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planned Cicero and Plato. or Fair Simon
eta, sixteen-year-old wife of Marco YES
pucci. cousin of our Amerigo, 1.-The renais-
sance made woman" the antique nylpph
rediscovered, laughing, running and
speaking a new language of fancy and
liberty. The night she died Lorenzo the
Magnificent saw star burst in the twi-
light. See" he said, lit is the soul OF
that delicious one!'
Plain Mona Lsa-whose neighbors did
not know that she lived in the same
street-had a little of all this put into
her face by a great painter. BY a SUBJ
conscious miracle of Leonardos gen.
ius she is the symbol-merely symbol
of that new and charming thing, the
enthroning Of feminine royalty in the
modern world.
Orientals kept women under lock and
key. Greeks kept good women at home
Roman marriages passed them under a
yoke. The middle ages had a theoloei-
cal fear of women. A Bologna juris-
consuls young daughter became sc
learned that she pleaded her father
cases; therefore they hung a little cur
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serving as the front fence of a section re-
served for thousands of spectators. And
extending entirely around the building is
a gallery, which will seat thousands more
X x
The nerve center of the convention will
be capacious telegraph room directly
behind the speakers platform, and from
which the press correspondents will have
their millions of words descriptive of the
gathering flashed to all quarters of the
compass. Also back of the platform will
be fitted up commodious rooms for the
officers and various. committees. and on
either side of this suite will be a tele-
graph office for the general use of men,
bers of the convention. Before passing
into the convention hall proper delegates,
alternates and spectators may gather in
mammoth reception rOom $50 feet
square and holding 10000 people. The
thousands attending the convention by
train will alight at a special railway
station whose steps will lead directly into
one of the main entrances of the vast
building, and those who come by motor
will find space of two and half acres
in which their cars can be banked
Still more people can be accommodated
in the democratic convention hall. the
9th Regiment Armory, Baltimore-acs
cording to the estimates, at least. The
boomers who brought Chairman Mack
the Observation-Disclosures check
appropriated by Baltimore to cover the
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REPuB. NATIONAL CornIr TEE

senting congressional districts by district
conventions.
The state conventions electng these
delegates at large will. with the terri
torial conventions. be conducted by each
party's state committee. while the con-
gressional district delegates will be
chosen at conventions in charge OF the
local congressional committees of each
district.
There is an essential difference between
the republican and democratic methods Of
voting upon the floor of the convention
Gov. Wilson. Speaker Clark. Gov. Har-
mon, or whoever IL may be, must receive
the votes of two-thirds of his party's
delegates before he can be declared the
nominee. while President Taft need poll
but a ajority of the party's delegates 10
win denomination.
Few amateur politicians have observed
that the recent primary laws have partly
nullified the old unit rule" which. like
the aforementioned 'two-thirds rule.
has been a time-honored feature OF the
democratic party's organic law. Under the
unit rule a majority of the delegates
in any democratic state convention
might decree that the vote OF their dele
gates i'm the national convention should
be cast as a unit for any one candidate
for the nomination or for any question OF
organization or platform. Blu; In the
states with primaries each delegate is
elected by direct vote, is responsible
only to his own constituency and can be
under no instructions whatsoever except
a vote of preference" for President and
Vice President. Thus in delegations from
these states there will be no way OF in
voking or enforcing the old unit rule
and the delegation will vote soidly or
will split when the individual poll or
delegates is taken.
This individual method of voting has
always been the uniform procedure In
republican national conventions, which
have never recognized the unit rule
The democrats have always regarded the
unit rule" as a necessary complement
of the '.two-thirds rule; but with the
growth Of the primary system OF choos-
ing delegates directly the rtwo-thirds"
and unit" rules would seem 10 be DOOM
ed to common extinction.
Copyright. 1912, by John Elfreth Watkins.D
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in the Louvre Museum The pretext was
that the young page who holds the royal
horse was Dubarry of the lady's
family" And they taught her piece
to speak. when the king is with you.
look up at the portrait of England royal
martyr and heave a sigh. The king VIII
ask you what's the matter. You viii
answer. smiling through your tears: See.
