St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 28, 1902

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: € | PUSS Bet seny we Fa oN : r, PORTO tay i ie ry a on alas es Me ww a AE: ER Et NOE PO OR to age AMR gS oe |S Cilt es: — mammeee 9 8 iy ER ees ny A og Pepin ae . wR Te Pre cle SER pgp — Sa i 6 SESE ve ses princess’ 8 a aly a! & widow's second Idve. She de- ‘ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING. RECEMBER | 28, 1902. PRICE FIVE ¢ _ Actress, Turning His | Special Cable to the (Copyright, 1902, by the Press Publishing Co.) - DRESDEN, Saxony, Dec. 27.—Not since the awful tragedy at Myerburg nearly 14 years ago, when Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and the lovely Countess Marie | Vetsera were found dead together, has a royal scandal created such horrified amaze- | ment in the courts of Saxony and Austria as the elopement of Crown Princess Louise with her children’s French tutor, Andre family and their courtiers are, or pretend, to be as astounded as if a bolt from heaven had descended on the King. The as if such a calamity had happened. ._ Birst a description of the woman who has stirred all Europe: The Crown Princess Louise is 32 years old. Stie has a well-shaped, straight nose and fascinating eyes that sparkle with elo- quence. Her chin slightly recedes. Her trow 1s bread, but low, her eyebrows are prettily, arched. Her teeth are fine, her mouth large, but well cut. Hapsburg nether lip, rather fine, protrud- fng—the under lip that has been the Haps- burg family’s distinguishirg mark for cen- turies. Her masses of dark hair are always ‘Gressed in heavy plaits wound round and found the back of her head, and resting on her well-moided neck. Although thp mother of four children, her figure is perfect. . She is graceful, and always stylishly Gressed. ‘and, though her enemies say she has the manners of a2 peasant, and, in truth, ghe ts democratic, she attires hereelf like the trie aristocrat. Nevértheless, her ges- aie. manners and ‘movements prove 1 her High physical enersy. - far that on cne occasion his family moved to have him detained ia order that there should be an. ¢exami- n3tion as to his sanity, he having re- nounced an Inheritance which was his legally, and which he really because he thought an chi'd of the testator was titled to the fortune. His brother ts a »otad officer of of the crack regiments of Beigian cav- alry, and his uncle is Alme Ghon, & judge of the Court of Appeals. The professor visited his family a fortnight ago, and they made a creat deal of him, as usual There have been many stories told @ of his influence over women, and one ia 5 that Princess Louise ts not the firer } royal woman who was willing to cast | asi4e rank and tion to follow the | handsume, ath! young Frenc 2 THE STORYOF LOUISE AND HER LOVE” , ————— io Was Said to Be for Love, but , 2 Beat Her and Locked Her Up. Her Marriage to the Crown Prince HE crewn princess is the eldest y daughter of Frederick IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, head of the non- regnant branch of the house of Hapsburg. His title, Grand Duke of Tuscany, is an empty one, for Tuscany has been absorbed in Sardinia, and Sardinia has been lost in United Italy. However, the marriage of Loulse Antoinette to Frederick Augustus, on Nov. 21, 1891, was a glittering cere- mony, which was performed by the Car- dinal Archbishop of Vienna, and graced and honored by the présence of the Em- peror of Austria, Francis Joseph, an im- perial highness who from the many blows that fate has dealt him should be the saddest man itn all Europe. All Europe quoted this match as one of love. Louise Antoinette, and is one of the prettiest and most viva- cious ef imperial young women. -»Although burdened with the name of Fredérick Au- gustus Jean Loui Charles Gustave Greg- oire Philip, her bridegroom was a robust looking young fellow of.26 years. He comes of an ancient lineage, if blue blood amounts to anything. His line goes back to the tenth century. The royal house of Saxony, known as the Albertine line, de seconds from Albert the Courageous, Duke of Saxony, who died-in 1500. It really seemed a love match. Neither party to it was rich, even as second-rate princes go, prospectively. There was no question of policy in the marriage, for Austria and Saxony were already allied by the Crown Prince Frederick's marriage to Archduke Otto, Francis Joseph's nephew, How long after their love ‘match this royal couple were happy they only know. But it was'not many years before there happened to this Austrian Princess Louise Antoinette at Dresden just what happened to another Austrian princess, Marie An- toinette, at Verseilles. Bejng an aristo- crat, Marie Antoinette lost her head by the guillotine. Being democratic, Louise Antoinette seems to have preserved eyen her reputation in the eyes of the bour- geois of Dresden. The Saxon court and the courtiers hated her because she was light-hearted. ‘They exaggerated her foibles if she was bad, ‘painted her ten times blackar to