ITALIAN QUEEN BEE 11] 



way back for hundreds of years, is that our 

 fathers all died before we were born, and 

 that a strange man gave us our name. It 

 has never been changed, and you will find 

 our racial communal name as well as some 

 plain hints about our habits and work in the 

 Bible, that greatest and best of all books, 

 which carries us back farther than written 

 history of any kind in this world goes. I 

 said my name was high sounding and long, 

 but I think it is pretty and without affecta- 

 tion. Besides, it is grand; for as you must 

 know it is really Latin, and that is one of 

 the most beautiful of all the languages in 

 which people have ever spoken one to an- 

 other. Moreover I happen to know that 

 those who speak or ever learn French, 

 Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese and their 

 kindred dialects, are using modifications of 

 that musical Latin language. Of course 

 you are aware that the valuable coins of 

 England have stamped on them the name 

 of Edward VII, and that the little word 

 "Rex" is just after it, because "Rex" is the 



