Show EMPRESSES EI AND QUEENS HAVE SOME SOlliE CURIOUS FADS The Th young ung empress of ot Russia Ru ia if she I lived In la America Ameri uld have been a aleader a aleader 3 leader of the th suffrage movement She Shebe be leyes that most if not all the great reforms which have taken place in the world wend have been brought about If It only indirectly by women Under her Impe Imperial rial patronage societies for the higher culture of women are not only growing daily dally more numerous in St Petersburg i but they are rapidly spreading through throughout out Russia Since her Imperial majesty has be become become become come so 50 much interested in women s work and clubs the th czar has ordered that full reports of all such meetings shall be prepared for the perusal Ot nf the empress One of the czars secre seere secretaries tarl attends all aU meetings In Inthe Inthe Inthe the capacity of reporter and writes dow down n every w word ord in shorthand so that should the czarina it a full ac no account account count can at i once be produced for her inspection Her majesty majest is something of or an she he has ordained that presentations shall be made In the English fashion to sovereign offering her hand to be k sed and not shaken a was the custom of the dowager r empress Margherita queen quee of Italy Ital although not ostensibly in favor of equal suf suffrage suffrage suffrage frage does toes all she can 0 o encourage wo mens work The gold medals recently presented p to her who h have e completed thirty years ears of service were designed by b a woman Future generations may ina perhaps read an account of the life lire of the empress of Germany as written by herself The empress is in the habit of writing daily dally i In her diary No one ever sees the con contents tents not even the empress At the close of or the year ear a new diary Is opened I and the old one which has a locked clasp Is consigned to the non rion safe sare con containing I taming mining her tier majesty domestic jewelry The German emperor does not like long n sermons and the court chaplains are to condense their discourses so that the delivery will only consume fifteen minutes The king of Sweden sets aside every second Tuesday on which any anyone one of ot his subjects may call on him The only formality form aUty required Is to send in ones card the beng when ther turn comes s n a the order of ot arrival c King Oscar of Sweden has had his life insured the premium being kroner per year He was 71 years old on Jan 21 The king still re ye retains retains Ills his love for the sea sen to which he was apprenticed In Th his youth and every August he makes a long cruise along the bold and romantic coast of his northern m King Christian of tr Denmark loves to romp with his grandchildren and he hemn may mn often be seen seeli seated in a diminutive diminutive tive tire pony carriagA trusting himself to the care of ot a very youthful coachman or or he sometimes acts as the willing horse of a very young driver It IUs Itis Is said that sultan of ot Turkey were to consult his own tastes taste he would only have one wife Instead of the he now maintains in his harem He dare flare not abolish the institution Institution institution tion for he knows that the day he saw the last of the royal harem would also see the last of his reign Each occupant occupant occupant pant of ot the harem receives the title of princess hence IJ i Is the ambition of every Turkish officer to get his daugh daughter ter into it She i given gien a large dower a staff staf of ten tea servants and a coach and four The maintenance of the harem costs the country about 15 year yearly yearly ly h The sultan I Is If probably the richest man in Europe He receives yearly from the country and from his private estates He has invested in America |