River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-07-21
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EIi2ahnfh of Austria

should expect he would eventually re-
cover.
Elizabeth Of Austria.
Empress Elizabeth of Austria, is the
most beautiful crowned lady in the
world. Yet one loves to contemplate
her not adorned with costly laces and
Respondent in hereditary jewels, but
arrayed in the dark cloth dress of cas-
tellans, wives of the olden time, proudly
and bravely refining in a fiery horse.
The retreats of old Hungary have a
great fascination for her. 1t is among
them that she gallops with heroine's
recklessness; now dashiDg at full speed
beneath the shade of ancient trees. now
leaping over hedge and ditch. What
appalition IN this matter-of-fact age of
ours is this chivalrous beauty, stately
and imposing as the fairy of the Black
Forest and fully as benevolent! Her
horse, which fees so often from pal
aces, ever stops before the cottage door.
The Empress is a sunbeam to the suf-
fering. This woman with gentle heart
under an Amazon's breast, cherishes
in beautiful jeweled box, not stone
of great price, but little faded nosegay
of edelweiss, that mountain flower,
white and delicate, as a snowflake,
which Austrian peasants attach to their
buttonholes as a sign of love. The little
nosegay was given the Empress by her
husband at the time they were he
trothed. For the last two years Eliza
beth of Austria has gone to Ireland for
her hunting. This year she will take
up her residence at Combermere Alb
hey. Twenty grooms and horses have
been sent in advance to the Empress
residence. Her suite is composed of
about forty persons of very varied rank,
from chambermaids and maids of hon
or down to cooks and scullions. The
Empress hates all noises, with the ex-
ception of the bugle's notes in the for
est, the rally, the tally-ho, the barking
of the hound and the clatter of the
horses feet. To deafen the various
sounds in Combermere Castle, there
fore, the fiagstones of the courtyard
and the floors of the galleries and CORR
doris have been carpeted. The En-
press, beautiful now as ever. still wears
a triple diadem of black tresses. Were
it not that she is dark instead of blonde,
one could compare her to Tasso's Her
minia. In spite of her sporting procliv-
tiles her womanly nature continually
shows itself by this and that feminine
popularity. Thus she daily attaches
to her waist three dark roses, and
wherever she may happen to be these
flowers must be furnished her. A fan
is invariably dangling from her horses
saddle. 1t is designed with the arms
of Austria, and she uses it often to
shade her weary eyes from the suns
rays. The Empress has an adventur-
Gus imagination. She loves the poets
of old and the legends of the past. 1t
is perhaps because she herself is liv-
ing poem which has strayed away from
some long-forgotton legend?
At the White House.
The chief interest about the presi-
dents shooting now centres in the pros
pect Of his final recovery. The treat
ment under which he has been all the
time is continued unchanged. He gets
along very well under it, and grows
stronger almost every hour. The ply
sicians will not pronounce him out of
danger in so many words, but DIR. Bliss
says as much. Every word from the
sick-room is full of cheer. The presi-
dent requested DIR. Bliss, when he went
to the room occupied by the clerical
force, to tell the "boys" that he was all
right and that he hoped the doctor
would soon allow them to come in and
see him. His spirits have been of the
highest and his frame of mind the most
cheerful. 1t was with the greatest diff
ficulty that he was kept from talking,
when he was not asleep, upon all man.
ner of cheerful topics. Every two
hours he is given q little rum and milk,
in addition to his diet of cruel, with
oatmeal now and then. The rum is
some of the eighty-year old case that
was sent him the other day. When he
drank the small amount of mixture
dent said: "Ah, Bliss, don't you wish
you could have some of that rare old
article?" He smacked his lips as if he
enjoyed the thought immensely. An
instance of how light hearts are at the
white house will be of interest. Young
James Garfield and Col Rockwell's boy
occupied good portion of the ante
room with paper, scissors, and paste,
in making balloon. They were max
ing an immense one. James said they
were getting the balloon ready, and just
as soon as the president was pro-
nounced out of danger by the doctors
they intended to have grand ascen-
sion, in the grounds back of the white
house.
There is one thing that the president
does not like; he does not want to have
his wound dressed, it causes him such
pain; hut what he principally objects
to is the uncomfortable position which
he has to assume in order that the
doctors may accomplish the dressing.
He calls this operation his torture.
When DR.. Bliss tells him that he is go
ing to dress the wound, the president
always says Chow long viii torture
last this timer The presidents con-
dition continues favorable. DR.. Rey-
burn, who is on duty with the patient,
says that he is getting along finely; it
could not be better, he said.
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