New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-18

The meaning II the name Mary, most
beloved and most widely used in all walks
OF life Of any name fo- women, is bitter
ness" And if that meaning refers TO the
lives OF the women who have borne the
name IL was appropriate enough Tor some
OF the royal Marys Of England FROM ''e
first Mary mentioned in English history.
That daughter OF Edward / ana Eleanor OF
Castle. who when only ten years Oh Was
hurried from the world, taking the ven p3
het mothers Will. down 20 the queen VINO
Is 10 be crowned next week IN LONDON
every one OF these Marys has had heT
share Of trouble Even the queen had IN
her girlhood 70 practise many economies
which must have been rather bitter ioT
e,rl for the Duke and Duchess Cf Teck
v,c-s very far from being wealthy
And the death Of her first betrothed. the
Duke ~ Clarence. was by all accounts
great grief 20 her until time brought her
comfort. Life IS no longer the difficult and
strenuous thing for m0narchs that II was
ir past centuries. and queen Mary has
f'oesiacs CROUCH now. hIt she Iust nave
IA Ter times when IL given 20 scf-pity-
i.e She could have said that the name
which means bitterness was the TieAt
romc Tor her
u.t that Door little princess. daughter oil
Tduard Lit g. impossible not 20. think
s,rr5wfully % her. For no better reason
than that she was one OF nine daughters
and that the diznitaries Of the Church had
demanded Of hfr mother "one lamb Of her
numerous Hock" the child Of ten years
was invested with the religious habit on
81. Thomas q Decket's dag. IN the year
1.se and took a VOW u abjuTe the world.
j. Was rather a different fate from that
o. her brother. the first Prince az Wales.
whose birth in Carnaryon Castle was
greeted hy tho wild Wesimen with shouts
~ iqvful allegiance. 81 We may believe
enc OF the favcrite stories Of history.
Sorrowfui and trouh.ous. too. was the
Snort life Of the second Mary in English
b.story-the daughter If Edward ~ and
THzateth Woo5ville. The Wars ~ tie
Roses. which saddencd her mothers life.
left her little childhood. The first mention
81 her IN history pictures her sharing the
ficat OF her mother. her elder sister. Liz
aheth. her younger sister, Cicely. and one
faithful Iady-in-waiting 20 the Tower.
Here. Oh November /. $50. the heir 20 the
tlrcne was born. and here the refugees
iaisht have starved had it not been for
tho Kindness OF one John Gould. O. butcher,
vfo brought them beef and mutton each
week. When the fortunes Of the King be-
rar % improve. and the refugees came
fcffr from the Tower. the small Mary may
have had some happiness. We hear Of her
a. the espousal o: her fve-year-old broth
o. Richard 20 lttie Anne Mowhray. But
T. was ~ well that this Princess Mary
q ed a. ffteen. tor very soon afterward her
father died. and the cslamites q her tN-
starred family began again. She was
spared. anyhow. the knowledge q the fate
O. her brothers. the little princes who In
l48 we're murdered in the Tower at the in
stiration q King Richard III
The first CLEAN of happiness IN connec-
ton with 2 ROYAL Mary comes with Mary
Tudor. daughter q Henry VII and Of the
Lady Bessie Of tie old ballad. Eliza
beth Of York. whose marriage 70 Henry
VII united thu factions % the White Rose
and the Red Rose. Mary Tudor grew up
and married the man she loved. though she
had 70 marry man she didn't love in the
first place The man size didn't love was
the King q france, but ne obligingly died
only eightv-two dsvs after wedding her.
The marriage had accomplished its pur-
nosA Of bringing 70 close the war with
France. and she was free 70 marry that