| Show f r r rf 1 f AV AVI I r J I j S Ii J 1 I A rS I try i 1 i y r 1 r r 7 1 l 1 I lo f 1 r r k 7 r r 4 F 1 3 a j n n r r 1 1 i V YA rr A r 1 11 i 1 5 Y I 1 ti fn A 1 rr I 1 t al ali ali i i 0 0 0 y M V I 4 I The Equip t kM I l r S O d LONG as the disposition d of prop property S erty e CI including thrones CS shall con call continue time to 10 go by inheritance the world is likely to 0 remember the importance that attached to the recent birth of o f little lu liana lIIa Louise Emma Marie arie princess of Orange heiress to the crown crowll of o f IIi Holland The IThe poorest Dutch baby of Amster Amsterdam Jam dam Rotterdam or any lilY other town In ill Hol liol Holland land Iland might have been ball as muck much loved but no baby born boric among the races of mankind for or many mall generations can call have been beell so dearly prized lit her small quail but valued person persall she Embodied d all that could possibly be important tant and treasure treasured and momentous wile when a J baby conies comes to 10 a royal roal household and Awhile 1 there a d single baby bab anywhere font Rotterdam to Michigan gan who cares r born into a aT republican or orr a aID aIm ID T WOULD a be hard liard to imagine a Im moro loyal to their ruling than tho Hollanders for tho very cogent t reason that thero any ony other people that hus has weighty ground for loyalty If tho house of should perish f from rom tho iaco of the tho earth tho kingdom of Holland would stand moro more than a fair chance of perish perishing perishing perishing ing too because tho German em empire emiro pire piro iro most roost urgently p needs I Hollands s ports and situation in its business both of commerce and of war warThe Tho The Hollanders over ever since Queen Wilhel Williel Wilhelmina minD mina represented tho last genuine genuino security for their immunity from the onerous military sen service service ice and other hardships of German suzerainty have looked to her as their one hope of con continued cont continued t independence and md after her to BUY ails D th EfI F Has G I ad ill I 10 Lt N C r 2 3 4 4 k T TS Ta at r a a S L 1 Jr dS r t 1 ft y yAw Aw L y Z 4 t F v j t r v vC C A yA f Sr 1 ri j rt M t a aV V r r o of oI f O 43 I I r Q ary rJ child sho eho might mih Lear bear ear So a whole havo 1110 for years beheld their heir liberties hanging upon their queens queena cx ex expectation of offspring and during those years lava hao seen tho again and again frustrated until by what tho the pious among them believed to bo be a direct dispensation of Providence tho the was vas realized just about a month ago to toay day ay v Was as it any wonder then that those peo people plo took to little Juliana Louise louiso Wilhel Wilhelmina Wilhelmina mina mina with ith tho the fondness loudness that even een tho foster parents arents of ordinary babies fail to bestow and was it any wonder that Juliana when she sho did appear found prepared for hor such a n nursery outfit ns us had never neer before be oro leen made mado in lovo and md longing At The hc Hague Hahne lIa tho tiro J ol cradle was fitted out with ith embroideries worked by the wondrously expert who mado ma o iho tho coronation and bridal robes roLes of the tho royal mother At it Zeeland tho the whole city cily gave ac itself up to tho the making of a perambulator the hood of which carried tho the famous Sluis lace with wilh the specimens specimens mens used such as had never been surpassed But BUl ut Iceland was far from being content with its iti beautiful perambulator and aid the various vari yari various ous towns in tho the province vied with one ono another in securing individual gifts moro more or less appropriate and useful Tho The discovery discovers by b one Olle Zee A r S ments that Greet Heirs to royal cradle since it has lias to grow up to too know krow what it misses there is 11 t a n single I baby s mother r who for her infant sonic some of the more than exquisite com comforts forts and mId more than tran imposing grandeurs that attack attach to a cradle Maternal Al envy was illS aroused and stint slim stimulated for or mouths months before the Juliana J Louise a appeared appear d to la take lake possession of her dainty Dutch layette but if mothers the world over had been as aswell aswell aswell well posted as Queen a about tlc the splendors supplied other royal rOjal babies they might 11 have known 0 that even evert queens queens whose babies arc are so very vcr inn important I as hers arc not immune from front the biting j 1 tooth of envy land community that Hiat special ial scales to woi weigh h t the baby were still lacking filled inhabitants w with jOY md straightway they provided scales of solid silver slIver I 11 Rotterdam claimed the tho right of furnishing furnish ng baby with a silver table set Amsterdam a com eom complete completo pleto toilet set Groningen a gold rattle set with diamonds diamonds and attached to a golden chain Roermond a Ii silver bottle lest baby ever got get cold feet tho the carpenters of Zaandam the most luxurious swing swine they could devise deise tho the artists of all an Holland a linen chest ornamented with their most skilful paintings the women of Breda a wonder gift full of delightful sur surprises surprises tho the town of Leeuwarden a diary all bound in silver which should bear the daily journal of tho treasured days fond Quaint beautiful comforts luxuries and trin ketz which infancy could possibly need ed and motherhood delight in in While all these luxurious appointments were cre being prepared and that at nt first with no very vcr