The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-25
THE HUMAN PROCESSION

Nippon'S new empress, Sadako, is still little more than a girl, as she will celebrate her twenty ninth birth day to-day. Before her marriage tol ' oshihito, which was solemnized thir- teen years ago, when the Empress was only sixteen, she was known asl "Japans most beautiful girl" and her 1oveliness has increased with the pass ing years. She is a daughter of Prince hajo Michitaka- The royal pair have three children, one son and two daughters. The son and heir to the thrones Hirohito, was born in the i'm peria1 palace at Tokto twelve years ago. The Empress is about five years the junior of her husband.
 Although the Emperor of Japan is permitted, by old custom, to have a harem of twelve secondary wives. the present Emperor has not availed himself of the privileges rules alone in the heart of her lord. The late Emperor Mutsufito, al- though modern in every other respect had a number of wives, and the pres ent ruler is the son of one of these secondary @tbetter- twelfths,'s since the Empress Haruko had no children.
 The youthful Empress is keen1y in- terested in the welfare of Nippon and especially in the advancement of her own sex She has used her influence to secure thea enforcement of the sec ton of the new marriage laws which recognizes but one legal wife. Old customs are hard to change, however, parts of Japan, while polygamy. or plurality of husbands. is not unknown among the Enperor's American sub jects.
 The Empress wears European gowns and eats European food in the l 1~,rz of the Shoguns, over which she pre- sides, is new strictly modern. steam heated. electric lighted and magnifi- gently furnished Contrary to the gem eraI belief, the Empress is not mere pIaything, but occupies the same posi- ton in affairs Of state as the queen consorts of European nations.
 The Empress, like all her predeces- sors for generations, is a member of the Fsujfwara clan, from which the rulers of Nippon are compelled to choose their wives. Her family his tory is almost as ancient as that of her husband, who represents a dynas- ty that date back in an unbroken line for more than 2.550 years.
 Sadako was well educated with a special view to the possibility of her becoming Empress, and is a firm be- fever in the education of her sex. She is q patron. as is the Empress Dowa- ger of the Women's High School in Tolkio.
 The ToRio Palace. the principal home Of the Empress, is just outside the capital. and occupies a command- ing site on the highest of group of hills The architecture is distinc- lively Japanese in appearance, but tiles and plaster have rendered it more solid than the average, Japanese mansion. The principal social event of the year at the palace Is the cher ry-blossom garden party. held in April.
 One Of the most famous o9 Anneri- can Methodist pulpit orators. Bish- op William Alfred Quayle, was born in ParkvilIe, Mo. hfty~three years ago today. He had been president of Baker University, Kansas, and pas tor of churches in Kansas City, In d1anapoIis and Chicago He was made a bishop in 1908, residing first in Oklahoma City and later in St Paul. Bishop QuayIe is the editor Of a num- Der of books. and has Iectured before large and appreciatfve audiences in cities all over the United States and 1 Canada