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, me DIN NY ANS AN SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1918 Why Did Russia’s Czarina Betray Her Own Subjects As Germany’s ‘Royal Spy?” It Was Cold-Blooded and Studied Beyond Even ig Urge of Her German Blood—It ;Was_ the Rank-| FOR REV The ling in Her Heart of the Unpopularity She Had CIWS CLARINA <COMMUNICATED i OVER ER va Reaped in Russia as the Tactless, and for a Long While Heirless, Consort of the’ Czar—For This She Took Finished, Ruthless Vengeance. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall LEXANDRA, former Czarina of Russia, came to a land’ where, even from her wedding day, she was regarded as a woman’éf {ll-omen; | where, in the dark corners about her throne, the Anarchist’s bomb | @nd the poisoned cup of the court intriguer were ever hiding; where tao old, barbaric insult of divorce for failure to bear a man- | child was urged almost openly. And Alexandra became perhaps the most successful and iniquitous royal spy! known to history; the complete betrayer of the land | and the people to whom she owed allegiance. Russia| aated her; she was the Nemésis of Russia. ‘That 4s the summartzed life story of tle, woman who has been called “the unhappiest Queen in Parope”| and of whose unblushing ‘treachery a new record has just been made public.,” Agbording”'to the American} head of the Salvation Army in Russia, the hysterical halfamad Czarina of All the Russias directly caused the death" of Kitchener of Khartoum, the great English military leader who sinco| the death of Lord Roberts came closest to the hearts of the rank! and file of British soldiery. It has been generally accepted that spy work was responsible for the sinking of the Hampshire, which bore the English war lord on an important diplomatic mission to Rinela., Now we} are told that a private telegraph wire, leading directly from the apartments | of the former Empress to Potsdam, whispered the secret, witch enabled | the enemy to inflict on England her greatest individual foss ‘during: the | war. ‘ P ? What was the cause of the persist: Qipao | ent pro-Germanism of this one WOM-/| stantly over. the dangor from the an ruler, as compared to the loyalty | bomb-throwing Nihilists, not so much and devotion of other Atiied Queens?! for herself .as for her husband and| She was of German birth, it fs trae, | MHren. : | Rianne spat Aad Yet those children were still af- Prir Alix of Hesse-| otherdsperhipe the strongést—dause said that the|/of her unpopularity, in Russia, As every one Knows, atte gave birth to four daughters, one after the other, | and for long years Russia was the only European kingdom without a] abors for) direct male. heir ne throne Nat- known, | Urally the poor Pinpress was not to xed her how'she | yan, go, tts, conditlo tious, half-savage popula ing priests and curt. offic: the flame of discontent, even ‘hinting that the Empress should be set aside ‘and Nicholas remarried’ to°@ ‘woman who would bear him a.son, One can imagine the almost ‘intolerable af- front this agitation must have been to Alexandra's sensitive spirit, ‘One result'was that the birth of a mar- But #0 was Queen Fi stam born a Princess of a and her self-sacrifleing } Belgian peor hen Perro Loti a “lt, since the outbreak of the war,! »ward her mother and other German flashing eyes and a set white face, "Between ein and me there is @ curtain of ay" The German dlood in the one-time Czarina is not enough to account for her studied betrayal of her country, ty armies and, in so far as she could eéssion, an idee tixe. She had resort, more or less secret! dole: Reece A bac Be to all sorts of ¢ fect it, the cause of th Alt , medical and religious quacks. She (here {8 an explanation in a certain allowed herself on one occasion to be J adage—"Hell hath no fury lke @ mesmerized, in the hope that the woman scorned!” stork’s next visit, would. bring her | Alexandra