Show rug LITTLE DUCIIKSS WHO MAY YET HULK OVKH ALL THE HUSBIAB i omfi oi > 1oJ lie ai lti > r llranUflil C rHr 51 id Onrlmi tnirrlm 1 loot b Prl Hlly Inlrrril In Ilir ocr oc-r H1 ° UK mother of the I 1 p4 little grand duchess of ItiiMlK baa Riven Ai4 I I r her the nmti of 1 I Ola If the HoI I Ho-I J manoff ttynnsty I < I JL continue lo reign h1r Olgu will ana tij Jf N 1 become empress of all the Russian That country Is I not the largest cm Mre In Die world < mini b > one government govern-ment Americans wlU luke treat Interest In-terest In the progress of the nation Hint emerged from a tale of ncmlliarbar Im it the same time hat Ilili nation wn born Tho first net donn by civilized civil-ized Itiimla WOe to material assist tho lBll il gluten In iiibdulng Kngland In the war of the resolution In nil our Mars Itussla hoe been our friend Ami In turn tilts country lion been Itussla friend XVhen her treasury wai empty We suer her gold we have given her saliir and railroad builder Now Itusila II aliont to adopt our common school system So itt IA I quite natural that American feel n frIendly Interest cu Alls a tUfflettlty arose She refused re-fused to say that her former religion wa accursed that her conversion to the Haitian faith wu due to her conviction con-viction that her own religion wu not founded spots truth aa the law of the Russian church required Never before bait the holy synod of ttuHla hud to rue inch a refusal Argument Ar-gument was In ruin I merely Join Ibo Greek church that I may be of one filth with my future husband Ibo Mid firmly And the holy synod of Haul had to make thin highly Important Im-portant and unprecedented conceuloa to the young Herman girl who not even I I or the crown of an empire would con Sir rl her I demo the religion of her forefather At her bnpllim In Ituuln site received the names Alcximlru Teojorovni and the ctar afterward conferred upon her the rank of grand duchess of the empire em-pire The flrinneM of character which Ito ctarlna posuruca hue never overshadowed overshad-owed the more graceful qualities of her I deposition 8hn In I not stiff but lively graceful and elegante In the 1arli Ian settee of the word the II l lentltlvo Impulsive sympathetic nnd witty Site ie I beautiful of Ibo refined fairhatred blur cetI typo of beauty whit finely chlfeled feature n clear complexion and large bright laughing eyes Her accomplishments nre more than ordinary ordina-ry She li I an admirable linguist expert ex-pert at needlenork cry musical a I good player on the pianoforte nnd an excellent nrtlit She II n iklllful rider and after tho faihlon of young nngtlsh wonton was devoted to outdoor eportt fp 5y y I j i r I i 1 1I I I I I I j I I I T11H CZARINA 0V UUSSIV = In the proareivlvo stride being made I b > Hisiln J The ciarlna la I one ot Queen Victorias I many grandchildren Site li tho I jounpctt ehlld ot the late Oran Duke antI Diichea of IIeeDirmstadt Her I riot her IrlnccM Alice perhaps tho most popular member of the Kngtlih royal family died when the little Mix was only six jeira of ocr and from that limo tho child woo cared for almost al-most txcluvlvcly by her gnndmothcr Queen Victoria vvhoio special favorite abc taa always beon Shu was urI JJU ur-I rounded by nurse utioudants and gay 5 rrnesse elected at Windsor and Hal moral with the result that tho future I I I NICHOLAS 01 RUSSIA I czarina grew up more nngllsh In tenth ment and training than many of her Kngllah I cousins Irlnceis Allx was called by tills curious modification of her mothers namo because Queen Victoria t JIt r bn1 toria I found that the name of Alice nag i I no badly pronounced by the Germans 1 The llttlt princes received In addition 1 tho names of her aunts Helena Victoria Vic-toria Louise and Beatrice In her I childhood ahe was caled Sunny from the brightness of her temperament but rttl after Ihe Ion of her mother and father i the grand duke died In 1802 IIbo became i be-came more nrlous Trom childhood she was remarkable for a distinct character char-acter and Individuality ot her own and this was shown last year In connection with her entry Into the Hastern Orthodox Or-thodox church 1or the last seven cenlurle nearly all the czars have gone 1 abroad for Ihelr bride who In every Instance have been baptized Into tbo Russian faith In tho case of 1rln delighting In Icnnli boating and skating skat-ing In Darmstadt the llenlan residence resi-dence her popularity was unbounded Krainoo Mo the red Lnmlct where the czarina now lies li I n Ullage some fifty miles from St Petersburg on the border of Finland It li t full of Illtlo toy cottngea which recall memories mem-ories of Trouvlllo and Dieppe There la I a military camp there and In tho lIago li cltuatoil OlIn Imperial School ot lagos where tho scions ot Illusion nobility aro educated and from which they pall ns officer Into tho guard regl meats Tho ImperIal palace was built by Catherine If It stands In the midst of a macnlflrcnt park and In its general gen-eral appearance li I suggestIve of Versailles Ver-sailles Ills I ono of tho most magnificent magnifi-cent palaces In tho world nnd li I full ot molt coitly art treasures inVID HALrOllD |