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f t i l ' jj ’ w... lit' IV* I f . I £ M.1 y $• ljr jr & %, j-t ‘ - 1/' | | \ & sc & h . HERB Is at least one broken royal Heart in London at this moment. It Is in the breast of former King Man uel of Portugal. His darling Gaby, Gaby DeBlys, the light-haired, fair- skinned, demure little French beauty •whom he lifted to dizzy heights of fame and fortune by his patronage when he sat upon the throne of Portugal, will have nothing more to do with him. Gaby is drawing a salary four times as large as that she received before Manuel’s infatuation for her was public property. Two years ago she told me she was saving her money and when the right man came along Bhe would marry him if he didn’t have a cent. The right man has turned up. He Is Harry Pilcer, Gaby’s Amer ican dancing partner. She has denied it several times, but, despite all her laughing protestations, just about a year from the present date the two will be married and will retire to a small estate in France where Gaby declares she will be con tent the rest of her life to raise chickens. But this story is not concerned, primarily, with Gaby Deslys. It is written to tell you about the latest troubles of a monarch in exile. Besides his broken heart Manuel haB a broken ambition. At last he has lost all faith in the ultimate suc cess of the valiant band of royalists who are plotting, planning and fighting on the frontier of Portugal. He haB been forced to the conclu sion that, his stay in England will be a perma nent one, barring a social revolution in the coun try over which he once ruled. He is making preparations to forsake the temporary abode in Richmond in which he took up his residence pending hiB return in triumph to Lisbon, and to take up permanent quarters in the most aristocratic flats in th^ whole world—Kensington Palace. Manuel’s pessimism is due to the report of his uncle, the Duke of Oporto, who, since the royal fam ily hot-footed it out of Lisbon, has been running between England and the Spanlsh-Portuguese fron tier carrying news and instructions between the boy king and those who are battling for his cause against the overwhelming odds of the Portuguese republican govern ment. The duke, who is a well- meaning but ineffective sort of man, recently brought back from Spain proofs that Manuel’s cham pions are indeed in a bad way—in fact, JuBt about in their last gasp. Manuel has given the last penny that he can spare, Queen Amelia has made herself almost destitute by her sacri fices, while other sources of revenue have been sucked dry. The royalist soldiers, without pay, without food, without-clothing, and practical out laws with prices on their necks, look forward with concern to the coming of winter. It is in these circumstances that King George has come forward with an offer of a suite of rooms in Kensington Palace for Manuel and his mother. The relations between the English king and Manual are very close, and George knowB, almost to the dollar, the dwindling resources of the exile. In Kensington Palace, although Man uel and hiB mother probably will not enjoy the luxurious surroundings that they have had at Richmond, they will have as neighbors in adjoin ing flats two members of the English royal fam ily. The apartments In Kensington Palace are at the disposal of the crown, and in two of them King Edward installed his siBters, Princess Henry of Battenberg and the Duchess of Argyll. Kensington Palace, in former years, was allow ed to fall into neglect and the sanitary conditions were not of the best Then many of the rooms were thrown open to the public, notably those associated with the early years of Queen Vic toria, and, in consideration of this concession, the Btate bore the expenses of the upkeep of the buildings. With the coming of the two daughters of Queen Victoria, radical improvements were made in the furnishings, but even tod/iy it would be hard wdrk to rent the several fiats to any American accustomed to the, comparative luxury of a ?100-a-month flat in New York. With the flight of his hopes young Manuel will enter more fully than ever Into the - social life of England. * There is still hope among his older relatives of marrying him to one of the English princesses. The first oholce is Princess. Alexan dra, of-Fife, daughter and heir of the late Duke of Fife. Such a match would be more attractive to Manuel now than It was four-years ago when it was first .mooted, because the young Fife prin cess has since inherited the fat fortune of her , tether and would bring a welcome relief to . the jva t e pocketbook of the Portuguese, monarch. You will remember, probably, that Manuel came to England some three years' ago looking for a wife. Me spent, some little .time In 'the^company . of Patricia of-Connaught and the 'Fife',,sisters. Subsequently he 'confided to Gaby Deslya his im pressions, o f the three. English princesses. Boiled ^ down they amounted to. this: He. ..was, willing? to considers Princess Patricia, but he’ understood. thatvJ Bhe.