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dence ill her Judgment and in her loy- atty to himself zita handled the Hun with high hand and a high courage. But when Charles had his first quar- rel with her over the subject of peace Zita began to droop under the long struggle against too great odds. With the spreading of malicious scandal by German enemies she became actually ill, and for several days kept to her bed.
 Yet in spite of the blow to pride and her ambition, the loss of the throne came much as a relief. She asked of the new government and ob- tained permission to retire to Castle Brandeis, in Bohemia. It was the castle in which her honeymoon had been spent eight years before. If Charles carries through the divorce Zita will probably withdraw to. one of the Bourbon-Parma estates in Italy, a sad and broken little victim of German treachery. She wore crown for less than three tumultuous years.
 It is a similar plight in which the ex-Crown Princess of Germany finds herself today. Her romance is painted in paler tints than Zita'S. She never loved so deeply and her disillusionment came about as soon as the honeymoon ended. Being sued for divorce by the ex-Crown Prince is the luckest thing which could happen to any woman un lucky enough to be his wife But no princess can see the prospect of a crown vanish without feeling some quaIln, and no mother of five children can watch their princely titles dis solve into meaningless ciphcrs without a throb of grief.
 So the eX-Crown Princess Cecilie Is deserving of more than a little pity. She didn't throw her influence on the Allied side, but she did contemplate one act which won for moment the applause of half the globe. She all most decided to leave her husband in the spring of 1915. Encouraged by the anti-German sentiments of her mother, the Dowager Grand Duchess Anastasia, a Russian princess, Cecilie half planned a flight to Switzerland and a journey thence to Russia. For some reason the good intention never
New Britain herald., 1919-03-22
Heritage of Hate

Intrigue and murder and meteor like dazzle of poWer--these were the dark and bright spots i'll the family of which Zita was a descendant and of the family into which she married. The Bourbons had dyed France red and painted it gold With the terror and luster of their deeds IL was a fitting heritage of passionate hates and flaming courage that Zita brought when she entered the house of flaps burg, the most bloody and mournful in Europe.
 < storm life of scandal and sorrow h-rt abou: Franz Joseph, who lin geI'l,li. cr when all the joy of living hal vanished f"ora his soul. Never diu Hn recover from the shattering blow to Iis pride and his affection dealt by tnc double tragedy at AIier> linG, when his son--the Crown Prince f,u;loipj. oN< the Baroness Marie Vet
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The Twelfth Child

Llta had an ancestry even more il-- lustrlous than that of the Hapsburgs. She is descended from the Bourbon Parma family, which means among other things that she can count d King of France, a King of Spain and a King of Etruria among her ances. tors. The Bourbons of Parma trace their descent in a direct line from King Louis XIV of France, the Sun Monarch, whose grandson, the Duke of Anjou, became Philip V of Spain. Philip V is another direct ancestor of the Bourbon -Parmas At various times the family has ruled the king dom of Etruria and the Duchies Lucca, of Parma and of Piacenza.
 The girl who was to become an empress had as her birthplace the province of Lucca. Her parents were the Duke Robert and the Duchess happened to be the twelfth in a family Of nineteen children-many of them mentally stunted though no taint of mental deficiency dimmed Zita's in tellect Her mother was the Dukes second wife. A half sister of zita be- came the first wife of King Ferdinand
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crystallized into action, but perhaps the memory of it is the thing which first made the ex-Crown Prince de eide upon divorce. Cecilie had lost faith in him-and she didn't care who knew it.
 Germany cast itself into furore of joy when Wilhelm married Cecilie in 1904. Securing the young Grand Duchess of Meoklenburg-Schwe as the next empress of Germany was con- sldered very clever move on the Kali sers part. Cecilie numbered among Ter near relatives the ruling families ol Denmark Holland and Russia-a iact which did not escape the war lords notice.
 Incredible though 1t may appear. Cecllle felt very real affection for her husband. He soon cured her of that however, by hopping briskly from one Irritation to another. From being 8 lively young girl, eager for brilliant entertainments, Cecii.e developed into rather sad and pensive young ma, tron. who had many bitter disputes with both husband and father-in.law.
 When her admiration for both of these
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NOW Their SWeethearts. Too

