. most beautiful palace on earth - ke Toe ary of 22 r 0m Hbeme ibe Clrul rmerice Wald Tee" AN INTIMATE DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT | FRENCH PALACE WHERE THE TREATY ENDING WAR WILL BE SIGNED Copyright, 1918, divate, The peace conference to settle the momentous problems growing out of the world's greatest conflict will be held at Versailles. It is perhaps the Jo- cated in an ideal spot within easy dis- tance of the city of Paris It has heen the scene of the sign- ing of many. important treaties af ofecting the destinies of nations. Here the treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United States was ratified on Sept. 3rd, 1783, and on that ddy Great Britain, France and Spain entered into an agreement re- staring certain colonial possessions of France Buf Versailles is the most -approprjate place fox the present con- . ference "because it gives to France "the honor and satisfaction of Fevers- ing the situation of 1870-71, foron the same spot where Bismarck dic- tated his harsh terms peace delegates will mete out to the inhuman crushed Germans the justice which an out- raged world demands as a righteous punishment. The meeting at this place will be a special humiliation to , Germany, for it was in the very room where 'the conference will be held that King William of Prussia, grand- father of the ex-kaiser, was crowned oft January 18th, 1871. There is a small town near the pal the International Syn- . mace whose prineipal reason for exis tence seems to be the palaces, the large one and the two Trianons known as the Grand the Little. The peace delegates will be lodged in the Grand Trianon, swhich is already be- ing fitted with steam heat, bath rooms and all modern eonveniences. it was the model for the French building at the St. Louis Eair, the structure being a faithful reproduc- tion. . The Palace. The Palace dates #fck to King Louis X11I, who was fond of hunting and had a small shooting box built oon the site--a sort of rest house for Rimselt and friends after a big hunt. o Gradually it was enlarged and finally * beoame the home of the court under Louis Xi1V, who Madame de Maintenon, a woman forty-seven years of Grand Trianon was built for and while much "#maller than sailles it is quite as beautiful Louis XV also used Versailles. Thi king was under the influence of his mistress; the famous Madame Pompa- dour, and his exfravagance through her influence made him very ampopu- lar He was always despised by his people Then came Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who enjoyed Ver- sailles to the limit The Little Trianon was built so that the Queen and her.court might play at farming by. pretending 'they were. peasant girls The revolution ended this king's reign and Versailles was longer the home of kings secretly n The her, Ver age Napoleon, When Napoleon came into power he restored the parts of the palace that had been ruined by the revolu- tionists, for it said that: mobs surged through: those maghificent halls and destroyed many beautiful decoration® while Francé underwent a reign of terrce. Al present it is the headquarters of the French army, but is being 'dressed' for the Peace Conference. The building is one of thegreatest in the world, not only in size but in point of decoration, for some of the world's greatest artists have worked on its walls Before the war it was open to visitors for a small sum, It cost France. $1007 000,000. The palace presents an imposing appearance when approached directly from the Avenue de Paris, where one sees huge statuary of various kinds, is wost of them being the work of great | sculptors, but visitors usually enter at what is known as the Chapel en- trance. All along the corridor are famous paintings, so beautiful and rare that the visitor tight spend weeks in their examination. The Hall of the Crusaders is next, and therq we see wige pictures concerning fhe Crusade, among them 'The capture of Jerusa- lem' and "Christians addressing et a iin, * - 'For women's wear a bathing suit has been invented with a high neck and long sleeves made of a material which, though light, will prevent san- burn. Brazil is equippin one of its im- portant rgliroads with oil burning locomotives, and. aims eventually to dispense with coal for such purposes. Ashes can be sifted as they y ta- ken from a stove by a shovel that has a screem bottom, over which a . plate af metal can be placed to han- dle coal. A tiny electric oven to be placed in the platform 'of a microscope to heat or dry objects being examined is the. invention of a Buropehn scien aa revolving base for typewriters been invented to facilifate clean h and oiling or to permit two per- song to use the same machine at one Most of the carpets in Indis are made by boys, who are told by men watching them Mow many. knots of Her Five Children wap WHOOPING COUGH T THE SAME TIME Whooping cough is 6ne of the most dangerous diseases of children. es- iy to those under five years of tering of the eves tion ar the throat. ia a $4200, 200, obo each color to tie to the warp, a single row at a time, A London taxicab seems to have been made proof against overturning, no matter how sharply it is steered to the side. by the insertion of a third wheel under the front. Mrs. Alice Carter, of Chicago, who has her husband and nine brothers in the war, is doing her bit by taking