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Interview With Ella Wheeler Wilcox on "The Battlefield of Love"
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Tim lHlKlit of Helolso with Abclunl.
The world's great battlefields aro al
ways shrines for the tourists. Water
loo Is ycurly visited by thousands or
travelers, nnd pilgrimages aro continually
made In our own land to Bunker Hill,
Yorktown and Gettysburg.
When I went to France It was my de
nlre to visit anotjier great battlefield, a
field where waged a 'strife that has re
sounded through centuries that remark
able" strife between religion and human
pusslon. In tho hearts ot Abelard and He
lolse ciilde books point to the tomb of Pere
LncTialse as all that survives of philo
sopher and pupil, lover and maid, hus
band ami wife, monk and man; but It
whs' my good fortune to learn moru ot
the'' lives of this ill-fated pair thun the
trnslnted volumes of their letters relate;
ami to see iu of the places and objects
associated with their names than the
tomb at l'ere Luchalse.
Guided through tho mazes of the ceme
tery to the tomb of the Immortal lovers
byjCharles Moonen, whose card and con
vefsftlon proclaimed him "Homme deS'
leUre's," while lie ac-cd as professional
guide, I learned un Interesting fact,
'At Argentaull," said Mr, Moonen,
"you will find the old convent still
standing, though no longer a convent,
where Helolso received her first com
munion, and to which she returned after
ward to take the vows for life."
So to Argenteull tho next day was the
pilgrimago made; at first to meet with
many discouragements and baffling con
tradictions from residents of that ancient
and' historic environ of Paris, for He
lolso lived long ago and while poets,
ami-the savants, and tho bookworms, and
tho dreamers ot Argenteull may all know
her domicile, it was not my good fortune
to meet any of them that first hour.
Argonteull, In tiutli, is more noted for
Its excellent usparagus than for its lovers
of romantic history. But. at last, u
gentle-faced nun, telling her beads as
she walked before a church door, directed
me aright.
"It Is No. TO Houlevard Helolse.
madame, and a prlvute residence." she
said. "Here In this church you will
find some of the sacred relies taken from
the convent when Helolso and her sta
ters In Christ were forced to leave and
go to the paraclet. You must come and
see them another day; we have ser
vices now, and they" could not be shown."
Driving along the boulevard In the
glorious sunshine, the story of Helolso
came back to me, In all Its force, that
old story ot mad love, tud suffering,
and llfc-luug sorrow.
Helolse hnd been sent to the convent
of Argenteull for the rudiments of her
education, by her unele, the Canon Ful
bert. She had returned to his home (now
No. 11 Qual aux Fleurs where atl In
scription over the door commemorates
tho fact), a brilliant, beautiful young
creature, who was famed for her. Intel
lect and learning, while still In the first
flush of girlhood.
Canon Fulbert was proud of her at-
talnments; and prouder still when she
expressed a wish to atudy the philosophy
', of the great Abelard, then In the height
of his fame, and cfllef of the school of
Paris, the nucleus ot what Is known to
day as the great SOrbonnc.
Abelard was 37 years old, Helolak,, n
little more than half that age, perhaps;
and ono does not even need to recall the
fact that the cloventh century was an
era of licentiousness to understand how
Abelard, In his Intimate association with
his beautiful pupil, stood in danger of
falling from his plnnaclo of religious
power.
The Canon Fulbert, believing lit the
prudence and wisdom ot his niece (as
men believe only and always In their
Abclanl ami Helolse, from nn OIU PnintiiiK y K. CoMvay, Vlvnt
to write I produced only
Secrets of the Universe Revealed
by Color. Our Eyelashes Are
Primitive Spectroscopes.
owm. and having faith in tho sincerity
of Abelaid's Ideals, permitted the phll- 1
osopher to become a member of his
household in oidn to give Helolsu the
full benefit of his Instruction
Not only waf Abelmfl given the priv
ilege of teaching the beautiful girl, but
he was authorized to chustlso her If she
became Indifferent or negligent. In his
etter to u friend long afterward Abelard
wiotei
Vo were under one-roof, and we be
came cine ''heart. Under tho pretext of
study we gave ourselves utterly to love.
