Birmingham state herald., 1897-04-18

singer permitted his attentions. It was love at first sight.
 Mir and Mrs. Terry had been living abroad in Paris for long time. not together however. Although theirs was a strictly love match, somehow or other things didn't seem to go all right after a few years of married life, and well, the old song and dance business was gone through with, the mister and the missus shook hands, and she took a yearly income with her and her lit- tie daughter and went to Europe. he went to Europe, too, and was lost sight of by his friends in New York for sew eral years.
 Miss Sanderson at one time created a great sensation in San Francisco by becoming wildly enamored of one of Maplesons third rate tenors, Cardinal, who had face like a poet and a hand like ham. The protestations and pray CTS of her family were of no avail, and rather than bear with a scandal her father consented to her engagement, provided Cardinali could substantiate his claims to noble birth.
 There was a great deal of red tape gone through with. Mme. Scalchi's husband, Count Lolli, and the Marquis
 
 hold. then on a visit to Mir. John Par rott in San Francisco. were MT. Cardi- nails references; but, needless to state, the young tenor's claims to rank were never proved, and the engagement died a natural death.
 How their wooing was conducted has always remained a mystery, since Car dinali spoke neither French nor Eng fish and Miss Sanderson could not speak Italian.
 Whoever Miss Sanderson may eventu- ally honor with her hand will secure a prize that princes and their peers in the world of art have sought in vain. It was even rumored at one time that the fair American was about to contract marriage with a Vanderbilt. About five years ago she instituted a suit against Paris paper that became too familiar with her name in connection with the late Prince Baldwin of Belgium. Not content with her former con- quests, it now seems that this fair en- chantress has ensnared the young cZar of Russia by her loveliness, and stories are current in St. Petersburg court cir cles that the relations between the sov- ereign and his consort have undergone a considerable change, and one not for the better.
 The czarina remains much of an in- valid. Her languor and her weakness | are extreme. and she has become fright fully thin, while her face is so pinched that no one would recognize her from the portraits which exist of her. Nicholas, on the other hand, is in the very best of health and full of life and | spirits Instead of shutting himself up with his wife. as heretofore, and re- stricting himself exclusively to her com panionship, he now spends much of his time elsewhere and is to be seen almost every night at the theater, especially at the opera. where his undisguised ad- miration of the American prima donna is very noticeable.
 Meanwhile the young czarina is worthy of a good deal of sympathy. With the exception of her sister, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, herself martyr to marital misery, she is prac- tically without a single friend at the court of St. Petersburg, where her lofty principles and her English ideas on the score of morality and feminine conduct have clashed not only with the princi- | pal members of the Muscovite aristoc- l racy, but with her husband srelatives. Nor does she find any support in her mother-in-law. Until now there has