Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-02-23
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How High Born Dame OF Vienna Demolished the
Plans of Her Naughty Spouse.

now high bern Dame OF Jenna Demolished the
Plans Of Her Naughty Spouse.
Society among the noblesse would
stagnate were it not for some scandal
and piquant gossip. The last and best
is the triumph of a feminine descen-
dant of Palidan over a pretty actress.
In one of the cities of this Austrian En-
pire an actress of immense talent and
acknowledged charms won the heart,
and, what its better, the purse, of a
grand-titled parsonage. Her house was
the abode of luxury and art her jewels
fit foy j Princess. OF course they be-
longed TO a Princess, but she did not
know it. One thing alone failed her--a
faithful maid, trustworthy, reliable
Abigail, who would unlock the private
staircase door certain evenings and adj
nit mobility The newspaper an
nouncement brought her no proper per-
son. AT last her nobleman, in fit OF
despair, asked his wife's maid if she
knew OF any one, saying his sister was
looking for a Kammeriungfer 1t was
a lie, of course, but as the sister in
question lived in the mountains he
knew she could not speak for herself.
But she did. She came to town unex-
pectedly, not to seek maid, but to
know if reports of her brothers deyo-
| ton to the actress were true. A jeal-
Gus wife, an angry sister, and an ac-
complished maid can ferrit out the
most mysterious secret. These did, and
when the wife found who it was who de-
sired the services of discreet, matron-
ly maid, she conceived the heroic de-
sign of taking the position.
The idea of Paladin's descendant
becoming servant to her own husband S
mistress never daunted her. She con
cealed her stately form with artificial
deformities, wore a wig, and put wax
moles on her aristoeratic face, and went
for the situation. She was accepted,
| and, more, she gave immense satisfac-
ton. She was intrusted with sundry
keys, and among them those of the
jewel Baskets containing her own ances.
trail diamonds, which her noble husband
had lavished upon the lovely actress.
At last the appointed evening came.
After the play tonight said the
star of the stage, be in the dark CORR
| dor; unlock the door at the end; a
| friend will come up the staircase show
him into the boudoir; then you can re-
tire; | shall not need you The actress
departed to the role, so did the Princess
The former entranced an audience, the
| latter entranced herself. She went
home, and, dressing herself in her most
beautiful reception toilet, drove back
| to the house of the actress, entered
covered with her usual lady s-maid
cloak, and assembled to the secret cor
ridor.
She had not long to wait. The i'm.
patient nobleman rushed from the thea
tire as soon as his idol had left the
boards, and. with hands full of bonbons
and more of his wife's jewels, came NJ
the staircase. The door was unlocked
the dark corridor was a blaze of light
and his wife stood before him, and be.
yond her, at the door of her boudoir
the actress just home from the theatre.
1t was, has been, and is settled. The
star restores the ancestral gems and
leaves the city. Gossip said she refused
to keep this latter engagement, but the
aristocrats informed the theatre mana.
gers that if they engaged that woman
| they would desert the theatre. Ofcourst
nothing can succeed without Paladir
progeny smiles, and SO the poor stal
fell from theatrical consultations in the
imperial land, but she is going to dc
brilliant service in the clearer atmos-
phare of the Western hemisphere, and
'one don't regret very-much-married
Princes and ancestral diamonds in the
land of millionaire, she said, as the
western express bore her TO Paris, Ell
route for, the other side of the At
lantic. The Prince has taken to billiards
and tarok, and the family gems repost
in their ancestral baskets, Of which the
stoops-to-conquer Furstin keeps the
key Vienna Cor. San Fran. Chronicle