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THE WORLD: TUESDAY '| LORD AYSCOUGH’S WEDDING NIGHT. By John Lewin M’Leish, M. D. ' (Copyright, 1902, by Datly Story Publinbing Company.) } WEALTHY Amerioan yar of the most exolustve social set, possessed of the reputation of being the most beautiful women in the country, does not often throw herself away upon an impequnion lordiing, even though that lordi!ng be a scion of one of the oldest of Dngland's noble families. ‘That was society's opinion as to the marringe of Irene Van Beekman and Lord Ayscough, therefore rociety had turned out in full force to the Van Deck- $man-Ayscough wedding. ft had been a most brillant euest had departed. The doyish-looking bridegroom, with the anctent title, followed the beautiful woman who had pur- chased him (ttle and all) upstains. Lord Ayscough followed his wife into the apart- ment she very evidently Intended to make her own. Irene turned suddenly toward him with a fixed, in- se look upon her beautiful face. Ina volce {n which sarcasm was but thinly velled, who remarked telly: { “My Lord, your roms are across the way.” b Her husband looked at her lazily. Then suddenly 0 tho realization that he had half apprectated the rms of this eplend!a American girl his title had ought him, | He had often in the days when down in his Inck en- wied Manchester, and Castellune and o fellows of 1s set, and now as he looked upon the ought- ‘after hetress of the season and real arms, he mentally congratulated ulte assured that he might have almost been willing marry such a woman even had she not brought im the means of settling up his indebtedness. | But he realized that he must assert himself, on this, 4s wedding night, if ho ever intended to break the pirit of the woman upon whom he had conferred a le. funotion. The last 01 Ayscough as very unconventional indeed. Lady Ayscough made no reply, but turned toward tho window and looked out Into the night, A gibbous moon threw weln, uncanny reflections upon the drtveway. ‘Haugh.’ muttered Lord Ayscourt, and reached | Into his vert pooket for a olgaretts, for Lord Ays- cough knew there was golng to be an argument and | wanted nicotian inspiration to make him equal to the occasion. A cigarette, he had learned, has % wonderful ten- dency to clear the brain in cases of emergency. Meohanically striking @ match Lord Ayscough was about to light his tobacco when hie wife turned to- ward him and safd sharply: 'y lord, 1 must ask you to refrain from smoking in my apartments. Lord Ayscough stared at her in a daged, surprised sort of woy for a few moments; then crunching the cigaretts in his fingers tossed !t upon the driveway. Ho did not understand and aid ao. Hla wife, very calm and very indifferent in manner, seated herself Ianguldly upon a divan and in a voice that was frigidly hard and outting, said: “Harold Sidney Hyte-Godolphin, Lord Aysoough Barl of Shaftesbury, Viscount Stafford, you no doubt think yourself a very clever and attractive man. 1 will confess that I thought so, too, when I first m you, At that time I had not the least Intention of ever marrying, and if I dtd, That my mind ret upor marrying some gentleman of my own circle whom | loved and respected, “When I came to know you better and to understand the very slisht estimate young gentienen of the foreign nobility placed upon American girls, when I owak- ened at Inst to the realization that {t was some sort of dank, you gentlemen of the foreign nobility were seek. ing, when you delgned to patrontee American soctety I decided to teach one man at least a Jesson. [ aes “I HAVE PURCHASED A NOBLEMAN IN + iB upon borrowed money that you might find « wits ! “This is our wedding night, my dear," he drawied |signifcantly, and turnod languldly toward her with ed arms, feeling very foolish as he did so, affection openly demonstrated impressed Lord Hyde-Godolphin, Lady Ay to be utterly heartless, and were a financial olpher, patronizing Amertoan society pay your tal “And #0 I consented to become Mrs. Harold Sidney | tobacoonist, a wifo to pay your "scough. I knew you then! honor, 1 I had ascertained that you! not tho ing yourse nich «RESURRECTION OF PLANTS, { ‘Mere are plants which, when dried ‘apparently