The evening world. Newspaper, November 22, 1918, Page 20

Paitin hots 1918 aaa 3 aS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1918 , Palace of Versailles Gives the Splendor of Louis XIV. reiter SS TE as Historic Stage Setting for Where the World’s Peace Will Be Settled — THE SOUL-MATES a ( O HISTORIC PALACE OF VERSAILLES, BUILT BY LOUIS XIV.—CHAMBERS OCCUPIED BY THAT By Nixola Greeley-Smith , : World P eace nference MONARCH, BY NAPOLEON AND THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE AND ly ‘ some “Dul-mates aro married! \ ny Though the term has been limited recently to tho association =~ ‘ : aaa hu BY QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE. of tho uawedded, the institution of matrimony has not escaped 16 Built by the French King at a Cost Estimated as) share of thes humorless individuals, $280,000,000, This Veritable Monument to Mag- | Kew men volunteer for the jg of soul-mate, most of them being con- } nifivence Which Once Witnessed the Crowning sabes MALL the overwesning sentimental a ‘ of William I. as Emperor of Germany Now Will || it I were @ man 1 ehould prefer to endure every A See the Last Act in the Chaiin of Events Which a torture known to ancient Chinese justice rather than’ i Led to the Uncrowning of Wilhelm I. the all-too-lavish love of a woman with no sense of humor and apparently no knowledge of decorum. From! oH EXT month, in the Gallery of Mirrora in dhe Palace of Versailies, the | i _ Wives who hold hands in public, who speak with their r dominant democracies of the world will dictate terms of peace to Pa « : eyes things they might be arrested for saying, who in-, % vanquished autocrac troduce the manners of the harem into restaurants and ©) * Jn the same room in which William I. was crowned Emperor of the drawing rooms, good Lord, deliver men! , Lives there a man with soul 6o dead to the opinion nhowtaaatymm of his fellows as not to writhe when subjected to publie manifestations of wifely emotion? I do not believe so. jut very often he cannot help himself. For in the middle of @ con. | Versation with a woman guest on some neutral subject like the operation | Of the Liberty motor or the wireless direction of aeroplanes, his anxious 4 Gernn ‘ns, representatives of the free nations ill participate in the great Bi @t Parco Conference ever held on earth, Free France was born of the i triumph of the firet Kaiser over the corrupt and incompetent armies of H] Napotpo, the Little. And a fre rmany wilf be born from the ignominy and defeat brought upon her by William the Mbuntebank Mi Alreat'y the tap, tap, tap of spectre canes and tho delicate flutter of : phanton: f4ns may be beard in the great ropm where the courtiers of the | soul-mate is sure to come up, ruffle his hair, pat him on the shoulder and D8 Bon King, 1 ouls XIV., gathered to help Mme, de Maintenon and the more beehives aha Suggest that he's so tired, _boor darling, from his long day ‘1 y 4ve vho prece pr in the task she once described as ,at the office that he can hardly keep ee —_ WB interesting qvomen who preceded her in task she once describe an you, dear?” For|being the gods created for bis de- | his eyes open “trying to am use An unamusable King.” To be sun the ghosts of Versailles must be rather accustomed to the favasions of democracy by this time. For the elections of the Frencn Presidents are ,held in the great chateau which housed once upon a time Pdhe glories of the world’s greatest court. And for a number of years sev DB eral departments of the French Gavernment had offices there. It was only When it was discavered that, becarsse of a Jack of telephone communication between the buildiings in the historic park, the big Trianon might burn PE down without the Kittle Trianon kriowing anything about ft and the chateau P} tteeit go up in smoke witout being able to summon a sirsie fire engine that | Nght, . Another peculiarity of soul-mates ~ Js that {n marriage as well as out of it y @ short tipe, I shall never forget being taken to on two extreme specimens of the~ 7 type who must have bedarlinged each other their affinity lasts on ast fifty times apiece in the course of an hour's visit. In this case the wife was a poet, some of ire preventian rules were put rs iste, And rather than obey then {dozens unde c,the strain of the ena the Government officals gathered up | ‘)** Tih i 4 Pe cskinan Bi their forces and moved dack to Paris. | qiod in the King’ service his family The Hall of Mirrors, where the | recelved $2.5 i " “ When the palace was finally fin- Peace Conference willl hold ite sca. | ain the Magnificent’ pro- sions, in 242 feet long and 33 