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Show ONLY MET MOTHER FORMALLY Empress of Austria Wat "Received" by Her Children In the Most Approved Manner. Unless she gave 1M hours' notice the beautiful Kmpres Kllzaheth of Alls-trhi, Alls-trhi, consort or the late Kmperor Francis Fran-cis Joseph, was foi bidden by the Iron etiquette of the court to see her own babies. They were strangers to her prnctl cally from the day of their birth, nnd In his htk, "Itoyal ltonuinces und Trngedles," t'harles Kingston tells how once an elderly pbyslclnn ventured to suggest to the emperor that If Rllzu. belli saw something of her children she might awaken out of the melancholy melan-choly trance Into which she had fallen. For u time Francis Joseph angrily declined to vary the rigid rule whliii required her to give notice of hei Intention In-tention to the chamlierlalu. lCveu when the visit took place, It was not a cne of happy little children welcoming their mother with cries of delight. First the royal governesses hud the .children dressed In stiff, ceremonial cere-monial clothes, and then drilled In the way they were to receive their mother. On tho nppcuritnce of the emperor, therefore, the tiny tots, who under the Austrian system of education had no chance to be human, simply bowed as though they wer elderly courtiers, the only sign of childhood being their terrified ter-rified stares at the august ludy. Cleveland Plain Dealer. |