The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-11
The Princess SonyarafH.

Oho VI VIC Dtbt-huOWu CHARACTERS
seen at the Continental gambling places
-Wiesbaden. Baden Baden, Hombourg-
es-Bains, Ems, and Monaco-was a
lady OF prepossessing appearance, whose
bold play, and calm nonchalance at los
ing fortune, made her the observed of
all observers. The lady, who was called
Princess Souvorof, made her entree
20 the Kursaal of Monaco regularly
whenever the cold season set in in the
northern part of Europe, and left that
place again as soon as the swallows flew
northward, to seek the green table of q
cooler CLINE. Her history is we'll worthy
of being chronicled.
A child of parents of the middle class
IN Russia, she received an education to
Mt her for being governess of rich peo-
pies children. There lived widower-
millionaire in st. Petersburg, Col.
Nicolaletf, who had a little son and
after looking some time for some one
20 teach his child, he engaged this young
lady. She must have filed her place
70 perfection for, after but short
stay in the house of the Colonel, she
became his wife. Fortune continued
TO favor her afterwards for death freed
her, within year after her marriage,
from husband who was old enough to
be her grandfather.
"Ldppet2 Vient en- naangeanh;"
and that does not apply to victuals
only. For the ci-devant governess, now
millionaire, was not satisfied with tine
position which she had so luckily gained
at an early age, but wanted 10 reach
that climax of all aspirations which
shoulders in the breasts of the sub
iects of monarch. She wanted to have
title and belong to the nobility. 1t
was that wish which made her refuse
the offers of many ardent admirers and
at last she found way to reach her
aim. One of the descendants of the
old family of Souvoroff, who was very
poor, unmarried, and 70 years of age,
was induced, by an annuity of $15. 600
paid to him by her, to meet her in
church for the purpose OF marrying her,
giving her his name, and Immediately
departing wherever he wished on the
condition of never coming near his wife
again. The ceremony was held, the
contracts signed, and the new-hedged
Princess left the church proud of her
name.
Not being able to make the true blue
blood open their doors to the parvenu
member of the aristocracy, the Princess
left Russia for travels through Europe,
which consisted chiefly visits to the
gambling establishments, as stated
above.
Her extravaganza was astonishing.
At Monaco, during the winter of 1868 9.
she broke the bank several times, and
still she was obliged to sell her villa at
Nice in order to be able to satisfy her
longing for play. She signed the deed
IN the anteroom of the gambling estab-
ishment, at half.past 3 o'clock in the
afternoon-knowing that her little son
was lying seriously i'll in a room of the
very villa which she sold. With the
money which she received she went to
play, and. being lucky, she won in a
short time 100000 francs and bought
back her charming place on the "Prom-
enade Anglais, at o'clock of the same
day, by paying bonus of $780,
1t happened many times that she lost
all the money which she had in her
capacious pockets, generally constitut-
ing fortune in itself, and she calmly
went across the garden of the Kursaal
TO an obliging ieweler who furnished
her money on her depositing her dia-
monds, which were of enormous value
Some avs she pawned and redeemed
her bijoux four or five imes,-always
playing with the advanced money, win
ming, redeeming, losing, and pawning
again.
One day, when she had lost all,
pawned all, and no friend was near to
lend her money, she was not too proud
N ha OFF nf
waiter of the Hotel de Paris, which she
entered to take tea, and who laid his
savings, 10000 francs, at her feet.
She accepted the money with O. smile
of thanks, went back to play, broke
the bank, and repaid the waiter so
abundantly that he was enabled to buy
one of the best hotels in the place,
which he possesses now.
But the catastrophe which overtake
all habitual gamblers did not fail to
reach her, and the day came when
there was nothing more left to pawn or
sell, and no friends TO help her. One
OF the principal reasons of her distress
was a peremptory order of the Russian
Emperor not to send any more of the
revenues to the eccentric Princess,
though he did not wish to interfere in
her management Of her fortune, any
further than to prevent its being spent
IN senseless manner out of her coun-
try. The bank of Monaco showed it
self sufficiently gallant not to leave one
Of it's best clients in distress, and pre-
sented the Princess with a draft of
$4,000 francs to enable her to journey
homeward, a wiser if not better
woman.
The closing Of all those gambling es-
Establishments, except Monaco, by or
der of the respective governments, now
compels the Princess to do without her
favorite pastime, at least during the
summer-season.