Medford mail tribune., June 16, 1929, Image 10

PACE TWO
THE WORLD HAS
NO PICTURE OF
WARRIOR MA D
History Curiously Fails to
Leave Authentic Portrait
of Joan of Arc Popular
. Heroine a Shadowy Fig
ure, and None Know if
She Was Blonde or Bru
nette. t
fiu whore you will In lYunce
to tln. north, to the Midi, lo the
inuunliiins, forcslH, plnfn you will
alwa.VK find u utittue or iiorlrult of
joun of Arci A Kiuiutt of the wur
rior maid milihIh in tin t:ity winarc
or the village church. lit: the
(IwelllnK t'Vd' ho humlili-, itlw.:yH
there in u plulurn of the inuitl on
the cover of u Krholar'H notebook,
On iin nhiiiiniic, us the frontihplece
of ii hiHlory, in the prayer hook
of Rrutidnuither or firHt comuiunl
cant in the eure'n ln-oviury.
Joun in enrdirined in the
. inline u n ih, in the J,ouvr, in the
l.Uxemhoiiru. She is, IneonteHl
ahiy, the imohI popular flpuro in
French and, perhapw, in all hia
torlen. Klie KiirpuKKeH in renown
both Henry IV and Napoleon. The
mnalletit rliildren know her.
Hueh heitiK 1 he cime, ask n ny
Frenchman htw he vinualizeM the
world 'h most fanmiiH heroine.
Heavy or Hlemler? Tall or nhrt?
Itlonde or hruneite? Jio will he
unahle lo uiiHwer yen.
Joint .MenllolHHl One ln Inline
Jh there a Kindle uulheiith; rep
reHeiitation of the liberator of Or
leans in existence '! An exuhed
multitude followed in her fout
rttepH. ralnlern and miniat Uriels
trnnnmltted her features to ran
van nnil vellum; and when Joan
was n prisoner at Iloueu the de
vout Freneh people huiiK these
pietureH In their i-hun-hes wilh
their vh'KiiiM and tiiartyt-H, and
'even then decked thewe ex-voton
vlth floweiH and randlcH and re
el ted prnyevK before thorn for the
deliverance of the kIi'I who had
unveil France.
At the time of the trial Hltdinp
OauehiMi deplored tlo'He plclure (n
Johu'h hearhiK. "Have you ever
peen or had made a palntiim of
yourHelf uh you really look V" he
linked her.
And the Maid replied frankly:
"L Haw one nntnllwT'lty ( Scot at
Arras which resembled me. It de
pleted nie In armor presenting on
one knee a letter to niy kin;,'. 1
have never men or had painted
any other port rail that resembled
me."
Who was this Scotsman ? l'er
haps the artlut Jnluin I'ower, who
(loslKiied thi 1 in liner of the Maid.
In the ledger or the city of
Kallidion we find this entry, dated
J4:ilt: "Item, we have expended
24 denlers in order to look at the
portrait of Hie youtiK Khi who
foitKht In Kranee," So thu fame
of (he Maid had crossed the
lthinc! The humble shepherdess
of Horn re my was an object of
curioitity and admiration in the
euntles and courts of (iminany.
Sketelird With llalr
What became of these portraits?
Wuh one of them that little paint
ing on wooil exptised for a brief
period In t h( Versailles muse u in ?
This depleted the Virgin Mary
Heated, With Saint Michel stnmlliiK
, at her rlht and .loan of Are at
her left. It was clumsily executed.
At the lime of the sloe of Or
leans the elerk of the parliament
of l'aris made a small .sketch of
the Maid on the margin of his
register. In this crude caricature
Joan Is show n wit It Ioiik hair, a
demit which Mufl'lclenlly indicates
the Ignorance or stupidity of t he
Vlerk. Joan won' her hair bobbed,
like her pawes, ur like the women
of today.
At the Cluny museum Ihere is
a small equestrian statue In
hronxe, bear in it this Inscription be
tween the chaiKeir's tevrs: 'l.a
liurelle dorllans." Joan of Ale
was never so designated in the
fifteenth century. The inscription,
moreover. Was laboriously cut In
the -bronze with a maver. Why
not on the matrix befnre the east
hiK? The fiBure Is i setol-forKcry.
tJke ho many authtuai inn hlbelols.
this HiipiMiseil .loan of Are is a
Snint t leorye or a Saint Maurice
of the period of Charles VIII.
