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Show Olir Fl Tt lVIVl m ItS rigin and the JmousFolkWho V Z wLJLJLAw Have Borne It COPYBIGHT BY FRANCES MAHSHALL. I ! great Lauras and Lawny Law-ny havo been judged 0, at least that best f tire lnurol wreath of ih from which thoy take, iToath first used to bind tho household pods of in turn, were named hold cods, or lares, on e bung; and tho lares riuia, when Rome was 'of. Thon rhero arose lacing" tho imago of the of the house, at the when Iomo look away iacy, sho took also tins o guardian image, por-h, por-h, stood forever on the These lares wore covins, cov-ins, and, it is said, bo-forefathers bo-forefathers of one of cs of later days, they irefathers of tho mod-tho mod-tho lares shared in all the sorrows of tho Ro-When Ro-When a young mnn way in tho world, he cr to tho little imago: r of my family, to you narcnts. that von mav Efe1I. A portion of each meal Item, and on festival days feed in wreaths and gar-i gar-i in their connection with the evergreen which was Eiheir fasti ve crowns came j called launis, or laurel, s laurol bush the Latin irs, Laurcutius, Laurentia, ra and Larentia wore taken fall the Itor forms of tho tent lands were founded, (rears aftor the foundincr of she grew tired of the M'ar and expelled thorn, thore rst famous bearer of the .was Lars Porsena. king of Etrurin, and doubtless he lis nauiQ from Rome, just adopted ihc household god a forefathers. This half bj? was a champion in 500 B Tarquins of Rome, but ;was overthrown Lauron-Bsed Lauron-Bsed to bo tho wife of tho D found Romulus, founder him hut iai,0Mk h2 homo an'1 rcnr aJl ih.ko,.lhe Etruscan king, tho stor es of his life are half myth. ' Although the name had these two fi. BA Probably n usual enough seven Ifrrif'1 Wi,S ? man wh Hvcd who n,nla -faIf ccn,kuries after Porsena rono S lt popTuIar throuKhoul Eu-iml Eu-iml W'ls.wrenco, tho brave RnL flm&r? th,,rd century deacon of ?e- ? oW.,,c" h called in, in the he i . ?' .to R.,ve UP tho treasures ifi h9,mdo,r? ,and orphans, over wSn?hr2J?d ?sWQia ee; then ho iroS? braveIy td martyrdom on a grid- The story of this plucky 'saint, who, throZrh mCkCfl hi," MnecutJS t hi ?Lth0 fla"1cs. spread abroad, and the name snrend with t. Charlen acne took it, with some of the saint's reliS f? ?rnan7;,"s Loreuz- Saint Lauren-' litis, ono of tho companions of Saint u- a?'D 500 Lad his successor ?k f,ronS,b0Pr0f Canterbury, spwad it as J.aurcnce, Laura, Lawrence and Loretta n0rWanw Ph,liMT" who won an im-portant im-portant victory on August 10, St. Lau- rai:iayi 111 i1557' aud lilt the grid-i,? grid-i,? 3R??d Jmlacc of t,,e Escurial in T ninn honor, mado it popular as w , i and Loren2a in Spain. Italv l as the samo forms as Snain. and Swn. uii iias iaurcntius and Lars. It was the third saint of the name mV'ihi in th0 trWelfth wntSry? "ho made the. names Larry and Lnnty so vTSn" Wr""1, S"nt Laurence Archbishop of London, was a son of fhihll10 0'T?0' nnd 33 a We 7 c,VOU as 2 hostnCo to the King ot Leinster A few yoars later tho bp was put m tho hands of the abJbot of a nearby monastery, and finally, in 1162, was appointed Archbishop of "Dub-t,1C "Dub-t,1C tbn;d century saint of tho name.. ho was a lover of children, and he gained the devotion of Ireland by rinrPnrr1'" K'V? 3.9 ?mal1 dcstitllles during a terrible famine. 5,nti au"nc9 Justinian, the first patriarch of Venice, who died in J 455, muncan imPrnnt saint of the nmTJin n0Sl' noled.,"an of the name, of thn "rAIS-J"l0n n history as Lorenzo the ragmfacent. A member of the celebrated cele-brated Florentine family of Medicis, he thSo,Mraift 0l'th frrcat Cosilio, Md through tho boy s companionship with H-H-frl-H 'I'M I : I : I ! .t..HlHH-1 t mu LAURENCE LAUKA. t T 4. . 