fot} nounced t too small and the great wide and measures 43 fect from floor | southern wing waa added. Toward to ceiling. On one side of it seven- the close of thia Louis's reign, Ver- > look out upon the | S#illes was practically a great gaim- sn igh demoted bling hall. Tho old King was always stilted artificial gardens which wero]: his dovotians and the courticr. designed by Le Notre under the per- | sought to palliate their utter boredon XIV. On| by Bixh play, Sometimes hundreds of version of another } sonal supervision of Louis thousand of dollars changed hands VERSAILLES n ; i n poem, mer picked her up the other side of the gallery seven |i, a singie evening, and outalde the aa p Litt ong: oO) tek ges }teen large mirrors reflect the wre Hgeunoent padace the people wer. i ; ; a5 “2 i ae ase ceaetreaommanes - . i 2 05 Has m aA balay she as bane 4 of the statety room. Paintings | starving, i" vag " 4 § voriously all evening and carrie i rove ‘ating scence in the life of| “Hite and there through the flelda,” whenever the unfortunate masculine | lier over to the piano amid applause’ my pepreseating t the | Wrote La Bruyero in 1689, “one neon iron' tie MAMIE Gueith Louls the Magnificent ornament the) tain ferociaus animals, male and , admiring gueste, celling sides and every available va- \ female, black, vid and sunburnt, at- { © Barksdales are what T call genuine affinit ns under the whose songs had been set to music, Have you heard Elizabeth's latest huyband would ask, and ¢ you had time to answer would begin to recite it—with all the more ause the “heaven-bor she apostrophized was wo ously intended for himself. abeth being finally persuaded to + THe: ery ey or half of the soul-mate combination {s seen to exchange ten we s with an- ror. tached sto the soll in which thoy dig : 8. ‘They are perfoct~ J cesar net Sites Oy 0 a lena Mee with lavinchia weruiee, } other woman his hovering and sus-|1y mated in every way,” confided the If only these glittering mIFTOTe | They hawe a kind of articulate speech, 4 picious partner finds it necessary to! friend who took me to t r fr could tell the stories that have been ang whon they rise up from their i id z ' + ho took me to the poetig x Oe oS |assert her ow! publicly and | seance, brand him with the brand | “How lovely for them,” T observed It has alwaya seemed to me singu-|*cerely, “but don't you think they might be less public about it?” lar that women who believe they have! ‘Their admirer looked pained. It > reflected in them, what startling tales work, they. Lin! human faces, and fi ‘i intrigue | they belong, in fact, to mankind, At of love and jealousy and eu? night thoy ‘craw! away into hovels, might be unfolded, where thpy live on black bread, water > It was to dazzlo the gentlo blue! and root}. They relieve other men of | eyes of Louise de In Vaillere that the | the toll of plonehing, sowing and har- o oat | Vesting and thus seem to merit a lit- Sun King boca many of the great | tle of the bread which they have pro- est glories his stately pleasure! §14¢. hours. And when he was tired of) ‘These words were little short | Gaztling hr she retired to a convent treason in the days of the great King and the haughty, bad-tempered aris- | Reading OW, Gin amnehae tecratic Madame de Montespan| wondering) If among the ghosts of gal reigned in her place, To supervise | lant gentibmen in high red heels and the education of the children born to| powdered Jadies simpering behind | her and the King, the lovely Montes-| painted fans who will gather during pan the poor wi of. the seq Conference the spectros oF poet Boarron, ‘a pious bluestocking | these black aanbarnt oedate born Francoise Daubigne,| may not stalk trumphant, At any Gaunhter of a Huguenot pleman we Know that they not trie The letters of this poor widow, who | umphant was. for many years the de facto goverei¢n of France and whom La XIV. actually married in his old ag int an interesting pictui of life at ersailles, In one of them Madame de Maintenon tells meekly of an un Just accusation by Madame de Mon tewpan that she was trying to sup it her us the ing’s miatross. "Then the King has three 1 in- Tr of this sqdate » Montespan FS found thelr soul-mates are so subject | was obvious that she regretted having’ wo to jealousy, Af ntroduced the serpent of criticigna’ into that blissful Eden, Naturally a month later 1 said “How are the Barksdales’ “Separated!” sho replied, “Spas with the eternal | rated! all, if aman we selected for you when the morn nen T met stars were cutting their first teeth, why worry?) What mer mortal fe- male can interf nd this time I believe it's o ‘(- Oh, yes, this