Anatole (''ranee explained lhat the
saints were f ret incut ly depleted
beitrinK; the arms' and armor of
Joan
Her roinpmiloiiK ilstiKreeil
lit the absence, therefor, of
iconoKraphic tPftliiinny, can we
i taimmon ocular evidence '! J low
abotit the companions of the shep
! herdess at Doinremy, the friends
!of her t hlblhood Hutivo Me. Man
Ik,, .t,.-n,,. mtle KirH with whom
(she plaited uarlandx and danced in
;.lny fiinshine so Ioiik ano? Too
testimony of sonic of them was
heaid at the time of the rehabili
tation trial. Hut It would Kccm
. ih.'U tbey had foiKOlteu, and. while
they agreed as to the precocious
! piety and miraculous s(?riousncs
of their companion, they differed
'as to her features. Some described
jtheni as HiroiiK "no" determined;
others tin nervous, rustic and com
monnlaee. The apotheosis of
KhelniH and the Htake at Houen
seemed to have erased from their
minclH the imaKe of a simple little
country maid.
The Kami discrepancies appear
in the testimony of the men at
t.i,,. .,!.. with her and
shared with her the dancers of
baltle, the bivouac mid the bread
and wine of victory. Koine Haw
her as KtronK and tall n bit of
the viraKo about her; others as a
sliKht youmr Klrl, daintily formed.
Such contradictions can he ex
plained to some extent by Joan's
armor. On foot and in feminine
Kurb she was probably u full
fiKured. almost buxom. youiiK wo
man; but she must have serincd
falry-IIke and subliinated in her
while armor, mounted on a hlR
charter, it is certain thai she Was
omely, pleasing to see and to
listen to, K'ncelul in her move
ments, u HkUfa'd rider, youthful
and with u steady laiiKh. l.a Hire
Kaiil thai "she Una a beauliful
bust."
"She was between 1 7 and 1 H
years old, .slronR and syiumelilc
ally formed." we are Inld in the
'(.'hroniipie do la rmrelle." "She
was tall and well made." says the
''Mirolr de Kenuues Virl ileuses."
Vet I'hllippe de liertcanie ives her
a medium stature. As for 'her hair,
ihere is no report, except thai il
was cut "soldier fashion," that is,
short oTf.
Was .loan Itlonde or Hrunette?
Was Joan of Arc blonde or bru
nette? on this point the erudite
tear each others hair and have
settled nothing. 'onvllicfnn evi-
jdeficf once existed, but the relic
has disappeared. On ovemier v,
142!t, the Maid addresfieiT Tl letter
from Moulins lo llie inhabitants of
klnm, which was preserved In the
municipal archives of the liitler
city. Siill adhering lo Hie wax of
the seal wis a. Jet black hair.
Was It Joan's? It used to be fhe
custom, lo Insure Hie inviolability
of a Letter, to Imbed a straw or
a hair from I ho beard or head In
the seal. And almost always the
wax bore Hie impression of the
writer's finger. !
Upon this "jel black hair," now ;
lost, historians have based -their
claims that Joan of Ave:WW -u de
cided brunette, although thai type;
was. unusual In the district of her.
hiiih. Kven admitting that Joan
conformed to custom whim Realiim
hor letter, the hair Which slid ustor
to insure her letters secrecy and.
written to a city. It probably was
not a secre: communication may
well have been playfully plucked j
from the head of a pae: the act I
would have been in character.
Neither hruneite nor blonde," I
asserts the editor of the "Chron- ,
liilic Kspannole de hi Pucelle
Orleans." She was of law
stal are Jnriier than ordinary
and her members were stronK and
robust: the fuel more virile than
feminine. Her eyes were yellow
ami line, their expression lively;
t h' nose and niout h were well
placed. In sum, she appeared
finely proportioned, ami her hair,
Iouk and of a russet hue, was
worn in various knots. In buttle
she wore It outside her armor,
though there was danger in this;
for. weartiiK U thus, her men ree
ok Hissed her ... It showed like the
brim of a hat beneath her helPiel."