her hus- band. The cablegran? proves all that. CROWN PRINCE DRANK AND FLIRTED. He sought forgetfulness, perhaps, to drown his wounded) pride in or tried deeper. “= QE eee ee ee a SS leet ee ee ee ati nee Er arr > a ’ nn ee _ OVE that laughed ‘and threw away a. “long. dark night,” into which she had Duels, - débt, forgéry,” ° prison and a throne has been the portion of at | been plunged when the sun of her life was | the insane hum ‘ Rave “ followed SR 4 Pita A € é whee x04 a eA ¥ esge ns A, ee. Poe a wife and family when royal eyes beck- Dried >| wot the tory cst | ett of Price rey Ay Revs Phe ed Sas pote 3 Tseng cad Bo¥ tana . a, id $e 22 ete rans Pie * Pm Py &. ron May 2.7 x 34) Sees ae I ee CUPID SPOILS THE PLANS OF THE HEADS OF ROYAL HOUSES Lonyay early this year, renounced her rights to the Austrian throne and ma Otto von Windisch Gractz, a petty She, too, gave up all for love, but ‘iam was no shame with it, and the world thet, loves a lover applaud ad. Poor, wayward Donna Elvira, danghter et Don Carlos, pretender to the Spanish throne, six j)ears ago ran away with an artist, a Count Folch! of Rome, who left : FE ie Mb. then 21, was/ {Qther way. The ecablegrams say to. got 33 wonde +9 a | foes ages drafts of beer—the beer of the | brewerysin Drescen is admirable. He on hunting expeditions oftener and of He became so far forgetful as to be « devoted to Charlotte Baste, a very t | actress in the Dresden Theater Royale, — The most frightful scenes followed; the cublegrams have described them, — tore their children from her, he beat they clawed each other as they fought. | again and again locked her up in her : a rooms in their palace until her Leopold, hurried to Dresden and to ghoot him. “ ae To pacify her so far as their children wer concerned her husband let her gu to a few months ago to engage a tutor | them. She met Andre Giron, well-bred, some, fascinating. * Today “Mies Obden” and Mr. Giron are 4 the Hotel D’ Angleterre, “Ere There, too, are Archduke Leopold, | in due time, could be Grand Duke of 1 cany, and the lovely Wilhelmina ics, his sweetheart for six years. Archduke Leopold Ferdinand once t ened to shoot his brother-in-law, and thrashed and bcoted him. The certainly has distinguished himself in ly he has given up his rights, his decorations, including Fleece,” and/ wishes to be known only : plain Leopold Wolfsing. Unfortunately for Mr. Wolfcing the enna newspapers have pubdlished that go to prove the charming morics to he unworthy of any true love. Muny better men risked their lives far the. many worse men, perhaps, have souls for it, But the “rights” Mr. waelfie sing surrenders are trivial—the ery 7 the Tuscany and Austrian successions, * The first is ;urely formal, Bat os Only an epidemjc among the which he must ‘escape, could place Wolfsing on the Austrian throne. deadly disease must quickly carry off Frome cis Joseph’s nephews, Archdukes Frang Ferdinand, Otho and Ferdinand Chases and their children, and the Emperor's. te a married brother, Archduke Ludwig. Ph FIVE TIMES Nt oe * PLACED UNDER ARREST. Of the women and men of this romanes of royaity only the Crown Princess Louise — Antoinette truly loves and belleves in her inmost heart she is truly loved. At least — five times she was placed under arrest Wachwitz, near here, family, was her uncle, Archduke John of Austria, whom she resembled domestic ideas, at least. He renounced titles, became John Orth, married woman he loved, and went on a from which he never returned. 2 ’ 2 The crown princess developed a taste te private theatricals which, would have harmless enough had she not engaged & theth, not for their talent, but for their robust comeliness. done, say the courtiers, aroused the bit- terest resentment of the King and Queen, 7 When the crown prince hoped to bring he® to a sense of her impropriety by separat-— we ing her children from her she became the more determined to do as she pleased. She” took a fancy to ride the bicycle, a fané that was as annoying to the court as ifs had determined to ride in the winter but she learned to ride. AMERICAN DE TAUGHT HER TO BICYCLE. Two of her friends here are 4 h: Amorican dentist, Dr. Jackson, and his sistant, Dr. Gunther. They taught her ride the bicycle and the pastime opened uw to her new fields of enjoyment. She on long rides into the country, ; panied only by Dr. Gunther. Again was placed in detention in the palace, Frederick Augustus, now maddened jealousy and wounded pride, sought to her peor reetrained on the that effart failed. é Then her eldest brother, Archduke Lae: peld Ferdinand of Austria, who has ciware been considered eccentric, went to witz, and, after a fearful scene, ne to shoot the crown prince if his sister wal not released from even nominal jon, Eccentric or not, there is no dogbt & that the archduke was in earnest. Since then, their enemies declare, | and brother have played into each * # a ed and restrained in her palace at a was mentally unsound, but a 4 4 tors to teach Mer thelr art, and pf This of all she hag is ne -~ <= =