Her influence came too late to save the empire. Too many factions tore it asunder. Her best efforts made. at most, stumbling stone for the Ger mans where she tried to raise a bar rier.
 Throughout these two anxious years of a losing fight the young Empress took personal charge of her children four boys and a girl She devoted spe- cial care to their rearing, evidently with the thought that in those trou- blous times the closeness of family tics was the surest source of comfort.
 So long as her husband felt confi-
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crty motors having ir all 17o0 horse. power and s capable of travelling: eigh1y-eve miles per hou" with a full load.
 wH*: photograph was taken of a model immediately after ;; has be@a subioctr,t 70 Wind-tunnel tests and been pronounced perfect. Aviation ex pe1ts recognize in this a;"plane a dis. .inct advance ;n American ae1onau, teal englEeerins .
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Fo hv Pubic Ledger Co.,

of Bulgaria that same Ferulnah who swung Bulgaria to the Hohen- Zollern side of the war and is now minus his kingdom.
 When Zita met the Archduke Charles she had just returned from 8 long visit to the Isle of Wight, in England, where two of her sisters Were nuns behind the walls of Ryde Abbey. At the convent Zita studied music, literature, Latin, history and philosophy Italian and French she spoke equally we'll, though when she got within the shadow of the Austrian throne and began to study half a dozen of the dialects spoken within the Austria-Hungarian empire it was found that Zita did not love hard digging in languages. Music, however. reused her enthusiasm. She practica,1 plano' lessons D.: the hour and sone times acted as organist in the con. vent chapel.
 A tall. dark slender girl who seemed more Italian than Era,o1, Zlta had the charm of manner yvbich IS more potent than good looks when charles first saw her. Vivacious. ouick of gesture, she made strong annea1 to the somewhat indolent young man . They met at festivities in the Eor burg Palace or at the hunting lodge Of the Archduchess Marie Therese. An especially graceful dancer prin. cess Ilta attracted attention at a court ball III Vienna one evening" two years after she had first met Charles.
 How daintily she dances?" said one of the ladies-in- waiting, as Charles fol lowed the girl with his eyes Has Your Hlghness watched her?"
 For two years," Charles replied.
 In June of that year the betrothal announcement came. The Kaiser tried to break off the match, suspicious of tTench-Italian princess at the Austrian court Nobody then supposed ChafleS would ever become Emperor, and the aged Franz Joseph smiled aside the kaiser's tentative eXpostula- tons, But Zita remembered, and she helped the Kaiser to regret
 lie began to regret very soon. He regretted that Charles had married her-Which he did, gloriously. in Oc- toher of 1911-and he regretted that . he had won her enmity. For almost at once Zita became the pet of the venerable Franz Joseph. Another Elizabeth, he said of her, sadly re- calling his beautiful and ill-starred wife.
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sera were found dead under shocking and again fate struck at the sorrow aden monarch. His wife, estranged for the actress, Frau Schratt, was as sassinated at Geneva in 1898.
 The memory of this horror had scarcely begun to wear away when second double tragedy cast the court into gloom. Archduke Francis Fer dinand and his mOrganatic wife, the heirs to the Austrian throne. were assassinated at Sarajevo in June. 1914. It is not easy to forget the cry oi
New Britain herald., 1919-03-22
Louise and Napoleon

