Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-12

a fit dwelling place for any person VINO
wanted retirement and had the means to
support an expensive establishment The
grounds are beautifully laid out with the
richest flowers and shrubbery. There are
plenty of pleasant strolling places and drive
ways leading in and out. Seclusion Is writ
ten upon every line of her immediate sur
roundings.
HER PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
Yesterday sat in the same room with
her, and the presence recalled unbldden
thousand recollections of her past. She is
no longer young. Sixty-tour summers and
winters have come and gone over her head.
Yet, traces of that singular beauty, both IN
form and feature, which once made her such
a popular leader of her sex are still there.
She is rather tall, and grace itself is In
every movement. Were she younger, she
would be called 1.-THE and willowy.
Her face, which is growing rather thin,
and is somewhat drawn with the harsh lines
of suffering, still retains that winsome ex-
preston which in the young, fresh days of
her life made her so charming. Her deep,
blue ewes, still show much of their old
time flash, and in them and the tightly
closed mouth can be seen the play OF that
force and determination which has always
been a marked characteristic Of Eugenie's
Iife-an element OF force that has kept her
in touch with the world amid sorrows and
disappointments that would have destroyed
an ordinary woman.
STILL A QUEEN.
Her rich brown hair, always such con-
spicuous part OF her beauty, is just begin
ming to show white marks from the frosty
fingers of age, yet she we'll retains in the
fullest extent, that superb and subtle dig
nity of manner and graceful bearing which
made her such marked figure among the
royalty of the Old World. In her exile
there is no relapse into sadness and she still
looks toward France, and preserves the
forms of its people as far as possible about
her. When she speaks, her voice is low and
pleasant with Just enough OF accent to give
her words an additional attraction.
On the brow of hill among the trees is q
magnificent building of white stone sur
mounted by a tower and pinnacled with
dozens of smaller shafts. 1t is reared and
kept in perfect order to perpetuate the MEM
orv of Napoleon Ill, the Prince Imperial,
and when she goes to her final account, the
Empress Eugenie. Doubtless quarter of
a million of dollars did not pay Tor this
costly
MONUMENT TO THE FALLEN
Imperial family of France. The church
upstairs is a model of beauty and everything
that money could procure has been done in
the way of affairs, tiling and decoratings to
mrke it as perfect chapel as the ingenuity
of men could devise. 1t is place of vor-
ship and as Catholics are exceedingly scarce
in England, and especially in this part OF
it the Sunday congregation at the mauso-
| leum of Napoleon is small, and confined
| almost entirely to the attaches of Eugen1e $
| household. The church is kept up simply
to crafty the religious penchants OF the
| Empress.
The crypt where the Emperor and his son
| are deposited is a model in its way, and
| again illustrates the vast expenditure OF
money that must have been made in con-
structing the building. At the head of the
| two tombs, which are on either side, are
] placed royal purple covered chairs for the
| Empress. On anniversary days marking
the death of husband and son she has cere-
monies held here.
| FLOWERS FOR THE HEROES.
The day was there there must have beer
| a wagon load of wreaths and other flower
| pieces upon and about the tombs of the two
Bonapartes, mostly sent by French people
which would seem to indicate that at leas
some OF her old subjects keep the nam
green. To the graves of husband and Sol
the Empress is q daily visitor when at home
She has a rather secluded walk built from
the castle to the crypt door, with a bridg
over the railroad which cuts her property
in twain This permits her to walk IRON
her home unobseryed to say her prayers fol
| the dead.
To administer to her spiritual wants ant
say mass in the chapel the Empress keep
six priests and four monks. These white
robed canons live in a splendid brick hous
in the grove Just beyond the church. havin
a home that is fit for anyone's residence an
large enough to we'll accommodate doubl
the number who occupy it. Both in archi
lecture and environment it is beautliu
building, very fit accompaniment to tn
magnificent church which rises above tn
remains of the last of the male line OF tn
imperial family'of France.
THE THEN AND THE NOW.
Here is a lady of high degree with
history that comprehends almost all tn
intrigues and combinations that France ha
known since 1858. The leader of social lii
in the gayest capital in the world who's
edict as to fashions was once regarded
law in every civilized nation of the globe
whose power not only with men but will
her own sex has no parallel, now after q
wears of banishment from the land she ono
ruled is quietly living here in countr
wherein she never had place or power an
still maintaining all the outward evidence
of her old-time political domination wit
every one about her to help keep up tn
fancy.
In the little village the shopkeepers pu
upon their wagons "Purveyors to Her In
perial Highness, the Empress Eugene.
Not only the gentry by the countryside. bu
the officers at Aldershot, the statesmen o
England who occasionally drop down here
make manifest their recognition OF her It'll
lust as though she were In reality tn
Empress, and yet by no means known to lal
or revolution would it be possible for her
be restored to the throne of France. An
t no one knows that better than herself. Blu
, everywhere about her grounds and In he
castle there are interesting evidences OF ne
past. Even the state carriage In which SD
, and NAPOLEON rode in the heyday of thei
power, is here kept FURNISHED in buildln
erected especially to preserve 1t.
NO NEED OF MONEY.
The wealth to keep up this style and er
ioy this miniature nation In secluded spo
must be considerable, but the Empress !
credited with having plenty and somethln
to spare. The savings from the wreck
the empire are said to have been large, an
her nossessiops in the United States are sc
down as Welding her considerable income
There seems no danger, whatever, that tn
styIe of this establishment will be MARIE
in the slightest for the remaining years {
Eueenie's life, if ever. She gives l1berall
to charity, and every person along farI
borough, Hants, blesses her every day.
Victoria treats Eugene with all the dis
uity of an equal, and by every outwar
s mark of respect teaches her people to q