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THE BUN, SUNDAY, NOV
SHROUDED
Death of the Czar
inaAgainReported '
but Lack of De
tails Casts Doubt
on GreatestRoyal
Downfall f
Strange Episodes
in Her Life And
Especially Ras
putin's Influence
Attributed to
Mental Disorder
A
THERE! seems no longer , to be
eorioua question but that the
unhappy last' Empress ot "All
the Russians anil every dno ot her
children have followed (ho last ot the
Czars Into eternal night, dying as he
ijled. secretly tor the moment, perhaps
forever abscurely; executed,, whloh 1st
to say murdared., by their Jailers, the
Bolshevik! So far as has been
teamed th .nine was done within the
summer u Bkaterlnburg In tho Urals.
All comretent witnesses ot the em
pire's fall havo agreed In' testifying
that the Czarina was nt least the in
strument by which the dynaety was
mdermlned and her husband over
thrown, Thero Is now a sensational
xport, which certainly should be left
for the most careful Investigation, of
vlJence that aho was traitress as well
s dupe, and that the death of Kttch
tner, who waa l03t off tho Orkney
rjlands with tho British cruiser which
vs taklrjg him to Russia on a special
mission, was encompassed by the Qr
fnans on tho Czarina's own tip over a
private telephone wire.
Champions of her memory will not
ntcd to question that such a wlro ex
isted, or even that tho messago fatal
io Lord Kitchener went over It. Both
seem eminently possible. 'What will be
questioned is that Alexandra Feodo
rovna herself did or knew ot or counte
nanced tho telephoning and any other
jctrayala ot the kind.
Characters In Ilomantle Literature
Tho question of, her Integrity has no
Hcrious Importance now, but It has in
terest, and ,ln future will have more:
tho last Romanoffs -will' probably be
'he characters of a whole romantlo
literature of epics, "plays and stories.
nd as somebody remarked when It
was rumored that he was' dead, the
ost Czarevitch Is likely to' bo as
ubiquitous for tho next fifty years hs
-na.s the lost Dauphin.
The Czarina was a strong figure, in
the sense ot being Imperious, Inflaxlble
or obdurate. But she was not u
ftron'-f nature. Her force of per
sonality was tho symptom of a disease,
exactly what this disease was the
alienists and neurologists must say.
They are certain to pronounce It either
a form of Insanity or else one of those
order lino troubles, like obsession or
hyrterla, which they term tho psy
ehoneuroses.
Whatever It wan. Ita best known
effects In her conduct were a mysticism
which was organized, overwhelming
superstition, and a chronic anxiety of
a morbid kind. Ever after the flrst
few years of her marriage she had
Plenty of grounds for anxiety, but n.
person of, sound constitution ,would
iave been ablo to deal with It; In tho
Czarina's caso It dealt with her.
She was ti daughter of the Grand
nuke of Hesse, whose Duchess was
'lueen Victoria's second daughter, the
"rincees Alice. Thus aho was King
Edward's nleco. King George's cousin
and the cousin of Wllhelm II. By
marriage and remotely by blood she
was related to her future husband,
whose mother and the future Queen
Alexandra of Englund were sisters.
Sho was christened Alexandra -Mix,
and Russianized her name at tho time
of her marriage In deference to tho
usage of the Russian Church.
Disposition as a Child Snnny.
She was born In 1873 and lost her
. i n -V.-. -h-. "M
m 1,,, ELt Y
eld. Accounta of her childhood repre-
INTO THE ARMY
THB new drafe law beg parden,
the new selective service act
leaves eeveral courses open to
the registrant between 18 and 45 who
wants to Join- the army without wait,
ng to be called.
A course widely attractive, especially
so to youngsters without any military
Experience or predilection for some
nartlcular branch ot the service, la
application to be admitted to one of
he Students Army Training Corps.
These are now going concerns at
nany of the country's great educa
ior.al Institutions. Tho ono entrance
that'
,nce. i
"f'lulrcraent is the Bamo as
.ually mado for college entrance.
