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6 Worth Woman's While ‘‘Let me no wrong or idle word Unthinking say; Set Thou a seal upon my lips Just for to-day.” Two Happy Wives. Unconsciously, perhaps, we insist upon the be lief that the chief victims of monarchical govern ments, kings and queens and princes, must be un happy. We look on them as marked of Fate, and when by chance we learn that the good that comes to ordinary mortals—domestic peace and content ment, marital satisfaction—is the lot of some of them, we doubt it, and make no secret of the doubt. It is habit—the flower, possibly, of the little seed of envy, a plant that has taken deep root. It is good, seeing that this is so, to contem plate two royal households where unity between hus band and wife makes not only for their happiness, but for example to the whole world—for it is one penalty that greatness (as the world counts great ness) must pay, the privilege that all christendom accords itself of being admitted into the very in nermost sanctum of domestic privacy. If history be true there have not been over-many instances that would bear this close intruding, but lineage, blood, tell as plainly in royal houses as else where, and so it is to this must be attributed the high standards which the Danes and the Norwe gians have in their reigning family. When Chris tian IX came to the Danish throne by election after the death of Frederick VII, who died childish, he was but a plain and unpretentious man, strong and handsome enough in person, but with little of the pomp and show of other European monarchs. He was a man before he was king, and so to the end of his long rule. The Danes never quite got over in that their king was a German, but all Europe has had cause to thank the providence that elected the German to the throne whence were + issue so man.) worthy monarchs, the strong, red German blood making men and women that have blessed the con tinent, and will continue to bless it: King Chris tian and Queen Louise were the father and mother to Alexandra, Queen of England, Marie Dragmar, Dowager Empress of Russia; King George of Greece; King Frederick VIII, the present Danish monarch; and King Haakon VII of Norway, Frederick’s son, is their grandson. We all know of the happy home life of this notable family, and how the good queen taught her daughters the womanly things any good mother wishes her girls to know, even to make their own dresses and bonnets; and how wholesome was her influence in affairs of state up to the time of her death in 1898. So the blood on both sides was good, and credit, as always, must be given to the mother even above the father. When Prince Frederick, the present king, thirty five years ago, sought a wife it was His fortune to lose his heart to another Louise, much like the one who had made his father so happy, and set for the son the standard of womanhood. This Louise was the only daughter of Charles XV of Sweden, and besides possessing every quality which would have made her an excellent wife and mother in any walk of life, she had from her mother, a princess of the Netherlands, a fortune of $15,000,000; this has grown with investment to $30,000,000, which makes I ouise the richest queen in Europe, and many times richer than her husband. This young girl whom Frederick loved, was but eighteen when they were married, and despite her highborn station—or we might say, because of it— her chances for happiness were not equal with those of other women; she had no beauty, was even pain fully homely; she was not then, nor since, a bril liant woman; and her height has always made her noted as the tallest princess in Europe—she is six feet, three inches, and so, taller than her hus band, a thing np woman could wish to be, But the The Golden Age for April 19, 1906. By FLORENCE TUCKER young wife had beauty of heart and soul, the charm that does not dazzle and then wear off or remain but to pall and weary, and her husband was the man to look deeper than the face; he loved the true, womanly woman, and the qualities which attracted and satisfied him then have kept him contented and happy nearly two score years. It is a lesson to those women who spend so much time and anx iety iu the effort to retain the good looks which they think must be preserved to hold their hus bands; Louise never had any, and her energies have been directed to the cultivation and employment of the qualities of heart and mind which make for what is enduring, and in her case, at least, the course has proven the wise one. This new queen, when she came with Frederick to the throne, was found to be a very queen, indeed, queen among wives and among mothers, and every home-loving, home-making woman the world over rejoices to learn of her ways and her works. The mother of eight children, four sons and four daugh ters, she has brought them to be good citizens, nur tured in the admonition of the Lord, for she is deeply pious, and worthy of their whole ancestry. Hei gii Is have had no need, as had their royal aunts, to make their own gowns, but they were taught dressmaking just the same. Thrift and industry are part and parcel of the queen’s make-up, and she does not permit her position to take from her the privilege of being just a woman—of working with her hands, for instance. Many are the gifts the poor know which have been the