It fared into impatience, for in. stance, over the pronouncement that 'it is not decent for princess to play the violin!
 Even the prospect of a crown almost within grasp of her hand did not tempt Louise. She bolted from the stiff little court in company with the tutor, and when her husband-after his accession to the throne-stoIidly handed out to her a divorce she ac. cepted it with every evidence of grati. fication.
 There must be something wrong about having king for a husband. The alacrity with which queen-wives accept notice of divorce suit gives rise to the suspicion that they them selves played no small part in pre-. cipitating the proceedings. Josephine is, so far, the only queen who even breathed a sigh when her husband began to talk about the laws on ali. mony. But Napoleon merely proves the fact that any husband, crowned or not, can dare to be anything but a failure Napoleon wasn't a uuitter. He lost everything except his nerve
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with all the comforts and safety ot a a transatlantic flight in the spring. Having a freight rapacity Of g9Ce rinlacie value for corlrlel cilal purposee. Its passenger capacity is superior tt that of the big Handley Paige or any other existing airpl@ne.
 The EI-o ta equipped Win four Lib,
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4
 her husband. Each duee:J Jed t forf a space in a brilliant court. Each
 proved to be a devoted mother of
 many children And each saw her star
 grow fainter and fainter till it van
 ished behind the smoke of war in which she had no heart. Five years
 ago these two youns women looked
 lightly forward to a future blazing with privilege and power. Today each
 stands among the smoldering ruins of an empire, her life endangered, her husband fled her rank impeached by the shadow of divorce.
 Hints of disagreement, of intended separation, have before now reached the ears of Europe, so high at times did the voice of dissension rise from behind castle walls in Berlin and Vienna. Formal denials served merely as postponements. Even though this latest announcement of definite divorce ;9roceedings be contradicted, the rumor z is merely a forerunner of fact. Will
 helm and Charles refused to play a
 kingly part in great events. They : neglected to be gallant in defeat. NO
 high-spirited wife is going to overlook 7. these 'details-and 8 high spirit is the ,, only lasting gift which the fairies ;, dropped into the cradles of Zita and ' Ceciiie.
 The paling of Zita's romance s whether it end in absolute divorce or sn the separation occasionally per :. rnitted by the Roman Catholic Church or in a patched up imitation of recon
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A MAMMOTH new model has been "A designed by Charles H. Day; vice president and consulting engineer of the standard Aircra,f., Corporation, of r.lizabeth, x. J., inventor of the tractor ryna of airplane which has been uni. yersally adopted by manufacturers.
 This machine will introduce new era in aerial transportation. It Is cauahle of carrying sixty passengers
New Britain herald., 1919-03-22
She Opposed the Kaiser

More than once Zita had chafed be- heath the insolence of the Hohenzol- lerns. An anti-German group formed at the court, with the young Empress as it's center. Long ago Zita had proved herself stronger in character, wiser in counsel, than her husband. Charles grew to depend on her judg- ment. He refused to take any impor- tant step without her advice. Eyes open to the shame and peril of an alliance with Germany, sympathies rubbed to the raw by the devastat ton of Belgium and France and the Italian plains, Zita threw all her influence on the side of the Allies.
 Through days of danger and temp tation she was a shining sword that thrust in aid of tho Allied cause. Tor this the world owes her a heavier debt to reckon.
 The very daring of her fight was a thing to make tho Sun Monarch and Philip of Spain and her other bold and suhtle forebears stir in their dusty tombs. A 9loEdcr gi-l---no more than th2t-matche} her wits. sraKco n.c diplomacy: against the most wily and ruthless veterans in tno a,. of in trigue. She crossed !%a>.;1!'s with Von IIin0cn5urc. She hnndied covert threats with Von Ludendorff. She op- posed lh" ha'Ser. scheme for scheme
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anguish which feil from Franz Joseph's lips when they brought him the dreadful news. "Oh, I am spared nothing-nothing!"
 While the Emperor sat crushed under the weight of his private grief Germany seized the pretext to thrust war upon the world The very flare of crime that lighted Zita to the steps of the throne started that flame in which the throne was soon to be consumed. Late in 1916 Franz Joseph fell into the sleep of peace which he had so long desired. Charles and Zita--the one tWenty-nine years old and the other twenty y-four-found themselves rulers of kingdom shaken to it's heart by the convulsions of war ard revolution.
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'rTs1tt8Slie Slueo0yOI 66lSluln was eller cousin and that two of her own sis nuns-Were being bombed by Hun airmen as they nursed the wounded in the hospitals of Eng land. Nor did chance omit the final ghastly touch: Zita's two faVorite brothers enlisted in the Allied army.
 It was. indeed, through one of these brothers that Zita became embroiled in accusations which have led to talk of divorce. When Emperor Charles wrote his now famous letter to Duke Sixtus, suggesting a separate peace for Austria, he knew well that this favorite brother of his wife would hand on the request to the French Government. But when the matter leaked out Charles weakly denied the whole affair and the fury of the Aus trian populace turned against the En- press. Quick to take advantage of the situation, the Kaiser started, through his agents, a series of islanders against the fair name of Zita. No proof that these were true has ever been offered. On the contrary the Emperor and his wife seemed devoted to each other until Austria-Hungary began definitely to dissolve. By that time the kaiser appeared to have poisoned the Empe- TOTS mind enough so that he quarreled with Zita over the Austrian prOposa Is for peace and gradually began to treat her with coldness and contempt.
 Long before this unhappy denoue- ment Zita must have seen that her idols feet were made Of the poorest quality of clay. But he was veritable idol, all gold and godlike, when first she saw him riding in the park at F'ranzenbad i1 Bohemia, on a
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1.-the man WHO VIII Wreck the King dom and your life.'
 They merely told her that he was the noble but unimportant Archduke Charles Francis, aged twenty-two, and as good-natured as his friendly blue eyes and mild yellow hair would sug :;est. They told her also that he WAS going to be the guest of her cousin. Archduchess Marie Annunziata, and this was most important fact Tor Alta happened likewise to be the guest of Archduchess Marie, and from the blithe little houseparty frolics there grew a friendship which ripened into love
New-York tribune., 1919-03-13
Hylon Says Teachers
Raise Is for .sHighcr Ups

