The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05

not their minds in common, but their fate.
Most people are unhappy because they re-
fuse TO comply with necessity. If we can
not be happy in our own way we must
take to loving our trials. That alone gives
peace, and peace is the beautiful
earth. Beauty is the cause and end of all
things"
On Faithless Wives.
Then she said: People ask why women
are faithless to their husbands. 1t is very
simple: Because they MUST be faithful.
The law makes them wish to transgress
1t. And, by the way, love has wings to fly
away with She warned Christomanos
of some persons at court, and when he
protested that surely all were devoted she
said: "Oh, yes; people are devoted to the
Empress. Perhaps 1 should thank God
for having made me an Empressl Where
should | be if L were something else?
People love me because they are some
thing through me-" When Christomanos
told her he had seen her sister, the
Duchess of Alencon, in Innsbruck, she
asked: Did you see her big dog? Whom
did you think handsomer-herself or her
dog? She would never forgive you If you
did not admire her dog"
Once Christomanos found her dressed
for drive, in a black faille dress
hemmed with ostrich feathers hanging
from the rings of her gymnastic appa-
ratus. He says she looked like bird
jump over a rope. She explained that
she had to receive some archduchesses
they knew 1 had done gymnastics in this
dress she said, they would freeze to
Ice" While out walking they talked of
jones. Jones' She said: "These are souls who
have been in the world before, and have
come back to dream the dreams of men
When she showed Christomanos her
collection of horse portraits she said:
"See. these are all friends have lost,
and L have no new, ones. Many OF them
have suffered death for me-a thing no
man would do; rather they would muir
der me-.
Disliked Adulation.
Christomanos expressed surprise that
she could walk for many hours without
tiring. She said: ST and my sisters owe
as "a high art, and had US taught by
special master. My sisters, the Duchess
famous for their walking in Paris. But
we none of us walk as Queens should
walk. The Bourbons, all of them. who
scarcely ever tread the ground out of
doors, have taught themselves peculiar
walk-the walk of proud geese. They
walk like true Kings"
ecstatic praise seriously. When he
insisted that she was the. magician be-
fore whom tree and flower lower bowed % and and the
said: 'tWhy, it is the rattle that makes
the wild boar turn and run Besides, he
would not eat you; he prefers truft1es."
When he declaimed upon the sweet odor
of the lemon trees in Corfu she said:
'.And yet the lemons are. sour!" And
when in Miramar he went crazy over the
sunset and asked her to see how the
pines, bathed in gold and purple curtains,
hung the sky, she answered with a verse
from her favorite poet, Heine. to the ef-
feet that he might keep heart, for it was
an old story that the sun went Town on
one side and came up again on the other.
Her Confessions of Faith.
at vowed my palace should be sacred to
AL; ba 'thaPanSp no
fies the Greek soul to me and the beauty
of man and of the land. l love him be-
cause his feet were so fleet He was
strong and defiant and despised kings
and traditions and thought nothing of the
masses of men, but considered them good
enough to be mown by the hand of death
like the fields of corn. He believed moth
ing to be sacred but his own will and
lived alone in his dreams, and his sadness
was more to him than all his strong life."
There was confession of faith.