We opened our books, but there were
more' kisses than explanations, and our
eyes sought each other rather than tho
texts.
Yet, sometimes, to still further de
ceive tho'unclo, I chastized Helolso as
a bad pupil, but the blowB weriUiuso of
love, not of anger. As I grow more anil
more drunken with passion, I cared less
and less for my school and my studies.
''It' was a violent effort for me to go
about my duties. I lost all 'Inspiration
I could only speak to my students from
memory", repeating 'old lessons and when'
By GAKHETT 1 SKUVISS.
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monds In a Klin
borley pipe.
A'.nian said to me
the! other day,
"What -is- all this
color that see
when J squint my
eyes and look "at,
tin electric light?"
I replied: "It Is the greatest revelation
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that man has ever had In the physical
world It Is spectrum analysis. Your
crowded eyelashes become an astronomi
cal Instrument and analyse the light for
you into Its primary colors. The multl
tude of narrow silts through which this
light passes as you squint your eyes,
act like a 'diffraction grating' and change
the direction of the various wave's of
light, in accordance with their length.
"The red waves are long, one SD.OOOOih
of an Inch In length nnd they keep on
without much change of direction, but
tho violet waves aro short, ono 67,000th ot
an inch In length, and they are consider
ably turned out of a straight line. All
the Intermediate waves, from orange,
through yellow, green, blue and Indigo,
decrease In length, and are more and
more turned aside as they get shorter.
The consequence Is that you see through
your nealy closed eyelashes, a band of
colors, which is nothing but the famous
spectrum of the astronomers."
Hy the discovery of that spectrum and
tito reasoning that it led to, we have
found out what the sun and the stars
) are made of. Kvery known element of
matter, when It Is made to shine, gives
out wave- lengths peculiar to Itself. Spec
troscepi instruments, more perfect that
. the eylnshes. reveal these special waves
, in the light ot the sun and the stars, and
I by that revelation enable us to -detect tht
incandescent clouds, composed of the hoi
sapors of Iron, copper, nickel, platinum.
carbon, calcium, sodium and muny other
substances, which glow in the atmos
phere of tho heavenly bodies.- We find
these things In stars so far away that
I their flight may require a thousand years
to come to us, although It flies with a
i speed ot 186,300 miles per second.
I I.,ook around you when you enter
brilliantly lighted parlor with crystal
chandeliers hanging from the celling. The
mysterious spectrum flashea at you from
a hundred different directions at once
The glass crystals of the chandeliers ar
also spectroscopes, and they, too, separ
ate the various colored waves, thougl
on a somewhat different principle. The
act not aa diffraction gratings, but u
prisms, but the effect la nearly the same
1 When light goes through a prism th
red waves are less bent out of their
course than the orange, the orumre iu
1 undertook
love verses.
Canon Fulbert discovered the affair
between Alielard and Helolse und Insisted
that they be married. Abelard, In case
such a marriage became public, would
lose ul chance of preferment In he
church. Helolse. knowing this, protested
against the murrluge with him and
objected us long us she could.
Nevertheless, Abehird. hold by ills pro
mise to Kulbert, made Hilolso his wire.
She returned to Purls with her uncle'
uftur the ceremony and Kulburt, despite.
his promise of keeping tho marriage 1
secret, announced It to tho world.
Helolso promptly denied It, knowing
that public sentiment would condemn tho
legal part of his dereliction, whllo It
would condone his, amatory sin. So en
raged was the uiiclo by her denials that
lie BUbJecfed tho poor girl to the greatest
abuses.
Abelard, informed of the situation, sent
Helolso to tho Convent of Argenteull, and.
there sho donned the robe of the sisters,
with tho exception ot the veil, und, lived
Published In June, 1771
ostensibly tho religious life ot tho holy
sisters
Tho two lovers still met, and this com
ing to tlm ears of Kulbrrt caused him
to wreuk a fiendish VKiigeunco on Abo
laid. Slioitly after Abelard entered the
monastery of SI. Denis, anil Helolse, at
his wish, took the veil Ufa In the Con
vtnt of Argenteull
And now hero was I approaching that
very convent, no longer u reinvent, but
an ordinary Parisian house set hark in
u court, and hearing the placard, "A
I.oiicr."
