Show LOUISE A HEROINE Germany Commemorates the Death of a Beloved Queen Sweet and Womanly Sovereign Whose Whoso Memory Will Never Fade Fado From the tho Pages of Her Country's Country's Country's Coun Coun- try's History Berlin Memory Memory of the heroine of Prussia Queen Louise the centenary of whose death Germany has been commemorating commemorating com com- will never fade fude from the pages of her country's history Her brief life for Ute for she died at thirty four covered a most eventful period of the country's annals and in the drama of war and disaster the Martyr Queen the Good Queen the Prussian Madonna Madonna Madonna Ma Ma- donna by all of ot which appellations the beloved beloyed queen Is known played a foremost part Her TIer domestic virtue and the sufferings she endured In her patriotic patriotic patriotic patri patri- otic efforts to defend her country against Napoleon are related to every pupil and her portrait hangs on the wall In many a Prussian home Born In Hanover in 1776 she became became became be be- came the wife of the crown prince of Prussia at the age of seventeen and anti he became king four years later She proved a devoted wife to Frederick William III who married her for love but her husbands husband's weakness or perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps vacillation tion brought humiliation upon her and upon his country He delayed resistance to Napoleons Napoleon's aggression ag ago ag- ag until resistance was In vain Persuaded Into war with France by his dauntless queen who herself went to the front wearing the uniform of her regiment of dragoons his military preparations were swept away at Jena and Before the Gallic Invader invader In in- vader the royal couple fled from Berlin Derlin her Ber lin hIm for the resolute woman insisted Z 4 that her husband refuse all terms with the Genius pf Evil as she called Bonaparte At Koenigsberg however one of their children was stricken with fever and she remaining to care for him contracted the disease Napoleon continued onward and In midwinter Louise was taken from her bed to a carriage and after a journey of ot extreme extreme ex ex- hardship found refuge In Memel But further disasters compelled Prussia's Prussia's sias sia's submission Then came greater humiliation for the unhappy queen Libeled by Napoleon In his Bulletins Bulletins Bulletins Bulle tins nevertheless she consented to an Interview with him at Tilsit hoping to obtain more generous conditions of ot peace for her country The meeting was a bitter one for her and in vain yaIn as the victor refused her request that Magdeburg be restored to Frederick William The idol of ot her people because of her great beauty and dignity added to her lovely character and wide benevolence her early death which occurred occurred occurred oc oc- oc- oc July 19 1810 c caused used widespread widespread widespread wide wide- spread mourning On March 10 1813 the anniversary of her birth King Frederick William III founded the Order Order Or Or- der tier of the Iron Cross to be bestowed for valor In war against France On the sixtieth anniversary of her death her son King William I. I of Prussia and later the first German emperor revived revived revived re re- re- re this decoration and the M on same Clay cay me or war on the part of ot the French government arrived In Berlin Annually on that day a quaint ceremony ceremony ceremony cere cere- mony takes place In the garrison church of or Berlin when the Louise brides as they are aro called are mar IDar- ried lied In her will Queen Louise provided provided provided pro pro- vided that every year ar six servant girls Who rho had served their masters faithfully faithfully faithfully faith faith- fully and desire to marry shall receive a dowry of ot about 90 90 JO provided they marry soldiers In the the Berlin garrison church At At Charlottenburg the ashes of the beloved queen are contained In a beautiful beautiful beau beau- mausoleum The sarcophagus the master work of tho the sculptor Is famous Many monuments have been erected to her memory Thus lives the memory of the sweet and womanly Queen Louise whose untirIng untiring untiring un un- un- un tiring efforts against Napoleons Napoleon's power were to prove so fruitless during her life Despite the titles of love bestowed bestowed bestowed be be- stowed upon her by a reverent X people olle she died an unhappy queen I |