Illomlc Tjih1 Was Prevalent,
Can we lake seriously this
grossly mistaken picture ? The
Spanish writer had Joan horn In
Hauphlny! The blonde type pre
vails in alt miniatures and tapes
tries of the fourteenth century, on
Ihe kneelhiK statue of the Maid al
the door of her hi it n place in
Htnuremy it Is of the period of
I ,oii Is ,N I -the head once bore
traces, It Is said, of yellow paint,
(if course, this may have been t;lll;
l hey w ere prodigal with kIH on
the statues of saints, heroines and
royalties In the .Middle Akv.
The absence of documentary
e1deiice Kavc Ihe urlHts n Iree
rein. Mach period dressed the
Maid In lis own style. In the fif
teenth century she was a malefi
cent witch to t he UurKundlans,
with black butterMieH flutei Iuk
about her banner. To the ArtuiiR
naes she was an annel of victory.
At t he Henalssance humanists
transformed her into a sort of
1 ,1 nit it h, wen i inn a plumed hat of
Kty felt with a m"ld fleur-de-lin
n the brim!
The attitude toward Joan dttr-
lK the Revolution was both piolls
I all dv.Hidal. She appealed less as
, the liberator of l-'rance than the
plcheia n victim of priests ami
I ItltiK. The Jacobins overturned
; her statue on Ihe I'ont d'Orlcnns.'
but they used the hroiis-.e for a
cannon, which they named "li
ltd sere" Ohe shepherdess ) .
limVOTIT) MATTj TRTBTTNT1. DFOHD, OREnpy, STAYJUNK JM
I with offic es In K
Highways and Skyways
A
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,ffh-. in IWitlle. lie brlnwi , fal ' ou ,,,u.ii M.li.in. been .oulia f,,,,.,"
ce both wWe and vail.d. c,1!it. s u mtm- Karolyl, minKnry rit.
Mr. Hailloy. who nus m. n - Auu-rlcun Coiurc to In- who Ih mm- an t.xn,
,.,! f.irnirr prcslilcnt 6f I Scuttl'--
1
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Tlic old and the new in airplane and motor c:ir transportation. Is shown In the above firoup of photography
Upper riylit is one of the firt old pusher type airplanes nt located in Los Anelcsi This Is still In operation?
and in used In the movies. Upper left is the first Oakland built In 1907. Lower (eft Is the newest type Western
Air Express Tri Motor Fokkcr Monoplane which is in daily service between San Francisco, Los Angeles and Salt
Lake City This Company maintains a large fleet of there mammoth new sedans of the nir. Lower right ia the
1929 model Oakland All-American Four Door Sedan.
run up, when Inferior oil ia used,"
says liankin.
"I use nothing hut Vcedol, and
I recommend it exclusively. It
.WAS11,677 CARSi:
inf from the air corps three years
hko.
The tone inlllinth FrlBlduire.
ornamented with, a cold serial
saves mo thousands uf dolhuH i Mate 'Ih. a fiiatiir bt the orirani-
! every month." j station's exhibit nt' the convention.
I "Tile IiJkIi pruisf- of this man is j .- i . ,
t representative of the wiiob
i hearted reception which V
won for itMelf everywhere
auioiiK fliers, who know that they
feel safe in trusting their
fc r.
Th
at
tat .
f. I n : ..
f i ji I
Wi are specially prepared ta
take care of cart In this
'v thape.
WORK GUARANTEED
TO
and nlaus to Its prfii-ie
lubrication no matter -how nxuel-H
liiiK the flying may be." says the
For the second month In kuc- h.eal dtler, who continues: "The
cession, (h-aham-l'alKo et a ncw'suceesn of Vecdol in aviation, how-nll-timn
nroiliietion record with ii'"ver i:i nf K"-"1 importance not
,'eedoi i Ford Factory
Produced Million
Wheels 42 Days
total of 1 1.677 ears In Slay, sur-
alone to fliers, hut equally to mo-
pnssiiitf the previous record of 11.
5T.0 ciirs established in the pre
cldiiiff month.
