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...Tarocchi pack of 78 cards has been held by many to be the first version of the modern deck. The Tarocchi consists of 22 Atutti cards and 56 Cartaccie, the latter containing four suits, each with four court cards instead of the usual three. These are the King, Queen, Knight, and Valet. The suit marks are Clubs, Coins, Cups, and Swords, and are held to be symbolic of the four orders of society, the church, the nobility the traders, and the rascal multitude...
...pained and indignant that it is possible for anyone to spread such idiotic and calumnious tales," said the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, scotching a report that Princess Ileana, her youngest daughter, had eloped with a married but fascinatingly handsome naval lieutenant and, balked, had tried to commit suicide...
...scurrilous story had it that the love affair began last summer. The strong-willed "mother-in-law of the Balkans," Queen Marie, discovered it and Ileana's "cherub," one Paius, was sent posthaste back to his ship in the Black...
Free again, the love-mad young lad fled with his bien aimee to Bulgaria, whence the runaway Princess was brought back to Bucharest under strong guard at the request of Queen Marie, who drove through the streets with her to still the rumors of her elopment. After this Princess Ileana is supposed to have tried to kill herself (means unspecified...
Following the unfortunate discovery that many of the books in the Chicago Library were the gift of prominent Englishmen after the great fire. Mayor Thompson has as yet found no rebuttal to the charity of Queen Victoria and her generation. Meanwhile, in New England and other parts of the country still under British domination, the flames of sedition are unchecked. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, in an address before the Schoolmasters Club of Massachusetts, speaks openly of the "laugh that is sweeping the country" as a result of the Mayor's activities; and although Professor Hart denies that...