France, there is a king who got his head
cut off because he acted weakly toward
his parliament. Take warning.'
1t worked perfectly. Louis XIV took
warning, broke his parliament and died
TRANQUILITY on his throne
The people of France have so hated
the Dubarry portrait by Decreuzo. that IL
shows two continuous seams from top To
bottom on either side. One runs through
the little negro page Zamore-who finally
became a republican. betrayed her and
was thus the cause OF her guillotining
There is also a cane-punch on her left
cheek, skilIfully painted over, and a dozen
otherScuts. scrapings and punctures. II.
too. now hangs high at Versailles.
The people are not bound to be logical.
They deface Pompadour's portrait be-
cause she dilapidated France. made roy
atty discredited and so fastened the rev
olution. They deface the portrait of Du-
barry because she strengthened royalty
and retarted the revolution.
There is one portrait, however, pracu-
cally unknown to the outer world which
the French all know why they love. And
1t Is pleasure to turn from these New
Philis de la Tour-du-Pin.
~
Take her life-size portrait by Legrp.
Stand ii. in its big gold frame. against the
fence of any isolated crossroads from
Grenoble to Marseille or Gap to AK.
and no matter who passes, brutal drover,
dissipated glover. tipsy poacher or cretin
peasant. he will quit his business to ten
DERBY convey Philis to the nearest mayors
Office. taking OF his coat to shelter the
portrait from the rain. 1t once happened.
In the south OF France there is scarce
a family that has not a copy or engray-
ing or large photograph of Legrips Philis
de la TOur-du-Pin de la CHARGE, daughter
Of the Marquis de la CHARGE. mentioned
by Nine. de Sevigne in her Letters. She
lived in the village OF Byons with her
family; and she had in her that energy
OF resolution and influence over those
around her which is often given by the
life of the mountains.
During the invasion of Dauphiny by the
Duke OF Savoy Phils mounted on horse
back forced the peasants to take arms,
dukes army in such numerous combats,
skilifulIy Unanswered in the def1les and
passes Of her native mountains that she
finally forced that disciplined and numer-
Gus army to retreat! In a word. she
saved her country, the mountainous
now beginning to go instead of to Swift
zerland.
King Louis XIV caused her sword and
blazon to be deposited in the treasury OF
st. Denis. She was an Old Fashioned
Girl and little" Joan OF Arc; but the
people of France venerate her portrait.
STERLING HELLO
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on the light and sit in contemplation OF
the stolen treasure.
But as there has never been a known
ease of love of lifeless portrait result
ing in abduction. they began to suspect
a more natural and likely motive-hatred
or dislike. Here there are many prec-
edents
There are portraits hat are hated by
the whole French people. During CEN
turies they have been continually in
danger They have been slashed, stabbed
and stoned. They have been saved only
by keeping them out of the popular sight.
The Mona Lisa has neither been hated
nor beloved by the French common peo-
ple-only valued for its surprising worth
in money. due to Mona Lisa's colossal,
phenomenal luck. But just as superior
natures have always seen something
charming in her. other superior natures
doubtless disgruntled-have felt only
dislike and repugnance in her presence.
-
Among the mass OF letters received by
Iisa's disappearance there is an anony-
nous fragment to which they are still
seeking clue.
renaissance runs the strange communi-
cation, Her diabolical smile shall no
longer mock at honest Frenchmen First
type of the new woman. complete, fully
armed. issuing from the ear Of the devil"
So the letter breaks off. At least. no
more has been made public. Some say
that 1t ends In pen stabs and exclamation
marks. All depends on the point Of view !;
hut Mona LISA is the prototype OF the
hew woman. which explains her gigantic,
unima ginable luck.
