The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1937, Page 10

THE ROMANTIC STORY OF PLACIDIA 1S THAT OF A BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS WHO SAVED THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE BTH CENTURY A.D. @1 APPEARS THAT PLACIDIA WAS NOT ONLY & WOMAN OF GREAT BEAUTY AND CHARM BUT HAD IN- HERITED HER FATHER'S VIGOR, COURAGE AND ABILITY, WHILE HER BROTHERS PROVED TO BE FEEBLE AND INCOMPETENT RULERY. @+ DATZLING WHITE MARBLE WALLS OF THE FAMOUS TAas MAHAL AT AGRA,INDIA, THE WORLDS MOST BEAUTIFUL AND COSTLIEST TOMB, ARE- INLAID WITH GORGEOUYS, FLASHING PRECIOUS STONES -/ TS MAGNIFICENT MAUSOLEUM |+ WAS BUILT BY THE MoGuL SHAH JEHAN FOR HIS WIFE WwWHO DIED IN 1632 ..,...... y ©+5 Expression” IN THE JU MEANING IN JAIL, IS DERIVED FROM THE "JUG "(0R JOUG),AN IRON COLLAR. FORMERLY USED IN SCOTCH PRISONS TO RESTRAIN DANGERO o AND UNQULY CRIMINALS --evvvnen . Placidia—Part | By J. CARRCLL MANSFIELD PLACIDIA WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THEODOSIUS THE GREAT, ONE OF THE MOST CAPABLE CHRISTIAN EMPERORS OF THE DECLINING ROMAN EMPIRE, WHICH WAS BEGIN- NING TO TOTTER BEFORE THE ONSLAUGHTS OF AGGRESSINE BARBARIAN NATIONS. s — Y GERMANY EASTERN ‘" ROMAN ¥ EMPIRE (MOROCED) On HIS DEATH-BED IN 395 A.D. THEODOSIUS DIVIDED THE ROMAN EMPIRE BETWEEN HIS SONS, ARCADIUS AND HONORIUS. .. ARCADIUS RECEIVING THE EASTERN HALF AND HONORIUS THE WESTERN HALF. HENCEFORTH , THE ROMAN WORLD REMAINED DIVIDED INTO TWO EMPIRES ... AFTER THE SACK OF ROME THE INVADING HOST,LADEN WITH RICH SPOILS AND CARRYING OFF A MULTITUDE OF CAPTIVES, PASSED ON.AMONG THE PRISONERS WAS THE EMPEROR HONORIUS SISTER PLACIDIA WHEN THE GOTHIC CHIEFTAIN, ALARIC, AND H1S HOMELESS BARBARIAN HORDES FROM THE DANUBE, EAGER FOR RICH LANDS, SWEPT DOWN UPON ITALY LIKE A SWARM OF HUNGRY LOCUSTS, THE FRIGHTENED EMPEROR HONORIUS SHUT HIMSELF UP IN RAVENNA, - SWUNG AROUND RAVENNA AND STRUCK STRAIGHT AT ROME. THE "ETERNAL CITY" FELL TO THE BAR - BARIANS (410 A.D) AND FOR THREE DAYS WAS GIVEN UP TO PILLAGE, BURNING AND WANTON SLAUGHTER. £ TRADING GALLEY OF THE 4™ CENTURY, IN THE LATTER DAYS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE- -+ FOR THE G, NEXT SIX CENTURIES, THROUGH THE UNDER THE MARRIAGE LAWS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE A WIFE WAS ALWAYS UNDER. THE LEGAL CONTROL OF HER FATHER AND NOT OF HER HUSBAND ............7 DARK AGES, THIS TYPE OF VESSEL WAS MOST COMMON N EUROPEAN i BIATERS il s Y { @.1937. T Carrotl MANSFIELD. il T R . e BRSOy o R ST