Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-03
loyal HeNPEcKED HUSBANDS
Monarchs Who Have to Recognize
Wives Authority Over Them.

Wen say you actually have been out
with the crowd until A. NJ. Is that
any reason why she should keep it up
antil Just a-nassins and gronchins
while you lie there, with Il head that
seems to get bigger and bigger from the
oyerplus Of conversation shes pouring
INTO your windward car, and You know
ing all the time you've sol 10 hop out
at SIS?
Toward dawn You strike the right line
of thought, and the voice at your side
sinks into Il sort Of malicious dronc as
you picture yourself a king, OF u royal
prince, trundling Your little old hoop
nome at any old time, to be received by
an obsequious 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 tail-draws the
silken curtains around your downy couch;
fervcntly wishes YOU peaceful slumber;
tip-toes out and leaves you to blissful
dreams until
There! It's o'clock" she Wells" And
you've had me up all night, straining my
ears most of it, and my voice the rest
of it,
say. if a man could only be king.
even one-horsc half-busted king, with
bankruptcy in front of him and a revoiu-
ton in back of him wouldn't it be better
n thousand times than to live henpccked
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 IA dream even for the kings you
envy.
Allowing for the difference of time, ii
may have been from six to eight hours
earlier that one of half dozen royal
ties over in 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; OF
lie maynt have been out at adjust
preferred to stay Up a little late at home
for a social game of pinochle with the
Prime Minister and the Royal Secretary
of the Treasury Bat don't imagine that
iet him out when he 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 its best bet wnen Edward VII
quit his job reluctantly, shortly after h.
mad his first chance to know how II
really felt: for, although he had pulled
clear of the matrimonial conductor very
early in lifes journey, his mother kept
| the brakes on until he was almost due
at the terminal.
| The Kaiser. who suffered eXcruciating
anguish whatever his uncle over in Eng
! land has anything on him, has done
pretty we'll as ranch boss in the home
circle by dint of being a model husband
and so giving his royal consort no eX
) ctise for making trouble; but that /,
some distance removed from the indie
pendence of conduct. and criticisms, Ed
ward maintained.
| Quite another type is Prince Henry OIL
| Meckenburg- Schwern, the consort Of
| Hollands Queen, Wilhelmina. He haC
| had the markings of about as game ;
| sport as ever came to the left hand o.
| the throne; and he had Wilhelmina heat
over heels In love with him to boot. Blu
| the first thing she knew his debts begai
to arise, like skeletons from the grave o
his bachelorhood and her people formed
n suspicion, by no means unjustifed, tina
Henry was onessof those fellows wht