d Now Their Sw Too hv PuMu' r Co., eethearts, ' f?' " J I or influence came sera were found dead under shocking too late to save crystallized into action, but perhaps Too and mysterious circumstances. Again the empire. many factions tore the memory of it is the thing which ind again fate struck at the sorrow-- ' it asunder. Her best efforts made, at first made the ex-Crow-n Prince aden monarch. His wife, estranged most, a stumbling stone for the Ger- upon divorce. Cecllle had lost for years because of his attachment mans where she tried to raise a bar- faith in him and she didn't care who for the actress, Frau Schratt. was as- rier. knew it. sassinated at Geneva in 189S. Throughout these two anxious years Germany cast itself into a furore of The memory of this horror had of a losing fight the young Empress Joy when Wilhelm married Cecllle In ccarcely begun to wear away when a took personal charge of her children 1904. Securing the young Grand She second double tragedy cast the court four boys and a girl devoted spe- Duchess of Meoklenburg-Schwerl- n as into gloom. Archduke Francis Fer- cial care to their rearing, evidently the next empress of Germany was con- dinand and his morganatic wife, the with the thought that in those trou- sidered a very clever move on the Kai- heirs to the Austrian throne, were blous times the closeness of family ser's part. Cecllle numbered among surest source of fcer assassinated at Sarajevo in June. 1914. ties was the corpfort. near relatives the ruling families It is not. easy to forget the cry of So long as her husband felt confi- - of Denmark. Holland and Russia a fact which did not escape the war lord's notice. Incredible though it may appear. Cecilie felt a very real affection for her husband. He soon cured her of that, however, by hopping briskly from one flirtation to another. From being a lively young girl, eager for brllHant entertainments, Cecil:e developed into rather a sad and pensive young ma- tron, who had many bitter disputes with both husband and father-in-law- . Vhen her admiration for both of thes

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nperbr "'IS. M 'handy jtfcsa.sinu ft apparent ' passed ,,fWy freshness ui 'looked shyly up ai ,,rid sNsfid. "Who ihe? .'wo one to answer, "The - r . i iniin f . , , . . 1 ..... 1 - . . . . rK! the man who will wreck the king ..f. it cause clom and your life." tlb EiinitfS They merely told her that he was rjj)ecteu to rejoice the noble but unimportant Archduke her-heart- . 'Out Charles Francis, twenty-two- , . aged and 4i. i or tins Belgium as good-nature- d as his friendly blue .rfcr of tSmore strongly two, eyeg and mild yellow hair would sug was ' heroes was at the vanishing point QuVenlof Belgium ,;est Th tokl her also h " th - scn For , Jier cousin and that two of her own 'sis-.ter- s- they snuffed it out completely by going to be the guest of her cousin, Bepedictine nuns were being ignominious flight to Holland. Archduchess Marie Annunziata, and th 'felt at first a deep a, bombed Hun airmen as nursed i Nobody has explained whether by they this was a most fact. For of Bulgaria that same Feiuinan a important n her husband. Each queejed" it fori the wounded in the hospitals of Eng- who swung Bulgaria to the Hohen-zoller- n Prince made any plans for " Zita happened likewise to be in ' a brilliant court. Each land. Nor did chance omit the final the guest side of the war and is now Cecilie and his children. space of Archduchess Marie, and from the safety of mother of touch: Zita's two favorite the minus .his con- proved to be a devoted ghastly blithe little house-part- y kingdom. But it seems that they have been brothers enlisted in the Allied army. frolics there When Zita met the Archduke many .children. And each saw her;star grew a which somewhere around Potadam It was. indeed, one of these friendship ripened into Charles she had returned from cealed and fainter till it van- through love. just were grow fainter brothers that Zita became embroiled a long visit to the Isle of Wight, m while the Bolshevists peppering a war in n ished behind the smoke of in accusations which have led to talk The Twelfth Child England, where two of her sisters the streets of Berlin with machine-gu- which she , had no .heart. Five years of divorce. When Emperor Charles were nuns behind the walls of Ryde to a Zita had an even more il- bullets. A husband fleeing women wrote his now famous letter to Duke ancestry At the convent