Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-10-22
The Love TRAGEDIES
Or Two
Beautiful Women

'NNNiN " nut SUN uecpt TINS " part
OF n popular iocutlon. but innsmuch as
people do not generally sit In their
bones. beauty goes Tor a great deal
Rennn. one Of the plainest mon. praotl-
cally said that beautiful woman might
play the deuce with everything and ev-
cfybody around her and stu none
would say her nay. Two Of the most
beautiful women In Europe were the
empress of Austria AMI the empress u
the French. And heaven alone knows
what fatal slit IL has been 20 them.
But for her beauty. Napoleon III would
not have married Eugcnic de Montiio.
II is not dopreciatlng the cN-cmprcHs aa
a woman 90 say this. n Louie Napoleon
had never seen the beautiful spanish
rirl he would have married some plain
German princess In spite % the fcbuns
he received at nrst from the various
courts ~ Europe when he asked them
to provide him with a conrort nut with
his heart ana mind set upon the Coun-
tess dc Thcba'a daughter. he was rather
glai than otherwise ~ the rchuna. ana
pursued his matrimonial requests no
further. after all. sire. you'll have a
wife whom you'il kiss because you'n
like kissing her not because you are
Obliged" said one u his clcverest coun-
sellers 10 him. and the emperor win
that aphinNliko smile N hia nodded as
sent You are risht. Dupln," he said.
But for her beauty Nile. De Montiio
might nay would. have married a man.
good. bad or Indifferent, but less cNalt-
ed In station. and the Joys and sorrows
that fali 20 the share Of all Of uH would
| have been lees poignant for though she
might have lost both her husband and
her son. time. that heals all wounds.
would have healed hers. nut the high
est branches shake the most. and the
worlds tragedies In their intcnHcut de-
volopmcnta are always enacted BY those
who stand above the crowds.
But TOT her marvellous beauty, Eliza
beth Of bavaria would have probably
escaped the notice OF her cousin. the
then young emperor of Austria, whose
/ troth was practically. II not nomlnnlly.
/ pledged 60 some one else. II was love
/ match. at any rate on one side. Hut no
/ young princess declines the hand of an
emperor such na Francis Joseph was
then and ns distinct from what Louis
| Napoleon was u years before.
Never not among the most romantic
Of the romantic middle claaHea-for u ID
a libel 10 say that middle class young
people are not romanuc-wnH young
follow 10 much In love with his nanccc
NJ was Francis Joseph with his i6-ycar-
Old bride. The stald. dcmure and sober
courticrs Of tho then most buokram
court Of Europe were positively shock
| cd" nt tho Indifference 10 all etiquette
the young sovereign displayed. At the
nrrt state dinner Princess Elizabeth.
contrary 10 custom, took on her gloves.
An elderly court lady remarked quiet.
~ upon Il 90 tho young nancc. why
notg' he asked. because Il n "a doyla-
ton from all the rules" was the an
awcr. Then let the deviation hence
forth b. the rule" was the rctort. And
not that deviation only, but many more
hrnccfofth became the rule, because the
now empress was not an ordinary prin'
cess. She was clever and accomplished
In the highest sense of the word. And
her viii was law, Men. even cmrerora
Will be men. and a man may be head
over ears In love with hts wife and atlll
De tempted. A woman Of Empress Ella
nhcth's character does not easily forgivs
an lnhdclily,
That was the beginning Of the traE-
edy. which. though partly hidden from
the world. dragged It's terrible length
along for more than 20 years. the huH'
band ropentnnt ~ no husband ever was
the wife unrclcntinE. though uniformly
kind 70 the sinner. willing TO forget. yet
not 20 forgive. and roaming through
Europe and elsewhere by herself. Hut
Tor that voluntary roaming and delib'
crate aeclualon the assassin could not
have come near enough TO execute his
feli design. Peace be 20 Elizabeth OF
Austrla'H nahoHi SIZE has gone 60 reJoin,
perhaps. the son and brothcr-in-law,
both Of whom she loved 10 well. and
parhnpa her death was a happy release
fOr NE had nothing 20 offer, had had
nothing 10 offer since the terrible trag-
oiy vi MnyrrlinF The one who suffers
! most ia tho lonely old sovereign at HOf.