dead, take on the form Mfe again when they are soaked in qwater. There are two kinds of revival— yone real, the other apparent. A writer La Gclence Illuatree says that return "Go life, etther In a complete form or in part, le quite frequent in tho vegetable lworld, where the influence of humidity Send dryness is moro marked than among ‘animals. One naturalist has taken the fine gatwins, of the variety known as Imperial \Malage, and planted the stem in moist earth. ‘This steam, four inches long, in three months had a shoot of threo addi- nal inches, The plant best known for renewing property {s the rese of plant becomes dry its stems curl up, draw together and fonm a rounded knot. The wind easily uproote the thing and carries {t away, but tf It 1s depos- ited In a damp place {t apparently comes te Ife. It was onoe thought that {t ab- sorbed water from the soll, took root, and began to grow agein. In reality, however, this never happens. The ro: of Jericho is lifeless from the moment when It 1s uprooted. It is simply a dead plant which hes changed form from the absorption of water. ‘The dried plant furnishes a very inter- esting change when {t fs plunged into water. In an hour tt doubles in size, the stems begin to rise and the capsules take on @ pinkish tinge. It seems to be reviving, tut this is a vain show. It is among those plants in which the resur- rection is apparent, not real. The move- ments of such planta are really like thase of the scales of a pine cone, which open or draw together aa the alr 1s more or less dry, Real resurrection, however, lis seen among certain ferns and mosses. Gericho. This is not really @ rose at all, but belongs to the Cruciferae or mustard amily, and {ts little white flowers ro- pall those of the “shepherd's purse,” so joommon along country roadsides, says tthe Youth's Companton. It grows in the sandy deserts of qarabia, Egypt and Syria. When the — a TOP-SPINNING BEGAN AGES AGO. were at first used for the purpose of promoting @ kind of petty gambling. The teetotum was marked withe cer tain number of letters, and part or all of the stake waa taken up or an addi- Top spinning 1s one of the oldest pas- times for boys. It was introduced into (England ae early as the fourteenth wentury, when the form was the same jas it 1s now and the manner of spinning HARRIET HU Ask for a Serious Explanation, Dear Mre. Ayer: I have been keeping company with a young man whom I love jesperately. Wel have been engaged for about a year, and) am wearing a ring he gave me a year ago. But I find that when away from me he Js continually tn company with another girl and he declares his love for her, and, I hear, intends to merry her; and she ceully belleves he will. Still, every tims he ts with me he makes m: the cama promise and even names next November aq the month. I am till wearing ‘the ring, but am in doubt out his sincerity. Kindly advise me JULTA. You can only know of his attention-! to the other girl from hearsay. 1 nd- vise you to be very sure that what vou hear is trie before you decide that th: man whose ring you are wearing ts = unworthy of your love. Give him a chance 40 defend nimseit| your shoemaker, yo so-called deb t ts of dishonor. 1 have you have been plum- No doubt you lor, your hatter, are merely de htest doubt that upon your easy conquest. BBARD AYER mer he tol me how much he loved me, and I acknowledged, though I M!ked him os well as any one I know, I never could care enough for him to marry him, Nothing more was sald on the eubject, but I saw he was very much changx He neglected his business and ecened to lose interest in everything. I taiked to himas ktndly es I could, but he told me my attitude toward him was simply killing him, and unless I changed it he idn't care what became of him. J have written him several times, and now comes a letter telling me he 1s coming to New York to see me. What shall I ‘from what may be mere idle sumo: ‘Tell him frankly what you have heard Your engagement ring gives yon that Mawht. If he ts trying to court two girls! at once he will certainly prove unfaith-, ful to both of them, Love May Not Be Coerced. { Dear Mra, Ayer! | | While visiting ina Southern city Iast summer I met @ Drilliant, handeonie f aA