Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-01-26


fangemert tc better the financial condition 81
/ the poorlieutaiiant and his Princess bride
The Princess Elizabeth kept diary before
and during her love affair, which was private
! ly printed i'll Munich about last Christmas
The following are the most interesting cx-
| tracts
MUNcHEN, January s. 1888.
! "We were very happy to-day; very l could
not sleep last night, and lay awake thinking
it, in the morning, would not be quite diff
ferent person. 1t is rather comcal to reflect
that yesterday was but IS, a mere child,
while today am lady. IA years old, and
becoming Older every day. 1t all came about
so suddenly.
| what pleased me most was the letter which
! His Majesty, my dear grandpapa, sent me
from Vienna. He is such dear old man.
Sister Augusta is right when she says, The
Hapsburgers are all perfect gallants'
:" You are now little lady, my grand
father wrote. So l am. put on my first long
dress to-day. Yes dress with long, long
train to it. never guessed that such thing
could make one so happy. Augusta was very
Jealous of me. She will have to wait for such
good luck for an entire year.
II am now to enter the dancing school.
where l will meet real gentlemen, though
they are only pages and cadets The Grand
Mistress of Ceremony tells me that I must
treat them in a naughty manner, full of SUI
periority,' she styled it. This morning when
they came to congratulate me tried to follow
her advice, Only once did L lose nv com
posture, when young Seefried made his bow to
| II ~ TT
had my will would have fallen upon his
neck. They say that can never be. Well, I
must content myself with embracing my dear
grandfather in my dreams. All, wish he
| were here
February IA, 1889.
II have been dancing last night with /, al
! gentlemen, though none of them had q IA
tache. They were all young men, ordered to
come to the castle by the Master of the Pas IS
| Ordered, that doesn't sound nicely. 1 ca It
| imagine that anybody likes to do a tn lg
| when he has been ordered to do So Two. Id
be too proud.
"They are all talking about me and you eg
Seefried. They are making fun Of us-cf e,
at least. 1t is annoying, especially When IL
may truthfuliy say-but rather, will not ny
it. l really would like to know why Augu to
thinks that Otto-but | shouldn't cali him oy
his first name. 1t makes me angry that e re
way so often. They must stop their chaffii g.
II know what will do. will tell pap: %
February Is. 1885.
81 thought better of it. No. will not cU.ll-
plain Oil Otto'S account. Poor young fellow,
he would become the victim Of my intrigues.
They would send him away to another cadet
school, where he would never have an oppor-
tunity to appear at court and that would be
too bad. He is indeed the only one Of the
young men with whom I like to talk. 1t is
much better that suffer by my sisters chaff
than he No, won't think Of complaining
to papa"
"bIarch 10, 1888.
s'I wonder what His Majesty, my dear
grandfather at Vienna, would say il he knew
that there is somebody in the world whom II
love as much as himself. If anybody could
tell me such thing could happen year ago
l would have laughed at the very thought.
But nobody shall know it, not even guess it,
| and / will not tell Augusta, either, before
whom | have no secrets whatever
FMarch 20, 1883.
"Ah, this infamous, this valentine, pictur-
ing ME sitting in an open barrel, which is
being carried up the mountains. It'll pas
guile on Otto's second name-Buttenhem
(translation: Barrelhome) l have cried a
good deal over this cruel joke, as they call it.
All. why am a Princess? / am forbidden
even to look at a man.
But, really, if they knew how much love
him they WOnld not he so cruel -
MUNICH, February IL, 1898.
cit is now five years that have not seen
Otto, but did I forget him? No, no. And he
has become man meanwhile. 1t struck me
as very comical when l had to give orders
that he be formally introduced to me. Yes,
am Royal Ilghness and l must order peo-
pie about 1t 10 my duty as well as my pre-
rogative. And while all this ceremony was
being enacted trembled inwardly. felt as
if was going to Cry.
IA wondrous feeling overcame me when
saw him appear before ule-hm whom l
thought lost. God is good to me,
'sMarch 10.
"How it Enlightened me when we met, with
out announcement whatsoever lie looked
at me long and with much emotion. And
when read in his true eyes that which had
expected to find there felt so happy. And as
smiled upon him his face assumed an earn
est look. He seemed to he manlier then,
more perfect, almost as if | had offended him.
"Offended?
"Who told him to fall in love with a Prin-
cess? All, wish were entirely sure that he
was in love with me
'sIhe fact that he is living opposite the pal
ace and that his windows look into those of
my boudoir is almost too good to believe. 1t
reminds one of the stories in the children's
picture books. But in the books it would be
written that the poor Lieutenant, who dared
to live opposite Princess and dared to cor
respond with her by way of his eyes across the
street, must die Fin de steele love affairs
| are much nicer.
elf | had ever remembered how he squeezed
my hand? how he looked at me? he asked. He
had worn the ribbon which he stole from my
breast during the dance on his heart ever
| since. But then we were children.
| sWhat conversation to enter into for a
| Princess Should royal highness act in such
manner? / dare only ask one human being
that question, my dear dpapa-Maje sty.
| ''(After the Court Ball), June, 1898.
.'Long live Dame Etiquette! I am much
| pleased with her. How astonshed the Master
of Ceremony looked when l ordered him to
order Lieutenant Otto Won Saefried to dance
with me- And then l ordered Otto again,
and again did order him to attend me. And
all around us felt that they were cycling us
and talking about us. Some of them proba
blv remembered that Her Royal Highness,
Princess Elizabeth, five years ago was desper-
ately in love with little page, Otto Won See
fried. But we were talking and laughing,
| and as we waltzed through the room myself,
and helieYe be too, forgot mOmentarilY the