THE CZARINAS CHARM.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81899, 6 December 1906, Page 4

THE CZARINAS CHARM.

The general appearance of the Czarina may be fair y well known i.i this country, though fewer pictures have been pub.isbed of her ttian of any other crowned head. But ; o picture that 1 ii:id seen gave any idea of how sne really looks, seen tiius face to fac-. lM'haps this may bo fj- the reason that much of her beauty from exquisite coloring, and that there is _ about her a subtle charm imp< ;■ pi'-tute and difficult to u.-c.iU-. ."sue is very tal and very ele ue . \:t most finely.piopuriioned. ti 1 tcaiuics are aim jet Greek in their regularity, and the natural expression of her face "-truck me at once as singularly wi-ifu. add tr.\eet sadnes that never went quite away, even when sue smiled. Her hair is strikingly beautiful and luxuriant, long, heavy, glossy, and brown-gold in coior. Her eyes are large, soft, lustrous grey blue, with .ong lasses, and I painted thtm cast down, as they nearly always are; for she is shy, and hardly ever ;ooks up without a blush.

Vet with all the Czarina's blushing shyness, her bearing impressed me with a seme of sometniiig much deeper and graver than mere admiration for a beautiful, graceful woman. It tdifficult to define just what this impression was, but it may be termed majesty, for lack of a subt'er teim; and the feeling of it increased during the entire time I was in her presence, though no one could have been kinder or more simple in all that she said and did.—Amaiia Kussner C:mdert, in the "Century Magazine."