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DoW&GEHl
Queen of Holland
F OUR women who formerly wore [
crowns that have been passed
on to others are getting !
through their lives as best
they may among the courts of Europe |
where they formerly reigned In regal !
splendor. They are Maria Christina of I
Sixain, the dowager empress Marie'Fe-
dorovna of Russia, ex-queen regent ]
Emma of Holland and the dowager J
queen Margherita of Italy. A fifth
dowager. ex-Empress Eugenie, might
have been added if only the second I
French empire had stood and her son
bad not been slain by a Zulu In Africa.
Of these women who hover about the
scenes of their former glory, ono whoj
appeals strongly to the heart and sym
pathies Is Mnrle Christina of Spain.
She has been called the unhapplest wo
man In Europe. Disappointed and un
loved In private life, her reign dis
astrous politically, though through no |
fault of hers, ex-Qucen Regent Chris-1
tlna of Spain 13 living out the rest of 1
her days In the shadows that have en- j
veJoped her whole hapless life. To)
that end. a shadowed life, she seems I
to have been born. Yet she herself Is |
one of the best of women, wiser, brain- wife, his cousin Mercedes, a beauCy and
ier than tho majority of queens. Had | j n every way the opposite of No. 2.
eha not been a very strong, capable j Queen Christina’s ways were cold and
woman she and her Kingdom would | formal, according to the rigid Austrian
have gono to pieces when the war ffl li ■ court etiquette. The Spanish people
the United States over Cuba wrested dld not -take to .. her . she had to ap _
from Spain its last great colonial pos- i pear j n public with the King at bull
session and sank the proud old nation [ fights. Christina hated bull fights and
into a fourth rate European power, > d j d not conceal her aversion to the
Yet Christina came.through tho wreck : crue , sh0 w. She turned her head away
with the crown of Spain still upon her | a „d would not look at it. all the while
head and turned it over to her son, Al- j that the eyes of her -husband’s sub-
fonso XIII., for whom she had endured jects were fixed on her. They saw how
so much. She had at least given the she disapproved of their favorite
Spaniards a decent and moral reign,
which they had not had for eighty
years, not during three generations of
rulers.
To begin, she was an Austrian arch
duchess, daughter of Archduke Karl
Ferdinand. She was " faced
Hapsburg, of an li
for homeliness n-
Melancholy Is <"
wonder. An uni
DOWAGER EMPRESS Of RUSSIA
"sport” and disliked her accordingly.
Queen Christina was expected to raiso
up a son to inherit the Spanish crown.
Slie became the mother of two daugh
ters instead. The Spaniards blamed
her for it, as though it had been her
fault. The king had never pretended
ted | to care for her as a lover, and though
ry. | he further pretended to be devoted to
j the memory of his first wife, yet he was
en : not so devoted as to be loyal and faith-
married for reasons ... Alfonso j ful either to the wife who was dead or
XII., who had dearly loved his first | the one beside him In the flesh. Kingly
! Intrigues and seandals became rife. 1 dren of the late King Christian of Den-
Alfonso XII. came of a line of prof- j mark were comely, the queen of Eng-
’ ligate ancestors. Qycen Christina. 1 land and czarina of Russia particularly
| proud and angry, left him apd went i beautiful. The baptismal name of the
i home to Austria. The emperor of j dowager czarina was Mhrie Sophia
I Austria coaxed her to go back. She j Frederika Dagmar.