Zita ' ago these two young looked lustrious than that of the Abbey. studied remote Dutch island, secure from the forward to a future blazing Sixtus, suggesting. ia separate peace Hapsburgs. music, literature, Latin, history and lightly She is descended from the Bourbon-Parm- a have howled through Berlin. each for Austria, he , knew well that this philosophy. Italian and French she riots that with privilege and power. Today family, which means amons listened to ; brother- of his wife would whiVe she and the children stands among the smoldering ruins favorite other spoke equally well, though when she on the to the French things that she can count a within occasional shell whis- of an empire, her life endangered, her hand request of got the shadow of the Austrian bullets and an But when the matter King , a King of and throne and to' husband fled, her rank impeached by Government. a of began study half a down the avenue in the face of leaked out Charles denied the King Etruria among her aricetv dozen of the dialects tling the shadow of divorce. weakly tors. The Bourbons of trace spoken within such husbandly and fatherly solicitude intended whole affair and the of the Aus- the Austria-Hungaria- n ," Hints of disagreement, of fury their descent in a direct line from empire it was cannot have been much hurt have before now reached trian populace turned against the Em- found that Zita did not love hard Cecilie reparation, King Louis XIV of France, the Sun - . to take of the in f& the startea in m the ears of Europe, so high at times press. Quick advantage whose digging languages. Music, however, iww mMmMmmmi&im&K by proceedings ' rise from situation, the Kaiser started, through Monarch, grandson, the Duke of roused her enthusiasm. si court. Who wants to remain did the voice of dissension became V of She practiced divorce and his a series of slanders Anjou, Philip Spain. lessons )?J behind' castle walls in Berlin agents, against V of piano the hour and some ihe wife of a man whom the world has the fair name of Zita. No proof that Philip is another direct, ancestor times acted as Formal denials served merely Bourbon-Parma- s. organist in the con Vienna,.. ever been offered. the At various christened Clown Prince? as postponements. Even though this these were true has vent chapel. the and his times the family has ruled the king- A Not for years has there been a ' latest announcement of definite divorce On the contrary, Emperor tall, dark, slender girl, Who seemed devoted to each other dom of Etruria and the Duchies f the crowned heads of 7 proceedings be contradicted, the rumor wife seemed more ltali;m th divorce among Wil-heln- y of Parma and of . : of v until Austria-Hungar- began definitely Lucca, Zita had the come two in one is merely a forerunner fact. who was to become an charm of manner which Europe, and here refused to a to dissolve. By that time the Kaiser The girl 'is more and, Charles play had as her the potent than good looks when day! The last important case was ! in events. They appeared to have poisoned the Empe- empress birthplace Charles first saw her. kingly Part great Villa Reale, at Pianore, in the Italian Vivacious, quick of Louise of Saxony. Before to be in defeat. No ror's mind enough so that he quarreled of gesture, she made " that neglected gallant of Lucca. Her parents were strong appeal and still the sad- d over province Charles and Zita of to Louise the biggest U high-spirite- wife is going to overlook with Zita the Austrian proposals to the somewhat indolent Emperor Empress Austria, who, according report, to treat the Duke Robert and the Duchess young man. to because of for ?'' for and . are be divorced her alleged sympathies the was of Josephine,, whom these 'details and a high spirit is the peace. gradually began They met at festivities Hot-bur- g opponents dest that ' Marie Antoinette of Parma. Zita in the of the House of I onlv lasting gift which the fairies her with coldness and contempt. Palace or at the Hapsburg Napoleon put aside when he grew am- denoue- happened to be the twelfth in a family hunting lodge 'h dropped into the cradles of Zita and L,ong before this unhappy of the Archduchess Marie Therese. bitious to marry an Austrian princess. " seen that her of nineteen children many of them anguish which feil from Franz (ience in her judgment and in her loy- ,' .CecUJe, ment Zita must have An especially Like Zita, the Princess Louise of were of the mentally stunted, though