Apropos of the great names of legend and reality,—and it is often dificult to remember that the former fare only legend—t sce that a film is to be made of John Farrow's biography of Father Damien, the "Apostle of the Lepers" as he has been truly called. "He was born near Louvain in Belgium the son of a farmer, and when only 23 went as a Roman Catholic missionary to the Sandwich Islands, where leprosy was raging. Two years afterwards. in 1866, all the lepers were rounded up ud immured in the island of Molokai and there Damion followed to work among and for them.
For 11 years his strong physique kept him free from the disease, but it got him in the end and he died of it four years later. His body was brought home to Louvain some three years ago and reinterred with all the Feverence such a life called for. 1 do not know whether there has ever been a movement to canonize Damien, but he would surely seem to deserve it, even if there were any basis for the charge made against him by the miserable Dr Hyde of Honolulu Which brought down upon him that scorching letter from R. L, Stevenson.
American fashions, Tt is true that
colours and materials "suggested by me kept striety to the plan of style, Queen, who firmly believes in indivi. none the less to Mz. Hartnell's ere that he was able to carry out, and at times supplement, her suggestions so cleverly.
What the Americans particularly admired in the Queen's choice of clothes was this very individuality. Instead of slavishly" following the fashions of the moment, she dressed to suit herself. And in dressing to suit herself. she pleased all who saw, her.
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