Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-12-10
A ROYAL ROMANCE.
Alleged Substitution OF the Children Of
Royal and MOrganafic Marriages.

From the London World
In a modest hotel ue,tbLe not far from the Care
ST LaZare. Paris. a lady who has doubled the
cape OF 40 Is busy preparing pamphlet which
will raise doubtful point in history. This lady
Is now in almost complete restitution. owing to
the mysterious cessation of pension which
had been paid her by European government.
For what reason? According to the lady's ac-
count. she Is the daughter Of a puissant
crowned head and the victim Of substitution.
One Of her parents Was married morganati-
cally before being married royalty aud legiti-
mately, and she pretends that, in accordance
with promise made to the morganatic parent
the mOrganatc princess was substituted for the
royal princess. nature having luckily favored
this plan BY bringing the two babies into the
world almost simultaneously.
The rnoTganatic princesS-always according to
my new Nara Stella's account-has prospered
and married mighty European prince. who
VIII one day sit on a throne. The royal princess
ignorant OF the fraud. was brought up in a
princely manner. and married to no6leman,
VINO on MS deathbed revealed to her the secret
OF her romantic birth. The lady has documents
relating 10 her pension, and quantities of papers
showing that. whether true OF not credence
appears 10 have been attached to her story by
crowned heads. Why has the pension been
stopped: Who are the crowned heads inter-
estedS This last question will be answered by
the forthcoming pamphlet Not wishing TO be
disagreeable TO any crowned heads, whether
BOuTbons, HOhenZollerDs or GueiDhs will not
mention names.
Meanwhile those who Ike to guess riddles
may obtain some clue from the age of the SOL
distant princess-44 this mOuth-and from the
tact that her first husbands name was Count
Lundt- For my own part, simply mention the
matter as a curiosity; for 1 have ceased to be
deeply interested in royal and imperial claim
ants since | discovered, one day, in the little
town OF Triel. on the Seine. an amiable old lady
who protested to be nothing less than the right
fui heiress TO the throne Of England This lady,
VINO called her majesty usurper. wasted por
tion or mysterious. but modest, pension on
rearing silk-worms and white mice.
Choral and bromide OF Potassium.
From the London Lancet
Again we have TO record with deem regret
sad proof that those who give or take choral or
bromide OF potassium for sleeplessness are guilty
OF deplorable error and do grieyOus wrong
The narcotics which poison sleep also depraye
the higher nerve ceRters, enfeeble the control
ing powers OF the will and leave the mind a prev
10 the depressing influence OF a conscious loss
OF self-respect and self-confdence The cul-
tured mind feels the ignominy Of the intellect
nal and moral depreciation with great acute
ness, and in the end succumbs to the sense of
poweriessness to recover self-control and do
right Inc deprivation wroughtis purely phys
zeal, The baneful influence Of the lethal drug
is, so to say. organic The essential elements
OF the nerve tissues are blighted by the stupefy.
Ing poison. as by alcohol in habitual drunken
ness. In short the recourse to Choral and bro
mide Is precisely the same thing as recourse to
alcohol. The man or woman sent to sleep
the hooking semblance Of physiological rest
oy dose Of either Of these narcotizers Is simply
intoxicated. No wonder that habitual drunk
enness Of this class first impairs and then de-
stroys the vitality Of the mind organ. and places
the subject Of q miserable artifce at the mercy
OF his emotional nature. and makes him the
creature Of his passions When will the public
awake to the recognition Of facts with regard to
these most pernicious Of stupefacients! Per-
Hstence In recourse to them has no better ex-
cose than unwillingness to search out the
cause OF the "wakefulness" which prevents nat
urai sleep.