Show w 8 y $ 8 8 s “Has any queen a greater chance to make her individuality felt than we each In her home?" Mrs Edith McCormick daughter of John D Rockefeller In the pride of motherhood put the question In a recent expression of her opinion as to the dignity of motherhood and the maternity entails With It she touched nearly upon another question and one which has done as much In the swaying of the empires as all the statesmen and politicians of the past have been able to accomplish with the prestige of monarchs and the force of mighty armies: Who are the real queens of the world? Does It Indeed lie in any power except those of birth and prerogative to Invest a woman with the essential attributes of a queen omitting only the title and the crown? la much to be said for of the the world's most famous that every worthy mother is a queen among women — every thing except this: That she isn’t For to be a queen a woman must rule by whatever means she can command over a whole people not over a family or a few Individuals merely and over her people her sway must endure undisputed Such and such rule while it does eliminate the simple matriarch remains far from debarring from admission many a woman who can never wear a crown And it does shut out not a few who wear crowns IS 8 $ $ s V V the chaos she so devotedly faced in the ruins of Messina But there ends the brief listing of the real queens whose crowns are more than gewgaws for the greatest most genuine of them all the modern Semiramis of power who made all plotting China bend before her will and wielded the scepter of her irresistible might while she gasped in the agogies of death has vanished with only a towering place in history to tell how very possible it has been for a poor and pretty slave girl to govern 400000000 people by her own unaided brain What then is the reality of the queenly office as it is enjoyed upon the modern thrones when compared with the power of the uncrowned queens whose sway is acknowledged in many lands If it be a question of the actuality of power exercised over numerous and influential subjects only that famous dowager empress of China now dead and done for could have presumed to rival the silent imperturbable sway which goes with the millions of Hetty Green as she sits in her decent black dress in her modest office- - in' the Chemical National bank The Real Monarchs Every statesman in Europe and every monarch confesses that the actual kings with power to make and forbid wars are the Rothschilds ORANGE slaves — and this by no wiles of beauty and no ravishment of form Her Position Won She won her distinguished position through such mazes of rivalries and cabals as few queens excepting those of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries )iave encountered — deeply laid schemes of astute schemers whose hatreds did not flinch at the most detestable attacks She has endured and is now more prized by her republican compatriots than are the queens of Europe by their nominally loyal subjects ' Italy has its stage queen as well as FTance a woman whose whole life has been a romance her rise to greatness having been marked by as impressive a discrepancy as tha't which attended the beggar maid whom King Cophetua loved Until the titular queen of Italy boldly conquered the affections of her subjects by braving death and sustaining injury after the terrible Sicilian earthquake there was small doubt as to the woman to whom the bulk of Italy’s allegiance was passionately given and that in spite of the equally passionate manner in which the famous actress Duse had for some years been repelling her compatriots' devotion for the sake of her affection for the ingrate d'Annunzlo It is rarely very rarely that the stage queen enjoys like Bernhardt a life tenure of office Usually her sub- with restrictions of growing democ racy such as they would have spurned with contempt in their haughty royal reigns On Three Great Thrones And beside him a consort succeed— ing Victoria and lacking the power to banish from her offended sight a worn whose an relations with Edward would have made that old lady almost exile both him and his fair protegee from England itself It must be often a cruel bitterness that underlies the gracious smile with which a consort like Alexandra hears the flattering title “queen” Far worse the case of the czarina of Russia whose whole existence is one series of terrors for the safety of her husband and her children and no For there are queens who are ob more queenly although much happier vious nonentities on their august is the station of the empress of Ger thrones even as there are untitled many to the ofpractically women whose sway is 'as potent and fice of relegated hausfrau a basis on which as broad as that ever wielded by the every other German wife and mother most tyrannous of kings over the most is fully her equal subservient of peoples These are the three most mighty 'In the first group appear a number thrones in the world and these of the reigning majesties of the present foremost among them the queen the women who are In reality least For the real queens of the inost stable kingdom and the among queens enthroned