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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1630, 23 December 1912, Page 5

A curious footnote to history is found in Mr. Q. L. de St. M. Watson's recentlypublished book "A Polish Exile With Napoloou," to the effect that the Emperor's evenings nt St. Helena were solaced with music from a piano which was imported from England at a cost to Napoleon himself of ,£122. The musician was perhaps lime. Bertrand; at any rate, the piano was bequeathed to her, and was removed by her from the island after Napoleon's death. Before joining a theatrical company, fitngo-struck girls might well stop to think—if their temperament over allows thorn to think—about Miss Julia Marlowe's recont statement in announcing her prospective retirement from the stage: "Tho world owes a certain amount of homo life to every human being." Tho famous actress is as eager to escape from tho continuous round of dressing-room, stage, hotel,' and railway train as the often misguided amateur is to experience largo corporations, comprised 'mainly of Englishmen, are now making Oriental rugs in a wholesale way, according to a writer in one of tho magazines, These corporations, located mamly in Turkey, gather tho rug-makera from different places, set up looms for them, and give them regular pay. The workers cony I hnndsomo antiques, and in this way tho I price of fine rugs has, it is asserted, been xmch reduced,