AN IRRESISTIBLE PLEA.

Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 69, 24 March 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN IRRESISTIBLE PLEA.

Jeanne Marie Lawrette, the murderess of the Japanese Charge d'affaires Sakourada, on her removal to the prison at Arnheim, addressed the following petition to Queen Emma of the Netherlands — " Your Majesty ! though a criminal, I still am a woman j intercede for me that my long- flaxen hair may not be cut off, Remember that I have no mirror, no toilet accessories, nothing to remind me of my former life. Yet when I let down my plaits, and the long flaxen tresses infold me like a mantle, I shall, even in my prison cell, know that I am young and beautiful.' Queen Emma has not only granted this request, but obtained for the unfortunate young woman a mitigation of her treatment during her three years imprisonment. — Damenzeitung.

Up to the present time over 2000 Austrian subjects have received notice to leave Prussia. Next to the sunlight of heaven is the cheerful face. There is no mistaking it — the bright eye, the uncloudy brow, the sunny smile, all tell of that which dwells within. Who has not felt its electrifying influence? One glance at this face lifts us out of the mists and shadows into the beautiful realm of hope. One cheerful face in a household will keep everything bright and warm within. A host of evil passions of evil passions may lurk around the door, but they never enter and abide there, The cheerful face will put them to shame and flight.