1939-10-06 — Page 20

Sensible Summer Diet.

Summer diet is not a matter to be treated casually. Many people think salads and meatless meals are enough in the hot weather, but when food is deficient in energy-producing proper- tles you are more likely to feel the heat.

CHINA MAIT OCTOBER 6, 1939.

TO-DAY'S STRANGE STORY OF REAL PEOPLE

CHEVALIER D'EON-

MAN OR WOMAN?

BY VINCENT TOWNĘ

this duel! Your Excellency will "Sir, he is a woman! By fighting

make himself a laughing stock at

court!"

Bread forms an essential part of diet, and during the summer months, when the appetite sometimes requires temp-in ting, sandwiches made an ideal meal, provided care is taken that the meat used is fresh and good..

If in doubt of the quality of food. So the Count Guerchy, French. Am- eaten, remember that digestive distur-bassador to the Court of St. James, bances can usually quickly be cor-declined to go forth at sunrise and rected with a dose of Pinkettes. These meet, upon the field of honour,. his dainty pink laxative pilules aid diges-predecessor, that creature of mystery, tion, tone up the liver, dispel constipa- Charles tion, banish billousness, keep the skin Andre Timothee d'Eon de Beaumont--- Genevieve Louis Auguste clear from blemishes, sweeten the breath and relieve piles. Chemists

popularly known as the "Chevalier everywhere can supply Pinkettes.

| d'Eon."

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Born at Tonnerre, France, in 1728. d'Eon early attracted attention by à weird talent for impersonating either sex with such success as to decive in- timate friends. Learning of the talent,

Louis XV. lost no time in putting it to use to serve the purpose of court intrigue. So the young "Chevalier" became the French king's secret agent in diplomatic affairs. He (for conve- nience we will apply the masculine

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A Moustache Sald By Many To Be False

pronoun to d'Eon) became the most successful spy that ever pried into the secrets that hold kingdoms to- gether and break them asunder,

Part of the time, at the courts of Europe he was a dashing young of- ficer, with sword on side and a mous- tache said by many to be false, who challenged his brothers in arms at the least provocation, who glanced and flirted with the court belles, and who had the confidence of his fellow cour- tiers.

Bravely he fought in the army of France, enduring the hardships of a campaign as bravely as he undertook diplomatic missions entailing the gra- vest perils, and necessitating the most exciting hairbreath escapes.

Then he would drop out of sight and there would appear at count func tions a delicately formed, charming creature who had all of the young beaux and old roues of court at her side, who broke hearts (and purses too), who was the gayest flirt that ever cast sheeps' eyes at the sterner

sex,

For a long time: one suspected that the dashing d'Eon and this court coquette playing of both the male and female roles enabled King Louis' spy | to pry into secret documents, inter- cept dispatches, overhear dark secrets of state, eavesdrop and peep and pry, make and mar men intrusted with confidences upon which hinged the destiny of kingdoms.

..

It was the most dramatic feat of espionage ever performed in all his- tory. And d'Eon never missed his cue or overplayed his part. He out- spied all other spies of history.

honour, who was daily at her side and who seemed to hold a spell over Her Majesty.

The pretty, bright-eyed girl slyly directed the nels which allowed her to display a conversation into chan-- wondrous knowledge of life at the courts of Europe and presented arguments setting forth the gradually she advantages of an Russia and France.

alliance between

Thus resulted the alignment of France, Russia and Austria against Frederick the Great of Prussia, during that struggle d'Eon kept the allies the Seven Years' War. Throughout together with such skill that Louis commissioned him as Ambassador to London, that he might use his wiles against the British sovereign.

of St. James in the guise of a man, The Chevalier arrived at the Court but he had not been there long until he defied his king. So Louis sent to London in d'Eon's stead, Count Guer- chy, with ambassadorial commission for himself and letters to recall for the Chevalier. But d'Eon refused to give up his post and during the quar- [rel that followed he challenged the Count to the duel which that noble re- fused to fight because warned that his adversary was a woman. He had courtier who had met him while play- been recognized by some argus-eyed ing his feminine role at one of the capitals of Europe.

undoing. He was beginning to grow This recognition proved to be d'Eon's too passe for the dual role. Into his once delicate complexion had come character lines that made disguise difficult. It was another of the many penalties of age.

Upon the eve of the great Seven Years 'War, France sought a diplo- matist with sufficient. genius to effect dared to ask d'Hon whether he was Some inquisitive British courtier an alliance with Russia. After veterans really a woman and the little Chevalier of the service had failed Louis sent promptly seized the intruder by the to the court of the shrewd Empress throat, choking him almost into in- Elizabeth, at Moscow, the Chevalier sensibility. d'Eon. Presently it became rumoured; it was widely believed that the late But throughout England about the Russian court that the Em-ambassador of France was either a press had employed a new maid of woman or of uncertain sex.

An ugly, feud resulted from d'Eon's recall by Louis. He had Guerchy in- dicted for attempting to assassinate him with poison and Guerchy had him indicted for libel. The quarrel resulted in the Count's favour and the Chevalier was exiled from France. After spending some years. a. subjest of dispute, he was permitted by his king to return to France upon con- dition that he would henceforth dress as a woman.

A strong argument in favour of his being a woman was the fact that he accepted these conditions and appeared during the remaining 33 years of his life in feminine gårb, using the name “Mme, d'Eon." Finding his prestige at the French court to be lost, he return- ed to more friendly London, where he supported himself by: giving, fenc- Ang lessons until, during a bout, he

·received à mortal wound from which he died May 21, 1810, in the 82nd year of his (or her) age.

LOCAL DOLLAR

The demand rate on the Hong Kong dollar to-day was 1/2-13/18.

Silver was quoted at 21-1/4

for

Spot and 21 forward.

The London on New York cross rate was quoted at £-US$40L. The New York on London

rate

Was

U.S.$.04-1/&

.