A pretty concierge walked In tho gar
den, and when I explained my errand,
1 er furo lighted with sympathy, and tak
lngdowu a bunch of keys from a nail
on the Inner wall, she unlocked the door
of a room opening upon a small enclosed
garden.
"This," she said, "was the sleeping
room of Helolse, Her ihm stood In that
oleove. lly the window was once a door
which led lo the confessional and out
sldo was Iter gnrden, where sho walked."
It was overwhelming the thought of
it all Here Helolse hail first studied, a
happy, brilliant, carcfreo girl. Hero sho
had teturiied after her marriage to escape
the cruelty of her uncle, and hero had,
sho tukeii her vows for life In tho bloont
of her youth, saying as she accepted the
oil whloh shut her In forever from tho
world :
"Criminal that I was to bring such mis
fortune on thee; reeelvo now my expia
tion In tills chastisement which I must
' bear forever."
i liven In thut solemn hour It was her
devotion to Abchud, not to heaven, whloh
ciigagud her thought. U wus many yeeffy
before her heart was given to Uod.
Later 1 vUltcd the convent again with
' a photographer, nnd was shown, by Mr.
Jules Provln, Its owner, the subterranean
tusKiign through which Abelard used to
mako his ai'Ciut intranet', unit the old
Worn stone staircase which his Impatient
ftet trod.
This passage, now partly walled up, to
fin in n cellar, used to extend through to
tho Seine, which Is only u short distance
from the convent. Mr. l'rovln assured me
that Abelard mude his entrance by boat,
und showed ine III the roof of the cellar
u hook which hud probably served aa un
iiiichorage for tying the bark of Cupid,
Mr. l'rovln did not stem to rtnllte the
fortuiiu lying umiHiied In his grusp Un
dislrmt to lent ills property for some
thing less thun SX) u year, but could out
helluvo that by making Its history known
und turning It Into a goal for tourists,
charging a frano entrance feo, he would
Miort be independent for life.
Argrntct'll Is only tvjpn'y rstt-it,
Paris, and thousands of tourists would
glady Journey thither und pay their fiano
did tho guluo boiiks uiiui h.i-.ii ...
convent, where begun the long martyi
tlom of Helolso, thut terrible llfu ot soil
tUdo and Buffering for which she was so
unfitted; thut crucifixion of tho passion
uto woman on the ultur of the (for many
years) Indifferent recluse.
Sixteen yeurs uftcrwurd sho wrote to
Abelard, "I took the voll to obey .you
not to please God." ' . I'
ll was not from this convent, hut from
tho l'araclet the famous letters of Hel
olse were written. Thero Abelaid's body
was brought after his dcuth at tho priory
of St. Marcel In 1142, and there Helolso
was hurled beside him twenty-two years
later. No stone remains of the Para
ch't; It was destroyed In IStX) nnd the 'omb
and Its contents conveyed to Tens Lu
chaise. It Is believed that Abelard and Helolse
never met ater she took the veil, iavo
during the public ceremonies attending1
the dedication of the l'araclet to her
service,
dedication of the l'nraolct to hor service.
Ani other Impression falls to the ground
as Improbable, after perusing the letters
of Helolso written long yearn afters she
became a nun letters which Bre re
proaches for his nbnence nnd silence,
during all these years and wild patlt'.6n
for his favor and affection; letters flllod
with burning memories of a love that
would not die and with pawlonate pleas
for some word of recognition from the
man for whom she had sacrificed honor,
name, liberty and the world, In the morn
ing ot life.
Abelard trnvelled and gave discourses
nt various periods ufter ho took tho mon
astic vows.
Hnlnlno wrote a book of rules for the
women of the convents, which was blessed
by tho court ot Home, and entered Into
tho constitution of all the monasteries of
the time.
Bhe was famed for her erudition ana
her wisdom during her era, But It is
by her letters to Abelard that she re.
membered, because those letters reveal
the heart of a woman loving with abso-.
lute abandon, unselfishness and loyalty,
and of consocratlng her life to tho mem
ory of that love.
