'A SCHOOLGIRL REVOLUTION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13997, 2 September 1907, Page 7

'A SCHOOLGIRL REVOLUTION

POLICE VANQUISHED "WITH ROSES,

{Fnou Our Own Cobhespoxdekt.l ~11 LONDON, July 19, A bloodless revolution that 'would liavo delighted Sir W. S., Gilbert took place a few. days ago jn tlio city of Cettinje, tho capital of Montenegro. Tho " rovolufhcrs " Wert) entirely schoolgirls, and their one weapon was a bouquofc of lovely roses. But "thereby hangs a toJe." It appears that there is in Ccttinjo an cjcollent college for girls, foundod by tho Lzanfcsa Maria Aloxandrovna, supplied with Itusaan money and teacher?. It has six cisAftg, tho sixl-h being the finishing one. in the room of that, class hung a photo- ,^, rnp „', of . , J ! r " lc0 . Nicholas in a gilt framo. llio (hushing girls" held a political meeting m that room. It happened that tbo fathers and brothers of roost of fheso girls r V <j inscribed tliomselvc-s in the registers of tlio National Democratic party as inemDon. and thereby provoked rathor sharp crit'oifim and condemnation on tho part of the rnn-oc. Tho girls eat in judgment on Jinn. l'hoy found that, ho called their fathers and brothers "tho traitors" for' no other roason than that they were democrats, opposed' to Die autocratic regime; they found, further, that the Prince waa ogamst tho Parliamentary regime, anil, therefore, was not.worthy to adorn with his photograph, tlio school room of the modern Montcncgrine girls. They took down the condemned photograph and tore it, amid enthusiastic screams, into a thousand pieces una—danced ovw their victim. The sprotmis and tumult 'brought io their room the Riiseitui mistress of tho school, to whom the girls explained what had taken place, aim whv. ...

So serious did tho matter seem to her that without venturing herself to deal with at, eho made int.instant report to tho Government. At onco tho authorities commanded M. Angelat, tho oliiof of tho detective police, and consequently the most unpopular porseii in all Montenegro, fo conduct a thorough investigation into tho menacing revolt. "When tho formidable functionary arrived at tho school lio ww surprised to find 30 pretty young girls awaiting him in festive' array, wearing their oharmiiigeet dresses and their daintiest shoes. They received him very cordially, and presented him with a, beautiful bouquet of roses. Naturally M. Angelat, being a. .gallant officer, waa much pleased vilfo this flattering attention. Ho raieod the .roses to his Hose that ho might inhajo, their delicious perfume, and was about to. express in highly complimentary terms lit? appreciation of,the compliment, tho roses and their fair donors, when most unfortunately, ho was suddenly seized with a.fit of sneezing, so violent and prolonged that, toai-s streamed from his eyes, and ho became quite faint from his oxortions. As one. stentorian sncezo after another resounded and revcrboratcd through th.o lam o lidioolroom, tho. girls screamed >vi!.h lauglrtcr, somo becoming ijuito hysterical. Unluckily, M. Angolat did not view tho matter in tho samo light. Ho became furiously angTy, but tho moro lio strove fo givb expression to' his otitragod fee lings the moro unablo ho found himself to make ahy other remark than "Ah-tissuo!l' l —which was emplia,tio,.lnit not explanatory, —and each of theso ejaculations moved tho fnir nmideno to. fresh 'burets of laughter. At ; last tho girJs considerately urged htm to go .(it onco to tho hospital and haVo his oftonding noso promptly ammrtAtwl,, Tho suggestion was not well received, but, when Jt was added l by one of tho girls that this would correct his disposition to thrust it— his no3G—into other people's concerns, tho indignant official rushed from tlio room to mako complaint at headquarters. Tho Government was Very angry, but whtoi tJi'o nffftir Iciilced oit't—as it did—tho wholo puulio was conVulsod with merriment, and file Prinoo himself laughod heartily when (old of. tlio incident. So I think and- hope ■that those faoctious maidpns will cscapo punishment for their practical joke. For tho wicked girls had peppered those rosos.