THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1936.
In This Week In The Past:-
The Great Plague
Struck London-
IN this week, 273 years
ago that is, 1664-the- Great Plague was just begin- ning in London, to end only in 1666, after 110,000 had 'died.
Its familiarity in history has probably dulled most people's minda to its frightful, drawnout, all-pervading horror.
The known hopelessness of recovery added despair to ench man's sickness,
First there “was”ün' unnatural feel- ing of horror, then a shaking and trembling, then vomiting, then coma or delirium-then death.
Houses Locked
What It was really like in 8 plague-stricken household has only been recently known by the publish- ing of old documents,
From the first a trogle mistake multiplied the dratli roll. It was belleved that the plague was in the air liself. And so the houses wero tacked up tight and the wretches within stewed in a fetid phero,
atinon-
They might not come out Some were quarrelsome in the just atages of the plague and raved at ong another over trifics until death setited their contention.
The passers saw the little faces
of children who were dying behind locked doors peering in wonderment out of the windows.
There were sad cases of mothers nurdering their own children.
Rooms, Plundered
To each te shut-in hell-and this was one of the most terrible features abandoned women, the Beourings of the streets, were sent to act us nurses. Their services might not be refused.
These bags, to whom men ARA their loved ones entrusted, stole the household goods and actually infect- ed healthy members of the family they preyed on with the plague, that when the whole household was dead they could plunder the rooms,
It was a plague of the poor, The rich had fled. The callousness the authorities was shocking.
of
You can still read in the antique writing of parish accounts how men were fald sixpence to carry away a person of plague in the street and dump ktm in the next parish!
Facts which are almost better unrecorded are known about the plague
It is a fuel that in unalice those. dying of the plague leaned out of their windows lo breathe contagion'on to a passer-by.
their!
The plague would not have been so bad it. It had not been for the people's incradicable love of funerals,
Pompous Funerals
Again and again the City forbade -pompous-funerals, but as often the
people would not be deprived of spectacular burial and gathered to follow the corpse and infect one an- other.
Modern research has made the plague as clear as if a newspaper of to-day were recording It.
All the documents of the time are preserved.
You can even see the ink-splasised page of the burial clerk who fell dead, pen in hand, while writing down. the deaths,
Cortes,
One Of
Spain's
Greatest
* X
this
wast
}
Cortes set out to conquer it. He took 600 men, or about one regi-
ment!.
armoury, would have daunted any conqueror but Cortes.
Marching Through History
with
C. A. LYON
butchery of human victims on the pointed Cortes, who has given you top.
more provinces than your ancestors left 'you' cities."
Chiefs Burned
Before the altars of the temple Cortes saw eight human hearts,'
Beyond the palace itself were the ZOO of wild animals and reptiles, the emperor's aviary with 300 at tendants, and his collection of human Bealde it was a smaller pyramid- monstera and dwarfs, some said to surmounted with the skulls of sneri- have been deformed by their parents feed persons strung on a wooden expressly to qualify them for a place framework. There were 130,000 of In the royal museum.
them.
WAS
Montezuma ato off plate which
And it waR this treming capital only used once and then of wealth, magnificence, and horrors
that Corles thrown away. Ile drank only a
secretly planned to kind of cocos out of a gold goblet conquer. with a tortoiseshell spoon.
He firt professed friendship, and was hosp tably received.
As coon
Ite smoked an intoxicating weed called tabaco.
as opportunity offered, Ile changed his clothes four and with ́ ́n daring that would be times a day, never, wore the same too. extravagant for any romancer's. garments twice.
tale, the tiny band Belzed emperor, loaded him with chains, His great temple was a pyramid and burned alxteen of his chiefs a hundred yards square. "Up its before his eyes-this though he was "The houses were locked up tight sides a sloping pathway carried surrounded by tens of thousands of and the wretches stewed within." priests to their diabolical rite the subjects who trembled at his nod.
-Spain Heard Of The Death
Of
Conqueror
Cortes' victory over the Aztecs át Olumba-
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& Juliet
The Mar Colluyn Mayer MOTORS
THE FAREWELL
CHAPTER EIGHT
GERTRUDE GELBIN
"There is no world without Ve- walls," answered Romeo. rona's "Only purgatory, torture and hell itself."
thou
Juliet leaned against the open "But this is dear mercy," ex- balcony window of her bedchamber claimed his confessor, "and and looked out Into the twilight.sce'sl' it not." "Comb, gentle night," she pleaded. "Come, loving, black-brow'd night. Give me my Romico."
How long the hours seemed since she and he had knelt in marriage. ller nurse burst in upon her, weeping and wringing her hands.
Juliet wheeled about in fright, Whut news, nurse," she cried, "that thou dost wring thy hands."
"Ah, well-a-day!" wept the nurse. "He's dend. He's dead.