V u must hae had four years in high
ii hool or tho equivalent, and you must
iblu to provo it.
New York's universities and colleges
.aye u r ! u?nn d"l
'.'jiumbla, la training 3,000 men; and
, niu tlm processes gom Bh,n d nfUp ra ,d He dld
in imnginary John Henry Jones, of msnection. Ho ivc evidence
. y but genuine manhood, In adding
If to the other 2.9D9.
'..i tn Kcptcmber-John went up to
'-I mbia ty register. No doubt n
ji'ut state of emotions was surging
' ' ind inside him underneath his out.
u ! alm. Ho felt that wha he was
iu- m fino ami momentous, ana
t.j hirncelt he wiis right, lie tan,
f'ur. but a natural nervous un-
i concerning what lay lin
i.'' !. ueiy beforo him. It Is tho cat in
i tr.tnge garret feeling. A peace
freshman on entering college ox
s.ees a milder form of the same
I I ml. n lii Xot the Only OnV.
i vlng on Mornlngsldo HelghtH, ho
assured, Just as. the tronhman Is,
-covering that ho was not the
one. Plenty of company was
b;foru Kim, formed In a long
. Henry was told to form nt the
room neur the main office,
i.mtrmttors explained tilings, as
'i or somebody does to a new
man clit.s. John was asked for
're biters certifying his good
r ner nd for proof of his high
training. These examined, they
1 m to com next dsy, and, unites
"" ,,. - iii
HLHHH'-' ',SHMHL!,l7tiiiH & . NNSSV
wnt her as sunny, sympathetic and
rather precociously Intellectual, with
a special gift at languages. In her
teens she was credited with a passion
for sociology, and after alio went to
Russia for a sclentlno Interest In or
ganized social welfare work.
This may or may not have been the
usual flattering portrait ot a royalty.
At all event she was a great thinker,
living much within herself, and of
exceedingly delicate constitution. She
waa passionately devoted to her
father and his Inseparable companion.
In 1888 she visited St. Petersburg
In his company, 'and during that visit
the then Czanwltch fell In lnvn with
I " ... - - - . -
her,
ri, i. ....... ...u.. it..i-
one was genuine however much state
matchmaking may have fostered it
Two sensible people In authority
Process Through Which a Young Man
a Member of the Students Army
he ehould find himself posted as re-Wo bo sworn In as a member of the
Jected, to report for tho mental tesui United Htc tea Army.
And John went home feeling better John Henry doesn't say much to the
and more confident. folks at tho breakfast tablo. The folks
That mental test was a new one on haven't much to say, elthor. But
John. No Board of Regonts had ever everything else In John Henry swirls
treated htm to Its like. Thcro wero ' around a rock ho stands on, and the
three quli papers, and tho Idea seemed ! rock Is that he's going, and almighty
to be to prove a fellow an Idiot with
brilliant prospects of success. There
wcro pictures and queer formulas,
"Start," said the professor, starting
a etop watch. "Tuke' tho third test
first1
.John Henry Jones, sinking In
wardly, considered thu burning ques
tion: If A is stronger thun It, but B
not so strong as C, thouich C Is
stronger than D, what Is A to D? He
considered others. Hu tried to carry
,,, ,, flr i hi-
' fftcU q 1l8tory no mado wlmt
seemed to him blundering a talis at
threading complex labyrinths of
directions.
At the end of two hours ho wub red
and unhappy, not qulto euro which end
of him lis was standing on, ami tti!)
less certain whero ho stood with that
diabollcully Inquisitive uniformed ped
agpguo. Read Allco'a examination for
the Eighth Hquare, given by the White
and Red Queens If you want to know
how it all felt to J. II, Jones.
Ho was dismissed with nn appoint
ment for hta physical examination, and
became one of u long line of candldnte
Clad In their coats and their youthfu'
patriotism and was duly tapped an"
poked und listened to while nayln?
"Ah!"
Then ho wont home to awolt th
verdict, disconsolately suro that If th
Kaiser was to be licked it would be
without the advice und assistance of
Old Man jones s coy.