BRIG. A- uve mentally invested my money in the furtherance ve T see by MANNER AS I PURCHASE A ADA EVENING, MAY 27, 1902. even you gentlemen of the for upon the United States to f aa you depend upon the Ur hetreasen to meet your expenses “But for otice tn your Ife y take, Harold Bldney Hyde-God \ioart of Shaftesbury, Viscount Str married au American git) supe tot a to I could love for herself alone, and whe. me a devoted wife, ouch a wife as awakens in a man and ratees him above mero considerath self and the world. As the years went on T grew further and further away from the {ieal—T became ja de mw man-of-the-world, entloused, alwaye hard pressed for ready money, but somehow I mane ared in what I hope I am to-night, Irene, an English oman," He paused for a moment, then resumed slowly? “Only when T saw absolute ruin staring me in the mune pely | £80¢ and dishonor threatening my name, a dishonor sii, Sua |half due to the former Lord Ayscough—my father— foratan tho {OMY then would T consent to do what has always oe seamed to me beneath the dignity of a representative of the old nobility—only then, T eay, could 4 undend my pride suMciently to come to the land of the par Yenus to auction off my title to the highess bidder in the market where French counts and Italian mare quises are set on the same block with Dnglish duces ade a mis- Ayacougt have who people your vapid tmmyination and moye upon |the qleckerboard of your dreamland as you would have them. “So much for what you thought, I ow weak for myself. 1 have purchased a nobleman saine 4 |imanner as I purchave a plece of bric-a-t taney work, which pleases my eye [ have p leman to amuse myself with and the 2 rent will come to me dally in humiliating you to the world, 1 which you hoped to. vie with th hair- bratned gentlomen of the foreign nobility whose fool- ish wives choose to become ta their hands mer tools, and pander to the tastes of a set of worthless degenerates who shame the name of man. “Clothe you and feed you, Twill |but the world, your world and mine, phat) learn to | look upon you a hired man, and rate you accord- | Ingly. hey will so learn that your estates aro | mine since the mortgage with which they were en- Joumbersd was lifted by my money, that the servants | who make up your menage, my money maintains, that the horses in your etud my mney purchased, at the clothes upon your back my money—" | “Stop, for God's #ake stop! broke in Lord Aya- |cough hie face very wh nd ret, his whole form quivering with emotion, ‘T have tried to Maten to i} calmly, but I can etand no more of thi Per- | haps, when I first met you, Irene, Ladva Ayscough, jit was y noney T wanted. Later it was you your: Buch men na I do not love very quickly. Love Sona is a lowly developed, slowely diffused pas- h from Ite Inchoation, {t 1s an nll consumntt passion which soon becomes paramount to alt other thiings. I was brought up to look upon en of my own country with Indifference, and Lord Ayscourh, PIBCE OF | the the future corefiilly plnnned out for me dy those who hed my vprearing, necesitated the constant dir many pet echemen. Ving of yor AIDS do? 1 kmow this man can never be mora to me than simply a friend, and that the longer things go on as they are the ‘harder tt will be for him when the end mea, T know that he would simply give his Ife for me, for he has proved what he would do in more ways than one, and something must be done, and won't you tell me what ts best? 1. T. G. It ts only babies who cry for mom, A man may want a thing very much indeed; when he finds he has no tzht to it he does not whine for It-if Is manly. AMERICA IN LONDON. candidate in the Derby, relying doubtle money of the new Lady Ayscough to furnish the tiv- new trainers and American jo the| that you have alrendy arranged to enter a sara of the leeson that it waa my mis ning In my an Amertoan hetress as my only eal- the Londonjston to marry vation from penury. Tho lesson was very diMmoult for mea in the beginning, for I was like most young PERPLEXED LOVERS. Ite gure him, and since you told him so wh: + eee eee’ ur part was done ani 2f¢ the best. Our Scotch whiskeys nothing more should have been re- are also straight. Straight whiskeys to meet him, If you your for T