Juliet's face grew ashen white. "We are undone, Indy," sobbed the nurse.
bed
and
"Tis torture and not mercy!" cried Romeo. "Heaven is where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog and Ittle mouse! every unworthy thing that live in heaven may look on her, but Romeo may not!" He stared about him' desperately, “Hadist thou no paison mixed," he begged. "No sharp-ground knife, no sudden means of death to kill me?"
beast!
Cortes then forced Montezuma to acicnowledge the Spanish rule and ransom himself at a fantastic cost.
The whole country was searched for this ransom, and the greedy conquerors saw, load after load of treasure pour into the city.
It made three great heaps of gold utensils, ornaments, collars, Ruch. It was said, as no European
*
This week in 1791'' was born Marie Louise, daughter of the Em- peror of Aus- trin.
She WAR to have #t strange dea-.
the
Strange Destiny
Of
Marie
Louise
proudest Christendom.
tiny.
iler true love was a duke, But when she Was eighteen Napoleon,
jumped up world con- queror, ́ needed an hele, and aspired to the hand of the daughter of ruling house in
corpora
There was no courtship, Marie Louise was voted for at a French Privy Counell like some public health measure, Four voted for her, four for a Saxon bride, and three for a Russian, Napoleon sum- ming up.
The marriage
was celebrated with a dammy bridegroom in Vienna. Marle
Louise was willing to marry the conqueror whom she had never seen. She bore him a son, and the unexpected thing was that Napoleon fell madly in love with her.
But not she with him.
When Napoleon's star waned, when he was in despair at his banishment, when he was trying to end his life with a phial of opium, but only made
-And The Girl Who Was
To Be Voted Napoleon's
Wife
Was
monarch could beast, and its value was nearly £1,500,000.
The country was conquered after a long campaign, but owing to intrigues Cories was coldly received on his return to Europe. He wna said to have forced his way into the presence of the King of Spain.
"Who are you?" said the King.
I
Born
himself sick, Marie Louise did not come to see him,
She went off to Vienna and con- soled herself with a count.
Napoleon begged her to share his exile, even threatened to abduct her, but she would not go.
"It is only we women who love with constancy." she wrole in her "I am the man," said the disap- dlary,
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The lovers clasped each other in last embrace, Window," éried Juliet, "let day in and let life.
Qut "Farewell, farewell," murmured Romeo and kissed her long,
With arma entwined they walked.. out onto the balcony. And then quickly, as if to tear himself away before the pain became too great, he seized the ladder and began his descent.
Also in this week of 1547-the news was spreading through Spain of the death of
"Art thou a man?" demanded one of her
Laurence. Thy wild acts denote greatest adven- turers, Hernan-
the unreasonable fury of Thou amaze me. By my holy order do Cortes,
I thought thy disposition better tem What a man The girl seized her shoulder and per'd. Hast thou slain Tybalt? Wilt
Cortes, shook her violently. Why were they
thou slay thyself? And slay thy undone? Who was dead? What lady that in thy life lives?" Mexico, a bad happened?
head and Romeo bowed his
shely through the door. "Your lady "Tybalt is
the nightingale," vast new land.
gone" began the
covered his eyes with his hands.
pleaded "and not the lark that mother is coming to your chamber. with a civilis nurse.
"What!" shouted the
Be wary." Friar pierced the fearful hollow of thine The day is broke. tion of its own
At the mention of Tyball's name
"House thee man Thy Juliet is almost falnied with Juliol
cor. Believe me, love, it was the relief. parallel to, but
alive. Go-get thee to thy love.as
A nightingale." Figures quite different What ever had happened had over- was decreed. Ascend her chor-
taken
Romeo kissed her sadly. "It was Tybalt-but at the next words from, that of
ber and comfort her; but look thou the fork. The herald of the morn; eyes grew wide with horror-
for Europe, had her
Romeo banished," sab- stay not till the watch be set for no nightingale." He threw open the Just been dis-
then thou canst not pass to Man-window. "Look, love, what envi the nurse, Romer that killed covered.
At Mantun thou shalf live un-ous streaks do lace the severing ໂຜດ. him-he is banished."
til we find time to blaze
your clouds in yonder east. Night's can Jullet felt the room sway before
marriage to reconcile friends; todles are burnt out and jocand day "O God!" she moaned. her.
"Did beg pardon of the prince, and call stands tiptoe on the misty mountain Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?"
the back with twenty thousand tops." He turned to her in, all "It did. Alas the day; it did. times more joy than thou went'st tenderness. "I must be gone and There's no rust, no faith, no hon- forth in Inmentation)" esty In
Shame come to A dawn of hope lighted Romeo's Romeo."
