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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-28
A Beautiful Collection
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Other clever styles in Messaline and Tafeta, with
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New Flannelette Wrappers, 81

AS special offering lot of Women's Flan-
nelette Wrappers in navy blue or black, with
white dots or figures made with fitted back,
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Lord Falconer, Duke Of Marlborough.
Duke of Newcastle, Lord Northcline,
Duke of Roxburghe and Lord Howard de
Walden and Seaford. A recent lawsuit
with former manager disclosed that its
connection with the Travellers OF Lon
don was indirect only.
Among it's Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
and Russian members are Prince Sciarra
Colonna. Marquis +. Bourbon del Monte,
Duke of Braganza. the Grand Duke Mi
chael, Prince Paul Demidoff, Count de
Leontieff and Marquis de Villavieja. 1t
has even German members, like Prince
A. Thurn and Taxis. Prince H. II. de
Piess, Baron Won Ernsthausen, Baron A.
Won Hochwaechter and Baron Michel de
Gunsborg.
1t is. by far, the most magnificently
housed club in Paris. The Jockey Club is
situated above the Grand Cafe. The
Union Artistique has valuable grounds in
the Champs Elysees; but its building is
ramsfackle. The club of the rue Royaie
has slice OF Gabriel's noble old column
ed palace on the Place de la Concorde-
shared, however, with the Automobile Club
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a COURT VIEW Or The RA1XA R1ALAcE

Of its American membership does not de-
sire the names, nevertheless. to be pub
lished in America. Probably it is the
desire of the American members them
selves. Every now and then, however.
the admission of a new batch brings
about the legal mention Of them as new
members in the Paris papers.
Thus from the October elections we
have the names of Jefferson de Mont
Thompson proposed by John NJ Shaw
and Franklin Pelton); Harry II. Morgan
proposed by S. F. Sharpless and II.
Phelps Case): George II. Macy proposed
by D. S. Ellsworth and S. ..therbee);
j. Parke Claiming proposed by j. F. A.
Clark and j. Lew Harriman): Senator
Aldrich proposed by Frederick A. Keep
and Edmund ]. Curley). and William A.
Perry proposed by p. Lorillard-Ronalds
and Henry P. CaSe).
The names will be recognized in their
home cities, and some are known over
the United States Harry Morgan is our
Sharpless is of the prominent CONNER
cial family of Philadelphia. Young Ellis
worth is the son of James William who
has a model coal town named after him
in Pennsylvania. He is also a railroad
magnate, collector of Greek statuettes,
Chinese porcelains and books of American
history. So the father of young Keep is
the great Chauncey, having to do with
many railroads, the Pullman company,
Chicago and New York and the Marshall
Field estate. And SO on.
None of them will thank me for giving
their Paris address. 1 shall desist 1t
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red wine Off the white eNpanse OF his
evening dress shirt and waistcoaf.
Toward the exposition Of 1900 wine AMI
sauce on shirt fronts became noted here
and there by sticklers-but late. perhaps.
toward dessert. One broad-minded Amer
renderly interpreted the university re-
quirements for the Fourth OF July din
ner of 1900 that he said to life insurance
solicitors. exhibit clerks and uniformed
guards Of the American section: Have
you seen a college? That suffices. Doubt
less you went through it,
And so, as business men became more
powerful in the colony, it became obvious
that quantities Of bores were graduates.
and quantities Of agreeable fellows had
just "beeh through" Nowadays It Is the
dinner club simple for Thanksgiving and
the Fourth Of July. Any one can buy a
ticket, show UP in his dress suit and par
ticipate in the goodfellowship-wfth o.
without the cranberry sauce rosette. IL
gives no back-door acQuaintanceship
either with the prominent Americans who
sit far from you or the French guests
with whom they hold conversation. Why
should It? Your very table neighbor
fears you may be dead broke.
Many call, but few are chosen. Un-
prominent Americans who call on the
ambassador have their politeness scrupu
lousy returned by his card left through
the Intermediary Of an employe.
To shift from one of these calls to the
other many rich Americans in Paris
would give many times 500: yet some
how they cannot make II. It may con-
sole the poor to learn that rich Afneri-
cans land others) are often bored and
lonely in Paris STERLING HELLO.
