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Ever since he was old enough to go a wooing, Imperial command has kept him hurrying from one court to another—whenever there was an eligible Princess—only to be “turned down” by one after another, until the supply was ex hausted. r=. I . i ..-=-1 ! »' - T ' T' Wly T J L te || Sil i 1 I | I ‘I- ■ V : > V > ,'O f> •J ‘ T 'WvM -J'W I' a- i ■■ ?■->> **sss". 088 •’- "f‘ ■I <V I •-■:-• ■•-• nwt Fl -j<S '?*»•»■*'" . . '-.. MuQk**'- 'i#v ' wa '• *$ ' 4 W'- ! A- ■ n M' » 7 1 ®T <■ A-’/zpJ » \ .-W> M i£ H® =n AWI —i \ v ; ’M Yw v i'WJ' _ -J |\ xx* f m»t« ■ a~« uldsh woo * un »i «. w-*® o • * ?< x A “ •—■’ . Yet, no matter how often he had “got the mitten," he obediently set off again on the royal love chase whenever the Kaiser discoveied a fresh, fair eligible to a Hohenzollern title. Now you would imagine that a Prince wbo had dutifully performed 80 much dis tinguished love-making—. who h ted the visible supply of i- ,- . exhaus- rank— might be allowed ft, ' eS ° hls OWn the royal privilage —of loving and S s ™® : WM\ ■w r\vSSf / 1 marrying an y pretty aristocrat who returned his love, instead of turning upon him a chilled steel shoulder Alas! Even in this situation Prince Adelbert is unfortunate. “Nein!” storm ed the Kaiser. “None of that morganatic stuff in my family. Look at your cou sin George of England. Nobody ever expected he would come to the throne any more than any body expects you •■.■ ill. Yet it hap pened and all .n account of that foolish Seymour affair, which can’t be hushed up. George is a target for every Social ist in the United Here Are Three of the Princesses Who Wouldn’t Have Adelbert. First, the Princess Patricia of England, Then the Little Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Third, the Beautiful Young Duchess of Luxembourg. Kingdom. So, Adelbert, once you marry with the left hand, thenceforth you will be no longer Prince but plain Herr Ho henzollern!” Nevertheless, Adelbert—with no more royal Princesses and Duchesses left to be unconquered—is standing upon his rights as a male human being; he is bask ing in the smiles of his Marienbad char mer —who is said to be some sort of second-rate Countess and a famous tennis player, though her name and precise rank is withheld by even the boldest German editors. On the tennis court Prince Adel bert calls her “Marie, love.” The very latest news of the affair is that Adelbert has a champion in his Im perial mamma, and that, as soon as the Kaiserin has sufficiently recovered from her present indisposition, she will go to Marienbad, make the little Countess’ ac quaintance, and see whether it is not pos sible to let poor Adelbert be happy. And, indeed, oughtn’t Prince Adelbert to have his happy reward after having so dutifully courted and been turned down by the following: Princess Patricia of England, Grand Dhchess Olga of Russia, Princess Sophia Charlotte (now wife of nis brother. Prince Eltel Fitz), Princess Adelheid of Schleswig, Princess Tyra of Denmark, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Grand Duchess Marie of Luxembourg, Princess Irene Alexandrovna of Russia, Princess Marie of Roumania and Princess Zuilika, daughter of the deposed Sultan of Turkey all perfectly good princesses and grand duchesses, without a blemish on them. Princess Irene, No. 8 in the list, is the Czar’s seventeen-year-old niece. She smiled upon Prince Adelbert and helped heal the bruises caused by the jilting of Marie of Luxembourg. He was grateful, then he took notice, then he made violent love to her —just as though he did not bear the scars of seven jiltings—and only to be jilted once more. For the fair prin cess said, in sincere, or well simulated surprise: "Why. don’t you know that I am as good as engaged to our cousin of Connaught?” Countess to Adore Him Little princes Marie, of Rouma nia, who <s not ye>. sixteen, told Adelbert flatfootedly that the Kaiser looked upon her as a last resort—and that w>s where he was fooled! The courting of Princess Zuelika, daughter O’ the deposed Sultan of Turkey, was by proxy— | at the time when the Kaiser was seriously considering such a re buke to the young Turkish party that Abdul Hamid would have been 1 able to hang on o his throne. The *— young Turks, however, would not be stopped by th. rebuke of the Kaiser; and so Princess Zuelika was never in much danger of be coming a Hohenzollern. The boy’s non-euccess made the Kaiser for he had allowed Adelbert con siderable extra money to press his suit When His Majesty learned that Princess Pat was going to Stockholm to visit her sister, Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden, he wrote to his cousin the Queen, asking her to invite Adalbert and bring about a marriage between him nd the English Princess. Her Swedish Majesty went out of her way to oblige William —all to no purpose. Princess at would have neither the Kaiser for father in-law nor Adelbert for husband—“so there!” By this time Adelbert had earned “mittens” enough for himself in all the courts, west, south and north of Berlin He must needs try the east now for an eligible bride-to-be. His first choice was Princess Irene, the young and lovely daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander. Irene’s negative an swer makes this Prince the most jilted royal youth in Europe. But Adelbert was not to be swerved from his purpose of securing a rich princess while there was a single one living that had not positively refused him. After all the preliminaries for the recent interview between the Kaiser and the Czar at a Baltic port were settled. Will iam wired Nicholas for permission to bring along his third, unmarried son—a request that could not be refused. Nor was it. But just before starting for Finland the Kaiser announced the betrothal of bis eldest daughter, Olga, whose hand in marriage Adelbert came to ask, o her cousin, Duke Dimitri, eldest son and reir of Grand Duke Paul. Olga is sixteen, Dimitri nineteen 'ears of age. No one doubts that this betrothal of the young couple was hastened in order to forstall Adelbert’s suit. The Czar has two more daughters, but these are too young to be matrimonially considered, and other eligible princesses —aside from the mitten-bestowers men tioned—there are none. Doesn't it really eern as if Adelbert had earned his right to be happy with the girl he really loves —and probably tho only one who ever had the chauce to turn him down and didn’t? I JIM -Y.I 111 11.I 1 . SsHKI ll’ 1 : hb 1 wwrt W c W . [. .. J W A. ” : - s r ■-A v'/ aAa A Prince Adel- bert. Whom No Princess in Europe Would 7 Have, Seems Uke a Nice, > Clean Cut Sort ; of Y outh. 4 -wlpf C°U n te S S pi W- ;; " M,rie ” f lw' ■' ' Tennis Wayi „ g I, Beauty Who ■’ Fell in Love with Adelbert After All the " fl Haughty Prin. Jg . •** - r w>* cesses Had Rejected Him. .