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7 TFTE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. AUGUST 2, 1914 ONLY LITTLE PATIENCE NEEDED FOR MILADY TO SHAMPOO OWN HAIR Women Skilled in Art Safe at Remote Snmmering Place-Suitable Soap, Hot and Cold Water a-Plenty and a Lint-free Towel Are Main Requirements Pat, Don't Rnb, Is Advice. A T some Summer resorts the care of the hair Is as easily attended to as it !s at home. There are skillful hair dressers and shampooers on hand who know more about taking care of your hair than you know your self. But at other places, the care of the hair takes on a most serious as pect, for there are no available sham pooers hiding" in the woods that sur round the wild mountain camp, and none inhabit the haystacks of the re mote country farm. So it behooves the woman who is spending her Summer vacation in a re mote place to master the art of sham pooing her own hair. And an art it is. althouirh it can be mastered with a little patience. In the first place, you must have all the required ingredients for a good shanmoo at hand. These include a suitable soat or shampoo mixture. plenty of hot and cold water, a spray for rinsing and plenty of suitable tow els for drying. The towel used should be as free from lint as possible and a bath towel ought never to be used. If there Is no shower bath or spray where you are graying, buy a little spray that can be attached to any faucet. Some of these sprays are made with a brush attach ment at the spray end and this sort of spray can be used for a good friction bath as well as for the shampoo. If there is no available supply of hot wa ter have a spirit lamp and kettle in your room and with this supply hot water for the shampoo. Fit the shampoo mixture to the needs of your own hair, not your neighbors hair, and never shampoo at all unless you have time to do it properly. Dry Hair Needs Exercise. With the woman of dry, brittle hair, shampooing is Indeed a delicate proc ess. She must exercise the most exqui site care or pay a heavy price for her Indiscretion. Ammonia, washing soda, borax or patented shampoos of whose ingfedlents she is ignorant, may crack her hair and destroy what little life exists in the roots. Again, the woman with dry hair often thinks she is safer if she does not shampoo at all, because the proc ess of washing, rinsing and drying Is trying on the hair. In this she is wrong. Her scalp needs the cleansing which only soap and water will supply, and it must be given at least once a month. To begin with, do not shampoo the hair until you have time to perform the rite properly. A hasty shampoo is not only untidy, but it is dangerous. Select a clear, sunshiny day. Have at hand plenty of old, soft towels, and if NERVOUS PERSON ONE WHO DOES THINGS IN A BIG WAY, SAYS DOCTOR Functions of Body's Telegraphic Cords, Their Connection With Brain Centers, Results of Nerve and Cell Ac tivities Explained by Physician Happiness of Mind Creates Physical Happiness and Perfect Health. BY DR. FREDERICK M. ROSSITER. IN two previous articles the writer has attempted to show in a brief manner something of the marvelous features of man's central nervous sys tem. It is the peculiarities of the functions of this cerebral nervous sys tem that make a man a man. It is the abuse and abnormal uses of the sys tem that make mankind a prey to many diseases and to countless morbid feel ings and sensations. Two Nervous Systems Explained. We have two nervous systems. The brain and spinal cord and their nerves are under the control of the "thinker" In the brain. Very distinct, from this Is the sympathetic nervous system that forms the connecting link between the brain and every gland and organ of the entire body. The sympathetic nerves preside over all cell activity and link every organ in close fellowship with every other. While we are asleep or unconscious this system is presiding over the functions of the body. If its functions were not interfered with during our wakefulness any more than they are during our unconscious hours In sleep there would be a vast differ ence In the way multitudes of persons feel from day to day. But the nerve centers are directly influenced by the state of mind by means of the sympathetic nerves. The thoughts and emotions affect every function of the body. Joy creates joy in all the body, mental sunshine stim ulates every gland and fairly makes every nerve fiber tingle with whole some vibration. On the other hand, anger and worry have a most depress ing influence and soon produce mor bid states of body as well as of mind. Brain Influences Entire Body. The brain and its projection, the spinal cord, is the great trophic center. What disturbs the brain interferes with the best efficiency of the body. And, doubtless, this Is true in a far greater sense than we know, for cer tain portions of the brain have much to do with the formation of Internal secretions