The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1874-09-24

usual on such occasions. She has at
least given the Londoners ample oppor-
tunitics to admire her remarkable beau
~, elegance, and grace. She has been
very busy visiting all the objects of in
terest. She has seen the Tower, and the
En- bankment and Westminster Abbey,
the Houses Of Parliament and the Hol-
born viaduct, the $780," with its
mcnagerc, and Bedlam, with lis unatics,
and may be said TO have "done" Lon
den as thoroughly as any enterprising
Yankee who has been heard 10 boast
that he exhausted the sights of the
metropolis in ten days. Elizabeth OF
Bavaria is still, at the age of 81, the
handsomest crowned head of the gentler
sex in Europe. She has not the perfect
regularity OF features and superb repose
which SO strikingly yet distinguish the
ex-Empress OF the French, nor the girl
ISL prcttiness and sparkling naivete OF
the Princess Dagmar, the to-be Empress
of all the Russi;ts; but her beauty Is
more brilliant, striking, expressive than
either. To see her, you would never
guess that she was more that 80. She
is a brunette, with large, very dark
eyes, very black, abundant, shining hair,
a face rather short than long, fine, hand
some, positive mouth set upon chin
which the originals of the Greek sculp-
lures might have envied; L nose slightly
very lightly-retrousse, in express
ion naughty but not ill-natured org loomy,
Il truly imperial expression and she car
RES her head aloft in complete harmony
with this proud imperial consciousness.
Her form, too, is simply magnificent;
full, we'll rounded, straight, supple, and
replete with the most perfect womaRly,
prncessly grace and il is all the more at
tractive asshe not the fashionable slope of
shoulders OF which Eugene set the exam
Pile She is the daughter OF the Prince Max
inilian in mot of Bavaria, and is second
cousin, on her mothers side, of the
young Ludwig H., the Bavarian King.
She was married TO the Emperor Fran
els Joseph in 1851, when she was seven
teen, and her eldest daughter, a homcly
little girl (rccently married TO a Bavarlan
prince, is but nineteen years younger
than herself The Empress is Il grand
mother at th;rty-seyen. While she lsvisit-
ing pcrtidious Albion, her cousin, young
King Ludwig, is the guest Of ever gay
Paris, and is the lion OF the hour there.
Ludwig, who is not yet thirty, is so pc
culiar character that the PariSianS
are very curious 10 sec and observe him,
although they are, naturally enough,
far from feeling in the irlendilest mood
toward him. They have not forgotten
that the Emperor Napoleon relied on
Ludwig to join France against the
Prussans in 1870, and that, instead ofd0-
ing so, be made common cause with his
enemy, the liohcnzollcrn, sent the
Bavarian army to tightth French, went
to Versailles 10 assist IN placing the
crown of Germany upon the Prussian
Kings head, and was prominent IN the
cayaIcades of the victorious German
royalties. King Ludwig is very
tall, very dark, very handsome,
and very musical so much 50
that he turned ont Ministries which
opposed his favoritc, Richard Wagner,
and has spent more money IN bringing
out Wagner's operas at Munich than up
on all the expenses Of The royal house
hold put together. They say be Is going
to marry Russian princess but hand
some as Ludwig is, and royal as he is,
he has had the worst Of luck in his court
ship. One German princess to whom be
was engaged broke off tho match because
Ludwig would be 50 fond Of Wagner
and music that he paid her the most
scantness OF attention and
his petitions for several other roya!
Young ladies, regarded rs good matches,
have been unpleasantly rejected Cor one
reason or another ostcnsibIy, but really
because Of pecuIilfiues OF his which lead
many 10 think him a little touched in
the head.