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Princes and Princesses, with
Nothing to Do but Behave
Themselves, Who Have Squab
bled, Acted Outrageously, or
Run Away from Home
bors consist In putting on and taking
off the uniforms of various regiments.
Once he fell heavily from hts horse
and hurt himself, an accident which
uncharitable people connect with his
bibulous habits.
The Princess has run away to her
castle In Oldenburg and refuses to
return to her husband. A generation
ago her husband or some other royal
relative would have seized her and
taken her back home, for royal prin-
cer-oes were treated more autocrati
cally than any subject. To-day few
royalties would dare to exercise such
authority, and they are more anxious
to keep the scandal quiet than to
keep the Princess at home.
Another affair recently threatened
to disrupt the serenity of the Kaiser's
family. His only daughter, the Prin
cess Victoria Louise, married the
young Duke of Brunswick, who is
heir to the old kingdom of Hanover,
which Prussia seized long ago. The
Kaiser proposed to allow thi'3 son-in-
law to reign in the dukedom of
Brunswick on condition that he would
renounce his claim to Hanover, a
claim that has always been an un
pleasant reminder that one German
monarch has grabbed another Ger
man monarch's territory.
The Duke refused to renounce the
family claim. The Kaiser called upon
his daughter to persuade her hus
band. She failed.
The poor Princess
that since then
Manuel and his 'i|||l|||
wife have been ’■Rgal
living together,
but a strong im- lag
pression p r e v ails
that this is only
a temporary ar-
rangement to
which they have
been forced by the
anxiety of their families to avoid an
unparalleled scandal.
At this moment Manuel’s career,
and the mysterious happening on his
honeymoon is being used as an object
lesson against monarchy by the So
cialists of every European country.
Up to the time of Queen Victoria’s
death no immediate members of her
family had ever obtained a divorce
or separated from wife or husband.
Such an occurrence would have hor
rified her. She would have done her
utmost to prevent it, and then she
would have given the offenders a
tremendous lecture. Within twelve
months of her death one of her grand
daughters, the Grand Duchess of
Ilesse, obtained a divorce from her
husband, the Grand Duke.
As a matter of fact, she left her
husband and made things so unpleas
ant for him that he declared himself
divorced by his own authority as sov
ereign. The Grand Duchess told her
The Duke of Orleans, Pretender
to the Throne of France and
Head of the Ancient House of
Bourbon, Who Has Run Away
from His Wife, the Archduch
ess Maria Dorothea of Austria.
guised as a working girl. That does
not seem a very serious offense, but
having a secret residence in the city
THE*
UNHAPPY
GRAND DUCHESS
CYR1MUSSIA
The Kaiser’s Charming
Daughter and Her Young
Husband, Whose Honey
moon Was Disturbed by an
Old Dynastic Question.
Princess William of Sweden, Bom
a Russian Grand Duchess,Who
Has Fled from Her Husband
to Paris.
The Brand New Futurist Way of Writing Poetry
—Ah dash that Boom! Boom!
Boom! —Boom!
Move them up closer—bang, bang!
— Boom!
His “Twilight on the Seine” is
much of the same sort; gentle choo-
choo-choo-choo— Getting louder and
softer as the steamboats approach
and go away-a swear word or two
from a dispute between two cab
drivers on the bridge—a gurgling
sound made in the throat to keep
the water in the mind of the hearer.
An automobile accident -in the
streets of Paris in which a woman
killed is depicted in the following
words:
Honk! honk! honk !
Honk! honk! honk!
Curses of
Cabdrivers,
Chauffeurs.
Men, women and
Children running
for their lives.
Honk! honk! hon
' Honk! honk! honl
Honk! honk! honk!
Honk! honk! honkI
Shrieks!
Squash!
Blood!
Silence!
Honk! honk! honk!
Honk! honk! honk!
Flesh is cheap.
Marinetti has rewritten Tenny
son’s “Charge of the Light Brigade,”
which he considers to have good
points in this form:
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Clatter of horses,
Rattle! Rattle! Rattle!
Idiot gives wrong order.
Soldiers curse, don’t argue.
Paid to be killed.
Russian guns all wound them.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Whizz! Boom!
Ripping flesh.
Squash! Whirr! Whiz!
Shrieks; Howls! Curses!
Six hundred idiots
Better dead.
Still we admire them.
Hope to see more killed
next time. „
Mr. Marinetti, pubtshing' an expla
nation of bis ditistic ideas, says:
“Futurism has for Its principle (he
complete renewal of human sensi
tiveness under the action of the
great scientific discoveries. Horror
of all that is old and well known is
at the base of the movement. I give
all this in my new poetry.”
Copyright, 191
;v<
\yj
' /VT
“ • ment in Europe, has invented
a new kind of poetry that Is worthy
of Futurist art
Marinetti has declared war on
present conditions. Our govern
ments, our literature, our art all
must be changed straightway to
meet the demands of modern sci-
Grand Duchess
married the
Grand Duke Cy
ril of Russia, an
other cousin of
the Czar. It is
i n t e resting to
note that during
seevn years of
married life wth
the Grand Duke
of Hesse she had Ex-
no children, but j]
within two years
of her second
marriage she was
blessed by two. The i
still more complicated
that the Grand Duke of Hesse mar
ried a second time and bad two chil
dren within two years.
Dozens of cases of separations and
disagreements in royal families have
occurred within the past two years,
and everybody knows of others that
are likely to become public from day
to day.
Close observers believe that the
ideas of Mrs. I’ankhurst and other
leaders of woman's emancipation
have penetrated into royal circles.
Royalty was until recently the great
est stronghold of the old barbarous
convention that man may do as he
pleases and women must be strictly
virtuous. The royal husband is al
lowed even more than the ordinary
man’s license to disregard morality,
while the royal wife is told that she
must avoid even the appearance of
unconventionality.
Princesses are married by their
families or by the politicians of their
country to princes they do not love
and perhaps scarcely know. They are
told they must do nothing but raise
children and wear expensive clothes,
and pretend that they are perfectly
happy v/ives.
The arrangement suits the average
prince, because it leaves him free to
indulge all his sensual tastes without
hindrance or responsibility. To the
wife it means a kind of gilded im
prisonment.
The tyranny to which royal prin-
Duchess Sophie of Oldenburg,
Wife of the Kaiser’s Second Son,
Prince Eitel Fritz. She Has Just
Run Away from Her Husband.
man. sible or moral. That is natural, be-*
Lioug cause they have been reared in idle-
> ac- ness and nursed on wrong traditions,
s do- They carry the heritage of many gen-
i the erations of wrongdoing in their brains
roy- and nerves.
But the great arguments of the
wo It modern woman's movement have
very reached the inmates of the royal
iveu- harems. A revolt from within will
their help to break up the artificial and
sen- antiquated system of hereditary rule.
truck drivers
Poor girl hurrying home
from work,
Looks at young man.
Honk! honk! honk!
Honk! honk: honk!
Policeman foolishly waving
his arms.
Chauffeur cries:
“Curse you, get out of the
way!”
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