am a old, in upon the nce correspond with wired of you. Do not feel worried about his coming few York, must meet him dy ev expect him to be a man. Difference tn Age No Obataole, Dear Mra, Ayer: love with {denis, and my deau iden) from 3 waa a Uttle woman whom men, a dresmer the wonderland of drens: and Gorman princes, I met you and T loved you. “1 Aid not want to let you know that I loved you juntll I knew that T had won your heart. I wanted you to think that {t was your money that I was after, for I thought that my Influence, and my pretended oyniciem toward womankind, would break down at lnst the tcy parriera of your reserve, In you, Irene, Lady Ayscough, I suddenly found the Iiving person= allty of my youthful ideal from the wonderland of dreams. Ne: “Finding you, I realize that T have also fost you forever, and with you every latent vestige of my respect. Love with men ite me is not a mere dissaso of the nerves—it {s ilfe itseif—the eumming up of the past—the treasured moments of the present—the oen- tring of all the hopes for the future, “Sudden awakening from that sort of love on the | evening of Its consummation to a knowledge «7 'affeo- tlon misplaced, means the withering of a humen heart, “I feel sorry for myself to-night, and I am going do what a former Lord Ayscough, Darl of Shafes bury, Viscount Stafford, did, rather than five a dis honored gentleman. To-morrow soctety will have full meagure of excitement and you, Irene, will have your title stil, and I—Harold Sidney Hyde-Gotophin, Earl of Shaftesbury Viscount Stafford—last of the linet will have that rest I have longed for these many years and found not, because perhaps I was too great A coward—" He stopped abruptly, and turning from ‘her reaghed. auddenly into his hip pocket for the revolyer he had | always carried, She saw tho glint from the barrel as it flashed and sparkied in the brilliant lights casting thelr glamour over the bridal chamber, She sprang toward him with a great, walling, agom izing cry—the cry of a newly awakened love. There was a loud report, the dull fall of a body, and Harold Staney Hyte-Godolphin, Lord Ayscough, Bart of Bhaftesbury Viscount Staffort—inst of the Ine= lay stretchef out, almost nt her feet, a ghastly, pit- ful, allont dead thing on this his wedding night, Since | you could never learn to love! you. you are scarce. much larger profits. It would be better not to 1f a meeting enn be avoided. him. simp! decision and and look that H. B. firn word enteen years young man, #¢ indy ty with a you TUASMUCH AS STRAIGHT WHISKEY is far superior to any other, it stands Tam alwaya sorry for any honest} tg reason that High Balls made from Mixed whiskeys pay (old medal awarded Paris, 1900. | IRK& CO. NL. ——N ___ Amusements PROCTOR’S { Eaai, Chimpanzes Comedians — on ewe lover whore affection my go unr 234 St a Midgete, Bitters bogs, quited. T am gorrler stilt for a m {Peaoerul Valley,"" Big Btock & who !m selfish enourh to give pain to Hl Ve. fe. Jaques Tnaual, ‘Adate Pare the woman he loves, Since the world} c mane Bia poms began, lovers have had to bind their] Hal 4 1S otity, Souremte Mate for Tae bicken hearta up bravely and go forward v . Hagerty bl oa without complaining. Your Southern | Dott i { pe ey Bd lover seems to me weak. If he were! IZUMI OL, vente stats, tor Ladten Full’ Orch, etronger and truly unselfinh he would THEA, Gist a & Bway, Bra B keep his repinings to himself, And It BROADWAY Se "Pormociow Price Bote REID no had more of the chivalry which | LAST 5&5 DAYS. | tradition attributes to Southern rente-| EXTRA MAT, DECORATION DAY 1 men he would never think of troubling TH {and distrersing an® SLEEPING from your letter, have} been doing. | ce AN You acted unwisely In allowing him to) TCE | tatmoue : felt | ARADISE ROOF _ | om eos GARDENS,| To-nicit, 100 eet ine | 20 TORETOH ‘4TH 8, PASTOR’ S nti MONROE, MACK a BAWRENGR, Js f BELLE STEWART, 3 WESTON: DRAWED, TRRRY AND wLareR AND ‘STNIGHO joa'a greatest Dandmaster, Aided | by noted nolotats Indoraed by Press & | Pubic, Adm. 60e. Beate for all. | Manhattan Columbus Ave. & 5th 6t Aretio breezes mate by f foe, Coslern the soe THDATRE, Bway Bves, 8.20. Mat. Sat, he sume. In the mar-|tlonal part put down according to the | a