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Show I, 17 IVTtni inr Its riin aod the Famous Folk who j X v LAX Jl XX o L X! XXXi Have Borne It copyright mo, b7 pmccb Marsh.au. II Victor, Vincent, Yictorian, Victorine, l Vicforioln and "Victoria hold zi pJaco al- I1 most unique anions first names. It is one of the. very J"ow names with popu- I nr mnseulinc and feminine forms which I has reached its greatest fame when I borne by a woman. For altliouyli great men, as dram-j dram-j nlisis, novelists and pools, philosophers, statesmen, kings and saints have borne j . the name in some form, none of them i has reached the fame which eame to Vhiecu Victoria. ' -A woman, too, might almost lay claim to second place among the. famous bear-j bear-j ers of this name, and, like Queen Vic- j toria, a woman who received the atYcc- j lion of people of her own day and Iho admiration of peoplu of later genera tions, not. only because of tho high position she lieid and the influence she wielded, but also - beeaire of her .i loyalty and fidelity to her family and I friends, and to her blameless life. I This was Vittoria Colouna, Ilnliau ( poet and friend of the great. She was born in H90, the daughter of the grand constable of Naples. Her girl- hood was passed among tho greatest men of Iho day in Italy, and at; that ,, time Italy was full of great men. Popes and cardinals, statesmen, poets and nrtists wero her daily companions. As a child she was betrothed to the Marquis of Pcscaro, and when she was nineteen she married him. Jier mar; riagc was as happ3' as was that of .England's queen, and Vittoria 's onlv i grief was occasioned by her husband s long absences on military duty; for he J was a favorite general of Charles V, l emperor of tho holy Roman empire, and led mnn.v important campaigns. The ' voting Italian noblewoman, whose edu cation was I he best the day afforded, celebrated her devotion to her husband in many sonnets, and when he was killed in battle, sonic sixteen years after iheir marriage, she wrote of her tr grief at his death. Vittoria was still young when this sorrow came upon her, and one of the most charming and beautiful ladies of Italy. Hut, like Queen Victoria, she never consod to griovo at her hus.band's tleatli, and would never listen to nn-otlier nn-otlier offer of marriage. Instead alio withdraw to the island of schia, a favorite fa-vorite sot of Poscaro's, and devoted her time to literature. "I will preserve the l.itlo of n faithful faith-ful wife to niv beloved." slio declared, in defense of "her solitary life, "and on this island rock, once so dear to him, will I wait patiently till time brings the end of all my grief, as one of all my joys.' j In her later life Vittoria Colonnn was a great friend of Michelangelo's, and the great poet-painlcr-seulptor speaks o'f her in some, of his sonnets. She culled him "Magnificent Master," and with her sympathy and appreciation holpod him greatly in his work, thus greatly putting the world in her debt. The earliest bearers of the name, which (nines from two parts of the Latin verb to conquer vinco and vieliiK were among tho heroes of the early Christian church, and especially, appropriate was the name to those who had overcome the sorrows and troubles of this life, and often it: was bestowed on them, Jlenco it is that there wore many early saints of tho name, and Victoria, Vic-toria, Vietorinus and Victor aro throe third century Christians whoso victory over the flesh was so great that they went willingly to martyrdom. Another of these earh saints was Victor de Plancy, whoso visions and miracles were so renowned that even Chilporloi the wife murderer, who ruled in France in tho sixth century, sought out the saint in his hermit's abode in the wilderness to ask for help and advice. ad-vice. Saint Victor of Damascus, who gained his name becauso he was "victorious "vic-torious over the feebleness of nature, the rage of demons and the savagery of men," and Saint Victoricn of Car-thage, Car-thage, who "suffered death with great joy" in early times, were two more, of theso victorious boarcrs of the name. Probably, though, tho