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MY MOHAMMEDAN ESCORT.

the fence that one can touch it, or, If
devout, as most of the worshipers / saw
in the mosque were, can put his mouth
through the bars and impress a kiss on
it.
As We walk about the fence examining
the rock our turbaned guide shows us
it's wonders. Here, says he, pointing to
a round hole in one of the sides. us the
mark of Mohammed's heel. 1t was from
that spot that the holy prophet assembled
to heaven. and as he rose the rock start
ed to go up with him holding fast to his
heel The Angel Gabriel had to put his
hand upon it to keep it down. and here,
pointing to five curious marks, ARE the
places where Gabriers fingers rested when
he did So
A little further on the guide tells us
that this rock is the center of the earth,
and that some believe it to be also the
gate of hell. He shows us a plate of
Jasper as big a checker board, in
which are three golden nails. saying that
the plate originally contained nineteen
nails which Mohammed had driven into
it, One nail drops out at the end of each
age, and when the last nail is gone the
end of the world will occur. The guide
offered to let me pull out the last three
nails for a dollar apiece. but / have no
desire to hasten the judgment day, and.
therefore. refused. In that way perhaps
I saved the world.
THE devil got at this plate one day."
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Hery. she fascinated Napoleon III. A
Spanish nobleman, the Marquis de Paiva.
married her. She lived with the marquis
I'm this palace gloriously-until. one day,
the marquis gave a great dinner party,
and at dessert blew his brains out.
Later she fed Paris under suspicion as a
Russian SPY. leaving all her treasures be-
hind her. To end her life in peace and
charity, she married Bismarck's cousin,
the Count de Donnersmarck, first gov
ernor of Alsace-Lorraine.
Now her Paris palace, unique for its
heavy splendor. is this clubhouse. Arsene
Houssaye, in his Confessions tells how
the reputation Of its marvels fired
French imaginations of his day. The
famous architect, Pierre Manquin. called
in the leading artists of the second en-
pire to execute his plans. Paul Baudry.
De Launay and Carrier decorated its
salons. Belleuse sculptured it's marbles
and painted its allegorical figures. There
are panels of wood carving that took six
years to execute. In all, ten years were
occupied. The kitchens in the basement
extend under the entire building. Din
ners of 10 covers have been cooked in
them without straining their resources.
The first Paris club to make a feature
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might overwhelm them with demands
from good old American acquaintance
to get them voted into the new club. as
nOn-residents at least. Now. home folks
can be extremely worthy and agreeable
in their place. without being natural or
naments Of a fastidious Paris circle.
Naturally they dread climbers. The
club is besieged by climbers. This is
not new. 1t was as true before many
present members got in, il not truer. Nor
are all climbers Americans English and
German varieties are notably enterpris-
ing and thick-skinned. South American,
Spanish and Portuguese climbers are
called ..rastas,.' being noted for brilliant
ostentation. Our Americans are more
combed down, modest and reserved.
What is climbing? Is it climbing for
the newly rich to seek good society? II
they are cultivated, refined, peaceful and
agreeable, why not? But if not rich We
can easily see Appropriateness.
In Paris there Is a real excuse-that
lonesome feeling. How many worthy.
well-to-do Americans have met with only
disappointment, paying their five dollars
for Thanksgiving dinner.
What We call our Paris Dinner Club or
University Dinner Club is misnomer.
It-or they-have not been real clubs.
with clubhouse, membership or legal eX-
istence. I do not refer to the Yale or
other alumni dinners, but to feeds of
broader scope and fellowship.
, We began to eat Thanksgiving turkeys
under the vague name of University Club
dinners. Any American who claimed an
alma mater paid his subscription and
with ease kept the, cranberry sauce ard
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and hotel. The great building Of the
Agricole looks like an apartment house.
The Travellers is installed in bijou
palace that cost Napoleon III some 10,
100000 francs. Situated in the best part
OF the Avenue des Champs Elysees. It's
interior decorations render 1t unique even
among the noble buildings of Paris. Dur
ing the last brilliant years of the second
empire 1t was the home of the meteoric
Marquise de Paiva-whose souvenir i'm
parts a piquant flavor to the reveries
Of club members.
