The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1907, Page 16

ee rrpiecreneetieitoneneta enn eamesinar wreecesnbientcienitectesemintoneie weve Daily Magazine, Friday, | : No Nature Faking. By Maurice Ketten, ‘Daily except Bunday by the Press Publishing Company, No & « © ‘s Park Row, New York. [ PORRPR PULITIER, Pree, East 14 Beers. 4, ANGUS GMAW, Soe Troat., 591 Went 119th Birert. Watered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Clasa Mall Matt The Canadas. For England and the C af ment and All Count No. 38—-MARIE ANTOINETTE; The Queen Who Lost Crown and Head. | 7 F a New York high school girl and a college freshman should become av- I solut® rulers of the United States, with no one to advise them except & group of other people as ignorant as themselves and far more vicious, the country at large would not greatly benefit. If, in addition, the United States were almost bankrupt and populated by half-starved, oppressed. bra- talized wretches, the fate of those two Incompetent rulers would probably be somewhat similar to that of the mar whe dropped a cigar stump Into. a powder keg. Yet sych was the state of affairs when silly Marle Antoinette and her dolt of a husband, Louis XVI., reigned over France. The only wonder !s, not that they and royalty Itself were destroyed, but that both endured so tong: When Louls ‘XV. died he left Franve miserably poor and the peop! ground down by cruel taxes. During the minority of his successor, Lous ND TOYS. N the British Museum there are doll babies tore than three thousand "years old: For a Jong time this mu- seum, which is located in London, has been collecting antiquities of va- rious kinds. Exploring expeditions have‘ gone to Italy, Greece, Egypt and ancient Assyria to dig from i i cum ip of Orleans, the regent, still further impoverlsned thu ruins covered with’ the accumula- land and crushed the people. Louls XV. merrily continued the era of ex- a tions of centuries works of art and travagance and oppression. That any nation should endure such treatment : in amazing, But France had, for many centuries, been {mb monarchy {dea, and 60 deeply rooted a belief wan hard to shake were already mutterings of a change, and Louis XV. so clearly final uprising that in discussing the future he was wont to say carclessl} It will last out my time, But I pity my grandson Nor was his pity wasted. For by the time that same grani x XVI. came to the throne in 1774 the 1 <The Woman Whoo) almost ripe for the explosic i j shake the whole w Wrecked a Kingdom. 2 might have been r AS SARE LOFT nd some such idea a the King) But Marte Antoinette quickly undid all the litt band was trying to accomplish, and hurried forward the as a redoubled burden would hasten the fall of a ured horse @ Marie Antoinette was the youngest daughter of Maris Theresa of Arse tria. In 1770, when not yet fifteen, sue was married to Louis the Dauphin it 7 (Crown Prince) of France, who was only a year her senior. Fi } the Dauphin became King under the ttle of Louls } simple, temperate fellow, but pig-headed, stupid, iguor: Atitoinette herself was frivolous, pleasure-loving as orant as a firm believer in the divine right of kings and with or knowledge concerning the welfare of the people. earlier helped her husband, Charles L,, to lose his throne an¢ aging him In his belfef in the’divine right of kings and in irnoring other tokens of the state of civiliza- tion in those days. Of these the most interesting are _Not in the prominent halls of the museum Ike those which display ‘he statuary, the carved and fluted columns, the marbles, bowls and foun- | tains and the other results of the sculptors’.and carvers’ art in those days, fut in a side room, as if they were of little significance or value, are the | relics that tell of how the little Greeks and Romans, centuries beforé the | Christian era, before the time of the Caesars, before the Roman Empire, ‘played and what they played with. "~~ The little girls who lived three thousand years ago had dolls and ‘houses. The dolls had-not curly artificial hair and they did not wear Even O82. the peo A ple’s rights, so Marte Antoinette now progeedel to ruin Louis XV. and her- self by the same means. se Her spendthrift ways, her frivolity and vanity, her di d for royal dignity, her alleged misdeeds, her contempt for the plain 4 all these oe speedily made her everywhere unpopular, Austria rival and Marie Antoinette was more than suspected of being a spy and secret helper of that country at France's expense. While the poor were year yree and worse treated