Oets p. nl Army "Order."
But three days later came a post
card; the pride or Old Man Jones s ue
dining '40s, was hereby ordered to re
port on the South Field at Columbi
University campus Oot. 1 at 10 A M
disapproved of It, on what we should
now call eugenic grounds tho Uus-'
sian Emperor and the British Queen. ,
Both tho young people were delicate .
and tho Emperor had tho further ob-'
Jectlon that the Princess was a Luth- i
eran, and Queen Victoria vcrhaps
sho was fond of the girl that the
Russian throne was tho shining mark
of oil thrones for violent death. It
was years before the betrothal was
officially announced, and meanwhile
Nicholas was packed off on his fa
mous Asiatic tour, either to recruit
his health or get over his Infatua- tonitilied and thrown into blushing con
tlon. fusion. Then the futuro Illustrious
Returning, he came to England, and candidate for lioredltary presidency of
the courtship waa a bucolic Idyl, the 1 tho Germany over which ho had
young man refusing to be royalty reigned exhibited the Czar's letter,
lionized In any fashion that would The wishes of the Czar on JiU death
take him from his sweetheart's side,
Thr in a storv that Wllhelm II. In-
BY THE
glad to go.
Ho reported as ordered. They lined
up hundreds of him beforo a Colonel
and a small. Impassively Interested
group of visiting uniforms simllurlyi
awesome. Tho sun was xmunng tn
library domo; It waa bathing In lire
the 'olds of a bright flog.
1 pledge allegiance" repeated Pri
vate Jones, and the thing was dono.
swift, Irresistible, irr6vocuble, some
thing like getting married.
His early days as Prlvato Jones be-
Kan nt 0 o'clock, and by 0:10 sharp a
sergeant devoid of the liner Instincts
was tiring him tireless on tho drill field
with setting up work. Blx-thlrty, mess.
Beven-thlrty to 9,30, drill. Nine-thirty
to 4 P.xM.. classes and study poriods
on a cross rererenco ecneauio line,
those of a college curriculum, with
mess at midday, of crVurse, Fivo-thlrty.
formation on the iieia. men moss ana
study till taps at 11 o'clock,
Prlvnte Jonos himself has never
heen In college. As ho gets ucqualnted
with tho men of his company ho finds
hat several have. Borne of these were
s far along as tho upper classes. Co
"umbla was thtlr Alma Mater. They
'tndw1 the rope. They lived in the city,
s he did. The H. A. T. C. problem Is
o give college a new ntmosphere, to
lrclvlllnnlru these fellow and form tn
hem soldierly habits of reaction.
Jf they had gone to a cantonment n
houtand miles from home much of
his would happen automatically. As
hry did not, It wa necessary to make
more raJIcal change for them thanl'he ammunition supply, (3) locato the
nero enforced obedience to orders. noslUe-n of our battery on ,the mai
Nevertheless, the new atmosphere is , by traversing rrom a Known iarm
ttalned. With Private Jones these ' "-ouo one and one-half kilometer
hers work naturally Into soldierly I -way, (4) locate tho enemy poel
sblts. "Sir" to an officer begin to Mon. (5) figure our firing data, (6)
-spontaneous. Obedience to an order' establish communication with pur
icglns to be automatic. A new and I headquarters. We accomplished tM
terceded for his friend the Czaro-Itch. 1
and theie Is a more substantiated
story that this illustrious precipitator
finally butted In, to bo coarse about
It, and precipitated the announcement
of the betrothal,
Ho got Czar Alexander's permission,
Invited himself to dinner with the
Prlncets'B father at Darmstadt, saying
nothing about the Czar's permission,
and during tho meal stood up uud
called for a toast to "the Illustrious
betrothed, Nicholas Alexandrovltch and
Alexandra Kcudorovna," who were aa-
bod hastened tho marriage, which took
olaco In November. 1894. The first
COLLEGE ROUTE
Passes in Becoming
Training Corps
) better carriage and a now and better
, wulklng step begin to get ofT their
minds und Into their personalities,
i Tho K. A. T. C. turn out a good
sound x product. If Private Jones
shows promlo they may, after a few
weeks, transfer him to an O. T. c.
and let him qualify for u commission
I If ho can. Homo nunurs irom i-o-
, lumbla have been transferred, and the
: authorities lire miniung oi irunsier-
ring another batch.
lllh oniocrs I ruui lTmice.