Ince. "Go hence,"
Her tears fell fast, "I must hear continued the She threw her arms about him.
from thee every day in the hour,' "Blistered be thy tongue for such ; Friti
Friar, "but," "he
warned, "be gone "Yon light is not di
she begged.. "In a minute there are He saw is surrounding lakes withi
a wish," cried Jullet, fiercely.
by break of day. Sojourn in Man- ploaded. "I know
many days O, by this count I shall their archipelagacs of wandering killed your cousin?" demanded the
"Will you speak well of him that tun. I'll find out your man, and faltered as her eyes filled with tears. be much in years ere I again behold Islands, each a hundred yards long other..
he shall signify from time to time "It is some meteor that the sun ex- my Romeo! She leaned far-out made of detached pieces of land and
Shall I speak ill of him that is
on hurriedly.
over the balcony to see him more. kept together by roots, or even made my husband? Ah, poor my Lord.
against thou we shall be thee this think'st by the natives from reeds and' sedi-That
ever micét banishedthat one word ment
banished hath slain ten thousand hung therefrom he
to Juliet's garden. By a rope ladder way to Mantua." She held him "I doubt it not ho comforted These islands were strong enough Tybalts Romeo Ya banished. To
ascended.
the close. "Stay, yet.. Thou need'st not "All the woes
shall serve to bear trees, flowers and
market speak the word is father, mother,
balcony and called to her.
be gone."
sweet... discoursca in our time to gardens, and even houses for sed Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, all alain. All the bed and listened. With a cry he whispered "So thou wilt have it sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu
She raised her weeping face, from He kissed her. " am content," come." He
He tried to smile, "Dry Industrious husbandmen. who passed
dead" their lives on them;
threw herself upon the bed They held each
she urose and... ran to meet him. 30. I'll say yon grey is not the Adieu."; : DASHER with such abaridon” that then, with a' long drawn sigh, she lark whose notes do beat the vaulty. the garden wall,
other close, and – morning'e eye;, nor that is not the Ho turned Global
quickly and ped to trically-planned streets which had the nurse, frightened, ran to find led the way into her chamber,
aped to their thousand people employed in Friar Laurence. Now was the time
heaven so high above our heads," "Oh fortune, fortune," she wept. And the hours which, had made He led her face to his "I have "All men call thee Bickle. Be fickle keoping them clean daily,
when the churchly man alone might the day too long now sped on more care to stay than will to go fortune. For then, I hope, thou wilt
wings. Too soon the early morning he cried. Come death, and wol-not
*him
He
to
Mexico
City
marched (population 300,000) without defent!" at its wonders.
He was astonished a
A Vast Palace
He saw the well-paved," symme- und
Emperor, Montezuma, lived in a vast palace built without B
nall.
Emperor's Plate
Tho sweat-smelling?
single
Friar
omeo.
"Art. thou gone so?" Juliet
he whispered. "Or. stay and "Lave, lord-ay husband, friend!"
she
she
every good hap to you that chances hales." she went here. Give me hand, farewell."
Como pu through the darkness a torch-benter and fight thee on thy
Laurence's cell lov ́Ro-light Altered through the 'drawn comoly SHAINS PA back him long, but sene
for
mdo, desperate will grief and an- curtains, Rames know he must "It is the day," she wept, and She watched Romeo disappear
obey the Friar's warning or all shuddered in his arms, le hence over the wall. would be lost. Tenderly he released by Rones It is the lark that sings When would ho come back to hert HE WAS FOR NOW: himself from Juliet's embrace, so out of tune. Qanow be gone. She turned from the balcony and usked." "It is
"And wilt thou be gone?" she She looked foarfully out the window-blinded with tears found her way not yet near/day.". "More light and light-it-grows!" back to her chamber... A bird sang outside her window.
Madamel called her nurse soff-)..
(To be Continued.).
xiety,
"Hence from Verona art thou banished," said the Frlar gravely, sweat-smelling woods, the Romeo beat his hands, in despair. Fountains, the rich hangings, the patient," "soothed the Friar, Incense, the armies of retainers, the "The world is broad and wide."
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ACROSS
4 Some nerve, asking the top of the house to heave something!
9 Bob washed at the river side-a
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11 Not binding.
12 Such a man is seldom touched.
13 It's invigornung, whichever way
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15 Cleared as profit.
18 No goal, (anagram).
17 A version of 18 Down.
19 May be a toss-up whether the
geyser does it or not.
20 Man's nume.
22 Don't assume that a horse that
will do this will throw you
25 Wrath Nutshes off the
keeper.
park-
27 A means, but it's only middling
or 50-80.
28 The schoolboy sometimes says
his aunt is.
20 A broadcaster, but in French. 31 Girl in mid-channel. 32 Print.
33 Tied up, not in confidence. 34 Ilas made in contusion and is
covered with It.
1 Shaving.
DOWN
2 You'd hate a pretty one declar-
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3 Looked on with a grudging eye.
Tool
0 Hot port in the jungle.
7 May carry you along,
8 Description of a queer song?"
114
16
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• May squeak when expressing __your__thoughts...,(two words,: 5.
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10 As to these, hotel doors can give points to South American republics.
13 Túreens (anagram).
14 When the instrumentis, the
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17 A
A modal of patience.
18 Beom.
21 Sounds the note of war.
23 "Cassius has a lean and
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24 Hampered.
20 To alarm or amuse-babies,
27 Measures.
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31 A portion of this planet.
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