The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-30

VIENNA, Austria, Aug. 20 KeinS
near death, I request that your
Majesty grant me the opportunity to
thank you for all the kindnesses you
have shown me-
This letter to the Austrian Emperor
foretelIs the end of the career of ex-
it's parallel in the tragic fates of Mary,
Queen of Scots, and of Marie An
toinette, the unfortunate Queen of
France.
THE romance of the modern Cinder-
ella as the life of the ex-Empress has
been repeatedly styled, had its incep-
ton in a halo of glory, and finds it's
end in a sorrow as deeply black as a
stormy night.
She is today but a shadow of her for
mer self-a pale. gray woman, leaning
in her weakness on a cane, living in
the memory of the past, and finding
consolation for her broken heart IN
piety and prayer.
Sad, silvered Eugene, bowed down by
grief, is still very stately. and in her
face, furrowed by the ravages of age,
traces of her wonderful beauty are yet
to be seen; but there remains but lit
tie to indicate that this octogenarian
was. as near as 80 odd years ago, not
only the Queen of France, but also the
queen of fashion, a power in dlplo-
macy, and a past mistress of intrigue.
Though in her eyes, dimmed by tears
and sad recollections, flash of the ole
imperial fire is seen now and then, she
seems to say to the world:
Here L and sorrow sit; this is my
throne;
Bid kings come bow to it,
PARIS NEVER FORGOT NOR FOR
GAVE.
Paris, irreverent Paris, has named
her 1.-The woman of SORROW and al
though it pays but little heed to the
griefs of eX-royalty, although it has
never forgotten nor forgiven the fact
that the disastrous F'ranco-Prussian
war was chiefly due to the machina-
tions of Eugene, Parisians stand rev
erently aside and let her pass in sill
ence.
1t was on May 5. 1926, that Eugene
Spanish count. From infancy the
praises of her beauty We're sung. and
predictions of a brilliant future for her
were freely made.
AS she grew into womanhood, her
mother decided that the possibility of a
brilliant match lay only in selecting
Paris as their permanent place of resi-
dence and she brought there Eugene
and the latter's sister, who afterwards
became the Duchess of Alba
Parisians were at once captivated by
the beautiful Eugene.
WORSHIPED AT HER SHRINE.
Poems were written about her artists
and authors worshiped at her shrine.
and though the old French aristocracy
disdained to receive what they termed
an adventures, her success was COM
plete
With the exception of her dolorous
eyes there was very little in Eugenie's
appearance to indicate her Spanish
origin. for in her veins flowed the
blood of Kirkpatricks, and she looked
English more than anything else
Prince Louis Napoleon, then Presi-
dent of the second republic, fell in love
with her. She treated him coolly.
Parisians still chuckle over her
famous reply to the wooing prince,
when the latter. exaspera ted by her
GOODNESS. impetuously cried out: How
then can l reach You, niademoiselle?"
BY the church door, was Eugenie's
answer. and, though in the political
turmoil that followed in France the
prince-President became an Emperor.
he remembered these words. and in
1853 he made her his wife and EN-
press of France
"CINDERELLA'S LUCK
Gifted with all the qualities of the
soul, he said in explanation of his
act. she will be the ornament of the