went. Alfonso XII.. perhaps fortu- | When she was married to Alexander
nately, died young. Christina was made j III. her name was changed to Marie
: regent. Six months after the king’s; Fedorovna. She was born In 1847, be-
’ death her son, the present king, was; ing three years younger than Alexan-
| born. Then the latent soul power of ; dra. She Is more intellectual than the
I the queen regent came out. She set I English queen, though her mind is said
! herself to tho task of learning the art I to be of'that hard, narrow order which
j of government and of keeping the! cannot take the kindly, all round view
! throne of Srain for her baby. Both j of any question and cannot learn any-
aims she achieved. Her son is king, i thing new. She was the friend and
As to Christina—Christina is now no-j patroness of the late head of the Rus-
body In particular. She spends much j sion church, Pobedonostzeff, so detested
time going to church. It is said. She by Russian liberals,
is also said to be a good billiard player, j The liberal party of Russia blames her
The Czar’. Mother. ! ^ tterly for th ® repressive course of
j the government. They say she and tho
In March of this year the dowager j party of the grand dukes—she In par-
czarina of Russia for the first time in ticular—hold tho wealr czar in subjec-
twenty years ventured as far away ! tion and maintain the' reign of terror
from home as England, on a visit to her j in Russia, striving to' keep the great
sister. Queen Alexandra. All the chil- i and noble empire back'and down to the
QUEEN OF ITALY
times of Peter the Great. On the other
hand, however, it is- said, again, the
dowager empress has always especially
favored Finland, and to her influence
that country owes its home rulo and
universal suffrage, the ballot for wo
man included.
At any rate, however, it does not ap
pear that the beautiful and youthful
looking • imperial Russian dowager is
greatiy beloved by anybody, unless per
haps by her own brothers and sisters.
Wherever she goes a small army of
guards and detectives goe3 with her.
She Is watched night and day lest a
stray bomb blow her handsome head
off or a revolutionist bullet end her
earthly career. The British are a hos
pitable people, but there are certain
distinguished visitors whom they would
just as soon not have call on them,
and they always breathe freer when
those have left their shores. Czar Alex
ander III. died of consumption. For
months before his death his wife cook
ed all his foq(I with her own hands,
fearing poison both for him and her
self. -
Beauty and the Beast.
There, too, is ex-Queen Regent Em
ma of Holland, mother of "little Wil
helmina,’’ as the Dutch affectionately
call their present ruler. Emma was
the daughter of George of Waldeck. a
poor German princeling. William HI.,
king of the Netherlands, was a thor- ;
!>0\VACERQuEmOF.jEAJfiL
oughly Improper and shocking old man
when, a widower past sixty and child
less, he concluded he needed a wife,
also children, no doubt to perpetuate
his own admirable and virtuous
qualities. But his record was rather
against him. even among royalties, who
do not stop at small things when it
comes to marriage. King William
could not find' any royal girl who
would have him. In his perplexity he
applied to an old friend. Prince George
of Waldeck, to help him out. Prince
Geoi e offered one of his own fair
daughters to tho king, which was ex
tremely generous under the circum
stances. So, in 1879, Princess Emma
of Waldeck was married to William IIL
of Holland. She was twenty-one, he
sixty-two. The other Waldeck princess
Is now the Duchess- of Albany, widow
of Queen Victoria’s youngest son,
Prince Leopold.
. Little Wilhelmlna was the only child
born to King William. He died in 1S90,
when the little girl was nine years of
ago. Her mother became regent under
the name of Queen Emma. She played
her part well in affairs of state, trim
med in the high tempered and strong
willed Wilhelmina and prepared her in
all ways for her role. “I want to make
her. something more than a strong wo
man. I want to make her a king,’’ said |
Queen Emma. Then when little Wil
married her cousin. King Humbert
From morning till night she is busy at
something pleasant or useful. When
her husband was living she restored
the art of lace making among poor
Italian fisherwomen, which added not a
little to their means. After her hus
band’s death, even though It was a
tragic one, lovely Margherita put hot
grief and horror behind her as quickly
as possible, thu3 setting a brave ex
ample of womanly strength.
She took up studies of various kinds
and has become the most learned royal
woman in Europe. She speaks English
French and German and is an accom
plished Greek and Latin scholar. Sh«
has ono of the largest and most artis
tically beautiful private libraries in
Europe. Ono of her favorite authors
is Kipling. She herself Is a writer as
well as artist of excellence.
Margherita is most accessible and de
lights to meet eminent foreigners. She
is an accomplished and enthusiastic
autoist and speeder into the bargain.
When she takes her women friends fot
a spin she scares the timid ones “into
fits’’ by her apparently reckless pace.
