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porn July II. 1858, and is the daugh-
ter OF Arcllduke Charles Ferdinand.
queen Christina married November
~. 1879, the late King Alphonso XII.
OF Spain, and became a widow No
vember %, 1885. Her son is the baby
King of Spain.
Queen Wilhelmina will become Sow
erelgn OF Holland when declared of
age. She will be twelve ear old
next August and is regarded as the
greatest matrimonial prize in Europe.
Queen Olga, the dowager Queen of
Wurtemberg, was born September II,
1872. She is a daughter of the late
Car Nicholas |. and the widow of
King Charles of Wurtemberg.
Queen Marie of Bavaria, whose two
sons have suffered so terrible a fate in
llfe, is the daughter of the late Prince
William of Prussia, son of King Will
am IL. Her Majesty was born Octo-
10. 1895, and married to King Maxi
milan IL, who died in 1864.
y The Dowaser Queen of Portugal,
Marie Pie, widow of the late King
Luis, born October 16, 1S47, is the only
daughter of the late King Victor
Emanuel OF Italy, and consequently
sister oil King Humbert. Her Majesty
was, in her heyday of life, considered
1.-THE best dressed woman in Europe"
She has no daughters but two sons,
viz, the present King and his brother,
the Duke of Oporto,
grandmother of the infant King of
Spain, ex-Queen Isabella, was born
October 10, 1920, and succeeded, when
only two year of age, her father, Fer
dlnand VII. When only ten years old
she was declared of age, but had to
quit Spain, through the Revolution of
1868. She married October 10, 1916,
her first cousin, by whom she had is
sue the late King Alphonso, husband
oil the Queen Regent of Spain.
Ex-Queen Natalie of Servia has been
a crowned and regnant Queen and is
the mother of the reignlng King of
Servia. Queen Natalie, who was born
May 2, 1859, is the daughter of the
Russian Colonel de Kechko and the
Roumanian Princess de Steurdza. The
ex-Queen was married October II,
1875, and divorced fourteen "a ago.
Queen Marie of Hanover, whose life
has been too plentifully strewn with
thorns, was born April IA. 1918, and is
the relict of the blind King George
of Hanover. Her Majesty is a Prin-
cess of the house of Saxe-Altenburg,
and became a widow June IL, 1875
NeaOd2k EOenang NeWs.
Grover Cleveland on woman's Sphere.
The reply of ex-President Cleveland
to the letter sent Mrs. Cleveland by
the founders of the First Frances
Cleveland Influence Club" will com
mend itself to all right thinking PEG
pie. In the first place, MIR. Cleveland,
very naturally, does not want to hide
behind his wife's skirts after the man
ner of Henry NJ. Stanley. In the Sec
ond place, this is not a personal cam
paign in any sense.
The issue is not between Mr.. Cleve-
land and Mr.. Harrison, but between
two well-defined principles. 1t is a
question between the American sys-
tenn Of protection and that of free
trade. With this question Mrs. Cleve-
land has absolutely nothing to do.
She could not be expected to have
any influence in shaping legislation,
and ought to have none in determin-
ing the course of her husband in case
he is elected.
But Mr.. Cleveland has pointed out
the really insurmountable objection
to clubs of this kind, which is that
they seek to destroy the home circle
influence of the wife and mother.
Mr.. Cleveland has taken a manly
course in this matter, even at the risk
Of being considered rude. He has
given the arguments against woman's
suffrage or any approach to it sue
cinctly and conclusively. The proper
place for woman's influence is the
home. The home is a higher sphere
than the forum or the rostrum. No
possible good could come from open
ing the doors of politics to
The theory that the refining Sinful
ences of woman would elevate the
tone of politics is a delusion. The
family is the unit-not the individual.
II this world were run for one year
on the basis that every individual
is entirely Independent of the rest,
except on the general principles
that govern society at large, chaos
would result. All human experience
has demonstrated the wisdom of the
Divine law that makes the family a
unit and makes the husband and
father the sole political representa-.
tive thereof. When the husband or
father fails to do his duty, it is his
own fault, not that of the system.
We congratulate Mr.. Cleveland for
his manly course in insisting that
woman shall continue to occupy her
more exalted sphere of mistress of the
household, and shall not be compelled
to descend to the level of politics,
where she could do no good and her
influence in her own sphere would be
lesseued. 1t Would have been a great
unkindness to Mrs. Cleveland and her
sex if the Influence club movement
had been allowed to go on.-PhSlG-
delph6a Inquirer.
Rowing for Girls.
If l knew a girl who was dull,
heavy-footed and heavier-thoughted,
with a blotched and mlddy-colored
skin, who sometimes thought she
wanted to be as we'll as another girl,
but did not do anything to reach it,
nor knew how, / should put her in a
row-boat in a shallow pond, place the
bars in her hands and tell her to take
care of herself, writes Ellen LIE Garde
in a practical article on this healthful
exercise in the July Ladies' Home
Journal. Unkind? ! think not. /
should have a long rope, you know,
attached to the boat, one end in
my hand. The position might
frighten her a little at first, but
the natural instinct to help herself
would come to her aid. And then,