The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-23
Princess Helene Won Race
Witze Urges All to Live
With the Roses.
HAD A ROMANTIC CAREER
AND LIKE THE GREclAN HELEN
IN THE MONDAY or HER LIFE
FIRED AL HEARTS WITH HER
BEAUTY.

News Scrvice)
London. July 23.-Herein lies the
great art of life, to enjoy to the full
the scent of the roses and other gifts
of nature, while carefully avoiding
the thorns.
Such is the frank philosophy OF life
of Princess Helene Won Racowitxe,
who like another Helen, fired all
hearts In the MONDAY of her brilliant
beauty some forty years ago, and now,
in the evening of her days. has taken
the world into her confidence In a
more than usually candid biography.
The Princess has q career romantic
and stormy.
From her father. q brilliant Ba-
varian diplomat at the court OF Max
|. she inherited the blood Of the Vik-
ings: her mother. a beautiful and fas-
cinating woman, belonged to one OF
the highly cultured Jewish families Of
Berlin, family OF poets and philos-
ophers, while the temperament OF He
lene herself was pure Greek In its
alteration of beauty. Her fathers
house in Munich was the rendezvous
OF politicians and men famous In liter
AZURE, art and philosophy. and when
but child she was admitted to this
wonderful circle.
One of her earliest playmates was
the Crown Prince Louis OF Bavaria.
who afterwards became King Louis
II. Her parents belonged to the init.
mate circle OF King Max l, and Helene
was chosen as the most fitting com.
rade for the young Prince.
The childish friendship was broken
by quarrel in which the Crown
Prince and little Helene fought like
wild cats. When her father heard Of
the episode, in, spite OF the complete
forgiveness OF the royal parents the
intimate intercourse of the children
was broken on. Years after. when the
Crown Prince was king and the lit
Racowitze, he sent his former play.
matesome bonbons, with the words:
Greeting to my once wild little play
mate"
The Princess gives US another
pleasing glimpse OF her childhood
days in her account Of long, delightful
hours spent with Hans Andersen, who
was guest at her fathers house Ia
Munich
quite early In the mornings, while
mamma was still asleep, could tor
ment him at my ease. and he told
story after story. He turned every
thing into q fairy tale. It was even
more fascinating when he revealed
himself as the Student of Little Ida'a
Flowers" that Is to-say, while he wal
telling stories he cut out the most fas
chatting things with scissors-castles
gardens, flowers and butterflies. elves
gnomes-in fact, all kinds Of won.
ders"
From Munich to Berlin, from Berlin
to Turin, where her father was minis
ter King Victor Emmanuel. and from
Turin to Nice went Helene. now :
beautiful debutante In her early teens
Dainty and winsome as fairy, with
sharply cut profile, glorious colder
hair, and wonderful eyes which were
blue, grey and green by turns. Is thu
description Baron voldendorR gives Of
her beauty at this time Celebrities
from all over the world we're gathered
at Nice, and the future Princess vor
Racowitze met many notable people
the Empress Of Nicholas ! Of Rus
STA, the Grand Duchess Helene. Prfn
cess Of Wurtemburg. Bulwer Lytton
Lord Brougham, Charles Dickens and
Meyerheer, to mention few among
them.
While at Nice, the town gave bal
In honor Of Napoleon III, and thu
Empress Eugene and Helene wal
privileged to dance In the same quad
rifle as the Empress Eugene, then =
the zenith OF her glory.
Back again In Berlin In 1862. thu
Princess devotes many chapters 4
what is known as the Lassalle cpl
sode. It is fervent chapter from TIL
book Of love, this tragic love story d
Ferdinand Lassalle, the brilliant ans
romantic father Of German socialism
and the beautiful Helene Won Don
niges. which furnished George Mere
dith with the motive for his novel
The Tragic Comedians" For her par
In that romance Of half century AZ
and its unfortunate ending the Prfn
cess has been alternately hailed as II
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