Otherwise. the Judgment of her CO.
seulporaries might be ours. What, that
little midd1e-class woman. third wife OF
Florentine business man who neglected
her, without much mind or very rare
beauty, without birth. name or history.
how could you make her creature of
legend. being to dream over. the equal
of Jeanne of Aragon, whose portrait
Francis begged for as the accomplished
iAye Of all grace and beauty-or the
y Isabel Of Este. who at fifteen ex-
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youth in the first blush of power. In
Dumas "V1comte de Bragelonne" we
the unsuspecting girl confessed her love
for the king when she. with girl friends.
exchanged condolences under the oak tree;
how Louis overheard her, enraptured;
to declare it all joke to fool the king:
the kings despair, the reconciliation.
Manicamp's trap door and all the rest.
Gentle Louise, after some happiness, be-
came conscience-stricken. Also, the king
was flirting. She retired to convent
and spent the rest Of long life In Sc
verities. sleeping on the cold brick floor.
washing the sisters clothing. living on
bread, lentils and water, always cheer
full and consoling when the real queen
came to her. weeping over the new fir
tation Of their Louis.
All In vain! The common people have it
in for Louise; and the Beaux-Arts did
not dare risk hanging her historic por-
trait in the retrospective gallery of the
exposition Of 1900, any more than the
new women, Dubarry and the Pompa-
dour! Painted on wood, 1t bears the
marks Of a load Of birdshot, deep. long
jab up it's left background. a dozen
hasty malicious scratches. and curious
scraping Of nearly all the blue paint max
ing the velvet shoulder and arm of her
gown. Except for birdshot. the face
seems unhurt. Perhaps it has been re-
touched, perhaps it wal just out of reach
The secret Of Louise la Valliere's un-
popularity has been her descendants, the
de Cont, offspring Of her semi-royal
daughter Mile. de Blois, money burners.
privilege abusers, arrogant up to the
revolution, in which they had their part,
unhappy enough.
But far less guilty than the Pompadour
This hated portrait, although by the IA
nous Boucher-always favorite of the
people-has been restored and repaired
a dozen times The latest act Of vandal-
ism dates two weeks back, chocolate
soft caramel was found massaged into
the face, as on the tip Of a cane In the
hand Of q tall man.
The Pompadour came from the people.
Natural child Of a tax Spectator and a
woman Of the army camps, she was high
ly educated by within of her father,
left money by him. married his nephew
and set up in q villa near the royal
forest. From it she laid in wait for the
some Irritation, she came running to Ver-
sailles, begging royal protection against
her husband, who would kill her. Instead.
he accepted q government job and the
reign OF Pompadour began.
II lasted long. She had the talent to
dominate Louis XIV by tact and skill.
She kept him moving. got him interested
building chRteaux. patronizing furniture
and brfc-a-brac, created the Eevres por-
celaine, and protected brilliant crowd
OF painters, sculptogs, poets. academ.
icians and playwTttes Otherwise, she was
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SERGEANT AT ARMS
Dem. cONVENTION.

ventions since he sat as delegate in
that which nominated Cleveland,
twenty years ago. For a dozen years
he has been the democratic national
committeeman from the Empire state.
The manager of the rival show, in Chi
cago, where the republican elephant will
perform, will not be the new chairman
of the republican national committee, DR..
John F. Hill, former physician, ex-Gov-
ernor of Maine and present publisher of
periodicals. who was elected this month
to succeed Chairman Hitchcock, the
Taft campaign manager of four years
ago. The task of arranging the cOnven-
ton has been intrusted to Harry 8. New,
the republican war horse OF Hoos1erdOm,
who. as chairman of his party's national
committee four years ago, arranged tns
convention which nominated Mr.. TAFT.
For many years he published the Indian
apolis Journal and In the Spanish Ameri-
can war he served as captain OF Voiun-
teers. His wife, Catherine McLaen
New, is an author.
So both of the big shows will be in
the hands of experienced managers. each
of whom will have the assistance OF a
half dozen or more fellow-members or
his subcommittee on arrangements,
made up entirely Of national committee
men. And it may be of interest to state
that a majority of the members OF the
republican subcommittee are Taft men.
The Importance of their leanings may
be better appreciated when 1t Is ex-
planned that it is these subcommittee
that choose the heralds Of their par
ties keynote, the temporary chairmen
of the conventions.
