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Show Magazine Section THE SALT m Magazine Section L Sunday, Jan. 16, 1916 23 1 L "7 s- -" !i, 3 4 .w -- 1 "... 7 fel- "A t is 7 i ':..w J . . 'W -- i V. 1 4 ' & VAN ?!S1- - x"4U ir? v VVf Ail V J .NN r? ,.-..- ?tS'; " The Queen of Belgium. V .i ill A LvjH'V' A o;f i Queen 1W J't iSZS- - of Bulgaria r Queen Mary of England. v. . - ' v J The Czarina of Russia. . . ' ::: it.'.-...- - ' v . v . i v. ; ; Vv. Vv v. " , 4 3 a Queen Helena of Italy. Queen Sophia of Greece. Cirri t How Some of the World's 1 Queens Look When Wear ing the Symbols of the Power Now So Sadly Menaced ly 1 ; . v. V . " : vv If AC J . "": ; Great War. Yf ' ' SI f The Empress of Germany. : NEAST lies the head that "wears a crown." A truism ""which one, In looking down the dim vista of the centuries, sees pictured in wide-flun- g crimson death and black, cloistered tragedy 13 it any less true today, when all of the wars In which crowns hare been won and lost are but childish beginnings in the slaughter of men and the shaking of king' doms? crowns The glittering amid the smoke of war make a starry glory of powerT a show in which the gleam of gold and the fire and color of gem are gay festival notes against the Implacable gray of Time. In the collection of diadems preserved to us are that cf Charlemagne and the iron crown of Lombardy, restored to Italy In 1866. Gold or Iron, bronze or lead, the crown bears with the weight of a nation In happiness or travail upon the heads of the wearers. Likewise if the consecrated circlet were fashioned, or bays. It stands for the bodies and eouIs of millions of men, of babes unborn. That is, perhap3, why wo prefer to view a crown on the head of a gracious queen; for every mother is the queen of an empire which she is building for the future. And no responsibility such as this and here empress and peasant are alike is without its uneasy, troubled hours, where the hazard of life and death relentlessly bears upon her devoted head. , . r mr. , immm0LmLldtt,m, 9. . . , j uwm .." Cm - ' ir Empress of Japan. vv |