‘ did. not view the match with favor, wHereasUhe;Fife girls were, flat and uninteresting toot, consider them for. a single jp.§--momeht:v ' , ’ •••' . . . . . , , dades Palace of Lisbon for a comparatively mod est dwelling at Richmond, she and the duchess met. Between the two women, each well ac quainted with the other’s misfortunes, a mutual liking sprang up. During their confab the duchess told her royal listener that trying’ to shoulder other people’s troubles had enabled her to banlBh her own from her mind. Queen Amelia was rather struck with this idea and was not long in putting it into prac tice. Apparently, the duchess’ scheme has made good. At any rate, the queen has given it a good trial, for hardly a week has passed that she has not visited a hospital, opened a bazar or some thing of the sort. Quite recently she went to the Crystal Palace and, on behalf of the R. S. P. C. A., presented the prizes won by children for essays written on kindness to animals. She is a regular visitor at the Richmond hospital and the Roman Catholic hospital of Saint Elizabeth and Saint John in Saint John’B Wood. During one of her visits she was taken to see the baby of the hos pital, a pretty little girl six years old and a great pet with everybody. The queen k&Bed the child, and after talking to her for a Iittte while, dis covered that something was worrying her. So she asked the reason and found that a bunch of lilies that had been ordered from the florist for the baby to present to her had not arrived. “Poor little mite,\ said the queen, “that’s too bad. Never mind, If you will send them to me at Richmond, I will promise to wear them at din ner tonight,\ LOUIS HYDE. ON THE WAY TO LHASA . Just ten years ago a woman clothed in rags-^ dirty, tanned, almost- black by exposure and at death’s door with fatigue—Btaggered to the court yard of the China. Inland Mission house at Ta- chlenlu, writes Ruth Neely in the Living Church. When' strength enough for speech returned she told her story. It was Dr. Susie Carsons Rijn- hart, the-first woman-missionary who ever pene trated the wilds of Tibet and returned to tell the story. All the world knows the wonderful history of the woman's. homeward journey of 1,500 miles, unprotected and alone, from the interior, near the. outskirts of Lhasa, where she buried her baby beneath a stone - on the mountain side and where her husband 'was later captured by hostile tiatiyea and murdered. ;. Since, that* time oily one group of foreigners j|j &*4 it; <?aii'»,be said- that - she 4* ' t hasVpenetrated,* interior Tibet. This was the Mg-endea%>ririgito\ flhd?,consolation .forVallWher -trou- - band/tof/Engllshmen who reached . and ' Invaded MrA-hifinTnnd^diRannnihtmebtsvirt’firond'workR.1’ (Tir.'thfs1- - •.’’ the/1 sacredjcity 'under*. the command' o f Colonel Yduh^huib^d\^Since;?the .unsuccessful; pending ^lntoiSor/libet have t-rxuAA, *5^vthe ^outside world,'.a7 .jjjvon1 mysteries' have been^ guarded as the holy of holieB and as the impenetrable Banctuary of the mysterious east. But it Is not to remain so. When, in 1901, Dr. Rijnhart returned to her chosen field, northwest ern China, she took with her two missionaries of the Foreign Missionary society, Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Shelton. With them she established an other mission in Tachienlu, of which Dr. Shelton and his wife took charge on the death of the famous woman missionary a year ago. Later it was given over to other hands, for Dr. Shelton and his wife resolved to emulate the example of the Rijnharts, and if it be in human power they Intend to penetrate interior Tibet and to establish a Christian mission in Lhasa, the very shrine of Buddha, where no foreigner has ever been permitted peacefully to enter and where none has ever dwelt. With their baby girls, Doris, three years old, and Dorothy, seven, the two missionaries set out from Tachienlu last fall on their arduous and dangerous journey. They have now arrived at Batang, about a month’s journey from .Lhasa, whence they have Bent to this country the moBt remarkable collection of Tibetan photographs ever secured. The mission station is near the Iamasary at Batang, which houses 3,000 lamas or Buddhist priests, and is one of the five great monasteries of Tibet. The western theosophist’s cherished Ideal oi thiB life, pure spirit and lofty contemplation, is hardly home out by the description of the Bud dhist lamas, as seen in every-day life, by the Sheltons. To begin with, like all Tibetans, they are inordinately dirty. The native of Tibet never bathes, nor is the lama an exception to this rule. They are covered with dirt and grease and exude an odor of rancid butter from the fumes of the butter lamps that fill the temples. They are also infested with vermin, which they may not even destroy, be cause to kill even the humblest of animals is contrary to the teachings of the Buddhist religion The wonder ful learning of the Buddhist lama is also said to be largely a product of western imagination. The worship consists largely in noisy