But the very busiest man in each party
henceforth until its convention closes Will
be the sergeant-at-arms of its national
committee. Stage manager OF the big
show you might term him, although he is
more While all matters of general con-
vention policy will be decided by the SUBJ
committee on arrangements, 1t Is the
sergeant-at-arm who will be intrusted
with the task of carrying out all Of the
details. 1t is he who will expend the tens
of thousands of dollars guaranteed by the
citizens of the convention city. He will
arrange the hall, seat the official dele
gates, alternates, newspaper men and the
spectators. Through him the convention
authorities will make their arrangements
with the press, the railways, the police
and other municipal authorities.
For the republicans this task will be in
the hands of William F. Stone of Balti-
more. who served as sergeant-at-arms
also of the conventions which nominated
Roosevelt. in 1904. and Taft. in 1908. In
other words. he is veteran in his pc
culiar speciality. And even longer service
in the same Office for the democratic
national committee has been seen by John
1. Martin, who has been sergeant-at-arms
of that organization for twenty years and
who as such has managed all Of the con-
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the new woman in the person Of Diane
de Poitiers
+
Here is portrait detested by an
entire people. 1t is skillfully repaired;
but it's back shows two stabs one
slash, and one smash with a brickbat; all
done since 1855. The brickbat dates
from fifteen years ago. when the paint
ing was hung high out of reach in the
Palace Museum of Versailles. In the
cotemporaneous frescoes as Diana the
Huntress were so often scraped. soied,
struck with cane head and sword hilt
and otherwise mysteriOusly defaced that
long ago they were protected by iron
ratings.
Diane de Poitiers. famous for her beau
ty, wit and crookedness, had been mar
ried at fifteen to the hunchbacked old SEN
eschal of Normandy. Shortly after, when
her father was to be beheaded for plot
ting, Diane hurried to the eighteen-year-
old kings son. Doubtless. she was a
noble girl, then. Her father was par
doned, and Diane became a political fig
ure. Then she became CRATER.
royal favorites. When her prince became
king she got him to cede entire taxes to
her. One being .'cloche" tax and
.'cloche'' also meaning the bell OF bel
fry. Rabelais said that the king hung
all the bells Of his kingdom round his
mares nee" the people whom she
sweated chuckled. Before her time. kings
favorites kept out of public matters.
Diane forced her way into the council,
troubled diplomacy. made war and peace,
'interfered in local government and be-
came the prototype OF the Pompadours
and Dubarrys who ruined the French
monarchy.
The people told bad tales OF her. A
young gentleman, La Chataigneraie, had
been loved by Diane. She Feared him.
Another knew 1t. de Jarnac. She hated
him. ASK de Jarnac how he dresses so
well?" said Diane to La Chataigneraie.
My mother-in-law helps me out" replied
de Jarnac innocently. On which Diane
caused tho sheer to go round. DO you
know what La Chataigneraie says about
de Jarnac and his mother-in-law?"
They fought with rapiers and daggers
in presence of king and court. Like
Iago which kills 'tother. shall profit, :"
thought Diane; but she was glad when
de Jarnac slipped purposely, fell to one
knee and hamstrung La Chataigneraie
with q new backstroke of his invention,
which has become proyerbial for surprise
IL not OF thickness. La Chatajgneraie
bled to death.
Diane was building ITALIAN gardens in
the style Of Passelo and the Archbishop
Of Tours loaned her a skiilful young spe-
cialist, Nicquet. to train her fruit walks.
NicQuet died OF cholera" Dead men
tell no tales. OF all DANES crimes. this
one most stuck. The victim was one OF
the people. and the guilds Of Paris pur-
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sued her with tlnderhand vengeance. TO
this day, the people have not forgotten
After Diane. the favorites OF succeed
ing kings seemed harmless. In truth, the
legitimate queen mother. Catherine de
Medicis. was such terror that the spot
light could not quit her. In the chateau
of Uriage hang together the Iife-sze pOr-
traits of her son, Charles TX, and his
secret wife," the gentle Marie Touchet.
born q working girl. Though Marie be-
came hard and ambitious after the king $
death and her renarriage to a noble, the
people remained proud of her She never
hurt them. A greater reputation for gen.
