The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-02-27 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

SOME ROYAL LIFE SAVERS.  - - There is a large number of princes and princesses of the blood who wear among their other decorations medals for saving life at the risk of their own—medals that, have not been granted by way of mere compliment, but which have been honestly and honourably earned by their possessors; And besides these, there are several monarchs whose courage and presence of mind 'entitle them to wear this highly-prized badge, but who are prevented from so doing by reason of the fact that it falls within their attributes as sovereign to confer it, and that they are too modest concerning their own .achievements to bestow it upon themselves. Where I think I have seen this medal to most advantage was nestling among the lace adorning the corsage of the beautiful and statuesque Archduchess Maria Theresa, the youthful consort of the elder brother and heir of Emperor Francis Joseph. The Archduchess won her medal at a fire which broke out in the little town of Reichenau, which adjoins her splendid country seat ol Wartholz. The Archduchess dashed through the flames to the rescue of a child, and emerged a few moments later with the half suffocated infant in her arms, her magnificent hair and her clothes being badly singed. She had hardly reached the street, amid a storm of cheers, when the roof fell in. No was the medal conferred upon her by her brother in-law, the Emperor, the only token of re cognition that she received for this act of gallantry. The central association of the lire brigades of the empire elected her anhonorary member of their corporation. Another royal lady decorated with this medal is the Dowager Queen Pia of Portugal, who is as magnificent a swimmer as the Queen Regent of Spain, or Princess Helen of Orleans. Queen Pia, while fully dressed, swam out into the sea at La Granja some years ago, and rescued two children whose boat had been capsized by the heavy sea then running. Her son, the present King of Portugal, ought by rights to wear one of these medals as well, having last year personally intervened in a struggle between two men, and saved the life of the weaker of the two, in addition to holding the would-be murderer until assistance could be procured. King Oscar of Sweden wears a life-saving medal, granted to him before he ascended the throne by Emperor Napoleon 111. Hellas the right to wear several medals of this sort, for the act of courage thus recognised by the French ruler is by no means the only service to humanity rendered by the royal Anak. The feat in question was the stopping, on the Corniche Road of a pair of runaway horses which were on the point of precipitating themselves along with the carriage and its occupants over a precipice on to the rocks many hundred feet below. He likewise plunged into the water to save a boy from drowning at Nice, and while serving in the Swedish navy sprang overboard one very squally night to save a sailor who had fallen into the sea from the cruiser which he was then commanding. His son, Prince Oscar, wears a Swedish medal for saving the life of a drowning man, whose boat had been capsized by a sudden puff, in the port of Carlskrona. Almost identically the same feat was performed a couple of years ago by the gigantic Prince George of Greece, who dived from the quarter-deck of a man-of-war anchored in the Bay of the Pincus to rescue a sailor from a watery grave. He has likewise been specially decorated by the Emperor of Russia for preserving the Czarevitch from death in • Japan. Yet another wearer of the life-saving medal is the pretty Princess Eleanore Solms. She was walking with her sister, Princess Marie, at Dresden, a couple of years ago, when she caught sight of a runaway horse ridden by a lady who had lost control of the animal. Without hesitation both girls threw themselves at the horse's head. Princess Marie, the younger, was dashed to one side, fortunately unhurt; but Princess Eleanore succeeded in grasping the bridle, and was dragged for thirty yards before the beast stopped, when, woman-like, she fainted away.  In washing, MATCHLESS CLEANSER is a. perfect Treasure. It saves much work and time, to use it is a pleasure. 1  11111111M11111111111111i11111111111111111111111111112