The citizen., 1896-10-02

throat and lungs are II 81 absolutely
healthy condition: that the physicians
who have been humorirg her firm coll-
vic+ions that she was dying of tubercC-
losis and treating her for that ailnaenI
have been culpa bic Of preferring to
court the favor Of their royal patient
rather than 70 give an honest diagnosis,
and that there was 10 reason whatever
for her passing her winters in hot ell
mate. such as that of Cairo. Biskrz N
Algiers. and in Sicily. as she has hither-
10 been in the habit Of doing.
All this must be exceedingly morti1y-
ing 70 the relatives of the princess. all
the more when they recall 70 mind the
fuss made abou1 her. especially when
travelling. The Young lady has insisted
on being conveyed 10 and from her rail
way carriage il q litter. apparently IN
an almos: unconscious condition II re-
mains 10 be seen what the worthy
Swedes viii say 70 this. They have
hitherto been content TO disperSe with
the princess presence al Stockholm on
the understanding that the condition u
her lungs did not admit Of her living
there Married II 1881. she has scarcely
spent more than eight months IN
Sweden in IS many years. and inasmuch
as the queen like herself. imagines her
self 10 be dying. the Swedish court has
remained 10 all intents and purposes
without any lady at its head. the only
other one Of King Oscars sons who :
married being his second. who contract
ed norgana7ic alliance. The worst
feature OF the whole affair is that the
crown princess has been content TO live
almost permanently apart from her
three little boys. the eldest y and the
youngest six years old who stays per
manently with their father. the crown
prince. in Sweden. among the people
over whom the eldest Of them Is eventu-
ally 10 reign
The funny point in all this IS that the
Swedes have undergone almost identic-
ally the same experience with their
queen. who has been q confirmed hypO-
chondriac for years. and has imagined
herself into & state Of debility from
which she will probably never recover.
For wears she consulted the leading spa
cialis1s OF Europe, but only two, Dr..
MetzCar. OF Amsterdam and Wiesbaden.
and Dr.. Friederichs. Of Heidelberg. Ia !
the courage 10 tell her thai her malady
was Of a purely imaginary character,
and that Il she was suffering from any
thing il was merely from the medicines
given her By her complaisant physicians,
Ko had found il worth their while 10
h1mor her belief that she was a con-
sump1ive.
There are. Of course, many hypochon-
driacs Of this kind-people who are
convinced that they are suffering from
every malady under the sun-and one
Of the most eminent and famous special
lists IL diseases Of the chest in London
openly confessed on one occasion that
al least 50 per cent. Of the great ladies
thronging his waiting-room were af-
ficted with purely imaginary COM
plants. IT would not do. however. 70
tell them SO. If were to do this they
would merely 90 70 some other physi-
clan and complain everywhere of me as
incapable OF undertaking their case"
It is all the more astonishing that the
crown princess Of Sweden should have
turned out thus. as she has received a
most thorough and sensible education.
her mother. the grand duchess Of Ba-
den, only daughter of old Emperor Will
liam. being one Of the most shrewd. IN
affected and kind-hearted women IN
Europe. and most deservedlv popular
y. Y. Tribune