The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-02


Foreign Affairs in Prussia, was IN
position to protect him, and his talents
were such as to make mis- retirement
a grave diplomatic bmnder, while the
years of unquestionable fidelity anu
devotion between him and his wife
atoned for much"
OF the present Italian court we have
pretty pictures, including one of Queen
Elena, in a short skirt and blouse,
coming into the Quirinal garlens--pro
tected from the public gaze by higl
stone walls-with her children and
their English nurse, and playing about
with them in the sunshine She has
a little automobile which she runs
about the garden, and generally with
out accident, although when she was
learning to use it, the King being upon
the seat with her she ran it up against
a big tree and nearly killed both OF
them
A Czarina with Martyr Look
Gimpsed at Great Coronation.
1t was at the coronation of Nicholas
II. that our author first saw the ruling
pair of Russia
The Czarina was easily the most
beautiful woman to be seen, and many
spoke of her as the artists ideal OF
the queenly queen But her loveliness
hoJ pOtbinrr IF N. vopit,y which soal,
a public homage; it had rather the
appealing gentleness which made her
mother, under the happy freedom of
English skies, the most beloved prin-
cess of her day, and to me she was
more the tpye of the sheltered woman
to be mated to Brutus of lofty soul
Her face upon the coronation day
was charged with profound emotioo-
it has haunted me ever since. 1t was
like the face of martyr walking with
measured steps to her funeral pyre.
The the man who was the center
of the gorgeous pictures, whose auto
cratic aloOfness and sanctity of per
son were proclaimed by every possible
accessory of pomp and sacred cere-
monial, produced in himself no illusion
of royalty such as may impress and
thrill even the most democratic when
face to face with a king who is really
kingly. His narrow forehead and re
ceding chin, visible even behind the
beard, spoke little of intelligence and
nothing of power, while the insight
ficance of his small form was emphas-
ised beside the tall men of his family
splendid-looking fellows, all over six
feet"
AT the German court our author
found an empress who has almost no
social existence apart from her hus-
band, except the little evening eats to
which she invites a few old friends
who are interested in her charities,
or, perhaps, in mourning, and cannot
therefore, go to the Schleppencour
They congregate about nine o'clock
in the Louis Quartorze salon of the
Schloss. which is in gold and white
brocaded hangings, and after the Kai-
ser has finished his dinner and she is
at liberty the Kaiserin comes in. The
servants pass around tea and later on
some wine; there may, perhaps, be a
little music and upon rare occasions
there may be a few men. But his
Majesty never comes. He says frank
ly, Il don't care for women which no
body believes to be really true!"
But from the Kaiserins tea our au-
thor energies presently to recall the
romance of the American Countess Won
Hatzfeldt, who sparkled and was dis
approved by Augusta in the reign of
William l.;
Gay Countess Won Hatzfeldt,
Whose Father Was an American.
The daughter of Persian actress
and rich, indulgent American father,
she had not long been introduce at
the German court before her lively es-
capades excited and amused us Her
husband adored her, and even after
she went off with young army officer
he took her back-when he found her
one winter evening kneeling before
him in the snow as he left his house
tenderly drew her up into his arms
and carried her indoors.
1T was a little drama of the nobility
Of mans rare forgiveness, but it soon
,,ecame a tragedy Of the woman's usual
paying, when Bismarck offered Hatz
feldt the post as Ambassador to Lon
don, but, acting upon the commands Of
the Empress, demanded hat he di-
vorce his wife. Hatzfeldt refused point
blank, but the insistence Of the Coun-
tess won the day the legal separation
was made, with all the world to know.
and Hatzfeldt was officially alone in
his Inequalities of the diplomatic
world OF London.
His divorced wife was frequently
with him and he lived with her openly
upon her country estate, and at last