St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-02
ROYAL MINDS.
Curious Stories About Reigning
Women of Europe.

Women of Europe.
Chicago Record.
Empress Elizabeth of Austria has at
length reached smooth water, and all
Vienna-nay, every court in Europe
IS ringing with the news of the as
founding change that has taken place
in her appearance and in her charac-
ter Every vestige of that eccentric
ity, which for. several years caused her
frequently to be described as insane
has vanished: so, too, have the signs
, Of the terrible grief caused by the
tragic death of her only son. She has
dotted for the first time the somber
Grape habiliments which she has per-
sisted in wearing ever since the trag-
1etty at Meyeriing, and she appeared
ar the court ball at Vienna the other
night in an eXquisitely beautiful court
dress of black velvet, the decolletage
Of which showed to advantage her still
zuarivaled neck and shoulders, the
beauty of which neither grief nor time
has in any way minimized.
Instead OF the far-away, strange look
+, IN her superb eyes, which was so in
~describably pathetic, there was a CLEAN
of amusement and pleasure.
Queen Elizabeth of Roumania, whose
condition was even more serious than
that Of the Austrian empress. since
she was actually insane and under re-
straint, has likewise weathered the
storm, and seems to have entirely re-
covered from all those eccentricities
which two or three years ago were the
cause of so much gossip throughout
the civilized world.
&c. too. it is with Queen Victoria. who
during the ten years that followed the
death of her husband, certainly acted
in many respects as If she was not
quite right mentally. Indeed, she was
reported to have quite lost her reason.
and the question of investing the
Prince of Wales with the regency was
mooted not alone in the press and on
the platform, but even in parliament.
This was the heyday Of the famous
gfllie, John Brown, and while it is i'm
possible to deny that he took advant-
age of her condition to make things
pleasant for himself it was fortunate
that she had by her side during that
time a man who was neither unscru-
pulous nor dishonest
Among those who are still floating
about among the rocks are the Prin-
cess of Wales, who has aged terribly
of late, and is stated TO look a mere
physical wreck. And there are stories
current in London to the effect that
she is not quite right in her head, this
being given as an excuse for certain
peculiarities of character that she has
developed of late.
Her sister-in-law, the huge Crown
Princess of Denmark, is in a similar
state of mind, a prey to melancholia
and to such an extent in the physi-
clans hands that they should have dis
cussed the adyisability of sending her
for treatment to the celebrated lunatic
asylum of Doebling, near Vienna.
where her sister-in-law, Princess Wal
demar of Denmark. already is
The Queen of Belgium was complete
ly out Of her mind for several months
previous to the marriage of her daugt-
ter Stephanie to Crown Prince Ru-
dolph, and was under restraint for a.
time at the royal palace at Laaken.
Queen Sophie OF Sweden has not vet
emerged from hfe's breakers into
smooth water, and is yet undergoing
mental treatment by specialists. who.
with the object of occupying her. have
| insisted that she perform hard manual
labor in the shape of gardening. house
cleaning, etc. in the hope of thereby
diverting her mind from its lugubrio1,s
train of thought
More fortunate is the queen of Italv
whose eccentricities are at an end. al
Jthough she spent nearly a year in re-
treat that was almost restraint. in
Bordlghern, without seeing any mem
Der of her family