Show Rowe Howe About Marie Antoinette C Cats ts vs Dogs Ninon de L Lenclos By y ED HOWE I IIA I long taken great Erlat Interest In Inthe Intile inthe the tile French Involution widely heralded heralded heralded her her- as an uprising of ot the people against desiK tlc kings Finally I have read so 80 o touch much about It I 1 doubt this uprising was against Louis XVI led aed believe ITe It was actually against his queen Marie Alarie Antoinette The French Revolution was founded on gossip rather than on the political wrongs s of ot the people You may beleve believe be be- Mere leve you OU have ha heard vivid gossip In your time tune but you do not know how now terrible ter- ter Ible gossip may mal become unless you have rend read the story of ot Louts Louis XVI XVI's queen One story was so 80 brutal Improbable improbable Im im- probable that when told In court durIng during dur- dur Ing ng the reign of ot terror It shocked the most brutish audience ever gathered and the prosecutor ros realized he bad had made a mistake In Introducing It the mistake almost saved the queens queen's life Marie Antoinette was lIIS lIISI a I German and French hatred of ot Germans was as great front then as It Is now Of ot all the foolish Coolish women In history Marie Antoinette Antoinette An An- I toinette ranks near the top tier Her history his hla- tor tory reminds one of a n country girl determined to go to the devil In spite of the warnings and prayers of ot a wise and good mother In this case atle the mother was old Marla Maria Theresa empress em cm- press of Austria Women omen should read rend Marla Maria Theresa's letters to tier her heedless daughter stronger Ir preaching for Cor morality mor mor- morality and common sense cannot b be found The old empress was a sound German Grman and over and over o predicted her daughters daughter's downfall because of follies even o our modern flappers have not equaled Fortunately old Maria 1 was 88 dead when her foolish daughter ascended the steps of or the guillotine In la Paris Carts and left It with her head hlad carried In one basket and her body In another I am coming to doubt the people will l willever willever ever rebel against their political wrongs or have ha ever engaged In such Buch rebellion In the past Besides every honest citizen walks a politician to control con con- him the politicians at the capitals capitals cap cap- are few tew In number compared with the students of politics In small towns and cities posing as honest cit cit- o Some one wrote and somehow It attracted attracted at at- my attention that a dog Is a ayes ayes yes s animal and a cat a no animal ant ani- mal rash Nearly everything suits a dog almost nothing suits a cat I have been fond of ot many dogs but have never known an agreeable or Intelligent Intelli gent cat I do not like no ani ant animals mals mania they are always cold Indifferent ent clammy I 1 like the enthusiasm of ot ofa ota a yes esH animal animate If It the owner of a dog Is III the Ue dog I Is distressed an an and wants to do something but a cat with Its no dl disposition Is III Indifferent Books Hooks tell of or the death of or a R notable woman In a specially horrible way The house cat was asleep at the font foot of the time bed through h all the terrible terrible ter ter- scene It has been my misfortune to know many no men and women I am nm an nn old man but there Is 18 so much to read I shall never ne get Ket around to half haIr of It It iL I never heard of Ninon de Lenclos a famous French woman until lately Ninon early believed that thai there can enn lIe be only one sexual law for foi formen men and women and her father said to her Since you ou believe belle that women women wom wom- en have a right to the same Bame liberties as as' as men recognize equally with men althe aUthe al aU the obligations of loyalty sincerity and honor She had many men mec friends but was was wae fair with all of them When young and most mOlt charmIng charming charm charm- Ing If an admirer was disposed to spend nd too much on her she gently restrained restrained re re- strained him It If he too much neglect neglected ed his wife because of her she warned him against that fault also She disliked drunkards gamblers Idlers rude people generally and her biographer goes so far as to say she helped rather than harmed her men friends When fifty years yean old she retired to toa a country place and the mo most t prominent prominent nent people of ot France of three bundred hundred hunt hun dred years ago were he hev het devoted friends Tottering old men former Intimate friends respected her In age agi and sincerely liked her One old man said to her Ninon a woman who has hRS the time qualities of ot an honest man Is the most unusual character In to the world Ninon de Lenclos was 88 neither poetess poetess poet poet- ess actress reformer nor mystic but bui she had bad the natural charm of ot woman She combined this with simple fairness fairness fair fair- ness and behold a book has been made about her henl She exists In literature litera- litera ture with women who bankrupted kings I IThe The hu huge e racing automobile often otten costing and which occasionally breaks a speed record or turns over Oer on Its ita driver Is not much of ot an on automobile auto auto- automobile mobile the really useful and crEdItable creditable creditable cred cred- machine Is that In the middle class clan which delivers useful service to millions at reasonable cost 0 S o oA A friend of mine a very old man died lately I was able to think this of him He lie had already done well he had made an an unusual record years before he died It was wal a pleasure pleas pleas- ure are to so write his bis children was 1 fco bo 0 busy with his arthe art arthe arthe he never had time to marry the hired bleed girl rl until the be neighbors rs mado made a roand row ro row and demanded It in the Interest of neglected decency e. e ll 1011 un nil Boll te B I sarvie YUa |