The fabulous silver bathroom of La
Paiva, with it's onyx fittings, ruby decora-
lions and oriental mirrors, still exists
for good Americans to reflect on the van
ity of pomps and self-indulgence. La
Paiva died in Silesia in 1884, her last ten
years having been spent in piety and
charity.
She was a Russian beauty of the hum
blest origin. Her husband was little
tailor. He disappeared. She came to
Paris to seek work, and turned out to
be musical. Introduced to the literary
and artistic set by the musician, Henri
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derful ruins. Right under the temple
platform is a catacomb Of great tanks
and the walls are said to go down many
feet. There are steps at one place, and
descending them we come into a wilder
ness Of vaults, whose roofs are upheld by
stone blocks are OF enormous size. I have
measured one which is eight feet wide and
fifteen feet high. These stones are beau
tifully laid. They are closely joined and
struction. The pillars are about four feet
square. and some Of them have holes
bored through the corners. 1t is claimed
that the vaults were constructed by Solo
mon for his tables. and that the holes in
the columns were the tying places for the
horses. In some of the vaults are stone
managers, which the guides claim were
used long ago Others say that this stable
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bracelets and beads from Hebron, past
candle shops whose wares are to be burnt
at the tomb of our Savior. and on
through vaulted tunnel-like street
which was once the cotton bazaar, but
which now sells everything else. At the
end of this tunnel we ascend a stairway
and find ourselves on the plateau now
devoted to the Mosque of Omar, but
formerly the site OF the Temple of Solo
mon.
The plateau of the temple rises in ter
races. We first enter that which was
known as the Court Of the Gentiles, and
was open to Jew and Gentle alike. From
this we go up to the Court OF the Israel
ties and then to the Court Of the Priests.
which is now under the great Mosque of
Omar 1t was in the latter court that
the open-air altar for burnt offerings
stood. or in fact, the very rock upon
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A Cheering Thought.

GIVEN in misfortune" the late Tony
IL Pastor once said at a rehearsal IN
New York, there is ground for thanks-
giving-if. that Is to say, we look at them
in the right light.
Take, for instance. old age. That n
usually regarded as a misfortune, isn't
it? And yet an octogenarian once said
to me:
When l was young / wanted to Be
Old When / was getting old ! wanted
to be young again. But now I'm really
old I'm proud OF my yearA-proud ana
thankful"
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prayed here himself.
Il
The greatest interest of Mount Moriah,
however, is connected with the fact that
we know this was the actual site Of Solo
mons Temple as we'll as that Of the two
other temples which succeeded ii. The
first house of God erected by the Israel
ties was the Tabernacle. This was con-
structed at the direction of Moses in the
Desert of Sinai just after he had received
the commandments. 1t is said to have
been just about half the size of the Tenn
pie of Solomon. although there are pas
sages in the Scriptures which lead us to
think the temple must have been very
much larger. The Tabernacle was a
movable building. 1t was about fifty
feet long and sixteen seventeen feet
wide. The roof and walls were formed
of curtains made Of linen or wool beauti-
fully sewed and fastened in places with
gold buckles. There were also curtains
of goats hair and of rams wool dyed
red. Some suppose the roof of the Taber-
nacle to have been fiat, and others that
it was ridged like tent, with a cube in
side about sixteen feet squarA which was
the holy OF holes. In the latter was the
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so our consular's kavass tells me, and
was jerking out the nails at great rate
when the Angel Gabriel caught him and
pulled him away. These stories are silly,
but they are only a few Of many which
are told us when we are inside the
mosque. Nevertheless the average Moham-
medan of this side of the world be-
lieves them, and we see gray-bearded.
long-gowned turbaned men and white
sheeted yelled women praying over
these holy places. They kiss the marks
of Mohammed's footprints and run their
handkerchiefs and beads over the rock.
