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The Duke1 of Orleans, Pretender
to the Throne of France and
Head of the" Ancient' House of
Bourbon, Who Has Run Away
from H W,ife, the Archduch
ess Maria Dorothea of Austria.
IT would certainly seem as it there
was no excuso for marital trou
bles among. tbo royal faplllcs.
Thesc:pcoplo of royalty are bora Into
tho world wth evcrythlng'thht most
peopjp Have to wotkiiandflgh't.fer
money, posftlori and little, or no cares.
Scarcely anything Is required of a
king, a queen -or a prince nowadays
except that they behave themselves.
The fine thing that might bo expected
of (hem Is' that they set an example
of domestic fidelity and self-restraint.
At'ti'o present moment Jind-ln tho'
past J6V weeks the world has been
treajejd . W .tfrtf sp'jjctjiclb t- halt', a
do2eKn. royal tows, runaways, deser
tions, separations and threatened di
vorces. The latest episode of this character
is tho wild flight of tho Princess Will
iam of Sweden from her. huiband.
Tho Princess was tho first cousin .of
the Czar of Russia and tho daughter
of the Grand Duko Paul of Russia.
Beforo her marriage she was known
as the Grand Duchess Mario Pav
lowna of Russia.
The Princess "William, otherwiso
the Grand Duchess Marie, is as hand
some and picturesque as an Ameri
can variety stage actress. In thH
respect she differs from most Euro
pean royalties, who look better fitted
for' the scrubbing profession.
Prince William Is tho younger
brother of King Gustavo of Sweden.
Ho Is a very lanky nnd rather homely
prince. During a long visit to tho
United States in 1007 ho impressed
everybody as a very democratic and
good-natured fellow. Ho complained
bitterly about a New York dentist's
bill for $800 for beautifying his face.
Sweden is a rather weak country '
that has a dangerous neighbor in.
Russia. Shb has to keep qn good
terms with tho Russian bear, and it
wa considered a fine thing when
Prlnco William In 1908 married
the first cousin of tho Czar. The
imperial family of Russia, which is
tho richest in the world, gave her a
dowry of $500,000 and a palace la
Stockholm, tho capital of her hus
band's country.
The royal family 6f Sweden is very
middle clairs. It is derived In the
male line from Bernadotte, that mar
shal of Napoleon who was un inn
keeper's son and married a trades-
The Brand New
Paris, Dec. 4.
FT. MARINETTI. tho great
leader of tho Futurist, movo-
ment in Europe, has Invented
a new kind of poetry that is worthy
of Futurist art
, Marlnettl has declared war on
present cpndltlons. Our govern
ments, our literature, our art all
must be changed straightway to
meet the demands of modern sci
ence. We must live quicker. Wo must
freo ourselves from all sentimental
ity Wo must recognize that there
1b no. hereafter, no beauty in land
scape, that war Is better than peace,
that the only real Joy is in violent
adventure.
The Futurists hate everything that
"pertains to culture and refinement.
The only beauty is violent, shocking,
something that stirs you up!
Marlnettl Is the poet of "wireless
ideas and freed words." connected
into sentences are unnecessary, For
example, bB "Siege of Adrlanople"
contains no sentences, Just noises
like these:
(Rattle chain constantly on floor
during recital.)
Doom Boom
. Boom! BOOM! Boom! Boom!
Bnng, Bang, Bang, Bang!
Dang, Bang!
Charge! Boomt Boom bayonets!.
Princes and Princesses, with
Nothing to Do but Behave
Themselves, Who Have Squab
hied, Acted Outrageously, or
Run Away from Home
xrian's-daughtor. Tho Swedish kings
nud princes hsvo discarded tho pomp
of royalty as far as possible, and Hto
like a cultlvnted professional family,
devoting themselves to music, paint
ing, literature and other high object.
The yoiing Russian princess, accus
tomed to, the barbarous luxury and
tho gay dissipation of St. Petersburg,
found thls'llfenltogether too slmplo
and unexciting. She wrote letters to
her Russian relatives and many
friends, recklessly making fun of tho
Swedish .royal , family, Its plebeian
origin and modest amusements. This
)cd to frequent quarrels with her hus
band. 1
To compensate for the unexciting
court life, the Princess acted as a spy
for the Russian War Offlco In Swe
den. She found a congenial compan
ion In a handsomo Russian military
attache. Recently a Swedish politi
cian discovered posltlvo cvldcnco that
tho Russian diplomatic representa
tives In, Sweden had been purchasing
Swedish military Bccrets. The Swe
dish Government declined to nsk for
the recall of tho Russian officials. It
now appears that this reluctanco was
tho Government's fear of revealing
tho Princess William's relations with
tho Russian officials.
When tho excitement was at itf
helghtthe Princess packed her trunk
and ran. away from her husband to
Paris. There she continues to pour
sarcasm uponhlmand all bls-famlly.
Stockholm' Is full of stories, about
tho escapades pf this madcap Prin
cess. According to one account, she
attended, municipal art classes dis
guised as a, working girl. That docs
not seem a very serious offense, but
having a secret residence In the city
is whispered against the' Prlnoess. In
any case, she had evidently not suffi
cient Interest or occupation to keep
her at home with her husband.
