Joy, Joy, Joy

Two young matrons whom a Japanese would recognize by name are Mrs. John Jacob Astor 3rd and Countess (Barbara Hutton) Haugwitz. Last week Japanese politely welcomed announcements that both are with child. But wild was Japanese joy when the Imperial Household Ministry issued a proclamation that Her Majesty the Empress Nagako will be brought to bed next November for the sixth time.

Joyous Mr. Astor decided to buy an 80-ft. yacht and to call his firstborn, if a male, ''plain William." Joyous Count Haugwitz was felicitated at Karlsbad by a royal wire from his Danish sovereign King Christian X. Anticipating an event far more momentous and expensive than those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled little Emperor's physicians decide to wind his plump and pretty Empress in a white silk maternity belt purified by Shinto priests.

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