had not even a bride's WOMt she wanted. Inevitmbly her mind became affected; she grew more | ung 4Nd) morbid, more sombre in her outlook | in Russia, y popularity \vcautiful as sho was at the time of on life. Finally, In the midst of the | her wedding and so sweet-natured: Russo-Japanese’ War, the longed-for | that ber girlhood nickname was goY,arrived at the court of Petro- sunny.” She came to a oourt of But the C2ur ‘8 troubles were not urning, her wouding taking pluce Over, At « rcligious coremony held & ; year before t he birth of th w duys after the death of her Year b h of the littie usband's predecessor, Alexander tit, (*4revitch, " Rasputin, the ragiag monk of evil repute, was Dresent and prophesied to assembled crowds that | & new miracle would give. a son tot was whispered, everywhere that she was @ most unwilling convert to male heir became with her an ob-| PRIVATE WIRE YO: POTSDAM USS IAS ANS. Saat: THAT LED DEATH BETRAWING “THEM “SHE PRETENDED PY FOR NER SuBRAVE SOLDIERS. WHILE _ memes geome eegenmmnane To KITCHENER, Russi Cai ae. ane eae 4g ; Iniquity of Czarina Alexandra. GE ON RUSSIA, FOR HER OWN UNPOPULARITY, SHE BECAME HISTORY’S MOST SUCCESSFUL ROYAL SPY. PLOTTED WITH GERMAN ARVISERS AND RASPUTIN rs “THE =DOWNFALL ~_— a oF A % EX-CLARWA AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR Red Cross News of the Wee eT k SATURDAY, OCTUBER 26, 1918 Whose Love Is Stronger: “Woman’s Love Is Like a Star—Man’s Like a Rocket,’’ Says Nixola Greeley-Smith in This, the First of a Series of Four Articles on “Love? = “One Shines Forever; the Other May Seem te. Create More Illumination, but Lasts a Fraction” of a Second.” By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), f there were no other signs that the end of the war is approaching, « sig nificant omen might be found in the revival of love as a topic for dise ion by two current magazines—the Strand in England and Pearson's in the United States The October number of Pearson's propounds to its readers a series of questions already answered diversely in Great Britain by leading novelists and psychologists Of these the chief conundrums are + 1. Whose love is stronger—man’s or woma! 2. Should woman show her love? 3. Is It possible to love two parsons at the same time’ 4. Can @ plain woman be loved as much as a parr one? é j Maat ree It Is diMeult for me to understand how in the f }of all human experience the first question still can be made a subject debate. ay. Woman's love {s eo much stronger than man’s that one might as Well ‘discuss the relative alcoholic content wf fine French brandy and near-bege, Woman's love ts so powerful and deep that once thoroughly aroused it never wholly dies. There Are, to be sure, thousands of shallow women who life wholly on the surface of life and never experience love in its real sense They are the froth eaters who give rise to cynical comments among nigh on the frivolity and superficiality of woman's affections, If a man wants to stop and blow soap bubbles with one of these perpetual children he has only his own lack of Judgment to blamo-when he tires of the game or abe beging to blow her large bubbles tn the direction of a new little boy. Woman's love is stronger than | eee ma if for no other reason than/*imple savage rhythm. The ir | : é of music's development ts the his because it 1s less easily aroused. Alot love's development, a gradual pros skyrocket seem to create more t ion from rhythm'to melody, trot ilumination than a star, but one | ix oly to harmony 7 lasts a fraction of a second and the | The earliest music, that of the Ine other shines forever. diang and Chinese, has only a moms Men are more loyal—t don't mean may Jotonous beat to distinguish it from the barking of dogs or the high howl The first mustea) melody that know anything about was found Itymn to Apollo, written in 360 By wilich French areha it Delphi about twenty-five uo, And the first recorded in: love—the melody of the hi f aristocrats of love; that they love less easily and permanently se they pay & greater make a mistake. into the gigantic more than men bec | Penalty if the A woman foe" + | restaurant we call life, look the | heart--belong to the same Golden Ag ec < ost imm f vihie: Bieny over, And eee All Until fairly modern times human diately seme one thing she wants! joy, was a melody of two voices sf very much, It may be frogs’ legs|ing in unison the same air. And tartare, chicken a la King or sole | man always called the tune. ia Whatever it la abe Harmony came into love about marguery. nerey " ame time it was introduced ff orders St, consumes tt without row-|iusic, ‘Two different tunes aung # ing with the walter and rarely there-! gether make harmony, but, of cou! after even thinks about anything else. You have to be careful about ‘ * | tunes j A man looking over the same! 4 woman whose life is set to the bill of fare, is painfully embarrassed “Spring Song” cannot expect to five by the manifest desirability of al-| harmoniously with a husband whose most everything set forth thereon, soul responds to ‘If you want to see your father im “Corn-beef and cabbage sounds the Fatherland ‘ good to me," he soliloquizes, “What's Keep your head down, Fritale Be A man whose heart keeps time with blue fish maitre d’hotel, anyhow? Do | be Island duckling would | ty wsical expression is reached in Church, In which, at that time, most tor with the bene tone of his Aan of : | an r, day of 2 \, the press, ° ° 7 ’, 5 i ¥ , : i) suddenly “Oh, bring me some ham| the self-.ame air’ Owen Mered of the people of Russia believed ins The Caareviteh, from ws birth the Miss Mildred Emerson, Brooklyn Red Cross Worker, Has Broken Sox Knitting Record Previously ae wrote in his exquisite “Love Lettelaa tensely, in celebrating’ the fugtivi- idol of his famuy, wucrounde t y ? H} ; Julvi / y ‘er i » Love is the music of life, Infatua-|And when the alr ts played wor heii wedding aud cuesunsien \aaety, 1NeL Youak win wees Held by Herself—New York Girl, Miss Sylvia Wray, Red Cross Worker in Italy, Has Been Made tion is the ragtime of love. Many [leads the orchestra for her lov © her ding and | NOP | chonmeds weer “unig aie ene er . ; ; vtec orsons, both men and women, never | stronger than man's, being at of6e there occurred the Khodinks tragedy about: whtuwe’ health ay pel egth Honorary Member of the Bersaglieri, One of the Highest Honors in the Italian Service. persone, bord gen Bn women, Arar |Stroneee ee ee Pena rben thousands lost U live founding a dynasty the’ worst rumors ' 2 c ‘ies POR Da eh oc eeuceetnernas — . i : Jest honors in the Italian service.) a pamphlet of instructions on Surgical) valued a $45,000 a year, High grad uiree the young Queen was in no: were dlroulating « snstantly, It seems By Hazel V. Carter Since her arrival in Italy, Miss Coney | Dress Spected to be ready (Or!articles are made. Unti this year the “ si ssponsible for this accident, but “elinitely established that in hist een ‘ Ay swe iy Te irt in canteen | distribution the of the week greater part of the stock hasbeen sold t r # people considered it a part of tho. injury at the bands of Nihilists while! masks which swept Red Cross | Work, where her valiant servi 4 : . c , * . 4 : her di eto: ALL lbas come from overse sme through the effrta of a c J Then Alexandya appears .to have) Hever re po Aa! fogzeretely, ‘ |weeks has subsided and the Mod the Christmas parcel for the teat \Groga- tor’ L8008' wuras land BEGAN as a singer, became a} en lacking In that most useful qual-.