The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-07-16
RO.IANCE OF A KING.
The Late Willard III. end Mime.
M Musard.
A Love Affair That Placed an American
IoteI Servant Girl Upon Throne
Amidst Royal Sur
roundings.

...l.!i may have been a fa.cly good |
IAia,, but he was an nneommonly |
vi,ious man in private life, writes Lucy |
IL. Hooper in the Chicago Tribune.
lie had not even the good qualities OF
hi, defects, being neither genial Nor
~ood-humored. In fact he was a royal
masculine lnototaapesof the celebrates.
little girl who "hated everybody and
wished that everybody was dead. He
hated Ms first wife, the high-spirited
and intellectual Sophia of Wurtemberg.
Iicyhated both of his sons, and it is in
decd said that the flagrantly iEmoral
life and premature death of his eldest
son and heir was owing TO his fathers
ill-treatment no less than to his fathers
example.
The Prince was made unutterably
wrotched 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 prhae OF life.
His second son, Alexander, iaherited
diseased brain from his mad great
grandfather, the Emperor Paul of Rus
sia, SO it was rather a comfort fer his
family, as well as for his possible
future subjects, when he took Els de-
parture from the world which his wits
had left before he did. sH# Ea
Old King William, dgaring Lis long
disgraceful career, indllged in in
Vulnerable love affairs more or less
serious, but of all the five females that
he set at the left side of his throle, the
most remarkable was an American
woman, the celebrated Nine. Musard.
She was realization of the well known
line of Byron: Born in a garret, in a
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 o hotel IN Bos,
ton. She is said to have been extreme
ly beautiful in her youth in a graceful
Spanish style, her figure being at once
.,nder and shapely, and perfect
enough in its contours to have driven
any sculptor to despair who might have
tried to reproduce it, g +fIfss
Her eyes were large and dark hel
head small and finely foraed, and heI
features of piquant delicacy of out
line. Her vast fortune came to hel
from her royal adorer in a very singu
lar way. He flew isto a passion will
her on one occasion, and, catching III
the nearest object that ci.sae handy, III
hurledit at her head. The lady clever
ln 10 ,,-l; ;al,
bulky package of papers, but, taking
possession of it, she carried it off in tri
umph. 1t was made Up of shares il
certain unproductive oil wells in Ga
licia. A few years later the compan,
''struck oil" and that qGarrel witt
King William made of Mne. Ntfsar,
one of the richest women in Europe.
Like Nine. Dubarry, who in he
childhood peddled pins and staylace
aboutsthe streets of Paris, and who be
gan life as a dress-malSer's apprentice
the ex-hotel drudge of Boston becam
noted for the eNtreale clSGa1aso as lie
surroundings and the perfect propriet
of her demeanor. Her taste in dres
was faultless, her hotel, her eqItpages
her jewels, We're all renowned f.r thei
splendor. She came to reside in Pari.
and was a muniflccnt patroneSs of a
artistic or charitable enterprises.
stroke of paralysis, which brougf
about an incurable ts'oop of ore Of he
eyelids, deprived her of her beauty b,
fore she had attained middle age.
Covered with magnificent jewels, he
slender waist encirelcd vita girSle
that afs.b Nf I,
parure, and shielding her eyes from IL
light with an antique fan. painted i
Vatican or Boucher, and worth in itse
a fortune, her dark hair declced wit
roses, and her still exquisite figure s.
off by the best efforts of tac Paris;s
dress-makers, she was noted and not
worthy figure to the last. Will it ]
believed that the last years of her ma
nificent- existence were emb;ttered
vain craving to be received in respet
BILE society? She did every thing tn
tact and intelligence and lavish hbers
ity could suggest to bring abou. tn
end, but all tosno purpose. '7'-@
She subscribed to all fashionab
charities she patronized all the reE
funds and benefits, the bazaars and t
balls, making Inunificent gifts too
of them. She always engaged the me
expensive box in the house whenever
new operate enterprise was starte
Her life, from the'hour that she Quit
Holland, was entirely sans rcprocf
But none Of the fashionable ladies'
Partisan society would receive her
invite her to any entertainments. On
she offered to a certain philaEthrol
Duchess subscription of ten thousa
dollars for that lady's pet charity in
turn for an invitation to dinner T
offer was courteously declined.
Finally she fell victim to the ins
ious effects of the malady that had re
bed her of her beauty. She went IN
and died. The sale Of her effects,
her sumptuous hotel near the Arc
Iriomphe, was one of the most
traordinary scenes that have ever W
messed. Her choice laces filled a hi
Saratoga trunk Her silk stoclsi,
were brought out by the clothes-basl,
full The display of her fans took
half dozen glass cases. Her 4
gloves and miniature slippers were
admiration of all the beholders. Nobt
was sad and nobody was especially