in the possession of real empress of the most extensive empire the world tow knows and in all its power the quest must turn to the lesser where the head that dra v — has history contained Alexandra of wearskingdoms the crown need but nod to Great Britain compel obedience In Praise of Alexandra Such a real queen is Wilhelmina of She is famed for every attribute of Holland the only woman living beautiful and admirable motherhood she comes of the most widely en- whose maternity earns her the royal whose immense wealth controls the jects fall away with the decadence of throned royal race she is all that is rank Mrs McCormick has so futilely treasuries that are war’s vital sin- her beauty But sometimes claimed for all her lovely sex Upon ews If by some unbelievable turn of the charming dolls of the among lovely and excellent and gracious theater Yet her power her real power as a the ability for motherhood in Wil- fate — such a one for instance as be there appears the woman of genius ruler remains practically nil Her hus- helmina the Dutch realized their na- fell Samson of old — Hetty Green were like Bernhardt and Duse the inspirational to existence moved abandon to all her and alliances her tion of whose divine flame compels depended band after a career which British loyalty reminiscent of his princeship they give with the acclaim of rejoic- call all her loans and try her loyalty to the last That has been the endowment of some few of the of Wales finds it impossible to forget ing independence the stanch loyalty strength just once the wholeUnited which States all the would feel a a that implies modern which constitutes on the stage power and under a constitutional era that giant’s queen can covet strength was shaking the pillars of its a more potently royal power than all ties such monarchs to the innocuousfinance but a few of those who wear the ness of automata has proved himself Portugal's Unfortunate Queen crown a king in the full reality of the cun can exercise extends to music No queen that silent old woman So too does little Portugal own a who was once New England’s toasted Every age brings its queen of song belle but no queen except her con- some wondrously gifted creature on temporary in distant China has In whose parted lips the thousands hang the century past and present so made entranced Like the actress no origin men bend before her in tribute to her is too low no birthplace too distant to keep her from destiny rule Australia gave to the world the While riches are power — and the power most sensibly felt abroad as regal Melba but multitudes the world well as here— they do not afford the over have testified to her power over sole domain that is open to the lead- the senses and the emotions of the ers of mankind Both the intellect peoples With the one exception of Wilheland the emotions serve as foundations for allegiance often more stanch and mina of Holland in which her peopie’j more extensive than can be won by gratitude for their rescued independence remains still warm thero lives the anointed queens probably not a queen whose passing Disraeli’s Course from hit' throne would so move to If before a jury expert in weighing anxiety or mourning the very subjects of evidence the relative powers of who protest allegiance as would the to loss of one of the uncrowned queens’ practical effleiensy pertaining Queen Alexandra and Mrs Humphry of this modern at Ward could be submitted for trial is because this modern day nothing but the notorious lip loyalty queens and history has glamof the Englishman could give the ver- oured them with romance in every dict in favor of the reigning queen tint with which it limns their careers With Victoria of course the dispute Duse for the sake of one treacherwould have been too unequal for she ous devotee neglected her audiences was an imperious young lady and old and dragged her sublime talents into lady and all the literary lights of her the oblivion of his dull stagecraft She era — except perhaps Thackeray — fail survives a of the to show so pronounced an impression future but for the possibility a present as she made on the manners and mor- in abdication who gave her allqueen for als of her times while India became love her empire because Disraeli as her The Regal Melba prime minister comprehended how The irresistible Bway over the s much she longed for the title albeit Its kings very much on toler- Great Britain already enjoyed the sub ance its queens only as inevitable ' stance Yet that very title manufac tachments and its real leaders in tured from thin air to add another thought and art as rare possessions crown has in the end served to rivet It cannot afford to lose the chains of ownership upon half a continent in Asia An Infant Industry nlng and ability in which Carlyle dis- queen Amelie vose courage crowned But as go soberly at present “What do you consider the most covered the origin and significance of amid the tragedy that made her dow- the odds things of power all He with the crying need of the the title ager queen the force of character woman novelist whose Influence all “I don’t know but day?” if you had said It is a strange anomaly a son