ap PACE TWELVE. =~ QUEEN ALEXANDRIA. Abbey Painted Queen's Head But Miss Converse - Posed Tor Figure--Donned Coronsticu Robes and Jewels. New York Worlds When the leal and honest Britishers pay homage of heart to the pictured Alexgndra at the coromation--irom the brush of Edwin R, Abbey, K.A.-- it is only to their queen's head and face, The pounded arms, the well poised peck, the stately, patrician car- ringe of the figure are another's--the wecret is out now, Miss Evelyn Con- verse, an American girl, from Wiston- sin at that, poised as. Queen Alexan- dra for Mr. Abbey's great painting, *"Tha Coronation of Edward VIL" ise, Converse hasn't sat on thé royal throne, but. she has worn the coronation robes, She has never been presented at comrt, but she has cone ana goneut Buckingham Palhce as if bora to the purple. She was never proclaimed queen in Westminster, but! there sha is in the picture, The kivg himself ordered the paint. ing to be hung on the waHs of Buck- ingham Palace. He posed; the queen posed; all the important personages who were nearest to thar majesties on that august occasion faced Mr. Abbey for their portions of the pic ture. But for two years the great work" was held up because there was no suitable model in all England to pose for the' figure of Alexandra in be? royal robes. And then-- "For two years Fve waited you." That was what Mr. Abbey said when he met Miss Converse. He knew he had found the model he wanted-- the rest was only a matter of course Who that could do it would rdfuseto pose for her majesty, consort of Ed- ward VII, and wear her robes and jewels ? Strangely enough, Miss Converse isn't a professional model at all. She comes from Eau Claire, Wis., where her father, Henry Edward Converse, is a sucpessful up-to-date American busi- ness man. He went thére from New York, and took a hand in mining and timber and made good. There is sturdy New England stock in Mise Converse, too--on her family tree ap- pears the name of Oliver Wendell ldlmes. It all happened just because Miss Converss fell in love and played model for her fiance, a painter prince, Efflatoum Bey, son of a man and a French countess, who adopted Egypt as their country, where Effiatoum Pasna is one of its fore most men. When she was sixteen Miss Con- verse left Fan Claire and went abroad with some cousins to study. She stay- ed in Paris. several years, studying French and music, and hoping that perhaps some day she might go into grand opera. Then she went to Eng- dand, and at Cambridge she met Effia- toum: Dev, who had been to the uni- versity there, and rowed in one of the crews. He had taken up painting-- and he fell in love with Miss Con- vers, , They became engaged. And what could be ttier on canvas than the fiancee's shell pink skin and ber dus ky black hair and her eyes that are sometimes black and sometimes blue and sometimes gray? And those arms, so exquisitely modelled ! Well, George Story, the artist, saw the throat and arms and shoulders jt n reception at the American en- ass for a't one sitting," he begued of the beat ful American ginl, and ° when she told her lances of this he said: "It's a very grea® honor from such a painter--by all means pose' for him," They got along famously, amd one day Mr. Story ventured to suggést that Mr. Abbey might want her for some of his next pictures. Miss' Con- verse laughed merrily--the idea that such an aftist, one of the two Am- ericans in the Royal Academy, should want to peant her ! "Why, there are plenty of other gurls who will do quite as will," she went .on, protesting, And now we gét to the point where the pretty American girl was asked to wear Aen Alexandra's coronation robes, Miss Converse called on Mr. Abbey. As sho tells it: "He smiled and just looked at me hard, hard, for about a minute. Then he asked me if I would mind taking off my glove, that he might see my band. 1 said, "Yes, T'll do it and then--why, he just seed "that if my arms were like that he'd most cer- tainly want me for a very important picture he was painting. "He - took me to his studio and showed me the coronation pictureand told me about it. It's very large, vou know, and all the people in it have posed for their likeness--all the ladies and gentlemen of the court. and even the king and queen sthem- selves, But, while he had already painted Queen -Alexandra's face, he needed somebody for the arms and neck. 'I have never found the right person," he said, "till I' saw vou. 1 want ven to pose in the coronation robes of the queén for my picture of King" Edward's coronation.' "And that very day I put \ on Queen Alexandra's robes and he be gan to paint me in the picture.