Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-19

longer and longer travels The highway
TO London going through IL had developed
an enormous traffic. which the automobi,s
made complete for dust and racket
She went yachting first with Edward
VII as Prince of Wales. then with
James Gordon Bennett. then with the
Duke OF Alva. her relative. and finally
IN her own splendid sea-going yacht. on
which she returned from the trip TO
Egypt last spring-probab bly, her last
once, on the Bennett yacht. they
stopped at Zucco. where. for the first
time. Eugene met the Due d'Aumae.
She said later: our two souls, delivered
from political ambitions, met at the end
of the same deep disilusionsr'
As Countess of Pierrefonds she prone
naded her melancholy and her souvenirs
In Scotland. Italy, Spain. and Provence.
Once she went to South Africa and visited
the very spot of her sons death Did
she regret the money disputes that drove
him from England? Or her refusal Ia
permit a hundred young French Roma
partfsts to make him n guard OF honor
when he went to fight the Zulus? She
must say something OF these matters and
the mystery OF the empires fall because
she knows that there are other memoirs
waiting. bitter, crushing. even, II not
answered,
Her last flashes of self-assertion were
in 1906 and 1907. On the first occasion
she was coming back from Venice aud
stopped of at 1schl There the Emperor
OF Austria sent her the imperial train
Franz-Josef, accompanied by a brilliant
retinue, met her at the Vienna railway
station. As Eugene got down from tho
car she kissed the aged emperor on the
cheek. and he kissed her, as sovereigns
kiss. being cousins. He had not seen her
Tor ten years, when he paid visit To
her villa at Cap Martin. And all along
the carriage route the Niennese were
massed In cheering multitudes
Then, in 1907, happened the imperial
meeting that surpassed all meetings. In
fiorj of Norway Eugene met William III
or Germany. grandson of he who dispos-
sessed her of her throne and robbed her OF
her power. She kissed him, too
strange woman, Let us speak gently
OF her. now that she has ceased to work
upon her memoirs, fructify her millions
hght. her lawsuits and make splendid
marriages like that of her goddaughter.
Ena Of Battenburg to the King of SPAIN
or slip up on them as she did with the
Duke of Turin and an Austrian arch
duchess
Today she weakly promenades her villa
garden at Cap Martin, where the photo-
graph herewith shows how she is worn
down and spiritualized in face and figure
unique photograph. Look at il well
linen think how she, granddaughter of \
States consul of Malaga. was the most
beautiful and fortunate OF girls. most bril-
liant and powerful of women,
slender little sweet-faced wisp of an
old lady. Yet the other day, when they
were talking sheath gowns to her. She
flashed up with an old souvenir of co.
quetry.
Those sheath gowns horrors?" she ex-
claimed. How can a modest woman
wear them? Had we. at the Tuileries.
dressed in such a fashion, what would
not have been said Of u.s.
Then, after a moments dreaming, she
said:
Even the short trotteur skirts that
every woman wears today would have
been criticised severely. l remember how
at Fontainebleau we once went to the
races in skirts at our shoe tops, and the
bitter tears it cost me-
Yet they Knocked the crinoline's ex-
travagance.' some one suggested.
The crinoline Is SOON due to come in
again.. said she who formerly led the
worlds fashions. 1T will come in a re-
action aga inst this immodesty. Besides,
how many years go to generation?
Thirty-fve? Yes. every generation OF
women wants to try the crnoline. The
time is near!'' STERLING HELLO.