The Instructor olllcers, (selected
from the younger and best qualified
faculty element, aro supervised by of
ficers with greater army OM'eriencc;
the heads, Major Earnshaw and Cnpt.
Leerburger, havo brought torvlcc
stripes back from Franre.
Tho i-cholastlo teaching force, un
rlnr Demi ltawkes. who has a son in
the army, hns specialized Its work
' for military purports, 'ur topog-
taphy, for instance, and war hygiene,
havo ruplacoJ or utilized some of tho
usual unerai urts una many oi ine
sciences. A lotter from n former Co-
, lumbla boy, now an olllcer nt the
, rroni, is raicuiaieu to impress i-nviuo
Jones with the Importance of war
topography. It was written to a pro.
fessor on that subject:
"No matter how accurate u man's
work Is It is of no use to us unless
he can accomplish It quickly and ln
'he time allowed uy an emergency. finder on him via nn orflerly at once.
To Illustrate: A few days ugo a our I if he falls 111 tho Joneses can be notl
"vittery woe advancing along u road tied without lost time or motion! If
we wero overtaken by a Wtmnted they do he can be.
orderly with orders to open firu on a What happens to Jones fundamen
certain hoitllu battery in forty-five I tally Is said to be his Impression with
minutes. I thu realization that It Is not his fr-
"Within that time it wus nccessaiy , geant, his Lieutenant or the comman
to (1) reconnoitre a position for the ' der of the post who keeps tabs on him,
'attcry, (2) reconnoitre roads for
years of Alexandra's Mlfo as Empress
were liappy one. She was the, .mli-
ress of twelve huge palaces In St.
Petersburg alone, their appointments;
thu most magnificent In Europe The
Czar's private revenue was J7,000,UOO o
year. But tho domestic tastes of the
couple Inclined away from pomp and
toward simple outdoor sports and quiet
country illas.
I'lccnrc Chnnucs In 1S0S.
Russia, for Russia, enjoyed about
four years of Internal tranquillity. But
In 1S98 tho picture changes sharply.
The chango begins with tho first of
that Hcrlns of famines which, directly
causing strikes and agrarian trouble,
prepared the revolution. This begins
In 1905, midway ot a national night
marepogroms, local uprisings and
the carnival of assassinations of re-
In thirty-five minutes, but to do this
It was necessary to be accurate and
quick. There was no time to do it
twice or check up our work. It had
to be right tho first time."
Of course the scholastic side at the
S. A. T. C. Is only part of Its function,
and may even be a minor part. Tho
other Is the adaptation of Private
Jones, who being nn American youth
was probably a somewhat aggressive
ndlvldualist at start, to fit him into a
military mechanism. If he begins well
they may try- him out at handling
men, which Is really a natual gift, like
red li.ur or an car for music.
He may be the brightest, hardest
woklng, most patriotic and best In
tenttoned member of the sizable Joms
dun. but If ho can't hnndle men his
chance of winning an honest to good
ness Held commission Is not worth a
stale cigarette butt. They find out
by making him a probationary,
B. A. T. C. corporal, and then watch
him for two things, the quality of
his leadership and the quality of his
cooperation and what Grant would
hav called, his subordination to
superiors.
Mum Aeeoun for Uuch Minute,
( u,s whllu every moment of hie
Itwenty-four hour has to be accounted
for as if ,e wero actually In France re-
forming Hun. Tho accounting sltua-
Hon when tackled presented some ix-
1 collar difficulties. They met them by
i devising ana nung ciaDorato eoneg
schedules. Jones's card shows Just
where he Is on the campus at uny
given time; or if It does not thy pass
lie nas oDtninea Dei ore going away ior
more than a few minutes checks It uil.
