The Washington herald., 1911-12-24

of all reasons, considering the perennial
cat-and-dog condition prevailing between
herself and her war-like neighbor across
the Rhine.
This time II is a captain of French
artillery, a Chevalier de Champs, sti
young man. and, of course. there Is
woman in the case" The time-worn
French motto of 'Cherchez la femme
is to-day as safe a one as 1t was ever
before. 4 captains pay in the French
Cor for that matter. in any European
army, does not admit Of high life on a
very large scale. Nevertheless, our
chevalier fell an easy victim to the ma
ture charms Of a Paris music hall singer
He spent upon her such money as he
could wiring from his parents or borrow
from his friends; but the seductive Mar
celle was not satisfied. Other men gave
their women fine clothes and jewels. Why
did he not do the same?
NJ. de Champs finally decided that he
must get money by hook or by crook
and he got 1t distinctly by crook. He got
into the artillery magazine, and con-
| trived to steal the barrel of one Of the
newest patterns of the mitrailleuse-the
deadly little gun explodes one hundred
guised as civilian. he managed to reach
the German frontier, where he offered
the barrel for sale to a German secret
service agent He had flattered himself
that he would be paid a small fortune
| for so valuable a secret, and when he
was offered 1.OO0 francs for it he laughed
at the idea. The German. however,
laughed last. He calmly Informed the
Frenchman that he could either take the
money or else be handed over, together
with the barrel of the stolen gun, to the
| French military authorities.
! Our chevalier came back to Paris
! Sadder man. One thousand francs does
not go very far in Paris, especially when
there is lady in the case. At the end
| Of his resources, the man was idenuhed
and arrested. He goes to prison for
twenty years. while his lady friend will
do four months for the offense of hav-
| ing sheltered urder her roof Il soldier
known to her 20 be a deserter from the
army.
These twenty years are not likely to
prove very comfortable. Prison officials,
when thev are French, have a soft heart
for man who has got into trouble ON
account of a woman. But a traitor Is
held to he a thing UnClean.
Now that the reconciliation has be
come au fait acCompIi at last between
the proud mother of Prince Albert Rad
twill. present head of the Russian
branch Of that ultra-feudal aristocratic
family the Prussian branch Of which
contains more than one member who
! is related to the HohenZOllern house
through marriage Cthe Radziwil palace
in the Wilhelmsstrasse. in Berlin, IS the
official residence of the German chan
celIors since the days of Bismarck and
of the Prussian foreign ministers be
fore the reconstruction period of 1856 and
1S7M and her daughter-in-law. she that
was beautiful Dorothy Deacon, of New
York. cousin of the Astors. nothing
can stop the latter from reaching the
very top OF the social ladder in the
most exclusive circles. For there IS no
grander. no more ancient and hardly a
weaIthier or more distinguished family
t'rtn the Radziwills in all Prussia, Rus
sia. Poland, or Galicia.
Little Dorothy now, to cap the climax.
has become the firm friend Of the
Duchess of Hohenbers. who as Countess
SOphia-Chotek became the morganatic-
and energetic wife of the Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne
of the duel monarchy of Austria-Hun-
y
ing to be ''legitimatized" and to have her
sons declared in line for the succession,
lin the face of the militant opposition
of all the HapSbuTg archduChesses. She
will one day be the Queen of the fiery
Magyars, as Hungary interpOses no law
requiring her Kings spouse to be
"Ebenbuertig" and the lady is 50 very
much ION the job" and has won such
golden opinions from the Kaiser. the
King of the BelGians. and King George.
that, once aged Franz Josef departs this
world, and her husband achieves the
imperial throne of Austria, she may
find her dearest wish in life granted.
The Duchess of Hohenberg and our
American princess recently met at the
castle of IanCutz. near Lemberg, the
capital OF Galicia. and the seat of the
iCounts of Potocki. famous in the his
tory of Poland, and related to the noble
Ihouse from which the Polish kings
were chosen at the notorious conven-
tions held first at Warsaw and later at
Krakow, diet composed OF two
houses. the senate, or ecclesias-lOcal
house-and the second or the house OF
mobiles an elective Office which begot so
much iealouscy. internal strife, and in
tris1Ie. and so many pretenders, that II
all ended in the downfall of that un-
fortunate nation and the partition of Po-
Hand among her three powerful neigh
lbors. Prussia, Austria, and Russia.
| Princess Albert RadZiwill, while the
guest of the Potockis, won the admir-
alton of all by her posing FOR several OF
the pictures representing the distin-
! guished people whose portraits hang in
the famous gallery at Lancutz, Including
the famous beauty of the Potoch fam
iIy. who lived in the middle of the eight
eenth century, Greek by birth.
Princess Dorothy's beauty took all by
storm, and the future Emperor OF Austria
as we'll as his wife showered favors upon
her and made her promise to visit them
in Vienna on her way to Rome. where
she and Prince Albert have been com
manded" by his august and very naughty
mother to spend the winter season In
her palace, and to take their place In
the ultra-exclusive set which the elder
princess has led for years.
No wonder Prince Albert is so very
proud of his beautiful American wife
whom his stern, straightlaced old parent
| never would have recognized, owing tC
her fathers escapades years ago at
Cannes, and his tragic fate and end, were
il not for her beauty and sweet dis.
position.
Great honors are in store for the
Duchess Of RoxbuTghe-May Goelet, OF
New York that was. One of the last
things King George did before sailing