, 1872-10-31

Wonderful Career Of a Beautiful Russ
sian Peasant t4irI---Captivating the
Hearts and Fortunes OF 1Ii1liOnaiTes


Russian nobleman saw the tailor's wife, and he
became inAamed with passion for her. The
tailor had began to cloy Of beauty, and maybe
its most volatile essence entirely escaped him.
The nobleman offered him large sum of money
to surrender his wife. The offer was accepted,
and the tailor's wife became the noblemen's
mistress He took her to his provincial home
and there he enjoyed her, and ahe delighted her
life, free from care, surrounded with all the
luxuries Of that wild region, and with attentive
docile servants The noblenaan engaged COVER
nesses for her education, and when Russian pro-
vincial life began to pail on her, she began to
yearn for that Western life Of which her
always made her viii triumph, she persuaded
the noblemnn to visit Western Europe. They
came by way Of Asia Minor, Turkey, the Danu-
hian provinces, Austria, Hungary. T1ey spent
She had everywhere the best masters. She saw
everything that was to be seen. She had un-
limited command Of money, and she became fn-
miliar with all the arts OF all the countries she
visited. When she reached Paris she Eas
wonderfully accomplished woman, especially for
those days, as then Fulton's invention WAS al
most unknown out Of America, and Stephenson
had not yet married steam and the rail. The
nobleman and abe remained some time in Paris.
business called lin home. Size had had enough
of Russian life. Her place was in West
orn civilization; here she ived-she vego-
tated there. Return she would not:
ansss as se pr he ~sb h m n ys 1
course. Women are not made Of penetrable
stuff. He returned without her. She was left
in Paris with nothing but her face-a fortune
greater than do Balzac'e, or de Lamartlne's, or
gifts never brought them in as much money as
this woman's face has brought in to her. Tho
Russian nobleman certainly had not reached the
frontier before she had bewitched one Of the
strI
England and France, and rcaped golden har-
vest in every field, all Of which she garnered.
The artist discovered at last that tho more con-
certs be gave the poorer he got, and left her in
the lurch in London, if the mistress OF 30 many
furch. She came to Paris, and on
the way fascinated Portuguese nobIeman,
Count de Paiva Araujo, the master
of a splendid estate, and just u
years old sno vas least Ten years ms senlG1, t
giving her his estate, nothing must do but he
must give her his name and title. His family
tried to curb his wild wishes diplomacy and the
law exhausted their ingenuity to save this young
forts Of legations and law-courts. They were
married and he foated in blisH-while his money
lasted, or rather while she was transferring ha
estate to herself. This done, she quilted him,
thing else which she found quite valuable-his
name and title. Hitherto she had been an
anonymous character; henceforward she had q
title and an ancient name, both Of which we're
lawfully hers. She had not, however, attained
mously wealthy. So she set about giving her
husband SUCCESSOR. She was in lucky vein,
for tho tenant Of her heart Was man with
large income as music teacher; concert glVer,
and manufacturer of pianos-M. Henri
Herr. He was otherwise rich too, he had amass-
ed S10o 900 or may be S200, 900. MIR. Herr went
crazy with infatuation for her. and continued
demented until all his capital had gone and he
that there was serious peril OF his creditors seiz
ing his piano manufactory. Finding the bot
tom Of ii. Herz's purse, she quilted him. He
vent to the United States to recoup his losses.
At this juncture she met German, possessing
one OF those great estates which resist even
such termite as this woman- This German WAS
Count Henckel Won Donnersmarck. She could
not have been less than forty-three years old
when they first met. The German was not only
h Of his money On on he et
Empire had given an immense impetus to
speculations Of all kinds. Shares Of the
Credit Mobilier issued at 500 francs were
worth 15o9 france and So p1airs
Cusin Legendre, and all the other wild specula-
tors Of that day we're making tens OF thousands
believe that they we're transmitting paper INTO
gold. 4 s}rewd man With capital and social re-
fations had but to stoop to pick up fortune:
Nine. de Palya and her lover made money upon
money. She was worth before the war moro
than 50, 900, 900, and she has made an immense
deal OF money since. She Owls the historical
sessions well stocked with pheasants and par
tridges lit is said abe don't like to see them
! killed.. first-rate shot, and sportsman who
kills hen pheasant, are sure never to receive
! patrol the estate night and day. 4 vehicle
| comes in every morning bringing to her yegeta-
bles and fruit from her garden, orchard, forcing
| house and winery; for she has all OF these in
the highest state OF excellence: Ihe pest Eng
| lish gardeners tend them, and her stablemen
| are of the same nation. Dutchmen manage her
| dairy, and Dutchwomen her laundry. Her cooks
are French, her confectioners are from
| Vienna. Her p1ate-rooms contain $50 COG worth
| of silver Her iron safe contains $500, 600 worth
Of Jewels and S100, 900 in bank-notes, which she
| always keeps by her to meet emergency be-
| yond the usual course OF events. Her house on
| the Avenue deB Champs Elysees is said to be the
costlest in Paris The stairs are purest Carrara
marble, with bronze banisters expressly designed
| for her, and whose moulds we're broken after
| they we're made. The mantels and doors Of the
drawing-room are malachite. The painters who
decorated her drawing-room, dining-rom, and
| for each room. There is no house in Paris like
] it, When war WAS declared, she quilted Paris
and took up her abode in London. Count
Hencke1 Won Donnersmarck repaired to the
| Prl85l1n headquarters anu maze Q1l1iseu phItlc-
ular1y usefm BY his knowledge Of France and Of
French. He was an old and intimate
friend of Count von Bismarck. When
| the French were driven out OF
| Alsace and Lorraine, Count Henckel
| Won Donnersmarc.z was made its Military Gov
ernor, and made himself SO obnoxious to the in
habitants (probabIy an inevitable sequence Of
| tie environng crcumstances), hat1nany threats
OF personal chastisoment, if he ever again
showed his face in Paris, WAS made. It became
desirable for lin in his new position to keep o
Iospitable house. Maybe, too, Nine. de Paiya
Threatened to join him and to reassume her old
position (you know how frantic women, and es-
peoially Women Of this class, are when they con-