Show AMPS WHO MADE nis HISTORY JL V RY J t by JAMES C YOUNG c by mcclure Now paper THE QUEEN WHO BECAME A KING I 1 THINK of little sweden today W wea as one of the vest est pocket nal alons lint but the close of the sixteenth anti tie the beginning of the seventeenth centuries saw sweden one of the first powers of europe several kings especially ally gustavus Gusta vua adolphus had overrun tile the baltic mainland tind penetrated far into poland then gustevus died lit in 1632 and ills his six year earold ear old daughter christina become she was mas a strange child site she rode hunted swore sore and fought better trian any girl and most boys in ili sweden at eighteen she took over oer control of if tile lie kingdom and biake on off a match which had been arranged for tier her slie she announced that she would never wed arid that instead of queen she must be called king to her other accomplishments chrls chris titia now added those thoe of a heavy drinker and a ruler of light affections her choice fell on several diplomats of tier her court but was just as likely to linger upon a handsome trooper or a stropping strapping coach coachman mun she liked big men the rougher the better and could carry on oil a drinking bout with aay any army sergeant christina usually wore a mans mana clothes with a scrap sacral or oc ribbon and al 1 comb in tier her hair she was a handsome woman despite tier her way of dress and never wanted for admirers but site she tried filed to dissemble tier lier feminine side although abe was every whit a woman jealous high tempered sempere d and sometimes ready to cry of af rage she slept alve hours a day stayed in thu saddle ten hours at a time and delighted in drilling tier her troops she hall had i capacity was well rend read with the politics of europe nt at tier her fin ger tips christina christian excelled in athletics won tile the reputation of a 0 crack shot and could handle a swon blui the best of her officers although it would have taken a brave man inan to become christinas consort she received many offers of mar arlage which might have linked tier her throne with that hat of the first in europe but she declined nil all offers and persisted lit in her resolution to remain single at first tier her rule had been wise even brilliant but by degrees she became involved in difficulties and the power of sweden began to wane christina found herself unable to stem the title tide slie she was a king in name only lacking lackin the mental balance or the true perseverance to overcome obstacles ner her nature inclined to the impetuous and not the devious ways of statecraft stricken by remorse and the biffl of her country christina quit t alie ie t throne irone and although she was no longer king her mode of life continued to be a series of truly royal rev els THE WOMAN WHO PLAYED FOR A CROWN TIIE N beginning of the seventeenth A century found henry IV on the throne of france perhaps its ablest king since charlemagne lie ile was devoted to gabrielle dE destreet baby gabrielle and planned to marry tier hor but tier her death intervened henry was disconsolate for three months lie he locked himself in a black draped chamber and took counsel with his grief but this could not last and it he e was persuaded to return to darls almost the first aerson henry met w s t henriette Henr lette tte dentraygues baby C G lelle had been ft a plump little with peaches and cream complexion and soulful blue eyes eves heart etto was tall at and ld dark black li haired alred black eyed a siren if one ever lived henry was vanquished but etto ette was a thorough vamp site she talked about marriage mar rInge henry demurred deniu then her ter family carried tier off front from the wicked king whom she bhe had en cil snared lared si henrys passion led him to sign at contract with tile the family agreeing to wed Henr hinriette lette it if site she gave gitil it male heir lit in a certain time then everybody was happy for a while ati all but the due de sully the kings ter one day lie announced to henry we have been marrying you ou sire olarle do de medici Is to be your our queen henry vehemently protested but sully talked of be advantages in u marriage linking him to the great of florence anti and henry relent d ile he tried hi by every possible pos able mcane to get buck back the marriage contract the DE family would not surrender then it a child was born to I 1 henriette len riette bend the contract was vold void the king married marlo ona an it contest immediately ely began between t tb wl two women henriette rightly or wrongly was Rs implicated in ill it a plot against tile the throne nad ordered to prison the king may take my life it lie he pleas pleases es and everybody will say ly flint he killed ills wife for I 1 was queen before tile tuscan woman was the hold bold declaration of the prisoner pil henry had tier her released anil and their intimacy continued until Henr lettes imperious temper made fiaui seek relict in ili other quarters tills this lie he found in tile sort soft graces of charlotte tie de was banished banis lied from court and in tier her country retreat she turned to alra ii practices the boninti who had bet bel a perfect type of the vaIn pire ank herself into gluttony and drink she became fat displeasing vulgar but tier her heart still harked back to the days when she was almost a queen