incantationd In the proces of which guns are sometimes fired, bells ring and horns give forth deafening blasts. The Tibetan woman may not be without beauty. It is impossible to tell, since she does not wash. Men and women dress much alike, in gowns of originally bright colored cloth, fastened about the waist by green and red sashes. The bloused waist portion is always used as the receptacle for the tea baBin, whence it is handily drawn forth at the constantly recurring hospital ity of tea drinking. Women and men wear heavy top bootB. They may be distinguished by the head dress. Both sexes braid the hair into innumerable plaits, BometimeS- over 100. In some sections the plaits are fastened together with bright colored cloth or with a heavy felt band covered with silver1 ornaments, shells and beads. A turban with a white fur brim and ,a red tassel hanging from the pointed crown is often worn. WomCn in the district of Lhasa wear for hair ornaments a silver halo set with turquoise—a most becoming head dress, other thingB being equal. The Tibetan damsel uses he^ braids in coquettish fashion, much as does out debutante her fan. If she is or wishes to appeal confused she shakes the curtain of buttered lockB over her face, forming a screen, through which she peers with artful artlessneBs. In some regions near remote lamaseries the women are said to daub their faces with a greasy black cosmetic lest the lamas might be tempted by their beauty, a precaution which can hardly fail to impress the traveler as rather unnecessary. Except the great caravan route, which is so thickly beset with spies that to travel It without meeting a military company sent out to turn the travelers back is impossible, the “roads” to Lhasa are narrow mountain passes, in some places only to be traversed by climbing single file or mounted on sure-footed yaks. It is through such narrow, precipitous passes that Dr. Shelton, his wife and little ones have so fir made their way. If as they near Lhasa they should take the path traveled by Dr. Rijnhart and her husband and child they will pasB a big boulder beneath which lie the remains of a year-old baby, the first white child ever in Tibet. Doris and Dorothy Shelton, who have so far endured the Journey very well, are the most re markable pilgrims in the world. They are the youngest, and, if their parents accomplish the purpose to which they have consecrated their lives, Doris and Dorothy will one day romp and rollick in the somber 'shadows of Lhasa, the holleBt city of all Asia, where the Dalai lama lives in his wonderful -palace, a building whose immensity and ornamentation baffle description, where many of the houses are literally roofed with gold, and where the dead are dismembered, then left exposed on stone slabs to be devoured by vultures or by the hogs that rummage in the sacred streetB. A New Match Puzzle. five sided spaces, one exactly three times as large aB the other? All the 18 matches must be fairly UBed in each case, the two spaces must be de tached, and there must be no loose end or duplicated matches. The easiest way is to arrange the 18 matohes as in diagram 1 and 2, mak ing the length of the perpendicular A B equal to a match and a half. Then if the matohes are an inch in length, Fig. 1 contains two square inches and Answer to Match Puzzle. Fig. 2 contains six square inches— four by one and one-half. The second case (2) is a little more difficult to solve. The solution is given in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. For the purpose of con struction place matches temporarily on the dotted lines. Then it will be Been that as Fig. 3 contains five equal equallateral triangles and Fig. 4 con tains 15 similar triangles, one figure Is three times as large as the other, and exactly 18 matches are used. ^ -j Easy. , “What do you. think is- the best way to abaU the.smoke nuisance?”- ’ ■ - ■ ■' . “There iafonly one. way’ to do that.\ .‘What is It?” . “Buy g o o ^ c i g a t t ^ y ^ “Grammar Is a) temperamental sort of study.\ • \Ho\s; do\yjc>!rii- its mood.\ - f, ';£> . ;J - i - i HOLDER FOR VAULTING-POLE Manner of Using Device as Well as Its Construction Is Clearly Shown In Illustration. An adjusting device for a vaulting pole that can be easily fixed at any point on a round pole by using a wedge sketch. and ring, is shown in the The wedge carries a pin on c & r plffljj ~ ■ j Vaulting-Pole Holder. which to place the cross pole. The manner of using thiB device as well as its construction is clearly Indicated, says a writer in the Popular Mechan ics. The ring on the upright, held in po sition by the wedge, which in turn carries the pole on the pin. Did It a-Purpose. The English visitor was getting im pressions as to American education. \And do you know your alphabet?” he asked of the small boy in the house he was visiting. “Yep,” said the lad—“A, B, C, D. E, F, <1.1, J—” “Hold on there, my little lad,” said the visitor. “Haven’t you left out a letter?” “Yep,” said the boy. “I droppe'd my H. I wanted to see if an English man would notice it.” “Pertness is a characteristic of the American child,” wrote the English man later, when he prepared his American notes for publication.