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Irenes a 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!” ■bayonets