ae i Ree ioe manuporipts written [letter which came uppenmost low who was very devoted to me, H Seeralnlte shane da MRS, FISKE ' PlvoRcon ‘gn this early period there aro figures of | One of the gambling games in which | had a very intense nature, inatined to-| Nght for oe hry i j “f and LITTLE ITAI Yo eos whioping tone, add there Je Little | tops were used was known as ‘*the devil, ward melancholy, and in our acquaint Ider than Se ee eeeage a 5 Friday Be. (ony)—"tA DOLL'S HOUSE Fece a Siair bs cern tae emer eae oe eet noe cobra rats 2 EAR-L-+C-A-S’ | ages oe small pine placed about a otrcular| Dmself to be absolutely honorable {: | Bape SURO ON ee ouptalt i MUTOY ESC pricon Ba dba tos Petre Een ova layed with tops, |Besnd surrounded by 4 ledge with a (every way, Toward the end of the sum- | ough the pen. Was that Cupid? CUE IROCTORE DR BIL 3 wn in Rome |little recess on one aldo. pes top, === Se oe Be r ost \eie| oy, wee eh ae pe this, {Was set up on this board by means of | DOWIE, BY HIMES | cupia generally uses bie cane EXAMINATION FREE. = | u,v. pounetiy ax Mr. 3irmen tRewever, ‘applies to the old-faehtoned {@ string drawn through a crevice in the| , LF, stead of his han ute rig tove ||, 618 your duty to Anow the condition, || Parpreae aia PRR. ‘whip top. The per ton now generally [recess The top when started would ‘Any one coming to Chicago to sec | really impelled to write ee Tee capacity, the endurance of your own Mane Mente Kaeo areiieny ee 2 use fe 2 comparatively modern tn- [ela emeny Shp zine and eens sore me,"" Dowle says of himeelf in Leslie's, jing vation 18 Oe zaug pres Pai y sig vere Pa strain it. Our Bye XTRA tess” a wi { y take tt die: sl itor w — 4 vention. It doubtless’ had its ortgin | Gown Sie pine to the number of st was| Monthly for June, ‘will find a m pen ake will tell you—no charge : | Glasses only ff needed. | celexeburteeTassee ‘gom the teetotums and whirligiss which THE CAUSE OF DUST RAINS. About a year ago there was a kind of|/and the superstitious reverence the Plague, or visitation, of dust rains | peasants have for the ‘“bloo rains’ onn Uroughout Burope. Tew sections of jeasily be understood, Superstition will the continent were spared, From the| vanish, however, before the implacable cities of Sicily 19 the Islands of the | industry of the Teutontc herr professor. Baltio red mud drizzjed down upon tbe | One of the by-products of Dr. Hapke'e ‘earth, and the men who watched the | work will be that {t will be easier now firs were stirred, according 0 to study the movements of the slacters, eh the witiner. eir training and disposition, either to we or to curlowity. It appears that the oauso and origin of the dust rains are now once for ail "Getermined by Dr. Hapke, a German DAILY FASHION HINT. actentist. ‘The preponderance of sand and Ae atte manne iron inal For Women Readers of the dust that could be found prove con-| Evening World. j@lusively that the desert region south of \mripoll and Tunts ts responsble for the) whole trouble. ‘The ground of thot part| ‘of the world {# not firm enough. It ts earried up into the alr by the wind and \4s then rushed across the Mediterranean to encounter Wuropean clouds and to; fall won Buropean soll, ‘ho longer sand, but mud. Wherever it fails, town and eountry are colored a bright red, i ‘The spectacular effect can be imagined — ROUGH ON VIZIERS. | A Brench etativtician has just lesued a report which saya that “of the latest two Inmndred Grand Vislers of the Sul- | ‘tan of Turkey, not more than twenty-j four have died naturally.” One hun- of them, ‘the claims, were poisoned, ‘end thirty-wix of the others were elthor beheaded or drowned in the Bosphorus. Of the remaining forty he bas not been ble tv find any trace, but from the si- lence of Turkish historians on the sub: fect he concludes that their end was no happy. One of the Visiers wae only our hours in offloe, and another oo- @upled the position for only ten minutes, | outa strangled at the end of that time, ————— MARRIAGE AND LIFE, According to Notrot, married women | Mve on ap average five years longer | ghan maids, while married men live weven yeara longer than bachelors, “But,” adde the statistician, “thie sate of things will improve—that is, the