Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-04-16

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owing to the presence Of the infamous
Marfori in her encourage, Napoleon
III. felt himself forced, on the score
of propriety, to keep her aloof from
his shady court after her arrival as
an exile in France. She so impressed
Empress Eugene that during her in.
terviews with her she seemed to for
get that she was a sister queen, and
acted and spoke as if she were still
one of Isabella's maids of honor.
Record Of Her Career.
Much indulgence should be accorded
to Queen Isabella in writing the record
of her career. For she labored all
her life long under the disadvantage
of having grown up under the care
and with the example before her eyes
of her mother, Old Queen Christina.
one Of the Bourbons of Naples, and
probably the most shamelessly de.
PRAYED and wicked woman that ever
occupied a European throne during
the nineteenth Gentry. The court of
Madrid in those days was renowned
for its profligocy. But Queen Chris
tina's behavior finally became mire
than W. her courtiers and the peo-
pie around her could afford to toler-
ate, and she was driven into exile
along with her favorite, the ex-guards-
man Munoz, whom she had raised
from the rank of a common soldier
to the highest Offices in the army
and in the state, solely on account
Of his good looks.
No attempt was made to preserve
the childhood or the young girlhood
Of Isabella free from the demoraliz-
ing influences. In fact, there were
those who considered it to be to
their interests to endeavor to corrupt
her mind. And then her unfortunate
marriage to a man whom she neither
loved o respected, and who was
dwarfed, not only in body, but also in
mind, contributed also TO render her
reckless. IL is unnecessary here to
relate new the story OF this marriage
into which she was forced in her 18th
birthday in the firm conviction that II
would remain childless, and thus en-
able the crown TO pass to her younger
sister, married TO the French Duke
de M~ontpensier, These expectations
were not, however. realized. Queen
Isabella gave birth to a large number
of children, several of which died in
infancy, and on each occasion that
she became a mother her b~rother-in-
law, the Duke de Montpensier TO
whom she invariably showed herself
both kind and generous. circulated
stories to the effect that the child was
not the offspring OF her husband. but
of this or OF that of her favorltes.
lnfanta the Herring Girl.
Thus II was TO the Duke de Mont.
pensier that the mfanta Isabella.
widow of the Count Girgenti, owed
the nickname OF the herring girl
which chung to her for many years
after she had grown up, and that
originated in the construction placed
by Montpensier upon the tokens OF
good will bestowed by Queen Isabella
upon a young hshemarn, who had at,
tracted her notice while It the sea
baths during the year previoud to
the birth OF the princess, Again, Il
was the duke who openly ascribed the
paternity OF the late King Alfonso e
Marshal Serano. In fact Montpensiel
then lost NJ opportunity OF circulat
ing stories Affecting the honor and
the reputation OF the sisterin-law who
was not only his queen, but alsS
his benefaetor.
II was he who played a leading par
IN the revolution which resulted n
her ~abdication and exile In 1865. II
the vain hope OF being elected by tn
Cortes 10 succeed her ON the throne
But while the spaniSrds were unwil
ling 10 put up any longer with Isabell
they were too much disguised B.