then henry wits was assa assassinated striated by rn gaillac vaillac anti anil suspicion turned to henri ette kut but nothing could be found to involve tier her apparently the former beauty cured cared for nought but feasts anil and drink I 1 THE VAMPIRE WITH AN ANGELS ANGELIS FACE W WHEN HEN catherine of russia was a servant in an in east prussian inn early lit in the eighteenth century it a girl named olarle appeared and asked for tier lier help slie site was a blondo blonda swede named marle and told a pathetic story of running away with a young man who lind had deserted tier her aheu their child was born she had no money CY was weak and haggard would catherine take tier lit in catherine sat the girl down to tho the best dinner slie site could find and watched tier her pat eat you have the face of an angel she said and persuaded her master to lot let the girl stay then the th russians captured the town and marl catherine fell into the hands ot 0 officers officer 8 marle did not fare so well veil as catherine hut but she exchanged nix an officer for a prince it may be said here that marles Al arles child had nut not died for sho she murdered it the fattier father who had become an officer lit in the azars czars service met her when sho was living with will the prince and warned tier her to spare it second child of which the lie prince was the fattier father but marle fell into a lake with the child anti and when rescued it wits was dead A few years later starle appeared in Petro petrograd grad catherine had ill become tile the czar czarina lna and marle had powerful protectors the two women met and knew each other but it Is said that they never mentioned the days at tho the inn instead olarle set herself to win the attention of peter the great falling lit in this she waited for him when lie ho was walking in a garden and threw herself into ills hla arms catherine and marle marlc the former friends now crossed swords for peters affection both wore were beauties and writers of that time bear testimony to marles angelic face but unfortunately for tier her that same who had find warned her appeared lit in petrograd Petro grad and about this time marle became the mother of a third child said to have been that of peter she killed this child and threw it into tin an old well A servant told the news of tier her deed to the who in turn passed it on to the czar peter ordered a great revel held and plied piled marle with wine until her wits were not tier her own then lie he took her in ills his arms before the whole company and by the mastery of ills his will made tier lier confess tier critt crimes les peter was a devil incarnate to whom tile the bourd murdle of a child would have meant little nt it had not been his fits own ile he flung marle from him and ordered tier her execution when the headsman had severed the vampires blended neck peter picked p icken up the liend head and kissed the dead lips THE QUEEN OF GEWGAWS GEWGAW GEW GAWS 8 HEN napoleon returned from italy W WHEN after the campaign of 1707 1797 which made jilin him famous a group ot of the prettiest women in ili burls purls gathered around the new conqueror none of them were more lip bewitching witching than his ht own sister paulette Paulc tte when many women were striving to reach high station paulette had just one mission fine clothes and a agn guy time she turned so many heads that the account lias has been lost then napoleon forced general leclere to marry her the little Paulc paulette tte continued to be tier her mime hame bad self leclere failed in a campaign against Ilor portugal napoleon saw hla his chance and packed both of them oft off to santo domingo although paulette rolled at ills his feet ft et and tore tier her hair leclerc illch tell in santo domingo anti and back came paulette Paulet tc to parts napoleon provided tier her with n husband by force it second time lie was prince Cli Bor borghese gliese of rome iloine but slie she and the prince did not got get on well in rome paulette met tile the great sculptor canova and posed for his fits reclining statue of venus napoleon had himself proclaimed med emperor tind paulette hastened back to to take tier her place near him film the prenco lint had become insufferable to her napoleon kindly sent him off on to n distant army command anil and paulette Paulc tte threw herself into a succession of lovo love affairs tiff airs Geri generals ernig actors even a valet were numbered amona tier her intimates tills this conduct caused so much talk that she and napoleon constantly were at outs outa on oil one occasion lie dressed tier lier down with a ca anne n e she was said to have originated tile idea of milk baths ani tier her bathroom became familiarly known ni its Pail lettes dalry dairy lint but the tragedy of isi I exit cut short tier her gay ways and slip napoleon Na polton to elba paulette auld one stanch love in her life fire for napoleon when lie fie tied led from I 1 elba itan in 1815 she insisted ili eliat it lifa take tier jewel and even sold herl herb dresses to help belp raise funds tile the jewels p were it in napoleons carriage at waterloo then lie he went to helena paulette letto lived until IRM lying dying nt at furty four tile lie pud end came she called fur for 1 j I mirror looked nt at herself and said 1 I am ready to file die I 1 am all still fill beaucl ful a |