Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-11-10

Napoleon acted toward Eugene with chivai'
rous loyalty He laid before her all the disad-
vantages of the brilliant yet uncertain posi-
tion he was offering her. He explained to her
his unpopularity with the old French aristo
Gratis. the bad will of certain great powers, the
possibility Of his being assassinated by some
secret ociety Of which he had become mem
Der in his adventurous youth. There were hos
tiities even in the army, in his opinion the
most serious danger; but he could cut them
short by declaring war.
"I would not have 1t otherwise" she an
swered IT will take my risks beside YOU 30
may 1 be worthy!
AS a queen she lacked dignity. She had
not been born to the solemn selfappreciauon
of royalty; and she was mixture or nghtness
and austerity, generosity and sense, Kindness
and Indifference, in which the transitions
were abrupt and disconcertng to French order
Illness.
Alone among the sovereigns OF Europe
Queen Victoria had received her cordially;
more, she had taken up Eugene and imposed
her on the courts Of Europe, Yet even at
Windsor, where the imperial couple were re-
ceived with extraordinary pomp, Eugenie's In
souciance threatened to play her bad turn
that would have illustrated her un-imperial
attitude.
A quarter Of an hour before they were to be
in the throne room, Eugene discovered that,
among the hundred trunks Of the French visi-
tors. hers alone had not arrived The en-
peror was deeply mortified that the discovery
should have been made so late, as showing
lack of discipline and serene orderliness. and
on his advice Eugene had already begun to
pretend headache due to suppressed seasick
ness when one of her ladies dared to offer
her choice of gowns.
A blue dress of the simplest description
seemed the only one that promised we'll. Great
ladies and maids fell upon it deftly, and In
few minutes the blue gown was readjusted to
the empress. So Eugenie-without jewels,
flowers at her corsage and flowers In her hair
appeared before the British court in her own
dazzling beauty She made an immense sue
cess.
What most touched victorias heart, 1t may
be told was the pathetic and pretty way In
which the young couple spontaneously confded
certain doubts and fears to her expe-
rienced matron and mother of eight They
had been married two years. and as yet there
was no heir. When the little prince-imperial
was born, one lady only was permitted to be
present with the doctors and the serving.
women all the time. This was the Countess Of
Ely, Queen Victorias intimate friend, sent over
from England to help along.
AS had been done for the King of Rome, 1t
was announced in advance that should the In
FAINT be boy cannon would fire, not twenty.
one times, but hundred.
It happened after midnight, and the Paris
ians, awakening, counted the cannon-shots.
When they got past twenty-one, the Parisians
rolled over in their beds and yawned: well,
she Is lucky"
The bigamous old Jerome had bitterly per-
secuted her as an interloper. His son, Plon-
Plon her hater and detractor by inheritance,
was not persona grata with Eugene. SO Ma
poleon, who enjoyed smoking cigarettes with
the reprobate father OF the present pretender,
Victor, was forced to visit him secretly. One
day, some time after the marriage he came,
sat down, and said:
Prince, does your wife make you scenes?"
NO" replied the husband of Cloulde, the
daughter of Victor Emmanuel
There Is no living with Eugenie" sighed
Napoleon. "The moment I give audience with
another woman risk violent quarrel"
Crack her on the side of the face the next
time she makes you scene" suggested Plon-
Plon.
Don't think of It," exclaimed the emperor
you don't know Eugene; she would open a
window of the Tuileries and cry Policel"
To the end women took advantage Of this
breezy independence, natural exuberance, and
ineradicable unconventionality of Eugene to
lay traps for her. Hers was continuous per-
Torrance of the Lady walking amid the rout OF
Comus. Among others, Nine. de Metternich
wife of the Austrian ambassador, seemed to
have vowed Eugenie's destruction. Once, at
Fontainebleau, she almost led her into going
to the races in short skirts
My dear Pauline" someone asked her,
would you counsel your own sovereign to
get herself up in short skirts?
That Is different" replied the Metternich
my empress is a royal princess, real en-
press, while yours my dear, is Mademoi-
selle de Montijo,"
Was she only Mademoiselle de Montijo? =
Did she not keep her word $50 may I ba
worthy" to the Empire and to France?
Twenty years later, In her dealings with
Bismarck after the Franco-Pruseian war, Eu.
genie had practically concluded treaty while
refusing to concede IAN inch of French terri.
tory" The Republicans, taking the deal out of
her hands agreed to the loss of Alsace and
Lorraine