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thought open dishonesty better than self.de-
ception. and that Disraeli offered him pension
and the Grand Cross OF the Bath

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and the Grand Cross OF the Bath.
Tho memoirs OF Karoline Bauer will create
even creator sensation than Carlyles dyspcp-
tic dissertations. The Queen is especially hurt
by the publication. ns tho "reminiscences con-
tain revelations that may be called horrible and
revolving with regard to the house OF Coburg.
from which the English monarch obtained the
husband she has been trying to canonize for
moro than twenty years. Tho family was so
hdeously poor In the beginning OF the present
century that throo OF tho princesses were
brought on show to st. Petersburg. to try and
catch tho fancy OF II brutal Grand Duke named
Constantine. As. he would not mako any 60
lection himself his mother chose for him the
youngest OF tho three. who was only 10 years Of
nge. and who eventually had to return homo from
his nbominable treatment. Another Of the girls
married Prince Alexander OF Whrtembcrg. He
had thin legs. n bloatod body tho expression Of
his face was british. his forehead was disilg-
urod by n big wen. and he was fearful Gut-
ton. When the yonng princess nwoko on tho
morning after her wedding day she found her
husband beside hor gnawlng q big ham bono
with british fcrocity. Tho revelations karo-
limo Bauer makes with regard to the late King
OF the Iegnns. to whom she was morganati-
cally married for about twelve months. will re-
move that monarch from tho pedestal of sa-
gacity ind esteem upon which tho laborious
putting OF his family had placed him. and
Baron Stockmar. the friend and favorte Of tho
Queen and tho latc Prince Consort. is proved
clearly to have been no bettor than pimp.
even with his own cousin. All these revela-
tons lend point to tho view which Labouchere
is preaching OF the marriage OF tho Grand Duke
OF Hesse with Nine. Kolominc. Why" he
asks. in this weeks Truth. lis the marriage
spoken OF as the liesso Darmstadt scandal2 II
| At
tho parents O! Prince Louis OF Battenberg. or
that of tho Princess Louise and the Marquis
OF Lorne." Tho real scandal he thinks lies in
the strenuous efforts OF the Queen to bring
| about q divorce. The conduct" he says " OF
| our good Queen, words which ho writes with
| significant quotation marks. has been eQui-
vocal in the highest Degree.
| Sir Bache Cunard deserves tho credit OF an
| interesting novelty in wedding entertainments.
| When his sister was married the other day
there was meet OF hounds on his lawn imme-
dintely after breakfast and the gentlemen. who
had come to the church in riding costume. en-
| joyed a capital run.
Tho attempt OF Lord Iytton to prevent tho
| publication OF his fathers letters raised some
very interesting legal rs we'll as scandalous
questions. The property in a mans letters
| was supposed to rest in his heirs. but changes
| in favor OF womans rights have greatly in
creased tho powers OF wives and so Miss De-
vey may be able to GO on publishing the erotic
outpourings OF the elder Lytton.
| Tho further revelations with regard to the
death OF Hans Makart increase the painful inn
preston produced by his early death. Liter
ally he was killed with kindness. The chief
source Of his downfall and Of the nervous dis
ease which DESTROYED his reason and his life
was the aristocratic ladies. who would Insist on
| mn tour podals tho pnia a nd
voluptuous figures which abound in his paint
ings. His second wife. who survives. is good
tempered. easy going. and dull woman and
the reason he gave for marrying her was thai
he liked to have somebody to escape TO from
the butterflies who. after all. he said. we're only
caterpillars dressed To this wife he leaves al
his fortune. and also his two children by his
first wife. to whom he has always been very
good.
A Partisan writer is moved by the proposed
beauty exhibition into a dissertation on the
women. homely ana beautiful. who have ruled
the world. His first and most startling state.
ment Is that modern Psychologists have dis.
covered that the nose OF Cleopatra was short
saucy and celestial. 1t was the contrast DO.
tween this petit en- air and the tiresome
monotony OF the high bridged noses OF the lo
man matrons that drove Antony crazy. Their
he goes on to tell OF several positively homely
women who have exercised unquestioned
sway. The Duchess OF Burgundy. who divided
with Nine de Mantenon the old age Of Loui:
Quatorze. had frghtful neck and decayet
teeth; Marguerite de Valois had heavy cheeks
like q monkey. two prominent eyes, and {
thick. hanging under lip; the Duchess d.
Berrl. mother OF the Comte de Chambord. who
drove the Britons wild. had trumpet-shapet
nose and the complexion OF bilious blonde
Her eyes sQunted. and while one was blue. thu
other was gray. The three most successful
captivators OF modern Paris have been thu
Princess Lise Troubetskoi. the Princess Met
ternich and Theresa. all very homely.
Wilson Barrett is o big success In " Hamlet.
and Gilbert and Sullivan's "Sorcerer" promises
to be more popular than any Of their piece
lately produced.