Tho Duko of Orleans, pretender to
tho throne of France, Is now a wan
derer upon unknown seas, -wbllo his
wife, an Austrian duchess,' is bring
lag a divorco suit against him.
Even tho German Kaiser's family
has beeB disrupted by- domestic un
rest. Tho Kaiser is a very affection
ato father, and he prides himself on
the fact that his family life is like
thnt of a simple, old-fashioned Ger
man family. All the women are sup
posed to understand cooking and
havo as many children as possible.
The Empress is an expert In every
branch of domestic science, nnd has
had. seven children. Her critics say
that, though she dresses expensively,
her tasto is shocking.
Now this very domestic Emperor
and Empress are pained to bear that
the wife of their second son, Prlnco
Eltel Fritz, has run away from her
husband. Tho Princess was formerly
the Duchess Sophie of Oldenburg,
and was married In 1000. She has
had no children, which has been u
cause of annoyanco to the Kaiser.
Prlnco Eltel Fritz is the fattest of
all tho Kalscr'ft sons. He Is said to
be devoted to the bottle nnd the table.
This may have something to do with
bis wife's leaving him. His dally la
Futurist Way of
Ah dash that-
-Boom! Boom!
-Boom! Boom I-
Move them up closer bang, bang!
. : Doom!
His "Twilight on the Seine" is
much of the same sort; gentle cboo-choo-choo-choo
Getting louder and
softer as the steamboats approach
and go away-a swear word or two
from a dispute between two cab
drivers on the bridge a gurgling
sound made in the throat to keep
the water In the mind of the hearer.
An automobile accident In the
streets of Paris In which a woman
killed Is depicted In the following
words:'
Honk! honk! honk !
Honk! honk! bonkt
Curses of
Cabdrlvers, truck drivers and
Chauffeurs.
Men, women and
Children running
for their lives.
Honk1! honk! honk!
Honk! honk! honk!
Poor girl hurrying home
from work,
Looks at young man.
Honk! honk! honk!
Honk! honk! honk!
Policeman foolishly waving
his arms.
Chauffeur cries:
"Curse you, get out of the
way!"
bors consist In putting on and taking
off tho uniforms of various regiments.
Onco ho fell heavily from his horse
nnd hurt hlmsolf, an accident which
uncharitable people connect with his
bibulous habits.
Tho Princess has run away to her
castle In Oldenburg and refuses to
return to -her husband. A generation
ago her husband or some other royal
relative would havo seized her and
taken her back home, for royal prin
cesses wero treated moro autocrati
cally than any subject To-day few
royalties would daro to exercise such
authority, nnd they aro more anxious
to keep tho scandal quiet than to
keep the Princess at home.
Another affair recently threatened
to disrupt tho serenity of tho Kaiser's
-family. His only daughter, tho Prin
cess Victoria Louise, married tbo
young Duko of Brunswick, who. Is
heir, to tho old kingdom of Ha,nover,
which Prussia seized long ago. Tho
Kaiser proposed to allow this son-in-law
to reign In tho dukedom of
Brunswick on condition that ho would
renounce his claim to Hanover, a
claim that has always been an un
pleasant reminder that one German
monarch has grabbed another Ger
man monarch's territory.
. -The Duko refused to renounce the
family claim. Tho Kaiser called upon
his. daughter to persuade her hus
band. She failed.
, Tho poor Prlucess
was torn between
allegiance to her
Imperious father and
her young husband.
Suddenly the Kaiser
gave in and allowed
his son-in-law to havo
his dukedom with
out giving up his
claim to a kingdom.
Another episode
which has greatly
injured tho .prestige
of royal families is
tho affair between
King Manuel and his
wife. Ever ybody
knows that the bride
of the young ox
King of 'Portugal
within a month of
their marriage was
seized with a myste
rious illness. She
remalnod In a hos
pital for two weeks,
and 1 during that
tlmo it waa freely
asserted that she"
would never return
to her husband.
Very circumstantial
reports concern
lng tho nature of her
Illness explained
The Kaiser's Charming
Daughter and Her Young
Husband, Whose Honey
moon Was Disturbed by an
Old Dynastic Question.
. this unwillingness. There was much
In King Manuel's previous career to
lend color to these reports.
If a king without a throne and no
work to do cannot keep.a wife for a
month, of what use is ho? It is true
Writing Poetry
Honk! honk! honk!
Honk'! bonk! bonk!
Shrieks.
Squash!
Blood!
Silence!
Honk! honk! honk!
Honk! honk! honk!
Flesh is cheap.
Marlnettl has rewritten Tenny
son's "Charge of tho Light Brigade,"
which he considers to have good
points In this form:
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Clatter of horses.
Rattle! Rattle! RatUe!
Idiot gives wrong order.
Soldiers curse, don't argue.
Paid to be killed.
Russian guns all wound them.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Bangl Bang! Bang!
Whlzz! Boom!
Ripping flesh,
Squash! Whirr! Whiz!
Shrieks; Howls! Curses!
Six hundred idiots
Better dead.
Still we admire them.
Hope to see more killed
next time.
