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NOT SO PRETTY AS THEY ARE "PAINTED...
BY A FRENCHWOMAN, ]
The small root equrtesies of life that made the life of our forefathers' so full of grace and beauty, their persons se lovable. they have feil. Instead of the charm of courtesy, one finds a studied neglect of it, Old age and women lack the reverence dne to them."
."-Vicar of Birchington-on-Sen
In such a lament most men on the wrong side of fifty and all maiden ladies fed an "The Fairchild Family" are expected to join.
Do I contend that our manners Or good!
Manners can only flourish in an idle society for which time is not money, be practised by a small caste, and the mora closed the casto the more refined its man ners Italian society of the fifteenth cen- tury, French and English in the seven teanth, and the Chinese and Japanese of to-day bear me out. But European society is open to every one who has genius or money; it is all the time alter ing in its composition. The war has in- troduced new elements; the modern girl the discharged soldier. the profitebr, all
THE FAMOUS
RUSSIAN LIGHT OPERA &
OPERETTE CO.
AT THE
TRE
ROYA
TO-NIGHT
TO-NIGHT
at 9.15 p.m.
THE OPENING NIGHT.
Fo-alght, June 9th,
The Popular Operette by the Celebrated Composer Lehar
"The Merry Widow
of them intoxicated by their new-won free A Montenegran Dance dom or money. For the moment they do. not appreciate manners, and they show it clearly. But it is paly the work of a generation to bring them tamed to tho fold. And it is indubitable that if the tone of society is lower, the tone of the pation has improved.
HANKERS AND MORALS.
Are our lives les beautiful than those of our ancestors? Looking back, I ses beautiful churches and palaces, artisans making implements of everyday life things of beauty, but I see also bloodshed, torture, famine, pestilence, and alth
luxury for a few and misery for the
Friday, June 10th,
Kolo-Dance" Electric Swings over the
audience."
The Famous Operette from Indian Life by the Russian Composer
Valentinoff
"The Vestal of the Fire-God"
people. In Paris as late as the year 1830. "Oriental Ballet"-"The Torch-Dance"--Beautiful Costumes,nice Singing.
130,000 people received food tickets, and
out
of every twenty-four deaths nine took
place in hospitals. Was that beauty? I
should like to take the vicar through the Saturday, June 11th,
London of Charles Lamb, when the lows bore openly their shackled burdens, gal. beads were on Temple Bar, Londoners lived in dark, filthy alleys, and the Fleet and the barshalsen were filled with starv ing prisoners. Then peers howed low over the hands of fair ladies; they de clared their love on bended knees; drunkenness and gross indulgence were unashamed in those days of bear baiting and cock fightingNo wonder that their A dark setting for a few gema. brilliance dazzka usc ground,
us on such a back-
Can, manners alone make people lov-
able? They can be entirely dissociated
The Famous Operette by Lehar which had great success
in England and America
The Count of Luxemburg
Prices $4, $2 & $1.
Advance Booking Plan at Messrs. 8. Moutrie & Co.
from morale; the most corrupt, heartless Libretto in English for each Operette can be had with tickets or on the night of the performance.
man might yet be model of good man-
zers. Witness Louis XIV., or George IV.
that drunken, bigamous husband, had son and father, yet
Gentleman of Europe," the First
Management: DAKOFF & SHTERN,
Note:The remainder of the repertoirs will follow,
Reverette for women is disappearing, on the 9th, 10th 11th, 13th, 14h, & 15th of June, respectively.
UNDERSTANDING AT LABT says the vicdr Has it ever existed as a
feeling among men 1 For on es exalted, how many beaten drudges. For one kaight, how many tyrants? Whenever a great man has behaved generously towards a woman history has recorded it as a wonder and legend fastened upon it. If the, knights
the rule and not the exception
Tickets Booked for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, & 7th of Juns will be available for performaKUCAK.
had bugs like Louis XIV, raised?
if all hats to all women, even to chambermaids, it would not be worth while mentioning or writing gushing novelettes about. Mao think a Madonna beautiful in ker proper place-a niche; but whenever he has to live with a woman of that type he deserts her, because to kneel is unnatural ind
tiring.
He at last begins to understand the modern girl, who has interests, cares, and pleasures akin to his own. He does not put her in, a niche.
girl
He does not call her for a hrief moment, star of my soul, angel, divinity, in order to acquire the right to bully her to the end of their lives; but the old "with which he greets her contains A much warmth and romance as the wishes for What are words but symbols 1. And she is quite satisfed. To, pity her is a waste of precious feelings-Daily Exp:
THRICE MARRIED TO ONE WIFE.
SWISS COUPLE CREATE A RECORD IN COURTSHIP.
A wealthy and eccentric Swiss engine er named Balach, of Winterthour, ha created a matrimonial record by marry- ing the same wife three times and divorcing her twice within five years. Divorce is quick and inexpensive in Switzerland when a couple agree to it even quicker than in America,
The latest re-marriage, took place at Basle, where the wife returned to her parents after the divorcos, which she did not oppose, declaring that her husband would niwaya return to her.
nar
During the periods of the two divorces Balach sent his wife money and love letters, which the wite regularly return- ed, neither accepting the money "opening the letters. The husband is thirty-five years of age, and his wife twenty-four They are now spending their third honeymoon on the Italian Lakes. There are no children.
The parents of the couple regard the marriages and divorces as a comedy, not a tragedy, and hope, that eventually the couple will, come to a real understand. ing, since they are both in love- Express..
WIVES ON
STRIKE
The Bolshoriat Babotchoya Rossia re ports that all wives of Soviet officials in the city of Tvor, north-west of Moscow, hayo struck, repudiating their marital obligations and their domestic dutice, an
protest Lionalized inst the death of 30
children in an educational
inalitution.
·DA.
The local "Bed " army commandant has stationed soldiers in the officials houses to compel the wives to return to duty-Exchange Telegraph Company.
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Take a tin of preserved pineapple, ent the fruit up very small, and sprinkle with Mix contents of 11.0. tin of NESTLES Pure Rich Cream with a quarter of a pint of milk. Then strain. into it a teacapful of the pineapple juice. in which is dissolved half an ounce of gelatine and two ounces of sugar; lastly, aid the pineapple, Place the cream in awet mould and leave until set." Turu 。 out and nerve.
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