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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1

The BORDER AND BETWEEN TALY DANCE

and

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South-eastern France, as far as and including Nice, was given by Italy to France through the efforts of the same emperor who Jost Alsace and Lorraine. The people speak Italian to this day more easily than French. Country one of superb mountains, rising from the foot-hills to snow-crowned Alps, while along the sea is a strip of orange and lemon groves, from which emerge beautiful villas and huge hotels. Magenta and Solferino gave not only this paradise to France but wonderful Savoy as well.

[By LILIAN HAYDEN HIESTON.]

mountain peake

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This border land is so lovely with ita, muttle there piratas who through scenery that has few equals in 1

mikalienate, its flowers, its little beaches and rocky headlands with the background of sleep hills and mountains that even the families of Roman emperom made long atay here in the days when Homs ruled the world. This mally all kept, face it hay for many years. Roman legions made their way through this region into Gant and the final victory in these mountain passes was celebrated by the erection of a huge tower, very elabor- ale and beautiful, with a statue of Augustus Caesar nineteen feet tall upon the manmit; La Turbie, far above the but visible from it. On this tower were inscribed the names of all the native tribes conquared and it was by forced labour of these brave, delestel Galiona that the enormous stones were quarried and put in place.

to the native tribes

Killed Their Own Women and Children. These intive people had lived in little

She Lived 3,000 Centuries.

Ago, and Her ... Skull, Recently Dug Up Shows That She Bore Some Resemblance to a Gorilla-The Original Wild Woman Kept House in a Hole in a Clift.

[By RENE BACHE.]

There lived in Europe, at least thre thousand conturion ago, a raco él gorilla. Wlike people whose skäleinus, or fragments

of them

have been dug up in widoly Separated places.

It was at first supposed that they re presumed un ancestral stock from which we ouranives must se derivel, Lut this is

KUNI

Brow duemort doul.inl. Anthropologists inclined to think that they may eventually have vanished from the ince of the earth, and that our own race may descended from another brauch of the Buman tren.

They were buiten, ne shath of thint. Tet in

effect they were wild animals, nelling an caves, cull rock shelter. 1. possibly in hotes in the ground. A Falltage which they occupied has recently been discovered, nor the futie modern Stown of La Quina, in Franco, a tew olles

northomat of the city Bordeaux.

· The houser-camps wind-the village were dozer, or more holes in the face of a vertical elif. Overhanging them was a helf of rock which served an 's sort of proof, protecting the entrances against rain Stadt snow.

One of the inhabitants of that primitive village was a woman, wine akull, was

up a short time ago at the baan of the

2. Special Interest attaches to her

to be out of

infested the Mediterranean. They seem to have beonjicaco-loving men but very brave when war was forced upon them, One tribe deliberately killed ovory child and women rather than let them be taken

Remaps and then died to the last

defending their stronghold. The Greck colonies farther along the const, en al Marseilles and Arles, made friends of the Romans but these mountain tribes world have none of them and contested every foot of the Roman progress. The final Roman victory after years of struggle was celebrated at Roine with great splendour and much rejoicing. It made possible the entrance into and conquest of Gaul. Villages Built on Precipitous Hill-Sides The mountains rose sómteeply from the sta that the only possible route for namies was above on the hills, where is now the marvellous Corniche read, which winds and turn upon itself and goes along

PRINCE CENTRE DCTAE

KYLERDLERANCE

Those tiny places aro alill inhabited by foll feats of ongineering, being built over ashy, unsociable people. looking ask- mountains and along precipitous rocks,

the world. One sees the deep blue of the seo far below and towering above are the anec at the tourists who flock to see their and over deep gorges and rushing tor snowy Alps. There are gorges and water. curious tones. How they tot supplements. La Grande is way up on top of falls and rock so desplate and wild that in questiou, they are miles up in the

the mountains and irom it one obtains it seems like some infernal region, then air, sul Rosetimes far from any road.

