The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-07
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

For the first time since the over throw of the French monarchy in 184S there will be no official Ob- servance of the anniversary of Louis PhiIippe's acceptance of the crown of France on the seventh of August, 1850.
 The cry Of ''Vive le Roi!'' may be heard to-day in Orleans and a few other cities where the Duke of Or leans, pretender to the throne, still has few adherents who would re- store the Bourbon-Orleans dynasty at any price. The political agents of the Duke, however, have decided that recent scandals in which the king has been involved are still too fresh in the public mind to make any cele- bration in honor of that royal rake polite or desirable. The two or three Paris papers that print the Preten- der's puerile platitudes have refrain ed this year from publishing any royal proclamation" calling upon H1oyal Frenchmen'' to observe the glorious Seventh of August" Let sleeping dogs lfe'' is the policy of the Dukes advisers just now.
 Prince Louis Philippe Robert, Duke of Orleans is the son of the late Count de Paris, forty-four years old, and enormously rich. He married the Archduchess Mary Dorothea of Aus trta, who is now an invalid, and his heartless treatment of the unfortun- ate woman, whom the royaltsts call four queen has served to a1ienateI many of his followers.
 When the Duke recently sailed from Genoa in the company of a young wo-I man known as the Countess de Sal verte, presumably bound for Buenos Ayres, the French people were not surprised. Since his youth the king has been mixed up in scores of lia- sons, and has often had narrow es- capes from the wrath of outraged hus- bands. History offers few more dis solute characters than this man who pretends to be, tby divine right, the real ruler of France.
 A handsome young fellow, the Duke early attracted the attention of stage beauties One of the most celebrat- ed singers of the century was long Gazette de France print a royal proc lamation'' by Louis Philippe Robedt, calling upon all good Frenchman to rally to his standard and drive the usurpers from s.our beloved France, than some wronged husband, armed with a gun, would set out on the trail of the pretender, and that gallant leader would fee to the tall timber while France roared with laughter.
 Early in his career the Duke sought to make himself popular with the French people by entering the army unQ6T an assumed name. ne law IOI- bade him from returning to F,dance, and his bravery in doing so would, he thought, arouse the admiration of This people," while the idea of a king serving his country as a private ap- pealed to him infinitely pathetic and noble. Within a short time his identity was discovered, and he was placed under arrest. but was permit ted to escape. The circurnstances of his hfght-the French authorities had matched a plot whereby prominent actress assisted the Dukes escape aroused the disabilities instead of the admiration of Frenchmer. Ever since then the Duke has been generally known as Toto la Gamelle, or Tin can Toto,'' the ''gameIle,' being the tin can in, which rattons are served to Fdench privates. The Duke in herits his .teccentricities" from his| father and mother The latter was the Spanish Infanta Louise of Mont pensier. She often appears in public smoking a cigar, and occasionally al pipe.
 The first fast of long duration un- dertaken for scientific purposes and with the possibility of innposture e1fnn- mated, was completed thirty three years ago to-day by pr. Tanner of New York, who went wholly without food of any kind for forty days, from noon of June 18th to noon of August 7th, 1880. During that period there is satisfactory evidence that he ate no food. He drank very little water, and no other liquid whatever. At the be- ginning of the period of abstinence he weighed 157 pounds. and it's con clusion 121 pounds, having lost thirty six pounds. At the end of the fast he disproved the old theory that hearty eating after a, long abstinence is fa- tai by consuming meat and fruits in liberal quantities, with no subsequent i'll effects nor evidence of stomach disorder. Fasting as means to health has since been advocated by many doctors and .*healers', and has occasionally resulted fatally, when carried to extremes or undertaken without competent medical direction.