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Show .Dane King Bows to Girl's Wish Allows Daughter of Austrian Colonel to Become Subject and Remain in Denmark. PERSONAL FLEA TO MONARCH Relates Her Troubles to King Christian, Chris-tian, Who Intercedes in Her Behalf Foster Parents Eager to Adopt Her. Copenhagen. Large numbers of Austrian children, particularly little boys and girls from Vienna, have been passing their summers in Denmark as guests of every class of the Danish community. But it has been distinctly understood by the Danish organizations organiza-tions arranging these charity visits and the Danish authorities that no child should be allowed to stay in Denmark more than six months unless special permission were given. Leavetakings Are Painful. Many of these Austrian children have grown very fond of their Danish foster parents, and vice versa, and the leavetakings at the railway stations, when these children are sent back to Austria, have in many instances been pitiful. The youngsters did not hide their sorrow and despair at going away. Little Mitzi Wolf-Shickinger Is nine and the daughter of an Austrian colonel who was killed on the Italian frontier during the war. Iler mother was left to shift for Mitzi aud herself on a pension that hardly covered the; cost of rent, and she was happy when she got an opportunity of sending Mitzi on a long holiday to kind and hospitable people in Denmark. Mitzi and her foster parents became very fond of each other. The latter were so well connected that they managed to obtain permission for Mitzi to stay for a whole year. But when the local authorities could do no more the foster fos-ter parents were told that Mitzi had to return to Vienna. King Grants Her Wish. The next day Mitzi and her foster mother left the provincial town in which they were living and traveled all day and night to Copenhagen. His majesty the king was going to give public audiences, and Mitzi and her friends had made a plan. The king received Mitzi. She told him of her troubles, and that she wanted to stay forever In Denmark. Her foster parents were willing to adopt her, and her mother In Viennn had consented to renounce all claims of motherhood. Could she possibly stay? King Christian smiled and kissed her and promised to look into the matter. A few days later she received re-ceived a personal letter from the king telling her that he had used his royal prerogative In her behalf and that whenever she wanted to she could become be-come a little Danish girl. |