The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-17
ROMANTIC ROYALTY
ANTJcEDENTs OF THE ERRANT
 (RowN PRINCE LOUISE.
A Family Torn by Antithetical Ideals -rhe Scornful and Humble
 and Others Intolerant.

NeR York Evening Post.
 strongly Bourbon though her blood IS. th runaway wife of the heir-apparent or fie Kingdom of Saxony Is yet to be re- xsrded as one of the unhappy Hapsourgs. Through her father and grandfather her ascent is direct from Ferdinand III. or Tuscany, who was son of Emperor Leo t0Id II. of Austria. This makes her great-great-granddaug of the r0uno- CT of the present dynasty, Maria Ther- ese Her line has been untouched by the ese Her line has been untouched by lun- aciet communicated to imperial blood oy intemarriage with the Wittelbachs or ba- varil. But the mere fusion Of Bouroon and HapsburE has itself often brought strange issue, with impulsive tendencies towtrd something else than being merely a rwal. personaEe with an expectation or
 Mn as we'll as women have renounced ttNr rights to plaGei and precedence to beulrn~ civil subjes As-one archduke. even toux hirHelf to Sou tn America and dis Mpbeared am0R the people. and is sup In the United Statess living his own life in his own way. There have been two sorts of Hapsburgs, those devoted to the riad old usages, and those who, desper- atyly in revolt, threw themselves against ali that was fixed and ordained. Francis Joseph's mother gave indication of the feeling of the first when she upbraided tie Empress Elizabeth fer begging to De allowed 10 Iako care or Fer own Cilit0s for the consolation of the simple human duties of maternity: Why exclaimed the archduchess, you have one of the Rrandest positions in the world, and jew els richer than those of any other queen what other consolation do you need?'
 Another World"
 staznbouloff was shockingly murdered and Bulgaria was lost to Ferdinand through the insistence of his consort, Ma rie Louise of Austria (ominous namel up on the preservation of the niceties of the court etiquette she had been brought up to. That unfortunate minister was slight ed by her simply because, like his own people, Stambouloff lacked some of the conventional graces of demeanor and ae- poftment. Powerful though he was, with the governments, the fact was neglected; l; subsequently, all other powers were allen at4d through her tactless exaggeation of hit small slips of etiquette In approaching her, or in approaching Ferdinand: Like Marie Louise of Bourbon who had mar ried Napoleon at a critical moment, and then deserted him when he was sent to St. Helena-not even writing to him, but turning from the foremost soldier of his time. if not of all time, to such insignif- cant persons as Count Neipperg, and later Count de Bombelles of the Austrian arny-Ferdinands Austrian wife was not a blessing. In most Of the Austrian archduchesses the idea of family, of aris- tocracy, of etiquette, of the distinction of hlood was uppermost. AS one or them remarked to the British ambassador who hnscently inquired whether his ws-a-vis knew a certain writer and philosopher: My dear sir, you are speaking Of an- other world"
 ii was preferable for Napoleon's wife to come home from the most brilliant court in Europe. after its demolition, and view the festivities of the court of Vienna from behind curtain. or from the attic by means of a hole in the ceiling, than "a violate one of the sanctified customs. Yet on the other hand there were prin- cesses and princes of the same Hapsburg. Bourbon family ready to grant themselves in marriage to the most outrageous petty royalties of Europe and then, when they found the human nature forming in their hearts, to burst away regardless of cnurch and state and public reputation Per haps the men have been more courageous than the women in this-as may be natur- al. The revolt was sometimes due to love, the kind of love celebrated by novelists and by poets. Even Francis Joseph, so thA partisan courtiers represented, made nartyrdom before it was ended four years ako by the knife of an anarchist.
 The Postillion Romance,
 Three years afterward, according to nublic reports, the Austrian Emperor married, morganatically, Frau Katherine Schratt of the Vienna stage. and had her previous marriage with Baron Kisch an- nulled therefor. This was the Frau Schratt who used to make long journeys to carry in person to the empress the first violets of springtime. What a glimpse of royalty and of commons! Thackeray would have been glad to show 1t up. Then there was Archduke John whom Won Moltke regarded as a bril- liant strategist, who abhorred hatterers and who on his own hook, engaged him. self to Donna Elvira of Spain, only to find that the requirements of the Austrian