They pray as they do so, for Mohammed
said that one prayer here is worth
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we move about this great Christian shrine
Like the rest Of Jerusalem, it now be-
longs to the Mohammedans. and is one
of the places which Christians are not
permitted to visit without the permits
sion of the Turkish governor of the
city. This l have gotten through the
American consul. The governor has also
given me a Mohammedan soldier and the
consul has sent along his chief kavass,
the two to act as our guards The soldier
has a sword at his side, and the kavass
is armed with a scimitar and an ebony
club, finished at the top in a knob of
silver as big as my fist. The kavass is
one of the major-domos. or soldiers of the
American consulate. Our consul has two
of them, and they accompany him wher-
ever he goes upon state occasions. They
are tall. straight eyrians. more gorgeous
ly clad than Solomon in his glory. They
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sins. After that all must go to the pillar
of judgment and cross wire rope to
the Mount of Olives. and thence up to
heaven or down into hell The wicked
will fall in the crossing. According to
another Mohammedan story, the Moslems
will be turned into fieas and Mohammed
himself into a sheep. in which shape he
will ascend to heaven with the Moham-
medan f1eas in his wool.
The rock is esteemed sacred by every
Mohammedan. 1t is surrounded by an
iron stockade, which none is allowed to
enter. The rock is about forty feet long
and sixty feet wide, and it rises about
six feet out of the floor 1t fills the
whole Enclosure and comes SO close to
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which Abraham tied Isaac when he was
about to burn him, obeying the Lord
Before we examine the plateau itself I
want to take you down underground.
There is said to have been seven Jeru-
salems which have been built and destroy
ed and rebuilt again. The Holy City has
subterranean region, many parts of
which have been eXcavated, exposing Won
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were made in erecting the temple and the
great columns put up to sustain it's plat
form. But, however that may be, the archi-
lecture is wonderful, and it should be con-
sidered so now. There are altogether a
hundred or more vaults and the mighty
stones which wall them are SO heavy that
it would be impossible to handle them at
the present time without the use of ma
chinery.
But, before we go farther, I must tell
YOU about the escort which guards us as
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death by the Jews. On the opposite side
of the plateau and far down below il, is
the Jews wailing place, and hugging it
on the west, south and north are the box
shaped limestone houses which form the
greater part of Jerusalem.
In going to it we leave our hotel on
Mount Zion and make our way down
David street through a horde Of pilgrims
OF all colors. races and sexes. We pass
the Church of the Holy. Sepulchre, go
through bazaar where men and women
sitting on the ground are selling glass
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HEN very rich and
prominent Ameri-
cans, Ike J. Pier
pont Morgan. W.
II. Vanderbilt. jr..
Fra nix @ ou | d,
PIERRE Lorillard-
Ronalds, Jefferson
de Mont Thomp-
son-and others too
numerous to men
ION arrive in
Paris. it is with
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THE Aristocratic Travel
/ ers'" Full of Foremost
Fellow-Countrymen and Be-
sieged by Climbers Din
ner Clubs to Honor The
Day of the Turkey" Give No
Backdoor Acquaintainceship
With Home Four Hundreds
1t May Console Poor Men
to Know the Rich Are Often
Sored and Lonely in Paris.
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~ II IL I - L<Ls.h
w ANT to take You
this morning to the
summit OF Mount
Moriah and show
you the site of Sol
omon's Temple. II
is on the same spot
where A brahanl, at
the command OF
the Lord. was
about to Sa crifIce
his only son. Isaac,
when he was told
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just 2,91o years ago, and II took seven
years to build it. I have translated some
of it's dimensions into feet. taking the Gu
Bit which was then the unit of measure
ment, as twenty inches. The cubit was Q
measure as long as the distance from
mans elbow to the tip of his middle
finger. and il varies from eighteen TO
twenty-one inches. At twenty inches the
ground plan of the temple was 66 feet
wide and 133 feet long and according to
some statements its height was flfty feet,
although one OF the roofs rose eight feet
and the other sixteen above the inside
walls. There is another place In the
Bible in which it IS stated that the height
OF the porch was 40 cubits, which would
make it 2G0 feet high.
