The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-05

cludes that their prospect is about equal, but
says there is reason to believe Prince Jerome
will shortly take steps to reassure the Con-
servatives and Catholics.
Life at Frohsdorfr-The Counts Personality.
Paris Gaulos.
The Prince always rises at 5 clock. If it
is good weather he takes a turn In the park,
accompanied by two of his secretaries. The
Prince is great hunter and a good rider,
and consequently has a fine stable, paved
with granite, the stalls made of oak, set off
with silver mountings, and the racks are of
wrought iron. Twenty-Five horses are found
in the stables. The Count de Chambord often
visits them in his early morning walks. A
re for horses is his only caprice and his
only extravaganza. Three dark brown ami
mails are exclusively reserved for him when
ever he feels like taking gallop. But these
visits to his stables and walks in the park
are never very long, and generally at s
o'clock the grandson of Charles X is at work.
At first he attends to his correspo ndence,
dictates letters. then turns to the magazines
and newspapers. He is interested in every
question. He reads and writes almost every
language of Europe. His favorite study is
social economy Bismarck once paid him
this compliment: There is not a states
man alive who is better posted on social
questions"
Breakfast occurs at 10 o'clock. All the
guests and members of the family, except the
Count and Countess, assemble in the grand
dining-room. The gentlemen are dressed in
black frock coats, holding their hats and
gloves in the hand. The ladies wear high
neck dresses, and ALL gentlemen as we'll as
ladies, remain standing. Exactly at 10
O clock the Count, with his wife on his arm,
enters the room. All the guests bow.
The breakfast is short-scarcely thirty-fve
minutes. The Count is extremely cordial.
He eats heartily and he looks out that those
about him do the same Walters in dress
suits and Wallets in livery serve the table.
The meats are good, but not highly favored.
On the Counts right sits his wife, while the
seat on the left is reserved for the guest who
comes last
After the repast is finished hats and gloves
are resumed. In the room are found the let
tiers brought by the last mail. The guests
set 10 reading Some play billiards, others
go out into the park to smoke, while the
ladies' assemble about a workable. Then
all come in the house, a secretary reads
aloud the best articles from the various Paris
journals, and conversation follows, when
everybody is left to amuse himself until
evening.
The Count de Chambord gives up the after
noon to study and audiences. His study has
q lofty ceiling, is wei llSnteu, airy out plain.
The Prince sits before table loaded with
books and papers. When a visitor is intro
duced he rises, shakes hands and bids him
welcome. The reception is very cordial
though sometimes annoying, when, for eX-
ample, politicians charged by their friends
to offer advice or circumstances are cut short
at the first word.
At dinner the same ceremony is presented
as at breakfast. 1t does not occupy more than
an hour. The Count is a good conversation
aist and tells stories well, and he is all the
time talking about Paris He alluded to his
sad visit to the capital after the Commune.
He saw Notre Dame and pictured to himself
the way it looked the day he was baptized.
He stopped before the Tuileries and singled
out in the ruined walls the spot where was
the bedchamber in which he was born.
Let us glance at the appearance of the
grand salon of the chateau. On the walls are
hung historic pictures. There are portraits
of the royal families of the house of Bourbon.
On one canvas, Louis XIV, as a child, is
represented holding sceptre in his hand
and sitting on throne made of fleur de lis
The furniture of tine room is upholstered in
red velvet Between the windows are two
large receptacles filled with precious objects
and souvenirs. The plume that Henry "
wore at the battle OF Iyry is here preserved
in an ivory box. In another part of the
room is large table loaded with albums and
objects of art presents from French partisans
II,
some OF these gifts come from workingmen's
associations.
The evening ends at 10 o'clock, but the
gentlemen can, if they wish. assemble in the
smoking room, in the second story OF the
chateau. 1t is long room, furnished with
divans and small pigeonholes for newspapers,
and is used as a library and card room as
well as a smoking room. The guests run
over the papers, play games of whist and fin
ish pleasant and busy day in social CONVEX
sation.
have not yet spoken of the chapel. 1t is
unnecessary to say that religion is not neg
lected at Frohsdorff The Count de Chambord
used to have private chaplain, but now it
is the village priest who says mass at the
chateau.
The Counts head was very well shaped
phrenologsts would call it fine head-and
he carried it in rather a striking way. He
was about the middle height and rather
stout. His face was remarkably intelligent
and denoted much energy OF character. His
eye was clear blue and Lis gaze very earn
est; but what struck one particularly was his
emphatic tone when speaking. His voice
was like Berryers. but it was more vibrating
and musical than was that of the great ora