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Show Muttirrly Dcvollou. The late Quern Mary of Bavaria Is said to have been as warmly devoted i: ml blindly oU'dient to her sun. King Lud-wig Lud-wig 11. iih she had been to her husband. King M ix. From tin day of his acee-sum, acee-sum, blie Utoked upon him more a.- a king ll.an a son. A story is toid which shows how dearly mother arid, son loved each other. They were ga.ing out of one of the windows ; in the I'rencoed hall of Hoheusehwangau. I with one of the finest views in the world I before litem tho green Sehwansee in the j foreground, the pine clad hills retlected I in its pure surface, and above all, the I noble mountains stretching on every j side. The king drank iu the wild beiiuty j 1 of lake and mountain, and raised his I ; eyes to the sky. The queen, who never soared too high, gazed with delight at an i im losing pine which towered high above -! the window at which they Blood. Sud- I j denly the queen exclaimed: "What a1 glorious Christinas tree this would make j if we could decorate it!" j The king passed his hand over hid : eyes, smiled and kissed her. That was i in August. In December he expressed a , wish to spend Christmas at Ilohen-, Ilohen-, Bchwangau. Tho queen, always willing : to do what ho wished, followed him . thither. On Christmas eve, witli loving ! care, she decorated a little tree, and. as i in the days when she was a mother of 20, ahe rang the bell to call her children. The great event of the evening seemed : over, the lights were blown out, when ; suddenly a gong sounded. King Ludwig i took his mother's hand, and, leading her ! to the window out of which they had gazed together that morning in August, ' he pushed back the shutters and disclos-! disclos-! ed toher astonished eyes tho gigantic ! tree lighted with a thousand wax can-j can-j dies, which burned bright in tho frosty I night and were retlected in the snow and j icicleson trees and shrubsaround. London Lon-don Olobo, |
