Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-30

She established g. Paris salon tnat became
center OF, Napoleonic plotting. and 1t IL
certain that her heart and soul were given
up to seating her poor adventurer. cousin
on the throne of resurrected empire In
lS49, when an her plans succeeded so Won
derfully and the revolution made Louis
| Napoleon 'prince-pr president" she went to
preside over his household. he a bachelor;
and she continued to preside thus during
the first years Of his empire.
But how could Mathilde have married
Napoleon III? She herself was not divorced,
but only separated from her Demldon who
died only in 1870: and Napoleon III would
never have dared to have had her divorced
| for the sake of marrying her, because to
| have so brayed the sentiment OF the French
| to him.
Then came "the Spanish girl Eugene.
! Something less, than one hundred years be-
| fore. when Louis XVI came to the throne
of France, he set there beside him the
beautiful Austrian princess whom the world
pities as Marie Antoinette AT once Tor the
French people she became tine Aust It
of the United States should send to Russia
or Italy for bride we ourselves would
call her for while 'the Russian glri or
1.-The Italian girl
That Mathilde got on badly with Eugenie
Is notorious. The beautiful golden,halred
young empress, with her wonderful dark
Spanish eyes. triumphed without EFFORT over
the emperor's plain little cousin. ms
other quit the palace, and until the 1aii OF
| the second empire the party that she gath
cred round her was VIGOROUSLY III opposi
ton to the party of the empress.
Were Very Different.
In character. as in antecedents. the Two
young women were very dl11erenl. Ma
thilde, who was not afraid to say laugh
ingly. '1f 1t had not been for the french
revolution 1 should be selling oranges along
the Corsican docksn' was not only the
daughter of a German princess, put also
the grandniece of Frederick the Great ana
of George III of England; the terrible 1s tl
Nicholas protected her as MS couslii' enc
was the girl companion of queen OF Hol-
land, and related in some way or otner TO
half the German prncelings and nearly an
the reigning houses of Europe. Engehle
origin has already been given. Yet you
might have thought Eugene the poih " III
cess.
From the first she subjugated court ana
people. Her lovely golden hair was the De
ginning of the appreciation OF what IS now
called Titianesque beauty, but her DARK,
LIQUID eyes, so kindly and pleasant were
all Spanish. The profile of her race naa tIe
purity of line of cameo, ana the coinpiia
ton of types made something rare anu
charming. .
Eugene organized the most brilliant court
in Europe of modern times . nnI hie e e,xe
fashions She created Worth Win MS eA-
otto taste which has not held the sopefei
French clientele. >,o,oo,,
The government of her husband, Napoieon
III. by rebuilding Paris, gave plenty Oh
work: and there was great material pros
perity in the country, Wnlch mas ieil
certain popularity among the people toa
the emperor and empress, IN spite VI m .ne
misfortune into which they led France Inc
older people Still remember Eugene AFTER
noon drives along the avenue OF the ChanpS
Elysees and Bots de Boulogne (then caAeo
the Avenue of the Empress), When her ou',
riders were dressed in blue ana silver anu
her coachman and footmen In green ana
gold and one and all in spotlesS whlte nam
keen breeches. 1t made a spectacle or glory
that personified the mighty FLIP winch the
court gave to Partisan trade.
Received With Joy.
When her son, the prince Imperial, was
born there was real rejoicing among the
French people. 1 have just heard an an
cient grand dame of the Napoleonic party
giving her remembrance of those "beautlful
days" when the prince imperial was
pretty child and Eugene blooming young
mother. She told of children's theatricals
on certain Sunday afternoon, when on
tiny stage the little boy prince and the
daughters of NJ. 9u Sommerard and Joseph
Primoli acted am easy charade. Later In
the long twilight of the northern French
summer, when one can still see to read in
the open air at 8 clock at night it came
time for the little prince to be hauled off
to bed And the fond father, Napoleon HI,
to help his little boy to cheat an extra
quarter of an hour, like good fellow, hid
the boys hat in the bushes.
II can't go to bed until my hat Is found!'
proclaimed the Little prince.
mo, he must wait until his hat is found"
the emperor confirmed
Now the prince imperial himself is but a
memory, mourned by a white haired. bent
old lady, who comes once a year to the
Hotel Continental in Paris. His death, ac-
companying the English in the Zulu war,
was also the death of the Napoleonic party.
Minister Combes in a speech few nights
ago at a republican banquet, thus summed
up that empire from the point of vfew-of
M Combes:
1.-THE empire finished as it merited to
finish. Born of a perjury and military
uprising, it was finally made to perish by
the rude spears of few savages in war
adventure"
So doubtless saw Eugene, as she muir
INJURED at the dea thbed of Mathide: II am
the only one of them left.''
STERLING HELLO.