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Show The Czarina of Russia, in Her Imperial State Cost ume Showing the Sad, Worried Expression Which the Skill of the Court Photographer Could Not Conceal St Petersburg August 1 IT Is no secret that the mind of the Czarina of Russ a has been seriously affected for man? vears past She was subject to a marked form of melanchol a with other mental peculiarities Physl cians who had examined her feared that Bhe was drifting Into hopeless insan ty And now miracle of miracles Her mental sickness has been completely cured by the war That wh ch, has brought such unspeakable woe and misery to millions of people has brought rel ef to the once Unhappy Czarina It Is the serious hard work she has been doing as a war nurse tha has benefited the Czarina s mind Coming nto closp contact with pain and gr m real tv th human patience and human v taknPss has lifted her out of her Ilfp of morb d self concentration and exaggera ed terrors and made her a normal human being The Czarina has gone nto war nursing In a moit serious and ff ent n anner She has estaH shed a taosp ta! o er own known as the Co r Hos i al at r ans-koe ans-koe Selo the lag hPr he fa o s 8ummer palace of hp Czar s tua pJ When the war brokp ou hp Czarina who is of a very vmpa h an I in pros sionable nature was ho rlflpj a ac counts of a aughte n s g ha reached her At fir h a. n a 1 p os trated by these s or a ondi on became more serlou han "What pan I d In a If j Is so drealful moaned the poor ner p racke I Fmpress The response of b pn o ? o i outbursts was to o hp b care and luxur) and to h ng Bible to d s ract 1 er n n 1 b amusements and men art n It was hen tha h P n s 1 a member f hp h gb n ho an become onp of n mo p n n doctors of Russ an n n of Her Maje Sh ha immensp s p n a g k could only e r 1 n -o erly trained wo n n n B sion ofame r nsn pathy m gh do raor Thp 7a na th n h self n o he rg w th much en us a n Ir thp rront e fp nann n d& thp rp n f Tn ( nrf h r h tern h n hh O an 1 h o gh , wound f Th Why the Czarina's Mind Has Been Restored By A K Vandeventer Ph D The Distinguished American Psycho oglst ALTHOLGH tbe occurrence mus seem strange o a lau mind tl ere Ir noth ng surprising to t e a ienlst n the statemen that the C zarina of R s sla has reco ered from her mental di ease nder thp infl once of her war occ pa Hons Tl at h rh nbalances he rinds of sane people may n some cases restore the equilibrium of the mentally unbal arced I ron thp a rn n s we have recel ed of hp rzar na s orn co dltion we m st bp h 33 s ffering from a mild forn bf m mc ol a A sensltl e and emo- to 'I o von n a hp tine of her entr no h d san or her wl ole na is a p ly shock d b he ter 0 a np fob bind nd f n th n sues c n an rtno eanl b p f ng and r h o t s an ha a r 7 hp b r !p of r p ? 1 n a n y n he ral on er phjs a o gan sn and the bes pos bpipp nentp o al T ok p m n n 1 kp o r n h an 1 s ok J ho o f,h n a p fo r kin nkh hnorl snp g d s n b p s b n o Ed n s f n r s han e f n T (,r t h to o n w n g g n n r h b n n v. s n h k T 1 a I l s te vT r.rejtt-.CTn ntiff )1),,iw1ImM,MMIL1)nw 1 B f " I The Czanna and , 2 k I Daughters Nursmg Wounded Fhotos by "ti.n m me t-ourt hospual, at tsarskoe Selo, an Occupation Which Has Restored Her Mind to a Normal Condition The Czarina Assisting a I Surgeon to Operate on a Soldier in Her Own Hospital. kno lejge that the Czar and the Russian na Ion ere -disappointed at ner long fail re to produce la mile heir to the throne did not lessen this stra n 1 he co rt oould 6o nothing to protect her against these troubles except to sur round I er w;lth eve poeslble luxurv and ke her In perfect Idlensrs Against secret and tmaginarv terrors it gave her less than no protection tinder these cod dl ns she must ha e developed a habit of morbid se f Introspection whlrh greatl increased the tendencj to melancholia Then came the great war in which the life of almost e eryone aromd her was at Stake The habit of doing serious work wllch she then aoqulred and the contact with wounflpd soldiers exctted lo her the no mal reactions which all human beings should experience In their relations with one another We must suppose that there was no gross or serious lesion in her brain The sudde resumption or normal contact wl h her fellow beings of which she had lo been deprived b t uDder clrnrm s p erv exciting and stimulating re-s re-s orod to I er deranged mental apparatus one thout which it could not fu Ion properly Thp carina and hor beautlf I daughters c r r r ar irsns uniform which " pn of v te and covers tl e hair mp p e Thrrn Is a red cross on the arm Ma nen fam liar wltl fash s colare hat it s the ost winning and beco Ing c stumn a wo n nn wpa It reso bles a n n dress pw u a scientifically adapted to p re ulrem nts of the nursing profes slo T r na and 1 er da ghters take o f on h d rec or f tl e. 1 ob a hp n ho doc ojs j i as If thpj e o na n i bps 1 py understood n Id ca so grca arm and em mp f thev rcp ved s e lal etten s he move a n among the o anv dls I itlon t ch ns e pa d to them n the out o nar sold ir la not told a first I n Is thp a na 8 e takps n h h o llkp nnner p h t n r pnts ban n at n I (o all n I ri r d tloa b ds n Her Self-Sacrificing Ordeal Amid rina Assisting a tTf 8 n to Operate on JeStS -i ! aR The Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana, the