GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 57, 30 November 1907, Page 11

GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

It was expectod that Princess Victoria Louise would this "autumn accompany her parents, the Kaiser and Kaiserin, upon their visit to Windsor. Tho l'rinccss ""as borii just' fifteen years ago; and her advent, coming as : it did after that of a succession of sons, was a source of peculiar pleasure to Germany. Although somo European Royal families have contained a large majority oi princesses, daughters of the House of Hohenzollcrn (with the notable exception of tho Kaiser's four sisters) have been few. It will be recalled that tho_ Emperor Wil : liam: 1; grandfather of the Kaiser, had but one daughter, now the . Grand Duchess if Jiaden, and that tho only child of the young Crown Prince and Princess is a son. As in the case of hor sccoiid cousin, Princess Mary of Wales, the Prussian Princess is x an only daughter; and it is believed, in Germany, that sho exercises autocratic powers over her august father,'as only daughters liavo a habit ot" doing. : A pleasant picture of a great Pro-Consul is furnished' by "Anglo-Egyptian" in London "Daily Chronicle": —"It was Sun day. afternoon at the ' Zoo' in Cairo. A little family party —father, mother, nurse, rind'-child —camo strolling along. There was no i state—no escort, rio footman, no Consular ' Oavasses ' sparkling in gold and white, such as run, with their significant staves, in front of' the meanest foreign' Consul in the streets of Cairo. It was just a little middlc-class party out for their weekly holiday—enjoying ■the sunshine, gazing at the strange animals — •immensely concerncd and interested in tho baby—' Monsieur, Madame ct Bebe '—the same' group that' you see wandering happily ori Sundays under the plane trees in the Champs Elysees, or under tho limes in ' any little' German town. Tho man : was greyhaired,, but still keen-eyed, strongly-built, aiid bronzed of facc. Ho seemed more anxious about tho baby than either the mother or the nurse. That was my first sight of Lord Cromer." Miss Myrtle Reed, who has-a-way at once whimsical and sentimental of dealing with hor subjects, and who enjoys h good deal of popularity, particularly among young girls, has a book of an unnsual character for her. The title, "Love Affairs of Literary Men, is self-explanatory. This is, all things considered, not going so far afield as this versatile'author travels when she writes her rer liable and ingenious cook-books, under tho cognomen of "Olive Green." It will be reassuring to thoso gentlemen who. worry about tho decay of domestic interest among selfsupporting women, to know that Recti, or jMrs. M'Cullougli, as she now is, is cclobrated for her brilliant achievements with a saucepan.- -