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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-27

/ tanned at dinner Friday evening a.
their home on Topeka boulevard.
| There were places for:
| Governor and Mrs. Allen,
| Rev. and Mrs. B. NJ. Powell,
Prof. and Mrs. L. d. Whittemore,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Morgan,
Mr.. Joab Mulvane,
Mrs. Colburn,
Mrs. Herrick,
Mr.. Davis.
Mrs. Russell Frost will entertain
the members of her sewing club al
luncheon Wednesday at her home on
Jewell avenue
Mrs. Robert Carver, of BartlesviIle
Okla, who is the guest of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs George Parkhurst, was
guest of honor at dinner Saturday eve
ming given by Mr.. and Mrs Tom LII.
lard. Mrs. Lillard will compliment
|, Mrs Carver with bridge luncheon to
be given at her home Tuesday.
An inter-fraternity party will be
given at Kellam hall Wednesday eve
Phe hosts will be the men of the
Washburn chapters of Phi Delta
Theta, Alpha Delta, Kappa Sigma,
Gamma Alpha and Phi Alpha Delta,
The chaperons will include:
DR.. and Mrs. Paul Farley Womer
Dean and Mrs. D. l. McEachron
Dean and Mrs. Pierre Zampiere p
Dean and Mrs. Harry K. Allen
Dean Susan Guild.
The hall will be effectively decor
ated in the different fraternity colors
and there will be bridge as well as
dancing during < the e evening !.
The young women's auxiliary o6the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society
of the First NJ. Z. church will be en-
tertained by Mrs. B. NJ. Davies at her
home ct 320 West Sixth street, Tues
- y -
The Business and Professional
Women's club viii hold q "get-ac-
quainted" meeting this evening at the
Y. w. c. A.
The RQwena club will meet Tues
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Dean Way, 612 Buchanan street.
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Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. Burge, Mrs. A.
T. Lucas and Miss Lula Fordyce will
motor to Muscotah to spend Thanks
giving with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles CAL
vert.
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- Mrs. w. R. Falkiner will be hostess
to the members of the Ideal club Tues
day afternoon at her home on West
Sixth avenue.
The social order the Beaucent will
have business meeting Tuesday aft
ernoon followed by an interesting pro-
gram.
The program will include several
readings by Miss Grace Elmore,
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Chef Had Plenty
But He Could
Hardly Eat

Even an expert chef for an up-to-
date restaurant. with everything
heart could wish ia the eating line
and the skill to prepare it in the most
appetizing manner, finds life niser-
able and work a burden with his ap-
petite gone and his health all broken
up on account of stomach trouble.
according to his own statement,
such had been the case for two years
with William Lackey. sos North Wells
street, Chicago, Ill, chef at a popular
North Clark street. restaurant, who
says he recently found relief by taking
Tanlac.
Mr.. Lackey now boasts of won
derful appetite" and a stomach that
dsSests such things as ham and eggs,
corned beef and cabbage, and rich
pastries. foods that would have al
most put me out of commission be-
fore I took TanIac'
Before ] ran across this medicine,
said he, ct was having to lay off from
may work for a week at a time just
on account of the numerous ills suf-
Eared from indigestion. But when l
tell you 1 have gained fifteen pounds,
eat and digest anything, and am ON
the job every day feeling fine, you may
Know how L appreciate Tanlac."
Tanlac is sold by all good drug
Elsts.-Adv-
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BAD BREATH
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets Get
at the Cause and Remove Tt.

DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets, the sub
stitute for calomel, act gently on the
bowels and positively do the work.
People afflicted with bad breath
find quick relief through DIR. Edwards
Olive Tablets. The pleasant, sugar
coated tablets are taken for bad
breath by all who know them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets act gem
tly but firmly on the bowels and liver.
stimulating them to natural action,
clearing the blood and gently purify
ing the entire system. They do that
which dangerous calomel does with
out any of the bad after effects.
