9//eM4s£xrmrm£/9Ae marriage of Prince Vp —Victor Napoleon to Prln -112 UIU * a " royal alliance" Jhi|« planned with the utmost 1 ( * solicitude along the most ancient lines of kingcraft , ( Ar marks the supreme en- | deavor of the Bonaparte j L family to preserve from extinction the race of the great conqueror of Europe, Napoleon I. , It is the latest, the most widely dis cussed gamble of a family against fate, and the rescuer, If there be one, will be a woman. The chances of a male heir are fair- i ly good—simply the chances which of- i fer to average humanity—and it Is therefore likely that the Napoleonic i line will be preserved, for the time at least. But the chaises that it will goon ' for all time are simply nil, notwith standing the famous example of the Gueiphs, of England, where descent : from the only and original King David of the Jews has been claimed by en- . thusiaatic partisans 01° the theory of the right divine. ! Nature, laboring Incessantly toward the attainment of one common level, seer.:.l to take delight in frustrating the changeless ambition of her favored child. Man, among all creatures long ing for the perpetuation of Ills direct breed, seems ever doomed to see it disappear, inglorious and unknown, among the herd. Tho Napoleonic line is in no des- j perate strait; yet it Is apparently pre! .ired, after only a few common- 1 - place generations, to pass away in the : same manner as did dynasties founded by conquerors as great as the tirst Bonaparte. .The largo majority seemed 1 to tail sooner or later, both morally ' and physically, until like a wornout 1 tree the race was either totally ex- j , tinct or persisted only in scions that were integrally part of another alien stock. Royalty, proceeding on the buries Que basis that the Almighty has cre ated its bones, muscles, flesh, blood and brain of peculiar virtue, especial- \ ly adapted to the bossing of things, j Inevitably deduced that, unless it 1 should mate with a similar breed of boss stock, It would degenerate into the stock divinely doomed to be | bossed. Napoleon's family, when be went | where conquerors go finally, was nu- < tnerous enough, as families go, to 1 promise perpetuity. But marriage with them was limited to other ami older •ml royal lines, most of which had an ax out for a llonaparte whenever he came around smelling of orangu blos soms, As the French republic braced up, and more and more emphatically : made It upparent that all royalty there lacks so much as an inch of ground lo stand on.the opportunities lor royal matches deceased with the Bona partes, and the royal scions became fewer. Counting Victor Napoleon, there are enumerated now ottly a half-score re malnlng with marriage unpopular on the part of the males, for dynastic rea | sons sufficiently obvious Victor, able to ally himself with the daughter of a house still reigning. Is lite hope of the family for an heir who, when Victor shall have died, can continue the claim tw the ghastly throne so grandly seiied by Napoleou I This summer witnessed auothcr mar rl*K< In which a laiuuus lamlly seems to tread the road to swift •*x111»< lion Prime Autolne Albert Kadsiwill, of J'oland had his Hay and Isiroihy t>ea oos IS bis bride, (in both shies of the match there Is insanity, the prime's father Having bet n an ordinary lu astir for the past seven years, aad his bride's father dying Insaue af»«r t>« liltied lu a duel at Cannes a guest of his wife In I'arls The luuat famous of all lines In his tury *aa that of the < *srs, with the fesfuh haute of Juliu looming as Its hi .1 tiuMplcuuua lusuitni The Caesar line proper ended right there with "Et tu, Brute" for Its epi taph. But things being ripe for the bossing of Rome, his grandnephew, Octavius, took charge, and, after him, Tiberius, who was simply a stepson of Octavius. A dozen Roman emperors called themselves Caesar, and the magic of the name rules down even to this day as synonym for emperor in the title of Kaiser Wilhelm. But there never was a genuine dynasty of that name, because it began In the person of Ju lius B. C. 44, in the same person, when Brutus, Casslus and nearly fourscore assistant surgeons performed their fa mous Caesarian operation on him. The line of the Caesars is, in reality, Dem