that have such a tremendous Influence in maintaining the body In health. For Instance, there are two small structures on the base of the brain that have a decided influence on the entire body. One Df these is called the pituitary body and an over activity or some peculiar disease of this structure causes the most profound physical changes. Its activity causes such an excessive growth of the bones that per sons become "giants" such as are seen Start by washing your brushes and comb. Soft, soapy water, not hot, Just tepid, with perhaps a dash .of ammo nia or borax will be needed for this. Do not allow the brushes to soak long. Rub them together briskly in about two or three waters containing soap, then rinse In clear water of the same temperature until It runs off clear: turn bristles down, to dry where the air will pass through them. Do not set wooden-backed brushes In the strong sunlight. The backs will warp. Now, if your hair Is dry, use only the egg shampoo mixture, as follows: Mix one raw egg with a pint of lukewarm rain water and one ounce of rosemary spirits. When thoroughly beaten and mixed, rub this into the scalp, a good ..t. ..it.. possible the means of warming them, way being to have someone pour it slowly from a small-lipped pitcher while you rub it thoroughly into the scalp, as if you wanted to reach the very roots. Then rinse the hair in many clear waters, all lukewarm. Rubbing la Condemned. Pat, but do not rub. the hair with warmed towels. Do not. rub the scalp with a rough bath-towel. When work ing on the scalp Itself use the softest toweling at your command and rub it very lightly. As soon as the bulk of the moisture had been absorbed by the towels, seat yourself In the sun and gently shaking the hair loose from the scalp for the air to pass through, dry it by ventilation and the sun's warmth. Just before it is perfectly dry begin to brush and comb it, working from the ends of the hair up to the scalp In disentangling it. Never comb from, the scalp outward and jerk the comb through Intervening snarls. When entirely dry, and not until then, give it a final brushing with brillian tine. Drop the brllliantine, a few drops at a time into the palm of your hand and rub the clean brush in this. Then apply brush to hair. This prevents the rough look which dry hair always has after shampooing. A good grade of brllliantine can be purchased for 50 cent at any drugstore or toilet wares counter, but you can also make it your self if you have a taste for mixing toilet lotions. The following formula is reliable: Castor oil, four fluid drams; sweet almond oil, three and a half fluid ounces; glycerine, three and a half fluid drams; Jockey Club extract, three fluid drams; alcohol enough to make eight ounces. At night shake the hair loosely and massage the scalp, dipping your fin ger tips Into the least bit of pure olive oil. Very dry hair Indicates lack of fatty deposits in the hair cells. An opposite treatment is needed when shampooing oily hair. Here you HEALTH AND EFFICIENCY HOW TO MAINTAIN BOTH. By Frederick M. Rosslter, B. S., M. D. Questions pertaining to health, hy giene and the prevention of disease will be answered In this column. When for lack of space and when Questions are not suitable, answers will be made by mall, providing a stamped envelope with address Is Inclosed. No questions will be con sidered wltbout the name and ad dress of the sender. No diagnosis will be made in this column. in circuses and in museums. The hands are veritable "paws" and the jaw is like a lion's. The normal secretion from this structure seems to have some influence on involuntary muscles, espe cially with that of the pregnant uterus. An extract is now made from this part of the brain and It is used In slow and difficult labors in child-birth. A few drops of this injected under the skin will terminate in short order a labor that otherwise might take hours. In fact, it produces such powerful con tractions of the uterus that it has to be used with the greatest care and then only when the labor has proceeded to a certain stage. The second little structure of the brain that forms some internal secre tion is called the pineal gland. It is smaller than a pea. The function of this structure shows that it has to do with the nutrition of the entire body. A physician in Detroit has recently made experiments with this gland and the results are highly interesting. He took a number of chicks from the same brood and guinea-pigs from the same litter for the test. Part were fed a certain portion of pineal gland each day with their food and others received none. The chicks and the pigs that were fed the gland developed, and ma tured much more rapidly than those that were not. It is more than probable that other portions of the brain have a nutritive control on other functions of the body. We possess a few keys by which we can unlock some of the mysteries of the brain. We also