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Show ilfPIHTPlOlfF BEST LOVED MAN IN AUSTRIA Undoubtedly the best-loved man In broad Austria is not cross old Kaiser Franz Josef, but his still older cousin and councillor, Archduke Rainer. Rain-er Rain-er is very, very old; and he Is known as "the Rainer." When clerks and I lawyers on their way to the Innenstadt pass his little place in Favoritin- strasse, and see pressed to the window win-dow a white face, white hair, a short white beard and long white mustache, they do not say, "That Is the Archduke." Arch-duke." They say, "Look at the Rainer," Rain-er," and they repeat some ancient ta ) from the Neue Freie Presse about tho Rainer's Immemorial antiquity. The Rainer is Indeed terribly old. He was born and grew up in the days when Austria owned Venetia, and there his papa, another Archduke Rainer, ruled; and this papa was born away back in 1783, almost In the rococo ro-coco age of Watteau shepherdesses, Rosenkavaliers and George Washington. Washing-ton. But as If to mock at his anti quity, the Rainer is the most modern man among the hundred and fifty Haps-burg Haps-burg archdukes. In all that relates to soldiering, politics, art and science no man outdistances the Rainer. He made Vienna an art and science city. For an unbroken half a century he directed the Imperial Academy of Science. Sci-ence. He created the Art Industry Museum. He collected a hundred thousand thous-and rare manuscripts and gave them to the nation. When Eitelberg wanted to copy London's South Kensington Museum and people laughed at him the Rainer went round, hat In hand, and cozened the money out of Austria's millionaire princes. The Rainer lives in a small and dusty room of his palace. All the other rooms are filled with books. He has never drunk or smoked or had any weaknesses except getting old and making faithful love for sixty years to his ancient, ancient wife. I EUROPE'S ROYAL HOUSEWIFE i l It would be hard to find a more capable capa-ble housekeeper than the empress of Germany. Her ideal is service: she has devoted de-voted her life to serving her country, her husband, and her children. She believes that this is woman's highest and only mission, and that women are happy as long as they keep to this ideal. The empress has never interfered inter-fered In affairs of state, and the dazzle daz-zle of court life has meant little to her. But she has always found joy caring for the comforts of the emper-or, emper-or, looking after her children, and managing her household. When the Kaiser calls for his wife he finds her engrossed in the many departments of her housekeeping lore in which she is so proficient. Though she does not go into the kitchen and order her groceries and meats as do her subjects, the chief steward comes to her study every morning and they plan the menus for luncheon and dinner together. She often suggests new dishes and makes changes in the menus as they are presented. For she keeps many cook books in her study and is always on the lookout for new recipes. The empress does not believe In foolish extravagance in dressing any more than in conducting her palace. Though her tailored suits and her dinner gowns are made outside, she keeps a dressmaker busy all the year round remodeling re-modeling her gowns and those for her daughter. MAKING PRESS ARRANGEMENTS i Kv I $ iv " J Letters are being received daily by Charles S. Albert, chairman of the standing committee of corespondents in charge of the Press Galleries of the Senate and House of Representatives at Washington, asking for reservations reserva-tions in the press sections at the Re-1 publican and Democratic National' conventions, the latter of which will be held in Baltimore June 25. The committee of which Mr. Albert is the chairman has1 been designated by the national committees of the two parties par-ties to. receive all requests and assist in the assignment of seats in the press sections of the two conventions. Mr. Albert has been in the Washington Wash-ington newspaper field for 21 years, now approximating the deanship of the corps in point of service. He was manager of the Press News Association, Associa-tion, night editor of the United Press and In charge of the New York World Bureau before, during and after the Spanish-American war, and has since remained with that paper's local staff. He has been with the World 16 years, and now constitutes one of the wheel horses in the famous Pulitzer organi-zatioiv organi-zatioiv A nativo of Indiana, having been born in Union county, Mr. Albert 5s 53 years old. His activities have not been diminished and he is regarded as an expert in matters pertaining to the United States senate. I LEADER IN INDIAN AFFAIRS ' The new maharajah, Ripu Singh, is the son of the deceased rajah, Sir Heira Singh Malvinda Bahadur, G. C. S. I., G. C. I. E., of Nabha, whose death was announced December 27, 1911. The state of Shabha is one of the three Phulkian states of the Punjab, Pun-jab, but as the Maharajah of Nabha is the direct descendant of Baba Phul, the great common ancestor of the Phulkian chiefs, therefore the rajahs of Nabha are regarded with special reverence by the two other chiefs of Patiala and Jhind, and have great influence in-fluence among the sikh community. Moreover, the original place of their forefathers, a village named Phul, after aft-er the name of their common ancestor, ances-tor, is in the territory of Nabha state. Nabha state is about 1.000 square miles in extent with a population of 300.000 and annual revenue of about twenty lakhs of rupees. This state is in alliance with the British throne, and under the treaty the Rajah of II 'l'" i& ' ui Nabha has the right to inflict capital punishment in his territory. His Highness the Maharajah Ripu Daman Singh Is only twenty-eight years of ago but has already distinguished himself in the council chamber, for he was a member of the Supreme Legislative Council for two years at Calcutta, during which time he introduced the Anand Marriage bill. In addition to this he !s a social refoimer; he hates idolatry and abhors the caste system. |