Two years ago this merry, outdoor life
loving queen planned to make the tour
of tho world In her big auto car. She
was with difficulty dissuaded from it
by warnings both from Italy and the
United States that her tour would not
bo safe because of the danger of an
archists. Handsome, athletic Mar
gherita is a veteran mountain climber.
She retains her youth marvelously, no
helmina was old enough to take the; doubt because of her persistently gay
rule Into her own hands Queen Emma
turned it over to her without a word
and sank back into a retirement from
which she has never emerged. She is
an illustrious example of a mother-in-
law who never meddles. During all the
stormy matrimonial career of “little
spirits and active, interested life and
because also sho keeps on doing th«
same things she did thirty years ago.
Finally, Queen Dowager Margherita
of Italy owns the most beautiful, cost
ly and famous pearl necklace In the
world, more valuable even than that oi
Wilhelmina," ex-Queen Emma never i the American Duchess of Marlborough.
opened her mouth. She, too, has pass
ed quite into the shadow.
pleasant it is to turn to a brighter
picture and take a glimpse into the
present life of gay, beautiful Mar
gherita, ex r queen of Italy. She was
the daughter of the Duke of Genoa and
Queen Marglierita's necklace consist*
of sixteen strands of tho most exquisite
ly matched pearls in existence. Her
husband, the late King Humbert, gave
her one strand a year for sixteen years.
The famous necklace appears in the
illustration. HELEN BARNABY.
Profitable Chitchat
:n?on. wife cf the governor of 1
Ini a. and she has been married
a hostess during the Jamesu
:e associate justice L. Q. C. La:
in aeeomplisned artist.
en is a nieci
1 rerne rourt.
GATHERED HERE AND THERE
heir busbard's name on marrying,
y assuming the title ■•Frau." As
i.-sia. there are no surnames for
Mary Johnsdottir would be
>•. John’s daughter.”
e. S ...h Bernhardt was appointed
:* professorship of dramatic dec-'
lor. at the Conservatory of Music
■clamation in order to remove the
Ion to the chancellery of the Le-
T mother used to say one]
could always tell a lady by 1
her shoes. I shall go a,bit:
further and remark that I
one can always find out tho social;
status of a woman by means of her j
pocket handkerchief.
A real ’’grande dame” in the morning !
uses a square of fine linen hemstitched j
and with her initial embroidered in the ;
corner. In the afternoon or evening, j
with a very dressy costume, she will
carry a lace trimmed square, but (and j
please notice the accent on that but) {
it will not be cheap lace. If she can- 1
not afford a very fine quality of edg- j
lng she will have none at all and will
use the same unpretentious hemstitched
Initialed hit of linen on all occasions.
I have long been In doubt as to the
social position of one of my acquaint
ances. Her position before she married
I mean (her married position is un
doubted). It was just curiosity on my
part to peep through the veneer and
see what she had been used to as a
girl.
My curiosity was satisfied, for she
dropped her handkerchief out of an
elaborate purse, and. behold, it was a
pretentious affair of near linen and
cheap Valenciennes! No real born lady
could ever have carried a flimsy imita
tion of that sort.
No Need of Makeshifts.
While I am on the subject of pocket
handkerchiefs I must say the best mari
ner of obtaining them at reasonable
prices is to buy them unlaundered.
Remarkably flue specimens may be ob
tained as low as 12% cents apiece.
Cross barred linen is the latest thing. j taught two things— : it, no others—not
When this is hemstitched with a hand j to talk about their affairs to strangers
i embroidered initial it makes a hand- j and not to write any more letters than
kerchief pretty enough to be worn with , are necessary.
any gown. j Many a woman would be happy
Little squares of linen edged with ! where now she is miserable if she had
MRS. CLAUDE A. SWANSON.
Sale
always observed these .two rules.
And Now the Shirt Waist.
Of course you have realized before
this—pardon my changing the subject
so abruptly—that the flimsy Valen
ciennes trimmed shirt waist is giving
way to the more tailored article.