now know that the "thinker" in the brain, the ego. or by whatever name we may call the in dividual personality, has much to say about how his brain shall act, how it shall help or hinder to maintain the body for the best of service. Fortunately or unfortunately we cannot select our parents and our can use a little alkali, such as borax. Make a strong suds or pure olive oil soap or standard white soap which does not 4,bite" the tongue when you taste it. To a basin of water add a pinch of borax and finely shaved soap until you have a thick lather.' Never rub the soap directly on the scalp. Apply this shampoo mixture either with a sponge or by having it poured onto the head while you rub it In with your finger tips. Rinse and dry as described above, but do not finish off with the brllliantine application. Simply brush it until it shines. Oilv hair sometimes amounts to an affliction, the hair turning heavy and dark at the roots within 24 hours after shampooing. In this case try the loi- Away In Your Canoe to the Land of Summer Happiness. lowing lotion as a cleanser and rinse thoroughly before drying. Bicarbonate of soda, one-quarter ounce; borax, one-quarter ounce; co dogne water, two ounces; rectified spir its, one ounce; tincture of chochineal, one-half ounce; distilled water, 16 ounces. Mix and shake thoroughly. This mixture should not be used oftener than once a week. If between shampoos you wish to cleanse the hair, try this dry shampoo: Powdered orris root, one-half pound; bergamot rind, two and three-quarter drachms; cassie flowers, two and three quarter drachms; cloves (coarsely ground), one-half drachm. Mix these ingredi' ts and pass through a sieve twice. Powder the hair at night with It and massage for ten minutes. In the morning massage for five minutes and shake the hair and brush all the powder out. grandparents, and consequently have nothing to say about the quality of the nervous system that we must work with and upon through life. But it makes considerable difference with the nervous system that each possesses whether his ancestry had gout, syphilis, tuberculosis, insanity, or whether one or more was addicted to the "flowing bowl," used tobacco extensively, drank tea and coffee and paid undue homage at the shrine of Venus. The influences of heredity that act upon our lives are made uponjaour nerv ous systems, and no doubt this influ ence is confined largely to the brain. We do not inherit heart disease, and "weak digestion," and disease of the liver, lungs, or any other organ, but we can inherit definite and distinct dis eases of the brain. And one who be gins life with an impoverished nerv ous system is much more of a cripple than he who is minus an arm or leg. It Is an added misfortune that one who inherits a poor nervous system usually has to be brought up in an environ ment that only accentuates his weak ness. Nerves and Nervousness Related. An Indian has nerves but his nerv ous susceptibility is vastly different from that of a sensitive, highly edu cated white man. Because of this dif ference in nervous systems, one per son is said to have a nervous tempera ment, whatever that means, and an other to "have no nerves." However this may be. there are multitudes of persons who have very good health and yet we speak of them as "nervous" indi viduals. There is a difference between "nervousness" and "nerves" and "nerv ous exhaustion." A thoroughbred race horse is nervous in comparison to a large, heavy draught animal. A tiger in the zoo Is. nervous when compared with a buffalo. A white Leghorn hen is "very nervous" if compared with a White Orpington, and yet all these "nervous" animals have just as good health as do those that take every thing in a calm and matter-of-fact way. Nervous persons go through life on a high tension. They carry a high amperage. Their voltage Is one that enables them "to do things." It is an advantage to have a "nercous nervous" system. Under control it Is a wonder ful personal asset. Nervous persons get more out of life. Whether they are happier than others or not is hard to tell. Suffice it to say that they often interfere with the other fellow having the maximum amount of enjoyment. They are everlastingly on the move, can't sit still, the band must play, there must be "something doing" every min ute. A nervous' person will spend sev- eral hours driving an automobile all of the way to Mount Hood, spend 15 min utes gazing at the scenery, and then he is ready to start back. If, perchance, there could be an eruption, or some other new mountain could bob up, he possibly might stand the scene for an other 15 minutes. The nervous person requires an endless variety. If two or more persons are going to visit a pic ture gallery, or a museum, or make a trip to Europe, they should compare notes before starting and see that each one has a "nervous nervous" system, for if such is the case they can then go like a whirlwind