The chronicle=news., 1913-09-23


bout will BIZ one OF the best ever seen
for the work In Moscow. Immediately
after the ceremony. the duchess made
u round Of tn. slums and thieves
dcns OF Moscow and to prove the gen.
uIncneas of her conversion went
down on her knees In her snowy
robes and washed = dirty floor In the
slum district. The order now has
4. sisiers. all o. noble birth. al
whom Is have taken the final VOWS.
The Grand Duke scrsius seems ia
have bccn an unprineipicd man who
Was thort uGhiy hated by the Russian
common people. Tic was the richest
Of all the Romanoff grand dukes. lie
lived on his salary ~ governor OF
Moscow. boarded his vast private In
come and added largely 10 his for.
tune by various rokuish enterprises.
Today the Grand duchess has com.
mand Of Si:. 100000. and Il has en-.
ablcd her tn add many charitable
works to give TO many charities.
Not long after her husbands death
Grand Duchess Elizabeth spent sev.
craI months incokuiio In Europe ai.
tending suffrakctic mcctinEs. ~sp~c.
tally In London. and associatink with
the leaders 10th there aud In Paris
On her return to Russia she began
to express her ideas and smypaihies
with the movement. TIL the Car
hearing sopc new expressions thai
had escaped her iips sent for her.
what does this mean" he asked
repeating her words. to the effect
that women should have equal social
aud political RIGHTS with men
Though she saw that tho Car was
grnnincly angry with her. she pu,
up bold front and answered:
1T means that I think women
should be freed from the political
slavery In which they have been kept
for centuries. You men have had
enough Of this monopoly"
Then YOU are a suffraEctte:
asked the astonishsd Gar.
"Ycs. Hut not a militant one.
the Grand Duchess replied. ~ be-
lievc We women will get what ".
want by influence and not by disor.
der
When later the Gar heard that
she had held = meeting In her palace
and read u paper to the assembled
women in sympathy with suffragism
he again sent for her. This time h,
told her In could not have her OK.
pressing those disturbing ideas In
81. Petersburg. She must go ava.
and refrain from spreading 80 dan.
Gerous doctrine In st. Petersburg
~ think = woman can find plcnt,
to do In nunnery." the Cxar |,
said to have rcmsked. Suppose yo,
20 to Moscow and found nice nun
merry for women Of aristocratic birth
i That is one story OF how tn,
Grand Duchess came to be a sister
but the Cars displeasure was moi
lasting. The Cxarina. who is thu
younger sister Of the Grand Duches
Elizabeth. both having been daugh
tiers Of Ludwig. Grand Duke Of Hesse
10 Far too fond Of her sister to per
nit OF her permanent banishmen
from st. Petersburg. It was she VII,
piacated the CIar. and 10 It was tina
the Grand Duchess Elizabeth wen
Ia year after the suffraEette inciden
TO spend some weeks with the Gar
ina at the palace near 81. Petersburg
Now she devotes her time to charit!
1work and to travel. avoids society
1even on a visit to her former hom'
land among her royal kinsfolk I,
England She IL still a nun. and
finding happiness in her work. doe
not banker after the notoriety will
which royal society surrounds itself
Il ~ In Mood ~ n-'rt'-r ~ s-~ b'r'
phnne The Crhonir,o.Se samr'"
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