In the morning the well dressed wo
man wears a tailor made • with long
sleeves and severely plain shirt waists
plaited back and front and finished
with turnover collars and cuffs. These
may or may not be hand embroidered,
but the severe effect is the same, and it
is completed by the smallest and trim
mest of small silk bows of the same
shade as the costume or black.
Really this is a welcome change from
the overtrimmed blouse, which always
looked the worse for laundering and
which nearly always had a rip, a
sagged place or a tear. I am told also
good authority that the severely
plain type of linen tailor made will be
more in evidence than ever this sum
mer. It will be worn by all the best
dressed people.
It will be seen in Alice blue, In tan
and of course in pure white. The coat
will be made single breasted, with
large pearl buttons and contrasting
collars and cuffs. The skirt will be full
plaited with two bias folds. This kind
of costume will also be seen in black
linen, relieved with white collar and
cuffs, and the latter combination will
The eight page tetter.
who keep up on such matters. It con- I draped corsage, with its belt also lost
sists of correspondence cards, each or- j in the drapery. Some of these gowns
namented with a charming girl's head j have a short waisted effect simulating
in French engraving tinted by hand.
Each card is a work of art, so the
sentiments written on it will not matter
at all! Such a comfort to the woman
who writes a poor letter! The price is
a little steep, $2.50 for a tiny box, but
then one must pay for novelties. Is it
not so?
Some Novel Footgear.
Since Mrs. Phil Lydig appeared with
slippers having' heels of green msla-
chite we are
aware of a new
fad—heels to
match the
gowns are the
latest, and jew
eled heels for
evening wear.
For instance,
a black patent
leather slipper
will have red
heels to go
a red gown,
and dancing
slippers of pale
colored satin
will have French
heels studded
French heels studded irith with brilliants.
brilliants. This is all very
stunning; but.
oh me! oh my! one must have small
feet to call attention to them in this
way! With the long gloves elbow
bracelets are a necessity, and the lat
est fad is to have these made of tiny
artificial flowers placed on a satin
band. A very attractive pair intended
to be worn with a white costume are
made of tiny daisies, while forgetme-
nots and rosebuds make Idea! flowers
for such a purpose. Of course these
flower bracelets are only to be worn
in the evening. For afternoon wear
there are plain affairs of shirred silk
and even bands of leather the same
shade as the glove, having elastic
bands inside of them, which leather
j bracelets are the newest development
for daytime.
In Strict Confidence.
I want to whisper a word In your
the empire.
For a Finale.
Do you sleep overmuch? Then listen
to what the great Napoleon has to say
about you—as least he must have said
it, for my French teacher says he did—
and 1f it sounds rude blame Napoleon
and not me:
A man sleeps six hours.
A woman seven.
A fool or an animal eight!
Truly he had a way of saying things,
this Monsieur Bonaparte!
New York. KATE CLYDE.
"Wonderful!" exclaimed a visitor t<
one of the stately houses of England
j surveying a large painting. "That must
| be a famous old master?” "Oh, no, sir,”
• the elderly cicerone rejoined. "That's
' the old missus!”
fir-
ten
amesiown
C. Lamar
color are being worn with tailor mades,
j but the worst I ever saw was carried
the other day in a Broadway car. She
was a big woman with red cheeks, thin,
compressed lips and a glassy eye. Her
riding habit made her look even more
mannish than it usually does this type
of woman. From
her enormous
| feet to her very
; small derby she
i was an object of
t open mouthed
interest. Sud
denly from her
overcoat pocket
she produced
the most glaring
shade of grass
green linen
handkerchief I
have ever seen,
and with a
mannish flourish
she wiped her
red face with it.
Several of us Dropped her handkerchief
hastily looked out of her purse.
out of the win
dow. The sight was truly too awful!
The Male Critic Again.
Some male cynic has made the re
mark that women are foolish because
they haven't enough things of real im
portance to fill their lives.
That isn't true for a minute. Wo
men have enough things of real im
portance in their lives if they will only
devote their attention to them. But a
great many do foolish things because
their lives are idle, and among these
are the inveterate letter writers.
