Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1918 — The Ex-Czarina. [ARTICLE]

The Ex-Czarina.

T rub my eyes when I read that th® czarina is a deeply scheming, intriguante who had ambiguous relations with Rasputin and aimed at the success of Germany over the country she had adopted by marriage as her own. ft is only necessary to cast my memory back to the time when I was just entering womanhood and Princess Alexandra Alix was a girl some ten years my junior. Certainly I knew the shy, reserved simple child well enough to realize that she had not the mental development for any form of Intrigue. Residence at Buckingham palace ’ under the keen critical eye of an august grandmother, an eye that nothing could possibly escape, did not make for striking individuality, nor did the" quiet simplicity of the German home, and the princess grew up beneath the double burden of surveillance and etiquette sharing the quiet Intellectual life of an adored mother. Yet she had a certain measure of high spirits, loved tennis and dancing, and having tuned her life to play its small part in the great household dbchestra, seemed happy enough.—The Bookman. |