Mayor Hylsn wrote a letter 10 mem
oers Of me Legislature yesterday in
which he charged that several school
bulls before the Legislature have for
their real purpose the raising of sala-
res Of the higher ups" in the Depart
ment Of Education.
There are those high up in the cdu-
cational department who are giving
very httle Of their time and attention
70 the duties for which they are paid"
wrote the Mayor. "These seem 10 be
more Interested in raising the salaries
OF those who are now we'll paid than in
providing sufficient school accomm oda-
Hons for the thousands Of children
now on part time.
The present superintendent, who is
ho~ receiving 10000, which is several
thousand dollars more than he re
eeiTed before his promotion d short
ne ago, is slated for an increase Of
$1,000 4 year.
heu fads and fancies, called new
ier,'.ee. arc started in the schools
= q not for the benefit Of the children
ru'e, but 20 promote the interest
some favoritc by giving him II high
New-York tribune., 1919-03-13
Drama
Short Play by Shaw Added to
the BIZ at the
Comedy
By Heywood Broun

4 new play Of Shaw's was seen at
the Comedy last night, when Augustus
Does His Bit was produced as cur
tain raiser to "Toby's Bow" The little
play is Shaw below his second best. but
after 70 long IN absence fven the third
rate products Of great dramatist are
welcome
The subject Of the new play is prom
isinE enough, for 1T concerns army fol
b.as. During the last foGr years satire
OF TINS sort has been almost unknown
! nthe theatre. Unfortunately. there is
htJe bite to the play 1t is q rather
careless bit Of caricature The hunor
iH broad and thin. After all. satire IS
not particularly effective when if doals
with fool so complete aa tho chief
character IN "Aurusfus pone His Rf''
This is nanslaughter rather than sat-
lluhort pruce plays the role sknfuNg.
although the part is too broad aud
shnliow creation t0 offer any great
acting opportunity Norman Trevor is
also effective. but his bnf' chance
comes in "lohy's Bow" The long play
Of John Tnint9r Foofc. which follows
the Shaw niece For all it's arrpnt son-
timontality. this is an amusing little
comedy and Trevor has not appeared
TO such good advantage since ho piaYod
the policeman i'm "a Kiss for Einder-
ella" George Marion performance Of
ihe old negro servant is ono Of the de-
lights of the season This iH hit If
work which desorves the attention Of
all lovers of tho art of ac'ng since n
combines finished technique ani "A
rare snir1l
New-York tribune., 1919-03-13
Miss Dorothy Lawrence
TO Bc Married Saturday
Writer VIII BE Bride Of Porto
Rico Planter, Who Served
in the War

MiHs Dorothy Lawrence. daughter Of
Frederick lawrence. Of New York;
Chicago and SIM Francisco. ii writer
viii be- married on Saturday morning
TO Ramon rere1 Nllamil in st. nor-
nnrd's Church. West Thirteenth Street
Mr.. Vlilamil is fl augar planter at
San Turco. Porto Rico, and during tho
war served ms lieutenant in the
37lth Infantry part Of which was the
Porto Rlcan contingent. Together
with troops from Florida and Louisi-
ana this unit was known as the "Wild-
eats"
Mr.. and Mrs Nillamil Will spend
their honeymoon on Mr.. Villamil's
plantation, but plan to return each
year to live at the Hotel Biltmore.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-13
Sufragists Elect
Delegates to Big
St. Louis Meetin g Q.
Organization of Non-Parti-
san Voters League Being
Planned; Discussion Of
the Federal Amendment

