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Show PRINCESS'S LIFE IS BLIGHTED BY TRAGEDY Special Cablo to The Tribune. BERLIN, July 30. It Is now whispered about Berlin that there Is moro than meets the eye ln the death from heart failuro of the kaiser's youngest sister,. Princess Feodora of Schleswig-Holstein. Littlo was known, outside of Germany of the princess, and the announcement of her sudaen death received scant attention atten-tion ln the newspapers. Tho Princess Feodora's short life (sho was only 30) was blighted by a lovo tragedy. In her great grief the princess resorted to tho consolations of poetry and nature study. One Christmas tho kaiser received a gift of a beautiful volumo, called "Forest," by "F. Hugln." It contained four exquisite stories, full of the poetry of nature, and Illustrated with delightful delight-ful pictures from tho author's pencil, representing rep-resenting "pine, beech, mountains, nnd fir forests." "F. Hugln" proved to be the Princess Foodora. The book was so successful suc-cessful that the princess tried her hand at a full-length novel, a charmingly sentimental sen-timental talc, entitled "Hans Berta," and this work took Germany by storm. The princess's untimely death was a blow to the kaiser, who greatly admired her wit and judgment. |