ocracy's farce of the right divine. The Capets, who managed to keep their grip on France for several cen turies, began their rulershlp in the regular way, with one especially husky ancestor—in their case, Robert the Strong, a Saxon to whom Charles the Bald gave the duchy of the lie de France lu 861. They went Into the king business in yB7, when the nobles reached the conclusion that the Caro lingian blood in France was about played out, the only male survivor be-! ing Charles, duke of Lorraine, whom j those red-handed, two-listed fighters regarded as a milksop. Hugh Capet, having bossed Paris and its last Caro- j lingiau king, Ixmls V., appealed to ua ua being about the size of the ; man thay all needed, to boss them, j for he had all the nerve and brawn j of Robert the Strong, his Saxon an cestor. It was evidently a hearty, healthy breed; but three and a half centuries ! sufficed to bring It down to Charles 1 the Fair —Charles IV.—the last of sev- j era! Capet kings all curseu with in- I capacity and weakness. After half a \ dozeu years of reigning, the fair Charles llickered out, In 1824, and that ended the Capets. The funny part of this king making was that, whenever the divine-right principle went to smash. Democracy, i:t the nobles and notables, hastened to get together and give It another try with a fresh breed of royalty—always agreeing on some especially bloody mluded slaughterer as their one best bet. Philip of Valols, who had the temper of a chronic earthquake, was the choice of the French barons, and he started the Valols line, in 1328, un der the title of Philip VI. It took him only nine years to pluuge France into the hundred years' war with England; and It took destiny—or nature —only a couple of centuries to bring the Valols family down to Henry 11 in wbout it llickered out In 1589. The fate of these dynasties la France was paralleled by Innumerable minor houses, there and elsewhere, occasionally, the case of fharleutargne und Uodefroy de Houillou has been matched, as where the famous family IK> la Tour Auvergne caiue to its com- j plete end with the death of an lllegltl . mate scion who, although a mere pri vate in the ranks of France's revolu | tlnnary forces, earned the title of the j ' First Orenadiur of France." Again, when the Rohan family, : whose dukes had been king* of lire- 1 tague, had only Marguerite de Rohan left as Its heir, her husband, Henri Ckibot, was coolly created duke de Rohan, to ke< p the name alive. tiuoffroy de l.usiguau was oue of i the great names in French history and the family tow htch he coutrib uted distinction laded out so uncer taluly that fur years its name wa* the sport of Impudent adveuturvrs who ' professed 10 IK cadets of a house which only th<> w«lt informed of th« nobtlity w«r« positive was totally ea ; unci So too, with the dukes des Kudes who In their day were equals of the earlier Capets; and the tiuises, dating bark to I "h when H*ue lit, oiiquerur of t'fearlt * the Hold and fa titer of Claude, msi t'reueh duke of Guise. presented that taper# duchy tu his s»« son md ending in I<it4 «llh the death of Via nets VII, the CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1910. -» sickly be.by, left by the last maturing ecion, Lcuis Joseph of Guise. The house of the Medici Is generally supposed to amount to little more than the astute Catherine and Marie de Medici, so thrillingly prominent in the annals of European history. The truth is that it follows absolutely the rule of a first, high-powered progenitor and of ultimate descendants fit only for contempt. Salvestro de Medici, a member of the greater guilds in Florence, allied himself with the lesser guilds during the revolt of the Clompi in 1378 and really managed the whole outbreak. The revolt died out, but Salvestro'3 cunning had made him a factor in Florence. Cunning it was that marked all his line; but even that phase of inherited energy lapsed during the centuries un til, on July 9, 1737, the last of them, Giovan-Gaston. ruler of Tuscany, passed away, he and the land he gov erned both wrecks from a succession of profligates and incompetents. In England the story has been much the same as lu France, an excellent ex ample of the perishing royal line be ing the famous