The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-04
|LOVE THAT WAS
N HER BLOOD
Crown Princess of Saxony
Got 1t From the HaDsburgs.
THEY HAVE THEIR WAY
In Affairs of the Heart in Spite
of Court Laws.
THEY HAVE THEIR WAY

Strongly Bourbon though her blood is.
the runaway wife OF the heir-apparent OF
| the kingdom OF Szxony is yet TO be re-
! garded "a one of the unhappy Hapsburgs
Through father and grandfather her de-
scent is direct from Ferdinand III OF
Tuscany, who was son OF Emperor Leo
pold II. OF Austria This makes her
great-great-g ra nddaughter OF the found
er OF the present dynasty. Maria Theresa
Her line has been untouched BIZ the luna
cies communicated to imperial blood by
intermarriage with the WitteIbaehs OF
Bavaria But the mere fusion OF Bour-
bon and Hapsburg has itself often
brought strange issue. with impulsive
tendencies toward something else than
being merely a royal parsonage with
an expectation of one day rising TO the
throne.
Men as well as women have renounc-
ed their rights to place ana precedence
to become civil subjects-one archduke
even took himself TO South America and
disappeared among the people. and is
supposed to be there still, or, perhaps.
here in the United States. living his own
two sorts of Hapsburss, those devoted
10 the rigid old usages and those who.
desperately in revolt. threw themselves
against all that was fixed and ordained.
Francis Josephs mother gave indication
o. the feeling OF the first when she up
raided the Empress Elizabeth for beg
ging to be allowed 10 take care OF her
own child for the consolation OF the
simple human duties of maternity:
Why exclaimed the Archduchess.
you have one of the grandest positions
in the world. and jewels riches than those
OF any other queen-what other eonsoia-
ton do you need %
Stamboulon was shockingiy murdered,
and Bulgaria was lost 10 Ferdinand
through the insistence OF his eonsort.
Marie Louise OF Austria (ominous naniel.
upon the preservation OF the niceties OF
the court etiquette she had been brought
up to- That unfortunate minister was
sighted by her simply because like his
own people StamboulOff lacked some OF
the conventional graces OF demeanor and
aeportment Powerful though lie was
With the Governments, the fact Was ne
elected: consequently all other powers
were aIienated through her tactless ex-
azgeration in approaching him or his ap-
preaching her. or in approaching Ferdi-
rand Like Marie Louise of Bourbon.
who had married Napoleon at critical
moment and then deserted him when
ne was sent 20 St Helena-not even writ
ing to him. but turning from the fore
most soldier of his time IL not or all
time. 10 such insignificant persons as
Count Neipperg. and later Count &c
Bombelles. of the Austrian army-FeT-
dinand's Austrian wife was not bless
ing In most of the Austrian archduch-
esses the idea of family. Of aristccracy.
OF etiquette. of the distinction Of blood
was uppermost rs one OF them re-
marked to the British Ambassador who
innocently inquired whether his VISA
Wis knew a certain writer and phil0so-
pher: My dear sir. you are speaking
OF another world.
1t was preferable for Napoieons vile
to come home from the most brilliant
court in Europe. after its demolition.
and view the festivities of the court q
Vienna from behind a curtain, or from
the attic by means Of hole in the
ceiling. than to violate one OF the sane
titled customs Yet OF the other hand
there were princesses and princes OF the
same Hapsburg- Bourbon family ready TO
grant themselves in marriage 20 the most
outrageous petty royalties OF Europe and
then. when they found the human nature
forming in their hearts TO burst away
REGARDLESS OF church and state and pub
81. Fass
been more courageous that the women
in this-as may be natural The revolt
was sometimes due to love, the kind Of
love celebrated BY novelists and b poets
Even Francis Joseph. SO the partisan
courtiers represented. made the lie Of
his cold. unIiked Empress 4 rnartyrdon
before IL was ended four years aS0 b.
the knife OF an anarchist
Three years aftsrwsrd. according 10
public reports. the Austrian Emperor
married, norzanatiealiy. Frau Rather
inc schrztt OF the Vienna stage. AMI
had her previous marriage with Baron
Kisch annuIled therefor. This vas the
Frau schratt who used to make long
journeys to carry in person to the En-
press the first violets Of sprizztiu.e-
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re=x, Taackeray would have been glad
to show X Up Then :hsrs was Arch
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