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...Lesseps, who had to pay for a seat to see a dramatization of his famed father, TIME'S apologies for a mistake. Both M. de Lesseps and the Marques de Casa Fuerte, grandnephew of the Empress Eugenie, sought injunctions to have Suez suppressed in France. Last week, in a Paris court, the referee rejected both petitions on the ground that the film does not offend either ancestor "perniciously," contains "charming naïveties as well as inaccuracies...
...squatted before a low table on which rested a bowl of boiled rice and barley, and side dishes of powdered bean paste and pickled radishes. At lunch the menu read: millet gruel, side dishes of bean noodles, pork, boiled spinach and salty pickled plums. That evening the Emperor and Empress dined on boiled rice and barley again, had side dishes of dried fish, carrots and boiled lotus roots. One day of warfare was enough for the Son of Heaven. To date his army and people have had a year and half of warfare and are growing a little tired...
...Japanese have retained all their ancient mysticism as far as the Emperor and his family are concerned. Last week the owl-eyed Son of Heaven himself watched an oft-repeated ceremony in the Imperial household, the donning of the sacred maternity girdle to mark the ninth month of the Empress' pregnancy...
Chief of the Imperial General Staff Prince Kotohito Kanin, who had been designated "Honorable Girdle Parent" (equivalent of godfather), presented the girdle, a silk belt twelve feet long. Surrounded by the Empress and her court ladies, elaborately dressed in ancient, figured costumes, the Emperor saw Grand Master of Rituals of the Imperial Household Prince Kimitern Sanjo place the belt before the Imperial shrine and inform the Imperial ancestors of the coming event. Then, with the assistance of her ladies, it was wrapped around the plump little Empress. The child, seventh conceived by the Empress, is expected in mid-February...
Inasmuch as Japan's Imperial succession passes only to males, prolific Empress Nagako had the Japanese jittery for years as, four times in a row, she gave birth to girls. Five years ago she relieved their fears, gave birth to Crown Prince Akihito and two years later produced another boy-child...