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£ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Ee -- ---- ROMANTIC BRITTANY IS THE LEAST FRENCH OF ALL FRANCE. Bretons Differ In Ancestry, Language and Temperament From Neighbors «Have Maintained Racial Charac- ters Almost Unparalleled In Eu- rope--Originally Same Race as Scots and Irish. If one were asked what part of France is least French he might be led to thidk of the province recently rewon from Germany; or regions touching Italy or Spain. But the land that bests merits this description is 'the large peninsula at the northwest- ern corner of France--Brittany--a region that has been French almost as long as any soll-of the republic. Brittany has no political existence, and Is not even represented by name on some modern maps; but the Bre- tons, differing in ancestry, language, and temperament from their neigh- bors, have held aloof and maintained their racial characters in a way al- most unparalleled in European his- tory. Fierce wars have left thelr scars, and the concomitants of mod- ern civilization have made their en- during impress on people and coun- try, but so much of the ancient cus- toms and landmarks has survived that Brittany 1s still a well-marked geographical and ethnological éhtity and bids fair to remain such for many generations, This isolation of Brittany from the remainder of France, while at the same time the province is compara- tively easy to reach and traverse, has for many years made it a popular holiday and vacation resort for Pari- sians and Londoners, and has attract- ed the notice of regular travellers and tourists who, having "done" the Alps, the Rhine, the Norwegian fjords, the Riviera and the European capitals, are seeking new worlds tc conquer. Artists of all lands have likewise found this a most agreeable fleld for work and recreation. The original name of Brittany was Armorica, which was changed in con- sequence of extensive immigration from Great Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries. The. Armorican tribes formed a part of that race of which the Irish, Highland Scots, and Manx constitute one division, and the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons the other. The. Celtic language there spoken at the present time is divi info three or four rather distinct dia- lects, and is understood, if not actu- ally used, by a very large percentage of the native population. Many of the older Bretons cannot speak French, and in 1902, it.was found that the French language was un- known or unused by 700,000 of the people. The Government now re- quires the young to learn French, so the gradual disuse and final death of this ancient tongue may be expected. In prehistoric times the Gauls con- . Quered the earliest of Brittany's races; and then came the Roman con- quest and the Roman occupation of Qaul until the fourth century, up to which time the peculiar religious practices of the aboriginal race ap- Pear to have flourished unmolested by elther-Gauls or Romans. Then the real Bretons arrived. In 383 Maximillian, son-in-law of Octa- vius of England, and his nephew, Conan Meriadec, went over to Armor- ica and endeavored to displace. the Romans. This venture cost the lives ....0f some 15,000 soldiers. Then Maxi- millidn 60k over a huge army and eventually overcame the Romans. Conan became king of thé country; which he called Little Britain, or Bre- tagne; and, making his capital at Nantes, he invited his countrymen, who were then very hard pressed by the Scots and Picts and Saxons, to come aver and join him. 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Place of Origin Is Thought to Be Scotland. The stone called the Coronation | Stone, to most visitors [probably the most interesting thing in Westmin- ster Abbey, has another and much ancient name. Its true name is Gaellc--Liath Fhathall, which means in English the "Grey Stone Pillow." - "Now, it 1s certain that Queen Vie- torfa firmly believed tlLat the British Royat House descended from King David, and, therefore, from Jacob himself, and that the stone upon which she received her crown was the identical one upon which he rest- ed his head at Bethel when he dreamed of ascending and descend- ing angels and heard of the future greatness of the nation he should found. The stone is also called the Stone of Destiny. Doubtless.this name, or the tardition it enshrin¥d, was the reason that prompted the astute Ed- ward I to carry it from its ancient site at Scone to his own capital of London and deposit it in St. Edward the Confessor's Chapel. It has re- mained there ever since, except for one brief ceremony--the installation of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protec- tor in Westminster Hall. But why the Stone of Destiny? Well, not only had all the ancient Kings of Scotland, from the remotest dawn of Scottish history, been crowned on this stone, but it was firmly believed that wheresoever this stone went, there would go the sov- ereignty. That was exactly what Edward sought, so he carried off the Stone of Destiny. Doubtless, he also be- lleved that this "disaster," as thé Scots regarded it, would break the spirit of the northern kingdom. In this, of course, he was greatly mis- taken, as Bannockburn abundantly proved. There