The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-28
Love for H0nors
How Bismarck's Man Gave Up His
Wife and Got Her Back Again.

correspondence of the Sunday World.
Berlin, Oct. SI-Divorced for stat
reasons, remarked for love, and now il
/. her old age the object Of unique sacri
flee, Countess Paul Hatfield has exper
4enced at once more suffering and NOR
.nonor than fall to the let of most Amert
can wives of titled husbands.
In order to devote mis- remaining year,
&c her whom the iron Will of Bismarck
fstced him to renounce Count Paul HAITI
ffldt has resiged his post of ambassador
. the court Of St James, it is reported
end closed a diplomatic career which ha.
lad few equals in the latter half of thI:
century.
One precedent for the first part Of The
tory come readily to mind-the case Of
'rince Jerome Bonaparte. who was COM
7elled by his imperial brother, Napoleon
+, to divorce his first wife, Miss Patter-
On of Baltimore. But that unhappy
ady was not destined to receive the
ssndid triumph wherewith Countess
fatzfeldt has been rewarded for her
0yalty and patience.
She was born in New York nearly fifty
ears ago. Her father fas Charles Fred
rick Moulton, a successful real estate
peculator. Her mother before marriage
lad been an actress, Cesarina Metz. She
vas the daughter of julius Metz, IA
nous musician.
When the daughter, Helena, was about
ten years old, the family went to Paris
and there made its home Charles Morl-
+, ton became associated with Baron Hauss-
mann, who built the boulevards and
TRANSPORTED Paris, and was swept high
on the tide of sudden wealth which mark
p ed that wild era Of speculation,
The American financier, his wife, his
daughter and his son Charles were
thrown into the mos texalted society Of
the empire. The son married a Boston
girl. Miss Lille Greenough. who en-
HANGED the distinction of the Moulton
family with her vocal and other accom-
plishments. She became a favorite of
the emperor and empress, and frequent
~ sang at the Tuileries and Versailles.
Widowed ten years ago, she returned to
America and became the wife Of Baron
Won Hageman the Danish Minister at
Washington.
Henelna Moulton meanwhile wa eearn-
ing social triumphs of her own. At the
age Of seventeen her graceful skating
on the iake in the Bots de Boulogne at
tTacted the notice of the Empress Eu-
genie, herself the acknowledged paragon
of femme graces. Admiration developed
into acquaintance, and Acquaintance into
warm friendship. The American girl
became welcome guest at court.
1t was there she met Count Hatzfeldt
secretary to the Prussian ambassador
The ambassador was Prince Otto Won
bismarck, in whose massive head big
1deas were brewing.
;, Count Hatfield was nearly twenty
years Miss Moulton's senior. but he was
under forty, and age had dealt lightly
with him. He was the son fthat Coun-
tess ophie Won Hatzfeldt who loved Fer
dinand Lassalle, founder of the Social
Democratic movement in Germany.
Out of their association grew some Of
the most romantic incidents of Prussian
politics. She supplied the funds for his
defense when he was arraigned for
preaching sedition. and on his death she
became the chief apostle of his creed.
Her son entered the diplomatic service
and soon attracted the attention Of |
Prince Bismarck, who formed a high |
opinion Of his intelligence, fidelity and |
and rewarded him by working
him like a galley slave. |
Miss Moulton returned the affection |
which Count Hatzfeldt made known to |
her, and they were married with every |
of grandeur.
Count HatzfeIdt was Bismarck's right |
hand man during the stirring events in |
cident TO the Franco-Prussan war and |
the unifcation of Germany. He was re-
warded in 1874 with the appointment Of |
Minister TO Spain. It was a stormy, |
time in Spanish politics, and |
the Count, profiting by his long train
ing under Bismarck, acquitted himself |
well.
Soon after the signing Of the treaty of |
Berlin he was despatched to CONSTANT
NOBLE with the special mission of nurs-
ing the ascendency which Germany had |
acquired in the affairs of the Turkish
Empire. Again he covered himself with
diplomatic glory.
Throughout this part of his career the
the count was greatly aided by the tai
snts of his wife who with the adapta-
5ility Of her sex and country, had de-
yefoped social and diplomatic qualities of
The highest order.
But a change was coming, difficult of
to an American who has
7ot studied the intricacies of European
court life. And what follows is well
worth the attention of American girls
threatened with titles.
Countess Hatzfeldt had often found
herself not only ranked on official oc-
,asions many degrees beneath her hus-
,and. but even barred out from func-
ions at which he was an honored guest.
She had grown accustomed to that sort
# thing; perhaps her robust American
sense of humor mitigated the sting Of
/. But the worst was to come.
bismarck desired his protege, HatZ-
eIdt TO go into harness at home. and
,ressed upon him the laborious post of
oreign secretary
As Foreign Secretary Hatzfeldt would
Va a parsonage of consequence at court
nd it was necessary that he should be
acceptable to royalty. It was necessary
lso that his wife should he acceptable.
But alas! Princess Hatzfeldt was the
laughter of an actress. And whatever
he males of the royal line of Germany
cav think Of actresses, the Empress
augusta was even more severe in her
ttitude toward the Countess Hatzfeldt
han she was toward any wife who, be-
NO an American. was not high we'll
orn' in Germany.
Before he continued his career Bis
,srck told Count Hatzfeldt that he must
ivorce the countess.
Something still more difficult for
americans TO understand is that the
oi,nt should have yielded to such de-
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