The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-05

1 He loved his work and not his friends and Venus. He cared not to trip the light, fan tastic toe, to bow and sweep and bend in gentle courtesy, for after arduous toll he longed for rest. | And Venus with the gems she craved knew no happiness, and the sweetness of her victory soon lost it's flavor. Her soul in spring cried aloud for love. Her lips, made for kisses, received them not and hungered. She longed for rugged strength to test her strength and conquer.
 The devil sent Adonis, with hand some face and supple body and words of honey sweetness; with spice of coy timidfty to make the sport more i tempting.
 Venus hung upon his syllables and her lingering glances made him blush becomingly. He spoke of marriage VOWS and urged her to her duty. She chided him for youthful fearfulness, held him | fiercely in her arms, and kissed him willing though not kissing.
 Thereafter, day by day, the couple met
 Vulcan toiled unheeding in his shop. | Dame Rumor breathed her breath upon the wind. | Adonis trembled and turned his face unto the west. He roamed with fearful | heart through countries wild and fell at last prey to hunted beasts.
  1 Uopuc then raronQra1 fOr other con- quests.
 Her young son Cupid was mothered by his nurses. | The meals of Vulcan were prepared by famed French chefs improperly. ] The husbands socks were mended not.
 Never about the fire on winter nights was family grouped for gossip. Venus became the famous hostess of that day. She was still unrivaled in her beauty and powers of attraction. She throve on the honey dew of flat tery
 | Her only competitors for highest honors were Juno and Minerva. She loved neither and was not by them loved.
 l She arranged a scheme to put them both to- shame. It was at wedding feast. Eris, the dupe of Venus, offered golden l apple as a worthy prize for the most l beautiful woman present. 1 Jupiter, the smOothest politician of that era, declined to award the trophy lfor though he knew Venus possessed | the beauty, he feared the curtain lee. | ture of Juno, and the public snub of Minerva.
 So, at his suggestion, Paris was to render the judgment. | Minerva, snatching moment in which she was unobserved, promised in return for the apple, wisdom such as Solomon was not to possess. Juno, in turn, promised all the | wealth of the universe,
 Then Venus spoke:
 ."Give me the apple and I will win for you, Helen, after me, the most beautiful woman of the universe!" Paris was thrilled, but replied: "Yea, but is she not the wife of Menalaus?" Then Venue: "But will you dream of Menalaus when Helen is in your arms?"
 And Paris cried aloud: Venus wins!"
 Venus, proud and vain and disdain- full though she was, felt, nevertheless, so thankful to Paris for permitting her to triumph over her rivals, Juno and Minerva, that she seriously went about winning the beautiful Helen from the side of her husband. She became so ardent in her evil pursuit that she lied most fiagrantly.
 "Menalaus loves Semele, and you, pretty little fool, remain unsung at home. There is Paris, young and handsome, rich, high-born and inf1uen- tial. He loves you sincerely and is sick of longing" I And Helen listened, and agreed to meet the man. | Urged necessarily, she eloped to the castle of her suitor, and there followed banuuets and dancing to cymbals and tom-toms.
 Menalaus, however, was not a mem Der of the "40O," and his love for Helen was deep love. He prepared for vengeance. The week following the elopement of his wife he met the youthful Paris, and thrust a blade to the heart of that l traitor.
 The brother of Paris in turn slew Menalaus, and the kinsmen of each faction prepared for war. Priam, Hector, Aeneas, Deiphobus, Glaucus and Sarpedon, adherents of the cause of Paris, arraigned them selves against Achilles, Ajax, Nestor, Ulysses, Agamemnon, and Diomeda, | friends of Menalaus. Fighting continued for many years, during which thousands of people were killed and hundreds of towns were sacked. s
 Immediately after the death of Paris, Helen, the cause of the trouble, fearing lest the friends of Menalaus would conquer, and punish her, desert ed the faction of Raris-and thus the young girl who had never sinned prior