Oh, that mothers would only teach
their daughters never to pen anything
the whole world might not read!. Life
Is too short even for eight page letters
and too hazardous for confidences to
be penned even to the most intimate
friend. That friend may die or grow
careless, and then anybody may read
what was meant for one person alone, be considered ultra smart. Some of
Then take the women who answer these suits =eil as low -3 from $15 to ear: Princess dresses (except in lin- "Mr. Stead,” said Andrew Carnegie to the brilliant London editor, when
patent medicine advertisements, re- ; $19. when you consider that the fancy ; serie materials) are really going out. the ironmaster was last in England, "I want you tc come to America and take
vealing their most secret aliments, and > ones cost three and four times as much Only fancy now, as the English say. j part in the dedication of the Carnegie institute at Pittsburg. Bring your wife
those who write to the papers signing i tt W j]j b e see n that once in awhile at I saw one —made of broadcloth, too— ( and daughter and from the time you cross your doorstep till you recross It
their full names and addresses in some J [ east it is possible to be really smart i marked down to $17. Desecration! j again it won’t cost you a cent.” For himself and wife Stead accepted the gen-
competition on "Why Husbands Leave at one-half the cost it takes to be ! For the Princess has always stood for : erous invitation, and that is how Mrs. W. T. S. is here with her husband dur-
Home” or "What Makes My Married , d0 wdy ' what was exclusive and expensive in j irg his present American tour. The lady was Miss Emma L. Wilson before her
Life Happy” or some other equally dig- J . the world of dress. j marriage. She has not often been photographed. The picture here shown has
nlfied subject. Was there ever any- j Chic Stationery. j The two r ,; ece dra ped gown simulat- . been taken since her arrival in America. Mrs. Stead and her two sons do not
thing more idiotic? 1 The most swagger thing in note paper] Ing a princess is the smart thing. The j at all sympathize with Mr. Stead in his famous mystical and "borderland”
It seems to me girls should be j Is being used this spring by people J skirt is plain and melts out of a j studies.
MRS. WILLIAM T. STEAD.
M
In no country' is woman mere
ed than in Iceland. Women do
I
gion of Honor, which declined to con- j for the month of November were J4S.49.
firm JIme. Bernhardt's nomination for j Her three little girls attend the Day-
the Cross of the Legion of Honor on , ton schools and are receiving a good
the ground that actors could only be i education.
decorated in the quality of professors. Miss Ruth Truman is the flve-year-
Mrs. Flora Lewis of Dayron. Yamhill! (Id daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B.
1 county. Ore., supports herself and three Truman of Well-boro, Pa., and the
farm. She youngest rifle shot In the state. Her
a garden. . father Is an expert with the rod and
tarm she raises j gun, and his ability seems to have been
waeat enough to feed her chickens for, handed down to his daughter. 'When
the year. Her receipts from the place 1 Miss Ruth was only four years old he
i bought her a rifle of suitable size, and
| she handles the weapon with the skill
I * of a veteran.
Thirty-six million babies are bom in
to the world every year, which is at the
J rate of 70 per minute or a little more
| than one per second.
Lady Algernon Gordon-Lennox. sis-
j ter-tn-law of the Duke of Richmond,
i has decided to open a candied fruit fac-
i tory in Broughton castle. She believes
that candied fruit made in England can
- successfully compete with French and
German importations. Lady Gordon-
Lennox’s venture is also designed to
help the fruit growers of the neighbor
hood. ,
! Salt should be eaten with nuts to aid
I digestion.
| Among the many kinds of women we
' meet as we travel toward the setting
sun there are few whom we dislike
more than the one who acts like a
spoiled child, demanding the attention
of everybody and assuming a helpless,
infantile air whenever there is work to
be done.
Speaking of the suffragettes In Eng
land. Ida Husted Harper writes that
they have forced the woman question
on the notice of the great political
parties and that the ballot for woman
is bound to be the outcome of It. Con
verts to woman suffrage are being
made by the thousand.
A bag of hot sand relieves neuralgia.
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