no taint ot graceful dancer, Prin- Joseph's lips when they him alty to himself Zita handled the Hun Th tialine of Zita's romance idol's feet made poorest cess Zita attracted attention a brought Saxony had the blood of the Bour- of But he was a mental deficiency dimmed Zita's in- at court the dreadful news, "Oh, I am spared with a high hand and a high courage. Shether it end in absolute divorce or quality clay. ball in Vienna one two bons in her veins. She. too, was - Her mother was the Duke's evening, years " But when r- - he, per- veritable idol, all gold and godlike, tellect. nothing nothing! Charles had his first quar- W ftnaration occasionally be- after she had first met Charles. French and Italian and Hapsburg, a when she saw him riding in the second wife. A half sister of Zita While the Emperor sat crushed rel with her over the subject of peace V mitted by the Roman first "How daintily she dances?" said one under descendant of Louis XIV and member :- - in on a came the first wife of King Ferdinand the weight of his grief Zita to under the long imitation of recon- park at Franzcnbad. Bohemia, of ladies-in-waiting- , private began droop Marie Antoi- or in a patched up the as Charles fol- Germany seized the to too odds. With of the family to which lowed pretext thrust struggle against great the girl with his eyes. "Has war upon the world. The flare of the of nette belonged. Your very spreading malicious scandal by watched her?" crime that lighted Zita to the of German enemies she became In 1891 they married Louise to the "For two steps actually man who became Friedrich to years," Charles replied. the throne started that flame in which ill, and for several days kept to her August New Triplane Carry Sixty Passengers In June of that year the betrothal the throne was soon to be consumed. bed. III, King of Saxonj In 1903 the mar. announcement came. The Kaiser Late in 1916 Franz fell into Yet in of the blow to riage was dissolved Louise having to Joseph spite pride tried break off the match, suspicious the sleep of peace which he had so and her ambition, the loss of the run off with her children's tutor. of a French-Italia- n wondered a princess at the long desired. Charles and Zita the throne came much as a relief. (She "I have always why e was as Austrian court. Nobody then supposed one twenty-nin- years old and the asked of the new government and ob- Hapsburg princess selected a Charles would ever become Emperor, other twenty-fou- r found themselves tained permission to retire to Castle wife for Friedrich August," she said and the aged Franz Joseph smiled rulers of a kingdom shaken to Its Brandeis, in Bohemia. It was the in her naive chronicle of life at the of of aside, the Kaiser's tentative expostula- - heart by1 the convulsions of war and castle in which her honeymoon had court Saxony. "My mixture i tions. But Zita remembered, and she revolution. been spent, eight years before. If French, Italian and Hapsburg blood should have made any stolid helped the Kaiser to regret. She the Kaiser Charles carries through the divorce family lie began to regret, very soon. He Opposed Zita will probably withdraw to. one of think seriously before they asked the regretted that Charles had married More than once Zita had chafed be- the Bourbon-Parm- a estates in Italy, a possessor to marry one of its mem- neath the insolence of Hohenzol-lerns- . as father-in-la- said her which he did, gloriously, in Oc-- . the sad and broken little victim of German bers, for, my with An anti-Germa- n wore a Hapsburg-Bourbo- n tober of 1911 and he regretted that group formed treachery. She crown for less perfect truth, the he had won her For almost at the court, with the young Empress than three tumultuous years. temperament is peculiar." enmity. as center. at once Zita became the pet of the its Long ago Zita had It is a similar plight in which the Louise and herself in ex-Cro- of finds Napoleon venerable Franz Joseph. "Another proved stronger character, Princess Germany wiser in counsel, than her husband. herself today. Her romance is painted It flared into impatience, for In- Elizabeth," he said of her, sadly re- over the his Charles grew to depend on her judg- in paler tints than Zita's. She never stance, pronouncement that calling beautiful and "it is not decent for a to wife. ment. He refused to take any impor- loved so deeply and her disillusionment princess play tant step without her advice. Eyes came about as