an office position so that 3 man could be relieved to go to the front. For electric welding in . places where current is nol available, a combination of gasoline motor and generator, which can be carried on a trick, has been designed. Twin rudders invented by a Bos: ton man enable a motorboat to be steered in any direction, stopped or run backward without changing the forward speed of its engine. - All the odors of cooking are car- ried off into a chimney from a range invented in Parts which is enclosed parried | beautiful no' Where World SAILLE Wall B. Pe. Mads Fe prs a Fam iies Where fhe Descs Tommie Holl Se Twgee rEXise' Fs to Heaven decorated thanks The whale is elaborately with coat of arms of the Crusaders gallery of Sculpture then she and although it contains heroic es the French King hoth hronze and marble, the much more interesting the is of paintings are Attempied Murder of Louis XIV. We to the egse of the issadars, the court Thea we ps room with paintings so0n come gre; Amb which entrance of Louis ss through another the wall covered with This room used to con» tain a' staircase named for the King As he sscendel it- in 1757 tempt made 10 assassinate hin and the wou he murderer was for tured in one of the guard rooms the presence of the Mihister of For i Affpirs There are any num rooms filled with paintings of x sriods, and finally we eo at of pictures of royal well, worth looking at if how the extravagance of the The room in which King Louis died may be seen. Then there & more pictures, some very remarkable because they are by Madame Vigee Le Brun, who made a speeialty of painting famous women Several pictures of * Marie Antoinette- and her. children by Madame Le Briun's brush, hang in" one the rooms Amdther clocks, for it seems that this was particulariy fond of clocks, had an.entire room of curious ones all set to strike at the same hour After #& short walk thfough the ar- cade we come upon more pictures, many of thedn of Napoleon. There is also Hatuery one piece especially interesting to th¥*United States--it being a copy of the well-known sta- tair Xv large was only to French kings Xiv of king and A A AA NSN mining Su have deepér dust im summer and deeper mud in winter than any oth- ers in the world, the wagons used on them have wheels from six to fifteen feet in diameter. What are known black opals, among the most costly of jewels, are found. in but one piace in the world, a small tract of land in New South Wales. A rustless as metal cone supplies the moisture in a new envelope sealing machine so that there are no wicks to become gunimed nor rubber bands to decay The pl an which Switzerland now is AA Le NN rn room | {of the jot was | {rooms here, in | room shows « number of | re FAY OP, 02 } . Washington by Houd one which repres in Statuary Washington that State if cerémony Before the war som ariably. found hy i thro great tue of gents the Hall' "This and unveiled "Virginia vitol at 3 ented by Ww inv there ter going me {o the 290 feet long and pa inting s and statuary--ma of great warriors. There 1 and their brilliant doco nd many pictures dazzle the wh one means much to the rench history, but the aver aller soon becomes weary to see some of the royal partments, y The. bed rooms Lown perfectly restored leon; also those of Marie whose remarkable tast its 'decoration. There i¢ passa connected with this ment which the Queen used tober 6th, 178%, when she took age from the irate peopiers There are, wonderful librasies, grand living rooms of 'Kings and queens filled with the most beautiz] ful furniture, and dishes of the pe- riod. The several council chan which will probably he used by Peace "delegates "from time to time; are especially interesting They contain rare old tables and with a great candelabra of the period Of course, there is a magnificent clock, One of these rooms was used ds King Louis XVI's study Under Louis XV it was a: favorite room of meeting between that king and Mad- ame Du Bates. filled the kings of shown, in a small e ref- the chairs Where Peace Conference Will Meet, The Hall of Mirrors, where the held, is perhaps the halls, and gardens It used at one: t for a state 'ball rl 50 feet t widé and forty-two feet Seventeen large win- ont on the beautiful park The walls facing the windows are covered with mirrors in gilded nic 3 from which the derives its name Inthe days of the kisgsgrea fetes were held here tAinong them was the marriage of Due 'de Bourgogne and the reception of the Ambassador of the King of Pe it which time brov t into' the room A number of paintings showing the peace pacts whith have been signed there are on the wall Next to this wonderful hall is the Room of , where the famous painting of France in a chariot drawn by. four white horses is shown. This is the work of Le Brun, and is one of the most famous paintings of the hundreds in the palace On the pther sMia of the Hall of Mirrors is Conference the grande overlooks was room about 35 fe in heis dows loc and gardens of all palace considering for the alectrification of its railways sontemplates an an: nua. expenditure of $5,000,00 for thirty years. : In one end of a hew ironing board is a series of rollers that serves as a rest for flatirons to enable them to ha pushed on or off 'work without HfL ing. - : Berlin seientiets have found thal yoast, beside being pseful in hreail and