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...intimate biographer there is an embarrassment of riches in Francis Joseph's circle?the unhappy Empress, proud and beautiful, stabbed by an anarchist; Archduke Max, strangely Emperor of Mexico; Archduke John Salvator who disappeared into the Pacific; the Crown Prince Rudolf mysteriously and horribly a suicide; and finally the next heir apparent, Franz Ferdinand, fatefully killed at Serajevo. But these dramatics are insignificant facts in Author Redlich's account of the final struggle between time-honored legitimacy and modern nationalism?Francis Joseph granting his people universal suffrage and a parliament, and then stultifying the gesture by reserving his absolute power...
...arrival of the Duke of Gloucester in Tokyo created a hostess problem almost as interesting as Washington's strange affair of Mrs. Gann. Positively the Empress Nagako could not serve. She is with child. Therefore the Sublime Emperor, Hirohito Tenno, descendant of the Sun Goddess, promoted to the rank of hostess for a day the gracious Princess Setsu, wife of the Emperor's next older brother and heir, Prince Chichibu. Not so long ago Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week...
...unnaturally Japanese editors thought their readers would be interested last week in hearing about Donna Rachele Mussolini, whose condition was announced almost simultaneously with that of the Empress. Potent mother of three sons and a daughter, Donna Mussolini last week donned an apron and sturdily dished out a hot luncheon to 70 workmen on her husband's "model farm" at Forli in the north of Italy. Males who find themselves in the south of Italy this summer should avoid being jeered at or reviled for failure to observe an old Sicilian custom...
...Duchess took her daughter into the country for the birthday party. "Are we going to G'annie's or G'anma's?" the baby Princess asked, and the Duchess smiled, "To G'annie's, dear." This was important. Her Majesty the Queen and Empress Mary is "G'anma." "G'annie" is the Countess of Strathmore. The particular one of "G'annie's" estates to which they were going was St. Paul's, Waldenbury, Hertfordshire; a vast, yet cosy rose-brick house in which the Duchess of York was born...
...Dominion of Canada there is a large corporation which last week was planning to spend some $5,000,000 on two hotels in Canada, and to build a new hotel in London, England. This corporation has also let contracts for an Atlantic liner, Empress of Britain, and a Pacific liner, Empress of Japan, the two ships to cost nearly $20,000,000. It owns some 140,000 miles of telegraph wire, distributes millions of young trees (gratis) to Canadian farmers, has settled more than 55,000 immigrants on more than 30,000,000 Canadian acres, and operates a traveling school...