views of snowy Alps and of the entire hill-sides by

One climbs to

them to vegetation and

in göt

as goats climb by rough mountaic paths, along pre- Cover, ani clinging close to the slope a

coast. Ta Petite in song the shore and cipitcm heights; where the least mistake was perhaps the most difcall of all to build an the rocks rise out of the water tiny walled village whose ladder-like streets ries by means of thousands of in choosing one's foothold may masa

in many piacos with steep sides and the rocky steps out the solid rock. These death. The ordinary tourist is satisfied

mad had to be sliced out of the

edges of eettlemente are built in every case of the with anug what the famous "Grande the cliffs or tunnelled through them. All

riace rock and are exactly the colour Cornish" can bring within his reach.

three of

nak try rocks have miles of support. of the hills, se it is dimoult--to dia-

-ing-mary-to-keep-them-in-place For tinguish them until one is

very close.

tara thousand years of modern ltistory it Their wails and houses are continuation

was considered impossible to build say of the rock, following the slant of the

rind here and people who wished to enter rock surface. Sometimes the slope is so མ

France from Italy went by ses to Mar- steep that one side of a house has several

milies, as did Catherine and Marie de more worls than the other side. If one

Medici of Florence when they went with, knows the way one can go all throngli

great retinues to marry kings of France, one a village by means of different

The Corniche d'Or is the coast road from Marsailles, in the direction of Nice. houses nad tunnelled paths.

~Wonderfal-Roade:~~~ There are three very wonderful roads here that always remind me of the thres bears in the story. There the Grande, the Moyendo, and the Potita, Corniche, inst as there was the big and the middle sized and the little bear, furthermore there in the Lesvtiful Oniche d'Or, the golden road, which may stand for the Ajeet malden of the story.

These aro

There is no water in the world so lovely. as this sen. At times it is like heaps and heaps of Hght blue gauze, then the mist lifts, and the water is all shaies of emerald, again it is violet with tints an opal has, and again it looks deep porpio and at dann soatne like golden fire shad, off into roms away from the shining path of the rising sun. The coast faces dus cant or want or south. Ona can sen the x rise or wet, out of or inte, the magis water: It is one beauty of this coust that ik winds and turns and gives one overs ongle from which to see its nazvola.

Frostlaz-TownG, -

San Remo aid Bordighera ara the first Italian towns after the frontier station of Vintimilio, Bordighera coming Brst. It is on the end of a point of land and surveys the entire coast. It is perhaps the loveliest of all the Riviere places. Its ranges and lemons and flowers and paine are noted and it has the privilege of fur mishing all the palma for St. Peters at Rome on Palm Sunday. It a favourite resort of the Italian royal family, San

tecutul, far inors, artificial than its Lever fashionable and very sister town. On the French -vida- ara Benton, with its suburb of Garavan, ne

Anet the aristocratic riot covered with magni

As Cop hed

Napoleon 111. Napoleon gave France much and he robbed her of mush. In aiding the Halians against the invading Ayralian he won their gratitude and the result ránce of qulte & lice was the giving to France of Italy. This was contented land, heid nobles: Counts of Savoy and bl powering factions: Genon, Sardinia, Provence, Rome, and Sicily, all claimed it at various times, and fought for its possesion After the Ficiories Magenta and Solfering against the Ausfinite and villus known

| Martin, where the Empress Eugenio trians the central government of claimed, the right t

Empress of Austria cítun cama Bayand to France in recognition of the help the pinturesque old town of Rogue. given by Napoleon III and him eddiers.

then Monte Carlo. A popular vote was taken and the coun try sound Nice was overwhelmingly in favour of belonging to France, so in 1880 it was annexed to France, as was also Savoy, the inost picturesque part of modern Franco,

WAS THIS ANCIENT WOMAN AN

ANCESTRESS OF OURS?

because she was the only female of her when an animi was killat, they tore finita cure the simy stall was otipped rine whose rematos have ever been brought to light. The skull in remark- the Bath of its bones much as we org away and the fragments of tone-pot F ably well preserved. The forward-pro-accustomed to tackle a chicken leg

doth, are bove the

ment bony ridges,

Bho Was No Lady.

age when she died.

and

erthor.Whon that had boen, accen

ths hobia, the

The physical aspect of tub hunters in extraordinarily wild and choouth. They

SKULL

OF THE

QF LA QUINA AS IZMAS:

to dead this to her home cail whore the Empiror and.

brune and, the

Monaco and Monte Carlo am sup..

poried almost wholly by the Casino and those who flock to lose their money in it The other towns raise much fruit and many flowers to send away.

ably they were set also for blankets. The placing together of paria of skins for body coverings must have offered the first suggestion of sewing. Perhaps the woman ni La Quina knew how to sew. actor a lowhion, with reindeer sinews for thread.

