The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-02
THE PRINCESS PILLAR.

Af~A oA hcA-AO-0O AaAl1lA-cS eO So-l-S ~ the help of their poorer brethren and sisters of the Seraphic Band. and she asked all the poor who could do so to devote an hour a day to working for them. She hoped that forms of emplay- ment might be devised by parents who wanted the assistance of youthful hands for members who, having no money to give. might offer their labor. It would seem that this appeal met with splen- did response, and that there will be unique show, to which only members of the Seraphic Band will contribute. one of these days, at the Nymphenberg Palace.
 The young princess provides to the children of the poor whose work she asks wool and cotton for knitting. silks for embroidery, knitting and crochet needles, and models. Any poor child is free to write to her to ask what may be needful for the fulflment of the task she has set. She answers by postcard, and sends the things wanted by a lady belonging to some charity organization society, who recommends perseverance, and says few words on the sacredness of the engagement entered into. Some times dolls clothes or small stockings, or knitted caps, are undertaken. Hun dreds of children as Christmas drew near wrote to the princess to say they were too poor to hope for toys or a Christmas tree, and that if she found work for them they would be glad to help the Christ-kind in his Christmas rounds. A poor boy of eight wrote to the twelve-year-old Lady Bountiful to say that the judges wife assured him he might address the princess just as l though she were Santa Claus, and tell her that his body linen was worn out, and he had to lie in bed on Sunday when his mother washed and dried it. She would be so good to think of him when she had body linen to distribute. Frau Councillor. on being questioned about the child, gave an encouraging lcccount of him. He had lost his fath- Ter, and had a natural turn for wood carving. He had the happiness soon after to receive two shirts, two pairs of socks, and carving tools and blocks of
 
 els. Another child wrote from a slum that she and her sister had seen with gladness the portrait of the princess in a shop window, and hoped she would allow them to present her their affec donate salutations A third made re- quest on behalf of herself and her little brother. He could make little frames and toy beehives with eggshells and the lpulp of rushes, and the writer herself could crochet or paint flowers. Send me, dear princess, some paper and col ors, and you will see that I can paint roses and forget-me-nots very nicely" The princess has always on hand a stock of post-cards with her portrait to send to children who ask for it, and who have shown her that they can keep en- agreements. Tn her archives are de- lighted letters of thanks for such por- traits and prayers for other favors. A child favored with portrait did not lreturn thanks for some time. When she did she wrote: sThe delay is due to Amelise, sqny little sister, having cut an eye-tooth. This made her very cross, and as have to mind her had q not a moment to myself or the penny to buy postcard to wrote to you"
 I It would be we'll for Spain if prin- lcess so admirably brought up, so kindly, and used to being charitable with judg- ment, were to share the throne of King Alfonso But she will be only thirteen next March. He is in his eighteenth lyear, and it is said that he thinks he ought soon to marry. The Spaniards would prefer the Princess Paz, as the daughter and granddaughter of Span fish princesses, to any other possible German bride. Her parents would like to keep her in Bavaria, as she is their only daughter, and has passed a singu- llarly happy childhood under their affec- tionate and very intelligent care. They have educated her with a view to the harmonious development of her head, her heart, and the sense of what is < comedy and beautiful. She looks Ger man, simple, kindly, thoughtful and bonnie. The features are well propor- toned and shapely. and the whole face l gives promise of goodness, good sense and firm character.
 The Princesses Louise of Orleans (sister of the Queen of Portugal, aged twenty-one; Antoinette of Anhalt, aged eighteen; Vera of Montenegro, aged seventeen; Olga of Hanover-Bruns- wick, and Adelaide of Bourbon Parma, aged eighteen each; Helmtruda of Ba- varia (daughter of Mary III.'D, aged seventeen, have each been spoken of as a possible future queen of Spain. The Princess Louise of Orleans speaks Spanish perfectly, and is almost Span iard from frequent residence. in Andalu- sia, and descent from a sister of Queen Isabella. Paris Correspondence of the London Truth.
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