pro- | longation of life among married people| body lining, | whl be further extended whon our so-| The pattern (No, 4,188, wines 6, 10, 12 and ela] conditions become more perfect,| 4 yeare) will be sent for 10 cents when man ceases to monopollae the) Send money to “Cashier, The World, wight te eerie weleotion.”” Puliteor Building, Mew Yorks City” The To cut this anflor blouse costume ‘for « girl ten yours of age 0 yards 27 inches wide, 6 yards #2 inches wide or 4 yards 4 inches wide will be required, with 1-8 yard for shield and standing collar when made of contrasting ma- terial and 8-4 yard § inches wide for by the grace of Got endowed with| @ healthy constitution, a bak head and | bandy lege.” And that ts true. Bo true! the latter portion of ft that he tnd! it well for his dignity to wear clertea}! robes when on the platform. The stran-| Ber wees in Mr. Dowie a rather short stout gentleman, with a long, wiite beard and with clear, sharp eyea that seem to see through whomever they test upon. For the reset he ts a kind. dy man, courteous and gentlemanly, ex ceedingly well ypad and wonderfully apt with authorities to back up his state ments, He la @ man who speaks with | authority but rules by love. That tn} some quarters where ho is known chiefly | by newspaper reputation, but 4 Ja tras I belleve 1 am abnolutely ‘unpresudiced in the statement that no other man fn Amerioa ts #0 devotedly, xo person- ally loved by @0 many people ae John A. Dowie. | You do net state whether or not she reped to your letter of m year AGO. | If whe aid, and if throughout the year) you have been learning to know ant respect each other, the two years’ dif \J E i r forenag between your ages need not pre Jy Liat beL= vent a happy engagement. But you are! 217 too young to think of marriage yet. 223 SIXTH let your engagement be a testing time. Cupid may push your pen again. ———— WHAT ETHAN ALLEN SAID. ‘A lecturer on the mistakes of history GLASS AS Chie s —- We make perfect-fitting Oculists’ Opticians—40 Years’ Practice. BROADWAY—Astor House, | | 1345 BROADWAY—near 36th St. | of ll Open Late Saturday Evening» XTRA MATINEE FRIDAI | Brentngs, 8.16. are Mat. Heturday, & THE WILD ROSE, | NEW S4 VOY THEATRE. Ma @. ay -i-c-h & Sons, |" 5 NOONTS LABT Wind, @ BA! Extra Matinee Decoration ROBERT EDESON og | pnoiitates CRITERION. rv 64a, LAST 6 NIGHTS. XTRA MAT. FRIDAY 2 H DAVID BELASCO | PRESENTS —— "enn LESLIE CARTER pip Rezte, $< THe 1.00 LOW AS AVENUE—near 15th St. Open Every Feening.) lsays that Ethan Allen aid not utter atl | the taking of Mort Toonderoga the ring-| ‘ing phrase associated with that event | MATINEE TO-DAY, PARISIAN WIDOWS, 3 GRBAT BORLESQUES. DEWEY %, 1écn ae | can Kimbassy, Mr, juntration from Black and White sows @ recent reosption at the Ameri- Choate is depicted in the act of recelving a guest, Mra. Hotty Green will be delighted to sea how ead and lonesome her hated “Joe" looks at this fuesy and frillsome funotton. THE ROMANCE OF LOVELY WOMAN’S HAIR. her jin BY HAbb CAINE, "Not ten yoke of oxen have the power to draw us like a woman's hair,” writce Longfellow, and history over and over again has proved this statement. Tho golden looks of Helen set Greece afiame, and the fair tresses of Rosamond be- trayed Queen Bieanor, The Greeks had an idea, shared by the Romans, that life would not quit the body of @ victim till a look of hair had been first cut from the head and given to Proserpine, 60 we read that when Alcestis was about to die as « voluntary @acrifice for her hus- sand, Thanatow first out off a lock of her hair for the Queen of Pluto. ' The Women of Carthase, There (9 @ grand old story told about the supreme devotion dimplayed by the women of Carthage, When thelr olty was besieged by the Romana ropes were! needed, but ua there was no flax to make them In the olty the women, headed by thelr herolo Queen, caine to the rescue, ‘They one and all cut off thelr glorious tremens and made ropes out of thelr halr, ‘Temper aud Lave, | The famous Barah Jennings, wite of the great Duke of Marlborough, had the most Ny auburn ringlets, One day, in @ violent fit of temper with her hua- band, she Gut off her beautiful tresses to annoy him, greatest pride in his wife's hatr, Year