The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-04-20
QUEER SPRIGS
OF GENTILITY
From the chIcago Record.

birthday. He has always been fond OF hand
some women, and during his rambles about
Stockholm any well-dressed or beautiful
woman always catches his eye. The other
day as his majesty and his inseparable
companion, Ankacrona, the master of the
hounds together with General Sven Lager
berg, were taking their constitutional in the
ungstraedgarden, a dream of feminine
beauty was fitting along on the opposite
walk Her appearance was familiar, but
her costume was some new creation of the
ladies' tailor His majesty and his COM
panions were charmed with her appearance,
and while continuing to walk kept their
faces turned in the direction of the lady.
All of sudden the king bumped up against
O huge elm tree with such force that he
'saw stars" Chagrined and angry, he de-
manded of the general In chief OF the Swed-
ish forces. Sven Lagerberg, why he had not
warned him.
Because" said the general, I'VE were
looking at the same attraction as your
majesty"
The lady In question proved to be no other
than the well-known Swedish actress, Mrs.
Ellenr Hartman. She is no doubt handsome
and an artist, but she has given Stockholm
any quantity of material for gossip.
It was about six years ago that Mrs.
Hartman fascinated Count Reinhold Won
Rosen, at that time of the greatest
CdIcne9 IN the Whole OF 5WeQCU. 1n6lf
affection took ON such fervor that they
were ready to marry. Now, Count Rein
hold Is a member of the Swedish horse
guards, the smartest regiment in Sweden,
and to have its lieutenant unite himself
with the tickle Mrs. Hartman would have
been a disgrace to the famous military or
ganization. Every influence was invoked to
prevent their union. The king himself was
anxious lest the young and dashing Rein
hold should be allowed to marry beneath
his station. The pair were determined,
however, and sped to England, there to be
united.
Renhold has brother In Stockholm,
Count Clarence Won Rosen. Anything he
sets out to accomplish is as good as done.
He had decreed that his brother should
never disgrace the family of Won Rosen.
and by the next steamer he set out for
the loving pair. His arrival in London was
only some twelve hours after the lovesiek
couple. What arguments he used or in
what manner he laid down the law to Count
Renhold Is unknown. 1t Is known that the
two brothers started home the next day,
and that the pretty actress is still Mrs.
Hartman. Count Reinhold Won Rosen has
since married, and his wife, formerly
Countess Horn, shows every evidence OF
being exceedingly happy. The Count Ro-
sens mother, by the way, was an American
lady from Philadelphia, Miss Moore, but
her life was sadly finished Insanity fas-
tened itself upon her, and death came to
her relief about eight years ago.
The social season is now almost past in
Bcrlin with the on exception of entertain
ments, public and private, of which tab
leaux vivants form the staple Such rep
reservations have been specially in vogue
the whole winter, due in large measure to
the fact that they have been encouraged
in every possible way by the imperial
couple True, the empress has not been in
her usual health. Her nerves, which form
eriy allowed her to undergo with perfect
IMMUNITY an amount of social duties which
would have quite broken less robust wo-
man, have at last begun to rebel and this,
added to the fact that the lingering attack
of influenza which overlook her early IN the
season and from which she has not entirety
recovered makes it probable that she VAL
never again be quite her old self But she
and the emperor have, nevertheless en-
loved themselves greatly, especially on all
occasions when pantomimes, amateur the
atricals and tableaux vivants have been the
feature Some Of the recent charity per-
formances, at which only tadles ana gem
tlemen of the highest court circles were the
performers, were graced by the presence OF
the imperial couple.
One of the deftest hits Of fattery admin
istered TO the emperor and his consort on
the last of these occasions, a few days ago,
was a series of charming pictures presented
at the Neues theater by sixty or seventy
of the members of the highest arfstocracy'
each of which represented some event Ia
the ten years reign of the present empror'
winding I'D with kaleidoscope view OF the
c,aoasaJIee avenue of Victory In the Their
garten). showing the emperor's double row
of ancestral statues as they will look when
tbe dozen sculptors have completed tneir
task The sight was extremely oeautIui'
the soft electric light bringing out IN me
relief the heroic outlines of this two-score
carrara marble figures, with the stately
column of Victory Cushioned out OF the
bronze cannon taken during the three sue
cessful campaigns Of 1854, 1866 and 1S7O-7D
rising in the distance. This ancestral gall
lerv in marble is one of the hobbies of the
emperor. and 1t will cost him, within the
three years that 1t will take to have them
all in place, from the first Brandenburg
margrave, Albrecht the Bear, to emperor
william L, about 100000 marks, all out OK
his private means-certainly an imperial
gift to the city.
TT is known to very few that the present
wife of the feted tenor of the Munich royal
OPERA Brucks, has diary in her keeping
which tells with the minutest details and
quite authortatively the mysterious story
of the death of Crown Prince Rudolph or
Austria and Baroness Vetsera. The wife
of this noted singer was, until ABOUT year
ago. Countess Larsch, member OF the
highest Austrian nobility, who was IL
yorced in order to follow the dictates of her
heart and marry the handsome and fas-
chatting tenor. In her former capacity as
lady-in-waiting to the Crown Princess
Stephanie, she was a witness to all the
stages of that domestic drama which ended
SO terribly, and her diary gives, day by day,
the gradual development OF II. Slncs
Countess Larisch has become the wife OF
iow-born opera singer and has ceased to
be an Austrian subject, many offers have
been made to her and her husband to sell
this diary, and among these offers, as
harpen to know, was one from the owner
of a large American newspaper, the sum
being 150, coo marks or about $36,ooo
II may have been noticed. by the way,
thai Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
few tays ago again formally appointed the
Archduke Francis Ferdinand his successor.
after the lstter's younger brother, Areh.
duke Otto, for time had been Recognized
as the heir-apparent, on account OF the
strong symptoms of consumption which
Archduke Francis had exhibited. The lat