Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-09

most beautiful woman in the world, was
tho wife Of King Menelaus (You can re-
member his name by recalling what the
basket OF eggs said: Many lay u.s.
They came one day to his court Paris, the
son Of PriaIn, King Of Troy Some say
that Helen went away with him willing
" others that she resisted. Hers was
the face that launched a thousand
ships The huge Greek fleet made after
her, and eventually, after years Of war,
TRY fell and MeneIaus recovered her
3za Il. The world makes a little prog
grtss. it would be hard to get up war
these days because two kings disagreed
about wife.
Prince Sextus and Collatinus his friend
were lounsing around military camp Que
day and wondering what their wives
We're doing-arguing about which wife
was the most diligent and virtuous Some
body offered to hold the stakes. so the
Young husbands rode home to Rome to
find out. Sextus' wife looked like the cat
wEo had swallowed the canary, She'd
been dancing at q banquet But Lu-
Gretia, the other wife, was at home. spin
ming. sextus fell in love with his friends
wife The next day he sneaked off from
camp. Lueretia was betrayed, and her
husband found her diving by her own
Then. it was the Roma, people rose up
and stamped on Tarquin and his evil
son sextus and created the republic
A funny little man with menacng red
eyes and flowing white beard-Peter the
Hermit--sta1ted to stump speech Europe,
ait the close OF the eleventh century, with
The news that he had been divnely com
missioned to rescue the holy city of Jeru-
salem. A luclSless crew of 100000 gath
cred themselves behind. Thousands Of
them were massacred: other thousands
died of pestilence, until there were hardly
500 of them left There were eight Cruz
sades. each with it's leader. but Peters
was the fiercest Of them all.
The Prussians never forsave Napoeo
Bonaparte for fighting to and fro acros
their kingdom; so for fifty years the
busily but quietly developed their ARM
By 1859 Bismarck knew it was time for
war agains4 France. 1t happened that tn
Spanish throne fell vacant, aud was OF
fered to German prince, Leopold Na
Doieon I'll OF France said the PfusslaGS
were getting too powerful. So Leopoic
was tactful and withdrew But us
marelz, receiving o friendly telegram from
Napoleon ILL., changed II a lutte and pun
lished IT, When the French people reaf
it, war was declared. few weeks later
fhe Plussians were in Paris collecting ~
demnity The picture shows Bism2reh
asking for Alsace- Lorraine
Henry y.~of England loved tennis, an
he fell in love with picture OF gu
with a tennis racket--the daughter -
Charles YIf.of France he wrote 20 the
French king Offering to marry her an
Charles VI sent back boz 81 tennis
balls. with the information that one yen
mis- player in the family WAS enotsH
.'Those tennis-balls shall turn 70 can
non balls vowed Henry ne gol the
girl; but the war old not en9 mt 1ntl Joa.
later.
in 1905 Philip the Fair the ktnS Z
france. and his wife went to visit ife.1
nenhey the King Of Flanders. and hls
UNI whose portraits YOU see here, W.
welcome il, them they found Bruges tlyin Is,
len thousand silk fa~s and displaying alt
he wealth that Is raTe to pour INTO
neaeeful merchant country with five sea
,orfe The French Queen was startled BY
The he furs aud brocades Of the Flemish
danes Then came the Flemish Queen
Tier Jewels are like the veritable sun
itseif . she told her husband bitterly;
ssiseeiaa her am a burgher's wife" And
thev vent home coveting Flanders. M. ~
no5ali, ,!s.,.,fis.ee :, war was hatched That's
p pllg : "a, a. ,eca Got Flanders.
no" fiafsos
0ueen Elizabeth Of ENGLAND never mar
ia bi,f TO make life bearable- she q
,..aIe baa some voung noble with silk
$500 at the foot of her throne-to ah
psf,t' u - e,,,-oo,, az When she was