Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-13

From the Paris Figaro
All Is well that ends well. Such at least Is
the Judgment OF high society in Berlin upon
the romance which was terminated few days
ago by marriage that was celebrated without
pomp and almost in secret In an obscure castle
away back In Silesia.
The exceptional indulgence of which the so
ciety magnates of Berlin have given such a
striking example In this case is explained by
the peculiar position OF the two principal char
acters In this romance, the hero being no less a
person than Count Herbert de Bismarck, the
eldest son of the chancellor, and the new col
iaoorator of the emperor, who passes an hour
with him every day. The heroine is a princess
more famous for her beauty than for her great
name, and whose portrait by Richter, the
nephew OF Meyerbeer, and the Carolus Duran
OF Germany, attracted SO much attention at
the Berlin Salon of 1878 She Is brunette,
with dark complexion, an opulent bust, and
thoughtful and dreamy eyes, and her portrait,
newfoundland dog, evokes one OF those fasci-
mating visions such as are rarely to be met with
c. b. belongs. These initials were the only in
d1cation given in the catalogue of the Salon;
bUt II was soon well known that the portrait
was that of the Princess Carolath Benthen,
who, before her marriage, was the Princess
Elizabeth de Hatzfeldt- Trachenberg. During
the fall term of the Salon Richter's canvas had
no more fervent admirer than the young at
tache of the embassy who to-day is Under Sec
rotary of State for Foreign Affairs, and who is
Vi
the German empire.
During the winter of 1873 the young Count
became the devoted cavalier and the preferred
dancer of the Princess who had left her resi-
dence in Silesia to be with her husband in Ber-
lin, whose presence there was rendered neces-
sary by his duties as member OF the reichstag
which he discharged with a zeal that was
enough 10 make him forget the fact that his
Princess was beauty that stood sadly in need
himself exclusively to the advocacy of free trade
ana the study of social questions
But in the month Of March, 1881, all Berlin
that had SO often seen the Princess Waiting
with the son Of the chancellor learned that
SIZE had suddenly left for Florence to follow
her dancer, who was then attached to the en-
bassy at the Quirinai. Terrible was the anger
OF the chancellor, and great was the scandal of
the most virtuous court in Europe. The out
RACED husband H ban was the only one who rem aimed
would facilitate her divorce without taking
from her the chance of rehabilitation by a
forbids the union of divorced woman with the
man who was the cause of the divorce Prince
Carolath proved himself free from all animosity.
marriage of the two lovers was believed to
be approaching, but it was soon learned that
the young attache had returned to Berlin leay-
ing his beautiful victim behind him in Flor
ence, where she was alone and sick in q hired
mousse. The conduct OF the count was revolt
ing to sensitive souls and the scandal pro
Changed @ hes Peope orgo
that she had arrived at an age when such
escapades are rarely pardOnable, and that
oLto Aau 1911 ucT u QauSlter, a Dig girl OF
13. But it was the chancell who had inter
posed his authority and threatened to discard
MS son. To all the entreaties of the latter to
iegalize his liaison the chancellor invariably
replied, No. ! will never consent to your mar
riage to the wife OF a friend;' and he sent him
successfully to ST. Petersburg, the Hague and
London. But the passion of the count for the
Princess, although the latter was somewhat
older man himself-she is now forty-did not
diminish, and he at last succeeded in bending
the will OF the chancellor who does not want
70 See his title Of prince fall to the female line
The marriage, therefore, took place four or five
dence of Prince Herman de Hatsfeldt, the
younger brother of the Princess Elizabeth.
And here there is strange coincidence: This
ladys mother, nee Countess de Reichenbach-
Goschutz, was also divorced after fifteen years
OF welded lie, precisely the number of years
that her daug hter bore the name of Princess de
Caroath before she became the countess and
the future Princess de Bismarck