Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-03-06
wAsHINGToN's SOCIAL PRINCE.
The Virginia Woman who Married
Cripple for a Crown.
New York Woild

New York World.
No parsonage in the society of the
national capitol is attracting more at
tention Just now than Mr. Agustin
Achille Iturbide. Mr.. Iturbiden he
is introduced, and only a very small
number of those who admire the fine
ly-made young man of distinguished
presence recognize in him the hered
itary heir to the throne of Mexico,
the grandson of Augustin |. Emperor
of Mexico, or identify this tall, fine
young man, of decidedly American
presence, with the little prince whom
all the world talked about while he
was prisoner OF state in his ances-
tors palace during Maxmilians reign.
Ostensibly he was there as Maxmilan's
adopted son, but he was none the less
a prisoner in reality. 1t must be said,
however in justice to Macmillan and
Carlotta, that they were extremely
kind and indulgent to the child. Too
much so, in fact, for when he was by
throes of revolution returned TO his
more judicious mothers control, she
found him greatly spoiled and difficult
to manage. When poor mad Carlotta
was taken over the sea, Mexico was
no more comfortable for the lawful
claimant of the crown then than the
French regime, and the Inturbldes
fled TO the United States. Mrs. " In
turbide, as she has since been called,
being related to the distinguished
Lewis family of Virginia, the descen-
daut's of Gen. Washington's sister,
they went to the old family seat,
"Marmion, in the valley OF Virginia.
Here they remained quietly and the
pangs of disappointed ambition which
they presumably felt, the world knew
nothing of Mrs. Inturbide was Miss
Green. member of the historical fa
nous family of that name. She was
the beauty of her day, and said to have
been as ambitious as she was beautl-
full.
There seems no other way in which
to account for her marriage. For
while the man whom she chose for
her husband was said to have been re-
. markable for his mental brilliancy
and fascinating manner, 1t was scarce
, T. " possible that fastidious beautiful
Young girl could have brought her
self to overlook his physical defects
, had she not been overweeningly am
I bilious. He looked, it is said, like
some hideous little gnome, the malfor-
, nation resulting from fall down the
, marble stairs of his fathers palace,
+ through the carelessness of his nurse,
: when he was an infant. The injur-
/ les resulting from the fall manned
him for life. His spine was twisted,
, dwariing his growth until he was
sc .rcely four feet tall as a man. His
! body was broad, and ungainly, his
, arms long. His face had been so
2 crushed by the accident that not a
vestige of nose remained except the
distended nostrils, and his walk was
the hop of frog. Such was the Inn
perial Prince of Mexico when the
beautiful Virginia girl married him.
Yet it must be said that he was uni
! versally admired and liked by those
| whose nerves were sufficiently strong
: to overcome the repugnance his horri-
! bic appearance evoked. lie was
moreover, of singularly unostentati-
; Gus habits, the sole exception being
the custom of carrying about with
> him wherever lac went his table SER
9 vice of massive gold. Yet even this
was apparently merely a maitland had
nothing of parade about it.
;. The son, a fine lad, who inherited
his mothers good looks, had rather a
7 rough time of it when he first came
among his high-spirited Virginia
> cousins. 1t was a new experience to
the small autocrat to meet companions
of his own age upon the unusual plane
Of equality.
{ The deferential petting he had re
! ceived at the court of Mexico where
{ every child he came in contact with
was his very obedient subject, had
, not prepared him for the give and
) take of a republic.
Since the fathers death the widow
, and son have made their home at the
: old Green mansion on the George
town elghts-making their home
there, but going to Mexico sufficiently
{ often to prevent possible oblivion of
, the sons claims, for the mother it is
= said, confidently expects her sons
, restoration. To the disinterested OBJ
server of the present political aspect
, of Mexico, hers would seem q forlorn
hope. Yet, who can say2 Mexico
is uncertain as a volcano-and less
probable things have happened
And is it not possible that this
graceful, handsome young man, at
whom all the pretty girls in Wash
ington are making eyes, may one
{ day become Augustin Ill, Emperor
, of Mexico.
, As for himself he is not at all over
cast, seemingly, by any possible fu-
{ ture greatness. He is the gayest ''in
the swim" he goes everywhere a
man of fashion may. He admires
American girls, it is said, most pro
, foundly and enthusiastically. Pos
{ sibly the mother overlooked this con
, tingency in rearing him a PAmerican.
+ OF course it's a foregone conclusion
that he is to marry a Mexican princess
, -noblesse oblige, and all that sort of
thing. He himself laughs about 1t.
But such battery of destinations
has been opened npon the Prince that