The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-01-07
PERSONALITY OF
The ElAPSBURGS.
Race From Which the Princess
Louise of Saxony Springs.
a FAMILY OF O0NTRA8TRD IDEAL

SOME StickEers For Etiquette and
Others Tnto1erant of the Forms and
Manners OF tIle Court-'The PostiI.
ION Romance of the ArchdrF1e
John-EScapades OF otto.
Strongly Bourbon though her blood
| is, the runaway wife Of the heir apDar-
ent OF the kingdom of Saxony, Princess.
Louise Antoinette, is yet to be regarded
as one of the unhappy Hapsburgs, SAYS
the New York Evening Post. Through
father and grandfather her descent is
| direct from Ferdinand III. of Tuscany.
who was son of Emperor Leopold II.
of Austria. This makes her great-great-
granddaughter Of the founder of the
present dynasty, Maria Theresa Her
line has been untouched by the luna
cies communicated to imperial blood by
intermarriage with the Wittelbachs 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 royal parsonage with an
expectation of one day rising to the
throne
Men as we'll as women have re-
nounced their rights to place and prec-
edence 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 life in his own way.
There have been two sorts of Haps-
burgs-those devoted to the rigid old
usages and those who, desperately in
revolt, threw themselves against all
that was fixed and ordained. Francis
Joseph's mother gave indication of the
feeling of the first when she upbraid-
ed the Empress Elizabeth for begging
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 richer than those Of
any other queen. What other consola-
ton do you need?"
Stambouloff was shockingly murder
ed and Bulgaria was lost to Ferdinand
through the insistence of his consort
Marie Louise Of Austria (ominous name),
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, StamboulOf lacked some
Of the conventional graces of demeanor
and department. Powerful though he
was with the governments. the fact
was neglected.; consequently all other
powers were alienated through her tact
less exaggeration Of his small slips Of
etiquette in approaching her or in ap-
preaching Ferdinand. Like Marie Lou
Use Of Bourbon, who had married Ma
poleon at 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 in
significant persons as Count Neipperg
Austrian army. Ferdinand's Austrian
wife was not blessing. In most Of the
Austrian archduchesses the idea of
family, of aristOcracy, of etiquette, OF
the distinction of blood, was upper
most AS one of them remarked TO the
British ambassador who innocently. in
Quired whether his vis-a-vis knew d
certain writer and philosopher, 'My
dear sir, you are speaking of another
worldr'
It was preferable for Napoleons wife
to come home from the most brilliant
court in Europe after it's demolition and
view the festivities of the court of vi
emma from behind curtain or from the
attic by means of hole in the ceiling
than to violate one of the sanctified
customs, yet, ON the other hand, there
were princesses and princes of the
same Hapsburg- Bourbon family ready
to grant themselves in marriage to the
most outrageous petty royalties Of Eu-
rope and tlqen, when they found the
human nature forming in their hearts,
to burst away regardless of church and
state and public reputation. Perhaps
the men have been more courageous
than the women in this, as may be nat
ural. The revolt was sometimes due TO
love, the kind Of love celebrated by nov
elists and by poets. Even Francis Jo-
seph, SO the partisan courtiers repre-
scented, made the life of his Geld, nun
like empress a martyrdom before II
was ended four years ago by the knife
of an anarchist.
> Three years afterward, according to
public reports, the Austrian emperor
married, morganatically, FRAU Rather
inc Schratt of the Vienna stage and
had her previous marriage with Baron
Kisch annulIed therefor. This was the
Frau Schratt who used to nake long
Journeys to carry in person to the en-
press the first violets Of springtime
What glimpse of ROYALTY and of COM
monsl Thackeray would have been
glad to show it up. Then there was
Archduke John, whom Won Moltke re-
garded as brilliant strategist, who
abhorred fatterers, and who. on his