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Softly, Taitou, Leader of the Ethiopian women on that bloody March 1, 1896, was the Empress Taitou, fourth wife of Menelik II. A more polite version of her predecessor's part in the battle of Adowa was given last fortnight by plump Empress Menen, only wife of Power-of-Trinity, as she nibbled pink iced cake and drank jasmine tea at Addis Ababa...
...Italians laughed at Taitou at first," said the Empress Menen, "but later they feared her more than any man. It was she who held up to our warriors the thought of what they were defending. . . . After the Adowa victory, Taitou rode between the lines of the conquered Italians, dispensing gifts, food and money. They learned to look for her visits and softly called her 'Taitou...
...great extent the deep diplomatic wisdom of the Holy See and its nuncios is at the disposal of fanatically pious, fanatically ambitious, hawk-eyed onetime Austrian Empress Zita. Last week this talented schemer, a veritable Metternich in silk skirts, provoked a nationwide Austrian sensation by having her handsome, silky-mustached young Son Archduke Otto announce that he expects to return to Vienna not as Emperor but as "Regent in the name of my mother." This move of Zita's had the aroma of Papal diplomacy, fine and fragrant as musk. In Vienna the Catholic cohorts of Chancellor Dr. Kurt...
...young matrons whom a Japanese would recognize by name are Mrs. John Jacob Astor 3rd and Countess (Barbara Hutton) Haugwitz. Last week Japanese politely welcomed announcements that both are with child. But wild was Japanese joy when the Imperial Household Ministry issued a proclamation that Her Majesty the Empress Nagako will be brought to bed next November for the sixth time...
...motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled little Emperor's physicians decide to wind his plump and pretty Empress in a white silk maternity belt purified by Shinto priests...