and each one will be satisfied. Yes, there is a vast difference be tween a nervous person and one who is nervously exhausted. The latter is ill. The former is bubbling over much of the time while there is good con trol. When self-control begins to lose out, there is more or less nervous riot. Nervousness with a weak will is a very poor combination. There wretchedness and trouble come in. The riotous ex penditure of nerve force soon depletes the vital storage batteries. The vital ity is lowered, the digestive organs suf- i fer. nutrition is interfered, there Is great mental suffering, and the entire j family is arrected. toe nervous person can stana a con siderable degree of excitement and relish it every minute; in fact, a little excitement is his meat and drink. He can hardly live without it. It acts like a tonic. These are the persons who are the life of every gathering. The nervously exhausted or the neurasthenic cannot stand excitement. His nervous energy is at a low ebb, his nervous system is depressed. He is ab normal, and every physical and mental sensation is viewed In an abnormal light. Cooking Precautions Ex plained to Novices. Cleanly U-tentdls, Sterilized Frnlt Jara and Porcelain Kettles Needed in Canning Any Sort of Frodnct, Says Expert. HETHER you are putting up pre- Iades or simply canned fruit, there are certain rules that must be obeyed. Always use porcelain lined cooking utensils. These are safest, as the acid of the fruits has a harmful effect on some other metals, especially on tin. Have everything spotlessly clean. Clean all bottles and fruit jars by sterilizing them. To do this put them In a big kettle or dishpan or boiler in the bottom of which there is a folded cloth or a layer of straw. Separate them with a little straw if you are afraid of breaking them. Cover them with cold water and put them over the fire. Gradually bring them to the boil ing point and let them boil gently a few minutes. Always take precautions against burning yourself. If you are working over a gas stove the easiest precau tion Is to turn off the heat whenever you must lift anything from the fire. Then there will be no flame to burn you after it Is left unprotected by the saucepan or boiler over it. Always have ready a sheet of asbes tos on a table near the stove on which hot kettles can be put. Have at hand plenty of cloths and holders for handling hot dishes. Often in -the excitement and hurry that at tend certain stages of canning and preserving It is inconvenient to look about for the lifting holder you last used. It is far easier to pick up one near at hand. Remove every bit of scum as it rises to the top of the fruit you are cooking. Not until the scum ceases to rise Is the fruit done. If you are canning for a small fam ily put the fruit in pint jars and the jellies in small glasses. Often fruit is allowed to spoil because a too large jar is opened and the monotony of the same sort of canned fruit served three or four times from one jar is unpleas ant. Recipe for Walnut Pudding Example of Thriftiness. Tree on Ranch Made to Supply Table Delicacy, Despite Plentifulness of IJcef and Fork. BY GOLDIE ROBERTSON FUNK. 1VER. since I can remember we have i had on our ranch a great old Eng lish walnut tree. In my youth, although we killed our own beef and pork, my mother knew the table value of the nuts that loaded this tree every year. I find in her time-browned cookbook the following "rule:" Walnut Pudding. Chop and mash fine with wooden potato masher (for lack of a grinder, no doubt) one bowl of walnut meats. Pour boiling water over enough loaf ends, crusts and crumbs saved for the purpose to make two good-sized bowls full of soft crumbs. Add one cup more of water. If butter is low in the market, use one half cup full- If high, use half beef fat and half butter to the same amount. Bind all with one egg. Add nuts and season finely with salt, pepper (black) and ground ginger. This was a favorite dish of my child hood. Mother always baked it in a stone crock, slowly, to a golden brown, and set it, piping hot, before my father to serve. Note the thriftiness of a ' cook who had no lack of food stuffs to use "loaf ends, crusts and crumbs saved for the purpose" and how purposeful was the housekeeper who painstakingly wrote a reminder to herself to use less butter when her butter brought her a high price in the market. Menus of the Week Tuesday. Fruit Soup. Vegetable loaf with hard eggs. Shrimp salad. Peach pop-overs. Coffee. Wednesday. German pot roats with plquante sauce Potatoes. String beans. Fruit salad in lettuce hearts. Ice cream. Coffee. Thursday. Vegetable broth. Minced spiced beef with spaghetti. Creamed cucumbers. Lettuce salad. Blackberry pie. . Coffee. Friday. Spinach soup. Baked fleets of fish. Tomato sauce. Potato balls. String bean salad. Chilled rice cream, apricot sauce. Saturday. Fish chowder. Jellied meat with vegetable salad. Peach