, Houdquarters 1 always nble to put. a
but Uncle Sam himself. Jones Isn't
Prussian machine made; If he wero he
would not, reaching France, ho the
brilliant success that a million or so
of the like ot him are nt smashing the
Prussian marhine. But never for an
Instant Is b allowed to forget that
he's In the army now ond that every
thing ho doe Is army duty.
nctlonary nobles anil ofllclals; tho
Japanese wur, which showed tho world
the shell grent Russia was.
All these events wrought terribly
upon the constitution of thu Czirlna,
In whom neurosis, if such it uas, had
already broken out. The general strain
was more than she could bear, but tho
particular trouble that Is supposed to
have unbalanced her was the national
anxiety for an heir to the throne,
which anxiety sho humanly shared,
and the four disappointments of high
hures tn tho births of daughters.
The Russian populace was never
sympathetic with the alien Empress,
who, on her side, however social ser
vice may have lntrrebted her, was en
tirely ungifted for winning popular
affection. By the time of the birth
of the fourth Grand Duchess. Anas-
tasio, there was a rather formidable
sentiment among both the loyal people
and tho court politicians In favor of
Nicholas putting her away as Na
poleon put away JoBephlno to take an
other wife who might boar him a son.
To the credit of the Emperor It Is ac
knowledged that he wjs stanch In his
conjugal loyalty.
Tried to Ilrowtient Science.
Every one remembers how des
perately the Imperial couplo tried to
browbeat science into making to order
a discovery that would control the sex
of an unborn child. The Czarina's
childhood falfh had been Lutheran,
but her reii -ion was decidedly of
the ritualistic bent, and once taken
Into the Russian Church sho became
Its first devotee as to myntlcal cere-,
monies. Nervous temperaments with
this tendency In worship are alio
"ultrasuperstitlous and as much the
natural prey of witch doctors, fortune
WASHINGTON'S WEEK
W
ABH1NOTON went over the
top Thursday night over
the top of Joy and exdtc-
ment. It's a. dry town, but it was
fairly Intoxicated with tho news that
Germany had surrendered the war
was over.
About tho t-amo tlmo Miss Margaret
Wilson was having a womienui time
ovor there, Tho news that alio had
landed occasioned very little surprise
In Washington, though it was not,offle.s if8 the first time since ho has
known outside ot ner immtaiate iam-
lb' and u, fw officials that blio iiau
started. ,
It develops that sho wont over with
her singing teacher, Ross David, and
Mrs. David! who have managed and
chaperoned her tours on this side.
Ross David sings tenor and Mrs
David .plays their accompaniments on
n portable organ. The night they
landed Mips WilMon sang for the steve
dores, or longshoremen, or whatever
iBey im. "
whs travelling -piuciioaiiy mcos,
with u dfAlro only for those courtesies
usually extendtd to a wearer of the
"Y" tinlform; and then, a few minutes
'ater, that she would probably, as her
travels brought her Into their re
spective vicinities, bo prcsantod to
President Polncare, King Victor Em
manuel, King Albert of Belgium, King
George and Queen Mary, as well as to
th sltled military leaders of Europe.
tollers and that Ilk as tho hypocipo
driacal are of medicnl quncks.
It is now known, thougn at fie tlmo.aiiil tho early twen'Ie.v. had some little
it Vas not, that while the Czar and personal liberty. But tho Bolshevl'.tl
Czarina were beseeching aid of scienco i wcro afraid of a res-cue. and as tlm
the Czarina was also searching out year went rojnd and affairs weiit
every charlatan In Russia. To get her i adversely to them the Bolshevik! were
ear It! was only necessary to proclaim showing their wolfish teeth It was
yourself as having suicrnal powers I the turning of the Cxecho-SIovak exn
whtch might be of service in the mat- du Into fight rtrutig across tbn
ter of the heir. With this fact before ' continent nd in the wot neur Toboh-K
us thete Is no longer a mystery in the which -.errlflcd tho Reds to tho point
ascendency of Rasputin. A year be-. of murder.
