The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-24
EDITORIAL NOTES

} LIB UNAAh NUln s.
The first American patent for fric-
ton matches was granted to Alonzo
D. Phillips, of Springfield, Mass, sew
enty-seven years ago to-day. The
first crude friction match had been
made some years before by an English
inventor named Walker, residing at
Stockton on-Tees. +Lucifers,' as they
were originally called, at first sold for
a very high price, and flint and steel
and Undertook continued in use for
many years after the Introduction Of
friction matches. The Walker and
Phillips matches consisted of splints
of wood coated with sulphur and tip
ped with a mixture of sulphide of an
timony, chlorate of potash and gum.
The production of matches was much
cheapened in 1912 by Reuben Par
tridge's invention of machinery for
the manufacture of splints. Three
years Mater Schroeder, of Vienna, pro-
duced his anonymous phosphorus, by
the use of which matches were rem
dered less dangerous, aid the manu-
facture of them less hazardous to the
health of the workmen. Safety
matches were invented by Lundstrorn,
a Swede, in 1855. More recent in
ventions have placed matches within
the reach of the poorest, and have
also largely eliminated the dangers
to the workmen, who, by exposure to
phosph oric vapors, frequently acquir-
ed the terrible disease commonly
known as s'phossy jaw
Old King Nicholas of Montenegro
is famed as a warrior, poet and play
wright, and he is also entitled to rank
| as the worlds greatest matrimonial
matchmaker
Once somebody remarked in the
M of No. in 1f7a1 rob
that the little Balkan state had no ex-
ports.
Sir said the King, you forget my
daughters
Through the marriages he arranged
for his feminine offspring, Nicholas is
related to most of the royal families
of Europe, but his great coup, his
matrimonial masterstroke, was when
he married his daughter Helena to
the King of Italy just seventeen years
ago to-day.
The alliance between vittorio En-
anuele III, ruler of a world-power,
and the daughter of a, petty prince
for Nicholas had not yet proclaim ID
himself king-startled all the courts
of Europe. Not only was Monte
negro small and unimportant, but it
was hardly considered civilized. Mich
oIaE, the prince or "Gospodar,'' was
utterly lacking in royal etiquette. Tie
often held court under a tree, acting !
as Judge and rendering verddcts the
petty quarre1s of his people. He
clung-and still clings-to the pic
turesque costume of his ancestors, |
consisting of northumberland coat,
baggy trousers, high boots and tam
BOURNE cap, with a pair of pearl |
handled pistols sticking from his belt. |
He wore such a costume to Rome
when he arranged the details of the
wedding.
Europe stood aghast at the match, |
and yet there can be found no hap
pier welded pair in Europe than
little Victor Emmanuel and his stall
wart Montenegro wife. Like all her
most divinely TALL and towers far
above her husband.
The italian King will celebrate his |
seventeenth wedding anniversary to-
day without regret, and the Queen is i
the happ1est of wives and most devot-
ed of mothers. Yet it may be stated
a fact that the King has utterly
failed in living up to the three favor
tie Montenegrin proverbs for the gov
eminent of wives.
'tHe who doesn't beat his wife is
no man. is a proverbiaI bit of wis
dom that is still in full force in Mon
tenegro.
Another cynical saying of male
Montenegrins is. Twice in a lifetime
is man happy-once when he mar
ries wife, and again when he sburies
her,
Among Montenegrin women there
is a proverb which runs, Love me
true, love me quick; pull my hair and
use the stick. 1t is safe to say that
Victor Emmanuel has never lived up
to tho latter part of this proverb
The youth of Queen Helena was
spent in the ramshaczle old palace of
her father in Cetinje, and in wander
ing, gun in hand, about the noun
tains of her native land. Like her
sisters. who all married well, Helena
had a French governess, and she was
taught the French and Italian Ian
guages, as well as her native Serb
tongue. She is a crack shot with
the rifle, and if the italian royal
family should ever be dismissed from
the job of reigning, Helena could be
depended upon to keep the larder
supplied with game.
King Victor and Queen Helena have
had four children, one son. and three
daughters. The Crown Prince, now
in his tenth year, has many Of the
physical characteristics of his mother,
and promises to be true Montene-
grin in stature.
Mrs. BeIva Ann Bennett Lockwood,
the first and, up to the minute or
rushing to press, the only woman to
run for the presidency of the United
States, will celebrate her eighty-third
birthday to-day. The distin guished
pioneer suffragist still practices law in
Washington, and last Summer made
a trip to Europe one of the Ameri-
can delegates to the International suf-
rage Congress at Budapest. Be
sides being the first woman presiden-
tial candidate, Mrs. Lockwood was
also the first woman lawyer to prac-
ttce before the United States Supreme
Court, and the first of her to ride
a sveIocipede, the parent of the bicy-
Gle.
Be1va Ann Bennett was born in |
RoyaIton, N. Y. Oct "a, 1880, and
graduated from Genessee College at |