The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-02-05
ROMANCE OF A KING.
The Late William III. and Nine.
Z Musard.
A Love Affhir That Placed an American
Hotel Servant Girl Upon Throne
Amidst Royal Sur
roundings.

It is dismal ending to the male line
of the glorious race of Orange-N Nassau,
the life and history of its latest repre-
sentative. William III. of the Neither
lands may have been fairly good
King, but he was an uncommonly
vicious man in private life, writes Lucy
II. Hooper in the Chicago Tribune.
He had not even the good qualities of
his defects, being neither genial nor
good-humored. In fact he was royal
masculine prototype OF the celebrated
little girl who "hated everybody and
wished that everybody was dead" He
hated his first wife, the high-spirited
and intellectual Sophia Of Wurtemberg.
He hated both Of his sons, and It is in
deed said that the Aagrantly immoral
life and premature death of his eldest
son and heir was owing to his fathers
il-treatment no less than TO his fathers
example.
Tho Prince was made unutterably
wretched at home, owing to the Kings
jealousy Of him, and so he took refuge
In Paris and plunged over head and
ears In the dissipations Of the gay
city, dying finally, broken-down de-
bauche, while still in the prime Of life.
His second son, Alexander, inherited q
diseased brain from his mad great
grandfather, the Emperor Paul Of Rus
sia, so it was rather comfort for his
family, as well as for his possible
future subjects, when he took his de-
parture from the world which his wits
had left before he did.
Old King William, during his long
disgraceful career, indulged in In
Vulnerable love affairs more or less
serious, but of all the five females that
he set at the left side Of his throne, the
most remarkable was an American
weman, the celebrated Nine. Musard.
She was realization of the well-known
line of Byron: "Born in a garret, In q
kitchen bred" Yet, Notwithstanding
the obscurity Of her origin and her lack
of education and breeding, she bloomed
forth into one of the most elegant wom-
en- in Europe. She was New-En-
glander by birth, and began life in
some menial capacity in a hotel in Bos-
ton She is said to have been extreme
" beautiful in her youth In graceful
Spanish style, her figure being at onoe
slender and shapely, and perfect
enough in its contours to have driven
any sculptor to despair who might have
tried to reproduce it.
Her eyes were large and dark, her
head small and finely formed, and her
features of piquant delicacy Of OUT
a.
from her royal adorer in very singu-
lar way. He few into passion with
her on one occasion, and, catching up
the nearest object that came handy, he
hurled it at her head, The lady clever
ly lodged the missile, which was q
bulky package Of papers, but, taking
possession Of it, she carried it off IN tri-
umph- II was made up Of shares In
certain unproductive oil wells In Ga
Ncia. A few years later the company
''struck OIL" and that quarrel with
King William made OF Nine. Musard
one Of the richest women in Europe.
Like Mime. Dubarry, who In her
childhood peddled pins and staylaces
about the streets Of Paris, and who be-
gan life as a dress-malker's apprentice,
the ex-hotel drudge Of Boston became
noted for the extreme elegance of her
surroundings and the perfect propriety
OF her demeanor. Her taste in dress
was faultless, her hotel, her equipagea,
her jewels, were all renowned for their
splendor. She came to reside In Paris,
ami was q muni6cent petroness Of eli
artistic or charitable enterprises. A
stroke Of paralysis, which brought
about an incurable droop Of one Of her
eyelids, deprived her Of her beauty be-
fore she had attained middle age.
Covered with magnificent Jewels, her
slender waist encircled with q girdle Of
gems that matched the rest Of her
parure, and shielding her eyes from the
light with an antique fan, painted by
Vatican or Boucher, and worth in itself
Q fortune, her dark hair decked with
roses, and her still exquisite figure set
of by the best efforts Of the Partisan
dress-makers, she was noted and note
worthy figure to the last. VIII it be
believed that the last years of her mag
niflcent existence were embittered by
vain craving to be received in respect
BILE society? She did every thing that
tact and intelligence and lavish liberal
ity could suggest to bring about that
end, but all to no purpose.
She subscribed to all fashionable
charities. She patronized all the relief
funds and benefits, the bazaars and the
balls, making munifcent gifts to each
Of them. She always engaged the most
expensive box In the house whenever a
new operate enterprise was started.
Her life, from the hour that she quilted
Holland, was entirely sans reproche.
But none of the fashionable ladies OF
Partisan society would receive her OF
invite her to any entertainments. Once
she offered to certain philanthropic
Duchess subscription OF ten thousand
dollars for that lady's pet charity in re-
turn for an invitation to dinner. The
offer was courteously declined.
Finally she fell victim to the insid
ious effects of the malady that had rob
bed her Of her beauty. She went mad
and died. The sale Of her effects, al
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