All the benefits of nasty, sickening,
gripping cathartics are derived from
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets without
gripping, pain or any disagreeabIe ef-
fects.
DIR. f. NJ. Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years Of prac-
tice among patients afflicted with
bowel and liver complaint, with the
attendant bad breath.
Olive Tablets are purely a vegetable
compound mixed with olive oil; you
will know them by their olive color.
Take one or two every night for a
week and note the effect. 15c and
30c.-Adv.
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playIet and group>of readings by the
girls from the expression department
of Washburn college, and the music
win be furnished by the Sigma Alpha
Iota sorority.
The cottage prayer meeting of the
Trinity M. E. church will be held
Tuesday morning at $3.50 o'clock at
the following homes:
Mrs. William Harverfield, 1893
Polk street.
Mrs. Ida weatherbee. 1904 Harri-
son street
Mrs. L. NJ. Hause. ITO Topeka
boulevard. .
Mrs. G. A switzer, 2020 Topeka
boulevard.
: Mrs. c. r. Baker. los West Twelfth
avenue.
An afternoon prayer meeting will be
held Tuesday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
at the home of Mrs Charles Pardee,
$40 East Seventeenth street.
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Mrs. Horace Hall will entertain at
luncheon Wednesday, complimentary
to Mrs George NJ. Crawford, who will
leave next week for New York City to
visit her son, Mr. Marshall Crawford.
Mrs. Crawford will spend Christmas as
the guest of Senator and Mrs Capper
in Washington, d c., and will return
home early in February.
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Among family dinner parties
planned for Thanksgiving will be one
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Bonebrake.
There viii be places laid for:
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Willard
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard s. Ferry
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bonebrake
Mrs. Reid Alexander
Mr.. F. NJ. Bonebrake
Miss Clyde Bonebrake
Miss Henrietta Alexander
Miss Mary Alexander
Miss Jane Alexander
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H Searle will also
nave guests for a family dinner, at
which places viii be laid for eighteen.
MIR. and Mrs, A. A Rodgers, Mr..
and Mrs Schuyler c. Nichols, Mr. and
McVey, and Mrs Frank Manspeaker
have asked guests for family dinner
parties.
MIR. and Mrs. E. c. Arnold enter
tanned at dinner at their home in Pot
win Sunday evening.
Places were laid for:
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Gault
Ar. and Mrs. Richard F. Hayden,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph c. Wilson,
MIR. and HRS. Arnold.
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Mrs John Shelby Kritser, Jr-, Mrs
Russell Frost, Mrs. Will ]. Miller, Mrs
James S. Hayes, Mrs. Warwick Upde-
graft, Mrs. Holmes Meade, Mrs. Louis
Hail and Miss Ariel Nichols had
luncheon together today at the Choco-
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Looking Blackboard in State
Journal Society Column
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
NoveEnher 81. 1909.

November 81, 1909.
Mrs William Redwood Smiths reception
afternoon served to introduce to her To-
peka friends under most agreeable cir
cumstances her sister, Mrs. Harriet Mcin-
tyre, of Wichita and her niece. Miss
Frances Solomon, Of Atchison. The hours
were from 3 TO O'Clock and the fortunate
fortIity of perfect autumn day con-
Mrs. Mcintyre and Miss Solomon received
with the hostess who was further assisted
by Mrs. Charles Blood Smith. Mrs j. h
Hudson, Mrs. w. A. Johnston, Mrs J ames
King, Mrs. G. G. Foster. Mrs. Dell Keller,
Mrs J. ID. Mcfarland Mrs. Eugene Hagan,
Miss Helen Thompson, Miss Emile King,
Miss Foster, Miss Lillian Foster, Miss
Smith and Miss Helen Smith. The re-
eeiving party was in the drawing room
where pink chry santhemums supplemented
with palms and ferns in DECORATION; tne
lights gIowed thru pink shades and the
punch table was adorned with pink satin
bows from which ribbon strands extended
red and the originf lily of the table decora-
tion attracted especial comment. The
flowers were red chrysanthemums massed
played in the center and in which tiny
gold fish swan. Red candles under red
shades lighted the buffet and cabinets.
dining room and the orchestra behind a
screen of palms in the hall.