0 Laurences and Lauras take 7 "i01 namo from the laurol wreath 7 l famc which has crowned some 7 of them How the wreath cot its -r 7 namo The early Saints named f Laurence who spread their namo T IVth tliolr fame Lorenzo tho -r v Magnificent, and the Laura of Pe- trarch's sonnets the best known 7 an and woman of their name 7 Some other famous bearers. -j. the venerable statesman, as well as bv the caretul training which he received trom his mother, Lorenzo became one of the best educated men of his day. Ills mother, a woman of great capability, capa-bility, early took her children's education educa-tion in hand. Sho took them every day tp church, and she wrote hvmns for them to sine; by her businesslike moth-nds moth-nds of conducting her numerous chari- tjsiue JWht thcm t0 niauago the wealth which later would come to them; and by bringing them constantly into association with the groat financiers, statesmen, writers and artists of the times, she gavo them a knowlodgo of men and events which thoy could have gained m no other wav. miSnrn'r1 S sad' .was stdious, and mastered Greek and Latin at an early uge. But he was a great lovor of sports; dogs and falcons, football aud horses occupied much of his time. His own horse, Morelio, was so fond of him thni uIfl t:'.kc, food lVom uo other than his master's hand. l,onn?ai!)H ,in Ijenjombranco of his own app3 boyhood, Lorenzo tried to mako his own children happy. Xo matter how clonSiUK tho Anrc? of his commercial rn"i "s.' no mtter how attractive some taie antique ior his treasured garden, or some book for his library, ho could aiVySfSparc-Pmo,0 romr) wlt his chil-dreu chil-dreu to write plays for them to net, and to sing and play with them. He died in 1-192. wlien only 43. But in hn.i Patively short life years he had attained so groat political power, h.id gained so much wealth, and had shown such generosity in the patronage ?ci.-0ttcr.,and,a tha- he Gained the lasting title of Magnificent. Though tho greatest man of the namo was an Italian, tho most renowned woman wom-an bearer of it, Laura dc Novcs, born in 1308, was a native of Trance; yet she gained her renown because she was the inspirer of some of tho best work of the Italian poet Petrarch. Petrarch first saw his Laura in the church at Avignon, when she was 9 and already tho wife of Hugues dc Sale, and ho was 23. Thoir acquaintance acquaint-ance lnstcd about twenty years, and Petrarch told about it in perhaps 300 sonnets, as all tho reading world has known, to its sympathetic delight, since then. Although in all those long years Petrarch Pe-trarch and Laura exchanged only a few words, the poet's attachment for Madame Mad-ame do Sale was very real. It has often been said that the Laura of -tho Son-nets Son-nets was, only a woman of tho poot's imagination, but Petrarch himself, as well as later investigation, asserted her roahtj. One man of tho namo temporarily bore the laurel wreath of fame undeservedly Laurens Coster of Koster, the Dr. Cook of his day, who claimed that ho, instead of Oiuttcnberg, invented printing with movable types. He was a chandler and innkeeper of Harlem iu tho fifteenth century. His claim was long since disproved dis-proved to tho satisfaction of almost everybody, but for a time it gave rise tp a good deal of discussion and investigation. inves-tigation. Two other Lawrences have won fame as rounders- Loronz Heister, called the rounder ot modern Gorman surgery, who died in 1758; and Laurentius or Lars Andrea, who m the early part of the sixteenth century, introduced the reformed re-formed Lutheran faith into Sweden. Laurence Barrett, Irish .born, who began be-gan life-as clerk in a dry jroods shop in latcrson. N. J., and who served as a captain in the Civil war. but who mado his fame as an actor and friend of Edwin Ed-win Booth, and Laura Keene, English ?.orn w"o made her first appearance on the iew York stage in 1S52, are two famous actors of tho name. kaurenco Sterne, born in Ireland in 1(16, who made his name and fame as the author of "Tristam Shandy," and Laura Jean Libb', popular novel writer, represent the name in letters, while Lau-rcuco Lau-rcuco Alma-Tadcma, born in tho Netherlands Nether-lands In 1S30, tho most famous living depicter of Boman, Greek and Egyptian scones, represents the name in art. Laura BridRoman, born in Now Hampshire Hamp-shire In 1820, stands in a class by herself her-self nmone tho laurel crowned mon and women of this namo, ns one of tho first blind and deaf persons to be educated by means of a raised alphabet. |