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...very Scandinavian in her looks and is taller than Prince Olaf; this is a good thing as, though the Norwegians are very fond of their young Crown Prince, they think he looks more like an Englishman than a Norwegian; he takes after the family of his mother (Princess Maud of England) more than that of his father. Both these young people are descended from the French General of Napoleon the Great's time, General Bernadotte, who was adopted as heir by the childless King of Sweden [becoming King Charles XIV, 1818-1844]. Prince Olaf of Norway is said...
...Council of Women was founded in Washington by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, quinquennials have been held at Rome, London, Berlin, Toronto, Christiania. At the latter capital, in 1920, the sessions were held in the Norwegian Parliament buildings and delegates were received by King Haakon and Queen Maud...
Fully 300 "votes-for-women" veterans were there. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. Maud Wood Park. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton?they were there. The Vice Presidents of the Republican and Democratic National Committees (Mrs. Hert and Mrs. Blair respectively)?they were there. Nonagenarian Mrs. Hester M. Poole of New Hampshire?she, the eldest, was there. Heroic memories of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Anna Howard Shaw?they were there...
...practical patriot, Maud...
CHRONICLES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY?Maud Wyndham ?Hougliton Mifflin?(2 vols., $10.00). These books, based upon the correspondence of the Lyttelton family, cover one of the most placid periods of English history?the early Hanoverian period. Apart from their value to history, which is not inconsiderable, they show what a wide chasm the England of today has jumped...