The National tribune., 1908-10-22


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portunities of the young business men
of today are positively enough to make
the head swim, with the opening up OF
our resources, the yastness of our own
markets, and the practical unexploita-
ton of the foreign markets. He be-
lieves we have by no means reached
the pinnacle of our greatness, and in
the meanwhile he is enjoying himself
playing golf and "minding" his little
granddaughter, far from the NEEDING
crowd and frenZied finance.
A low voice, we are told, is an excel
lent thing in a woman, and yet we
American women seem to have gain
ed a reputation all over the world for
loud, high-pitched tones which CRATE
terribly on the ears of those foreigners
whose own speech is musical and we'll
modulated. Many reasons have, been
given for our bad voices, our nerves,
the necessary effort required to make
ourselves heard on elevated trains and
crowded streets, etc, and now some
foreign woman tells us that it is largely
due to tight corsets which restrict the
lack of control of the vocal organs.
Proper tones cannot be formed and
nodded. where there is undue pressure,
and as our voices are rapidly becoming
worse and worse, tight-lacing must go
If girls wish to improve in this respect.
We have been hearing great deal
about our unmusical voices for many
years, and it does seem as If
the time had come for the young
er generation to = profit by the
many gentle hints our foreign
friends have given us. 1t is undoubted-
ly true that as a nation our women
have not agreeable voices. Almost
every American woman returning to
her native country after a sojourn
ment she lands. After being at home
for while she ceases to notice 1t, and
makes no effort to improve her own
high-pitched tones. Any mother by
taking a little pains could easily train
her young daughter to pitch her voice
in low, melodious key, yet to speak
clearly and distinctly. Many voices
would be more or less musical and
quite charming if the tones were form
ed in the throat instead of the head, and
if the speaker would make the effort to
modulate her voice to an agreeable
pitch. Any woman, no matter how
beautiful she may be or how magnifi-
Gently gowned, with a hard, metallic.
sharp, high-pitched voice, is robbed of
the greater part of her charm, while
plain little woman, in shabby clothes,
with a flexible, soft, cultivated voice, is
accorded at once the admiration to
which the possession of such gift en-
titles her.
From the entertaining pen CT the
Marquise De Fontenoy we are given a
little insight into the politics Of Mon
tenegro and Servia, two of those So
called Balkan States which are just now
the topic of the hour. Seryia and Mon
tenegro have designs on each other.
each aiming to absorb the other, and
some time last Spring, it may be re-
membered, a plot to wipe out the en-
tire reigning family of Montenegro was
discovered, which was laid at the door
of Servia The treaty of Berlin made
Montenegro independent Of Turkish
sovereignty, and it's ruler, Prince Mich
1860, is now CT years of age. Prince
Nicholas has three sons, and the eld-
est, the Crown Prince, has no children,
the baby boy of his second son, Mirko,
being regarded, therefore, as the right
full successor to the throne ater his
grandfather, uncles, and father. Ser
via has a claim to the throne of Mon
tenegro thru the eldest daughter of the
Prince of Montenegro, who married
pnfn bn
via. When, therefore, last February,
the aforementioned little son of Prince
Mirko, a fine, sturdy little chap of five,
and his younger brother, aged three,
were suddenly stricken with tubercu-
losis and died. the greatest consterna-
ton prevailed, for had death removed
the presetn sovereign the childless
Crown Prince, Prince Mirko, and his
younger brother, Prince Nicholas's
third and unmarried son, George,
Crown Prince of Servia, would have
inherited the throne thru his mother.
A few months after the death of these
baby boys, on whose lives SO much de-
pended, the plot to blow up the entire
reigning family was discovered, as be-
fore stated, and in the trial which fol-
lowed the hand of King Peter of Ser
via and the Crown Prince George was
plainly discernible.
The Montenegrans were tremendously
reused, diplomatic relations between
the two countries were severed, and a
bill was prepared by the Montenegran
government excluding the sons of King
Peter from every right to the throne of
Montenegro in favor of the children of
the second daughter of Prince Nicholas,
who is the divorced wife of a Russian
Prince. The thrones of the two coun-
tries are very much mixed up anyway,
for Montenegro has also a claim TO that
of Servia thru Princess Natalie, wife of
Prince Mirko, who was a daughter of
Col. Constantinoyitch, son of the aunt
of King Milan, and great-aunt of King
Alexander, whose tragic death left Col.
Constantinovitch the senior representa-
tive of the Obrenovitch dynasty, and
had this law been enacted war between
the two countries would probably have
followed. But just about this time it
was announced that the beautiful
Princess Natalie might present the
country with another heir, and this
hope held back the heavy hand of war,
the Montenegrans deciding to wait
events before pushing the bill. Within
the last few days the little capital of
Montenegro, Cettinje, has been filled
with picturesque stalwart peasants who
came to town to celebrate the birth OF