Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 18??-????, 1889-06-09
A MODERN CLEOPATRA.
GREAT AND EVIL FORTUNE OF PAU
LINE BoEAPARTE's NIECE

isy thc Nisc. the witty aiid the f""e'-
fal-A Great Sorrow That Came Through
Her Love for Iisr Lit.ie Daughter.
Never say That one Is sfortuIato till you
witness the close Of ms or her life. You
must have seen in your diplomatic waI'-
derings in Paris. Turin, Florence, Rome
ard Madrid that worthy niece tin regard
10 beatty and so on OF Pauline Bona
parte. Marie Leetitia Bonaparte-W Use,
successfully. by her marriages, Comtesse
dc Solnis. Signora Rattazzi and Dona de
Rute
Was there ever q human being whose
life seemed SO ROSY as hers, or whom
nature had made more proof 10 the yeN-
atoms and troubles which DE heavy on
most daughters Of Eve In many re-
spects this fair olshoot Of the Bonapartes
afforded parallel "a Cleopatra. VINO.
Mrs jameson saws, WAS be~itching 10
th. last becIuse she exercised the sor-
cerv Of good nature. Like Cleopatra,
Marie Bonaparte- " yse was sparkling,
genial, magnificent, Of happy -go-lucky
/ temper and bohemian. il one looks upon
B0hemianism as emancipation from cant
and mind crippling preiadices. some Of
which, ] own, may have their social
+ uses
/ HrR GUESTS AT TIE POLLY"
She had always in lier train the most
eminent men of the different capitals, IN
winch she turned up periodically tosliine
ont ior short time IN splendid belong
/ ines and urraundiugs She also shnne
/ as O ruuse. whose fingers were never
soilcd with ink, and vino stole from
/ Venus kcr sir,lle and cortesc Of SEaces,
/ Her house or palace. or chalet. near
. AK was ia the daytime given up 10
1 authorship. udiloTship and preparation
fu lcsdvi,g. and 10 elegant reyeiry in
gue evening. The iadv OF tine house when
She saw cuinT nTsln,- ,4ud nobody ever knew
when s.le ,.5i not seaiHg It WIS in rai-
meut OF daz-lng beauty l.ut she looked
Ia 1t and la her ,gondrous jewelry as
pleased as q child IN q pretty Sunday
lrcca. and cousted admiration in 81 way
tllal enhanced her sorccry.
never slv Lady Bless ngtou, shchav-
nig been long before luy time. But }
fancy that tAcro must have been points
Of similarity between her Gore house
flrtic5 and those Of the particular great
niece OF iHe great Napoleon OF whom
-plil6. A more picturesque or amusing
salon tlIul that OF AIul. EatJazzl de- Hute
noUOde could fancy She WAS constant
L. old frie.iis. was ALWAYS recrurdugueH
ONES. and y-s huspirabic to al- old
Dumas used 90 copy manuscripts luc
Ieln 10 cUos iier dinner. ulilLa ven
served ou yeimeii plate with tle impl-
rial crown and cage engraved Oh them
5 feU winters ago she entertained four
prime ministers Baron Won beust. De
Lsssepa. CASTELAR,, and bards lslm ali
parts, ~ % ioyous dinner 1t Trouvilie.
The most rose.Ite Pliase of her lie Was
at the Hotel dtigtiia which she after
ward sold To Mrs Mackav's sister Sine
was then for three or four wears the
widow of Sig Rattazzi and then the
bride uf a quite young Spanish deputy.
Don Luis dc l1ufc. The Hotel d'Aquila
was "a folly of the uncle OF the eS-king
= Of Naples, who ruined himself Ia build
ipz it and was fitted up by Mime Rat
tazzi according 60 her Cleopatrau taste
p for eIe,cunt magntiicencc. The hall svas
surrounded by marjie busts and statues
( Of the Bonaparte family. a,5 facing the
einperor was one OF herself les,iag faI
an uruiu OF ruses
1uE SORROW THAT CANE.
Don Luis de Butte ,.as q nephew 0i
Eosas. the Spanish liberal. q man oI
u.ny accomplishments. and The unde
ui..bl. cuuutrym@u Of Don "a u.otc. Il
ever man WAS h.Id Ia willing bondage
uy a ,y0nan he Was by his wife, oi
whom be was the devoted humble ser
. want ueter sceiine tn curt.u her liberty
or oliectme 10 amy 81 her friends. Th1
glamour s.ic casi upon liim when he iIrsi
saw her as g muse at Madrid, surround
cd by O court of blrds and statesmen
meyer Faded from his ewes. Sine valued
nis devotion 20 hef and 10 beautiful
Daughter whom slle had ilId 10y I.attaz2i
and became deeply IA love with lum
b Nme dc Itute presented her huso,-nI
C UilH twins. one of yrhum died at ig.
B. UirJu The surviving one was c,lile,
e Dolores ur Lola. il seemed q. ri1iieu
o. lous uiaIumer. Al liiat y..ss joy ou
b and ROSY IN the mother life appsaret
o To- ,e iucarlr.le iu the child which ,va
a paragon of iufantiic beauty and pre-
e eociuus wit and intellect Dolores bc
x cuIue the idol of the household ana wa
J as sunshine wherever sine went PeOpli
, Used 10 saw what luck her mother la'
D t. Je 81 blessed in her maternity. Bu