It proves how much greater Is a lover
than a philosopher, when we realUe what
'a renowned man was Abelard In his day,,
yet how utterly he, is forgotten save as
tho lover of Helolse. He was the first
orator, the first philosopher, the first
poet, arid one of tile first musicians of
the twelfth century.
He was so broad and so brilliant and
so courageous in ma ideas mat ne
brought a revolution Into the religious
world and untugonlzed the entire tradl-tton-bound
clergy. He was persecuted
in consequenco, but his name grew In
glory, and his school of philosophy, the
first to teach tho liberty of human
thought, could not accommodate his vast
audiences, and he was obliged to ad
dress them In the open air.
It Is no wonder that this man seemed
to Helolse, then 17 years of nge, a verit
able god, or that she forgot the world
In his love. And so great wan that lovo,
that It alone, of all Abclard's glory, is
remembered today.
Philosophies change religions alter
creeds die the minds of men are revolu
tionized nn these subjects, but love lives
on, and passion endures tho samo yes
terday, today, nnd forever In the human
heart. Only ho who loveB Is immortal.
than the yellow, the yellow less than th?
green, tho green less than tho blue, the
blue less than the Indigo, and the Indigo
less than tho violet. Tho lesult Is that
what was white light, with all Its wuves
Intermingled, when It entered the prlBin,
comes out In beautiful sheaves of color.
A similar effect Is produced hy the
bevelled edge of a mirror, or the facets
of 'a piece of cut-glass, glittering on a
dinner table.
The beauty of Jewels depends upon their
spectroscopic powers, livery transparent
subfctancc has Its own "Index of refrac
tion." which means its peculiar power
of turning light waves aside. The dia
mond, as the king of gems, possesses this
power In the highest degree. Calling tho
refractive Index of nil 1.00, that of glass
Is from 1.E1 to 1.71, according to Its den
sity, while that of the diamond is 2.457.
This property alone furnishes n means
of detecting the genuineness of n dia
mond. Taking ndvnntage ot Us high re-ff-ctlvo
power, and shaping Its facets
accordingly, the Jeweler can vastly In
crease tho brilliancy of a diamond by
proper cutting. He can hrlng nhout In
ternal reflections that mako tho atone
blaze as If Its atoms were all afire.
The shimmer of colors In an opal Is due
to the existence vf invisibly minute fis
sures, which spilt up the light waves and
scatter their hues In delicate, Inter
mingled rainbows.
Nature has been doing these things for
thousands of years, in plain sight, heforo
man found out that ho coultl uso thn
prlncple on which sho acted to uncover
tho secrets of the unlvorsc. Very likely
she Is giving us many other equally
vnluablo hints which we are still too
stupid to understand.
A Famous Conflagration
lly KKV. THOMAS IJ. (JHICOOUV.
The burning or Surdls, the royal city
of Asia Minor, by the Athenians and
lotilans i013- yCars ago. March 24, GOO B.
C, was attended by larger results than
ny other flro'that
was ever kindled on
this ourth. The
"Great Fire" of
lndon. tho Chi
cago fire, the Bos
ton fire, as well as
nil the other fires
that might be men
tioned, pale Into In
significance, t h t
historical c o n s e
quenocs duly con
sidered, before thlB
flro of Sardls.
The Ionian
Ireeks. Inhabiting the Islands along the
Vslatlc coast, were, at the time Indicated
above. BUbJectB of the Persian king. But
It is difficult to 1iold Greeks In bondage.
The Greek Is, and ever has been, a great
lover of liberty, and whenever ill fortune
plated him under foreign rule, he hiiH
always chafed like a eaged lion.
It was not strange, therefore, that the
Ionian Greeks thought of revolting
against the great oriental despot, Darius.
The start was made ly Arlstagorus of
Miletus. Arli-tagotHS applied for aid to
Spuria and was turned down with the
curt reply that "Spartans would enguge
In no undertaking that would carry them
a three-months' Journey from the t-ea."
Aristngoros then turned to Athens -and
wus successful. Touched by the envoys'
story, tho Athenians Immediately Vutetf
to scmtl n fleet of twenty ships to aid in
tho good cause of Jonlnn freedom.