Two Pretty Older Daughters or the Czarina, Who Are Assisting Her m Her Nursing Nurs-ing Duties take the soldiers hand and chat with him if he is well enough to listen B the time 1 e- has learned that she is the Csarlna he has become too acc ston ed to her mlAU tratlons to feel embarrassed ' The two pretty young daughters of tha Carlna behave In the same professional wt friendlv way Man a ioor fel ow with his spirit nearly crushed out of Urn by months of privation and dreadful perils followed by terrible wounds 1 as been rhperfd, up and bro ght to lite again by the s mpathetlc smiles and gentle hands of thpsp o charming jou g women The Cr rina had no soo er beg i to do this prac cal work smong the woui ded than a great change was noted In h? man ner and appearance SI e los the worried harassed melancholy air si e had worn for manv years She even lost tl e Ixfeiae nervoisncss si e had exhibited at the s Ightest olse such as the creal Ing of a board or thp t i nlng of a door 1 and e SI e a quired n chpprful tl ough grn e n anner thoroughl bp f con rolled and selfconfl dent D r g an nter al hetwee her d itles at the h spit I hp Csarl a conf ssed to hp dlr c 1 t s o 1 ad a o enoed a n I en I and ph steal 1 a gp ce h d II r 1a s s r n pc ha e bee o c ol K s R v 1 to vour correspondent for she wishes e erjbody to k ow how pleased she Is with her experience In the hospital I have forgotten all m worries and ail nents since I have been here said tha Caarina It Is Impossible to think of mj self in the presence of all these poor fel lows who are enduring s ich real tro bles when I used o make myself miserable over imaginar ones Mv onl Interest in life Is to see n y patients get better It Is strange that tl e sight of so n uch suffering suffer-ing does not make one despondent but the fact that one can work for then n akes o e hopef 1 and e en cheerful If I were o a isltor making them a visit of -s n l a hj the sight wo Id make me miserable miser-able That often happened to mo In other dass when 1 made lslts to hospitals but no tl at I know how to do eooietl Ing for tl em the feeling is quite different Th patience and cheerfulness with wh c moBt of them bear their s tfferlngs re a lesson to me Many of then are crlipled for life anl et the are thankful t p alive We who have all the material t 1 ga we can desi o and vet are n hni p 1 ave great deal to learn from th poo and tl Is Is tl h st opport nit 1 In p e er had to lean en tl e i atlents are co a escent ther are se t t rec rate in Finland where the Woe and Misery of the Army os-pitals os-pitals Saves j Russia's Empress Em-press from Hopeless In sanity imia beautiful surroundings they regsln strength and In most cases are readj to return to fight tie enem? Tsarskoe Eeto ts not suitable for the last stage of treat ment, for this little town bes del Her Majesty hospital has numerous prtraa Institutions -in which several thousand wounded are always being cared for The hosp tal which has thus beet equipped is In a wing of the Czars Palace, In rooms -which still r tain the royal tar-nlture tar-nlture re white bedsteads will tl wounded lying in them. Every day t sanitarV train from different parts & the theatre of war brings many carnaees full of wounded directly to Tsarskoe elo. Count Sen ilenburg who was formerly tie principal court official, is the chief of tie sanitary train which Is named "The Tsare-ritch Tsare-ritch Train, after the Crown Frllics Alexis. The train possesses an operating tseatrs for urgent cases and almost every htp tal p. appliance in miniature. Especial care u taken of the seriously wounded, beds ars arranged as stretchers and one end of Lis carriage can be entirely opened TtanU to this the w ounded are thus easily moved, avoiding all difficulties which may occur n turning the bed through a doorway Those carriages which do not pos est this ingenious device are used for patients who are only slightly wounded but nere. again one of the doctors who belongs w the staff of the train, has invented a stretcher which avoids much of the common com-mon discomforts of be ng carried In this way The are longitud nally sad aort-zontally aort-zontally flexible and consequently tier pass through am doorwav with a sen circ ilar movement and all tie time uw position of the patient is comfortable. Everv carriage has electric bells and telephones tele-phones The train goes as near as p slble to the firing line and jnotomrs w horse vehicles are sent to advanced potions po-tions to fetch In the wounded Tae train arrives In Tsarskoe elo at the Ciars private pri-vate station which is not open to the pud-lie pud-lie The I tarlna very often meets 9 train in persoi The chief of l1 gl es a f II account -of his -womded, am the are directed to different P"' K er wounded man is ticketed wit nai a of the hospital to which he is After the arrival of the wounded to boj pltal all linen Is changed tbey are wbn a d placed tn comfortable beds and Isnons them all like guardian angels the T and her da ghters gtva them wfv"j nd their svmpathv Those hun dree w-ounded will go to different Tillages i an towns to remote parts of tas U" '", Russia earning with them the f0"2, of the good Tsarina, who has shown w a mothers love for her ehMren. , fl she on I er part must be no .sri ti f to then for having rescued her itobi a unfortunate mental condition |
