Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 2, 1915, Page 3

& : [ i it § g H g 4] »8e & % 315' i ih i 111 by [i - § ! i i f 11 i b i £l H] FREl g8 iy E i | 8 E: K 3 i E i i . i i | ¥ | 2 The 31st of Odtobir,l 793 Ir own customs, which bad | By F. A. MITCHEL hded down to them through perations. Some of these cus- | e very quaint. ! her had left a brother and a Russia. The brother had! parried, but the sister, a wid- lived. She had but one child, In the autumn of 1893 Charles Good- win, an American bachelor who had been spending an evening at a stu- dents’ ball in the Latin quarter of Paris, on his way to his Wotel in the T, Who jointly with me would | Rue Rivoli crossed the bridge leading be farm. She was a very odd. into the Place de la Concorde. Just very pretty, little damsel g5 he reached the fountain midway enteen years old. I could not petween the two obelisks a clock in h my aunt or my cousin be-! geep tone struck the hour of 1. y spoke no English and 1 10| gomething like a shudder came over but we found av interpreter the young man. Perbaps it was the ed our purpose fairly well. loneliness, for the Place was deserted no hotel in the place, and —that is, at the moment, since this bliged to set up a dwelling of | central location can never be said to This I did in & small bouse | p, gegerteq for any length of time d been vacated. A middle' gyepn tn the small hours of morning. man who spoke a lttle Eng-| porpepg 1t was the contrast between mted to be my housekeeper |\, gurroundings and the gay scenes cooking. My aunt did not . paq just left, a contrast heightened at her house. Why L g piy knowledge of the history of the location where stood the fountaln he was passing. He stopped and mused. During the reign of terror where the fountain is now stood the guillotine. Every day a succession of carts brought victims to this Moloch of the revolution. At first the nobility of France wera in process of removal: then when factions became jealous of ench other the party in power removed those who were its rivals. For awhile Robespierre was virtual dictator and decided who shonld be executed. The lenders of the Conservatives. the that brought me to' slow in working itself prospect of my getting propitious. I had been lage several weeks when one 1 was surprised by a visit y Cousin Lisa. She came in, hes and with a shrinking man- y housekeeper being present, po impropriety In ber coming. vertheless wondered at it. Not ble to communicate with her n to say good morning, | ask- : baving informed himself of the fate those worn aut the close of the eight- eenth century. “Madame.” exclaimed Goodwin. “surely you have heen. through some error on the part of your escort or your coachman, caught out alone. Will you permit me to call a carriage?” “What day is this?" asked the lady. “Day of the week or the month " “The month.” “This is the 31st of October.” *“Do you hear them singing?” “Won't you take my arm, madame?” sald Goodwin, extending it. *“The night is chill, and you do not seem to be sufficiently clad.” “Now there are two,” was the only reply. “I beg of you come with me—for a little way—to the Rue Rivoll. We will find a cab there.” “Now there is one.” Goodwin was badly upset. Alone in Paris with a crazy woman between 1 and 2 in the morning, he would have left her, but this would be desertion. He could not bring himself to do it. Fortunately a cab came across the bridge. When it arrived opposite the fountain he ran out to call the driver. As he started the lady he was leaving said: “Now, there is none.” The cabman stopped, and his cab . Goodwin returned for the She was gone. All in a shiver, Goodwin got into the cab and was driven to his'hotel. The next afternoon he walked out through the Place de la Concorde. The day was bright and the space was fill- ed with carriages and pedestrians. He stood by the fountain on the exact spot where he had stood the night before. Had he been dreaming? Three years later he was reading a history of the Girondists. The last pages of the book gave an account of how they died on the guillotine singing the “Marseillaise,” the volume of sound growing less till the last one sang alone. That single voice stilled, all bad perished. Turning to the date of this one of the most dramatic scenes of history, Goodwin noticed that it oc- curred on the 31st of October, 1793. Up to the time of reading this ac- osunt Goodwin had frequently spoken % bis friends of his adventure that night in the Place de la Concorde. which a century before had been call- ed the Place de la Revolution. After of the Girundists he never again men- tioned it. His friends noticed, too, that he was changed. . ¥ i BE BT Eqgl E 4 § with anxiety, waiting for bis answer. His emissary returned with a sur- prise, announcing that the maid was the queen and the queen was the mald. Without losing a moment the king tal of Zingerland and, appearing before Queen Bertha bespattered with mud from his quick ride, knelt before her and kissed ber hand. When he looked up he saw bher face bent down upon him flled with merriment. Turning bis eyes to a maid of honor standing by tbe queen, she saw Catb. erine looking at bim with the same amused expression. And so it was that the two kingdoms were united and there were no more wars. Heart to Heart Talks By CHARLES N. LURIE “WHO'S AFRAID OF AN OGRE?" Frriends of children in New York and elsewhere—may their tribe increase— bave organized & new children's so- clety. 