Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-02-18

seems that even while be was signing
and moaning in feverish love she was
carrying on fragrant escapades with
number of persons not hitherto men
toned in the list Of her frailties. Even
her marriage contract was deception
of a nature that would have excited
Becky Sharp's emulation OF feminine
strategy. In order to be prepared for
divorce, death or separation or any kind,
the lady insisted on contract, quite
out of the usual French fashion, allow
ing each Of the copartners perfect lnde-
pendence in the use, abuse or retention
of their common property.
An astute lawyer, to falsify the intent
of the French law, pretended to pro-
cure the pedigree; Or, as the trench
call IL, the 'acte de Nuisance, OF the
bride. and, as her birthplace was at
that time surrounded by English fleets,
it was easy to compose family tree en-
tirely satisfactory to the dazzled young
soldier. In this plausible document
four years were struck of from jose.
phlne's age, which still LETT her two
years older than Napoleon; but with
gallantry equal to his devotion he add
ed two years to his own. The day OF
his wedding was the day OF his depar-
ture to assume command or the army
Of Italy. He had barely left the bride
when she began to excite the suspicious
of her brothers-in-law by an audacious
llaison with young army contractor.
But laurels from Italy began TO gather
even in Paris, and, as the wife OF the
hero, Josephine found II necessary TO
employ more caution. The love-letters
from the husband might be taken as
pages from the "Nouvelle Heloise" OF
Rosseau.
Every day letter was despatched to
her; every day is recounted his heart
breaking that she is not with him.
Finally, after the triumphs of the cam
paign, Murat, as messenger 10 Paris
with the flags of the Austrian army,
brought Nine. la Generate a pleading
passionate request TO join him in Italy.
But she was enjoying the world too
well. Paris paid her the incense meant
for her husband, and il was the breath
OF her life. She dared not openly re-
fuse the reiterated urgings OF her love-
sick lord, and finally invented a suoter-
fuge to soothe his melancholy, II not to
assuage his Disappointment she prom
ised that little darling should await
him on his return.
This, however, was a pure invention,
and when the doctors finally left her no
further chance TO hoodwink the nero,
she set out very grudgingly for Italy,
accompanied by her young army con-
tractor and two of Napoleon's aides.
The journey must have been one OF
lesurely festivity, and the amazing
thing is that the scandals OF it did not
reach Napoleon until many years later.
Her conduct during his absence In
Egypt was finally so fragrant that Luz
Glen and all the Bonaparte brothers
felt themselves compelled to remon-
strate. Finally hints OF his wife's 'go-
inRs on" were conveyed discreetly to
Napoleon himself. The author insin-
mates that this revelation fastened
Napoleon's return more than the
situation Of France or the needs OF
the army. He touched the French soil
flaming with anger and resolute TO sep
arate at once from the deceiver. She
seems TO have got an inkling OF her
husbands state of mind, for she set out
in a coach to meet him, but they missed
each other on the road. For a week or
more Napoleon refused to receive her,
and agonizing scenes OF fearful plead
ing. of Josephine kneellng outside his
door. are recorded. In the end, how
ever, he relented. And thenceforward
Josephine, embalmed in history as the
good angel of the Emperor's life, is
u u n n m
occultty responsible for many of the err
rors in policy that finally tangled the
lion beyond release.
MARIE LOUISE.
The next wife, Marie Louise Of Aus
tria, is presented as no duchess was ever
presented before. She was reared in
all the austerity prescribed to Haps-
burg infancy. She was not allowed to
know that there was male sex In Ak
istence. Wherever she stopped the
''roosters" were removed from the
BARNARD; even to the birds 10 the cages
she was not allowed to know that there
was a male. Devices, as the author
quantity puts it, were invented to
nreserve her innocence which be-
came almost obscene. She read no
books that were not expurgated; she
was never allowed to see a play,
and a duenna was appointed over
her who never let the child out OF her
sight from the day of her birth TO the
day OF her marriage. Six OF these duen-
mas ruled the young girl until her
eighteenth year. In fact, as the author
saws, it was species OF eastern odal-
issue that Napoleon received az the
hands OF the Emperor OF Austria, when
he married Marie Louise in 1910. Her
YEARLY allowance would hardly cover
the necessities OF New York school
girl in the most modest rank OF life. On
the other hand, she knew five languages
and spoke them fluently, and she be-
lieyed that the voice OF her father was
only second TO the voice Of God.
OF this woman, who was neither beau
tiful nor I'm any way alluring by the
charms OF her sex, Napoleon became
fantastically amorous, and, as she wrote
her father, "instead OF fearing the ty-
rant, | believe he fears me-" lie had
learned wisdom, at least the wisdom OF
the marital serpent, by his previous ex-
periences. The precautions adopted 10
Keen Casar's wife even above the shad-
ow of suspicion sound like a chapter
from the seventies of the Grand Turk.
She was never allowed TO see a man
alone: every moment was TO be &C
counted for by some special minion al
lotted for the term. The Treasury OF
France was put at the disposal Of her
self and family. Millions were expend-
ed in Jewels, laces and what not. The
Young Duchess's sisters, for the first
time In their lives, were given the
knicknacks and tribes that young girls
like. Marie Louise paid her adorer as
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