The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30

F quarter Of a century have often seen a
tall. white-haired woman o. stately mieu
standing near a grave 10 one OF the most
secluded spots OF the burying ground
There were marks Of great suffering on
her face-a face attractive despite the
marks. Attendants who happened to
meet her greeted her with extreme re-
spect. as well they might. To visitors
she was always pointed out. Those who
watched her closely could see her place a
few flowers on the grave, stand for mo-
ment as If ia prayer and then turn again
toward the gate.
The widow, dressed in the deepest
mourning, was the Baroness Won Josika.
For twenty-eight years, summer and
winter in storm and sunshine, she spent
each day half hour at the grave Of her
husband. All Dresden knew her and re-
speCted her grief and devotion.
The Baroness Won Josika was, by birth,
a Baroness Podmaniczl1y. She met 10
si1a-the Hungarian poet-in Buda-
Pesth. He was married at the time to
Elizabeth Kallay. But he fell deeply in
love with the Baroness Podmaniczky and
tried to induce the courts to grant him
divorce. As his own life and that Of his
wife had been spotless the courts de-
clined TO interfere, and ten years passed
by before he was enabled 10 lead his
second wife to the altar. After the days
VI bbLtoH anu oAOIlL III lOto III WHICH 10
Ska took an active and honorable
part, the baron and baroness
were obliged TO fee for their lives. They
escaped 10 Brussels Their estates had
been confiscated and their entire fortune
consisted at the time of 1000 gulden.
Life was hard for them. The baroness
paid the household expenses by translat-
ing her husbands works into German,
corresponding for newspapers of Buda-
Pesth and opening lace store in the Bel
gian capital. But Josika's mind began to
fail, and the physicians ordered him to
Dresden. There he died on February o.
1865. A few days ago the body of the de
voted baroness was laid at his side in the
beautiful cemetery.
In one Of the poorhOuses of Bordeaux,
neglected and forgotten, there died few
days ago a woman who was the leader or
creator of the fashions in Paris when the
names of Worth and Felix were unknown
In the days following closely the last En-
pire Nine. Rodriguez ruled supreme in
her particular world. Before her magni-
ncent palace row of carriages, with
cOats-of-arms and coronets on thepanels,
was almost constantly to be seen. Ba-
rOnesses, countesses and princesses ac-
cepted her opinions on dress as law, and
seldom ventured to contradict her. When
they did so, Nine. Rodriguez had all the
dignity of an offended Juno.
MY OHlllOu lSs Outb Btkdu d royal
princess, in looking at a costume designed
by the handsome madame
But l did not know that 1 had asked
her highness," came the reply, which cut
off all further criticism.
when will my dress be ready?" once
asked the Countess de s., her accent
betraying some chagrin.
J''Ah! Madame la Countess is impa-
tient," answered the madame Il fear,
then, that she will be obliged to wait
In spite of her cavalier manner how
ever, Nine. Rodriguez had devoted
friends among the best people of France
and when she became i'll they were tire
less in their attentions Many of them
knew what they owed her, and We'd
with one another in sending her flowers,
presents and mementOs. BY the patron
age of the fashionable world Nine. Ro-
driquez amassed a fortune and was able
to settle a million francs on her only
daughter when she was married.
But one morning early in the seventies
there was great excitement among the
frequenters of the famous house of fash
ion. Nine. Rodriguez had disappeared
none knew whittier. A few months later,
however, a rival house announced that
Nine Rodriguez had consented to take
charge of its dress department. Then it
was learned that the madame had fallen
in love with young physician, had mar
El6u nlIl, anu through uuIuldu lOSb ner
fortune. The fashionable world fol-
lowed her to her new place, but Nine
Rodriguez could not bear to be in a de-
pendent place and again desertedh her post.
Paris heard nothing of her for a year
One morning, however she called at the
hotel of one of her former customers, Ba-
rOneSS de r..
II have not eaten anything for three
days" she said, land have no money"
The baroness relieved her wants and
started a collection among the former
patronesses of the famous dressmaker
They raised 10000 francs and induced
Nine. Rodriguez to promise to go to
America and begin life anew. But she
failed to keep her promise. Her worth
less husband sqandered her money and
she sank into abiect poverty. Almost a
decade ago the woman-once wealthy and
the autocrat of French fashion-became
an inmate of the poorhouse, where she
died