Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-06-07
SOME FAMOUS WOMEN.
BEAUTIES WHO HAVE FIGURED IN,
THE FATE OF NATIONS.

1t is curious that no picture gallery
| has ever been made OF the beautiful
women who have influenced history.
From the days of the great Egyptian
queen many IL dull page of history has
been lighted ul by some fair face that
Eas brought II little human interest into
the dry ,..lI cold calculations OF kings
AMI politicians.
.Nnlony was not the last politician
whose course was influenced 10y beau
ty. Think ot the beautiful Louisa OF
r..s;.,.A jcs.ing with Napoleon for IL
lli... doin. II knew that WAS to see
The most beautiful queen Ia existence"
al" Napolcon to 'ralcyrand after u
banquet g,,en in her honor but
have io,lIl the most beautiful queen
and nt the same time tn. most inter
,.s,i..s WOMAN in the world" Md Lou
i.a ! Id VOL from him the restoration
vi Si.rsi;l.
| 1t is said indeed, that she l;lu.hingly
offered him Il rose in exchange for tho
fortress of Mngheburg, but Napoleon
was one of the iron men OF the world.
lie kept the tiower-;tnd Magdebury.
| ~ I'pOh WI lbSstNNiANI NOtLSh, ny
llallctt Hyatt, has pictures oil some of
thc most beautiful women that have
ever lived, and Mrs. Struart l.rskine
has gathered their romantic stories.
One comes upon II picture of Eliza
l'nrrcn. the actress, who began life by
playing childish parts in Strolling
company and advanced to fame in Lon
don as Miss llarhcastle in ''She Stoops
to Conquer She became IL fnvoritc in
society and married the twelfth Lord
| Derby, when she lived happily ever
after" taking her place ut court and
in society. No barriers nre insurmount
able to the career of beauty.
| Here is the picture of ''Mndamc," the
beautiful Henrietta Stuart youngest
daughter of Charles L., who married
the Duke of Orleans The features
seem hard and the expression some
wlES cold ami stately She would ap-
p.slY IL woman more Of bpnin than ten
d,aisSS. In renlity she ls.d IL sparkling
wit, with that wonderful gift OF per-
sonal mnEnetism-"A men loved and
most women ;niortsi her., wrote Il gal
liant l'renchHlan In his memoirs.
| Life In the French court was IL con-
| tinilnl round of pleasure. and the days
were passed in ballets and thcutrculs
| In the morning madame would drive
ont with her ladies' to be escorted on
iheir return 10y King Louis XIV. and
| his court on horseback After supper
they would all drive out. accompanied
! hy LulIi's violiDs. to watch the moon
light OH the water and talk the moon
! Shiue Of lovers
| tve wars later lu.H;tule wps HE
| Ais.y's il'is.y adviser ai; ,ile only me
| ,tilt'u OF communicated Ira weeu him
/ and ii-t brother. Charles H. u WAS u
! ,llc >!,rin. OF l,;.u i.ial she brought
about tilnt secret treaty of Dover thuI
| made Charles Il Roman Catholic and
| plunged England into war with Hol-
land
| That was the summit of madume's
power The sequel WIS ehnstly and
dramatic. \ few weeks luter she was
at St Cloud In the flush OF high spirits
at her success. \ glass of iced chicory
water was brought ut her request, and
she drank 1t or quickly. Five minutes
later madame WAS no more. All the
power of her fascination and beauty
w;ls ended by IL secret poison.
AS the pages are turned the portrait
of Il lady In Il broc,.dcd dress appears.
II face Win very deep forehead and
eXpressionlcss lips. Ihi:; is the famous
Nine. de Pompadour. Her birth was
| very humble indeed. but she came in
| the way OF Louis Nv. who gave her
unlimited influence till She became
recognized power in Europe. For
| many wears she conducted the foreign
| policy OF france. nterv viewng umbaS
sn,lors and treating with kings. Re
bufcd by Frederick the Great this
amazing woman made overtures to
Maria Theresa Of Austria to divide his
Kingdom between them, and, sitting In
her summer house, she gayly arranged
with II couple of diplomats the reparti-
| tion of Europe.
| Moreover. but for the freedom she
gave to her personal likes and dislikes.
1t Is not improbable that she would
have accomplished some of the less
wild OF her schemes. Her dramatic
end has often been told. In the midst
of IL discussion ON affairs Of state, as
she sat rougel and powdered IN her
chair the cure who WAS with her rose
to CO. She detained him. "Onc mo-
mrnt, NJ lc Cure" she said I'VE will
take our departure together" And
few minutes later the beautiful diplo-
matist WAS dead.
The portrait Of the unlucky Marie
| Antoinette. frank. queenlv, superb, of
whom Burke rapturously wrote. Gilt
tcring like the morning star, full Of life
and splrndor and joy is here too. Re
cal! her life at the Petit Tranon, that
miniature palace with the Corinthian
pillars, where she wandered about un-
tttended and no one rose Mt her up
rroaoh 1t l.; always Erimiy pathetic
that the one French queen who little
fulfilled the part that we have been
taught 10 expect from queen should
have been sacrificed to the mad rage
OF the revolution.
| A%gclica Kaufman WAS the child of
q Tyrolese peasant. who made her way
by the force o. her artistic gifts rs
well as her beauty She was one Of the
original members of the Royal acad-
emy. Like many IL beautiful woman
who Irver becomes famous. she was
passed himself Off rs Count Frederick
dc Ilorn TOO late she discovered that
he had been footlnan to that person
and no more. and for some ten years
! she WAS bluckMuiled by this adven.