Mrs. Harry Z. Lyman entertained forty
five guests at thimbles Thursday afternoon
Miss Alice Lyman, and an impromptu mu-
sical program was given by Mrs. John
Miss May Ke1lam is the guest of her
niece, Miss Helen. Brown, in Chicago,
Miss Ethel Shay and Miss Marjorie
spend Thanksgiving, the former with Mrs.
f. H Anderson, the latter with Miss Mar
garet Carney.
Joined Mr. Morgan at the Copeland for
the winter.
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late shop. followed by an afternoon at
bridge at the home OF Mrs. KritseT
Mrs A S. Matthews team of the
Woman's club will have an all day
meeting Tuesday at the home of Mrs.
G. w. Seely, 227 Broadmoor avenue.
to make articles for the Novelty booth
at the Bazaar to be held December 8
and . in Kellam hall.
The members of the team are:
Mrs Matthews ~
Mrs. W. s. Amos
Mpe- w. A. Barrett
Mrs. Bernard Crosby
Mrs. F. A Frye
Mrs. George McDermott
Mrs Amos Rabe
Mrs. Clinton Scott
Mrs. c. w. Seely
Mrs F. d. Alden
Mrs d. A. Bragg
Mrs. J. f. Diller
Mrs. Theodore Hammatt
Mrs Tom Moser
Mrs. Nat Black
Mrs. r. c. Werth
Miss Susie Sweet
s. -
Mrs. Isaac Jones will entertain her
bridge luncheon club Tuesday at her
home on Mulvane street. Mrs. Fred
Bonebrake will substitute for an alb
sent member.
Mrs. Duane Elmora was hostess to
her sewing club this afternoon at her
home on Clay street.
Guests other than the club members
we're Mrs. Laird Dean. Mrs. willis
Carney, Mrs. Leslie Edmonds and Miss
Gertrude Williamson of Mt. Vermont.
Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Coppock OF
Albuquerque, N. NJ, are the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wore.
Mrs. Wore entertained informally to-
day with luncheon complimentary to
Mrs Coppock-
Mrs. John RahiIl, Mrs. W. E. Atchi-
son and MRS Guy Kiene were guests
at a dinner given Saturday evening in
the Breakfast Room at the Y. w. G. A.
by members of Group of the Central
Congregational church of which Mrs
c. S. Vincent is chairman and Miss
Anna Heartburg, treasurer.
Covers were laid for:
Mrs. Rahiu
\ Mrs. Atchison
Mrs. Kiene
Mrs George Washburn
Mrs. Clara Boyd
Mrs. Lutte Embleton
Mrs. Cora johnson
Mrs. C. S. Vincent
Miss Ellen Heartburg
Miss Roberta McKirahan
DIR. Martha Mccoy
Miss Mary Rees
Miss Louise>Wolcott
Miss Bessie waite
Miss Helen Caps
Miss Nina Chapman
Miss Florence Cravens
Miss Jessie Dean
Miss Bessie Forbes
Miss Hattie Halbert
Miss Jessie Howard
Miss Ellen Hulse
Miss Winifred McKirahan 4
Miss Alice Mccoy
Miss Ella Pixley
Miss Stella Wolcott
Mrs. Augusta Waite
Miss Anna Heartburg
y =
Mr.. John P. Davis and his daugh- |
-ers, Mrs. Charles G. Colburn. and |
Mrs. Robert Thomas Herrick, enter |
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Hurry! It's your duty! Each day
you see a little more hair falling out
and you are making no effort to avoid
badness. What a pity. Falling hair
means your hair is weak, sick-pos-
sibly dandruff is strangling it, or the
hair root pores in the scalp are not
firm and tight, thus wasting the hair
growing oils.