—Har per’s Weekly. Mamma Won. Visitor—Do you and your twin brother always agree, Tommy? Tommy—No, ma’am. We had a fight last Sunday. Visitor—And which whipped? Tommy—Mamma. In connection with the usual Hal-* loween charms and incantations the following game—waranted to reek with all the mysterious misgivings, thrills and shivers appropriate to the occasion—is recommended as very jolly and entirely suited to “witching night.” It Is of French extraction, is called \Sous Table,” and is played as follows: As the players sit close together round the table with their hands well under the overhanging folds of the tablecloth the game would better be played at or after the refreshment stage of the proceedings. It consists of passing from hand to hand, and quite without looking at them, all sorts of articles prepared to be particularly grewsome to the touch, and he or she who shrieks, laughs or drops an arti cle Is liable to forfeit. The articles, concealed by a nap kin, are held on the lap of the hostess as Bhe sits at the head of the table and she passes one by one of them— always under the folds of the table cloth—from her right hand to her neighbor’s left; he does likewise and so on round the table. When the arti cle comes back to the hostesB she drops it under the table and takes up the next one from her lap and so on till the supply of articles is exhausted. With a choice lot of carefully pre pared horrors this game may be work ed up into a real Halloween hit. A limp bean bag, a lucky rabbit foot, a fluff of cotton wool, a baby’s angora mitten loosely stuffed with cot ton batting, the working end of a superannuated feather duster, a bit ol fur, an old bead purse, a scrap oi chamois skin are among the things which—perfectly innocent in them selves and entirely unawesome when seen—cause us to shrink and shiver when we touch them without knowing what they are. The trump card at this game—and one Bure to bring in many fines in the forfeits—when late ly played at our house was a woman’s kid glove firmly stuffed, with all tho fingers spread, with damp sea sand and kept in the icebox until needed for tho game. ELEPHANTS NOW SMALLER Jumbo Was Ten Feet Nine Inches High, While Dunda Is Only Eight Feet Nine Inches. Elephants are growing smaller in size, as is shown by this diagram, which compares the largest elephant of today with Jumbo and the masto- Elephants Becoming Smaller. don. Jumbo was ten feet nine inches high. The largest elephant of today, acording to the New York World, is Dunda, in the - Bronx zoo, which is eight feet nine inches high. Chickens’ Clothes, Little Gerald,. who, was visiting in the .country, saw-the cook plucking, a chicken and asked: “Grandma do you take'the, clothes oft the chickens every night?* . RIDDLES. Why are musicians fortunate? Be cause when they want a change of air they can change it. When is a woman dressed like an Indian war chief In all his feathers? When she is dressed to kill. What is the greatest surgical oper ation performed? Lansing Michigan. What kind of wild animals are al lowed on the lawns of the public parks ? Dandelions. Why 1 b the man who wears spec tacles greatly to be pitied? Because he can’t real-eyes (realize) anything When Is a vessel like a mug op drink? When it’s a schooner. Shaking Hands. Did you ever ask yourself why you shake hands with persons whom you know? Here is the reason: In the old days, when every man who had any pretensions to being a gentleman carried a sword, it was cus tomary for men when they met to show that they had no intention of treachery to offer each tther their weapon hands, that is, the hand that would be used to draw the sword, and to withhold the hand was usually the signal for a fight. So fixed did this Attblt become that long after men ceased to wear swords they still offered the weapon hand to a friend and declined to offer it to an enemy. To this day when you refuse to shake hands with a person it sig nifies that you are at war. Among savages, who never carried Bwords. the practice of shaking hands is un known, and it affords them amuse ment to see the white men do it. Protective Colors. Have you ever stopped to question, why some caterpillars, snakes, wasps and butterflies are black and yellow in color? Or black and white? These colors are the danger BignalB of na ture. In order to protect themselves from birdB which feed upon them, the creatures named have taken this form of dress which frightens away their enemies. Other creatures take on the colors of their surroundings so that one scarcely can detect them from the trees, the grasB, or. the ground, wherever they happen to live. Love One Another. , \Lola dear,” said her mother. **do you know the meaning of your Bible text/' Dove one another?’ ” ■ •’ “Why, of course, .I do, mammal” she replied. \It means, that' I;,must; lov* you and'you must love ihe. -Tm. baiL and you are another/’ .$1 I I I I ,-v J i t r i i