by the nobles (who regarded them as e an 4 the Queen and her courtiers spent more and more of the hard-wre son diss{pation. When she was told that the peasants were dying lack of bread Marie Antoinette asked !n amused wonder: “Then, why don’t they eat cake?” Affairs went from bad to worse. Louis had come vague {deas about the people's rights, but his wife quicly argued or laughed him out of them. The public treasury was empty. A wise financler named Necker was hired to fill it. He began by lopping off useless royn! expenditures and by taxing the rich nobles who had hitherto been exempt from all assessments. This pro- ceeding was too sane to find favor at court. Marie Antoinette made the King get rid of Necker and to employ in his place one of her own favoritrs, Calonne by name. who made her very happy by borrowing large suma_of money for-her-and-her friends to waste. This completed the financial ruin and broke the-jas* straw of public endurance. The Ametican Revolution had fired the Frenchmen’s b Roman and Greek boys played with lead soldiers-very rts with ideas uch ‘like the tin soldiers that come in boxes now from the south of = : - —=—=—[= of freedom. In July of 1789 a mob tore down the royal prinon. the Di ‘Germany. Only instead of the rifles and cannon with which the modern z : “y —Citigens flew to arms and formod a strong ‘Soldier is equipped the armament of the little Roman boy's toy soldiers Kellen f Whe Neneanee of} pretending sone alight taterest In paviic wel i e interest in public we consisted of shields and short swords, like those with which the Roman ._the Plain People. | fare, but the sham came too late and no one Ww: decetved by it. Renewed bl meddling on her part drove the Parisians to frenzy. The p ie awake and cxacting terrible payment on the nobles for centuries of II (reat- ps ment. The mob stormed the palace at Versailles in October, 1789. and ca he Size of Her Foot. we Cad see wt By Nixola Greeley Smith. rled the royal family to Paris, where they were virtually held as prisoners. - ; Meantime, nobles were arrested and executed by the hundreds. Louls might diers carved ‘out an: empire. There were toy animals like those in a modern Noah's Ark, hollow tlay pigs like those the children to-day use for savings banks, toy birds horses, bears, cows and even elephants. There was toy furiture| ‘keep house with, sofas made of crockery clay and chairs and beds of ‘thé old Roman style. x i In the thousands of years since these children grew up and died, Bince the roofs over them fell and the walls crumbled, the theory. of Teligion has changed, the structure of government has -changed, inven. ‘tions have destroyed old industries and created new ones, ‘but the na-, ‘ture of ‘the child remains the same. _ ae So far back as the record of mankind goes children have had the! fame primitive instincts, the same likes and dislikes, The week-old} ,: 7 y. n ‘e a pplemen on HAT {e the strongest hu oh? Love, eay the; Personal vanity, Put such i@ the Western city’s comle supplement reputat n : : ouls mi Nentimentalists {a chorus, Bat they are wrong. (in the mattec of font that I think the weakest and least vain of Chicago women | Yet have made peace, but Marie Antoinette ura e with her and ‘There is a passion stronger than love—much | would be. perfectly justified in any measures she might take to establish the their childrei across the frontier. In June, ‘ ed from Parts, “otiger—etnce, when It fs mortally wounded, love also dice, | smallness of her peripatetic extremities ones they were aspersed, aaa wala abroughy: backs Aster ghacthere was ge Ga Sf si a pas be eee ger :s ‘ i r pn, Ww jorrors of bloodshed an bis passion ls Vanity. The latest manifesta of the} The admiration and striving for very small fe r, one that I have D s he { 1 ment feeling 1s that of Mra. Kilmovics, of Chicago. |mever been able to understand. It seems to me the possession of feet noticeably | blind feroaityy puree over the land 1B August, a the King and Queen When another woman had Klimovics arreste! for pursulng | too amall is just a iitthe’ bit better than having them visibly jarge, Why should were formally deposed and pent to prison, and in January, 1783, Louis was prove that whe waa not ua Wife, as he claimed, |~we want cur feet out of proportion any more than our heads or shoulders? | DUt to death. The poor, simple King owed hts fate more to his than vt whe could get both her feot In one of the reul| But we do, We often find that even a hard-headed business man is vain of his| tO a other PenAaeaee Aacle Antoteet x