Danderine almost instantly stops
falling hair of men or women and
cleans every particle of dandruff away,
then the hair takes on new life, vigor
and strength to grow strong, thick,
and long.
Danderine is delightfuI-not sticky
or greasy. Go to any drugstore now
and get a bottle. Use it. Have
healthy, heavy. beautiful hair and lots
of it.
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A coat could scarcely be more
modest and unassuming than tf's
one and yet every coat this year,
no matter how plain, must have its
fur collar. This practical model
Is made of dark gray mariaro cloth
and the collar i of black caracuI,
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Soil From, Hungary
for Birth of Bubu

In the meantime, through the goodness
Of hins Alfonso OF Spain, she was
invited to occupy castle mt Par,lo. Il
suburb Of Madrid. at least until aft.v
Ter baby was born. She accepted tn.
iind cfcr. and received the Hungarian
'jil in Spain.
Two caskcts Of soil arrived. ard was
spr'hkled underneath the bed on which
she lay. \ daughter was born ,o b.r
two months after the death of hcr brs-
band. This child she called Mari.
Crsstina N.ctoria Eugcnia. after the
Queen Mother and the Queen of Spain.
Lita is st!ll young woman, and
neither grief nor poverty has dulled her
acute mind. Staunchly she cl!ngs 10 her
hope that 'hcr little EMPEROR" Otto.
may in truth one day BE- King.
The child has not been Informed that
hungary Is mutilatcd. He has really
been Acclaimed by the royalsts OF
Hungary as their King but he remains
in spain with lis mother. He is be-
ing taught the pre-war Hungarian from :.
tiers.
Ita's spirit is unbrokcn. She In
bringing up her seven children as best
she can under the circumstances. They
ar" all in good health, and they play
WIN the other children of tho village.
III" h>hernen'S sons and daughters.
They arc taugh: to be rs democratic
as their mother is. They are taught
TO expect that their claims to the old
Hapsburs throne will be answered fa :
| vorably--they are lraiLed 10 function
among nobility.
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future Queen a Strong
sympathetic Woman

She was u splendid young woman,
strong, rather willful and gay and
an accomplished musician.
Early in her life, as u romantic
enid, she had adopted for her motto
the device: "More for you than for
me-" 1t was her doctrine Of sym.
pathy' Of love for all people, her
se!f'immolation that gained her the
love OF her sisters and her friends.
About the year 1909, at Sthe
'nateau OF Chambord, her fathers
estate, she met the Archduke Charles
Francis Joseph Of Austria. Hungary.
AZ that time Karl had no thought Of
accession to the throne. His uncle,
the Archduke Francis Ferdinand,
VINO had taken unto himself q NOR
ganatic wife, stood between Karl
Aha the throne, and the eighty-three-
ysar'old Emperor Francis JOSEF,
apparently was dstermined to live
feesvsr., ss l.<lg t B h .,,1
ksrl .was ssout III ysan xieas
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Just a Poor Woman
With FanailH to Feed

II the Royalists of Hungary should
succeed in having otto returned 10 the
royal armchair, Zita would WELD the
power until he came Of aye ut eighteen.
The strong probabilities are, however,
that Z!ta and her son will never SEQ
their former spl,ndor returned again.
And it is Il strange plight for noble
woman. She IS poorer than n church
mouse, who once was as rich as
Crocsus: hurdcncd with the care of
many children. who once had servants
to do her bidding. To-day, she lives in
the fishing village ni Souuc,to on the
west coast OF Spain and the kind fisher
men are paying her rent.
Kings aud queens have had to endure,
stranger r"vers"s than this, PERHAPS
but none cherished futures 50 promising
as Iita's.
