The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-08
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European Women of High Station Seen II
an Atmosphere OF Democracy.

european women OF High Station Seen II
an Atmosphere OF Democracy.
At the Hotel Cap Martin the empero,
Of Austria lives il democratic fashion
was there yesterday visiting some
friends-fron very democratic Chicago
and we met at frequent intervals dRr.
ing all the morning the once very beaG.
tiful and still stately empress taking
ber constitutional walks about the hotes
grounds as freely and with as little for
mality as any other guest. Fer constant
companion is young Greek student
who is teaching her his language. The
seigning duke of a German duchy, to
HON the emperor gives a friendly nod
ss they pass each other by, explains tA
us that her majesty has an Unsuitable
thirst for knowledge; that she has beer
giving to dozen languages within the
PAST dozen yeas, each a twelHsmontk il
attaining its conversational mastery
She has already made astonishing prog,
ress in modern Greek. She certainly ap
pears to converse fiuently with her
modest young teacher.
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ad and out of doors each morning at 9
o'clock; that she eats no meat and lives
almost entirely upon milk; that she de-
plores above all things that her health
has compelled her to give up her hunt.
er; that riding after hounds has been
the greatest pleasure OF her life.
The hour for luncheon has arrived,
and we go back to the hotel. The two
princes who are the emperor's gentle.
men in waiting are standing at the
main door, evidently expecting sons
one. A carriage drives up, and plain
y dressed lady, with two young girls,
equally simply dressed, steps out ane
is escorted into the hotel rotunda. From
his apartments opening into it the ena.
peror comes hastily out, h-,Us TO the
elder lady as he offers her his arm, is
saluted with a courtesy by the tw9
young girls and leads the was to tia
breakfast room. The curtains pant, dis.
closing the empress awaiting her guests.
She has taken off her hat and cloak, and
Ne see her truly magnificent hair coiled
in veritable crown above her statu-
esque face, her figure, famous always
for its perfection, still seemingly that of
a young matron, although she is a
grandmother, and yerg 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-- although
there is no longer kingdom of Naples
upon any map When told by the grand
duke who the elder visitor is, we look st
her with absorbed interest, for we take
her to be that famous queen, wife of
Francois II, whom Galibaldi dethroned,
and who herself was the heroine, under
an obvious pseudonym, of Daudet's mas.
ter work, Lies Rois en- Exil - But Gus
friend recalls to us that Francois II died
a few months ago, and, having no chill.
dren, that the royal (and barren) title
passed to his brother. This lady is there
fore that brothers. wife, and it appears
that the fiction of her queenship is still
maintained as real in the imperial court
Of Austria at least.
The heroine Of "Les Rois," however
the brave woman who defended Gaeta
against Garibaldi for so many months
is herself expected at the hotel within
g few days to visit her sister, the EN-.
press. s.-"On the Riviera" Ballard
Smith In New York World.