The Parker post., 1914-04-25
PRINCESS "S0LD OUT"
EVENT AT PARIS SURELY MARKS
THE DATE IN ROYALTIES.
Madcap Daughter of Old King Leopold
of Belgium Left Little for Her
Credtors-Empty Wardrobes
All They Could Find.

Princess Louise of Belgium has Just
been sold out by the sheriff in Paris.
1t marks the date in royalties. The
papers of all Europe have their edi-
torials upon it.
What can we be coming to-" they
ask The furniture Of kings 6augh-
ter sold by public auction"
But the Princess Louise was not in
Paris.
Let the things go!" she said grand
ly. Princess Louise was in Vienna,
wearing her magnificent jewels. At
least the shopkeepers of Vienna think
So Half the time the princess con-
fidential maid has the real jewels on
and Louise wears limitations of them.
The shop keepers Of Vienna know
this also Half the time both maid
and princess wear false jewels, the
real ones being snugly hidden in a
box of blacking on the kitchen mantel.
And the shopkeepers of Paris know
this also Also those of Paris, London,
Rome. Geneva, Nice, Abazla and Ma
pies When the princess is within
their bailiwicks keen eyes of conf
Dental agents" seek to discern when
she wears her real jewels.
Do they hope to put the sheriff on
them? Not at all. 1t is to sell her
more goods-and get payments on ac-
count of what the princess owes them.
When she wears her real jewels it IS
a sure sign that Princess Louise is in
funds Often she fools them this way
also.
The princess is the queen of shop
pers Fifty hanging wardrobes in a
single Paris fiat
They crowded four spare bedrooms
like a clothing warehouse, lining the
walls and forming alleys up and down
the floor.
The Paris sheriff found the so ward
robes empty.
Gone, the $4,000 sable coat, made
of "a hundred black imperial pelts, se-
lected by an expert during two years"
so they told her. Gone, the chin
chilla ulster with silver fox collar that
was charged $11 ,00O gone, the ermine-
lined chinchilla mantle, whose price
had been $4,000. Gone, also, the
tailored gowns which she bought ten
tunes, dishabilles, and afternoon
gowns, signed by the great makers at
$500 to 81, 900 each; and all those 100
pairs of new shoes" and 300 new
hats" and the Louise handkerchief"
at S25 each, which the Vienna papers
told about.
All the sheriff found to levy on was
furniture and bric-a-brac, too heavy or
bulky for surreptitious removal!
Truly, a strange sale in Paris-the
furniture of a princess OF relgn1ng
house, brought up with the greatest
royalties of Europe, and legal heiress
to q third of the fabulous fortune OF
her father, King LeopOld-of which,
with his last breath, he tried. appar-
emily, to disinherit her. D.
Of course, the great shopkeepers OF
Europe don't believe it. They believe
the disinheritance to be trick against
themselves The fortune is so great
that single lump Of "twenty-six mil
lions could disappear" lump Of
"fifty-four millions" could belong to
the estate or not, third lump of eff
teen millions" be described as "all
that I got from my father and mother"
and three trunks full of securities be
supposedly disputed about to this day,
without the lists Of them or the sum
total of their millions having been yet
discovered!
An interminable sale. The first aft
ernoon it lasted five hours! Thrice, in
solemn tones, the governmental func-
tionary called aloud the princess
name-to appear, pay the debt and
claim her goods. Thrice there was
silence Then. her default established,
he proceeded to sell the complete din
ing room set of furniture-which
brought $446. 1t was the highest price
of the two days sale! The total two
daVS' sale brought ONLY ST 800