Today she is lik" any other widow
with brood ~ hungry chill
dren at her skirts. She ,l"csu't know
where her next lrnnJ ~ coming from !;
if it comes at all it will come in char
ity, as alns-a kind Of gift 10 keep one
out of the poorh"usc.
But what is infinitely more tragic
than her poverty j. the extent OF her
tuN: with the hope that must rest in
the back Of her mind that on" day again
Sh" VIII become queen Is tho memory
tEnt must tortur" hrr that once in u
time sh" was queen.
by ana larG", il woUIu appear that
grief and defeat must be measured by
III" contrast of ''bofurr" and AFTER" 4
woman trained for ease ard comfort.
i'purl>hing under th. conviction thar
her children will nnmb"r among the
NFs,l
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All li.!s business ivrl';,' cu E4uf.5 -. her
Suhjrr,>, and certainly The German
kuis"r. l. - r"Iat"i rhu' hr orig!uat ted
SANDERS Hh",.t /ttH'> personal HE, III
an attempt - stir up H." people against
l"r. l. - related that The oh!,ct
"f many ~ III" G"ru,au rnids over Eng
land VIZ" "'l''onl> =" Kill. Yer jwp nun
SISTERS.
piii,l' u~ al 'u.s j. t. believe. I.
was quite gcurga'Iy believed I'll" Kaiser
dire rtcr Il great l,"r,i"u of hi> a,,ru-
don I" destroy n some way the power
81 tins BRAY" woman.
And, indirectly, he >urrccd,-l. With
rAr signing ui ,l., aruislicr knrI and
I'ia w"r" forced /" r"InlutSh the
throne ol Austria: though The Lispos!
,i"n Of the thr"L" ~ Hungary was left
n som" doubt.
Kari wa. l,4lr,prrLru. In, Iit, h,rn
~ uu,l,, III" disaster Win gron, frrti
'u,i". -" "u,uuragrl .rr husband ia
his n''"mpJ ~ cu'u control again Oh
.'" Hungarian Tyrone. -" accom-
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Entertained No Hope
of Ascending Throne

However, they continued to be-
friends. When Zita travelled about,
Karl most ingenuously followed her.
He went to the Isle Of Wight when
she went there, and learned the Eng.
lish language in the bargain.
At ball in 1911 they declared
their love for each other. In June
Of that year they announced their
engagement, and the following Octo-
Der were married ut the castle at
Schwarzenau. They. honeymooned
at Brandeis Castle in Bohemia.
The newly married couple lived
together as any officer and his wife
lived. There were no pretensions,
no unusual luxuries, no expectations
Of ever occupying the throne Of
Austria Hungary. The Archduchess
Zita presented her proud husband
with babies. There was Francis
Joseph Otto in November, 1912;
Adelaide III January, 1914.
And in August or thereabouts that
year the Archduke Francis Ferdi-
nsnd was assassinated at Sarajevo.
The murder touched the torch that
set Europe afame, but it also made
Karl heir presumptivc.
Joys seem never to come without
pain to balance them. Sorrow over
the" sudden death Of an uncle hurt
Karl, but the possibility Of becoming
Emperor Of the dual monarchy car.
ried its element of joy.
The sapphires seemed to be doing
their heralded business.
With the mad devastation of war
sweeping horror into the lives IT mil.
lions, the aged Emperor died, and Karl
mounted the throne.
Now II sorhsppsned that Zits had
svsr hsea IN seeunandiin thsir nsdsst
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She. opposed vigorously through her
husband tho sending Of Ausirians and
IlungArinns Ia fight on the French bor.
drgS. She insisted that her soldiers
should tight only against those neigh
hors which threatened the homeland -
against the Russians, Kumanians aud
the Italians.
This attitude was largely misunder-
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stood. She was charged vJn rrN.
enemy syInpnthies. No one ~rclurd TO-
rrmcmbcr that OF al countries Ila'N
was her most beloved before lc' mur-
rlag".
turthcsnlore, when her Two brothers
Stxtua and Aavier, came ~ her 10 ask
whSthsr they should serve tie Ger.
msfssr tho Allie, she took them to the
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senior. He was j man trained for
the army. He was not especially
prepossessing, but his mind was Of
q turn similar to that Of Zita's.
