The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-19
MADE THE PRINCESS HAPPY
New York WORLDLY


Nc maiden in Bavaria was sadder
tnan Princess Clara, the only unmar-
ried daughter of H r. H. AmaIia, prin-
cess of Bavaria and infanta of Spain
The royal castle of Nymphenburg was
a prison to her. Love was shut out of
her life Her mother carried piety to
the point of fanaticism and family
pride to the point of mania.
One meal a day was all the widowed
princess could be induced to eat Twelve
hours each day she spent on her knees
in prayer. One hundred times every
year she made a pilgrimage on foot, in
peasants garb, TO some sacred shrine
Princess Clara was compelled to &C
company her on these tramps.
No opera for her, no theatre. no dane
ing, no driving-above all, no love max
ing Her two elder sisters had escaped
by marriage; her two brothers had
been taken away for a military train
ing by orders of the prince regent
She was not beautiful and she did
not think so. Indeed, among friends
she proclaimed herself the ugliest
woman in Bavaria" Some years ago,
when th9 portrait painter Lenbach
went to Nymphenburg to make a
! study of her, she came near boxing his
ears.
/ But she was really not SO bad look
/ ing. Irregular as her features were. II
was good to look upon her face me
! deep-sH eyes, with all theiE nel IAN,
/ chOly. Hooked as if they would be gay
/ if they could, and the mouth reminded
one of a half-opened flower imbedded
in ice.
She was very slender and her atti-
tude was one of perpetual fatigue
One powerful friend she had, Pope
Leo. much as he was gratified by the
mothers piety, was touched py the
daughters joyless youth, and mad CIV
en- Princess Clara much fatherly COM
fort.
To the pope, then, feeling her youth
] slipping away forever. and even heI
/ health in danger, she wrote plteous
appeal.
He issued letters patent appointing
Princess Clara abbess of the royal con-
vent of the Danes of St. Ann at Wurz-
burg.
Nothing could have been more deli
cate The compliment to her uausnCeL
pleased Amalia. As for Princess clara
the appointment took her out OF hei
mothers power and gave her income
dignity and authority Most lmpoTt-
ant of all, it did not compel her TO tahe
vows of celibacy-for the aboess OF th'
Danes of st. Ann is privileged per
son who. if she takes it into her head
to get married. has only TO resign dne
ask for the pope's blessing
4. s. q
Baron Cramer-Klett was reckoneo
plebian-which shows that titles oon
count for anything. His faIner' 1T
II Theodore Cramer, had been PartheI -
Kletts railway carriage ana ShsIii
works, and by marrying klett uduSn
ter had become master of the concern eIn
Wherefore his son, the child OF SCI
ond wife of lowly birth, was the rIc 5ll
est man in Bavaria. His fortune wa
: quoted at 100. 900, 600 marks
King Ludwig, who had poTIoMeu
million from DIR. Cramer, mace nm MN
baron. The son was made hereul "a
councillor. His home, the PalaIs -, - q
mer. was the finest private resloelio
t in Munich.
f Baron Cramer-KIett did not car car
about business He loved the a. = =
t When he met the royal abbess Oh III
convent of st. Ann he learned ~ io'
: her. - 11.,-
; They were the same ago. ~,
cess Clara had not long been Ilitlls ~ =
with society when she was IN ~
2 the Palais Cramer. She had Deen ~ ~,
: that these people were parVehu:tSIs' ~
: when she came face to face Win
courtly young baron and ms So 80
t mother she realized that her own LoSss
of breeding differed from her Hloeii0i