The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-13
The Way the Duo d'0rleans Dis
graced Himself in Austria
and Russia.
High links Prevail In the Set He
Most Affects and Pat
ronizes.
A Family Council to Be Held to Devise
Means to Curb the Hn- ~
rum ScarnM.
Especial Correspondence Of The INDEPENDENT

hone of the French Royalists, &c, DC, is
going it with a vengeance, and his father,
his uncies, sisters, cousins, aunts, and ad-
herents in the Faubourg are weeping tears
of modification. You all know the young
man in America, rs he passed some weeks
with you q little while ago, and did his
share of simpsring and Irritation. in par
ticuler with the young ladies of Philadel-
phia, Washington, and New York. He
kicked a bit over the traces, even then,
according to my private letters, and one
little episode, of which, l understand. he
was the hero in New York, was scarcely to
his credit. However, what he did i'll
America was one thing; what he does over
here is quite another matter, as he will dis
cover to his cost. His father sent him
travelling and trusted that he would re-
member his ancestry. and behave himself
with proper dignity at the courts of the
different monarchs to whom he carried in
ognlto letters.
Whether his recent prison life has had a
bad effect upon le bray conscrit, / cannot
say, yet certain it is the young French
prince has recently developed the very
strongest liking and desire for low and
vulgar companionship. At Vienna, where
there was every disposition to treat him
with semi-royal honors, he went out OF his
way to ignore the invitations OF tho en-
peror and the civilities proffered him by n
score of archdukes and archduchesses. He
neglected the various houses of nobility
where he might have posed as Il lion, and
openly expressed his sense of boredom at
anything that approached the etiquette so
rigidly maintained by royalty and mobiles IN
<ho Austrian amNjre I'm the contrary. with
insuferable insolence, he accepted invita-
tations from the first and haughtiest lead
ers of Vienna society, and then remained
away without even sending an excuse.
Being a prince, in some instances an hours
grace WAS given to him, and you can pic
ture the chagrin of a would-be hostess
when she finally ushered her other guests
to a Inner spoiled by the rudeness OF his
highness.
Fake one particular instance. the Count
lineage and of the highest position, gave a
supper party to n dozen people, including
an archduke and his wife, expressly to
meet the young prince of Orleans. The
supper was delayed an hour and twenty
minute for him, and then his valet arrived
with the intimation that his master did not
feel we'll, and could not appear. A little
cross-exa1nination of the servant also clio
tied the fact that the prince was taking
part. with half a dozen sub-oficers, in a
drunken frolic at a pleasure garden.
A day or two after, the Countess de Still
fried met the prince while driving on the
Prater. Her carriage was almost at a stand
still and wnen his highness approached.
with uncovered head, to speak to her she
luokeo at him from top to toe and ordered
Ter carriage to proceed without dsigning to
say a word to tbs somewhat aStonlSh6d
young man.
Rut the biggest affron5 of all that the
prince gave to Viennese society is the open
manner in which ho has been carving on
his ~''frlandship'' with Mdlle. Melba. the
Australian prima-donna, who has been
making so great a success In different con-
tinental opera houses. She is a hand
some. 1obust woman, full of the chic that
pertains to the women of the antipodes,
when she happens. as III this case, to be of
good English stock. The prince met her
at a supper given by a dozen young noble
men, and apparently fell madly i'll love
with her. 1t ia said that he has given her
some of the jewels that We're returned to
him by his former iiancee. Princess Margaret
de Charities, and the bill that he ran up at
different florists in the course of two weeks
in Vienna was q comparative fortune. On
one occasion, it is said. that when the prima
donna entsrea her bondoir from her bed
room she found her floor completely car
peted with Jacqueminot roses. while enor-
NOUS clusters of the magnificent flowers
completely concealed the legs of the chairs
GIN sSoAVIs NV IL NV woe ULNO
air with perfume that the singer was forced
to breakfast with open windows, and heavy
furs round her shoulders. The roses cost
half a dollar apiece, and it took the whole
of q heavy draft on the Comte de Paris to
defray the bill, | am glad to say, however,
that Mdlle. Melba was so disguised with the
extravaganza, that before she went out for
her drive she had the roses gathered from
the floor, placed in a wagon and conveyed
to the hospital for ~consumptives.
But the worst act of the prince was te
take his lady friend' to a box which wal
placed at his disposal on the grand tier a
the Imperial opera house. That tier is ex-
pressly reserved for tine highest and mos
exclusive of the Viennese nobility, and tn.
box reserved for the prince was facing thu
imperial loge. A chamberlain of the cour
usually parades the corridor to see that tn,
sacred precincts are not trespassed IDOL b,
anybody not of the inner court circle, ant
so you can judge of the Mortified astonish
ment that appeared on his face when til
young prince arrived with Mdlle. Melb
on his arm, and coolly took his seat in tn
box. AS he sat down he bowed t
the right and to the left, but his sal
u~tations were received with frigid staref
and, in fact, 80 marked was the demon
s~tration against him when he ~strolled
for a few minutes between the acts, in tn
lobby, that he deemed it wise to leave tin
theatre with his companion. 1t was subse
q~uently suggested to his highness that hi
departure from Vienna was expected.
In Moscow young Henri d'Orleans be
haved if anything with less discretion
There WAS every desire on the part of tn
GEAR and his wife to make things pleasan
for him, particularly in view of the fac
that the czarina is his close relative b
marriage. Her brother, Prince WaldemRl
is married to Princess Marie, daughter O
the due de Charities, and uncle of the du
d'Orleans. The czarlna, perhaps, was i
hopes that she might succeed in winnin
the hayward young man back to the P,in
cess Margaret; but, as in Vienna, 80 i
Moscow and st. Petersburg. The du
d'Orleans forgot to return the calls c
royalties and the court generally. and 800
made himself conspicuous Ms one of a Gil
Gle of young men of the nobility noted fl
their excesses. He passed nights at tt
gaming table. and openly showed himse
on the streets in company with women ,
the half word; and, in fact, it seems {
though the young man had made up h
mind to do his utmost to ruin the cause
the French royaltlsts.
The Comte de Paris talks of disinheri
ing his eldest son, and in the course of ne
month a family council is to be held
Sheen House., Surrey, to see to what exte,
restraint can be put on the young man wi
ia SO determined, it seems. to dispra
his family, and is so indifferent to the 20
sibilities of his destiny.
Attention NJ. NJ. T.. U.
There will be a special meeting of I
Musicians Mutual Protective union