The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-23

She felt most respondent over the ap
preaching interview, saying. with m.
broken wing, how can succeed" He
ladies tried to comfort her while. helpin,
her TO don her court robes. but whel
all was completed she said she felt Xix
a victim arrayed for the sacrifice
Having determined, however, to do he
best, she exerted herself at the banque
TO placate Napoleon, alluding mos
tactfully to the gracious qualities of tn,
Empress Josephine. At first Napoleon
seemed quite touched by the appealing
charm of the young queen, SO much 81
that Talleyrand slyly asked his mastel
1 If he expected the tears of one beauti
4 full woman to wash away the blood O
the thousands of soldiers Of FEence
Undaunted by her hosts guarded snub
! bling, she persisted in her efforts t,
charm him, although her husband, see
ing that her pains mus be unavaiiing
sat by taciturn and moody. Upon leav.
ing she said, by way of a last appeal
Sire, hope that after making the ac-
quafntance of THE hero OF the century
you will permit me to remember in vol
the generous conqueTor as we'll as The
man of genius. Napoleon silently
kissed her hand and, bowling to TIT
| King, left the room. Once removed
| from the magnetism of her presence
his old habit of crushing all womer
who were not disposed for filtration
returned him; and we find among his
recently published letters the following
to Josephine: The queen of Prussia Is
really charming woman; she is fond
of coquetting with me, but do not be
! Jealous, for / am like cerecloth, of
l which everything slides. 1t would cost
me too dear to play the gallant in this
| matter
Napoleon having taken across the
| Rhine with him the fealty and wealth.
J of the petty German States the royal
| family We're at liberty to return to their
| Berlin palace, which they felt had been
| desecrated by his mere presence. Six
teen years to day from her appear
| ance there as a care-free, joyous bride,
she pauseS at the Inter den Linden,
gazing with tears upon the Pcpulace
with and for whom she has suffered
Mental distress, the birth of ten chill
dren and the fatal pangs of that dis
ease which in a few morttaS was TO cut
her down in the dawn of her prime Of
life had traced their fateful handWrlt-
ing upon her countenance.
She was buoyed up, however, by the
hope that the ultimate triumph OF
Prussia was not far distant IN a let
ter to her father she writes: I'VE have
slumbered en- the laurels of Frederick
the Great, who, as the master spirit of
another century, created a new era. We
have not progressed with it and it has
outsEripped us. Ut would be blaSphemy
to say that God has been with Napo-
leon, but apparently he is an instru-
ment in the hands of the Almighty to
lop off the branches that no longer have
vitality, but which have grown up and
become identified with the STEM" Bryce
but paraphrases her solution when he
writes today: "Napoleon's mission was
to break UP in Germany and italy the
abominable system of petty states, TO
reawaken the spirit of the people, to
sweep away the relics of an effelte feu-
daliSm and to leave the ground clear
for the growth of newer and better
forms of political life
Home again in Berlin the longing to
visit for the first time since her mar
riage her native town came over her
most strongly, and 1T was with great
delight that she discovered that her
husband had made all preparations for
her journey tIhither. At first the ex-
element of seeing the many dear. IA
miliar haunts and faces greatly stimu-
lated her. But in a short time one of
her old attacks came en-, growing more
and more unbearable, SO that her con-
slant cry after her fearful struggles
for breath was: Lord Jesus, shorten
my sufferingsi"-a prayer which was
soon meTcifully granted. She literally
died of q broken heart, crushed between
the wide-spreading branches of poly
pus which had grown into it, a sad leg
acy of cancer which she transmitted to
her grandson, the late Emperor F'rede- |
rick. Although she died in June 1t
was not until the following Christmas
eve, seventeen years after her bridal
entry into Berlin. that her funeral cor
tege passed mournfully down the I'm |
ter den Linden. Il
In this iconoclastic age, when the
mallet of the facit-seeker has. demol- I
ished almost all our good old legend :
airy images, it seems strange that
Louisa's commence remains unqueS- i
toned over the royal women eff Prussia /
The royal brides of Prussia still wear !
the cornfiower, the favorite blossom OF
her whom they exitrava g'antly call The /
angel fair and the angel queen, Loui-
sa,' as well as the order of Louisa Ga
cross CT gold on black and white RIB
bon). Such devotion after the lapse of
nearly a century seems to our indie
pendent American minds to be border
ing on idolatrous sentiment until we
stop to consider the paternal desDotism
under which the bondaged Prus-
slams lived before Louisa's day. They
were mother hungry till she came, the
first sympathetic, true mother of her
country"
Louisa's portraits are not beautiful in
the ordinary acceptaition of the word.
Their chief charm lies in their express
sion of intellectual aleTtness, their ma
iestic poise and their power Of convey
ng to us the knowledge that while she
was by no means the absolutely perfect
Louisa was nevertheless a
who thoroughly unders tcod her
self and whose sympathetic 1umanness
and abundant good spirits made her
Seenly alive to the joy of living. Prob
ibly the most popular pictures in Ger
many are those which represent her
With her two sons. Louisa made them
swear as children to avenge the wrongs
If the fatherland, saying on her death
Jed that she had not lived in vain since
he had given birth to those who should
achieve the triumph she could not live
o see. 1t was proud and solemn mo-
nent for her son William when, upon
lis return across the Rhine not only
ting of Prussia but emperor of unified
Germany, he made it his first duty to
,lace laurel wreath upon his mothers
omb, as a tribute" he said, ito her
whose immortal spirit had lowered
'yer the banners of united Germany
nd led them on to victory"
One of Rauch's statues of Louisa
tands in the park at Charlottenburg.
n which are cultivated her favorite
lowers, which are picked and used to
rim this statue the 10th Of every
Iarch, upon her birthday.
Noto-uOuoap, Uicto ,.ig,v will ba tho