shortcake with cream. Coffee. Sunday. Fruit Soup. Baked ham. Southern style. Potatoes. Summer squash. Combination salad. Ice cream. Sponge cake. Coffee. Monday. Tomato bouillon. Minced ham and rice loaf, parslay sauce. Vegetable salad. Jellied fruits with cream. Coffee. Ix-aving a Motor Car. Atchison Globe. A patriot is not a motorist leaves his car at a hitching post. who Politics of Some Men. Atchison Globe. It doesn't make much difference what is the politics of some men. ALL SAXONY IN FURORE OF EXCITEMENT OVER CLEVER COUP D'ETAT BY PRINCESS Mention of Name Forbidden and if Their Prospects of Promotion" BY PRINCESS LUISA T coup de tete caused tremendous excitement all over Saxony. The accounts of my arrival at Dres den and reception at Leipzig were or dered to be suppressed in all the news papers, and it was forbidden to men tion mv name. If I had remained an other 24 hours there would have been a revolution, and the authorities were fully aware of the gravity of the sit uation. On the night I left Saxony myself and my wrongs were the only topic of conversation, and afterward most extraordinary scenes took place In tiny cottages far away in the coun try my photograph was encircled with chaplets of flowers, candles were burned before it, women wore brooches containing my likeness, and although the police afterward prohibited the sale of my picture-postcards, hundreds of thousands were sold in one day alone and during the months of January and February after I left Dresden tho de mand for them was enormous. If any officials were known to favor me it was all up with their prospects of promotion. When I first left Dres den there was a refreshment buffet at the Opera where excellent chocolate was sold, and the proprietor sold me dallions of chocolate stamped with my likeness, and called the bonbon "Luisa Chocolate." It sold remarkably well, but one day the man was sent for by the management of the Opera and told he must give up the buffet within 24 hours on account of his selling the "treasonable" chocolate. The unlucky proprietor, who was one of my parti sans, wrote and told me what had oc curred, adding that whatever happened to his fortunes, his devotion would never swerve. These sentiments of loyalty still pre vail, and are the greatest source of consolation to me. I thank all my un known friends who write so kindly, and I value every letter I receive. On my last birthday I acknowledged 4000 cards of greeting, a physically exhausting task, but one which was only a labor of love. Life Not Peaceful. My life at San Domenico was for a time uneventful, but naturally my ene mies did not for long allow me to con tinue in peace. Their object was to find out whether I had a love-affair, and they employed spies to attain their Ignoble ends. When Monica was born I chose her a Protestant nurse, whom I liked and trusted, but this did not suit the court, who insisted that 1 should have a Catholic nurse of their own selection. As I desired, for several reasons, to avoid friction over the child, I agreed to accede to their wish, and accordingly Fraulein Alma Muth was sent from Dresden to take charge of Monica. One day I was told over the telephone that I had a spy in my household and that this nerson was my child s nurse As the information seemed genuine, I made secret inquiries on my own ac count, and discovered that Alma Muth corresponded with the Saxon Court through the medium of the German Consulate at Florence. She had asked me to allow her to take a daily walk in the grounds of the villa, and I found out that when she did so, she had long, unobserved conversations with an em olove of the Consulate, who came there for the purpose of being told what I was doing. I also ascertained that she telephoned to the Consulate, but when I taxed her with her treacherous De- behavior she flatly denied everything The morning after my conversation with Muth I received a telephonic mes sage from a hotel in Florence, inform lner me that the King of Saxony's law yer, Dr. Korner, had just arrived, and wished to see me. I replied that I was quite ready to receive him, and in about an hour s time he drove up in a tanaau. Tho lawyer had a long discussion with me about Monica's future, but nothing was settled, and I felt that his visit was only a ruse. I was afterwards asked to go to the Consulate, but when I arrived there was no one to receive me. At last, however, after a long wait, Korner came on the scene. In a very rude manner he told me that he was ordered to take Monica away, and he showed me a document which empow ered him to act exactly as he thought fit. Demand for Children Made. I flung the paper in his face, but all he said was: "Countess, be ready to 2 o'clock this afternoon to give up your child." I felt like a tigress at bay. and with blazing eyes I confronted him, saying: "You will tell me why, before I shall allow you to take Monica; try and get her by force if