This Temple of Solomon had long dis
appeared before Christ was born. II was
destroyed by ACKNOWLEDGMENT sos B. c..
and a new building was not erected until
the Jews came back from their captivity
at Babylon. This was also destroyed
many years later and a third and last
temple was erected by Herod the Great
eighteen years before Christ was born 1t
was in that temple that occurred the
that He talked with the priests as a boz
of twelve. and from there He drove out
the money changers. q
The Temple of Herod is said to have
been much finer than Soiomon's It has
been described by Josephus. who prob
before him when he wrote. and who says
that the space which it covered was about
twice as large as that OF the old temple.
1t was Of much the same style as the
Temple of Solomon. but its approaches
We're more imposing, and 1t probably dis
the time which was one Of masniflcent
buildings. FRANK C. CARPENTER.
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LOW the Temple Was
L / Built, and Something
About It's Successors-The
Temple of Herod the Great
in Which Christ Preached
"A Mohammedan Mosque
Now on the Site, and Chris
tians Admitted Only With
Guards-Some Moslem Ira
ditions-Where Gabriel Will
Blow His Trumpet - The
Dome of the Rock.
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10 desi<t ana shown the ram whose horns
were caught in the tiicket behind him.
1t is the place where the wisdom of tin"
boy Christ astonished the wise men:
where David solomon and Elijah were in
The habit of praying. and where, accord
ing to the Mohanlmedans, the blast Of
The trumpet will sound forth at the day
Of judgment. The site is sacred to both
Christians and Noslems, and it may be
called the hottest on the face Of the
Globe
The BIOLOGISTS say that Mount Moriah
=, one OF the two Oldest parts or tiie
world. the other being Mount Sinai, upon
which Moses receiveo The Command
,n.nts Trey prove this by the rocks
saving that when the world was thrown
off bv the sun and fioated about In ITS
rebuIous state through the air the parts
which first solidified were the summit OF
S;,rai and the rock which now stands in
side the mosque on the top OF Morlah
This is also a Jewish superstition. the
statement being that as the Lord saw the
solid earth rising out OF chaoS ne oiessed
these two spots and saio:
..'rhev snail be great in the history OF
tho human race. which ! shall create,
and upon one of them shaii my holy city
be built
Nouu; Moriah is on the eastern edge of
Jerusalem proper. 1t is just opposite the
Mount of Olives and above the Garden OF
Getflsemane across the valley OF Jehoso-
phat The wall. of the city runs around
its slope ard its top is a plateau contain
ing thirty-five acres or about one-seventh
of the whole of Jerusalem inside the
waHs The walls partially bound this
plateau ana in them at the northeast
corner of il Is the gate through which
So Sterhen went when he was stoned to
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two natural social requirements. to meet
desirable French. and avoid undesirable
Americans.
4 unique Paris club-the Travellers
aids them in both ambitions. Nor does it
prevent them, in spare moments, meet
ing and avoiding each other.
We all do it. All Americans Of Paris
except simple tcurists-are under a strain
of meeting and avoiding. 1t might seem
snobbish, were the cause less painful.
Paris is SO lonely for Americans.
Not tourists; honest tourists. when not
too rich. find it paradise. Given certain
correspondence school culture to muse
over scenes OF old romance, the safe
limit of wealth is to afford good hotels,
rented automobiles for town and trips,
good clothes and amuse.nents, and an
Enslish-speaiSing French valet or maid
not courier. All else is complication
and heartburning.
But, you know, there are Americans
who despise tourists and their pleasures.
These know Paris" They run over to
Paris. They come for the Paris sea-
son. They are educating the chill
dren. They are idle. They are lonely.
Or they would be idle were they not so
1onely-because they spend their time
seeking to push into "a charmed circle
where all is supposed to be delightful.
into "Franco-American society (as they
Imagine II to start with. or one of its
scarcely connected sets las later they
discovery. e.,
Beside these painting climbers are
the mass Of plain well-to-do Americans
who commit the error of staying on too
long in Paris when their tourist stunt is
finished. Most of them are on the road
to climbing.
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copyright. 1870. by Frank Il. Carpenter.
Special Correspondence OF The Star
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>pcclaI correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS November Il. 1910