The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-06-02

Poof. Ii was gone with the bead Ut
the sparkling champagne. AMI
with the sheer anu the crink!c OF
the fine silks and satins.
WRITTEN FOR THE I'M
The Princess dc Chimay has been official
" and legally declared a spendthrift. incom-
pctent to manage the expenditure of her
vast income.
The Chicago Probate Court has made the
declaration and has appointed as the guard
ian OF the Princess her stanch. hard-hcad-
cd uncle. Thomas r. Lyon.
1t will henceforth devolve upon Mr.. Lyon
to so order her Expenditures that inroads
upon the principal of her fortune may
cease and the opportunities Of creditors
may not again be heard.
Mr.. Lyon asked that this step be taken
and. in doing so. he was joined by the
Princess. She formally admitted that her
uncle was r~ight-that she was incompetent
to have jurisdiction over her own monetary
affairs.
Queer woman-this Princess de Chimay-
Clara de Riquet, she Is now. wife of a
Gypsy musician. Beautiful as a poets
dream. gracious as a novelist's Queen. bril-
liant as a spring-time sun-and as extrava-
CANT as Elizabeth and cratic as Cleopatra.
She was Clara Ward eleven years ago
at the time when she was the toast of all
Europe because of her beauty. her Wit and
her riches. Then she m-arried-married a
Belgian Prince who had a noble name and
an ignoble reputation. Nine. Grundy-who
talks much and sometimes talks truly
ro1loI hop ~vou ~fsop,r ond ~hfcnorod he
hind her fan: "Lackaday! The American
Princess will not be happy! For they do
say"
And verify the American Princess was not
happy. Her friends-yery loyal persons. her
friends-say the fault was her husbands.
First. he was fourteen years her senior.
and his ideas Of life were not hers. They
say he tired Of his beautiful bride before
the honeymoon had fully waned. They say
he sought variety. And hey say that he
was ungracious. cruel and-which Is the
worst ofense Ia a woman's ~eyes-in-
different. They say that there was no love
for the American Princess in the heart Of
this Belgian P~rince-not even after her
daughter was born, = year after their mar
rage. nor even after her son, born two
years later. began to b,irk u. wordrous
eyes at the funny things of this big world.
They say these things. but perhaps they
are not all true. Perhaps the fault was not
all with the man, despite that horribly
condemning thing. his previous reputation.
But that II by-the-by. Whosesoever the
fault, the Princess grew boldly reckless.
She became madly extravagant. and her
generous income went on rapid wings. Two
million dollars had been her marriage dot
two millions Of sound American money.
nA ia
sparkling champagne. and with the sheen
and the crinkle Of the fine silks and satins,
People said the Princess-who was still a
beautiful Princess. with . complexion Of
down and roses. features as daintily CHS
eled as though the hand of an old Greek
master had carved them, and q form which
told Of Venus in its round symmetry and
of Diana IN its wondrous grace-peoples said
the Princess was mad.
Nine. Grundy. still wise and gossipy.
said-wel. what Mime. Grundy is always
saying Of greatly attractive women, wheth-
er It b true or false.
And then the Prince who was the hus-
band Of the Princes killed a Prince who
was-not her husband. Prince Baldwin of
Belgium he was-handsome. dashing, warm
blooded. The avenger follows such men
when they meet women who are beautiful
and married lovelessly.
To Belgium there came a Gypsy-hunch-
back, swarthy. small Of stature, weak Of
body. They said his name was Rigo-Jancsi
Rig And with him he brought a violin
q thing Of wood and strings and nothing
else until the Gypsy drew his bow across
\ It. Then
They tell OF angel songs and Of music
that pictures the heart and its passions; OF
strains that carry the cadence Of the rip
ping brook and follow 1t through meadow
ana mountain and marsh to the sea: of
measures that mark the stages OF the soul
from birth to passage into its eternity: OF
tones that thrill with their echo of bat
tie and storm-that wall with the lost and