was another reading of the legend, however. It was this--that wherever the stone went there a Scot should rule. And, with the death of Elizabeth; the crown of England devolved upon a pure Scot, James VI, of Scotland becoming James I. of Great Britain and Iyeland. It is, too, by virtue of his Stuart blood that King George sits to-day on the throne of Britain. Bince the day that Edward I. car- ried the Stone of Destiny from Scone and deposited it in the Abbey, every English sovereign, with one excep tion, has been crowned upon it. That one exception was Mary, the un- happy daughter of Henry VIII, and Katharine of- Aragon. But what ground is there for be- Heving that this stone is the identi- cal one which Jacob set up at Bethel? It is not improbable that it was the original stone on which the ancient Irish kings were crowned on the hill of Tara, and that it was removed by Fergus to Argyll, and thence by King Kenneth in the ninth century --or about the time of Alfred the Great--to Scone. But this piece of "possible histo does not carry us much nearer to/the Jordan Valley, and, seeing that' the Stone of Destiny is a piece of Scot- tish granite, its place of origin may, after all, have. been in Scotland. Training Insect Army. Insects are being trained hs police- men by a British scientist. He plans to release swarms of minute crea- tures to fight other insects, which de- stroy or harm crops. For instance, caterpillars can_be prevented from ruining trees and so on by turning against them hordes of other cater- pillars, trained to have cannibal im- stinets, so that they will fight and eat pests. / The Inventor of this ald 10 farmefé and gardeners considers that one of his greatest successes Is the production of a slug-tiger. This creature, called a testacella, has very sharp jaws, with which it plerces the slugs and eats them. Almost any | kind of insect pest can be fought by other insects, and as time goes on | it may be possible to make the pro- cess of -destruction absolutely na- | tural. That is to say, the insect- killers will breed without any assist- ance from science. The only unsolved point is whether the slayers will eventually bécome more of a nuis- ance than the slain. Conan's death, mn 421, Christianity, that had been introduced with the Briton immigrants, had been estab- lished and paganism almost abolished over a large part of the country. In the Middle Ages the dukes of Brittany exercised semi-royal prerog- atives, and the people had a separate parliament for many years preceding the French Revolution. At the out- break of that momentous struggle the Bretons lived up to their reputa- tion for conservatism and remained loyal to the monarchy, and foreibly resisted the establishment of the re- public long after the other parts of France had accepted the new regime. This sanguinary chapter in the his- tory of the country has been vividly Portrayed in Balzac's stirring novel, "The Chouans." The Britons, at first the friends and kindred of the Bretons, eventu- ally Bbcame their hereditary enemies. For centuries the British privateers and naval vessels ravaged this coast, STOMACH TROUBLES . ARE DUE TO ACIDITY So-called stomach troubles, such as indigestion, gas, sourness, stomach- ache and Inability to retain food are In probably nine cases out of ten, simply evi nce that excessive secre- tion of acid 1s taking place in the stomach, causing the formatwon of gas and acid indigestion. Gas distends the stomach and causes that full, oppressive, burning feeling sometimes known as heartburn, while the Reid irritates and luflames the deli- cate lining of the stomach. The trouble lies entirely in the excess development or secretion of acid. To stop or prevent this souring of the food contents of the stomach and to entrain the acid, und make {it rmless, a teaspoonful of Fo i loa & good and effec- lve corrector of acid stomach, should! be takin in & quarter of a glass of hot or vold water after eat or when. gas, aciduy is felt. swoetens the stomach and neu- izes the acldity in a few moments and is & perfectly harmless and inex- pensive remedy to use. : "An antiacid, such as Bjsurated Mag- nesia which can be obtained from an druggist iiss her powder or tablet form en the stomach to do its work properly Srithgut the aid of arti 4 a comes in Bisurated Magnesia, %| and children were here bu kaded the harbors, bombarded the towns, landed fighting and the long-continued and still abides In this land, where change in habits and customs and sentiment occur very slowly, The present popu is about 3,260,000. "s Some years ago as the scene of Drey- fus' first trial; and Nantes, on the Loire, the largest and one of most interesting places in tany. Its chief attraction is age and romantic history. tioned by Caesar, Pliny, writers of their time, and 1 of note long before Caesar Gaul into three parts. In the atrocious massacres, : in 1793 fully-30.000 men, women tchered. § Try living on 15 cents a day if you are troubled with dyspepsia. : 80 be certain to ask for take only especially prepared for the . A little too late is much too s & GO SA J - GDENS UINEA LD -- a -- ild and Extra _Fine" ® Leaves Toronto dail at1045pm for Sud. ian points, In every way a hi train. 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