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PHONE 130 HRESFSFSFRFTICILD LSPGO SIPOOANI PSSO CITIIS Oow Incognita thousekeeper to inquire If there Ogre Soclety?” and they define its ob- . hing 1 could do for my cou- few words passed between the d the housekeeper, with lomo| X ment 1 thought, said that as only one thing 1 could do; ondists, he sent after those of royal oble blood. Then a new faction 1 the supreme power and sent Robesplerre after the Girondists. While Gondwin mused there was no cousin, but T had better find {t | Sound but » distant cab rattling over , the stones or a shout of laughter from ded that I had struck anoth-, # cafe on the Champs Elysees. And he strange customs of the coun-| €Ven then came at intervals the thought d that I might as well let it that be was alone. But suddenly itself out. Lisa assisted the! he caught sight through the spray of per in the work, and I went, the fountain of a woman's figure on bout the business concerning, the other side of the basin. Impelled 1 had come to Russia. I did nogl by curiosity he n.oved around to where till evening, expecting surely she stood. What was his astonishment cousin had gone. What was to see one whose features indicnted prise to find her still there. that she was a lady. Her dress also long.” 1 asked my housekeep- | bespoke her rank. The costume was Lisa going to stay here?” in the directoire style which was in unless you turn her out.”” | vogue some dme ago. She was very b ber out!" pale. ¢ And you cannot do that unless | It has never been permitted to Pari- willing to suffer the resent- | sian ladies to be on the street alone ‘every one hereabout.” | even at midday. As for a lady being out it does all this mean?” | unattended at 1 o'clock in the morn- ns that Lisa has offered te | ing, such a thing was unthinkable, and o “yet the American was positive that hupder struck. . 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MITCHEL It s0 hflppened that King Caspar or Walkaria and Queen Bertha of Zinger- land Inberited their kingdoms when very young. Their domains joined. but they had never met. for during their childhood their fathers had been at continual warfare. When these two kings died—about the same time— the cabinets of both countries decld ed to make a match between the young king and the young queen. Queen Bertha would not consent to the match without some acquaintance with the man she was to marry. She therefore insisted on their meeting in one of her palaces near the border line between the two kingdoms, the king to be attended by three men and the queen by three women. To this the king gladly assented. Before leaving for the rendesvous the queen said to a maid of honor, who was also ber bosom friend: *1 wish you to exchange places with me at this meeting, you to personate me, | to personate you. This will be easy, for 1 have purposely limited the number of my attendants so that there are only two besides ourselves to be in the secret.” . When the king met the substitute queen, whose name was Catherine. he was well pleased with ber, for not only the gueen herself, but ber at- tendants, were beautiful women. Ber- tha had charged Catberine to treat her with some severity lest by ber ac- customed deference she betray the se- cret. During the first interview Cath erine spoke to Bertha somewhat sharp- Iy, and the king's notice was turned from the spurious to the real queen. who bore the reproof ¥ith becoming meekness. Indeed, King Caspar was charmed that the majd showed no temper whatever, while the reproof, which seemed to be uncalled for, prej- udiced him against ber supposed mis , tress. Queen Bertha had goue to the meet- ing with no other object than to over 100k ber future husband incognita. But from the moment she saw bim she was much smitten with bim and resolved to win him if possible. She directed Catberine to lose no opportunity to show her severity while in the king's presence. Catherine, who was an ex- cellent actress, played ber part remark- ably well Did she order the queen to dohcrlnyurvk‘.nnmturho" speedily the duty was performed, the spurious queen would reprimand her. At such times the real queen would cast down ber eyes, bearing the injus- Dot sttt AR SN e S s AN a5 o G I 35 i I s i ISP il BRSNS e RN S (o B A g P A A A b B R e i e e Jects as follows: “The object of the soclety is to in- terest children in the good and beauti- ful, in belief in fairies, and to do away with the depressing opinions that many of them gain from tales of ogres, witches. ghosts and ‘things in the dark.’"” Each child who joins the so- clety 18 pledged never to be afraid, es: pecially in the dark. 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