Mr. Marlnettl, publshlng an expla
nation of his dltistlc ideas, says:
"Futurism has for its principle the
complete renewal of human sensi
tiveness under the action of tho
great scientific discoveries. Horror
of all that is old and well known la
at the base of the movement. I glvo
all this in my new poetry."
Copyright, 1913,
that since then
Manuel and his
wife havo boon
living together,
but n strong Im
pression prevails
that this is only
a temporary ar
rangement to
which they havo
been forced by the
anxiety of their families to avoid on
unparalleled scandal.
At this moment Manuel's career,'
and tho
honeymoon
lesson
claltsts
Up
death
family
or' separated
Such
rifled her. She would havo dono her
utmost to prevent it, nnd then she
would havo given tho offenders a
tremendous lecture. Within twelve
months of her death one of hor grand
daughters, tho Grand Duchess of
Hesse, obtained a divorco from her
husband, tho Grand Duko.
As a matter of fact, ho left her
husband and made things so unpleas
ant for him that ho declared himself
dlvotccd by his own authority as sov
e reign.. The Grand Duchess told her
friends how hor
husband spent
his time In boor
ish nnd silly
a m us ements
bqulrtcd dirty
water down her
neck at the din
ner table, dress
ed himself as u
woman and did
other odd things.
Her life was one
of utter misery.
In a few years
the d i v o r ced
Grand Duchess
married the
Grand Duko Cy
ril of Russia, an
other cousin of
the Czar. It Is
into resting to
note that during
seevn years of
married lifewtli
the Grand Duko
mysterious happening on his virvj!? ' W. H , f vV
is being used ns an object .'llUV. i VZ 5Kk. fJclfci. v TTt&K
against monarchy by tho So- trttWiKS ? XXCL "Ztift & ' U ! )
of every European country. OT; Y.V3&;Vi W S Jfc JM",WlKj?! fcAjl V - Tfftt&
to tho time of Queen Victoria's V,V-;T.It W ' ' JSP WfMV, .
no immediate members of her l tfAr&XW JPV ,fi f. -l WW' W& ifclfl
had ever obtained a divorco ;;&5t , . - I)u ' r F
from wife or husband- ivK'S 31. " ' : f ff A S ' JJSVj3
nn occurrence would havo hor- V. ".V??5 l 'iArtSS' . " ftf.;$S&V.V
of Hesseehehad Ex-King Manuel of Portugal, with His Bride,
DO Children, but Thii- HnnAVmnnn H. !l.n,1r.,l P..I.K.
within two years
of her second
marriage she was
blessed by two. The situation grows
still more complicated when we find
that the Grand Duko of Hesse mar
ried a second time and had two chil
dren within two years.
Dozens of cases of separations and
disagreements in royal families havo
occurred within tho past two years,
and everybody knows of others that
are likely to become public from day
to day.
Close observers believe that the
Ideas of Mrs. Punkburst and other
leaders of woman's emancipation
have penetrated into royal circles.
Royalty was until recently the great
est stronghold of the old barbaroUb
convention that man may do as he
pleases and women must be strictly
virtuous. The royal husband is al
by the Star Company.
Great Britain
vi.m 7"' .fcsc iww
BB' ' '' '
. -uui, wfriiiuuii mure i nan Any
Other Occurrence in Royal Families.
lowed even more than the ordinary
man's license to disregard mornlltv.
m ' tr w
while the royal wife is told that sho.
Inust avoW even the appearance of
unconventlonallty.
1'rincesses nro married by their
families or by tbo politicians of their
country to princes they do not lovo
and perhaps scarcely know. They are
told they must do nothing but raise
children and wear expensive clothes,
and pretend that they are perfectly
liappy wives,
The arrangement suits the averago
prince, because it leaves him free to
indulge all his sensual tastes without
hlndranco or responsibility. To tho
wife It means a kind of gilded im
prisonment. The tyranny to which royal prln-
Rights Reserved.
Whose Separation During
rr-, .
ccoscs were subjected until
wvu t tj nUUlU UlUlvOb
'Amcrlmn mmnn.hMmnn. Th
Queen of Roumania, known to Wl7e
mrntn, .'r-o.mn vim "ire
In her recently published mem-
olrs tells bow her grandfather Kun Away from Her Husband,
used to beat his second wife, an
amiable and talented young woman, slblo or moral. That is natural, be
Such practices wero common among cause they have been reared in idle
royal families at that time. The ac- ness nnd nursed on wrong tradition
cldental fact that her father was de- They carry the heritage of many gen
voted to culture made the Queen the orations of wrongdoing in their brains!
exceptional figure she is among toy-
altles.
To-day there ale lgus of revolt
among the women of nearly overy
royal family against the old conven
tions and tyrannies. Some of their
methods of revolt are not very sen-
D,,r.1,,.. ct,: i: ni.T.-i
f the Kr. Xnrl q
or tne rVaiser s second Hon,
cjvci rruz, ants nai juki
and nerves.
But the great arcuments of thd
modern woman's movement havei
reached the Inmates of the royal
.harems. A revolt from within will
help to break up the artificial and
antiquated svstem of hereditary rule.