Tudors. Henry VII., on ; his father's side, sprang from the mar | riage of a plain Welsh gentleman, ! Owen Tudor, who had the luck to mar : ry Catherine, the widow of Henry V.; | on his mother's side, with the bar sin ! ister marring the decency of his de scent he claimed John of Gaunt as his ancestor. As earl of Kichmond, Bos worth Field, fought in 1485, gave him j the throne, and the Tudor name took its place among that of kings. It van | ished again on March 24, 1603, when Queen Elizabeth, the last of his de scendants, died unmarried at the ago | of seventy. MAKING THE DUMB SPEAK Various Methods by Which the Mutes Are Taught to Utter Many Words. Scripture remarks that the following exercises are typical of those used in the best schools for deaf mutes: Breathing through the nose and mouth ■ are first taught. The teacher breathes j through the nose on a slate or a mir ror and shows the two moist spots; the child learns to imitate this. The mouth breathing produces one spot. The low position of the tongue Is uec essary tor proper speech. It is taught by showing the position and using the mirror, and by a breath exercise. This latter rests upon the fact that the child canuot produce a good siied spot on the slate unless he keeps his tongue down. Tongue gymnastics are next used to Umber up aud train the muscles which hare never received ; the proper development. The tongue | Is protruded, retracted, moved to each j tilde, turned up, etc Tongue training > preparatory to various consonant ; ' sounds Is Introduced. Vibration of ; the vocal cords Is taught by feeling j The pupli puts his hand on the teach- : er's chest and also on his own. He ; thus learns to make a tone He Iwarns j to raise and lower th" voice and by i j cartful drill Is able to make a fairly K(MH) tofif*. Thw i«h>i»iolo#tcal nlphab*t coiuUti ' of a set ur diagram* giving the typical j position of the tongue and Hps for the ; chief Hounds of the language. Coiubl- J nations of consonants and vowels are now read at sight. Through these com ' blnatlons words and sentences are d»- ' i volopml I.lp reading of words and | senium** Is taugh' by having the pa- Ui-ni watt h th> t« *• h.-r's lips while j sht distinctly cumulates some word Thus h» learn* to pick up objects off ' ; a table, tit point out parts of th» body, Ito obey ci'iutiiands, etc \Vh»H deaf ness Is Acquired altt-r the persea has Uisinel to speak. th« t»a>litng of Hp r«o«iin* ihuuM In gin at i>u> < The volt. th«n retain* Its natural iluru'- i rand '!»•» persou can « > rlttht along Aiih li<> i'lo* V-w > ik Feathers in Style MHERE is a growing senti ment agalnßt wearing the plumage of birds, in varie ties where cruelty must be practised to secure it. Women are learning to discriminate in this matter and to forego the wear- j ing of plumage that promises to bring j about the extinction of a species of i beautiful wild birds or to inflict tor ture. A proud crest of dainty feath- j ers torn from the back of a mother bird and the death of a nest full of j fledglings by slow starvation, are not pleasant suggestions to flaunt with the group of sweeping aigrettes upon the head of beauty. For the wearer must be either uninformed, or indif ferent, or unmindful of cruelty. None of the excuses will pass muster with intelligent people. Aside from a very few sorts, the feathers we have worn recently and those we will wear, are made from the plumage of domestic or other edi ble birds. No cruelty Is practised in securing them and thousands of peo ple make a living by manufacturing j the millinery trimmings made of them, j Feather bands, sewed wings, pom pons, breasts and mounted sprays— « MAKES A DAINTY COSTUME I Design That Would Look Well in a Gray Zephyr, Spotted With Blue. Gray zephyr spotted with blue would look pretty carried out In our design. The skirt has a panel front, which Is continued In a deep band at the foot, and has the upper part gathered; it Is also gathered at the waist. A panel l to mutch In taken down b.v k and front, Hi.- sleeves being rut In with j the sides I.awti elattdiue cuff, and | collar add » dalnt) ftnUh ill*) of blue straw, trimmed with net and roues Material Hi-veti 411. 1 one hull yards tephyr So inches wide. ■at W 4/ to (.1* in t »<-• Vokss It instead ui t iking lace > ikta and | ruff I nut if 4res<e» lit ».