Ee viex's shows, tne latter lady, who had heen hid- | feet if they happen to be small and shapely. And there are even foolish men 4 in eet 1b of be heared! Marie Antofnette was tried and condemned, usband for years, came out of concealment | who from thelr vanity wear shoes too umall for them, an nee By was poled ee SCAT aE i elty and proclatmed her WMentity that the as-| Women have grown more sensible In the matter of sh and sizes every This unlucky Queen a8 nage a! ternately prats das a martyr and cursed her feet might be removed. When ft was ¢ year, but this senson's revival of the shapely, pointed toe may prove that the Late fend, She was nelther Merely a vain. heartless, sem{-vicious, foolish z the satisfaction of every one tliat she wore | strong passion of vanity has again gotten tha better of them. Agente Pe Hecate! yaeunnerstand pnd {00 1Hs feeling: igieasl for & ‘a Tir 7s ‘ ‘ony ve. S. Kimovicy weat triumphantiy tack to her By aturatiy tay feet give a cWworian of any stro a Tudtcrone walk thet} the conditlo ple... She and her husband were. not.Ot.te rules. baby can grasp a stick with his toes, as the tree baby could hold onto al retirement, lenving her husband and the otlier wornan to Might 1 out. appenines ne nina out of Chinatown, But a woman itke Mrs. Yellmovics, with | Nursery. Small wonder that they falled In mastering the tremendous prob- i branch by his feet. A baby’s fingers clutch in a stronger grip in pro-| Had tha Incident happened tn any other city than Chicago it might he re-| feet of @ moferate size, ts entirely Justified in vindicating them from the torr\- lens op ea ax piel trcab led dest Mes ay erences) Auer tailed) end tie yee B * portion to his weight than do his garded as contriuting to the general evidence of woman's strongly developed | ble charge of being twice as big as another woman's. By George Hopf} Concy Island in the Olden Times. | soles of his feet together. When "he first appears in the world he is ~By J. Alexander Patten. j 2 : se ONEY ISLAND has a history that may be revived to the edification of the covered over with fuzzy hair, like aaa a C Mardl Gras qultitude, As an old New Yorker I knew it undér veey , his arboreal prototype. Back eee es os different, physical and social conditions from: that of to-day. | : s9 "i The fashionable old families of New York went to the Pavillon-at— a Children’s songs and game: Vn ot ay LR SHe says. 34 — mi Rockaway. The hotel stood facing the ocean with the grand beach and the tit » taye come down through the end- YZ r MR.BONDS SHOULD “a i rolling surf before {t, and there was nothing of the modern Rockaway about ft. Z el 1 : BRIN i and thee was all the exclusiveneas of Saratoga. I was down there on a Fourt® pe cn The Mother Goose LEAVE DEM HE G HER GRIPS of July and we had at dinner Maj.-tien, Winfield Scott-and the best Knicker are older than the Englis bocker families of New York. » lage. The eni, meene, mini Coney Island had a_fine beach and surf, but no-sreat hotel, and there was” wno is a jumble Handed down’ from a clara bake place on Norton’s Point that wax the resort of New York rowd eu and pickpockets. A steamboat ran down there, and the bathing and ciams were, oP the Greeks, if not of earlier de- fcent. The same children’s tales attractive, but you had.to run the risk of having your pocket picked on the boat.” Most of the peovlo sho went to ‘Coney Island wers from Brooklyn. It was, a splendid drive down there, elther by way of Bay Ridge, Fort Ham{‘ton, Rath “are found in the ancient Chinese records, in the Indian-vedas, the Assyt- (now. Bensonhurst), New Utrecht. or through Flatbush. Ether of these routes. {an inscriptions, the Egyptian papyrus and the Greek and Roman tablets. The changes in mankind have come after the years of childhood. The child's instincts are purely primitive. The boy's desire to hunt is VLL TAKE CARE struck a beautiful broad shell road, made of the shells of the shore. The rong ended at the ocean. Prospecc Park and the great boulevards cover this section to-day, I used to.ride in a buggy or on horseback over roads Itned with fine trere, bordering on farms of men who became wealthy an the city of Brooklyn grasped Thousands of years old. His instinct to slay is descended from the time Hale Aes Miespcreer: and St Ne ace OE Venn TORS SOL aL S aeTS Nolet eat ' oi is qi fs “i *. eae i the far-extending grand surf of the Atlantic. It was Coney Island, then in ite b when it was imperative to kill wild animals for food. His impulse for primitive glory, No-w Jt has the splendors of {te amusemoat