The National tribune., 1911-04-20

his qualities as a guest were concerned.
A LII Americans going over to Lon
~ don for the coronation of King
George will do well, If they have
sufficient nerve, to wait until just be-
fore the event before securing their
seat for the great pageant, which is all
most Americans will be permitted to
see. Just at present, seats are COM
manding a very large price, five guineas
being the very cheapest, most of them
costing 20, and even more. guinea
is a trifle over IS. Now, the majority
of the people who are planning to wit
ness this parade are middle-class peo-
pie who cannot afford to pay this, or II
they can, will not do 1.-THE English
and Europeans do not throw away
money as we do-and 1t is much more
than likely, therefore, that the specu-
lators. etc, will be found at last with a
lot of unsold tickets on their hands
which they will be glad to get rid of
at a very reasonable figure.
TINE many admirers Of James Whit
comb Riley will be sincerely
grieved to know that he seems to
have lost the use of both hands and
legs, and it is feared that he cannot
recover from the illness which has COR
fined him to his bed for several months.
His poetry, usually in dialect, and large
ly descriptive of country life and the
joys and sorrows of the farmer cl2sa,
has appeared in our magazines and pa
pers for many years and endeared itself
TO large reading public. 1t is per
meated with a sweetness and cheerful
philosophy which makes 1t decidedly
helpful in its appeal Who does not
recall with shame for ones own re-
bellious spirit his little poem on the
in
Wet Weather Talk" and its closing
verse
1T hain't no use to grumble and COM
plane;
It's jest as cheap and easy to rejoice
When God sorts out the weather and
sends rain,
wy, rains my choice"
Mr.. Riley is now SO years of age and
was born in Indiana, where he has lived
all his life. His love for children is
one of his striking characteristics. He
has never married.
A NEW version of the old story of
~ the dreadful Bluebeard and his
unfortunate wives appears in the
recent opera by Maeterlinck and the
Frenchman, Paul Dukas, the latter,
until now, quite unknown to the musical
world in general. In this opera the
last and sixth wife Of the monster Blue
beard, the lovely Ariane, has no fear of
her lord, and proceeds at once to dis
obey him by entering the forbidden
room-which they all do, of course
only in her case she takes matters into
her own hands and dominates the Sit
uation from the first. She finds the
poor victims of her husband alive, but
in a terrible condition. having been
confined in a subterranean chamber for
goodness knows how long. She brings
these forlOrn ladies out into the air and
sunshine, braces them up with good
food. shows them how to do their hair
and to make themselves attractive etc,
and thus to instill in them suffrage
ide as. Her daring and independence
awakens the livcliest adm igatiou in
BluebeaTd. surfeited with the clinging,
dutiful variety of woman but she will
have none of him when she discov-
ers what he is, and takes her departure,
with the curtain falling on the five help
less women clustered adOringIy around
Bluebeard. who gazed yearningly after
the only one in the bunch he cares
anything about-the lovely, emarci-
pated Ariane.
D OOKER T. WASHINGTON. the
d noted negro educator, who has
recently been very much in the
public eye on account of the assault
made upon him in New York City thru
mistaken identity. has Just purchased
property on Long Island for a Summer
home, which is in the midst of some of
the swellest of New York's swell set.
The Duchess of Marlborough owns
property within a stones throw of his
house, and while this titled American
does not often visit this country, she
would be likely TO make this place her
headquarters should she come over for
rfen1 - icit
other families of equal wealth and So
cial prestige who live within a short
distance Of Mr.. Washington's newly
acquired possession, and one rather
naturally wonders what they think of
having this distinguished gentleman
for neighbor.
is something radically wrong
about the person who doesn't love
PIE. Dyspepsia. with ruthless
hand, may erase il from his bill of
fare, but he loves it, all the same
Someone has called pie a great civilizer,
and asserts that the great and woolly
West would never have been settled
without it. The inOrdinate indulgence
of the New Englander in this deIccta-
bic dish-for it is a popular idea that
PIE IS found three times daily on the
table of all self-respectN1g families in
THIS section of the country-naturall
after course Of years, brot on a bad
case OF indigestion. This made its vic
tim restless, nervous. and discontented
He had TO do something; could not con-
tent himself where he was, so he took
Horace Greeley's advice and went West.
He kept on eating his pie, and his ner-
vous dyspepsia kept on driving him
further West until he could go no far
ther without falling into the Pacific
ocean, and it is to these enterprislng,
adVenture-loving. pie-driven spirits that
we owe the great cities of the West to-
day, so our authority claims.
The Monument to Secretary Stanton.
Editor National Tribune: With great