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Show j MILENA, MILKMAID QUEEN i : "' X V- - '--4 1- i ( "f':' 1 The fall of Cetlnje will grieve no one more than Milena, tho beautiful queen of Montenegro, who canio straight from being a milkmaid to rule her brave people. It is In this small but btovt?d capital that she has lived since marriage, mar-riage, nursing her children and at tho same timo showering her mother lovo upon all her subjects, with whom sho lives in closest touch. A little more than fifty years ago she was little Milena Constanlinovitch, peacefully and contentedly working upon her father's farm amidst the bills and valleys of the lllack mountains. Her chief care then was looking after the cows, and early morning saw her emerge from the limine, pail in hand, on the way to milk the cows. In those simple days sho never dreamed that she would bo called upon to wear a crown. In the strict sense of the word her marriage was not a "love affair." That Is, there was no falling In love at first sight, or anything so romantic. Hut In accordance with tho custom of licr country she was called from her farm work to bo tho bride, of young Nic holas I'elrovitc h. the heir to the throne, because sho was the loveliest child in the land. Slio was only thirteen when her nomination as tho futuro bride took place, and a year later she was welcomed to Cetinjo, and there wedded to the eighteen-year-old boy who had been selected by his uncle, tho then I'rince Ixinllo, to succeed him on the tlirono of Montenegro. Their simple lives and the strong lovo that has grown between king and queen, are examples which the Montenegrins boast ot with Just prldo. |