Then and Now.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 5, 31 January 1912, Page 58

Then and Now.

The present relations between Russia and Persia are in striking contrast to those which prevailed when the Shah not only congratulated Catherine I. on her accession, but offered Her Majesty earnest paternal advice. He sincerely hoped, he said, that she would not give way to drink, and he held up his own

case as a horrible example of ttie truth of the temperance gospel which he preached. His eyes, he wrote, were like rubies, his nose was like a carbuncle, and his body was like a barrel, as the result of the self-indulgent habits which he had acquired in his youth, and could not shake off in his old age. But the Empress, who liked her glass, was not, even with that warning before her, persuaded' to become a teetotaller.