Show I TWO BEAUTIFUL GIRLS WHO BOTD WEAR CROWNS The evident beauty of the Russian empress face Is so overshadowed by an expression of patient pathetic melan I choly that she arouses sympathy and curiositYln everyone Undoubtedly the I czarina is not a happy woman Russian Rus-sian empresses have little enough toI I inspIre content and this pale pretty I creature with the sad eYes and mouth I endures daily such tests of her physical i strength and moral courage as few AmerIcan women would care or con I I sent for all thp Russian state and power to undergo Her husband on I the whole is a kindly young man who i wicw r SDI SD-I J 1r7P S O RUSSTiy QEZN1 W1IIIJHEr1tIm 1 f is considerate even affectionate but he can do very little to mitigate the severe even cruel Russian court etiquette eti-quette to which she must bow with her he shares the dally terror of SLsSas slnatlon and with his people he laments the fact that the empress has not yet given an heir to his throne In spite of her beauty and her virtues vir-tues the empress is not loved by the RussIan people nor consulted and confided con-fided In by her husband as her mother inlaw Empress Dagmar the dowager was She has neither the robust ph slque nor the ambitious interests of the clever dowager and court Intrigues squabbles and etiquette distress disgust dis-gust and fatigue her It is a fact well known that up to the very day before her betrothal she res ted the change or I her religion and Christian name that eyery Russian consort must yield to I again and again she bas fainted at the long receptions bans and revIews through which in spite or her illness she is obliged to stand and the only true comfort and solace she finds In her dreary splend is the personal services ser-vices and attentions she is allowed to lavIsh on her tiny girls In sharp contrast to this sadfaced empress or the vastest domain in Europe Eu-rope Is the young pretty queen of the tiniest cleanest freest little kingdom I I pn that continent The queen of H l land lives far more like a popular petted young belle of society than 11 sovereign While the czarina never puts her foot out of her door without the heaviest guard Queen WHhelmlna goes shopping walking skating and riding when the whim seizes her with a single sin-gle attendant and that often but a fav rite lady in waiting For all her love for junketing dancing and outdoor sports the Dutch queen Is a conscIen tlQus worker and just now she feels deeply interested in the International peace congress that meets on the 18th of May in One of her palaces the HouseIntheVood just outside The Hague I |