you can, but so long as I am free I will defend her and defy you." He spat on the floor. "What can you do?" he answered, jeeringly. I wasted no time, buj motored back to the villa. I sent for my butler and my cook, and told them that the house was to be well guarded, and that if either of them betrayed me I would have the traitor instantly punished. I also gave orders that the telephone should be disconnected, and all the bell-wlres cut, and I especially In structed them not to lo,se sight of Alma Mutn tor a single instant. At 2 o'clock Muth came to me and asked whether I had seen the King's lawyer. She was peffectly furious at my contemptuous attitude. At last 1 heard the noise of carriage wheels, and peeping through the blinds I saw a landau coming up the drive. When It drew up I saw that it contained Korner and the villainous Taschenberg servant who had, as I afterwards heard, begged to be allowed to come in order to gloat oyer my misfortunes. Both men alighted, but. after wast ing three-quarters of an hour In trying to effect an entrance, they were obliged to return to Florence. The telephone was then resorted to, but that was use less, so, fuming and fretting, the law yer again came up to the villa. A regular "siege" then commenced. Muth went to the maids and demanded to be let out. She had up till then relied on these women, whom she had bribed, but she did not reckon on the tempera ment of Italian servants. Directly they saw my attitude of inflexible determi nation, they refused to help her in any way, and she was beside herself with rage and mortification. It was not unamusing inside the villa, for the chef had armed himself with a revolver, which he repeatedly pointed at Muth, as a gentle reminder thai she was not by any means having things all her own way. f King's Lawyer Threatens. The next day I went Into Florence to interview the King's lawyer, and re mained In his office from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. He read a long statement in German which Muth had sent him, and he argued and threatened until my pa tience was quite exhausted. I was faint from want of food, for no re freshment was offered me, although Fraulein Muth was given chocolate and biscuits. At 5 o'clock we went to the villa, where another statement by Muth was produced. She nearly went mad with rage when it was ' read, and declared that she would swear nothing. The villa servants were next interrogated, but they blandly maintained that they could neither read nor write, and that any statements said to be their- must be inventions. The lawyer was quite mortified, and he said, bitterly: "He laughs best who laughs last." I agreed with him that this wai often the case, and he continued: "I shall Any Officials Were Known to Favor Clash Comes Over Catholic Nurse for bring some luggage the next time come for the Princess, and when I take her to Saxony she shall not wear a sin srle thine ran have touched When he returned later, he failed as before to gain admittance to the villa. He was reinforced this time by the Ger man Consul, who said In a loud pom pous voice: "In, the name of William II. I ask you, Countess Montignoso, to open your doors." As I took not the slightest notice. Korner went to the Italian police, and asked them to assist him In enforcing my obedience to his sovereign's orders, but he received a reply to tho effect that the Italian police recognized no orders but those of the King of Italy. Night fell, and from my bedroom window I watched the progress of events. I observed a carriage coming up the road: It stopped, and some one made flashes with a hand electric lamp. This, as I afterwards discovered, was the signal to Muth that Korner was waiting, and that later she was to bring Monica out through the garden without my knowledge. Naturally there was no sleep for us. and at 1 A. M. the butler Informed m that some teiesrrams had Just been de llvered. and that the boys wished to so me. Thev told me that when they oassed the carriage, which was draw up on one side of the road, some one Inside hailed them and asked where thev were going. They replied: "T the villa with telegrams What are you doing here?" "Oh," answered the coachman, "were waiting to take away an Insane lady who Is inside the house. It was a bitter night, and Korner and his friends kept themselves warm with nlentlful suDnllos of cognac, ou at 4 A. M. they apparently grew tired of waiting, and drove ofr, leaving m mlRtrpna nf tho Situation. T Instinctively felt, however, that something was still afoot, so I wen linatnim tn the niirht nursery, where found Monica dressed for traveling and her trunk packed. Muth was In her own room, so I told the butler to go at once and tell her that some one from th- Consulate wished to see her In th warden, and that in order to get her out of the house, ho was to protend to give this information without my knowledge. The ruse was comiiicwu