The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-16
La Marquise de Fontenoy
| OfALTI dislikes being preached
At. and has given freQucnt dem

~ OfALTY dislikeg being preache d
AZ, ana has gtven frequent dem
L " Unstrntion of Its sentiments in
mis- connection since the days
When queen Elizabeth OF England, an
srily interrupted the Prelatc In the
'.i,as. OF h!s discourse. which she con
SACRED was getting too personal by
roughly ordeI.ng him To Ego back TO
his text" The late Queen Victoia
was equally impatient and during hcr
, ,g reign of more thin sixty years
portant divines who incurred ner
wrath by preaching at her when in
Nitcd to occupy the pulpit in her pres
cnce. 1t did not matter whether she
was preached NJ In terms OF loyal
commentator or OF concentration. She
considered the one In Just as execra-
Die taste as the other, as an act Of
disrespect and OF irreverence. Indeed
son, that she vetoed the name OF
Bishop Samuel Wilbertorce, Of Win
chester, on each OF the several occn-
sions that he was nominated bv tn,
Premier OF the day for preferneut 20
the i'rimucy of All England and TO the
dignity or Archbishop OF Canterbury.
The most recent case OF divine In
curing Imperial wrath In this con
necuon is the Hungarian Bishop Pre-
chachazka. who in the course OF an
Of women OF rank and OF wealth, al
budapest. assembled for the purpose
OF promoting mission work ana char
NY w among ,m the poor, went out OF his
hounce the Archduchcss Augustine,
VIE of the Archduke Joseph, and
through her mother, grandchild OF
Emperor Francis Joseph. for "paradin.
In SILK and satin dresses, plumed pic
ture hats and diamonds when viaitin.
The poor. when inspecting Charita bid
Institutions and when engaged In all
those many philnnthropic enterprises
y
Now there is no kinder hearted wo-
man in existence than Archduchess
Augustine. She is not beautiful. and
she has no great prctcnsions to Gle
unaffected in her manner and char
actcr. and during the nineteen years
that have elapsed since her marriage,
all Of which she has spent at Budapest,
or at one or another of her husbands
country seats in Hungary. has devot-
ed herself to public and private chart
ties, especially TO tho latter, taking
the Initiative in innumcraible philan-
herself the most unbounded populari-
~ among the poor and the suffering at
Budapest
While at home and in ordinary life
she is very quiet and almost severe
~ plain in her dress. resembling in this
respect her murdered grandmother.
Empress Elizabeth, as also the Queens
of England and OF Norway, the two
CZarlnaS OF RUSSIA, ana queen Maria
Cristina of Spain, she makes a point
OF arraying herself with particular
splendor when visiting the poor. She
has been taught by her experience OF
twenty years or more in charitable
work that In the first place the poor
appreciate, as compliment. that royal
t. should dress up" to visit them in
stead of attempting to dress down" TO
their level. Then. too, she knows that
the POOR look for splendor IN royalty,
and that they are disappointed when
they do not find 1t, and, finally, she
realizes that poor people seldom have
the opportunity of being brought into
close touch with beautiful dresses and
magnificent jewels, and that by dom
ming them she gives them pleasure 1t
is the same feeling that prompts the Of
fcers' wives of the crack regiments of
the German. Austrian and English
armies to don their finest gowns and
their most beautiful Jewels, when pt-
tending regimental entertainments CIV
en- either by the non commissioned Of
ficers or by the rank and file, who re-
gard this in the light OF q compli-
ment.
Tho bishop added that the archduch-
css would do far better to wear the
commonest of cotton or serge dresses
when going about amongst the moor.
and In giving this advice showed an