Show I I i Some Sm Youngsters Who Are of Great Importance Import ce Destined to Become Rulers J rious Nations Nation N I 1 I I I t jC LI S w ik I I 1 4 s1 I 4 i L I I i I It ID t i D t tF i F C n HUMBERT OF ITALY THE THE InterestIng boy oy in this Is rosIly really a very Important persona parsonage In European royal circles To T be ho king of united Italy Is really something nowadays a much bigger job than ruling ono one of tho petty states tate Into which the tho peninsula p was divided before this childs Victor Emmanuel II fought for Ital Italian ItalIan ian an unity and that Is what this thil young at star Iter or Is likely to be He Is the tho eldest son Ion vf f tho present ruler of Italy the tho well wall beloved Victor Emmanuel III Ill Prince y Humbert H will come como to a II kingdom which has been beon made mado powerful by wise rule rulo and the exercise of wide liberality and good judgment His mother who was Will the Princess Helena of Montene Montenegro gro is one ono of the tho most mOlt domestic royal women woman on earth oarth and tho the little prince and his charming sisters era being belna brought up under her hor constant per personal supervision and close Individual attention CROWN PRINCE OF PERSIA THE T HE handsome lad pictured above whose whon poetical dark face is il lUg sug suggestive of the tho and rose roso gar gardens garden dens den II is the youthful heir to the tho throne of Persia His name namo Is Hussein All AM MIrza and he ho Is about ten ton years of age aoe His HII father the tho reigning shah who succeeded to the throne only a short time ago ngo IE Is the most mOlt liberally Inclined oriental monarch on record As soon as al he came into power ho ha converted his absolute monarchy Into a representative government promulgated promulgated promulgated gated a constitution and turned one ona on of the tho royal palaces Into a parliament house Unfortunately he was more advanced In his hll Ideas of popular coy sov sovereignty cover er than were his people and his hll efforts to promote reform were not well received rec ived At the present moment the ancient kingdom Is in a state of anarchy and It Is not at nt all certain that the tha bright little Hussein will ever come came into his heritage n OLAF OF NORWAY T pHE H HE sturdy little fellow shown here herewith herewith herewith with Is i heir to the reestablished kingdom of Norway although at lit his birth he lie seemed to be b far from such a distinction His father was a young Danish prince who had married the His Princess Maud of Wales and when their son on was wac born they thoy were wore living In Ina a modest house on the tho Sandringham estate In England they would have remained all their lives had hd not the tha Norwegians separated from Sweden and set up an independent government Looking Lo king about for a king they finally chose chole Prince Charles and he ho exchanged his simple rural life in England for a athron throne thron and the Imposing title of Haa Haakon Haakon Haakon kon VII The Tho little prince who had bad been christened Alexander and a good deal more became Prince Olaf of Nor Norway Norway Norway way heir to the ancient kingdom of the tho vikings Ho is II a winsome little creature and the tho Norwegians hove have adopted him with great enthusiasm LUIZ DUKE OF BRAGANZA THE T HE rather distinguished looking youth shown In this picture is II Prince Luiz Fillippe duke of Bragan Braganza ragan za ze eldest son of the portly and easy easygoing easygoing going King Carlos Carlo of Portugal and his hi hir heir Once among the tho most powerful states state in Europe Portugal has dwin dwindled died Into a third rate sovereignty and her power on the tho sea eec has become a II amere amere mere mero tradition Prince Luiz Lul however will have havo quite enough on his hands when ha ho comes to the throne of his hie hi shrunken kingdom His Hil father has hns done dono very vort ver little ittle to put Portugal on her herold herold herold old proud footing and his people are aro not especially fond of him His moth mother mothr er r the beautiful and accomplished Marie Maria Amelia Is a favorite with all cli classes especially beloved by the poor among whom she sho spends her large private fortune fortuno lavishly Prince Luiz is reputed to be A bright and capable young fellow and end a favorite favorito in Lisbon with all classes ARCHDUKE ALEXIS HE E attractive little specimen of hu lu humanity THE TH T manity in the picture is heir to toone toone toone one of the mightiest royal estates in intha inthe the tha th world the empire of Russia In ln Incidentally also he ho Is heir to a future which no man envies him As a It baby prince all unconscious of the career which awaits him at play pillY with his pretty little sisters slaters In the beautiful gardens of he is charm charmIng charmIng charming Ing As the tha coming autocrat of Rus Russia Russia sia sic he may excite the hostility of the tho proletariat of his hi unhappy country but to the people of free America so far removed from tho the anarchy and misrule which devastate his insecure heritage he ho Is ia only an especially whole wholesome wholesome some example of juvenile royalty with no loss of prestige in their estimation because he happens to be a prince Tiny as he ha is Prince Alexis Is the hope of the tho royalist party in the tho empire A Alife Alife Alife life so 10 vital to the existence of tho the au autocracy autocracy autocracy Is II the object of groat great solicitude KING OF ANAM HE small oriental royalty shown In Inthe Inthe inthe THE T the cut II Is the only one of these theao youngsters born In the purple who Is ii I already In the full enjoyment of his hili kingly Inheritance Ha Ho II is the new king kina of Anam and If his father had con conducted conducted conducted ducted himself more circumspectly lit little littie tie tle King would still be bo an In Inmate Inmate mate of the tho royal nursery In charge of his lila mother who was Will a humble slave alive belonging to her husband The Tho former king became so 10 In his con conduct conduct conduct duct that the French government which had established a protectorate in Anam deposed him and set sat up his hla son to reign In his lii stead is reputed to be bo a II lad ladof ladof ladof of marked Intelligence and he bears himself with a right royal mien On the day of his coronation he made mado a clever little speech from the throne and wearing his richly embroidered robe and wielding an ivory scepter he was every inch a king PRINCE OF THE ASTURIAS THE T HE youngest heir to n a European throne Is the baby Prince of th the Asturias pictured above At present he ho Ie la but a fragile repository of the tha hopes and aspirations of a people brought to comparative insignificance by the tha puerility of their rulers ruler but his hll coming has hu ha Inspired the tho Spanish nation with a newborn desire to recover its Ita place in lr tho the political world Already little Don Alfonso has been bean the Inno limo Innocent cent cont moans means of putting tho the finishing touches to the tha historic enmity which has haa existed between his country and England ever over since the destruction of the Spanish armada The Tha marriage of his youthful father to an nn English princess paved the tha way WilY for such euch a are re ro remarkable healing of the tho ancient foud loud and the arrival of the tho little don banish banished ed the last remnant of bitterness No Spanish statesman had been able to bring about this fortunate fortunato rapprochement ment mente me nt |