foro the fact he predicted tho birth of j The Romanoffs were first romovt .1
a son, and after 11 occurred he was to Ekaterinburg and .Uiled there 111 o
a mado man nt court and the Roma- ' felons in mcdlieval tunes. The der.tli
noff an unmade dynasty. of Nicholas aerrr to havo been firs',
Rasputin knew enough to maInUinfw's" M,"w ""le Int-al before t. ,
his hold in the capacity of the Czare- , ?,u,f 1,0 F m om at,i
vitch's superhuman protector. Alex-! tIeu' D0St ani1 f,ho1'
andra's chronic terror had now T"on. ,f?.r " l
concerned Itself with the life of her , "vemchl,1ren "nd, ,f ,,,er wattIn
son. which indeed Is known at least .nH rtnwiT.t? .n3in.
' , .!,. , vTihuit, room and slowly starved, according to
once to have been sought . by Nlhills thQ Men information, rcrelv-
urnursiua. hid iiivuiv iiau tui unin
tor thp boy's preservation. He had
the Czarina, nnd through her the Czar,
completely under his influence.
We know how .Rasputin controlled
a certain number of appointments and
built up his outside prestige by learn
ing In advance of others and then pre
dicting and boa-stlng of them. W-) do
not yet know the full history of tho
utilization of Itasputln by the Ger-
mnns, though we guess with full con
fldence at what occurred. HIb servlco
to mem was to surround me aanna
in her household with German agent.
The fact that the Czarina was a con-
1 stantly unhappy mental or nervous In-
valid was olain to the discerning more
than ten years before the end. What
J human contacts she had had with the
, 300.000.000 children of tho I-lttlo
I Father were lost In thi alteration of
Washington was, as usual on elec
tion night, a combination of k'en In
terest In the seats of the mighty and
stolid apathy on the part of the man
on tho street. The newspaper bulle
tins were watched by small and rather
listless crowds.
At thq White House thoy say the
President received tlm re; urns all
, tv...ui(i, si.. . . - ..- .....at..
ilone, except for Mrs. Wilson; though
1 Mr. Tumulty hart a irroup of Inter-
fHlex politician In the White Hnue
Ven ln thB Whlto House that the
President and his heeretary have failed
to go home to vote Kvon tit the prl
marles they havo turned up with com
, memiable regularity
There was rejoicing that Washing
ton was to have the Truman New
berrys hack from Detroit They were
part of the Cabinet clrcf Mr New
berry was Assistant Secretary, and
'hen Secretary of tho Navy during the
entire four years of Roosevelt's eec-
nnd term nnd nro recarded as eml-
And of rourso tiiere wero casta like I
that ot MeCormlck vs. Lewis when
ffectlons, regnrdles of politics, were
llvtded. People really like tho. "H im'
Lewises even thojsh they guy SenH
'or Lewis's pink whiskers and his per
ectly lovely clothes, "which aro only
xceeded .by his extreme personal ap.
oeamnce." And they really lke the
Medlll McCorralcks. Mr. MeCormlck
her personality. Bhe csuno to be htM
responsible by the superstitious Rus
sians mystically for every national
misfortune and politically for evsr)'.
oppression. By 1914 they were read
to attribute to ner every disaster si
the war.
The- traitors and batrlguArs whl
manipulated this wretched woman
mad the moat of their opportunities
They had' fostered and they maintain;
the outrageous military unprepared'
ness and the ail consuming bureau
cratlo graft which by disarming thu
Russian forces prepared their d
feat. They got rid of Russia' one.
flrst rate commander, the Grand Duk
Nicholas Nlcholalevltch, persuading
the Czarina, that he designed to seta;
the throne and disinherit her eon.
That was at about the tage whon
Kitchener wa to have appeared la
Russia. In the end they made the
Premiership Impossible for th abl
Trepoff and saw to It that hi placei
waa given to a fool.