suc- with which she long combated the England admits freely the most crying need of the night I ceeding a mother whose dominant weaknesses of her husband Carlos As things go too in France the should have said sterilized milk” spirit kept his gray beard almost a Portugal for all Its ferocious social- drama to the world another gives mockery of his destiny to power and istic plotters readies that it has a queen whose dominance no one dares Meow! instantly exercising more potent in- genuine queen amid its sullen growls Sara Bernhardt can still lay "Another terminal grab!” fluence upon the affairs of the world it whimpers under her remnants of deny her slender hands upon the Inmost "Where?” than any of his predecessors for g power And Italy after a period of souls of men and hale them forth "In the nursery Little has hundred years while he is hampered distrust accepted Queen Helena amid until their owners are her humble Just pulled the cat’s tall" Bobby BASIS OF THIS CAKE Delicacy for Afternoon Tea Greatly Improved by the Addition of Royal Icing Four ounces of caster sugar seven ounces of flour one teaspoonful of cream of tartar half a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda two onuces of butter two eggs one gill of milk the grated rinds of three oranges Cream the butter with half the sugar beat in one egg then the rest of the sugar and the other egg then sift In gradually the flour orange rind cream of tartar and the soda adding the milk as required Butter a tin line with paper pour In the cake and bake for about half an hour Cover with royal icing Royal icing is useful for a variety of cakes and can be flavored and colored to taste Put the white of an egg into a basin with a squeeze of lemon Juice and stir into it six ounces of icing sugar work well with a wooden spoon till perfectly smooth Spread this on your cake or biscuits dipping your knife into boiling water is frequently so that the surface smooth FOR JELLIED SALAD FRUIT any Delightful Confection on Warm Varieties of Fruit May Be Used Two pounds mixed fresh fruits the greater the variety the better brown sugar one wineglassful of sherry one pint of lemon jelly Put the fruit into a basin having previously peeled it where necessary and cut all fruit like bananas pears etc in slices peaches oranges Sprinkle it with brown sugar pour over the sherry and leave in a cool place Take a pint of lemon jelly — there are many good kinds sold which only need to be dissolved for use Let it stand till cold but not set then whisk it till it looks like snow Put part of the fruit in a large bowl (stood on ice if posible) add a layer of jelly in rough heaps then more fruit and so on till all is used" leaving the whipped jelly on the top This should be stood on ice till required THERE Chicken Baked in Milk Prepare a chicken as though for Mix a dressing roasting using crumbed bread butter salt and pepper a cup of seeded raisins and sufficient sugar to make it moderately sweet Stuff the chicken with this mixture and if a little of it should be left reserve It to be added to the gravy when that is made Place the chicken in a dripping pan In the bottom of the pan put two or even three quarts of rich milk cover the pan and bake the chicken slowly until it is very tender being careful to turn and baste it as often as may be necessary Thicken the gravy in the pan seasoning It with salt" and if required sugar to taste For a Plain Cake Cream together two cupfuls of powdered sugar with one large tablespoonful of butter then add the yolks of three eggs well beaten then the whites of three eggs well beaten one cupful of milk two heaping cupfuls of flour into which has been sifted two teaspoonfuls of baking powder mix well and add one teaspoonful of lemon Bake in a round tin in a flavoring slow oven for one hour Frosting— Mix one cupful of powdered sugar with enough cream or milk to stiffen and add a little lemon flavoring Ginger Cookies One cup of sugar one cup of mo-iasses one cup butter two eggs one tablespoonful of ginger one of soda dissolved in a quarter of a cup of boiling water and a Mix and knead saltspoonful of salt Into a dough as stiff as is required to roll them out then put away over night In the morning roll out and use a little flour if necessary then bake in a good het oven Salad Dressing That Will Keep Beat four tablespoonfuls of butter until hot stir into one of flour until smooth add one cup of cream (either sweet or sour) and let boil then set the saucepan into hot water Beat together the yolks of three eggs one tablespoonful of sugar one teaspoon-fu- l each of salt and dry mustard add cup of vinegar then stir Into the other mixture until it thickens Bottle and it can be kept for weeks ready for use If too thick add a little cream or vinegar to thin ' Cinnamon Crisps f Cream cup butter with one sugar one teaspoon of cinnamon f then add cup (or more) of sweet milk and two cups of flour in which has been sifted one teaspoon of soda two of cream of tartar Roll the dough very thin using more flour if required Cut In fapey shapes and bake until crisp and brown of "When are a singer’s notes liquid ones?” “I suppose it Is when they becoms dew” |