Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1865-09-27
Kate IEOWard''-A Romance
Of High Life.

Of High Life.
Paris Correspondence of the Boston Post.l
The almost sudden death of la
dy, who has played great part il
the history of this Emperor's reign
! has brought back again all the recOl
Iections OF the time when she, ruling
the de-linies of Louis Napoleon haC
well nigh been admitted TO rule those
of the French nation. Poor Kate
Howard, after a stormy voyage on
this ocean of life, like craft water
lodged, positively tossed hither and
thither, without either the wish or the
power to make head against the temp.
est, was driven ut last by the mere
caprice of wind and tide into the most
secure and friendly in the universe,
and has sunk at last fairly overladen
with the wealth and riches her owner
had thought fit to burden her with
Various are the accounts given of her
origin Out of the number there can
be but one Of them true-that which
tells of fine summer day toward the
end OF the season in London, when
two larking young men about town,
the last of their generation remaining
in the great metropolis, both rs usual,
"wanting for remitances" to enable
them to fly the heat, dust and dulness,
strolled together down one of the de-
serted, melancholy streets leading out
of HaymarRet. The name of the one
was Jack NJ, of the other Tommy
d., both familiar to The initiated Lon
don mai, both treated like the enfdnS
gates of London, both forgiven for
tredanieS and practical jokes which, to
other men, would have brought per-
secution, disgrace and punishment
A small miliner's shop stood ut the
end of the street. Nothing but the
shearest idleness could have induced
eXquisits even TO cast n glance at the
window, for the two or three bOnnets
exhibited there were hideous to be-
hold, but as fate would have it, just
as their eyes were turned in that di-
rection, a face more lovely than Il Wis
ion of Mohamed's paradise, peered
above the curtain, and coloring Grim
son at the sudden attention inspired,
drew back into the recesses of the
little shop, with an expression of half
Indignation, at the bold stare with
which it had been greeted. But the
two eXquiSites were veterans of Lon
don life, and had trod that same bat
Ia En1A 70 hn ,4.,unfaI h.
the foe, however fair; so they simply
opened the door and walked in to bar
gain for the ugliest bonnet ever ere
ated by the fancy of n vul gar English
milIiner, and insisted on the lovel
creature trying it on, and suggested
several alterations likely to make it
more hidcous still, and at last, after
more than an hours haggling and al
tercati IN, during which the expires
sion of Indignation had entirely disap-
peared from the bouautiful face, and
that of pleasure alone remained Tom
my ID. concluded the bargain with
the promise of coming to fetch the
hideOus purchase in post chais'', and
from that evening to take it to France
with the intention of showing it all
the wonders and gayeties of the
French capitol, aud vOwing eternal
fidelity TO its horrible shape and star
ring ornaments, provided certain
lovely face worc with him. The hint
was tuken; tho milliner's apprentice
disappeared; and when Kate Howard
was called to supper that night. she
was already far on her road to Dover
Tommy ID. was as good rs his word
The wonders and gayeties of the
French capitol were all revealed to
the poor English apprentice, and she
returned To London transformed be
ing. some time after this, Prince Lou
is Napoleon, then also an idler abou
London, noticing the milliner, was
noticed by her She had grown rich
and prosperous, was handsomer than
ever, and the attachment became mu-
tual. The rest of her adventures az
ter Prince Louis nomination as Pres
ident, are well known. She shown
for breif moment as Il star at the
Elysee Bourbon; out gifted with no
naturally quick perceptions, the want
of an early education was never re
paired, and her nnfiness for that part
she would be called upon to play be- !
came evident even to herself. The !
settlement made by the Emperor on
the occasion of his marriage with
Mile. MontijO was most spIendid-the
chateau and domain of Beau
regard with an income of G40,000 per
annum for the expenses of keeping
up the requisite state, and e40,000
worth of diamonds Tho marriage
was an unfortunate speculation on
her part The husband chosen was
n"L the man to become a nero tool in
lcr hands as she had intended. Plead
ing for separation according to the
French fashion, the judges Of the va
-iOus courts into which she PERSISTED
N carrying her cause, all gave sen.
,ence against her declaring that no
;auso of separation existed, and the
conduct to be in every piont
hat of q man of honor and q gentle
nan. She had grown of late years
corpulont, giving herself
Up to indolnco and the pleasures of
he table The only intellectual pleas
Ire she recognized at last was that of
aw, squabbling with all who had deal
ngs with her, whether for the build
ng, and repairing, or furnishing of
5eauregard, or for the hire and culti-
alton of the farms dependent on the
state. The mania was carried to
uch an extent that every day at four {
.clock small crowd of idlers was +
ure to assemble at the door of the i
lwyer in the Rue Louis le Grand to t
Witness her descent from the carriage s
nth SPLENDID Omblazoning, in which '
was her pleasure to drive about {