HaFfpnIng hack, Arlhtngoras gatherod
a force of lnspalnnn, which, In conjunc
tion with the men of Athena, made a
dcBcent upon tho Islan roast, left their
vossel at a point near Ivphesus, and with
characteristic courage tet out upon an
Invasion f the Persian dominion. Upon
reaching Sardls. the capital of Asia
Minor, they made It a heap of ashen, and
were thinking of their next move, when
they suddenly found themselves In u pre
dicament. The united Greek force was a small
one, and Artapheinen, the klng'a non
tenant In the province, was fast sur
rounding them with an army many tlnvw
tho size of their own.. An Instant start
was made for their tleet, Hevcnty-fivu
miles awny, but they were overtaken near
Kpheeus by the king's army and de
feated. Betaking themselves to their ships, the
Greeks salW'd away, and for the time be
ing the Ionian revolt was over.
But Sardls was destroyed. The royal
city was u heap of charred ruins. The
great kings anger was furious. "Who
burnt SaidlsT' he uslitd, "The Athenians,
oh king," ho was told. He had a very
vacuo Idea ns to who tho. Athenians
were, hut he instantly repolved to punish
them, and he commanded those who
waited upon him ut table to say to him
overy day, "Remember the Athenians."
He did remember them and thn result
wuh Marathon. And his successor re
membered them and the result was
Platen nnd Salainls and Mycalc.
And out of tho grand enthusiasm (a
true "divine afflatus," If thrre ever wbb
one) born of these vletorlOH iroen the
"Glory that wan Orrcc-p" tho drama of
Arschvltis and Sophocles, tho eloquence
of Pericles, the matchless sculpture of
PhldliiH, tho Inimitable painting of Zeuvls
and Anelles; In a won!, the flrht leal
civilization that the world ever saw.
It Is interesting to give free reins to
the imagination Just here, ami to ask our
selves thti question: "Would all this have
been had irdln not been burnt?" It
mighty and thou again It iv!g t. One
thing Is certain, hut for tho minify r f
Sardls it would not have born when It
was. Lnter on-wn know not how much
later thero might have ronio an "Age of
Perlcle.," and. following that an empire
of Alexander, Blinking thn sleepy old
Orient Into life; hut this Is only conjec
ture. WJiat we know Is this: The audacious
Athenians-burnt Surdls. anil because they
burnt Sardls the Kusslnn monarch at
tempted the ehaBtlsement of them, whleh
rwulted In tho Owk vlltnries which
oreatwl the enthusiasm out of which came
the civilization thnt is still tho mliuHe
find glory of history.
Ballad
hi
Gypsy Call
J
lly WILLIAM I KIKK.
I.
You uBk mo if our love will change when you uro old and gray;
You ask me If our dream of bllas In time., will fado away
And so I einlle away your fears and kiss away your tears,
For such a love aa ours, dear heart, cares nothing for tho years.
' CHOnuS:
I must have loved you long ago when all tho world waB now,
When o'er the flowers of Edon's bowers the birds all sang for you;
In agoa gono wo know the dawn of pleasure and of pain;
I loved you then, I lovo you now, and wo shall love again.
Lart nlcut I drcumcd tho sunset gleamed ulong the ancient Nile,
And oli, your smile was swooter far than Cleopatra's smile.
Wo strolled along boneath the palms- and when the twilight came
I kissed you long and tenderly; I kins' jou ncv the same.
DPI
Jiy JUAN' liltOOKK HITUT.
Gypsy wind, gypsy wind, over the hills
Away on the lure o' the trail.
Gypsy wind, gypsy wind, follow my
dream
To the Country of Iivo-Never-Kall.
Follow It, follow It. Will o' the Wisp.
And hurry away to the land
Where ralries and flowers and thistle
downs vpak
In a way I would fain understand.
Gypiry wltid, gypsy wind, play in the hair
Of a dear little maid whom I knuw.
Anil whisper her secrets 1 whisper to
you.
And-tell her the reason I go:
Tell, hen uii. tell her. wise Summer wind
Though 1 go to the end of the trail.
My dear little maid will rail me from
there
To her rountrv nf Ui'-u-Ntvu-Fall,
fromfV mSKA
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