-' PR ------ The Amateur Gardener. M. A: P,, London. Apropos of Lord Carrington's speech on the land question at Farl's Court recently, a correspondent is reminded of a good story his lordship once told of an ambitious young wife who decided to take up gardening. When her husband was starting for business one morning, he was handed a sheet of paper containing a lengthy list of seeds which he was to procure, Glane- ing at the list, he asked, "You want these flowers to bloom this summer. don't you?' "Yes, of course," she replied. "Well, those you've put down here don't bloom till pext summer ¥' "Oh, that's all right," she said. "Al right; how is it all right ?* "I am aking up my fist,"" she explained, "Yom a last year's catalogue." The stylish ehureh is also particular concerning its membership' A woman's ability to pity others g vis bev. a lot of pleasure. WH QUEEN'S HEM India found ussian noble- THE "REGENT." _-- Restored Fortune of the House of Pitt, Losidon, Everybody's. rs . Men have neyer collected great erys- tale for pemwonal adornment, Even that "fribble in lace and spangles," the rival of Beam Brummel und after ward George 1V of England--even he sought them simply for some Perdita he was pursuing. Louis XIV, le grand monarque, pur- chased twenty-five large diamonds, mostly for La Vailiere, Moutespan, Fontanges, Maintenon. Among them was the wondrous "Pitt." A slave in it. Having found it, his heart shouted for liberty. Cutting the calf of his log in order to hide the dia- mond within the slit, he limped to the coast. To an English ship captain he offiézed it for passage to any country where men were free, The captain, quite casually and with nice humor, took the gem and threw the slave into the sea. * The guerdon of such jesting release from servitude was sold to a dealer for 85,000 and through him reached Sir Robert Pitt, governor of Fort St. George, for $102,000, who shipped it home to England to be fadeted. A Scotch financier, John Law, then doing business in France, negotiated for a fee of $25,000 the sale of the dia mond to the regent (afterward louis XIV) at 8775,000 It ix pleasant to thereby the fortunes of 'the house of Pitt were restored and that the sell er's son, William Pitt, and his grand- son, the Earl of Chatham, were assist- ed to high place and service by oppor tunities made possible through the profit on the diamond for which © ¢ poor slave, seeking freedom, was thrown into the sea. remember that A POWERFUL PRAYER. It Brought Judge's Kind of Light to Farmer. San. Francisco Call. "The late Judge Underhill," said F. D.: Browne, of the engineering depart- ment of the Southern Pacific, "was perhaps one of the greatest characters that ever entered the service of a rail- road. It was his facile disposition that led to his being appointed right of way agent by the Southern Pacific. "Underhill was ail things to all men. The ribald called him a reckless blade, the learned called him one of the elect, and the good character de- clared that the pulpit would have had one of its brightest ornaments if he had only heard the call. . "He was the most successful right of way getter that the company ever had. "Underhiil was sent up against a tough proposition. There was a farm- er whose land lay right in the path of the road, and he was coy about selling. Underhill was sent to see him. They were out driving when the farmer turned to Underhill and said : "I want to do the right thing, judge, I have prayed all night for guidance in this matter, and I have not been given light.' * "We will pray for light right now,' said Underhill, and, getting on his knees, he made a fervent prayer for the farmer to sell his land to the Southern Pacific. "Awestruck, the farmer listened on his knees to the powerful invocation of the judge, and when Underhill re sumed his seat in the buggy he said: " 'I have been given light, judge, I'll sell the land at the figure °you name. NATURE AS A CHEMIST. Feats Which Exactitude of Science Cannot Rival. Chicago Tribune. The bursting leaves of springtime illustrate nature as a chemist who pers forms feats which the highest exacti- tude of science cannot hope to rival, In a "the living matter is his chemist, and the cell is Kis laubora- tory. - By daylight the leaf chemist is absorbing the carbonic acid gas and is decomposing this gas igto its coms ponent _elements--carbon and oxygen. The carbon it is retaining as part of the plant's food to enter into tombi- nation with water, and the oxygen it . free into the atmosphere By night, this process ceases, for light is an essential feature in the 'operation. Out of the carbon and the water the leai chemist, will elaborate the sugars and starches which the plant world affords. As sugar the products will pass from the leaf to be stored up, as in the case of the potato, for exam- ple, ro to afford a storehouse of food whereon the plant may draw for its sustenance and for the development of its leaves and flowers when occas comes. All the vegetable essences acids, the scents and gums, the juices which yield india rubber, the flavoring of fruits and even the cilor of the flowers are similarly the products of a constructive chemistry which beats man's best efforts to imitate. Man fol. lows nature, but at a distance, lea sets When a woman sets a good example