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Broken Promises. 'Perhaps the only woman that Napoleon really loved i apart from Josephine who betrayed him, and Marie Louise who was also unfaith- ful, was the beautiful Polish coun-
WIFE LOVED PET DOG BETTER. tess Maria Walewska.
Though he was fond of her to the
Gertrude Aretz, a German writer, has recently published a volume on Napoleon and his women friends. Her view la apparently that Napo- lean had all the capacity to be an ideal lover but that he put the State first and foremost, as his ideal mis- But it was this promise that led tresa. Perhaps. He cortainly treat- this virtuous, woman ed many women
A GHOST PHOTO.
· TEN DAYŞ' SENSATION IN
BELGRADE.
REPORTER SPOILS ALL.
last he treated her brutally. She Spiritualists in Belgrade have was unwilling to receive his em- enjoyed a ten days' sensation, and bracea and wept when she was would be enjoying it still if a re- brought into his masterful presence. porter had not revealed the truth.. He promised her that he would free On the "photograph of a youth and restore her country. He did named Joza Stirbu, on his tomb- not keep his promise.
stone in the Zemlin cemetery (over the river from Belgrade), the tor- tured face of his dead brother.
some time before his own death, had It is the custom in
to yield to
as though they him. Her friends, cynical, time whom he had accidentally killed
shown itself.
these parts to ax, under a glass, a photograph of the buried person to his tombstone. The face of the brother showed the head split down to the eye.
The
were mere chattels, writes Henry S. serving and greedy, urged her to Dolg in the "Weekly Dispatch.”
The truth about Napoleon is that sacrifice herself for the sake of her he was always something of a bully, country. Shakespeare, could have or as his admirers put it, he did not made a great tragedy out of this suffer fools gladly. No one, said Incredible situation. Poor Marie, Lucien, his younger brother, liked she broke her heart, lost her name,
The affair became the talk of the to thwart him. Again, hardly the and was cheated in the end. Alas, man you would expect to make an
how poor the woman who hangs on town, whon other copies of Joza's photograph, substituted, for the prince's favours! ideal lover. The first woman to
miracle-showing pleture, underwent Napoleon entered on the last bring out the cruol streak in
phase when he went to St. Helena.which apparently auggested the expetly the same transformation, Napoleon WOR probably Mme. Tallion. She is described by her There the evening of his day was brother's protest against the iden acothed by his friendship for a that he had been accidentally killed. admirers as the most beautifulį woman of her day, lovely as a young English girl, against whose The explanation, however, has Greek statue. Napoleon yielded to reputation there is happily no proved to be quite simple.
breath. Napoleon treated her as a photograph for the tombstone had father might treat a guileless and been taken from a family group. The head of the other son, standing at this time that he could not afford
in front of Joza, had been blocked Betsy Balcombe was the daughter out; but the process of enamelling a new uniform. He appealed for help to this infatuated woman. She of a trader who lived in St. Helena the photograph to stand exposure used her influence and got him what when the ex-Emperor, the former to the weather was auch that the greatest man of our known world black blocking-out material tended to deteriorate, and, naturally, to Years after when he found that came to reside there.
She was then about fourteen (show the face below it.. On the his wife Josephine had made a years of age, a laughing blue-eyed white ground of the "y" of Jozn's friend of Mme. Tallien he perempgirl. Napoleon came to stay in her coat, however, the white blocking- torily ordered her to break if off. father's house while his new
re-out material proved more per- He declared that she had eight
sidence illegitimate children
was being prepared for manent, and this white field it was, and added
penetrating into the reappearing him.
hend, produced the impression of a It was the chief delight of the head spilt in two, while the agonised
her charm, and used her for his
own advancement. He was so poor
he needed.
amiable child.
that once ahe Was an amiable strumpet but had now become a woman. of horror and infamy. This great man to tease the little Englock came from the uneven de-
lish girl He even attempted to terioration of the other material. learn English the better to play with her. He was not very suc
brutal contempt was all the more conspicuous because Napolcon treated most of the women he had loved with great generosity about money and position. If he was cruel he was not penurious.
His Wedding Night, There is no doubt that Napoleon
caeful. His mind was not elastic enough. The master of strategy could not condescend to cope auc cessfully with transitive and in- transitive verbs.
Was This the Real Man?
AN ELOPEMENT.
MILLIONAIRE'S GIRL AND TUNNEY'S SECRETARY.
was madly in love with Josephine One day she was going to, the Friends of Mr. Sidney Colgate, a when he married her. The man Governor's ball, and had got a new millionaire soap manufacturer, in who was to become a world ruler dress of which she was very proud. New York were surprised to receive. was for the time being her bond The ex-Emperor playfully atole it, a formal announcement of the mar- slave. Most people know the story and hid it until the last moment to riage of his daughter Margaret to of her little dog, Fortune. "He enjoy her anxiety and embarrass- Mr. Edward P. F. Eagan,
ment.
It has since been learned that the She used to take her revenge by were forgiven and are now living couple eloped on, October 1, but stealing his papers, or even jogging, at the home of the bride's parents. his elbow when he was scaling some document with sealing-wax.
Mr. Eagan was a Rhodes Scholar and while at Oxford (in 1923) won
took possession" Napoleon said "of Mudame's bed on our wedding night." Napoleon added that he was told that he could either put up with the lap-dog or sleep elsewhere. He obeyed orders. And though the Never did Napoleon lose his tem-the amateur boxing heavy-weight dog bit him on the calf of the leg, per with her. She could do almost championship. he forgave him. Poor dog! It as she liked. Which was the 'real
He was also one of Tunney's escaped from the palace and was Napoleon-the brute
who in his helpers during the champion's killed in the street by a butcher's hey-day dealt with women as though training for his recent fight with lurcher, a sad story of what may they were mere cattle, or the kindly,
Dempsey.Reuter. happen to a spoiled favourite.
