Show v I Throne of df f Mighty Victoria I I May Await Infant but She j I Just Gurgles Her Days Away J yNo y No Mo Baby Today Assured Such Importance as Princess Elizabeth By MILTON BRONNER N NEA EA Service Correspondent LONDON June 5 The The most important im important important im- im im- im baby in the world Is sleeping and cooing and yelling her days away in London's richest bassinet Millions of or other babies gurgling In their baths each inspire doting mothers with rosy dreams of or their future There may be among them a Thomas Edison Edison a DAnnunzio zio and a Sarh Sanh Bernhardt to say say- nothing of or two of three American presidents But for the time being the Un tiny Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary has baa things all her lien own wa way There is no oth Other r infant that c can n compete with her Others are important for what they may become but the princess is Important for what she is the is-the the sole living heir of the new generation of or the house of Windsor Because the bhe carries In her small person the delicate spark which means the continuance of England's royal line her babyhood will be watched by the anxious eyes of or an empire Only three lives stand between her herand herand herand and the the- throne throne those those of King George the Prince of Wales and her father rather the Duke of York Should the Prince of or Wales Vales die childless and her father have no sons Elizabeth Elizabeth Elizabeth Eliza Eliza- beth will vill ascend the throne as the sixth English queen to hold It In her own right THIRD IN LINE Her queenly predecessors are Mary lary I Blood I-Blood Bloody I-Bloody Mary who Mary who acceded In 1553 Elizabeth 1558 1553 Mary lary II 1689 Anne 1702 and Victoria 1837 Whereas Elizabeth is third in line for the crown Vl Victoria toria in her babyhood babyhood babyhood baby baby- hood was fifth rUth If It she sho succeeds to the throne her husband will not have the title of king but only that of ot prince con consort cop cop- sort Eort as in the case of or Victorias Victoria's German husband Not only does the new princess hold an excellent chance for the but she also represents to t the e nation the last link In their t 9 I royal house Princess Marys Mary's children children children chil chil- dren being regarded as continuing the house of Lascelles The little Elizabeth already has privileges not accorded to the Lascelles Las Lis- cellos celles babies who are commoners under the law while she holds the rank of princess of or the blood The birth bf br this child to the Duke and Duchess of or York unites the history history history his his- tory and Clamor of the house louse of ot Windsor with the romance and poetry poetry poetry po po- po- po etry of or ancient Scotland Her maternal maternal maternal ma ma- grandfather Earl Strathmore Strathmore Strath- Strath more owns Glamis Giamis castle scene of or Shakespeare's Macbeth and traces to Robert Bruce and other heroes of earliest Scotch history BANQUO'S PROPHECY Superstitious subjects here are re recalling recalling re- re calling how time is bringing events within reach pf ot Shakespeare's old prophecy In Macbeth Macbeth himself himself him him- self sel was thane of or Glamis the forefather forefather fore rore- father Cather of the Strathmore line and of the present ro royal al baby Banquo talking to Macbeth about the witch's prophecy to them says It was was- said It should not hot stand in thy posterity but th that t myself should be the root I and father of many kings If this witchery holds good the Princess Elizabeth will not become a queen The rosy-cheeked rosy sleepy-eyed sleepy child yawned through her christenIng christening christening christen christen- ing ceremony the other day in the presence of the king and queen and the noblest peers or of the realm careless of or prophecies and thrones She was born hot not in a palace but in her mothers mother's girlhood bedroom bedroom bedroom bed bed- room In a Bruton street mansion and her pleasures at present are those which any London ragamuffin fin shares with her her dally daily pram rides rides-in the public parks She attended on these outings by her Mier Scotch nurse nurs Miss Mies Jane Barrie Barnie and Mrs Kate Bill housekeeper housekeeper housekeeper house house- keeper at Buckingham palace Miss Barrie has nursed other members ot the Strathmore family The Princess Elizabeth promises beauty Like her mother she has delicate feature and a petite body Her shell pink complexion dark brown hair and hazel eyes are also a maternal inheritance But Just now the princess 1 Is concerned concerned concerned con con- with beauty as little as with earthly pomp Her lIer chief concerns are arc eating tim timO an ivory rattle and anda a firm grip on her big toe |