Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-29
,vYAL HENPECKED HUSBANDS.
Monarchs Who Have to Recognize
Wives Authority Over Them.

any reason why she should keep it up
until just a-nagging and grouching.
while YOU lie there with d head that
seems to get bigger and bigger from the
overplus of conversation she's pouring
INTO your windward ear; and you know
ing all the time you've got to hop out
at 6.45?
Toward dawn you strike the right line
of Thought and the voice at your side
sinks into a sort of malicious drone as
YOU picture yourself a king, or a royal
prince, trundling your little old hoop
nome at any old time, to be received by
an obsequous chamberlain with a good.
stiff cup of coffee in one hand and a
Goodnight cigarette in the other. He
envelops YOU in your royal sleeping robe
the ROYAL insignia is down in the lower
right-hand corner of its tati-draws the
silken curtains around your downy couch.
fervently wishes YOU peaceful slumber
tip-toes out, and leaves you to blissful
dreams until
There. It's o'clock she wells" And
you'v We had me up all night, stfaining my
ears most of it. and my voice the rest
of it"
SAY if man could only be a king
even a one-horse half-bustcd king, with
oankalptcy in front of him and u revou-
ton in back of him wouldn't it be better
thousand times than to live henpecked
like this till the end of his born days.
1t would sure thing. But that blessed
royal air castle. of nothing to do till to-
morrow and mighty little to do then, Is
mostly a dream. even for the kings yoa
envy.
Allowing for the difference of time, 1t
may have been from six TO eight hours
earlier that one of half dozen royal
ties. over i'm Europe, was hunting that
same obsequious chamberlain YOU were
wishing belonged to YOU: and what he
was finding was the same. eternal cur
tain lecture you got. Circumstances
may be different-he may have been out
with the girls instead of the boys; or
ne mayn't have been out at ADJUST
preferred to stay up little late at home
for a social game of pinochle with the
Prime Minister and the Royal Secretary
of the Treasury But don't imagine that
let him out when lie moseyed on quietly
TO his private suite, hoping and trust
ing he might find "ivacy and peace
She was there. waiting for him. the same
as yours Henpecking, these days, Is
one of the royal privileges of queens
obey don't need votes for women.
The good old generation of I'm boss
Kings lost it's best bet wnen Edward VII
nuit his lob reluctantly. shortly after h.
had his first chance to know how 1t
really felt: for, alti'uHghsthe had pulled
clear of the matrimonial conductor very
early in lifes journey, his mother kept
the brakes ON until he WIS almost due
at the terminal.
The Kaiser. who suffered eNcruciating
anguish whatever his uncle ovor in Eng
land has anything on him. has done
pretty we'll as ranch boss in the home
circle by dint of being model husband
and so giving This royal consort no eX-
cuse for making trouble; but that is
some distance removed from the indie
pendenee of conduct, and criticisms, Ed
ward maintained.
quite another type is Prince Henry OF
Mecklenburg- Schwerin. the eonsort OF
hollands Queen, Wihelmina. lie had
had the markings of about as game It
snort as ever came to the left hand Of
the throne; and he had Wilhelmina head
over heels in love with him to boot. But
,he first thing she knew his debts began
to arise, like skeletons from the grave OF
his bacheorhood; and her people formed
a suspicion, by no means unjustihed, that
Henry was one of those fellows who
need attention with something hard and
painful preferably, an aX-One young
gentleman of her court. incensed over
the manner in which his beloved sover-
eign was neglected, was reported to have
undertaken to use his fist, no AK being
handy.
Wilhelmina herself is one of your gem
lie creatures. bred in the tradition that
when womans married she has
reached the stage of taking fate as It
happens along. But with her nation i'll
wrath with every atom Of the real pow
er i'm her hands. and finally with her
longed-for Princess Juliana in her arms,
her guarantee of the security of her line,
she gradually asserted her position as
head of the family as well as head of the
state. The Prince consort of Holland is
now developing into one of your really
tolerable husbands-gently but none
the less effectively. henpecked into sub
mission utterly foreign to his natural
tastes and inclinations.
The Duke of sparta Is III Tar worse
case-so bad that his unhappy plight has
become public scandal and is threat
ening divorce to enable him to preserve
his self-respect and the respect he ought
to have from the indignant people OF
Greece.
lie is the Crown Prince of Greece, heir
to the throne. When he married Sophia,
sister to Germany's kaiser Greece
| thought that it's ruling family had con-
tracted an alliance of the most supreme
value to the little kingdom. 1t was n
| love match too. But Sophia brought to
| the Grecian court her German customs,
and. what was more, forced them on
her husbands future subjects. They
were married in 1889 Year by year. af-
| ter their wedding, the insistent Sophia
| inched onward in her assumption of au-
| thoritv. until her husband looked alto
| gether too small in the eyes of his own
people for either his comfort or theirs.
| Things have gone so far that the Duke
| of Sparta is said to have slapped her for
: an insult to his country at public fune-
! ton, and she has left him to visit her
| sister. the Princess of Hesse, at Damn