Evening star., 1923-10-25
Bi THE MARaUIsE DE FoxrExoY.

BI THE MARaUISE DE FONTENoY.
1t seems eminently fitting that it
should fall TO the lot of Pope who
has achieved such worldwide fame
as mountaiheer and as an AIpinist
as Plus NJ to preside over the i'm
pending ceremonies at Rome COM
menaoratins the thousandth anniver-
sary OF the birth, in AID. pee. at
Annecy. Of st. Bernard. who is about
TO be pontiftcally proclaimed as the
patron saint of all mountaineers and
AlpinistB.
1t was as Archdeacon Of Aosta that
he founded. in AID. 9s2, the famous
Alpine hospices which for close upon
q thousand years have been an un.
railing refuge for travellers. while the
monks who are in charge OF them
nave saved innumerable lives by their
self devotion and with the help of
their world-famed dogs. In ancient
Gays the great st. Bernard. which is
said to be the highest inhabited spot
IN Europe, was known as Mons Jovis.
from a temple of Jupiter which stood
on the site now occupied by the hos
pices, and IL was a favorite place of
pilgrimage With the Romans a num-
Der. OF rotive offerings TO Jupiter
having been eXcavated from time to
time in the neighborhood. The pass
was the great military and trade
route from italy into Gaul. Hercules,
returning from Spain with Geryon's
oxen, drove them into Italy over the
path. and Hahnibars passage. when
he invaded Italy. is cofnmetnorated by
the great red granite pillar near the
hospice, still known as Hahnibal's
column. julius Caesar and Caesar
Augustus and CharIemaEne. as we'll
as Napoleon, have each left the mem
ory and. in many cases the mark of
she passage there of their legions.
But it was St. Bernard who en-
dowed the passes with his name when
he obtained the permission of his
bishop to rout and destroy a. band
OF saraeens who had fought their
way up from IAsuria TO the Pied
fnofitese mountains and who had es.
ta'blished themselves permanently or,
Mons Jovis. with headquarters among
the ruins OF the. Temple of Jupiter.
60 rob ana plunder, torture and kill
All these who had occasion to ira
nard, at the head or a force OF
Piednhentese riolntaineefe, made his
way ap 4the mountain. routed and de.
stroyed the Saraeef hordes, using, 1t
is said. the bronze leg of the statue
OF Jupiter as a club upon the enemy,
ana then proceeded 10 Guild on the
site OF the temple and with its ruins
the hospice of the great st. Rernaryi
which bears his name. ana which he
ceafided to the care bt q community
and whose mother house is at Ma
tigny.
= Old Lord de Rafisey's younger
daughter. ffermione, after securing,
the other day, her divorce from Gen.
Lord Esem Gordon-I.ennex, a veteran,
OF the Boer campaign of a quarter
of q century ago. as we'll as Of the
great war. in which he dfd paftiou.
lariy well, winning the distinguished
service order and that OF st. Michael
and Sc. George, has created no little
talk In English society by the an
ment to Rolf Ceaefstrom, the third
and last husband ana the principal
heir OF the remnants OF the fortune
OF Ade1inA Patti: II Is understood
that there is considerable opposi-
the relatives OF her frst husband.
including his father, the seventh
Duke of Richmond ana Gordon, az
afnenH the sPeneersChurchill clan, to
which she belongs through her dead
Ss sssssss aS sss vas e sf ss ns
who was q sister. therefore. OF the
eighth duke OF that. iik ana OF I4era
Randelph ChufthilL Lady Esne's
own sisters include the Countess OF
Qssory. the widowed Lady Guernsey.
whe lest her husband In the great
war. and the Hon. Mrs. Ferdinand
Stanley, who is new In America with
her husband. Gen. the Hon. Ferdinand
Stanley, younger son of the Earl of
Rolf Cederstrom, who is now. fifty
three years old. was twenty-five
when he married Mime. Patti, then
in the neighborhood of sixty. She
had made Ms aeauaintanee when she
consulted her friends. Clara and Ma
riaTine Eisdler, In London, about the
preservation OF that wonderful shape
" ffuufe which she retained al
mesf to the very last. They urged
her to take up physical exercise and
massacre and recommended for the
fuFpose young Rolf ,Cederstref1a, who
st the time was assisting his father
to run a gymnasium and school for
physical culture in the ST. Pancras
district of the British metropolis.
Adelina Patti liked the good-looking
yaung SWede and benefited to. such
an extent through his treatment that
she ended by bestowing upon him
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she then gave out the announce
ment that although his father kept
a gymnasium and a school for phys