is not the, yeth's very tem- decree? k Soul-mates are ever so much more rst blow-up, EK jealous than mere everyday wives Le aaa my OR Foe ne won't let illett support her, and yet eve while rejoicing in the fact that ¥ sel ( : . little while she Kets perfectly furious } y and their husbands met, do net, au © doesn't, ‘That's a common as a rule, classify the event as among | feminist trick, I’m go glad I haven't th an natural phenomena of| & soul-mate,” she added joyfully. he captive male sc Just an ordinary every day business the 1 | mate also manifests the interest of a | man, and the finest husband in the world!” sation of the one | 1 thought she was right, Central OMice detective in the moy {ments and con <etosee-tieetanaonmnnesanremnaieceniantt--acuaticinesasilll World War Cost More i in ‘Four Years | Than All Wars of 3,000 Years Combined | in fact, and you in ‘That letter does not tell who that girl was, but it all sounds startingly like a modern quarrel between women rivals, does it not? Life at } Versailles was freest during the reigns of Louis's earlier loves. | Staggering Total of $200,000,000,000 Paralleled by Cost in Human Lives Fron Equal to Total repeanem of Greater New York. Madame de Maintenon was deemy feligious, and her only coficern way » King’s soul, whic was abl Versailles cost Louis XIV. Sir x Mira said it cost $: , Volney nelusive from the the war's cost (E malady of prince fed, 1,480,000; wounded, 4,« LAMUS | 000,000; prisoners, 490,000; fate un- itt known, 260,000 * first four years of the war ) was mounted to] ca WO hundred billions (more tm ively written 100,000, tae ou a the 1 1st nd th " 4000, a daily cost to ail bal- | will by expensive as time goes) British casualties, officially ans take your c' ¢ the < . ? a rn nced | M i Fras himaclt frighten ‘he xa galnap v $116,740,600 ons 4 jnounced last Monday, were 3,049,991, was himself frightened when he saw eNacek in? Ey, Oe tha WO nary War Is est If as a matter of calculation one! Of this number, 658,665 were kille Bee Waid aver kaa wh ; as 1 A gigantic sum 1 nex cost about $2,000,000,000. | would care to Know how many past| more than 3,000,000 were wounde “During the reign y on @ war of less than |The cost of the Civil War oe than | Ware are necessary in the mak ainkiee, intuiee Ee . ur n, In the story ort loubled the outlay of America in win vat two hundred i cent’s predec Man, whore greatest extray nce beginning a thousand | "ng her independence, The Adm:iis b in the total losses of falconry and who put rings on ging Peaaal ’ : ? beet 9 » the Bits of his favorite falcons In the birth of Christ up| {ration at Washington was thund tl ; stimated at 83,368 in the mo: stead of reserving them for human ; usso-Japanese War in 1905 {truck and warped under the st nc i world’s om fa Afi tha ya Ane Birds of prey, Vorsailien wan just s Pi Sil sae ———————— |, js doubtful if a monumental total | When it learned that five bitlions had ted wars,” beginning with tbe! 4 month's casualties among Am hunting preserve through which r boise") + How We Learned to Fight Fire ‘ce al peth, along which cattle wer : been spent in the preservation of tne} Trojan war in 1198 B,C HP to Me cans are still to be published. Th comparingn to tt o Bains) Among the Russians casualties total t numbers thirty-seven f the past that hav | about 6, 0,000, ict it totalled a casualty list ¢ Paris to he ateh hed : . 1 a ‘ sii 494,000 out of 91,600 1 total cost of the wars While hunting, Loule XIIl. w agit HEN you lern fire calla fire department {@ also found i | dies 1 times, It was the custom in] t of as gigantic entor. | 1900) aut of sapere arcing beotal Mm: nas shod her in @ rains and took refuse | engine rucing through. the| Ione A disastrous fire oceurring| many of the towns to } 1 watch: | fighting might that makes | Casased in | D the} casualty ic ie he pated: winds so } Kded to build hitn- | r ringing, within the reign of Augustus called his | man oned on @ high building | right are puny in comparison to the | arm between " - . jour | Hat they exceed those of the self a Jest i“ His a the fl € on and the po-lattention to the benefit re 1 luty it was to lsok for fires. | war of 1914-4918, Comparing the ag-| France cont $6,251 wae i sheen e a | British. When ofticlal igure visers protested at the project and |1 the t hi eare’ war bewween Fra n of the actual co th lgures a6 com- leer <Grolenind ab tee prolset Ne ring you 6 1\ fire brigade would brin So he or-|As soon as he saw one, he gave/ gregate tot of the pres-| ¥ 4 rat piled of t 8 of Belgium, Ital Pip when one of the friendlier notg. | remembe as taken man a|ganiaed @ fire department, It | warning by blowing a Wi firing &lent war w he wars between the| #l@ (1812-1815) cost $45 present war and leaves a balan Austria, Turkey and the lessor nations Dles exclaimed: “Shall we preveit|!0 to mn a8 much as tw | sisted of seven companies of a t un, or 3 ng a bell, period: Napoleon's ambition, tnvolving Eing= | $175,000,000, king the thirty-seven | © aia, eee " jong ee < a | : " 2 yetw the perte of ll a a J a Te: iber of the King from building as simpiy as | bas ut fighting fire, sand Men each, | The first London tire department! tistics show t at $23.3 .240,/Jand, Scandinavia, 1% Austria, | Wars betw 1 ! 