she never knows what it will hatch out, A bumblebee in the bush ham two in the hand. um ERS" SURPRISE PEOPLE They Make Even Chronic Dys- peptics Forget Their Stomachs mms is better When a man who for years has been unable to eat a meal with- out being thoroug "miserable afterward --who has tried doctors and medicines without relief--who is, in fact, a chronic amd almost hopeless dyspeptic--when this man finds that by taking a "Little Digester" regularly he can eat 3 heafty meals a day, and feel good over it, be is nearly as much rised as delighted, "Fhe number of those who have had this experience with 'Little Digesters" is steadily growing. More dre ing of them--trying them--being cured by themi--every day complete The makers § ve such confidence in thems. hat they tee Sour Stomach, thes cure any cars of eartburn, Indigest on or Dyspepsia-- or Tha your mogsy back. "Little Digesters", with this absolu- te guarantee, box at your Sek EE Co., 3 : en = - 1 | Poetical - Selections. {| It Makes Her Hands Sc™Red, Edgar Guest. will not wash the dishes makes her hands so red ; will not sweep the parior floor, makes her hands so red will not even dust the chairs, wash the smallest thing she wears, belp her mother pickling ars ; raben her hands so red pe nefer vet has learned to bake, It makes her hands so red ; A rug or two she'll never shake, It wakes her hands so red ; She'll read a novel all day long, Piano play, or sing a song, With housework though, there's thing wrong ; : It makes her hands so red. Dear mother has to work. although It makes her hands so red ; She toils, as though she didn't know It makes her hands so red ; She makes the Anil scrubs the floors, and oils the It seems nobody thinks or cares It makes her hands so red. for some. stairs, Lose It. When you are freed from labor, The day's work at an end, And homeward you go hiking The evening Rour to spend, Before the house you enter To finish up the day Pause e'er the gate you poen And throw your grouch away. , Tt may be in your business You need a manner gruff To make a good impression Or run an awful bluff, But in your family bosom Forget the daily grind And so when you foregather At home have péace of mind. {t may he that the children Won't know you for awhile, Your wife may think vou ailing If you consent to smile. But keep on bravely at it, Chirk up a bit and sing. They will, if you are patient, Get used to anything, In other words, be decent About the family board, Though. it may cost an effort You'll gloat at the reward, And with a little practice + It will not he so Hard. You might induce your children To speak of you as '"'pard."' . The Little Pink Pigs. By Edward Vance Cook. The little pink pigs have around, Raoting arouhd all night, Though warned them well they slumber sound, Till the. blink of the morning light; | I 'warped them well as the owner I gown- been rooting And snuggled them warm and tight. ! But though I told them they mustn't peep out The little pink pigs have been about ; [ warned them one and I warned them | ten, | So now they must go in the sock-and-| shoe pen The pen of the sock and shoe. First, the sock and then the shoe ; nearly eight o'clock, Lock the little pigs in the sock, ! Shoo the little pigs in the shoe, | Pen the little pigs in the pen, | The pen of the shoe and sock. { The little pink pigs, with a wriggle and dive, | All under the gown they run, While the owner watches me 'coax drive, And giggles a gale at the fun, And ueals asl swoop on a drove of and ve And capture the five in one. { Oh, the litgle pink pigs have been root- i bout, i Though I warned . peep ofit, So I capture five and T capture ten | And drive them into the 'sock-and-shoe pen, i The pen of the sock and shoe. ! them well they musn"t First the sock and then thé shoe, and then the shoe and sock ; - Shoo the little pigs in the shoe, Pen the little pigs in the pen, It's almost 8 o'clock ! In Candy Land. Philadelphia Record. 'In Candy Land the little folks Wear candy buttons on their coats And candy buttons on their shoes-- Indeed, on everything they use." "What if the.candy buttons break ""The pieces then the children take, And very calmly down they sit And eat up every single ht. "In Candy Land the girls and boys Play every day with candy toys: They always eat from candy plates, and do their sums on candy slates.' "Why, T should think the things would break !' "They do; and then the children take The broken pieces, great and small, And eat until they're eaten: all. "In Candy Land the girls all. know With candy needles they must sew ; The boys who work use candy tools, And they have candy books in schools "In Candy Land they think it nice To go to skate on candy ice ! They rest themselves in candy chairs And go to bed up candy stairs." The candy-lover on my knee In wonderment still questioned we ; : "And if the candy stairs should break?" "The children must the pieces take, And very quickly down must .5it And eat -up every single bity™ Sometimes the children eat all day To get the broken bits away." ! "And must the children eat thém all" x "Yes, every piece, both great and small; This is thé law in Candy Land ; And you must _own 'tis wisely planned . For in the land, as you can see, So many things must broken be. That hits of candy soon would strew The sidewalks, roads and houses, too: Ae So children must the pieces eat - That Candy Land be clean and neat. The candy lover on my knee In blank amazement looked at me. "Why, Candy Land's a dreadful place!"' Then dawned a wise look on his face-- "I used to think it would be grand To go to live in Candy Land; But now I only wish to go = Each day" and stay an hour or so. One Woman's Way. Chicago News. : "1 suppose," said the American vouth who had just been handed the frosty digit, "you wouldn't marry for a title, would you?" © "I should say not," replied the heiress. "A girl who marries for any- thing but love is foolish." "Well," rejoined the young man, "I'm glad of that--even if I am ga loser." - J | "But T don't mind saying," con- tinued the girl with the obese bank balance, "that a man will have to have a title before 1 can love him." After the brick house had been pushed over on him, figuratively speaking, the young man batted out a home rua. Occasionally a man discovers that he has a friend who really is his friend. Many a girl who is fond of jewellery has ng use for a rolling-pin. Vanity enables a man to convince himse'f that he isn't vain. Y BRITISH WHIG, FRIDAY, s, and dusts the chairs, f x sTUNMI when not folly carryit these have Mach four fat logs Juoed a of the poultry contrivance every 30 Tons Pressur OCTOBER 15, 1909. 5 emis x IE I I ---- 4 Every bar of Taylor's Borax Soap is put under a pressure of #Airty tons to drive out - impurities. .the moisture. @ When you buy Taylor's you get a// soap-- not a large percentage of , water. It makes a saving of «/alf in your soap expense. and Taylor's Soap. q We use only the p q There's a big differ- ence between "just soap" urest cocoanut oil from the Isle of Ceylon. Then we boil it doubly long and mix in the borax, While boiling we run thousands of gallons of clean water NG through the 'soap which carries away all | @ Twenty-one days are required to make a single cake. The labor of more than 200 FP 9 is Te ente : @ We putzevery bar through an ageing process equal to six' months ine your pantry. You don't have to age this soap. Ee q The bar is hard and firm. It wears much longer. The borax softens the waterwhich also reduces 'the amount of soap by al- : most half that ordinarily required. q This pure soap is utterly harmless to the skin--it leaves the hands whiter and softer At All Dealers ERMINE SET. i rooting | - "POSED BY MIS THE. BELLE © £1 he 3) The little scarfs and visites of ermine are stunning and will {particularly pretty over dainty calling costpumes of soft fabrics. Over this trailing frock of black chiffon show their striking beauty. Both shoulder cape and muff are fash- ioned in the "tabbed" style, the fur being. cut in rounded points, or tabs' at the bottom of the garment. Shoulder capes and muffs of this character are worn both for afternoon with theatre and restaurant costumes. LEN © JCEM RI © TY 0G, en ge OF be the snowy ermine visite and muff calling and in the evening, CLAWS OF BIRDS. = - Toes, of Those That Perch Those That Run. London Stand Magazive, Let ue note that thedart of standing began with birds. Froes sit, and, as far as 1 know, every reptile, he it lizard. crocodile, or tor- toise, lays its body Uh ts and alligator ol ground And Con- trast the flamingo, which, having only two, and' those like willow 'wands, tucks up ono of them and sleep poised high on the other, like a tulip on its stem. | Note also that has altogether discarded by birds as super- fluous. 'The garm' or bud must be there, for the Dorking fowl, has pro fifth toe under some influence but no natural bird has more than four. Except in swifts, which never perch, hat cling io rocks and walls, onc is turned backward, and by & cunning the act of bending the log draws them all automatically to- gother. So a hén closes its toes at stop it takes, ax if it grasped something, and, of course, when it one toc heen vad settled down on ite roost they arosn] that tight and hold it fast till morn- ing. \ But to birds that do not perch this mechanism is only an incumbrance, so many of them, like the plovers, abol- ish the hind toe entirely, and the prince of all two-legged ruances, the ostrich, has got rid of one of the front toes also, retaining only two. He Knew The Clan. Family Herald, . An Irishman and a Seotéhman were discussing the horrors of living in a local option town, when the Irishman remarked, 'Sure an might git used to it after a while. You know, they say a camel can go eight days without drinking." : "Hoot, mon!" retorted the Sectch- man, "it's little ye ken the Campbells, when ve say that. 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