The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
GRAND DUCHESSIS EUROPE B|G CATCH Ruler of Luxembourg Has S5O,OOO,OOO in Own Right FOLLIES OF FASHION New Craze to Use Artificial Means to Make One Eye
 Different From the
 Other
F0LLIEs OF FASHION
By LADY MARY

London. November 9.-(Special) Lux embours, the capital of the smallest king dom in Europe of the same name and ruled over by the youngest sovereign. has turned matchmaker, so friend reports who has just come from there. This lit- tie country, as you know. is now gov erned by the Grand Duchess Marie a re- markedly pretty eighteen-year-od girl and, of course, having arrived at this mature age. 1t Is time to think of ind ing husband for her. This is no triiing matter. for in spite of the dimnutive | size of the country, Princess Marie is al- most the richest crowned head. hav- l ing a fortune of s5o,o0O.00 in her own right.
 The two names one hears most often I mentioned ia connection with hers are the Prince of Wales and Prince Joachim, the youngest son of the German emperor The kaiset, of course, would dearly like to secure this little prize for his son and incidentally the country to add to his empire-but the young woman is Ro- man Catholic, and the religion question is big one. The talk about the Prince of Wales is, of course ridiculous It l is quite on the cards that the good Lux embourgers' matchmaking plans like those of the proverb, will gang agley, ," for in the statutes of the house of Mas sau. there is clause that for the mar riage of any member of the regning house, the consent of the head of the house is necessary. Now, the head of the house is pretty Princess Marie herself
 and being young woman of an extreme ly strong will, it Is more than likely that she will do as she jolly well pleases in the matter.
 l Princess Marie's faithful subjects rep- resent in all about one-twentieth part of | the population of New York, and as for 1 her wee army-well, it could be lost in one of New York's big skyscrapers. What worries her royal highness military au- thorites is that when she attends any
 function she insists on having a large 1 escort, and with total of but two hun
 dred and fifty men to work on, this is not always an easy job However, they are comforting themselves that after she l has attended a few hundred more of these functions, she won't be so keen on
 them as she is now.
 The grand duchess is extremely popu-
 lar with her subjects. She is quite pret- 1 N'fN rather large idea she has of her own l dignity, she has a gracious way with her" that quickly won their hearts And ] it is when her crown--made of oak, by I the way-is put away on the top shelf and her state robes laid in the drawer 1 with camphor, and she becomes an or | dinary human girl. that she endears her sself most to them. She is graceful and fearless rider, passionately devoted to all her horses-whch she visits regu- larly every day with basket of dain-
 ties-and also an expert skater.
 Likes Her New Brother
 Little Princess Elizabeth, the 2-year- old daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Vizeu, formerly Anita Stewart, Is delighted with her new brother whose christening took place recently at Herons l Gyll, the place in Sussex where they have been all the summer. So are his parents, to whom the arrival of a daugh- | ter as their first child. was a great dis appointment. For the ceremony the baby
 was dressed in an exquisite robe, the same that had been worn by his father 1 on a similar occasion, trimmed with lace
 showing the Braganza arms surrounded
 by floral wreaths. No less than fifteen names were given to the little man, but 1 his nurses aren't worrying themselves 1 over that, for he will be known as Prince Johann on ordinary occasions. A very l important guest at the christening was the Count Saldanha de Cana, who rep resented the Braganza family.
 Mrs James Henry Smith, who when l her daughter was married shared her house in Grosvenor Square with her, has 1 now given it to them entirely. one whole floor has been set apart for the children and their nurses and Mrs. smith has taken the keenest delight in plan ming 1t out for them. Most of the rooms | A tl. yx1 un oof a I had in foggy London, and the prevailing color is white. A hand-painted frieze or all the characters of the best known ehil- dren's stories runs around the wall Of the day nursery, while bright colored cur 1 tains relieve the white walls
 Mrs. Smith is simply devoted to her lit 1 He granddaughter who. by the way, Is one of the loveliest cieldren in London.
 Better still she is extraordinarily intelli-
 gent, and is already a splendid little com
 panion
 New FoIlies of Fashion l If is no new thing for lovely woman 1 to endure discomfort or ridicule i1 the pursuit of the elusive "up to date" idea, hut to risk positive danger is boundary | of folly that she has not hitherto touched | Yet the persistence of the odd idea Tn 1 frocks, hats and cloaks, has mounted to i the eyes, and some women with more i vanity than brains are now actually ac- 1 curing todd optics
 1 The fashionable English woman has not gone further than dropping bella donna l into one eye, which makes 1t larger and l brighter in appearance than the other. | This is not at all safe thing to do, out l the French woman does more. The
 beauty salons of Paris are now besieged
 daily by foolish feminines who attend so
 many times a month to have coloring 1 matter dropped into one eye to make 1t different from the other Possessors of ! tiue eyes. have, one made black, and those with brown eyes choose a yellow
 cue. A well known beauty specialist i here said that todd eye owners had told
 hac the fashion had proved wonderfully
 attractive to men. whose attention is usu- i ally captured by something unusual in a
 woman, and that 1t gives an air of mys- ] terv also which increases their interest