Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-15
A ROMANCE OF ROYALTY.
An Emperor Who Preferred the NIadcap
 Sister to His Stately Fiance.


 Caroline, the eldest and perhaps the most beautiful of the daughters of the Duke Maxi milan ill Bavaria, was, while still child se- lected as fitting bride for the heir to the Austrian crown, and although there was no formal betrothal her father was informed that she must be educated in such way as would fit her for her future grandeur. This was more easily said than done, for money was scarce in the ducal palace; but the whole family. from the duke himself to his youngest child, seem to have thrown them selves con amore into the work and to have cheerfully economized for the sake of the for tunate Caroline. She had professors and teachers of the best and she we'll repaid all the care that was lavished upon her, for at 10 clever, accomplished and regally beau tiful, she was the very ideal of what a queen should be.
 When the time for the marriage drew near the young Emperor Joseph came on a visit to the duke in Bavaria (the family title is ''in,' not 'of'), that he might make the acquaint- ance of his future wife. He gazed at the stately young creature who had been so care fully trained for him with respectful admira- tion, but he fell violently in love with her madcap younger sister, Elizabeth, who, re- garded ill the family as mere child, and one, too, for whom no high destiny was ill store, had been allowed to pass her days on horseback securing the country side. Min isters and courtiers stood aghast, but argu- ment and persuasion were alike wasted on the emperor, who refused to see that lack of accomplishments was blemsh in the one whom he loved, and a few months later Elizabeth, thorough child as she was, know ing no more of the etiquette of courts than the veriest little gamine, entered Vienna in state as empress of Austria and queen of Hungary.
 Although this happened more than thirty years ago, she has not yet learned to submit with patience to the restraints that hedge in .he lives of sovereigns and the Viennese, ill spite of their love for their beautiful em- press, openly mourn that the emperor should have chosen one who regards a court ball penance and state ceremony as a thing scarcely to be lived through From the day of her marriage it seems to have been her constant endeavor to shake off the letters of her station, and perhaps the happiest hours of her life are those in which, while following the hounds in England or hunting the cha mois in her native land, sine is able to forget that she is empress-Queen. For her age, the Empress Elizabeth is the youngest looking woman in Europe. When one sees her slight, graceful form, eyes brilliant with life and vigor, and complexion that flushes and pales with every passing emotion, it seems absurd that she should bsthe grandmother of big boys and girls.
 Caroline, the forsaken one, seems to have met her fate with true royal equanimity. Perhaps she thought that as her sister gained what she lost, it did not really matter. If one may judge by her face, her life has not | been happy one. When she was about 24 l she was married to the Prince of Thurm and l Taxis, who died some nine years later.-C6rn- 1 hill Magazine