Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-02-18

thoughts turn longingly to cool sheets.
soft pillows the broken slumbers that are
AT least better than unbroken waking.
Her head aches; each false curl feels rs
ii IT We're made of iron, her tiara rs
though it were east of lead. She feels
the wrinkles guawing through their
Shruud of artificial SmO0thneSS, she feels
the skin collapse into sagging folds and
pouches She pulls herself together and,
with a dreadful effort. smiles as the
young leader of her cotiliou buStleS up to
say good night. He congratulates her on
the success of her entertainments shakes
hands with her and her daughter. and
hurrieS away with the complaceut air of
the doctor who is able 10 say that he
thinks mother and child will new do
nicely.
The hostess turns ia her daughter. who
Is standing waiting fretfully next her,
and leaving her on this monotonous scene
of well-won triumph. drags herself
proudly like wounded lonesS to the
elevator that will take her TO her lair.
Haunted Princess.
The greatest tragedy in the annals of
the unhappy house of Hapshurg is re-
called by an extraordinary article in the
Poster Lloyd by the Princess Louise of
Belgium. The princess describes her
thoughts before the statue, in the Buda-
pest City park. of her late brother-in-
law, the Archduke Rudolf, only son of
the Emperor Francis Joseph.
1t will be remembered that the crown
prince contracted in 1881 a lOveless mar
rage with the Princess Stephanie of Bel
gum tnOw Countess Lonyayl. In the
succeeding years he endeavored to OBJ
tain from the Pope Il divorce i'll order
To marry the beautiful Baroness Marie
NetSera.
The Emperor. his father fercely OPP
posed the project of divorce and on the
fatal night of January 70, 1889, the
baroness and her lover, then aged 81,
committed suicide in the huntingdon
OF Mayerling The crown prince, going
| TO her room, Is believed to have found
that she had poisoned herself He COW
cred the body with flowers and shot him
self through the head. By the Emperor $
orders the chateau was RACED to the
| place.
Always when in Budapest" says the
| Princess Louise in her article. Il take
the same walk. | walk to rhe city park.
my heart beating, and | suddenly come
! to standstill before a statue 1t Is a
huntSman IN stone, who gazes dreamily
| before HIM.
| 'Long-forgotten scenes come back to
| me. y world of memories storms my
Sou!-thoughtS and feelings that never quit
me. | see the crown prince before me in
| the strength of his youth. | hear his
! voice saying, Where shall find the wife
| want: Tell me her name!T
Go to Belgium, There flower
| blooms-my sister Stcphanie" And he
| went | see the wedding, Il picture of
| happiness. of peace. / see the spring,
| then 50 soon afterward the autumn and
the dreadful end.
The voice of the Crown Prince Rudolf
| still rings in ry ear. The year before
his death we walked together in the
| beautiful park of Lakenburg. The most
| beautiful thing he says, would be to die
! when one is 30. in full possession of
strength. knowing and feeling one could
| do all things unfettered 10y circumstance
Certain persons exist who say they
! know the facts of the crown princes end.
| They are silent: they live upon the price
| of their discretion. They alone. perhaps.
| know the conclusion of the tragedy.
! know all that went before in all its
| phases. ] am silent, but for other rea-
sons.
! Only last month one of the characters
! in the imperial drama passed away in the
! person of Baron Louis Netsera. Who died
! in Colorado His name had not been
! publicly mentioned for twenty years.
| Vienna Cor. London Mail.
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