The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-03-18
Harper's Magazine for April.

Harper's Magazine for April describes
the last home of Queen Hortense daugh-
ter of Josephine and step-daughter of
Napolean the First. This brilliant but
unhappy woman wrote excellent verses,
arranged plays, and composed songs,
some Of which will live as long as the
French language. Ii is said that even
the stern republicans of the peighbor
hood had q warm sympathy and affec-
tion for the dethroned Queen, divorced
wife and altogether unfortunate fugi-
tive who dwelt among them. On the
banks of the Rhine, in this lovely viii
lage Of Switzerland, the young Louis
Napolean, afterwsrd Emperor, with his
brother spent much of his boyhood un-
der the tuition of their mother. 1t was
q habit Of The young Prince not to
mount q horse by the stirrups, but to
run and spring over the crupper and in
to .he saddle ut bound. When he be-
came Emperor and evisited this ham
let, twenty thousand people came out TO
bid him welcome, and had provided
several coaches and four in which to
convey the chief guest and his staff .
Napoleon carried the hearts Of the peo-
pie by storm, by jumping into the one
horse wagon OF an old friend and 70
heading the procession through Con.
stance. The mother, Hortcnse, died
here in 1887, after suffering years with
a dreadful cancer; and many relics of
the Napoleon family are still preserved
there; the place, which had been sold
after the death of Hortense, having
been re-purchssed by the Empress Eu-
genie and presented to her hush ,n6,
Napoleon the Third. 1t was afterwaru
the summer residence of herself and
the young Prince Louis, whose tragic
history adds another chapter 10 the for
tunes and misfortunes Of those who
have borne this illustrious name.
In this bright number OF the senior
Monthly is q lady's letter from London,
giving pen pictures of some of the dis
tinguished persons seen at the st. James
Concerts:
"Week after week comes Madame
Charlotte Moscheles, the musicians
widow and Mendelssohn's friend, to
whom har mony remains legacy of the
great lives with which she was associa
ted-a slender little lady with silver
white hair and q delicate mobile face
A year ago one might have seen as &
regular auditor George Eliot-a large
rather masculine-looking woman Of mid
die age, in whose strong, thoughtfu
face one could read intensity, sadness
that pain which Is so often the crown
that genius wears: the face is heavily
framed in brown hair, the eyes are darl
and singulsrly mournful, the mouth full
Of q grave purpose: certainly it is not ,
face to forget or pass quickly by. MOI
far away sat Madame Jenny Lind Gold
| schmidt, who, in spite of her complet,
retirement to private life, is alway.
quickly recognized on any public occa
sion: how can We think Of her save a
our "Sweedish Nightingale" of earlie
days! but to her English friends she i
hest known "A the hostess of one of tn,
most beautiful houses in New Kensing
ton, . house full Of artistic and musica
associations, where hangs the portrait o
her youth which We all know in print
and engrsvings-the sweet, graceful
lady with smoothly braided hair, a whit t
silk gown, and roses-the Jenny Linz
of 1850.