The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-09

brilliant color. She likes to wear great
dark Rembrandt hat with waving plumes.
and one or two Of the balls to be held at
the chancellory the coming winter viii
be in costume.
Countess Won Bulow is today one Of the
most fascinating women Of Germany.
and as most people know her only IN
evening dress absurd ideas concerning
her age are a1Oat
This grand dame, who has a daughter,
Countess Eugene Doenhof, Of thirty-two
and whose son Siegfrled is a captain Of
horse, usually passes for a woman Of
forty
No impudent crows foot ever threatened
to disturb the serenity Of her ladyship's
face. She rides, drives. plays and hunts
with the vivacity of young lady, yet
the birth register OF her native village,
AltaviIle, near Palmero, says she was
born February 6, 1894.
According TO the fashion OF her coun-
try the second lady in the empire re-
tains her maiden name Of Princess di
/ CamporeaIe-a title she can well support
out of the revenues Of her marquisate Of
/ Altaine Sicily.
This winter her grace promises to show
Berlin what a clever woman can do in the
position she holds.
Under Won Bulow's predecessors the
grand old palace on Wilhelm strasse had
ceased to be a resort Of fashion Nine
Bismarck was parsimonious, Caprivi was
a bachelor with the taste Of a sub-lieu-
tenant old Princess Hohenlohe enter
I tanned in her own country seats, but
never in a 'shop-keeping" city as she
used to put it.
It viii be all different now. Count Won
Bulow has twice the salary and perhaps
FIVE times the private income Prince
( Bismarck enjoyed; he is youth COM
pared with Hohenlohe, and his wife IS as
much Of a grand dame as the late prin-
cess and as his conception Of ohce-hold-
ing is to do the imperial masters will.
he never worries. never poses and has
time for society.
List used to call the princess his fav-
orite pupil and the finest amateur pianist
Of Europe. Her music room is a museum
filed with "reminiscences Of the Gypsy
Able
Look" she said, not long ago, point
ing to a large crayon. "this represents
AUersberg in Vienna. 1885. I had then for
the first time consented to play in public:
Of course, only the aristocracy was ad-
mitted, ana they paid fabulous prices
I believe some 5000 forms were real
lied for the benefit of the poor"
The artist has depicted List and the
princess at the piano-the maestro play
ing the bass to her grace's air. List
seems pleased 10y his partner for his
long silvery name is thrown back and
his eyes afTe with the pleasure art gaze
him
tt is easy to believe that his pupil was
then the reigning beauty of Vienna, home
of fine women.
But no, she wasn't beautiful, OF at least
not exactly beautiful-yve have great
1Iskarts word for that
Marie ma Is fascinating" he wrote;
Ito call her beautiful would Zoe too much
and yet not enough. The man who called
her pretty would thrash. Her figure is
eXqusiteiy alluring. at once petite and
full, while her slenderness is Offset by
the glow Of health. Her complexion is
perfect and her dark eyes are fun Of in
teliEence. tenderness and fire."
Critics say that LISTS estimate Of her
art holds good even now. But while
thorough mistress Of her instrument she
is stiu subject to stage fright I have
often seen her tug nervously at her glove
for five minutes in advance of the perfor-
nance.
When finally she steps to the piano she
tears off her gloves with wild energy.
As soon as her fingers touch the ivorles
self-Dossession returns.
THE chanceuory palace" she said.
''abounds in quaint musical memories.
La Barbarina, the only woman whom
the great Frederick ever loved. resided
there, and the king often assembled his
select players for the evenings concert
in the music room.
after her death Frederick William
the Second bought the palace for his
wife. and while Princess Royal Queen
Louise often attended musicaIes and phi
vate theauicals here"
There isn't much in the palace though
besides memories. The furnishings are
scant and out Of date, as the greater
part was bought at auction in the French
embassy thirty years ago
Think of the chancellor Of the German
empire stretching his legs under a table
discarded by the French Republic! The
emneror himself has ~ do tbs+ VIZ, bs
dimes with his cbaDoo11or
Bismarck resented the indignitv. and
one fine dav. while in . rara sr,,s5,s5
the whole crookerv ou+a+
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ture in the lofts and replace It by her
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