Show ONLY MET MOTHER FORMALLY empress of austria was received by her children in the most approved manner unless she agne ic 21 hours notice the beautiful Iru impress pres elizabeth of au austria consort of the late Inper or francis joseph was forbidden by the iron etiquette 0 of the lie court to see her own babies they were strangers to tier her rally cally from the lay day of 0 their birth and in his book rural romances Ito mances and tragedies charice Ch irtes tells how one an elderly physician endur d to suggest to the emperor that if kleza helli beth saw soi something of her children cli ildren she might inight awaken out of the melancholy trance into which the he had fallen lor for l or a time Frati francis Is joseph angrily declined to vary the rigid rule which required her to give ghe notice of hei intention to the chamberlain kven when lien the lilt took place it 1 as I not a case of happy little children welcoming their mother adith cries of delight firt first the royal governesses hild had the children ity in stiff ceremonial clothes clot lich and then drilled in n the xa wa they were to receive their mother on tile the appearance of the emperor therefore the tiny tots who iho under the austrian system of education had no dunce to be human simply boned blied as though they were elderly courtiers court leps the only sign of childhood being their ter stares at the lie august lady cleveland plain dealer |