Salt Lake Tribune | 1895-08-25 | Page 13 | Romantic History of a Dowager Empress

ILo Homant mantle lc history of ft a dowager empress the dowager impress I of china who was a rood good deal to the floret during the late troubles in tile hie middle kingdom has bad a very ro mantle history site she was wait the child of poor parents in the suburbs of canton and re rc for tier her beauty at a time choin her ter parents did not know whence their dally daily bread way to come the augmented that they should sell bell lier leer an aff a lave this thin course was wa followed and site she became the property of a famous general lie was waa so enchanted with her beauty that ho he all adopted opted lier her when the general cc neriel next went to pekin he orr erel his beautiful daughter to the emperor Knip eror slid and thereby won great favor the young airl so BO charmed hla him majesty that h he 0 boon made tier her his wife when the emperor died the former slave al became regent recent of the empire and administered the national better than almost tiny any tit of her lit r slip she Is a justly considered one of the great areat women me it of 0 her time tho westminster gazette