Life — March 3, 1898 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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WOMAN'S WAYS. > LIFE: recent society for the Descendants of Ki This is a step in the right direction, but it must fail in purpose, It can’t be made sufficiently select, as anyone able to prove his ineligibility would know more than is vouchsafed to human intelligence. To explain. Each average American of to- day started out with a couple of parents, and these parents each began with the same in- cambrances, heave, supposi cestors did not intermarry, es to-day, tuking thres generations to the century had at the time of William the Norman thirty-seven million ancestors, or in all, includ ing that time, over sixty-seven millions. Some kings must have slipped in among these, in spite of the well-known antipathy of monarchs to get mixed up with the voters of a beastly republic. It won't do to say that all one’s ancestors were kings and emperors, for even William himself couldn't go back two generations with out stumbling through @ stable-door, but as suming a fair ration of what have passed current as such then s say with Charles V. and Soulouque at the extremities as to dignity, and Louis XIV, and the King of the Cannibal Islands as to gorgeous appoint ments. every man must necessarily have kingly blood in his veins unless all his forebears took superhuman f tions. Therefore. {t is now contemplated to similar society which by its very natur be perfectly exclusive, recherche and satisfying. This is the * Royal Association of American Descendants of Spinster Aunts of Reigning So ns.* The advantages are apparent. There ha been so many mere kings and emperors whe have left uncomfortably large and frequently duplicate families, that no really aristocratic American would care to mix with such bh as theirdescendants have grown into: wh comparatively few actually reigning sover had spinster aunts at all. and even where such existed, the difficulty of proving direct descent from them would bar out the toiling 1 Where such descent could be distinetly shown publication of it would probably be averted thus giving the mere public—which came from decent parentag aris the past, tries to mind its own business for the present, and hopes to go to Heaven for the fature—a rest from the silly absurdity of trying to pick out a few elevated names for glorification nd for vanity’s sake from the ruck and simers, kings and peasants. titled budi nd Serubwomen, from whom ¢ questionably descent of saints The emblem of the society will be a shieht, or, with a mule rampant, rert, @ thistle of the last barbed and seeded proper st. a knave winkant, Motto," Nauti Progenetris An Able Man. “ ys sir, Bleeker would) make w noncy out of anything.” “Ts he so lucky ?” “T should say so. Why, he married penniless girl two years age got her a position that brings him in twelve hundred dollars a year.” and he A Narragansett Widow in Poetry. E(t WHEELER WILCOX ha al from comparative poetic quiet with ¥ narrative poem entitled * Three Women”—bound in passionate red and decorated with a gilt heart, pierced by black dagger and dripping golden gore. We have the author's sanction for saying that *to unburden his bosom and pour His heart out on p ris the poet's relief, When drunk with life's ruoptu or sick with its grief.” A cursory reading of this poem convinces us that Mrs, Wileox must have found ita great relief to get rid of it, There is an ocean of anguish bottled up in it—lovet went wrong, misfit matrimonial ventures. and a Narragansett Pier widow who creates general havue. The appearance of this lady on the beach in a white bathing suit,