The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-10-01
Pomer.-Latest U. S. Govt Renort
ROYALTY AT EASE.
European Women of high Station Seen IN
ar Atmosphere of Democracy.

European Women of High Station Seen IN
an Atmosphere of Democracy.
At Hotel Cap Martin the emperos
Of Austria lives IN democratic fashion.
was there yesterday visiting some
friends-fron very democratic Chicago
land We met at fre4aent intervals DIR
ing all the morning the once very beaG
fiful and still stately empress taking
her institutional walks about the hotes
grounds as freely and with as little for
mality as any ether guest. Fer constant
companion IS a young Greek student
who is teaching her his language The
reigning duke of a German duchy, TO
whom the emperor gives a friendly nod
as they pass each other by, explains to
us that her majesty has an Unsuitable
thirst for knowledge; that she has beer
giving TO q dozen languages within Tire
past dozen years each a twelvemonth in
attaining its conversational mastery.
She has already made astonishing prog.
Fess in modern Greek. She certainly ap.
pears to converse huently with her
modest young teacher.
We are further told that she is dress
ed and out Of doors each morning at 6
o'olooli that she eats 10 meat and lives
almost entirely upon milk; that she do.
plores above all things that her health
mas compelled her to give NJ her hunt
er; that riding after hounds has been.
the greatest pleasure Of her life.
The hour for luncheon hes arrived
and we 90 back to the hotel The two
princes who are the enperor's gentle.
men in waiting are standing at the
main door, evidently expecting som5
one A carriage drives up, and a plain
ly dressed lady, with two young girls,
equally simply dressed, steps out and
is escorted into the hotel rotunda. From
his apartments opening into it the en-
peror comes hastily out, b,,ws to the
elder lady as he offers her his arm, is
saIuted with a courtesy by the two
young girls and leads the way. to TIE
breakfast room. The curtains part, dis.
closing the empress awaiting her guests.
She has taken of her hat and cloak, and
w see her tQly magnificent hair coiled
in a yeritable grown above her statu-
esque face, her figure, famous always
for its perfection, still seemingly thatoi
q young matron, although she is a
grandmother, and very sweet smile of
welcome to make the face beautiful.
The visitors are the queen of Naples
and her two royal daughters-so styled
in the Almanach de Gotha--a although
there is no longer q kingdom Of Naples
upon any map When told by the grand
duke who the elder visitor Isl we look Of
her with absorbed interest, for we take
her to be that famous queen, wife Of
Francois II, whom GA ibaldi dethroned,
and WHO herself was the heroine, under
IN csyvi1 us pseudonynl, Of Daudet' S mas.
ter 'Eork, Les Rois en- Ext Bat our
friend recalls to US that Francois II died
q few months ago, ard, having no chill.
dren, that the royal (and barren) title
passed to his brother. This lady is there
fore that brother wife, and it appears
that the fiction Of her queenshfp is still
maintained as real in the imperial court
Of Austria at least
The heroine Of lies Rois, however
-thebrave woman who defended Gaeta
against Garibaldi for SO many months |
lis herself expected at thahotel within
q few days to visit her sister, the en-
the Riviera, " Ballard
Smith In New York World