Combined production for April
and May, t lib; year, totals 'J.l,'Z2t
cars, or ?, 1 .7 per cent of the to
tal for all twelve months of IDL'tt.
,torisis, in whose 'engines the same
protection against heat and fric
tion is vitally essential to economy
and efficiency."
"Inere;t-;ing numbers of motor
ists are dally turning to Vecdol,
wllh its longer life and 10 per
cut pa raft me base, for their en-
when tbo Crahain-raiKc net aK'nB. nicy are learning that
That year record of ;t7,lfl5 for j WI,III,,I,V 1m l" he found not in
the new make car. Uaving a few cents per quart in
For the first five months of ! 1'iirihasing inferior oil. but by de
JHSH. :mham-l,alge is f.a per cent ! m'"dlng the best and thus avoid-
ahend of the annie period, last iK eomiy ear niut repair hills."
year, with a total of 4S.fi 1 1 units! V- c'- l''t I ingell, cslern regional
as againat U1I.IM1. j manager of tue Tide Water orgaui-
Announclng the May production:111""-
Vuliinv unnoral i ' "" '
K.
figures. F.
wiles manager. deulareH that May J7 hbw Pl nmo
also set new records for Canadian J UKKCr 1
"I
HhipnienUs'. and for export ship
ments to the rent of thu world.
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BY TEX RANKIN
Used to Transport
a Frigidaire
I'ex Kan kin, fa limits Vetera n
flier and owner of tae largest
flying school in the world, is an
other of the many advocates Which
Vnodol motor oil has fount! In avi
ation circles.
"You think motor ear repair
bills are high. Itut you should
what a bill an airplane can
ATLANTIC (MTV, N. J.. June
1(1. Transported in a FoUkor tri
motored monoplane, I he one mil
lionth electrical refrigeration unit
produced by Frigidaire Corpora
tion, a (ieneral Motors subsidiary,
was brought hero and displayed
I at the National Klectrie ight As
j soclation convention.
Leul. J. A. Macrcady, former
army filer and one time holder
! of the world's altitude, endurance
and distance flight records simul
taneously and now n member of
the company's sales organization,'
piloted the plane, making his first
cross-eouni ry flight since resign -
One milloon Ford all-steel one
piece wheels have been produced
in lorly-two days at the Hamilton,
Ohio, plant of the Ford Motor
Company. This is the equivalent
of equipage for 200,000 automo
biles, giving each car five wheels
The five-millionth wheel- to be
built at Hamilton wjih made on
May tt, just 4U working days .from
the completion of the four-niil-lionth.
The average maintained
on tlm million was li:i,X01 ..wheels
per day. . ,
What is pronounced it ho biggest
single day's output canto on May
:t. when a total of wheels
was turned out in " twenty-four
hours. 1 lmtiing the same day . one
of the shifts made 10,540 wheels,
said to be a record for eight
ho lira.
New Regional
Engineer .for
Portland Cement
As the first step In an enlarged
structural program, the Portland
Cement Association has announced
the appointment of ' Homer M
1 ladley as regional structural en
gineer for the Pacific coast, Mr.
Had ley is to act In ah advisory
capacity to architects and engi
neers . for the territory of Cali
fornia, Nevada. Arizona. "Oregon.
Washington and Ilrltlsh Columbia.
For the last soyen years M r.
I lad ley has been in the employ
of the, association as field engi
neer and then ti district engineer
an
. 1 1 fen rr&i v i: 1 1 i 1 p i m i
U I , II "
TAHITI. tVi - The natives of
this French colony in the south
Pacific arc plan n III).; to celebrate
Ihe fall of the .Maslllc with T.ihl
tlan souk and dances throughout
Ihe Ki Ml eight das and nights of
June. ,
The celebration, usually held
.Inly 14. Is to be put ahead of the
historical date because of the ex
peeled presence of a French war
ship. Slnclng companies are lemnint;
iga In I he heroic Icnends of their
districts, daiK ers arc limbei (or
t heir bodb's for the hula hula,
ami ancient women are fashion
ing the picturesque cohIiuuo worn
before the advent of Kuropeans.
I telephoned we would bt there at nV
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