WASHINGTON, March 11.-State
suffrage organizations throughout the
country are holding meetings this
week to elect delegates for the annual
convention Of the National American m
Woman Suffrage Association to be
held IN st. Louis March - TO 90 The
District Of Columbia branch met at
national headquarters tonight to
choose representatives
The status of the equal suffrage
amendment in Congress will be pre-
sented to the convention by Mrs. Maud
wood Park, Congressional chairman Of
the National American Woman Suf
fragc Association. One dav will be
devoted to the relation Of the eunrsqe
amendment to Congress. Some Of tho
fne work and delicate manmuyrinq
Of the suifragists will be revealed nt
tho convention
1T is understood that Mrs Park hos
n poll Of the next Congress. but the
only announcement she will mike ia
that she is sure the amendment will
pnss
The largest piece Of work planned
TOR the suffrage convention is Tint of
organizing II Tongue Of women VOTERS
They Will be non pnrtisnn Primarily
they VIII use their votoa on bchhlf
Of The Federal suffrage emendment.
Other subicc to be studied md dis
cuHred by the women votcrh nre.
"What will women voters do 10 Fur
Their the welfare of women in indua-
try"
"liow may women voters conserve the
welfare Of ihe nations children ?"
How mny women voters assist the
movement toward improved social mo-
rality and social hygiene :"
Improvement of election methods and
how to unity and improve laws which
determine the legal staaus Of women
Will also be taken up by the women
voters.
The convention proper does not open
until Monday night, March "a Satut-
day and Sunday the board Of directors
Will meet. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
president of the organization, viii open
the convention with an address on the
Federal amendment.
Tuesday and Wednesday the conven-
tion will attend to its routine business.
Thursday and Friday sectional meet
ings Will be held Friday viii be cleo
tion day, and Saturday the national as
sociation and the voters league viii
hold a joint conference.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-13
10 Gisc Benefit Recital
Mime. Jlulda Iaehanslsa to Aid
v omen Workers

Mime lluldn Laehanehn VIII give "a
song recital for the benefit Of tic
school Of Design and Liberal Arts and
the New York League Of Womm
Workers in the ballroom Of the Wal
dorf-Astora ON Tuesday evening.
March 25. The proceeds viii 90 10
the scholarship fund Of the Arts
School mud the extension fund Of the
New York League.
The committee in charge includes
Mrs. Courtlandt Dixon Barnes. Mrs.
Joseph ". Burden, Mrs. Eugene Bon
jamin, Miss Margaret Blagden, Miss
Virginia Potter and Miss Gertrude
v hILLng.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-13
Memorial Concert for
U. 5. Soldiers Called OFF
Society of Friends of Music
Refuses to Change It's
BeefhnXen PrograInrne

The Society of the Friends Of Music
announced last night that memorial
concert for American soldiers who died
IN the war, which was scheduled for
April 13 at Carnegie Hall, would not
take place. Announcement that Bee
thoven programme would be given
brought protest which caused New
ton D. Baker, Secretary OF War, and
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy, TO reconsider their promises to
be present according to the society.
The Society Of the Cincinnati in the
State &C Now York, which made public
its condemnation of the concert last
night. added that not only was the pro
gramme TO be German, but the leader
was 20 be an Austrian. The statement
OF Mrs. James f. d. Lanier. president
Of the Society of Friends Of Music, fol-
lows:
The Society Of the Friends of Music
regrets to announce that it is aban-
donin glts nationwide tribute to the
officers and men Of the United States
army and navy which was to have been
given on April 49, The Secretaries of
War and Navy, who had consented to
%-Nt a. 4dti oio. nave now NllHGfdWH on
sccount of the protest against the CIV
ing Of a Beethoven programme. The
Society was asked to change its pro-
gramme. but is unwilling to be dictated
to in this matter by Mrs William Jay
and others, and, abhorring controversy
and disturbance, prefers to abandon the
concert. Walter Damrosch is giving
a Beethoven concert on Thursday and
Saturday Of this week. We leave judg-
ment to the intelligent public"
The protest Of the Society OF the
Cincinnati in the form Of resolutions
adopted by its standing committee fol
lows:
"Resolvcd, That the standing com
mitteo Of the Society Of the Cincinnati
i'm the State Of New York denounces the
plan as an insult to the memory of the
gallant men who made the supreme sac
ridce Of their lives in the war against
Germany in order that justice and
right may prevail in the world, and de-
sires hereby to enter its solemn pro-
test against the giving for such pur-
poses Of Il concert Of that descrip-
ton"