| gy RaSputin At the c DUR Aaa oorene Wobtkroom of the New York County eI boy over there, been packed) giay ror service in the Cross hos OL. ROOSHVELT'S suggestion | singing actress, then an actress. | of monarchs—tact. She perhaps | ing, and with it the overwrought, |Chapter 1 receiving congraiflation yet? The Red Cross t# wotns| pitas in France, ‘The greatest pum Meat aicariale’ tightihe wink 1 Wes still absurdly young wh na the marrenscoindel pene AULA T: wera jutbreak, ce gig Crarina. jon having completed an order for | to play Santa Claus und see that the | por of theso nuracs’ aids will have to tribute thoir old clothes te be|™Y Parents, ylelding to my Intense | or od ‘sweet’ h the outbre 01 e wa A) LAR OAb pana He 8 . a : Nh contri ¢ thor old clothe boraness. of evi! ecens inlaw, | Recmed temporarily Yo ‘take”a” wane | #000 mauka In record time, parcel arrives for Christmas—but it] pe supplied by the New York County | sent to the Helgians and to the people | desire to have something to do with, ple Ghe and her mother , | SEP on Lite, “She and her daughters | TWO hundred women | volunteer) must be matted through your nearest |Ghapter, The chaptor has made spe-|"e Northern France met @ generous (must, neat me to the Lemberg Con- | ‘ Empress Dowager—who had @ became Red Cross nurses and per- | members of the Chapter accomplished | ¢ ter by Nov. 15. The regulations | oi.) arrangements to furnish instruc-| response from Camp Upton, from|servatory, I really should have been yng court following—never agreed. sonally cared for wou: soldiers in | the work, king and mailing were issued | . i 7 ear fot | Ghana TRMLAAL. GKaae D6 BIN oIaan ae ne renee. s ly | the court t tal sig | in penne ene Tee | tion to women who will volunteer for|where nineteen cases of old ‘clothes |in school studying all sorts of n rait-laced, For example, one of | jioitia. | AN you knit pielidghis es “ee HERE were shipped from the | ter course which qualities a study of music was go fascinat! or firat eficial acta: wee to sxprem |: Jp. the: ant of suture events thc | be bor uae apse A a sii : | supply station, Brooklyn Chap- | woman to act as a nurses’ ald. Red Cross News Is Printed in The || und I threw myself into it with such " rT cigar- zarina's gol. 0 0 led R This is the newe: record . Hi . p e the disapproval of the practice of cigar hata cece for wound Ruse | Emer ng on a ter, during the past week course covers fifteen lessons and 240 | Evening World Every Saturday. ||¢nersy that after one year at th ette smoking among women—in that | § § ironica r to! Miss Mildred Emerson, we 3 ‘ “2 ee jp | hours in patal, Venti watcminlt? Gohan praae coed 1y considerably more prevalent at | hér efforts and intrigues must be at-! knitting machine at the Academy | ¢4es and two cartons, The knittin Ree near oo hvalang ' ; P Mote . © Russian court than it now is in| tributed the deaths of thousands of | 7 Brooklyn. Miss Emerson | @e¢partment of the Brooklyn Chapter| care of the sick are held in the New >-—.- luck to be chosen for the chorus ¢ New York. Sho discouraged gayoty | helpless mon. and the demoralization ; Workreom kn Brooklyt 4 |has distributed in the past ten months | York County | Chapters teaching |Your Old Keys Can Help jine | ih, Tambers: and elaborate entertainments—which | Md downfall of her land on has broken her own previc a1 <A 16,786 mufflers,| school, 463 Madison Avenue, and t ie |This is the Nati Polish Theatre, . > er popular- tly months of the war she was! of een socks between 9.30 and 4.15. Ge h register an) “ J “K ""Inamed after the y states did not tend to increase her popul us! of sixteen ) t were is ready to ock Up the Kaiser ty either with the court itself or with | S4Pplving Hindenburg with the com- | And she says it's fr jet + fae af i en who Wish to take these le : Sere | mar wondert large number of costu jow- | plete Russian fleld cypher. An Amer The Academy om, by the Oe Aaa rose Ay AVE you any little slacker keys | sea s re, as 1] eliers, caterers and other business men} !ean woman who married a Russian | i on ae, VOIUALOOrA | Cotta Soous articles such aa Victrola) » women asked for must be from H in your home? Was Just an eay ited = ren¢ on the speed | HObleman Princess antacuzene, | ¢ day and on Mon Senener . Bors