They liked each other. Later when
the old Emperor met Zita, he de-
clared his approval and fondness for
her. However, there was much
antipathy to this friendship.
Politically minded officials re-
sented even then too close connec-
ton with Italy and France through
q daughter in whose veins ran the
blood Of both nations.
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house hold in the days before 1914. Zita
possessed the resource, the determine. =.
ti0n. She had many of the old fashioned
qualities Of the housewife, who man
poses while husband PROPOSES.
And many were tho whispered words
which pictured Zita % tha pewse behll1
the thf6hs. During the var, rsSuAay
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foreign soil. That. somehow, seemed
unbearoblc 70 her. So she requested tho
allied government to permit hcr 70 nb.
tain som" liunsarnu soil
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EASx4lN7S HELP KEEP
WOLF FROM HER DOOR
Seven Children the Burden
to LnckIeJS. Though
Plucky Young WIidogv

rIAS sapphire many
owners last brought ircvocabc life
x.Empress Zta Of Austria. Hungary?
brought guotnc poverty and
strain Of insanity the family Of the Parma
And the exEmpcs exied and impoverished faces but little
else than future of impecunious widowhood.
Years daughter Anonette
broochearngs when daughter away be
4 France
sanity told make brooches Of your
sapphire earrings Give Marie We pray upon the other
vilb herlu luck"
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tue babies same. Robert Charles Louis
In February, 1915: Felix Fredr-'rk
August in May, 1916. They gave Iita
much work to do. but they did NOT PIE.
Interest in the tremendous events tha.
were shaking the world. s. .s-..
There ID no doubt that q portion
soS her sympathy went IN the Allies,
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But it didn't bring Marie luck. II
brought her tragedy.
One Of the brooches remained with
the Bourbon family and one re-
NAMED with the house of Austria.
And a legend grew that the day
the two brooches were brought TO-
gether, then and then only would
luck come.
1t came to pass that when Prin-
cess Zita was twenty, her father,
the Duke Of Parma, gave her the
brooch which had brought him SO
much pain. In his studies Of occult
sciences and mystical prophecies, he
had learned that one day his house
and the house Of Austria would come
to glory in union.
The prophecy came true. Arch
duke Karl Of Austria-Hungary met
and woocd Zita, and he brought her
the other brooch. Two years later
his uncle was murdered at Sarajevo.
The assassination started the war,
but it made Zita Empress.
Luck Came to Her,
but 1t Did Not Last
The "luck princess" people called
her. "The legend was true," they
said. True, but the luck didn't last.
The ominous sapphires soon were up
to their old tricks. The strain Of
ill-luck seemed to renew itself. And
Empress Zita remained Empress
only so long as the blood Of the
world was shed in France.
Her subjects perished, her banks
collapsed, her throne toppled; she
was exiletl with her unborn and
seventh child, her husband died-she
lay alone, far from her people, in
Spain.
What further the wheel Of things
VIII bring her no one knows. But
her life is permanently sorrowful.
She has seven children to care for
and an empty purse.
Her story is perhaps the most
pathetic of all the fallen monarchs
Of Europe.
The Archduchess Zita was born at
the Villa Rcale at Pianore, in the
Italian Province Of Lucea. Her
father was Duke Henri Of Parma
and her mother the Duchess Marie
Antoinette. The family was Of
Italian and French stock and Zita
vas the twelfth child in a family
Of twenty-one.
She always considered herself All
Italian noblewoman. Part Of her
youth was spent in Vienna, part in
france and part in Italy. II any
body, she Of all persons developed a
sense of international sympathy.
Later in her youth she finished her
schooling in convent on the Isle Of
Wight, where two Of her sisters
We're nuns