Show STORIES OF THE MURDERED KING AND QUEEN tall and slender beautifully formed her hair jet hack and massed in soft coila eyes full of eliat tender interest that is the essence of battery nat tery such was the woman who once lady in wait ing to queen natalie became queen i herself only to dio at the hand of an as assin when the young king of offered her his hand and a throne pie were furious the wise soon recognized her power but the foolish among them borne proud ladica of the court affected to ignore her so far as they dared how the showed her character this an shows A lady who was presented 0 o her displayed a chilling reserve that almost bordered on insolence and dia not accept the opportunity of kissing her hand A day or two after queen draga heard eliat this same lady had boasted about her rudeness to iho queen who according to her version had not dared to retaliate queen draga tent a message inviting her to the palace such an invitation could hardly be disregarded and the lady appeared she was received by the queen alio in tho presence of a number of people held out her hand and HER TO KISS IT the lady obeyed with an ill grace and then tho queen merely pointed to the door and said and now you may go the story may or may not be true but it is typical of many that arc told of tho queen who is now dead many romantic glories have been told of her engagement with king alexander in belgrade society it waa eaid that in order to prevent the marriage a scheme was afoot to kidnap her ev grything ery thing was carefully arranged before band she was to visit the alfa of one of the persons concerned in the plot and was then to be seized and carried across the frontier by some servian patriots there is little doubt that the scheme would have succeeded had not the king at the last moment received a hint that AROUSED HIS suspicions ho placed a double guard in front of her house and forbade her to accept the invitation it was on this occasion that hia majesty waa reported to leave said had she been carried off I 1 should have gone too had she been killed I 1 should have followed her she was a widow when this happened ho was seventeen her name was ame mme maschin which as the world has often been told lacks prestige in the language of the boulevard it means simply what dye call him but if fmc shaochin SIa ochin could boast no proud descent feli had that quality that has swayed does eway and will sway the world BO long as there are men and women chaam fascination brilliance wit sympathy call it what you will she had the omnipotent quality that makes for guc after their marriage the king received a deputation of merchants who canie with congratulations in a little bleech ho eaid that when ammo faichin lai chin was lady in waiting to his mother he waited in a tireless room in winter trembling with cold for hours in the hoji c 0 catching a eight of his idol recently a journalist who had the honor of an audience with her wroten A very charming and attractive woman is the queen of servia dressed in a pretty tea gown looking paris made every inch of it nil dull and brocaded with a design of large pink flowers f great pleading brown eyes and an undeniable expression of on a very pleasing face queen draga looked to me as little like the political int as anyone I 1 have ever been she talked simply and easily saying among other things when the kin married me I 1 expected opposition sly success my entire happiness was bound to make mo enemies I 1 know the world I 1 knew that there would be thorns about that crown I 1 was prepared but what I 1 do not comprehend Is the endless con of this campaign of lies that this persecution should bo kept up so long it i too bad her majesty speaking of these attacks showed unmistakable signs of breaking down she was very nervous and appeared to look dpn the interview as a bovero ordeal when at last the journalist left the snug boudoir hung and upholstered with material from the liand looms of bulgaria those simple yet artistic material all red and white half embroidery half tapestry the queen rose from her settee and exclaimed almost pathetically say some thing nice of us it was to the same interviewer that king alexander sid should my throne lie menaced 1 will defend it atford in band at the head of my faithful army acting in a manner befitting the grandson of tha creator of new servia and as hla majesty rose to conclude the interview ho added there are threat things that a man should never abandon his wife power or a good horse two months ago an article appeared in the pall mall magazine by mr herbert vivian in which the writer gave his own personal impressions of tho who now lies dead king alexander has como into collision with the spirit of the age he wrote permits sovereigns to reign but will on no account allow them to govern all this appears very unpleasant for the moment but may easily bo regarded as the birth pang of a great career Ti enever I 1 hear anyone express doubts about that career I 1 dispel them at once by recalling his coming of age ho was only sixteen and it was appropriately enough the first of april tho regents who governed the country in his name were invited to dinner of a sudden jie rose as though to propose a toast drew a revolver from his pocket and HIMSELF OF AGE then locking up the foxy old statesmen all night in the dining room he made a tour of the garrison revived an old autocratic constitution and issued a delightful little manifesto announcing eliat he would now bo able to devote himself to hia interrupted studies mr vivian bays that the servian court affects great simplicity and does not stand at all upon punctilio in the matter of raiment the did however attempt to introduce a kind of court dress to bo worn by ladies on state occasions ca it was modeled on the modi acdal costume of servia and was certainly very effective but only the queen and mile petron had adopted it chiefly perhaps because of the expense while persia the blessing of having no poor within ier borders she has also very few rich people and economy has become a universal habit instilled during many generations perhaps one of the main reasons for the unpopularity of the kings marriage broto sir vivian was the thought that whereas i A FOREIGN PRINCESS would leave introduce il much ruinous cost pomp and unwelcome circumstance a daughter 0 their own raco would take their own point of view the servian court indeed seems to have attained the happy mean between oriental display and niggardly austerity it is a sort f halfway half way hoso bet een delhi and Cettin je the konak or old which has survived from turkish times has he writes apparently when viewed from the street two floors overlooking a bright garden but the lower floor con fists merely of servants offices a fencing saloon and a billiard room the new palace towering hard by was corn plated bome years ago by king milan it ia for show rather than comfort and has never been inhabited cave by royal guesta the state ballroom n very magnificent especially when the chandeliers of venetian glass glow with electric light the king was for many years a vigor ous worker and a lover of many sports he was a good fencer and swimmer and atone time very nearly life while rescuing a companion at biarritz Biar ritz t |