tn | thirty forty-five years of ugg é Ae s delighted with t and Miu ewhiche the sodlal bull ia kept | kranddaughter of President tirant:| evenings records, 2oKo, musical Inland physically Ot in evory way. T Phonograph records, book |ihuntis new. Wor > me rolling : has told of how the Queen and al garments and sungi- | Strumen les and sporting Kc Ut ponsess two letters of Te old clothes, &c., which you resurrected| sung ia the horus .tul was tried out “Ono has only to read the historicar German Indv-in-waitin: whine sings must be finlshed within | Were als fe Sn ag 1 r on from persons not in their|from first-class slackers to overseas |in small parts o record of assassinations and viol into the Czar’ ah cept 4 specified time Maybe you can't} ment, quantity ¢ LA peeps family. ‘They will re necessities are now ng their bit en came anott of luck. { to realize that for years any ‘hat his cousin, Grand Duke Nich twenty pairs of socks in less} linen Naval Hospital of | nth. thelr expenses, tran. . § ad inging actor ipel, who ruler of Russia has beon violently un- W&* trying to supplant him, T} ‘than seven hours, but you can help | Brooklyn, rortation and equipment, ‘Th | “over there n connect Skarbka we id epee je. the Czarina's’ efforts: this efficient , s allotment ~ ‘ A gare « Now you just go back into the | I*heatre for forty lust found vopular with the revolutio ele- with the allotmen ( mado special preparation popular ong the people, ‘The Cearina (commander wna put where he could pe HE BROOKLYN CHAPT T=) to have enough teachers on hand at attic, at uggestion of Mra, Mary|it possible to fulfil « of years. Leday yecomy othing, and the incompe . s ue: that all har r pals . t » opened wn thea he first : : and her rather ineffectual spquse were | mn a i thing and th heompe ERE iy some good news for | quests that all hand caching centre to truc- | 3 Sesuop, of 736 Riveraldo Drive, | H®, oPt ast bie ow Sheets, the firs Vas no exceptions to he e welnst meld, Thun’ Alexand eae ae | workroom toilers concentrate their efforts on Ae ae ae ma’ lin search of slacker keys whome re-|vated to productions in the Yiddish Ratice " i Kings ahd Queens wiih Hass meneral headquarter » perfected Misa Isabel Lowen, Director of 8 for the present, ast Fe 4 Tapiil Unindita’ Tinicatantehia [toon Me ie Se hint dane ‘ forty among the. Tussion radials 1 and ne t mi! Ps ! pier | the Skarbka Theatre and gave mo a § sae ee an ¢ cound countormine eve the akers' Bureau of the New York r be given nt rICLES manufactured by tn Renter ih elieg | the Ska eatre and gave a ae than Any other monarch IA) Rnedan Man or pian of | Arie [she Apaskere’ Bureau of fe weaters @ month ax their quc TCLER Tal a by-In* | Women's Stage War Relief) cnince to sing and play wonderful (dream 1 was offered an engagement | rope, these two had to walk with ii Ual i ng her | Couaty Chapter, has just announ sugested that as far aa pc erned Allied prisoners in Swit-| » The keys you find and turn] parts, at the Royal Theatre, an honor ee nt, invisible, grim Fear 6 Shel intellizence :s that the bureau is plannis to Bond | | iting of socks be left to tho and will be on rth ver to these women will be reclaimed| Then Goldfaden, the poet, drama- | before bestowed on one of my ) shadow, A thousand deaths lurked Woman neve ) | to auxiliaries wh are ning (0) ove mat mak th ne Pyare tr at Seah Tie kala tlst and manager, founder of the; | learned Roumanian in bout them, Of somo of the plots the | 1) AB ky I'the strain of months of untiring | Pave mac me | ntry in tin ere such material la being used.sor | {ist snd mansmer, Counser O€ the) 1 leerned Noomane ie outside world has heard. Just twenty | [uthinss venke I” | labor speakers who will carry inspira | 1 merel} Bai |season, according to announcement! war necessities. na tked my work. He gave me|Theatre for three months, ena yours ago a despatch to The World yi oe muyeeiata dabacl the | tion, entertainment