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Show The Czar's Family. The empress of Russia has her daughters daugh-ters much with her, aud has not even a so called governess for them. Her own personal attendant and her lady of honor serve also for them. In part this springs from the emperor's love for simplicity of life, but in part, alsx), that they try to surround themselves with as few people as possible, so that as little as may be concerning their private life should transpire trans-pire to the outer world, of whom they are, and not without good reason, much afraid. The empress superintends in person the education of the two little grand duchesses, Xenie and Oiga, aged respectively 14 and 6. The emperor in his leisure moments tries to do the same for his boys. Especially he loves to give them music and dancing lessons, for he thinks himself a great musician, and has a predilection for the cornet-a-piston. Leisure Hours. |