«»h w hen [ Willi'! it.v »« rubi d with dry; •t ih, tii. i t>r>i*lnd tit* >n ghtv. Hi i* . ill I * Itki t w in fact, a world of airy and attractiye decorations—are cleverly fashioned from the feathers of the turkey, chick en, pigeon, peacock and pheasant. These are bleached, dyed, eaten with acids, pieced and pasted until their | origin is lost sight of. Other birds | of bright plumage, such as the parrot, j and birds like the blackbird and spar row, of which there are myriads, are j used, but they are not cruelly treated, I unless sudden death is cruel. The wearing of a bird upon the hat may be in questionable taste and at present one sees almost no birds, but any amount of plumage. Gradually the wearing of feathers may die out, but the signs of the times do not point that way. More mage is shown now than ever hi .e. Women should learn to discriminate in choosing it, and select those feathers which they may wear with an easy conscience. They are obliged to inform themselves in some states of the Union or run the risk of forfeiting their forbidden property. For laws have been passed j and are enforced to protect certain | birds, and one may not own their j plumage. « JULIA BOTTOMLEY. ! PLEA FOR THE GROWING GIRL Problem of Maternal Management That Is Worth Some Serious Consideration. £kr many older women seem to think that because a girl of from four teen to twenty or so is likely to be callow and sometimes forward and rather ridiculous In her pretentions of ago and dignity she must be contin ually snubbed and"put down." They keep calling her "child" and laugh ing at her opinions and criticisms, and leaving her out of discussion and conversation, until some day they awake with a start to realize that the child is a woman, and a pert and em bittered woman at that. Of course. American girls are no torious for their unpleasant presump tion. and there are many, many things which u girl lu her teens Is not com petent to decide for herself, let alone for others; but there Is no reason why a girl who really Is growing up should be made to feel that she is al ways In the way and must be pat ronized when she is noticed at ail. Give her at least a chance to feel that she Is one of the family and that she is a step abovo the children in the nursery, whom she Is likely so to despise. Here, as elsewhere, "you will go must safely In the middle," and this rather delicate problem of maternal management will suttle Itself If con sideratlon and common sense are learned on oue side and taught on the other.—Kxchange. Short Skirts or Long? There can be no doubt that the real ly short skirt has thoroughly estab lished Itself this spring. Of course, for walking and all outdoor games It is a delightful and most sensible fashion, but there Is some question as to Its beauty and suitability where the dressy afternoon (rock or evening toilet Is concerned For the quite young woman who Is still In her teeus, or has recently quitted them, the short frock looks girlish uud pretty, and Is, moreover, *er> practical aud comfort | able. Hut with the older woman It Is j quite a different matter, rthu looks • simply ridiculous In ttteae fashionable curtailed skirts, and, far from giving her a girlish appearance, they add years to her apparent age GsrUrs for Snort Sucks. Ilart-rs for short socks for the kit! die it' In tug ui idii of hat rubber In | .t. ui of tin wider and more cousple t salt, r rubber or the untidy uoth i , at all t'sualty It Is white, though I •• • | ink oi l»lu« so. k > It can vast!) lln | .tinted tb '"'lie,l desired A STITCH IN TIME Every form of cutaneous disease could be cured in its lncipiency if a Jar of Resinol Ointment were kept at hand. A little of this excellent Oint ment applied in time will effectually ward off and euro a starting trouble which. If neglected, may prove a trou blesome and often obstinate case of Eczema or other disfiguring skin dis ease. For burns, scalds, Blight wounds, sores, eruption of poison ivy, sunburn, it is a quick pnd sura remedy, usually curing these troubles over night. To the unfortunate suf ferer with Hemorrhoids (Itching or In flamed Piles) resinol ointment is inc deed a godsend. The intense palp and intolerable