Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10

heart, and the Countess HoyaAis one of tht
most beautiful women have ever seen.
| She is about five feet eight inches in
height, and her form is slender, but not
angular. She has very pretty blue eyes,
rosy plump cheeks, and she looks like q
bright, common sense girl. She wore yes.
| terday q plain white and red lawn gown and
her only jewelry was a pair of very small
gold hoop earrings. She is only about half
as old as Count Herbert, but the two will
make fine looking husband and wife. The
Countess Hoyas is the daughter of wealthy
Austrian count by an English mother. She
looks more like an English woman than a
German one, but she seems to be thoroughly
in sympathy with Germany and the Ger
mans Her family is wealthy and the
Whitehead torpedo works belong to them.
ALook at Frau Won Bismarck. Q
was much interested in seeing the
Princess Won Bismarck, the wife Of the
great statesman and as I looked at her nv
mind went back to her most romantic mar
riage when she was as young as the beauti-
full countess who sat beside her, and was,
venture, fully as beautiful. You must re-
member the story. She was the daughter of
the sober, well-to-do Herr Won Puttkamer,
who owned an estate not very distant from
that on which Bismarck lived before he be-
came q public man. He was at this time q
wild young fellow, and was known gener-
ally to the people of his section as the Mad
Bismarck and also as "Devil Won Bis
marck," and his carouses and his actions
were the talk of the section. He met the
Fraulein Won Puttkamer and i. was q case
of love at first sight on both sides, and
shortly after this, much to the terror Of
Herr Won Puttkamer, he demanded his
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his suit in such way that the old gentle
man had to give in, and the marriage took
place.
Bismarck is nearly 10 years older than his
wife, and he was then 81. It is now nearly
45 years since his wedding, and their mar
ried life is said to have been q singularly
happy one. Bismarck turned over q new
leaf shortly after his marriage and he be-
came studious and thoughtful. He soon got
into politics and from that time on he made
a man of himself and shortly rose to be one
Of the leading figures in the diplomatic
circles of Europe. His wife kept pace with
him, and once in speaking of her he said:
'tShe it was who made me what am" The
Princess Won Bismarck is said to be the per-
feet specimen of the best tpye of the Ger
man wife. She has all her life devoted her
self to her husband and her children, and
in her sixties she is still fne-looking
woman. She is tall and dark and her face
is a kind and motherlY one. Her hair 10
now dark iron gray and her eyes are dark
and smiling. She was very popular with
the young girls of the picnic, and noted
that many of them hovered about her chair
and laughed and chatted with her during
the afternoon.
Bismarck's Estate at Friedrichsruhe.
I wish I could give you q stereopticon
view of Prince Bismarcks estate here. Hs
has . big house on Wilhelm strasse in Ber-
lin, and his other homes at Varzin and
are said to be very fine, but
of them all he prefers Friedrichsruhe, and
it is probable that the most of the re-
of his life will be spent here. It
10 little wonder that it is 20 There are few
as.S possessions Ia the world than shia