afterward, when tho Duke was dead, a scaled box was found In him private cabinet, emt written outeide were these words y greatest treasure.” Those who opened It expected to find valuable papers or rare gems, but instead they found @ wealth of auburn curle—treas- ured Dy the dead man, perhaps, beyond thelr worth Dhe Romance of George Sand, George Sand, after ahe had quarretied With Alfred de Musset, made noveral vain efforty to revive the frmoun lalson. The poet refused, however, wer her letters. to As @ final appeal the un- happy woman out off all the beautiful hair De Munwet had wo often raved over and #ent it to dim as a last overture, Alas! the beautiful perfumed hair awoke no thrill in the poet's heart and the sacrifice was made tn vain. fuperatttt Volive offeniige have often been made of hair, ‘This ie @ custom ahared by all Paces and all faiths, and the Idea that to give @ lock of batr Lo & lover or friend Is very unlucky Is also prevalent about ail quarters of tie globe, ‘The famous Lady Godiva had a rival in the peraon of the tenth century Mra. Astley, 40 wolrene and wife of "OMb Aut and Kelly for the Duke took the| ley.” | stood up, | worthe, who was famous at the court of | In the mind of every echoolboy. Inutead | f informing the British commander at he demanded the surrender of the! stronghold “in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Cortinental Cong 4, he shouted, “Come o at that, you old rat!” CR Whon this lady stood up luxuriant faxen hair fell to her feet und covered her like # thick veil, Johann Mayo, the German painter, had a beard which toughed the ground when he and Master John Xilling- ivan the Terrible In Russia, had @ fair beard five foot two inches long. Parthians, the Persians, the Groeké and tho Gauls all considered long halr a notable honor and short hair a mark of thraldom, Tho Franka and anclent Ger- mana held the aame Iden Poems Buried in a Woman's Hatr, But perhaps the most romantio story of wom hatr, 4¢ alvo one of the moat xruesome, |# the story of the hair of Elizabeth Siddel, the wife of the poet painter Dante Gabriel Rossettl written poems tn her honor during the short period of thelr murriod life, and when #ho died he took into the death chainbpr the album into wiich he had copied his poetic trivutes, and eddrows ng the dead woman tn her coftin, he enid; “Dheae were written to you, and you inust take them with you.’ With that pot the manuscript volume agalnat her cheek and wrapped Jt round with beautiful hatr, which, ae his ploturee show, was long and aulurn Fourteen Yours Attor, ‘The dead woman wee fourteen years He had} i | CLOTHING FOR NEN, Wor WEEK. |W Any cl OU Four Centrally Locoted Stores | ACADEMY OF MUSI 4h St. a | Lage WEEK. renin (Es “OH VADIS ceca Decoration Day. ail poate, Prices, 25, 60. 76, 1.00, Mats. Wed. Batt. ved EDIT. AND CHILDREN, PER ATLANTIC SAAD: Serer, cre age her grave when Ros } U,| _ Xira Mat, Decoration Day, prevailed upon him to hav [ AMELIA BINGHAM, { exhumed tn order that the p yi | AMO! N MAGDALI echurord in order that te oueum: tN CLOT MING COU | ACODER AGA i} be published. ] i After many preparations the «rave aU! 12 torches under the supervision of one of Ronsettt' friends. Vhen the Hd of the coffin wae taken off it was found with it had grown possible to remove the bv out re moving the hair also, f {4 3d ave, near O5th st! BROOKLYN—700 Broadway. OVEN BVENINGS ‘ith &, Theatre. Jos. Mast | CARMEN, | Mat. Toom'w, 25¢, 800 274 3d ave., near l2dth st,| 95 Sth ave. near 25th st.) in the grave and wrapped Itself around a a the in h Dw sr ww ncteticr in" IDR. DECKER SBS | KEITH'S. ventuatly both ine hair ant toe tok TSHAKE NO) MORE METROPOLIS," 2 ware Felurned to Tosanitl, ‘The ane he WK} ey Wed, Pet. Sat. lie in laced aati’ mor bh port sacre Mi, x ~ - — the day of Ita denth, a long, rich tresa of _ - —< = ee neem ee let a olden hutr, aw fresh as ite, TTR DALY’S iv. Hib bate. Wed, & Mat, @ May By “Poems.” As every: knows, the iN TH OPEN OLY TIA fA _torenssires iio TT hte hheglar| wexaiy a Ti 18 Mab ‘ pave tho ambiiton which had ) ‘fi wy 4 he regarded 49 wn act of doascration.— Pittevuns Gasette, deguiar eae 60 wre lie Sh ag TOM SAWYER, 9 ‘s

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