parks and @ spirit "hide and seek. goes back to the same origin. Little girts always had of gayety that subjects all who go there 4o its fascination and control, but tn . nae i sd the old days It was the grand ocean that rolled In therm that people went to sea, | = dolls. Eve's daughter must have played with them. The sex maternal to-plunge Into and talk about with the nerve that came from the new life tt BINGLE To iT! Come. gavb, as tt dos now an far as {t can In {ts confined eqndittons, Instinct shows itself in early childhood. : f ON, DE GuY¥ IN DE In the winter time in New York and Brooklyn.it wits the custom to make And how tittle man, has changed either in appetites, rapacity, cour- p } : BOX 1$ BRLOON- partion of young people tn neighborhoods for sleigh rides. One of the places | "age, cowardice, virtue or vice needs no British Museum collection to tell. 20-14! ING! YAH! ace: Visited for @ midnigh: supper waa the singte hotel risht.on’ the oosan by the a 5 o ~ shell road at Coney Island. There was a ride in the nipping alr, for winters ay but the alr was Allied with mirth. @ dance and supper, and then ca were colder then than no At Coney Island there wi Brooklyn or New Yori, A Random Dictionary. By Helen Vail Wallace. por -A multiform giant infant. jaughter and song. ne the ride hacx te _. Letters {rom the People. — WWIN] Be Paid as Usual Thin Year. of the Untted Sta fo the Editor of The Byening World | myseit on - Kindly tet me know whether the all other | aiion in regard’ tc P wnoney that !s annually given to the |¢ral and New York Sate governme itn hy the cily will be granted to [that an ndopted citizen whould kno them this year, The non-payment of | What pubiloation will hel @his money has cuused considerable Where anit Jangiety to the bllnd, and rather than natin pe in thin state of suspense 1 w MIGRANT, ptarig this inaitens: 105. B. BARLE No Such Vablic Fand. { * and wish to post he form of goYernmer x PUBLIC OFFICIALS—Nurses for the Infa me to ob- ST—A person who cultivates » solemn exprossicn of counte r to counteract death from over-expomure to mirth. yx near owledge that “toy cometh tn the morn); fclous blending of Joy and norrow™ three-fourtha BORROW-A certain NORMALITY—A Ju to. Ku Clara—I'm going to break off my en- “NVhat's this pecullar , Instrument?” Fora allroad Job. he Evening World Mao GRNAB OHS Toure at a ‘ ‘ ; EAhor of The Evening World ‘ pecan AUB nce ae RM = = aaa sts = — ANTICIPATION—The ‘only reallty, Bee oe the Edttor 0} ve © * oul borrow from to pay £ 5 + rs q ‘ TNE mething’ that positively exists In every “himan helng, «Kindly Jet me know where to apply on in a achool for one year NOT THE REAL THING | Advice From the King. A NEED SUPPLIED, AGN RAEN Es f : | For position on Pennsylvania Railroad RAMA Py A pS yx a Londo brakeman or firemen, awk what are ri agement with ‘Ton: And 1 do not! ING EVWARD’ vice Im sought on numerous mat inquired the ‘visitor, APOLOG ‘ p 2 : liad the necessary uatifeations for auch. rth tnenia nie | papers) ‘The future career of a non, the selection of « resiment. It a] Ueslled tats EXPLANATION~A. highly evohited. Intolligent ' enue t Rees iGenersl’ Superintendent ot |"? ‘the Editor of The Evening World: SHG MACeALAVHEN TAA youlmnake military, profession be decided upon, the prospective. marriage of aja tate kn We've ju NOY—An Inconrplete specimen of the adult seus homo, who longs ardentty, i rah ad Titroad N.Y. Division, | _Sindly me where in Ni | daughter, the dil s betweon a huaband and wife, the Inheritance of 20+ @ large order for ChicaKo,"’ to complete: himself cn deaxert. y eae Cite, NS, Tork a school in. w earthy owt rid. | adopted heir, the ch \f n personal sta for a servant of the crown, are alll put what's the idea in the ralsed peony ai boy, RPE SEY Abaathat lean eime ie 2 they teach shorthand and typewrit " rub, on which tie vounsel King has been. fr tly wought, while ptade?" OWL—The. forest magician, A bird of abnor: ehectvation stha “Ge to the Nekrest Public Library, | {l<} TP ew tt ing with another girl and I didn’t feel *b) nA wich (io counsel of the King has n. frequently #ought, rim all around tho blade? i AT K f "Mo the Waitor of the Bvaning World: nA RH Pine aay Schools ‘Aa.| like pulling hee Lair Ur scratching her !n Matera of art, of sport and even of science, his Judsment hes been on} ‘muat's to keep peas and things from] !0™ YOu with Its eyes while you repeatedly walk in a circle, uid does. this i 3 ‘Eoucation, i oyes out at all—Chicage News. without oringicg ite pwn neck, | Heep ait \ 5 x + cade le : ae ta