soon as the honeymoon the violin"! Heritage of Hate open, to the shame and peril of an ended. Being sued for divorce by the Even the prospect of a crown almost ex-Cro- within of her hand did and murder and meteor- alliance with Germany, sympathies Prince is the luckiest thing grasp not Intrigue to raw could to un- Louise. She bolted like dazzle of these were the rubbed the by the devastation which happen any woman tempt from the power of and to no stiff little court in dark and in the Belgium France and the Italian lucky enough be his wife. But company with the bright spots family Zita threw all her on can see the of a and when her husband of which Zita was a descendant and plains, influence princess prospect tutor, after the side of the Allies. crown vanish without some his accession to the throne of the into which she married. feeling stolidly family of and temp- and no mother of five children handed out to her a divorce she ac- The Bourbons had France red Through days danger qualm, dyed tation she was a sword that can watch their titles dis- it with evidence of and it with the terror shining princely cepted every grati- painted gold thrust in aid of the Allied cause. For solve into meaningless ciphers without fication. and luster of their deeds. It was a owes ' this the world her a heavier debt a throb of grief. There must be something wrong of hates ex-Cro- fitting heritage passionate of gratitude than it has yet had time So the Princess Cecilie Is about having a king for a husband. and fiaming courage that Zita brought Model of Charles H. Day's mammoth new triplane to reckon. deserving of more than a little pity. The alacrity with which queen-wive- s entered the house of Ilaps-burg- , when she The very daring of her fight was a She didn't throw her influence on the accept notice of a divorce suit the most and mournful gives comforts and o" a motors having in all 1700 horse bloody thing to make the Sun Monarch and Allied side, but she did rise to the that them- new model has been with all the safety in contemplate suspicion they AMAMMOTH power and is capable of traveling Europe. Philip of Spain and her other bold and one act which won for a moment the selves no small in pre- Charles II. Day, vice Pullman car. It Is being prepared for - - life played part cighty-Hv- o miles per hou- with a full siorvn;- of scandal and sorrow fauhtle forebears stir in of hnlf the She al- . their dusty applauso globe. cipitating the proceedings. Josephine i in : lin-gti'v- of a transatlantic flight the t Fran:-- o president, and consulting engineer spring. loud. b?f abot: Joseph, who tombs. A rdcr.de-- gH-n- more than most decided to leave her husband In is, so far, the only queen who even . of !;3CP when all of n-- the Standard Aircrf.f4. Corporation, of Having' a freight capacity T'.-- wan taken of a the joy living that matched hr wits, statcon ( the spring of 1915. Encouraged by breathed a sigh when her husband I vnnU-.'no- ' - .'.nB'-hi- will cu inr-s-tinm- hr. from his soul.- Never ag:-i-!- l anti-Germa- n Elizabeth, N. J., inventor of the tractor pounds, t'a. of model 'mmodiately y.ft'r diplomacy: the mo.t wily and the sentiments of her began to talk about the laws on ali- '1 uni- wind-tunne- l test:: and d:i mo recover Lrom the veterans In In- type of airplane which has been value i'cr commcjoia; purpose?. Mibjoctod to shattering ruthless f:!0 ait of mother, the Dowager Grand Duchess mony. But Napoleon merely proves i Av.ation blow to ills and his? affection rYr.ic-r-s versally adopted by manufacturers. Its passenger .opacity superior to been pronounced perfect. ex. vri(jo trigue. She crossed with Von Anastasia, a Russian princess, Cecilio the fact that any husband, crowned new-er-a or in this a dis dealt trie double' at Mier-ling- , yhe to : Thia machine Will introduce a that of the big Handley.paige any uerts recognize airplane by tragedy Hindcnbnr.?. bandied covert half planned a flight to Switzerland or not, can dare be anything but a aerial transportation. It Is other existing airplane. tinct, advance American aeronau- - 'v.'hen his won the Crown Prince threats with Von Ludendori". She op- and a journey thence to Russia. For failure. Napoleon wasn't a in - quitUr. E-- 5 ia with Lib- - tin;1 the Baroness Marie Vet- - Kaiser", capable of. carrying sixty passengers Th equipped four nial engir.evrlna posed 'tlvj scheme for scheme. some reason the' good intention never He lost everythins except his nerte.