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ruin. She MIXED the finances; sur
rounded the king by her puppets: made
cabinets, conducted wars, concluded al
liances, expelled the Jesuits, threw 2,061
untried persons into the Bastille, stained
her hands with blood and died in full
power, having impoverished France and
made the monarchy ridiculous.
Her funeral was on a rainy day The
king, seeing 1t pass, remarked genially:
1.-The marquise is having bad weather for
her trip" and began to console himself
with the harem called the Pare aux
Cerfs, which so discredited royalty.
Great mobiles like the old Marshal de
Richelieu We're aghast at the popular dis
content. The local parlaments were be-
ginning obstruction and revolt.
Richelieu looked round for an influence.
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M AMMoTH Shows at
IVA Chicago and Baltimore
Already Being Prepared For
by !. Show Managers and
Stage Managers Selected for
the Responsibility-Who
They Are, What They Must
Do and the Money They Must
Spend-No Salaries, But Big
Patronage and Opportunities
of Meeting Men of Influence
Great Task to Arrange for
Convenience of Vast Army
of Delegates, Alternates,
Newspaper Men and Spec
tators.
BY JOHN ELPRETH WATKINS.
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expenses of the convention claimed that
ZOO more than the Chicago Coliseum.
ranged according to the general scheme
OF that to house the rival show at Chi
cago. is also of stone. and the hall prop
er, in which the delegates will do their
final work. is 300 feet long by 200 wide.
Above the delegates seats are two gal
ieries instead of one. Chairman Mack
is considering the erection, at each end
of the great hall. of an extra platform.
increasing the capacity of the hall by
about a Thousand seats or more. When
he gets through with his arrangements
there will probably be room in the con-
vention for about fifty spectators from
each congressional district of the coun-
try. Although Sergeant-at-Arns Martin
will have more remOdeling to do here
that will his rival stage manager at the
Chicago Coliseum. he has found in the
big arlnory twenty-one company rooms,
which will be convenient for committees
and officers of the convention.
The most complicated task of each
conventions sergeant-at-arms will be
the installation Of facilities for the press.
AS every daily newspaper of consequence
in the country will be represented at
the two conventions, each hall must con-
tain about 600 press seats. Each of the
press associations will send a staff of
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tleness was that of Henry Tvs Belle
Gabrielle, traitorously poisoned by her
rival. that other Gabrielle, Marie Tou-
chefs own daughter. Yet the people did
not murmur. 1t was private wickedness
among mobiles.
Curiously, it remained for an Old FASH
toned Girl, the most innocent creature of
her time, to become such a victim OF popu-
lar prejudice that her portrait remains
in danger OF brickbats and sword canes,
high as 1t Is hung among the dangerous
new women at Versailles.
Il 10 the picture Of Louise Ia Valliefes
first and true love Of Louis XIV. a. Q
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T first ii was
thought that the
Mona Lisa was
stolen by a crank
admirer. Some un-
balanced party be-
came enamored OF
the famous portrait
and yielded to the
temptation to pos
sess ito steal
into a secret room.
lock the door, turn
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PORTRAIT HATED BY THE FRENCH
COMMON PEOPLE. A~@~s.-,s-s
Reservations have sc&sitched, struck
and defaced the fresc0es Of Diane de
P0itiers N "Dlana the Huntress1 at
F0ntainebleau. First Of French new
In France.
tain in front Of her chair. that the
judges might not be disconnected by her
gracious face.
The renaissance tore down that curtain.
1t created a new ideal-of woman: beau
tifui, learned, virtuous. artistic, pleasant
spoken. and interesting herself with COM
petence and authority in all the things
of life. which has remained the modern
ideal.
In a word, the cat was out OF the bag
Skip a few years. In France We find
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HE pre-convention
campaign has be-
gun in earnest and
the busiest men in
the country, from
now until summer,
Will be ( h o 3 e
charged with the
herculean task of
setting UP, piece
by piece. the mon
ster machines that
viii manufacture