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Another Meaning For O. K.

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Day
2
Month
May
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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"O. K." has another significanee tlian the one usually attached to it. ín Eussia O. K. used to mean a j mysterious brilliant writer who fllled j columns of the Moscow Gazette and Eussia with letters in favor of aa! Anglo-Bussian ailiance. The mystic letters meant Olga Kireefï, one of the most prominent of all the fascinating set of social-political Eussian luminaries, says the New York World. She was the only daughter of a ; tinguished Eussian family.and the j child of Emperor Nicholas, and led j the usual Ufe of the upper class 1 Eussian girl ïmtil her marriage with Gen. Novikoff. She was the typical leader of the social diplomatic set for awhile, but was not seriously interested in politics until one of her brothers was killed in the EussoTurkish -war. Then she awoke suddenly to the fact of political life, and, believing that had England and Eussia been on friendly terms such sacrifices would not have been necessary, she became an earnest advocate of an alliance between the two countries. In Eng-land she has many friends of distinction. Kinglake, Hon. C P. Villiers, Bernal Osborn, Prof. Tyndall, Gladstone, Carlyle, John ISright, Prof. Freeman, and Froude were all personpl friends of hers, and some of thein supporters of her views. She always stays at Claridges when she is in London, and it was to her that King-lake wrote the well-known nonsense verse: There is Kiir iady al Claridge's Whose smilc is more ctarming to tne Tlian the raptures of ninot y-nine marriages C.iuid possil ly, possibly be.

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