aaim fill The butler unlocked a sin door, and Muth rushed out. hatless and coatless, into the night, only to discover that she had been dupeu. anci as uu able to get back. Immediate Arrest Threatened T culled the trembling servants, and said in my most awe-inspiring manner "If any one dares cross me. It will mean immediate arrest." Then I told the maids to collect Muth's clothes and throw .them out of the window. This was done, and her luggage was then put outside by the frightened girls while the butler mounted guard with a nlstol. Muth rushed about the garden like a nerson demented, and at last went to San Domenico and telephoned to Korn er, who sent up a carriage to take her and her belongings away, rne siege oi the villa lasted a whole fortnight, and then my enemies gave It up in despair it afforded a great deal of amusement plenty of "copy" for the press, and was the subject of numerous caricatures in the Dresden comic papers. Dr. Korner left Florence, but as Fraulein Muth's nerves were rather shattered after the exciting time throuch which she had passed, he very kindly took her to Pegll on the Rlverla to recuperate, and I have no aouui Hue derived great benefit from her restful change. They returned to Dresden to gether, but. unfortunate for themselves they were indiscreet enough to abuse the King of Saxony and his Ministers Ti-i-lle rilninir in the restaurant car Their remarks were overheard by German lawyer, who reported them to thA Dresden authorities, wltn mo re sult that Korner Is no longer employed bv the Kins: After Fraulein Muth's departure, Von Metzsch made another attempt to ruin mv position. I had insisted on my faithful nurse returning to my serv ice, and as this greatly annoyed my enemy, he again Issued an order that Monica should have a Catholic govern ess. He sent a convert. Frau Ida Kremer, and she duly arrived at Flor ence. She is an ugly, hunch-backed woman, whoso mind Is as distorted as her body. I can say with perfect truth that she was a most accomplished spy. and as she has a very vivid imagina tion, she invented what she was unable to find out. When Frau Kremer had been with me a few days, an unknown friend warned me by telephone to bo very careful, as my house again harbored a traitor, and that Von Metsch's agents intended to force a sudden entrance one night to see If they could discover mil In compromising circumstances This play was actually carried out. The villa was broken into on one occasion, but naturally nothing was stolen, and the "burglars" were disturbed before they made their way upBtairs. Another time my garage was entered and some tires were taken away, and I often heard mysterious noises at night. But I fancy Frau Kremer's reports at last convinced her employers that my mode of life was above suspicion, and I was troubled no more by night alarms Frau Kremer left me after a stay of six weeks, and concocted a wicked book purporting to deal with me and mv life In Florence. It was a scandal ous production, but I suppose It satis- fled those who instigated; ner to write it She tried to sell It to a "burK stairs" publisher In Berlin; but directly mv friends in Saxony heard that ne gotiations were in progress they threatened to boycott any bookseller who supplied the production, and It was eventually issued as a feullleton in a Berlin Daper. It was a tissue of lies with an occasional grain of truth for, as the authoress had eaten my salt, she had had many opportunities of studvlnir me. and several things In tne book could only have been learned from me. unfortunately tins . i" m . work, like the bogus "Confessions of a Princess." did me a great deal or nnrm but the accusations It contained were too vile to answer, and I took no steps to repudiate them publicly. I was. by this time, quite used to scandalous reports being circulated about me: I could hardly ever take up a newspaper without coming upon something about myself, and I read with some amusement the fabricated accounts of my extraordinary and ex travagant tastes. But the things which really pained and disgusted me were the unfounded reports about my private life. If I spoke to a man he was at once assumed to be my lover, and it was impossible for me to enjoy his friendship without the worst con struction being placed upon the cir cumstance. My life was absolutely dull. I rode and- drove, and In the Summer I trav eled, and occasionally visited papa and mamma, who were now quite friendly to me. My one bright experience was in October, 1906, when I received per mission from the King to have an hour and a half's interview with my darling boys. I Was overjoyed at liis kindness, and decided to take Monica to make the acquaintance of her brothers and h1 s tc rs. The meeting took place at the Saxon Embassy at Munich. Mamma went with me, and I was told that I must conform to prescribed conditions and regulations as to my behavior. I was not to be permitted a