[Mr. Eagari acted as Gene Tun- amiable and condescending man ney's social secretary. Tunney, in Perhaps it was Josephine's cold- who played with this little English a conversation with Mr. Trevor ness to her ardent and adoring girl as a boy might play with an Wignall, the special correspondent husband that warped his high and amusing and light-hearted little of "The Daily Mail," said that one generous nature. She thought it
puppy?
droll that her famous husband That is one of the problems of fighting his way to fame and glory history. Will it ever be solved? should want her to come and ses him. She preferred the delights of life in Paris, with the handsome young Hippolyte Charles the good- looker, whom she ultimately admit-) ted, to become her lover.
When it was too late Josephine} realised what she had thrown away.
MODERN ART TRIUMPH,
Italian Master's New Technique.
Signor Antonio Mancini Italy's
of his ambitions was to go to Ox- ford University, because "Eddie Eagan has told me so much about it."]
RUBBER SMUGGLING.
A FINE OF $40,000 IN MALAYA.
Three Chinese, who were ar- rested by Mr. Watkins, the Cus-
As Napoleon became cold and most celebrated painter, is holding haughty, she became passionable a show of his recent pictures at the and lovelorn. "Greatness bores me: Claridge Gallery. Signor Mancini is toms Officer, were convicted by my sensibilities are blunted," he now in his seventy-sixth year, and the Port Dickson Magistrate, wrote. The iron had entered into he still paints with energy and dash. Capt. G. H. Wood and fined his soul.
Forty years ago he started the $40.000 or two years' r. i. each on When he forsook her for Marie art world by putting fragments of a charge of being knowingly_con- Louise he was undoubtedly a metal in his pigment to catch the cerned at the 2nd mile, Cape- broken-hearted man, and when ad- light and suggest a glitter and Rochado, in the conveyance of versity came to him he was always there are bits of brass, suggesting uncustomed and restricted goods, conscious that Josephine would a wrist watch and a bracelet, in one to wit, about 30 pikuls of rubber never have deserted him as the of the pictures in this show. with intent to defraud the Gov- Austrian woman did.
To assist him in drawhig Signor ernment or the duty payable In his disappointment Napoleon Mancini used to place a criss-cross thereon and to avoid the Restric- took to amours with vulgar indif- grill before his model and aquare tion applicable to those goods. ference to public opinion. In Egypt out this canvas in the same propor. On a second charge of running a he met the celebrated Pauline tions. One of his most celebrated boat without a licence one of the Foures, the wife of a young French works, the portrait of Sir Hugh three accused was fined another officer and the daughter of a cook. Lane, is in the National Gallery, $250 or 5 months' x. i. She had blue eyes and golden hair Millbank.
and the soldiers called her Signor Mancini was A close Cleopatra.
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And the same day, as the Doctor was expressing his regrets at such an untimely demise·· (which he attributed to a double lesion in the nuciform sae, or Boggins's Duct), a mian there present, having newly arrived, asked suddenly: "What did he die of?"
friend of John Sargent who greatly admired his paintings. The new A Hopeless Battle. Grassini the beautiful Italian works in this exhibition are por-
traits and singer, was the first of Napoleon's i
genre studies. The many mistresses to torment her Laughing Soldier" and "Girl with lover. He wished to keep her in the Mandorla" are the most striking. background, she wished to play a public part as the power behind the Throne. It was a hopeless battle. Napoleon was not a man who would| sumbit his judgment or his will toi anyone. But she at least was not turned away. She want off, with
The Doctor thereupon sald: a young and more likeable man, and
"Alas! & double lesion in the nucí- years afterwards became an amte
What more distressing than to form sac, or Boggins's Doct": intime of the great Duke of be awakened in the middle of the whereupon the man who had died, Wellington, who paid her bille much night by the eries of a sick baby to the astonishment and regret of more grudgingly than the man he or little child! You are startled all present, rose up and said: “No!" defeated at- Waterico,
and hardly know how to act. The died of Dr. G. P. Drencher, of A commonplace little actress, La hour is too late to summon the The Laurels, Chipping Podbury." Georgina, was also to hold a tera- doctor, What are you to do until On which the Doctor turned on porary place in the heart of Bouna-morning, when he can be called if him and hissed in a terrible man- parte. She was only fifteen when still required?
"Oh, You Cad! Where is A ner:
Whore- The answer la simple: Baby's your Esprit-de-Corps?"! he saw her on the stage. He sent his valet to fetch her to his private Own Tablets most probably are all upon the man fell back again and
that is needed. These little spoke no more.com rooms where once. Josephine dis- Tablets are pleasant and tasteless, Moral: Manners maketh man covered him in the arms of this "asily administered because they D.B.W.L. In the "Daily Mail." girl. He was furiona.
ush at alight pressure to e
Apparently, however, he found powder; quickly allay fever or pleasure in her society. Once he teething pains, relieve collc,in pa put on his own head a wreath of digestion, croup; check diarrhea white roses he lifted from hers. quiet the nerves, send the child "What do you think of me?" be back to calm health-restoring sleep asked. "Am I not rather like a fly in a natural way simply by remov in the milk Napoleon joked with ing the cause of its trouble Guaranteed harmless even to the difficulty, and not usually without a
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