South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-15

N-------1 mOus-PyrmOn
Princess Radziwin. and Wildungen
belong entirely to the prince and
bring him an enormous income.
The house o. Waldeck is divided
in two lines, the princely one and
the countal. which. however. is ex-
cluded from rhe right of succession
10 the princir atty. The princes of
Waldeck are descendants of the
counts of Schwalenburg, the earliest
of whom known to history is a Ger
tain Widukind whose son acquired
about the year 117S by marriage the
county Of Waldeck. His line was
divided into two branches Wal
deck and Landau-in 1897. The
Landau branch of the family be-
came extinct in 1895. and in 1921
that of Waldeck inherited the
county of Pyrmont which had orig
inally belonged to the Scbwalenburg
family
Joins German Conference.
In 1907 Waldeck joined the con-
| federation of the Rhine, and in 1915
entered the German confederation
At present in virtue of a treaty con-
cluded with Prussia. the government
of the country is conducted in the
name of the prince by a Prussian
official. while the state officials take
the oath of allegiance to the king
of Prussia. But the prince of Wal
deck has retained his whole rights
as head of the church in the cOun-
try and also the right TO grant par
dons. and in certain circumstances
TO alter or to cancel laws. He gets
an income which is derived from
the crown lands in addition to the
one brought to him by his private
fortune. which, as / have had the
occasion to remark, is a very con-
siderable one.
Pyrmont is a lovely little place.
and considered as a highly fashion
able one. The reigning family has
a castle there and generally comes
to spend in it several months in sum-
mer. when II holds a kind of court
and gives entertainments to the fav-
ored few whom il considers worthy
to he received within the walls of
its residence. In winter the prince
stays at Arolsen. which is the CAPT
tai of his state, and where he also
possesses a castle that is considered
one of the most beautiful medievsI
monuments in the whole of Ger
many. Wildungen, which is also
the property of the prince, is per-
haps even better known than Pyr-
mont. and before the war was visit
all parts of the world. who came to
seek health at its wonderful springs
The present prince of Waldeck is
still a relatively young man, having
been born in 1865. In 1895 he mar
ried the Princess Bathildis of
Schaumburg Lippe, younger sis
ter of the present queen of Wurtem-
berg. by whom he had three sons
and one daughter. He has several
sisters. one of whom is the widowed
duchess of Albany. while another is
the Dowager Queen Emma of Hol-
land 1t has been said that il was
lack of money which presided at the
marriage of all these Waldeck prin-
cesses. but this is an entirely un-
founded assertion, because. though
of course not so rich as their broth
er. they still were considered very
we'll OF and the Princess Emma need
not have been coerced into marry
ing the old disagreeable and brutal
King William of the Netherlands if
the fact of her becoming a queen
had rot appealed 10 the ambition of
her father. who almost forced her
to accept him. OF course, she was
most unhappy. but she made herself
very much liked by her subjects and
the birth Of her little daughter
which secured the succession in the
direct line of the house of Orange.
added tC her popularity. When her
husband died she used to 60 every
week 20 Delft to pray over his grave
when ill-natured people said that the
real reason for her journeys was
that she liked 10 look a his coffin.
so as 10 be quite sure that he was
really dead Queen Emma proved
an excellent regent during the
years when she administered Hol-
land pending the majority Of her
daughter The latter was admirably
brought up by her mother. who con
trived TO subdue her independent
spirit and 10 direct it into a channel
where il could shine 20 the best ad-
vantage.
Clever Child queen.
There is an aneodote on the sub
Jet which is current i'm Holland and
which is very amusing. One day
the little queen who was about ]
years old wanted 20 80 10 her
mother for some reason or other
The regent was then i'm conference
with one of her ministers and had
given orders not 20 be disturbed
out Wilhelmina was not 10 be daunt-
ed and she actually brushed aside
the officer who was standing on duty
at the door OF the dowager queens
apartments. saying: II am the
queen. an I want 10 go in What
was her surprise when she saw her
ulDfHa gently uusH her aside v-ffh