private Inter view, and I was expressly forbidden to say a word about my departure from Royal Mistress "It Was All Up With Child Monica-Story of Life Ends. I. Saxony and my present mode of Ufa. When we arrived at Munich we drove to the Embassy, and the Saxon Am bassador, Instead of waiting for me upstairs, as had been arranged, cams down to my carriage, and, klsslnsj my hand, said with tears in his eyas: "Come quickly. Princess, for the little ones anxiously await their mother." Children Seen. Then Left. We hurried upstairs und he threw open the door of the salon. It was a dark day, and the first thing I saw were the silhouettes of lury and Tla who were sitting by the window. I advanced: the room seemed swimming round me; I was overcome by a thou sand emotions, and I could hardly be lieve that my darlings were actually before me. Trembling my heart filled with a mother's aching love I clasped my children in my arms and they clung to me as though we had never been separated. We lunched together, and the boys told me that "papa" always made them prny for mamma, who was so far away. This remem brance of me was bittpr sweet, and ( thought with a pang that If only Fred. erlck-Atigust had brought the children to me how different things might hare been! Time passed only too quickly, and then came the moment of parting and I cannot And words to describe It. The children went to Cannes, and t re. . turned to Florence with Monica. Every year the King asked me to give up Monica, and each time he did o I begged to be allowed to keep her a little longer. Monica was a really beautiful child: she had a sweet sunny disposition, and the moot win ning ways. We were Inseparable, and her companionship made my life so much happier that I could hardly fare even the idea of parting with her for a single day. Tremendous pressure, however, was eventually brought to bear upon me. It was pointed out that my iovo was selfish, and I was urged not to deprive ssj child of the ad. vantages of her birthright by Insisting that sho should share my fallen for tunes. I have always endeavored to preserve an entirely impartial Judg ment in the affairs of my life, so I considered the question of Monica's future from all points of view. I de cided to put ustdo my maternal love for tho time being, und came to the conclusion that If she was to go to Saxony It would be far better for her to do so when she was a tiny girl, as no one would then be able to say I had kept her until sho was old enough for me to prejudice her against her relations. I did not wish the child ever to reproach me with not giving her what the world would consider her due; nnd although she would probably have been very happy with me, I felt it was my duty to restore her to her father, and I can only pray that my little Monica will have a happier Ufa as a Princess than that which fell in my lot. It wat a great struggle to sever this last link with my old life. I felt, how ever, that my husband would love Mon ica, and that she would not, at least, suffer from any lack of nffectlon. This thought made the parting easier to bear, but a merciful Providence hid what the future held In store for me. I never realized that I should nut bn allowed to see my children again, and that their affection for me would be left to the tenacity of their early memories. Surely a mother should not he de prived of the rights of motherhood un less strong adverse reasons prevail. Clr. cumstanccs may arise which estrange husbands and wives: love may die and affection wane, but It Is a cruel thing to prevent a mother from seeing her own children. I tried to pick up the threads of my life, and present a brave face to the world, but my enemies actively con tinued their persecution. I desired to be protected as a wife, so that the tongues of slander might be silenced. and that Is one of the reasons why I married Signer Toselll. With that curious mania for self-effacement which sometimes seised the llnhsburgs. 1 chose to mnrry a man who boasted no pride of ancestry, and possessed no worldly wealth. My second marriage completely estranged my parents, who abhorred the Idea and considered that I had no right to take such a step, as my mar riage with Frederick-August had net been annulled by the Vatican. Hero ends my story so far ss It con cerns my more or less puoiic nie as Crown Princess of Saxony. I have en deavored to show the world what actually went on at tho Court of Dresden, and how I fared at the hands of unscrupulous enemies. I have hitherto boon Judged without a hear ing, but now I have pleaded my own cause. I have seen the splendor and the shadows of life; I have touched th heights of Joy snd walked In sorrow's depths, but I still rejoice In friends who love me. and l iook rorwarn to a brighter future. 8o walking here In twilight O my friends: I hear your voices softened ny in dis tance. 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