138 48, a ithe number | the most modest gentleman of h No sooner did tnan learn to make | The first real fire engines were sisted of ten men of each ward. In other words, the most important| Russia and Italy, ©, and 177 and dividing them into anh t by bi may aggregate five (i eet Sa eesitine heen fire than he found it necessary to| used in 1638 at a big fire on London! The first municipal American Are} aie ah $2,000,000,000, while , ye balance of $ 1,000,000 Ted , | Mon—perhaps hundreds d 80 alles began, Tpaiea GRRUe Th Se ih ONL | pric The firs py »p. was created in Boston in| ®ars during chart “4 rbou and ah i. | S4N¢dS more—a cost in ‘human Uf Rhy t i) not il 1651, when : balk “ pu i ul. 4 The first fire hi was ine | ery fire engine was a hand| less than one-ei of what was! sian conflict involved tur | rgin ; i) ; , ; A eavat’is enacataltemniine a8 . Louis the e fir re apparatus of record Is by the two Van der Heydes in| jum bought in Mngland i © overthrow Prussian autoc-|of over two and a half billion, In| lien with which to conduct thems bu total population of Greui- + unting pent oe er} 8 Sune found in Rome, The Gauls burned One of the earliest engines} The first leather fire hose was made aiby 1898 the cost of war wed indica-|for them to have actually cost that|er New York. plendors were ey ; my oy, 98 the cost of we e 1'c j 4 ve elty in 890 B. C., each citize . ank ¢ »y|in America in 1808 in Philadelphia 3 —_— = The is had ns oS aay oitine was) used consisted Of & tank drawn By | In tence. wae Aret ode in Bae: | During all this timo (11981906) | tone of edvancing, and one yenr's| much | have made him jordered to keep in his house a “ma-|two horses, which threw a stream an| ! Fe *t 1820. RaSh oe tal , "i <a rar n-| warfare between the United States) Yet in ost in 2RO IN ¢ TsHr. oudway as a regular mine for extinguishing fire.” 1s | inc ameter to a height of eighty | "4, en aa Saetae © TANAALOF MEARS ANY SOIRSOR OSS Bie | Wale” ' oa ‘i Vrom the Birming a cert hale Hag 1 6,000 t ‘ 4 Tals] inch 4a diameter to a height of elghty |“ (rrom “The Book of Wonders.”) gaged and the actual loss of tte} and Spain cost $1,165 00( tuss.a's | actual w Birmingham Age-Tterald,) thousand wor rand 6, onsisted of @ syringe, feet, An improved engine was tn- : ear land Japan’ ment in 19014| direct computation value in loss Why did you cut short your vacas were put fo work cre alr # the gr t| ‘The first record of an actual ma-| vented in 1721 by Newsham of. Lon pro amounted to 5,098,097, Compared to| and ops a's mane in Metre ease caluktion pauic Aten Lt he delegates of democracy ere to a ne putting by Hero|don, and the first engine used in the; (From the D the present casualties they seem | amounted to 00, | : stp detained ier gusted bemble next month. The task took a lof Alexandria. This contrivance, A) United States was mate by News-|, It certainly wasn't polite of us to] rather insignificant, for Russia's es An interval of nine years passed | Snare TET SNe FELT Jong time, In 1655 a courtier wrote i hon used in conflag was!ham, The first steam fire engine was | KeeP, Our Bat on and smoge in tho! inated casualties alone amounted to| without any further conflicts of seri- p to . h Proposed to a girl on the beach fermier: There £r¢ more than 96.000 | 444 in | hundred and| invented by John Braithwaite of or about Versailles, These half-clad | Mfty ¥ | don, in 1829, F ons hal{-mtarved wiciches die by ihe | The first record of what we would! Fire alarms came ijato use in me- | made a Germans amdunted to 6,380,000, ae>| one night srding to the Berlin newspaper Vor- | ferred Smo! Ww: and when I casually re- it next day she said, ‘Desr vow? 6,000,000, not counting the losses of |ous consequence between the nations, Hate” signe, wo we other nation In the present wa’ until 1914, It was evident that the cost | yal i ue dough our of iy enyway, 07,112,650 wore engaged i tbe strug. of war had been gradually wolng up, waeris, Thoy were divided as fois ‘ ? \ rennin a ana Aer an