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of inestimable value in her
wine and drank the con-
coction to his health, in-
sisting that her tribute to him
shauld:far surpass the cost of
the féast. After they became
he presented her with
Cyprus, Phoesicia, Coele-
Syria,;-and parts of Arabia,
Cilicia, and Judea.

; wa: ‘denouiiced he
John. the Baptist. Later, .the-

daughter of.“Herodias, so
pleased Herod that he
promised to grant her
anything-she wanted. At her
request, John the Baptist ‘was

beheaded, his head placed.
and

on a. silver. platter
presented to Salome, who
then gave itto her mother.

FREEDOM
Suleiman the Magnificent,
ruler of the Ottoman Em-

pire, gave the enslaved
Roxelana her freedom. as a
love offering, and then

married her. An observer
wrote: “This week there has
occurred in this city a most
extraordinary event. one
absolutely unprecedented ir!
the history of the sultan’s
period. Suleiman has taken
unto himself a slave woman
from Russia as his empress.”

SHAKESPEAREAN
SONNETS

Not Shakespeare, but the
publisher who pirated the
sonnets. wrote the
dedication, “To Mr.
The 154 poems are among
the greatest love offerings of
all time, but it is not known
for whom they were written.

TAJ MAHAL

When his favorite wife. .

Mumtaz Mahal, died giving
birth to her 14th child in
1631, the grief‘striken Shah
Jahan. emperor of the
Moguls. ordered,the white
alabaster mausoleum built.

* this:

_words,
the -

w.H.” .

“Twenty: thousand workmen ~

labored 15 years to erect this

most beautiful and costly

tomb. Perfectly preserved, it
stands on the Jumna River in
north India inside a walied
garden’ surrounded by
reflecting pools and marble
pavements. Shah Jahan
intended to duplicate the Taj
in black marble for his own
tomb, but he was deposed by
his son before he could
realize this ambition.

“A VISIT FROM ST.

NICHOLAS 7

‘Clement C. Moore wrote
‘poem in. 1822 as a
Christmas gift. “to ‘his
children. The-: ‘openin
“ "Twas the . night
before Christmas,” are. more
commonly— but. in-
correctly—identified as its
title. — -
FAUST'S SOUL.

In Faust, Goethe's classic

poem, Dr. Faust contracted .

to give his soul to the devil,

Mephistopheles, for the love.

of Margaret, a village
maiden.

SONNETS FROM THE
PORTUGUESE -

Elizabeth Barrett's sonnets
were begun when she first
met Robert Browning, and
they chronicle her reactions
to the developing friendship
and love. Browning learned
of the sonnets early in 1847
after their son Robert
Wiedemann Barrett’ was
born. Elizabeth confessed to
her husband, “J had written
some poems about you.”

A $10,000 BICYCLE
“Diamond Jim ”. Brady
presented actress Lillian
Russell with a gold-plated
bicycle complete with
mother-of-pearl handlebars
and spokes el crusted with

chips of diamonds,
emeralds, rubies, and
sapphires. When Miss

Russell went on tour, the
bicycle—kept in a blue
plush-lined morocco case-——
travelled with her.

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“ Chiistmas. story; tells: ‘of the
sacrifices) made -by two
young lovers, Della cut off
and sold her luxuriant long
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platinum watch-fob chain
for her husband Jim. He in
turn sold his precious gold
watch to buy expensive
tortoiséshell combs _ for
Della. -

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MOTHER'S DAY,

The. wearing of a white
the ob-
servance ~ -of special - ‘church
Services every. second
Sunday. in May. were’
proposed .by Miss Anna
Jarvis; i in commemoration of

throughout the |.
country. Because of Miss
Jarvis’s perserverance, the
U.S. Congress was finally
persuaded in 1914 to give
official recognition to
Mother's Day.

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