itching of this trot* ble is instantaneously relieved and a cure effected in a very short time. The bath room or family medicine case is incomplete if not equipped with Resinol Soap and Ointment They are most valuable accessories In every well regulated household, and can be obtained at any drug store. Resinol Medicated Shaving Stick la also highly appreciated by men who regard a good complexion and a face free from pimples and blotches. Booklet on Care of the Skin and Complexion sent free on application, Resinol Chemical Co., Baltimore, Md. A Shipping Error. The young duchess of Westminster, wife of the richest peer in England, recently gave birth to her third child, a daughter. Thus there is no heir to the immense Grosvenor fortune, Earl Qrosvenor, the duchess' second child, having died at the age of four. Apropos of all this, a rather cruel story is being told in Newport about Lady Ursula Qrosvenor, the eight year-old daughter of the young duch ess. A friend, the story goes, called at Eaton Hall, and as she sat in the drawing-room, little Lady Ursula en tered. "Oh, good afternoon," she said, gravely. "Mamma can't see any one today. She's upstairs with the new baby. They sent her, you know, a girl when she'd ordered a boy, and she's BO upset that she's quite ill." Try to Come Back. Not long ego Lord Kinnaird, who If always actively interested in religious work, paid a surprise visit to a mis sion school in the east end of London and told a class of boys the story ol Samson. Introducing his narrative, his lordship added: "He was strong, became weak, and then regained his strength, enabling him to destroy his enemies. Now, boys, if I had an enemy, what would you advise me to do?" A little boy, after meditating on the secret of that great giant's strength, shot up his hand and exclaimed: "Get a bottle of 'air restorer." Slightly Confused. All of us become confused and all of ub mix our language sometimes, but the preparation of an old negro preacher's sermon was the greatest confusion of metaphors I ever heard, says a traveler. When the lengthy dis course was nearing its close and he had reached his "Twenty-third and lastly, brethren," he wound up by the following elaborate figure: "Everywha, bredren, we see do Al mighty—all down de untrodden paths of time, we see de footprints of de Almighty hand."—Human Life. Right at Home. New Arrival-—I)o you recognize the profession, my good man? St. Peter —Profession? What profes sion, sir? New Arrival (resentfully)— Why, didn't you ever hear of me? I am ona of the handiest harpists that evei broke into vaudeville. —Puck. "NO FRILLS" Just Sensible Food Cured Him. Dometimes a good, healthy common clal traveler suffers from poorly se lected food and is lucky if he learns that Grape-Nuts food will put him right. A Cincinnati traveler Bays: "About s year ago my stomach got In a bad way. I had a headacho most of the time and suffered misery. For several months Iran down until I lost about <0 pounds in weight and finally had to give up a good position and go home. Any food that I might use seemed to nauseate me. "My wife, hardly knowing what to do, one day brought home a package of Grape-Nuts food and coaxed me to try It. I told her it was no use but finally to humor her I tried a little, and they just struck my taste. It was the first food I had eaten tu near* ly a year that did not cause any suffer* log "Well, to make a long story short, I began to improve and stuck to drape- Nuts. I went up from 135 pounds la December to 194 pounds the followlug October. "My brain Is clear, blood all right and appetite too much for any man's pockvtbuok. lit fact, I ant thor oughly made over, and owe It all to drape-Nuts. I talk so much about what Urupe Nuts will do that some of the men «>u the roud have nicknamed ma 'Grape Nuts,' but ! stand today a healthy, rosy-cheeked ntau a pretty gnud example of what the right kind of food will do. "Vnu i au publish this If )ou want tow It Is a true statement without any frills " H-ml the little book, "The Road to Wellvllle," In pkg» "There's a Reason. * * %«*r v«n4 !!»•» IrttrrV % n*w «*#»•» **»»»«"»» Mm** l»» itw»*. tftVr tft Muiu*, l«u«. »mi lull «*f Utt u*a*n |«Uf *»lt 3
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