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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. pm INDISTINCT PRINT