Evening journal., 1897-01-25

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-The last mail
from the European continent brings posi-
tive news of the growing discord between
the Duke and Duchess of Aosta. The duch-
ess, while living still under the same roof
with her husband, has packed up her per-
sonal belongings and moved into apart
mcnts as far from his as the confines of
the palace permit. At the same time she
has made, to considerable circle of
friends, slurring remarks regarding her
relations with her husband and has spo-
ken with fippant sarcasm of the marital
duties supposed to be especiallS binding
upon princes and princessesSf the blood.
This elimination of domestic misery,
due largely perhaps to the duchess varied
experience in love affairs before marriage
is rather moro interesting than the usual
family quGrrels Of royalty, for it has not
even the rcmotest hint of the ordinary love
intrigues on the part Of the head of the
household No actresses, opera singers,
countesses or princesses have crept into the
proverbal domestic Eden TO allure the
prince and estrange his affections. No ac-
cusation of neglect has been laid at the
door of the Duke of Aosta. No blame is
attached to his moral conduct since his
marriage. In fact he plays an unimpOr-
tant part in the wholesale scandal, merely
serving the purpose Of bringing into a
clearer light the peculiar willfulness, the
nippancy and the tckleness Of his young
wife. IL is sufficient, therefore, to describe
him as King Humbert s nephew, who once
was expected 20 succeed to the Italian
throne after his uncles death, since the
crown prince was small and weakly and
had the reputation of a woman hater As
nice looking young man of fair military
talents, he promised to be as respectable
figure head as the present king and to pro-
vide line of heirs too numerous to leave
any chance of the dynasty's shrinking
away for lack of able bodied men. This
rather negative prince, at the age of 26,
was married to Princess Helene of Orleans.
daughter of the Count OF Paris, at Kings
ton on the Thames, just Is months ago.
She was then "a years old, rather mature
in years for a handsome girl of royal blood,
and still more mature in her experience
with the world
Comely. Though Princess.
1t is excusable because true, to say that
she is exceptionally comely, even though
she is a princess She is of the French
style of beauty which most closely resem-
bles the American style-tall. slender,
graceful, active and yet neither nervous
nor angular She is high strung, yet Of u
happy disposition when not under the bur
den of disagreeable duties. She would be
called lively and stunning if she were an
American girl under discussion among
young American men. She is or was also
ambitious. She belonged TO the class of
girls who flirt and revel in the affairs Of
the heart just this side of the borderland
of love, consequently she fell in love be-
fore reaching the mature age az which she
married. The man she loved was the heir
TO the English throne the Duke Of Clar-
ence, known i'm England before his death
as Collars and Cuffs. AS she was ambi-
tious this may have been a case of love 3
going where 10 was sent. At all events,
she loved him. A thousand authorities-
French. German, English and Spanish
might be quoted TO support this statcNcnt.
IL sufliccs here to quote the words of a
woman friend who sympathizes with her
in her present domestic troubles and has
sent to Berlin from the Italian capital an
explanation of her present conduct. This
woman says:
THE Princess Helene of Orleans, after
her fondest dream of marriage with the
Duke Of Clarence and Ayondale had shat
tered ON the difference of their religious
creeds, had but one wish left; this was
that, in case she should marry, she should
gain throne and be a queen. Thrones
are scarce, however, and she seemed tC
have little chance of gratifying her last
fervent wish. Then came the proposal Of
the Duke of Aosta. As is well known
she once had gone on her knees to tn,
pope and begged him to let her change hei
religion, or, at least to give her permission
To marry a Protestant, even though hel
children must be reared in the Church O
England ina accordance with the creed o
their father The holy father answere,
that she might not risk her eternal saliva
tion hy marrying the heir to the Englisl
throne Miserable and emhittered, thl
Princess Helene turned away from Rom
and returned to her home The Duke e.
Clarence became betrothed to his cousin
the Princess May Of Tcck, but died sool
afterward.
Princess Helene thought of an thi
when she received the proposal Il the Duk
of Aosia.
Embiitered by Monienegran Marriage.
"What would tho pope say If she shoul,
bear an heir to the Itnlian throne, a
daughter of a reigning house that stood il
almost open antagonism 60 the Vatican
So, half out of ambition ana half out o
defiance, she gave her hand 10 the Duke o
Aosta. He was supposed to be the heir &
She throne, as the crown prince then wa
not expected to take a wife
All this dream of defiance ana powe
was dissipated by the subsequent cours
1f the Prince @ Naples He fell in low
with the luxuriant beauty Of the Princes
Helene of Montenegro, made her his wifi
and iille9 the eye of royal Europe as tn
coming King of Italy The Duke of Aost
lost his halo of prospective power He wa
The plain Duke Of Aosta, now and to come
The other Helen will now have to tax
tle responsibility of assuring the dynasty,
she remarked to her friends as soon as tn
hetrothal Of the Prince cf Naples was an
nounced. 81 am no longer BOUND by IT,
Her mother and brother ho,ought her t
keep up the appearance OF happy mar
ricd life A sister in-law, from the hous
# Hapsburg, devoted half her time fo
weeks 60 argungwith horagiinst makm
a scandal Ii was all labor lost The I'm
variable reply OF the self willcl young VIII
was: