Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-03

need attention with something hard ano
! painful. preferably, an aX-one So9hs
gentleman of her court, incensed over
! fine manner in which his beloved soyer-
eian was neglected. was reported to have
undertaken to use his fist, no ak being
handy.
WHhelniua herself is one of your gen
tie creatures, bred in the tradition that
whom = woman's married she has
reached the stage Of taking fate as It
bappens along. But with her nation in
wrath. with every atom Of the real pow
er in her hands, and finally with hef
1onred-for Princess Juliana in her arms
her guarantee of the security oil iet me
she gradually asserted her position as
head of the family rs well as head oil the
state. The Prince consort OF hollahu II
now developing into Que OF your realls
tolcrabIe husbands-gently hut nom
the less effectively, henpecked INTO SUI
mission utterly foreign to his ha'utd'
tastes and inelnations.
The Duke of Sparta IS in far worse
case-so bad that his unhappy plight HAS
become a public scandal aud Is 'hteae-
ening divorce to enable him 10 Preset ~
his self-rcspcct aud the respect he ought
To have from the indignant people Oh
Greece.
Ife is the Crown Prince of Greece hetf
Ia the thrane.. When he married SOPHIA,
sistar to Germanys kaiser, Greece
Thought that its ruling family haa con-
,,ot.a an alliance of the most supreme
,.alue to the little kingdom IL was
Ia,,c match. too. But Sophia brought 10
~ erocian court her German CUSTOMS
and what was more, forced them Oh
49,. b,sbaud's future subjects. They
,s.ro married in 1883. Year by year. al
cor their wedding, the insistent SOPHIA
;nchea onward in her assumption oil a"-
.,,t.,. until her husband looked alto
,,atber too small in the eyes OF his own
people for either his comfort OF
rulings have gone so far that the Duke
of Sparta is said to nave slapped Hel ~.
an insult to his country at a pupilo iu,'1
tion. and she has left him to VISIT ie'
sister, the Princess of Hesse' at h"' ~
stadt
The rebellion Of the sheep can be
vigorous affair, and the royal slap was
n scandal of the first magnitude. bu' II
didn't change the nature of the sheep'
Even when the Crown Prince betooN
himself to wicked Paris and there went
In for all of Paris outre dssipauohs, 1t
was with the deadly Apprehension Oh d
hubby who knows what is coming TO
him when he gets home. That Is inc
nroximate cause of the talk of divorce
| .bo couple are believed to have gone so
far in the road to separation WIN 50
| dire an alternative OF petticoat govern
| ,ncnt as the price OF being rec9he'leu'
/ that they may not make up at all
Alfonso of Spain is just at present
fighting his way to marital independence
| bcinp regarded for the time as the VICTOR
! in the long struggle he had to wage
AGAINST the domination of his mother-ih-
law. for whom his handsome victoria
| had a profound, almost tiinid feVef-
| ence
But Alfonso has in him the blood Oh
kings and the traditions of SPAIN which
unite to make any Spanish ruler feel 1t
| in his bones that no woman shall ever
govern him. lie took lot of henpecklhe
from his mother-in-law and his vile
combined at the beginning; but, as time
develops his character it is becoming
anparent that he is too spirited per
sonage to be much OF the tame cat.
The odds, as they say, are being gwen
now in that particular melee of mar
riayc. are rather long on Alfonso.-Phil-
adelphia North American.