and @ spirit: of es gre “ Jo by the Atlantic Division, r Brass keys, lead ki tron ys,|leading parts In the company, with|wiho had planned to oust me beet vf Russia’ acle | comes grea k KP 1d of the attempted poisoning of the | Mmrsrinnts oil fatenire jap on to the cireum at wn tod Cross, aati neva ahatedeaan: kare xpose| Which he toured Poland and went tojof my race, became mv ardent ads Czarina’s coffee with arsenic admin ana: wen: the, palace aden {Mo phere of the workroom HAIRM the ¥ war| : , . oS other ands, We spent a whole aca-|mirérs, But I felt homesick tered by the lady-in-waiting, “The 3. "Ine pevotutionarie ire tin favor signity by bringing an peak? \ Rome weeks o ar} thea ait as slackers for want of warlson at Bucharest, playing in Yiddish, |lonely for my Polish home, , Czarina," the despatch adds with Un-| ida” extreme ' 1 worker along, to be enter on ae ee neil madé an appropria | indy and make ‘em do their! People who had never thought of|came an offer from faraway ophetic significance, "in| WitnSop ht qnarngy th and to Work gical ¢ are req of f » visiting @ performance in Yiddiwh| York. ‘The ocean seemed a0 b ar qd in’ frequently| Romanoft’ fimily’ were held clo rn o the ri sor of Sure { 4 an has been approved by the/came to our house. And one day [| dangerous, but the adventure erman, 7 ora ISS SYLVIA CONBY, a New| Dressings at No. 10 Pierrepont ' cols ft » which had sdquarterd in| was inyited to sing before the man- |ed me. One day the Czar, walking in his) ;, eh fed hy thet York girl working for the Red | SVing the name of the person dic 1 rland, sehene of | New York, Chicago, Goston, Detroit,jagement of the Royal Theatre. It{ily (1 arden, picked up what be thought | porayey tithe: arpthbr.. Shmaon le Wy dt. been | (0 tHKe charge of the dressings, wilh | giving these men some work to do was) Philadelphia, San Francisco, Loalwas like @ dream. 1 sang before the| spite of my absorption in n Wawa child's ball. It went off ip, His Russia tn ite aod" miruerate rat eiryd y, Gross. in Italy, has just been | or addreas und telephone nui iiginally devised as @ & les, Tacoma and Washing‘on,| great musical and dramatic authori-{set out for the New World, + \and; Muckily it was a lightly charged 4). atrencth dp pup deve the villarg | Made, an honorary member of the ‘rhe alldtment of pneumonia jackets! nental collapse for the prisoners,| Where your keys Will be welcomes ties; Prince Cantacusino (Cantacu-|you know, | am an i hom. There is plenty of ovidénce to | + no e# Romanoff and its bo. | Hersasiierl, the crack Mighting troops | hen been filled * [but it has grown to such an extent! Give a key; It will help to lock up}aene you call It here) an’ other}immoat core of me mow,, 5 that the Caarina brooded cou- of the King of Italy—one of the high- Le Lrvoklyn Chapter is getting out that at the presemt time the output is the Kaiser, «mim, BOtables, Before 1 awoke from myjof it, Si twaying Delil é . Man’s---or Woman's? ~ constant—in love than women, A/of the coyote. oe naene oh i) te apila hia. wife tools would have a much a man rarely criticises his wif | hearing Irving Berlin sing one of hi 4 others—he is thought a cad if he) own songs than if they should listed on does—while most women discuss! to the neh orchestra's interpretas — thelr husbands with startling can-|tlon of Debussy'’s “Afternoon of 1 7 rritt bout | “aun.” Primitive love has exactly dor, But f am not writing about) some mtime quality as printitive loyalty, #0 let that prs, mus If any reader should dowbe Max Nordau, an enemy philoso. | this assertion T refer him for nat pher, wrote once that women are the | tidy to the Indians on Broadway, ogists dug Wp + 4 of "The HKattle Hymn of the Republie® you rece end this tournedos “| (yes, I know it's the same alr’ ai veal, Cole How's the lamb bash | jonn Brown's Body) is not likely’ 4 the roast beef rare? happy with a girl whose ideal'p® / + a | FE ¥ i .