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...possesses "the gifts of a high-strung nature beyond a doubt." With his incurable, withered arm he should have turned to a brilliant civil career; but, alas, the military tradition of Prussia demanded as Crown Prince a dashing cavalry officer. Worse still his mother, Victoria² (daughter of British Queen-Empress Victoria), was repelled by her son's deformity, hated him, and once remarked inhumanly to an Austrian nobleman: "You can scarcely imagine how I admire your handsome, intelligent and graceful Crown Prince³ when I see . . . my uncouth, lumpish son William...
Even liberal Protestants, to whom veneration of Mary, the mother of Jesus, is nothing short of idolatry, were shocked; Roman Catholics, firm in their faith in Mary, Queen in heaven of the hierarchy of saints, might have answered as before: "Outsiders can never understand our faith, our veneration of the Blessed Virgin...
...that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary." James, Cardinal Gibbons, in modern times wrote: "After our Lord Jesus Christ, no one has ever exercised so salutary and dominant an influence as the Virgin Mary on society, on the family, on the individual. . . . Queen of angels and saints [she] stands 'face to face' before God." He speaks of her as the "mirror of God," urges devout Catholics to pray...
...surrounded by dancing girls. He embraced me and sang an aria from La Gioconda. It was a pageant during a Persian ball which newsgatherers reported as 'most brilliant of the season.' Mr. Diaz was supposed to be a prince out of the Thousand and One Nights; I, Queen of Loveliness...
Married. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas, publisher of the New York Morning Telegraph, onetime actress; to Col. Lytton Ament; in Washington, secretly last month. They are now in Rumania, visiting Queen Marie and King Ferdinand, personal friends of Colonel Ament...