greatest, or, at least, the most famous of them all, is Saint Vincent de Paul. Born in Prance in 157G, he took priest "s orders when he was twenty-four ,'ot long after that ho was t a Icon prisoner by pirates, and sold as a slave in Africa. He served different mastors, and finally was bought by a French expatriate". This man Vincent persuaded to Tct.ura, not only to the faith, but nl60 to the homo of his youth, and together master and slave escaped from Bnr,barv and sailed for .France. Subsequently Vincent's life was one of continuous religious activity and ad-vancoment. ad-vancoment. He had charge of important im-portant religious embassies, was almoner al-moner of tho queen of France, founded tho order of the Sisters of Charity and of thp Lazaritcs, and above nil. established, in Paris, tho first hospital and homo for foundlings. Saint Vincent, do Paul has boon called the father of his country, not: bu-causo bu-causo of any front military accomplishment, accomplish-ment, but because in times of war he fed the hungrj' and nursed the sick and cared for the oor and imnroteet.cd. Tho poems of Vittoria Colonua havo literary merit, as well as personal interest, in-terest, but the namo has had far greater bearers in tho world of letters. . Count Vittorio Allien, called the mosl important of modern Italian dramatic poets.: Viktor Ifydburg, known as the Dante of Sweden; Victor Hugo, leader of tho nineteenth conturv romantic school in Franco, and Victorion Sardou, one of the most interesting of recent French dramatists, form a quartette of writers who shed national and international interna-tional luster on their common name. Alfieri, the earliest of thorn, was twenty-six when, in 177o, he decided to settle down and- mako a name for hini-solf hini-solf jii letters. As a boy ho had stndjod, until he came into a fortune, and then ho had spent his time wandering wander-ing a-bont J'hirope. But although ho did not begin to take life seriously until ijio, by tho time of his death, twenty-cighr. twenty-cighr. years later, ho had managed io produced enough to mark him tho foundor of a new school in Italian drama. Victor Hugo was born the year lieforo Allien died, and from the time when, at fourteen, ho produced his first tragedy, he wroto incessantly. Jtyd,bnrg, born in 1S20, and Sardou, born in .1831, both tried their hands at various moans of livelihood. Hydbnrg became au editor at twenty-four, and later studied and taught history before he did much writing, either of his historic his-toric novels or his lyrics. Sardou studied medicine, taught, tried writing plays and failed, and then bocame n hack waiter and journalist before ho gained success finall' as a dramatist. Four popes, the first of them canonized, canon-ized, were named Victor, and in Italy tho nume has gained" fame in tho royal house, as well as in tho church. 'Victor Amndeua T, a member of the houso of Savoy, the oldest reigning house in ISuro'po, which is now represented on the Italian throne, ruled part3 of southern France and northern Jtaly from J.GIJ0 to 1037, and did much for tho development of commerce and education in his realms. Victor Amadous HE lost manv of his possessions. This Victor's son, Victor Emmonuol I, king of Sardinia from 1S02 to 1821, gained moro than his father had lost, while Victor Emmanuel Em-manuel U of Sardinia brought Italy under ono government and became its 1 1 hand in 1S61, as Victor Emmanuel J. thereby making a monumental placo for him.se f in tlio history of modern l'ly-His l'ly-His grandson, who rulca in Italy today an Victor Emmanuel IT, j'h the, best known man of tlio namo now Iivinjr-Thc Iivinjr-Thc best known living woman ot the nnmo is doubtless the only daughter ol Emperor William ot! Germany, the Princess Victoria. Tho namo io Victor, "Victorio and Victorine Vic-torine in I'rance; Vinreu'io, Vittorc, Viftorio and Vittoria in TiiT m, in Spain and Vinecii?. in GpV&JI j Miss .Marshall will 1Jn raWim swer by mail all iiiqiiiricsaJdM J her concern 1 nu the origin niWl t-Ml first names. In addressing shall in care of this paner close a stamped and selt.-ifl2lW?( velope for tlio reply. artdrJj, |