Death mt ftaaphtln Reaet4k
Rasputin had been killed Ilk K
mad dog, but the killing, while a nat
ural enough expression of the honeit
rage of the victims of his ascendency,
effected tho reverso of an Improve
ment tn the situation. The Czarlnt)
was not restored by It Bh was nai
even warned by It. She wor
shipped at Rasoutln's grave, defied
layers, did everything In her powt-
to avenge him. She relied entlrelr
upon her Germanized counsellors,
and the Czar (as Princess Cantacu
sens has chronicled) doddered and
dreamed as Commander-in-Chief, ati4
revolution came. ,
During the Cadet Ckmummt th
ex-Czar and his fiuntly were lmprls
oned at Tsarskoe Pelo, one of their
country seats, and were, though ro
curely guarded, hiimanoly treated,
Alexandra remained obdurato, arru
g&nt, Implacable, until as event
moved It began to dawn upon her th.it
tho one mercy likely to be left to her
was the very life of her son and h!i
presenco at her side. Then, from nil
accounts, she began to be both lntclll-.
gent and reasonable.
Her recovery was too lata; th
Cadets fell. Kerensky sue c-.!m1 them,
and realizing what a wmoest wa.l
threatened In tho storm cltah he was,
riding ho caused the former lmpcrl.il
family to bo removed for tholr ow n
protection to Siber!.. They were
taken to dreary Tobols:, ISO tulles
from the Kkntrrlnbu.it railway, w Hi
a buito of fifty parsons. In August,
1917. It was now tie Cwir who
In Siberia and tho former exiles who
were far away, with God na high as
ever.
The Tobolsk Imnrisonmer.t n.it
rigorous but not malicious. NlelioI.iH
Jreamed nnd gardened The daughtna.
young girls between the middle teen.
ing an Insufficient dolo of food everv
o'her d.ty. Their keepers wcro men
with .Thorn tho average Arret lean yeg?
would not lower himself to associate
The prisoners hid nn privn y nt anv
hour; whatever else they hnd and s if
fered heaven knows. The story li that
tho former Czarina boro herself well
to th end.
I5touso of symbolism Russia !i4
suffered through her. nnd It waa s& .
symbol that Mie suftered. There Is
probably no central figure In all h
i spi.ctucular tragedies of history- w),n
.wa, ;0rH completely, from cradle to
' grave, the constant and helpless -. :.-.
tlm of circumstances over wlvrh pi.i
had tpt the least conttol. Sho did
whit she should not lrae rlnnw,
left undor.u what she ohould haf
done, but in it and) there was no hrsl'b.
In her
WAS BUSY
as Ruth Hanna--grew up in tt.ur
midst, and sho is n most attraet'vn
woman.
Ever so many of the Congressional
set are of course uut of town t'.is
week. Recess or no recess, the nun,
went homo for the 'closing hours -.f
not tho closing days of tl.cir tarn
palcns, and as many of their wives
----
take a normnl human interest intlinr
husbands' nfairs went with Hum.
For instanc, Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, who went up to Oyster Day a,
couple of weeks ago to spend the ueik.
end with her father and help him veb -brate
his birthday, after u day or two
ln New York nt the Rltz went out to
Cincinnati to stay until after election.
The Cabinet circle was n good deal
broken up by tho election and other
things. The Lansings and tho Lanes
nnd tho Houstons were In town Mr.
Daniels was and Is off on buslnea
for the Y. W. C. A.'h War Council, and
her husband was off electlonoarlngi
Secretary uf the Treasury McAdoo wnj
off nn nn inspection trip, funtlonlnn
for the tmw belnir n Director of Rail
roads. The Heilllelds were In New
Vnrk. Mr. Ileflileld ln the rtr.-t nlne
aklI. ,.ectlon nee.-hes. and remain.
In( t0 cagt hiH xnt, . Secretary Wil
son, who was depended upon to deliver
he labor vote, was off campaigning,
and his daughters while In town wer
very busy getting settled In a new
house they were moving Into out al
most ln the suburbs on Cathedral avo-nue.