First Houses Ever Built:

Vorden of La

family occupied uns, with her

which had exceptional advantages. To use the term of the modern resi estate agent

asdesirable, realdende, delightfully

located." There was even Tanning water, just outside, The cliff.bola was not only weather proof but impregnable to-attackAlso, it was safe against in vasion by wild animals.

The list was a matter of great.... Im- for in those times the daya,

porta Cave bear, and the sabre--

tion.

toothed tiger-all three long ago extinst

were croatures to

to be greatly feared, especially by

people provided with

only

grizzly.

The

the primitivn weapons da dele The tiger was much larger than

and the bat to-day, half again

3.8 big bear and the llon were disposed to dispute Forex that were socesible ta

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Elont forty-fire your theme to outdogether with Towels At the core im, are the spot with flint knives; and the parteman di La Quins, who doubt wanta; but the drove of the worgan of

are notkeably short of stature, enormous" ly amanlar, with short and heavy legs, which long ago disappeared from the and, when possession of fire was thus Bengal specs of They do not hold themselves ereck, but face of the earth, obtained, it could be kept

with a walk

bodies, misrk

The gams, when kiled, wes cat op or definitely in a rotten lag, thiết k

14may be taken) for granted. tate-kha:ith human belligy the hose gratug their beards are veriteful for meat were carried home to the woman

She must-have

Vi

oling jawa, still staluing fourteen By the use of certain evidential data, plished, the skull was fairly complete... Balonce has been able to restruct after astonishingly

Primitive Home Lik fashion the mode of Hfe of the apdient in to see my of must bad ones been eya-sockets are heavy and pro

Woman of La Qui Prmurtably the been clayey and were found shipped. oseupied ber: all hole in company with

and Jahoe point her husband

stone halves

en a rather forosloda-looking creature,

mportant advantage reindeer, and non quina lived able manor nearly concealing their faces village. Perhaps the meat with eaten a wife, and mother had more children. An Important advantage period when the wante el La Quins Hved dmanifestly for, chigance wia of a of the location lay in the Ciconmstance the climate of southernt Lampe was very and spreading over their chesta. They ww poopla ko low in the scale of human some sort for holding water and other / Qulua, light up on the vertical face of the".

way in which her forehead slopes bollom along the beno of the clif. Jords, and mapostles Creator Took like wild bearts on two legs; end; 'divelopmquas, may have bad Do Eauwledge- Upplås. She and anther; or, taking into ♬ wolten ·

Ono muy judge that from that a small stream, ran over ➡ pebbly

officeivably have made and beast Immunity so fat as they

Trore

concerned. It was

It was sale, sinó from cakes to all, intenta," and purposes, that is just oooking. But, it; ïa": to be preeninad vessels of wood of imitiveness of her The first APIE KAAPSTA

view the extreme

1bb caflient domesélo serangements." It soetal, more men are the thrown stofis and the tras

that skolfs of anima

animals served the branch, employed 29 4 likely

club Es

order, ckward, will depression behind thrishlog a ready supply of water to drink.

my ridges aforaminitioned. The knif I ran in a bra of clavoy sand, pues,

roamed Inežila "all Over" that'regi

One CAD imaging the women of tay cliff. what they are village, od roshiny day, alfing

has mewhatalmiler the bank of that alham end. Iar bank of the little stresin foeth dy huge lo dec, honderd old rook, that

wonder wozied' skull was found. L'ethapa wie in the

stall preserved - and almost white, was buried there: --At all,syente, přes | home, their

mah ge und down deel less by ure ind

awing of Jr dem. No, gouder inh

Ahoull be realized that her

minit (-lava depedded for: Lied precacions suppX" Crnite and

Adajjumbed it in such when tɔ ↑ the animals,

for its to overlapan to

Were these men

that they were acquainted with fire, and used 10 13 latat to keep thantel ves warm Ta cold

“would” häidly in Enva Fast ɛto makeř 14, bv.

used: -navigen employ↑

esdoncation

rich most

Bus bly pods

winter Abd end ber

the und

receptasiss