great confidence of their ultimate avail availability ability some genius of the postcard de dc designed designed signed signe a charming likeness of Queen mina standing beneath a portrait of tho the prince prineo consort and bending over ocr a n roost most gorgeous cradle It was called a A Royal Dream So o faithful was was it to the conditions and so aptly did it depict de tho tiro state stalo of mind of the whole nation that the tho postcard of the Royal Loyal I Dream leaped into an instant overwhelming popularity All Holland took tool to sending it through the mails lIs ns as though tho the popular long longing lon lonin longing ing in had at lost last found an emblem on which it could agree and und nil all Holland gazed with wi th pro profound profound found admiration upon the artists fanciful curves cunes and aud delicate traceries convinced that only in such a n wondrous cradle could bo found a resting place worthy of the heir to its throne Tho The one baby bub who rivaled tho the princess of Orange in desirability during this generation at at least was Alexis the tho young whoso whose coming rejoiced the imperial family of Russia about five years car ago agoTo agoTo To 10 the tiny went the tiara of the tho thorand grand rand dukes dulies used in crowning the heir to tho the Russian throne a n crowning cap with an on nor rs 4 r j f I r ri r o 1 i I m mIr I Ir 3 r rr rr r r J f ft s 4 t q I 1 v v r lily A I I I Ir r l rr I r r r N I 5 d C I Jor Eke Tc ya 1 f i L 1 rp 1 t f l r i r c i c k k aJ 1 a Cradle or ruby the ransom of a n kingdom sot about I with pearls in cloth of gold bold Also to him lain went vent tho tiro tiara of tho the absorbed i Kingdom of the ihn tiara t of Astrachan the tho th tiara t JJ ra of Siberia the tiara of the lower auto autocrats autor r crowns upon crowns in which tho the most moat magnificent lt jewels that ever eor adorned baric state glow and and glitter and gleam in daz daze ding mockery of the child whose hoso life lifo lies eve evel upon the whim of destiny Right Bight H ht royally floes does the realize his hb position as the tho future head of tho the worlds great greatest est gt empire and und from tho the nursery in distant Russia there orno omo ninny many tales of his h i 1 pl oud and imperious boyish WV But lut t over oter all ill the 1 ho anecdotes anecdotes dotes of Alexis and u his hi k little grand duchess sis sif sisters i tors there lingers the sense seats C of apprehension that tha I his parents must ever fed feh even n while heis he is surrounded sur surrounded surrounded rounded by tho the most splendid and strange o of robes and laces and ond jewels and soldiers sworn sworn to defend him hini with their lives v PLENTY OF Or BRITISH PRINCES I Great Britain fortunate fo Great Britain 13 is the he very cry opposite of Russia when it comes to its royalties royn hies and tho the royal baby of the th royal duke duk of York he is prince of Wales now norv sinco since King Edwards accession can bo be photographed in iu his embroideries and filmy laces bs with the certainty that a people who take tako their thew pride in their the r rulers will buy QUY that photo and preserve it and show how 1 it to visitors with 10 thought other than thui that here is another and the country cant have 0 too too many of them England indeed has had so many of them themI that there is no such fusS made m over a new royal r I baby bely beb as a has been stirred up in Russia Russin Holland I or Spain There indeed have hae come the royal arrivals arrival who arc to be Le regarded simply as is as incidents in inthe tho the natural course courso of And An so 80 in i Spain perhaps J more mora thou than in l or in nus the real significance of a u royal baby find fwd its just appraisement tL r r t rS r r I t p r A S 1 Ja k 1 i tC y yf f Y ht V VL g L kt fold 1115 lib Jk Td A young couple a kingdom well enough h satisfied with them every promise of tho the or ordinary ordinary developments of royal family life thoro 5 was really nothing to greatly re ly hope or greatly dread in the coming of the heirs But the prince of the tho Asturias when Queen Victoria did bring him into tho the world hd pomo orno very fino fine nursery nur crr arrangements s wait waiting ron ing for him tho the swinging winging bassinet in which his hip h father King Alfonso lay luy ns IlS an on infant with 1 the tho real raal old oM Brussels laro laCQ adorning it half a aI I dozen other oilier historic cradles which ho possibly use ll C a t layette that thal was mado made by scores of the tho most skilful of the 1 lug and even when his JJ s royal mamma and King Al AI Alfonso Alfonso fonso fon lo took tool him to E England a 1 special nursery on the British battleship Renown where tho the cabin of ono one of the was converted to I his distinctly domestic and aud peaceable uses r Queen Qu Victoria of Spain the tho crown cron prin prine princess 1 cess c s of Germany and tho the queen of Holland these th se royal mothers may mar ho bo accounted tho ho most happy happ of all nil in the world of monarchy Unlike patient Wilhelmina of Holland for I whom such vast rejoicings were wele made mado a month ago the other two have every cel p promise t c of broods roo 9 healthy and numerous enough h to leave ICIle them carefree ree of deep anxieties of state st to They are arc blessed bl cd in their happiness of the lie nur nursery nursery sery ser to which no gold or jewels jow ls no silks or laces can add one quicker beat of joy in iu tho the pulsing of a u mothers heart I L J i I IJ J 7 L Jr r 0 Ui i Iti Ih fi 0 tO 0 C L C r it I |
