: kaspar Olevi-
anus. born at Treyes, i'm Prussia, in
! l536, one of the founders of the Ger
man Reformed church; Gaspurd Colg
ny. celebrated French Huguenot leader,
who in 1872 was the first victim of
| Catherine de Medici y massacre of st,
/ Bartholomew; and Sir Casper Purdon-
Clarke, art critic and connoisscur, and
lately curator Of tho Metropolitan Mu.
scum of Art in New York.
Cordelia. the third most popular of
the Jewel names. was the naine of one
OF the eleven thousand virgins who
went with st. Ursula, a British princess
on her journeys. The tradition is that
Ursula, who had determined never to
marry, was sought by u "ferocious
! tvrant.' She promised TO marry hin,
if he would allow her to sail unhIndered