The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-19
GROWN PRINCESS GECILIE, WIFE OF GERMAN HEIR,
 WILL BE 28 ON SUNDAY

Col Cecifie Auguste Marie Duchess Of MeckIenburgS Schwerin, Crown. Princess of Germany, and, if the e1n-5 pire and the Crown Prince survive, the future Kaiserin. will celebrate her twenty eighth birthday tomorrow.
 She is colonel of the Second Si1esian Dragoons, and sharing the military ardor Of her husband. she has taken. her position seriously. On every pos sib1e occasion, in times of peace, she has donned the uniform of the Dra-l goons and led her men. Practically all the feminine members of the German imperial and royal houses have the rank of colonel, the Kaiser's only daughter being second head or | the famous Deaths Head Lancers l Grown Princess Cecilie is the daughter of the late Friedrich Franz 1 III of Mecklenburg-S -Schwerin, and was born Sept. 20, 1886. Most of her
 childhood was spent in southern each winter for the benefit of his health, and the future Grown Prfn-i cess played with French children, be came proficient in their language, adopted their clothes and customs l and was, in fact more French than German Her summers were usually. I spent in a royal hunting lodge in her l native land. where she associated with the children of the psasantry. and talked with them in their Platt- lOeuCchl d1a1eCC- IIleH CfONn EsE1ncSSS shas never forgotten those friends of her youth. and on the outbreak of the l war, she did everything in her power l to make their lot easier.
 l There is nothing masculine about I Cecilie, in face or figure, but con stant association with the Crown
 Prince. who thought or talked of 1 little but war; aroused in his spouse | an interest and enthusiasm for miIi-
 tary affairs not usual among royal
 women Since she married Grown I Prince Wilhelm, in 1905, her inter- Tests have been divided between her 1 children and the army, and 1t is said 1sthat she has read most of the mill l tary works written bysthe authorities of the German army
 While the Crown Prince has been I too busy with his first love, the army, to devote much time to domestic aft I fairs, and he has been accused of ] indifference toward his wife, there I has never been a hint of domestic
 discord, such as So often shatters the l welded bliss of royalty and common
 CTS alike.
 Like most royal alliances, that of 1 Grown Prince Wilhelm and CeciIie
 was described by the German press as purely a. love match. It is all I leged that Wilhelm and Cecilie first
 met at the wedding of mutual 1 friend, and that the association thus T began soon ripened into love''-a l phrase not altogether unfamiliar. A tea house at Muritz, according to the
 same authority. was the scene of the j romantic meeting at which Wilhelm asked the vital question and receiv-
 ed in reply a b1ushing .tY es.' After I the announcement7 of their engage
 Tnent the bride-to-be went to France
 for the winter. and the engaged cou-
 pie did not see each other again un- l til the following May, in 1905. only
 a month before the date set for the
 wedding On her return to MeckIen-
 burg her brother, the Duke, gave 3 I series of festivities in her honor, and Cecilie then proceeded in state to Der lin to meet her future husbands i'm lperiaI relations. All Germany joined in celebrating the. marriage, and In
 ter-d den-Linden in Berlin was fes- ftooned with flags and flowers from
 one end to the other.
 l The Crown Princess not only re-
 ceived much of her early education
 in the land of the enemy, France, but
 she is related to the Russian ipper-
 ial family, and as a girl spent smuch
 time in Russia as the guest of the T Grand Duke Michael, her great un- I cle. The Crown Princess is slender
 and gir1ish in appearance, and while
 not beautiful, she has a face of such
 dehcacy and charm as to create the
 impression of beauty.