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[LIFE-DRAMA OF A GREAT ACTRESS.

INDIGESTION

AND THE NATURAE. REŽLEDY,

to worse.

No mags, or woman who is a victim of THE LATE GENEVIEVE WARD,

indigestion can possibly enjoy anything like When Genevieve Ward came into this good health. For, mind yun, when once the world, more than eighty-five years ago, fate stomach geta imt of order, then, the whole and fortune conspired together and decidedligstive system stomach, liver and towela- in likely be affected, and no yon go front bad that she was to have a life flied to the brim

Considered as one, the stomach, with success and yet devoid of that liver and bowels may be truthfully sail to be happiness which husband and children nothing like a delicately balanced machine.

Waen

single part of the mechanism, say the bring to a woman.

Her life was empty of love, save that, of stomach, go wrong, there is an immediate friends, and she lavished all her affection undanger that it will upset the whole, throw it her dogs and a few actress and actor friends, out of order, and bring about a serious hawak-

Genevieve Ward's loveless nringe is per haps the most romantic and the most tragic story of any prominent figure in England to-day The incidents, related in a novel, would be condemned as impossible.

in Paris.

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down.

If everybody could be persuaded to realise that the little shocks and jars of life, the little art of rarelessness we hardly ever think bont -worry, too much work, lack of exercise late honey anil

so on, very seriously effect the digestive system, and often throw it out of gar, than they would certainly be fewer afing people in the work

| work)-frumonts

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These, however, are the facts. At the age of eighteen, Generiere Ward, a high spirited American girl with beautiful blue The worst of it is that people will sometimes eres, met a Russian count named Constans neglect to take proper steps to avoid indigestion. tine de Guerbet while she and her parents | Chlortunately, they have a dangerous habit of were on a trip to Europe. The count fell thinking that the stomach, liver or the bowels, desperately in love with the girl, and the when out of order, will of themselves resver marriage took pice at the Consulate in the delicate balance and poise they have in good But this very, very rimly happens Nice. The count. being a Russian, later health. jasisted, however, on the marriage being and the nost common-senas way to avoid solemaised once again in a Russian church miseries of indigestion is either to prevent it or banish it from your system. And prevan- Son is always easier and better than enre.

In any case, either to prevent or to banish storiesigestion. row can't do better thax take

rasional dose of Mother Seigel's Symp

remedy for stomach and liver. troubles. It has been before the world for early fifty years. Each year, each week, in fact, cases are recorded where dyspeptics have Then came a dramatic step. Colonel found relief by resorting to this hoe oll family. Ward. Geneviore's father, appealed to the remedy, and now the total of those who, after Czar of Russia, who ordered the matter torsonal trial. voluntarily and enthusiastically recommend Mother Seigel. Syrup, how man be quietly investigated. When I had the into tens of thousands. Yes! tens of thousanda! facta in his possession the Czar sunt Coual de Guerbel to Warsaw under sealed onlers.ay that Mother Suigers Syrup was a splendid The count, now congratulating himself on the success of his plot, obeyed the coaches, bilionsness, flatulence, edhstipation, and mand. He walked into the lipus to whlel: pains after eating, if they did not believe what he was sent, and there was confronted by they were saying was the simple truth. an altar, fully decorated, before which bis brider was waiting, clad in mourning back Her father was by her side.

In the meantime he circularel to the effect that be bad never be ally married to Miss Ward, and he contrived to give a totally wrong impression of the whole affair.

The count realised he was eaten, and the mariage was solemnised again, ac

wieb: When cording to his once expressed the ceremony was over the parties bowed coldly to each other and went their ways. The husband never saw his wife again, and be died a few years afterwards.

Such was the tragic background in Genevieve Ward's life.

In her early twenties she took up sing- ing and made a success in Italian operu. In Paris and other cities she was enthusi astically revived, and she drew all Lon. don as Maki. Murion in Macfarren's

Robin Hool."

GOOD HUMIOTA.

Here was success. Tragedy followed immliately in its footsteps. Her voice failed completely owing to over-exertion. Mia Guerrabella (as she called herself) was heard no longer, bat Genevieve' Ward, a talented actress, suddenly appeared in Maurhester, in the part of Tady Macbeth, She was then in the thirties.

Success came to her coes agaia. She came to Loulor in 1878, and produced "Forget-Me-Not," at the Lyceum.~London went ad over her. She became the Queen of Tragedy,

Of her ultimate retirement and her co- tinual returns to the stage-to the "Old Vic" and St. James' Theatre-little need be said. She never lost her power over bor audience. Her wonderful vitality was with her all her life-Daily Express.

REAL LIFE ENOCH ARDEN.

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The annulment of the marriage of Mrs. Veronica Butes Goodhce to Count de Rienzi, an Austrian nobleman, which has just been granted by the Boston courts bas revealed a drama in real life out-d30- The ing the fiction of Enoch Arden.

still countess, though married again. mourned the loss of her husband, Mr. Paul H. Goodbue, son and heir of a millionaire manufacturer of New Jersey, who had been reported missing in action during the war. To-day she is reunited with Goodhue, who spent three Year in military hospitals trying to remem ber who be was. Mr. Goodhue, though reported "missing" speechless and with his mind beclouded, was picked up, like many another at the front, in a sbell crater and removed to field hospital, where be was, knows only by a number. He back to the United was brought States, treated at the Fur Hills Hos pital and there some months ago was disebarged as mentally competent, though he had only the slightest idea of his identity. At last, however, he discovered his identity, and returned to Boston seeking traces of his wife, his family and friends.. He was reluctant to reveal himself to them, and though he hungered for the woman he had wed in 1917, a fewinonths before he went to France, he kept in the background and waited. Dramatic recognition took place in a restaurant where Count Rienzi and his bride were dancing. Paul, Goodhue alone at a table on the dancing floor, and watched her." At last their eyes met. The countess stood still for a moment as if entranced by some vision. Then she broke from the count and rushed to the man at the table, and ung herself" at his feet, sobbing with joy. When the suit to uanul the marriage of Veronica Batés Goodhue to Count Rienzi came to trial be proved himself 's true nobleman, and interposed no objection.

Lord Gorell, speaking on the future of education, last month, said that the ques tion, "What is Education" seemed particularly easy to answer; but the most extraordinarily varied answers had been heard from time to time. The science of education was as brand as life itself it wae really the art" of extracting the best use out of life.

They would not be likely to write and means of banishing dyspeptic troubles, head-

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London's Chinatown is disappearing remarks the Daily News.

At the present rate of depopulation, it will not be long before Limehouse-cause- way and Pennyfields lose all their Chines residents.

Four years ago quite 2,000 Chinese bea men wern living within a stone's throw of Now it is the Wrist India Dock gales. doubtful whether there are 700.

During the war London's Chinatown had its moet prosperous days, for quite a number of English ships were almost entirely manned by Chinese crews, while others, with English deck bands, “had Oriental seamen below deck.

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But when the war ended the edict went forth, British crews for British ships." and as the Chinese wore paid off they either went back to their own country, or to America, where their labour as in demand.

"The result was that Chinese traders in Limehouse and Pennyfields began to suffer, and one after another had to put up their shutters.

Then, suddenly, there ezine i boom, dus! to a singular cause.

The death of Billie Carleton, the beauti ful young West End actress, and the highly coloured stories of opium and other parties, focussed public attention on the sinister streets and alleys of Chinatown.

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