heer; can .he made to produce flavoring extracts, a muscle build- ing tonic and a 'non-inflammable substance for celluipi "The surface of a new grate which mon Nt the Room of Mars On. the ceiligg A rr ere large amount of air to a permitting {uel to fall through, congists of truncated pyra- mids, perforated on all four sides with numerous 'holes : To foil robbers a New Mexico in- ventor has patented a banker's cage ir an occu- armor when even if his admits a fire with is raised: experts who pondueting a search for fuel oils at howe, claim carbonizing 'eannel coal 1 tof oil can be obtained twenty tons of coal A AA AANA have been sources bf that by 1-4 ious from. each FORMER LIBERAL MINISTERS DEFEATED IN BRITAIN with glass doors on the principle otf | the chemist's draft closet. Driving power Is supplied to all four wheels of a new road tractor the front Wheels being carried on a divigible axle on which is a sproket mounted on a universal joint. ' French experimenters are freez- | ing fish into blocks of iee for trans- portation for long distances, the claim being made that wuey can be revived by slow thawing and sold alive, | Both the top and bottom brackets in a new carbo holder for are lights in propecting. lanterns can be ad- justed "horizontally as weil .ver- tically {0 maintain perfec: allgn- ment. Target practice withobt ammani- tion has been made possible by an Englishman who has invented a. damiera to be attached to a rifle to Photograph a target as the trigger pulled. hd = keep piling free of 'barnacles and other marine organisms a Cali- fornian has patented a loop of wire io. surround a pile. "supported by which the tides move up and 11 impound more than Salon Sor irriga- | RT. HON. CF. G. MASTERMAN long," roo' the throne was; drawn by by Vohet, as the one chariot is Mars is wolves and is by Le seen in a his picture equally as famous Brun re are 166 rooms in the palace proper ,and it would require page af ter page to do justice to their beauty and it fF doubtful if the Peace dele- gates will be able, for lack of time, to study their beauty in all details It has a chapel with several altars and wonderful church pranaments of great historic value. Park and Fountains, The park and garden is quite as wonderful as the palaee, for the park was laid.out hy France's master gar- dener of that day, Le Notre, who was emplgyed- by Louis XIV to make the plans Happily these gardens are the same to-day, and after looking apon them President Wilson will probably eare little 'to look wpon those surrounding the White House. The great basing where the foun- tains play at certain times Surpass anything of their kind in the world. 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All chil less, delicious it never fails to effect a good "in- side" cleansing. Directions for ba- ies, children-of*all ages and grown. ps are plainly on the bo cep it handy in, -- A little given th-day saves a child to-morrow. but get the genuine, Ask your druggist for a bottle of "Cali- fornia Syrup of Figs," then see that it is made . by the "California Fig | {Syrup Company." nee -------- Cocrracel Roce. |X A grand canal brings the water used from the nearby lakes and ponds, in the early days it was piped {rom the Silene and pumped from Marley At present. water is so scarce that the fountaines play only on certain days, when it seems that all Paris goes out to see the extravagance of the early regime. In 1855 Quéen Victoria and Privge Albert were received at Versailles with great cersmony. The newspa- pers of that day announced that the fodntains played #1 day and that Napoleon i111 danced with the Queén at the hall at night, and afterward enjoved an opera in the royal theatre at Versailles. 3 Grand Frianon, The Pesce delegates will lodge at the Grand Trianon within walking distance of the Palace at Versailles-- the smaller place which contains a number of very comfortable bed- rooms There are rare Persian car- pets, Turkish rags and antique furni- ture of the most magnificent kind. There i€ a beautiful council chamber which 'would be known in America as a "living room' owing to its resem- blance to a meeting place for the family, although the furniture is much grander and the decorations ore brilliant than those found in America. There is a bedroom' of Napoleon, the bedroont of dpsephine, and the room which was occupied by Queen Victoria during her visit, which was re-decorated at that time. There is a beautit®l dining room and up to-date kitchen, where 'a French chef will be installed Jor the Peace: meeting. \ The stables are at this place Whe the staté coaches have been preser ed The one used hy Napoleon is es- pecially fine in its gilding, but is said to compare with the British tanks for comfortable riding However, it is not likely that the Peace dele- gates will be asked to take a ride in one of these gilded coaches. The gardens of the Grand Trianon are particularly fine, and nearby is the golf links, an eighteen hole course, used by many wealthy per- sons in the French social world. As this is President Wilson's diversion, he may take the opportunity of play- ing on this historic courte A The Little Trianon will play "no part in the affairs of Peace, and the writer 'merely mentions it because it will be of interest as the playhouse of Marie Antoinette. 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