Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-08

best-naid literary lady of the gay capital
AS for Severine, she made her fame pro-
tectine people. She has protected ana, ~.
tsts lived with communists, lnterieIeo Al
strikes INSTRUCTED elections. ootaiheu Pc.
dons for convicts and collected money lol
declassed women. Every oppressed person
has her sympathy. or
Oppressed" replied the princess TO nei
at the outset II was oppressed all my ne
until 7 met Count GeZa Mattachich. Our
mother YES she was a saint on eartn, puI
Of inexorable severity. AS to our father tthe
nresent King of the Belgians), we never
really saw him. Stephanie and each morn,
ing used to go to him ceremomousiy anu
kiss his hand. We scarce dared look AT
him and when the door closed behind us
Nc used To run down the corridor fright
ened.
Had an Unhappy Girlhood.
"I had an unhappy girlhood" she con-
,inued Therefore when Queen Marie-Hen-
riette married me at seventeen years TO
Prince Ferdinand Marie-A uguste- Raphael
pbi,,nne of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, being
ignorant of the nature of matrimonial OBJ
legations. I willingly accepted him. We
We're married
"And the next day?" inquired Severine
gently.
"rhe next day all was finished between us,
fences of my mother, l gave up my first
instincts of revolt; If l have to my credit
twenty years of mute resignation, OF DUTY
of coniugal fidelity, it is none the less true
that those first impressions renamed IN
effaceable. 1t was absolute lncompataoll-
ity In everything, for everything.
1.-THE prince did not know how to make
you love him?'
..Do not profane that word. 1t must not
be pronounced in connection with the
took vengeance on me- / had laughed at
love- 1 had frted. / was as ignorant OF
passion as before my marriage; but en-
joyed being admired without rejecting.
Perhaps I caused sincere sufferngs If so
/ regret them. l had need to be purified
by fire In order that / should venerate
love-"
Nine. Severine did not dare interpose a
question. But the princess read her thought
and gravely inclined her beautiful head.
Yes, for life and for DEATH" she muir
INJURED For me Count Geza Mattachich
has risked everything, lost everything: his
title, his grade, his liberty, his honor Out
that will come backD and his fortune-for
you know that he has been disinherited?
After four years of separation, when we
met again in the woods of Koswg, could l
give him any other answer than: Nothing
is changed. Besides he delivered me from
captivity.
Preferred to Be Declared Crazy.
81 have suffered much as human be-
ing can suffer-" continued Louise of Co.
burg "Yet / had my choice when at Agram
in 1898 Councillors Bachrach and Hinter-
steisser aided by the chief of the Vienna
police. dragged me from my bed. 1 was
either to be recognized as sane, return to
the palace and the conjugal domicile. or to
be declared crazy. I preferred the latter.
Evidently 1t was horrible. The first night
at Doebling when I heard the agitated'
bowling had to take my head in my two
hands and say to myself: Attention! You
must keep your reason intact Your reason.
Attention! I learned only by the newspa-
pers of the second union of my sister Step
hanie They told GeZa In his prison that
was consoling myself with the director
They told me that Geza was consoling him
self with a prison servant girl, the devoted
Maria Stoeger, who lightened his captivity
In the fortress of Moellersdorf by talking
to him of mel!
stolid and excessively plain-featured
German woman had admitted Seyerne 1t
was that same Maria Stoeger, now be-
come the princess companion, after having
aided her to escape Severtne could not
imagine the count flirting with her. Then
the princess told the true story of her es-
cape.
II had been transferred from Doebling-
where they killed my dog by mistake
that daschhund whose portrait you see on
the wall-to Puckersdorff. From Fuckers
dorff they transferred me IN 4dAdephefe