loving labor of her own hands; she is very fond of knitting, and de lights to busy herself with mittens and comforters and socks which are distributed among the worthy needy, vv hile generous and charitable, bestowing quietly and in secret where deserved, she does not believe in indiscriminate giving—her strong, sturdy character is opposed to that. To her own her rel- atives and immediate friends—her favorite gift is an illuminated text done on vellum by her own hand. This sort of giving l , the home-made present, is Aery acceptable among the Danes who are not a people to care much for the state and ceremony which puts most sovereigns at a distance from their subjects; the new queen suits them full well. Her people pleased with her, her children a credit and blessing, her husband her lover still after thirty five years, what could wife ask more? What more could she have? Yet there is more—her son, Carl, now Haakon VII, King of Norway, himself a man after the type of his father and grandfather, is happily mated with one in every way worthy of the family into which she has come. Princess Maud of Wales has made him a model wife, and there is every reason to be lie\e that her little son who will be Ilaf of Norway, if he lives to, succeed his father, will prove a worthy scion of his race. He is a fine, bright little fellow, and the people of Copenhagen, their former home, since the elevation of the pair to the throne, have given much publicity to the careful aiM wise train ing of the young mother. The rules wnich she has laid down for her little son are held up as an ex ample for all Scandinavians to use with their chil dren. Such simple injunctions that a little boy can understand, and so home-y, so young mother like, one can scarce refrain from smiling as she reads them—a loving smile of sympathy and ap proval : “A little boy cannot get along well unless he does well. How shall a little boy do well ? He must get up early in the morning, just as the farmers do, because idle in bed is idle in work. He must always keep himself clean in body and face, for if one is unclean in body it soon makes the mind un clean. He must speak clean words, and he cannot speak clean words unless he has clean thoughts. He should respect his father and mother, and if he does he will obey them. He ought never to neglect his church or hjs Sunday Schoo], for the good they do him and others. If he remembers all these things, he will be tender, brave and faithful.” And so here are two happy wives—we might say three, for King Christian’s wife was happy. It were worth taking notice. In a world of so much crookedness and disappointment it is well to dwell on what is good and true and happy. Who knows? Perhaps if we all thought only right thoughts, things might grow to be different. The Sustaining Hand. The little child who wakes at night, Affrighted at the somber gloom, And clamors for a ray of light To drive the darkness from the room, To quiet dreamland sweetly goes, Contented, if a hand is near, Caressingly, because it knows There is no terror it need fear. So, we who stumble through the gloom, In aimless manner seeking light, Will blindly wander to our doom If traveling by our own might; But when, in darkened paths we stray And cry aloud, the Father hears And reaches out His hand to stay Our apprehensions and our fears. —Brininstool. President Roosevelt says: “The foes from whom we should pray to be delivered are our passions, ap petites and follies.” To be polite to one we dislike is not necessarily being insincere. Politeness is not so much a mani festation toward others as an indication of what we are ourselves. We owe it to ourselves to be well bred.—Selected. Womanliness is a standard of the morals of a community or nation. As the women are, so will the family, the community and the country be. The hope and glory of the present age is the character of its Christian womanhood.—Exchange. It is astonishing how much annoyance and dis comfort there is to be found in life if one keeps a sharp eye out on that side of things; but every truth has its converse truth; it is equally true that it is even more astonishing how much there is of enjoyment, of delight, of blessedness in life, if one only keeps a sharp eye out on that side of things. What are called the inequalities of life are not half so unequal as they seem. Common to all men, free to all men, are the essentials of joy. The beM things of life the rich cannot buy with their money; the poor need not go without on account of their poverty. __ H H Great Britain will take no action concerning the massacres of Jews in Russia. In the House of Lords, Lord Fitzmaurice, Under Secretary of For eign Affairs, said that such action might be regard ed as “illegitimate interference.” Any illtimed intervention, he added, might increase the oppres sion. The Archbishop of Canterbury indorsed the government’s attitude. According to informal information, Italian an archists are arriving in the United States at both Pacific and Atlantic sea ports. The diplomatic rep resentatives of the Italian government have posi tive information to this effect, and have called the matter to the attention of United States. Through their representatives at San Francisco and Balti more. the immigration officials have been advised of the recent ]anc]injg of a number of anarchists from Italy,