The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
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wrote her father after she had been in France five days, and she told him that her mother-n-law and her new Corscan relatives were so kind she could not believe all the evil that is said of them" A little later she assured her stepmother that my fathers words have come true, l find the Emperor very lovahle." In six weeks she wrote to Francis "Whenever I am with him l am truly happy" and that "all the world thinks l fear the Emperor. but believe he is afraid of me-" And out of the generous allowance he gave mo, ex- coeding a Hapsburgs dream of muniffs. cence, she lavished gifts on her Aus trian relatives and friends. a wagon load of them almost always being on the road to Vienna
 At the Honeymoon Chateau
 The Emperor paraded his willing cap- tive in imperial progress to various parts of France and she insisted on go- ing with him everywhere. After the marriage formalitles in Paris they had returned to Compiegne, and that palace remains the most distinct souvenir or Marie Louise. No confusing recollections of Josephine cling to it's leafy park and stately halls for she seldom If ever stayed there. On the visitors register French citizens of many minds have pereur. "Vive le Roi de Romel' "Vive UOnS aroused DN the place. NiNe rsih- pereur%" 'sVive le Roi de Rome,' "Vive le Prince" Poor Louise, ingrate. who could not comprehend an imcomparable genlus!' Poor little harp of r fAiglon'' "Vive Ia epublique-Liberte. Egalit, Fraternitep' How times have changed!'
 As the official shepherd herds his tour ist flock the foot wearying parquetry of the palace his mumbed story is of the bridal chamber of Marie Louise and her now tubless bathrooms of her music room, the piano Napoleon gave her, the dimin- utive harp of the King of Rome. and his childish chair sitting pathetically before it as If the little boy purple had only just ran out to romp on the grassy bank of the lake. The camp dining table Of Napoleon is also among the exhibits, an ingenious contrlvance which might ac- commodate a large company of guests when spread, but which often folded half a dozen times could almost be carried un- der the arm.
 The he'd on which Marie Antoinette slept the first night she passed under Bourbon roof and the bed Of the Elm press Eugenie link those unfortunate sovereigns with Marie Louise in the re- factions of the visitor while the statue of Joan of Arc down in the village square recalls that 1t was there the maid was arrested Compiegne thus presents to the memory of the pilgrim a strange, sad quartet of women.
 In the garden of the palace Is stone seat. which Is known as Napoleon's bench since there the eagle often perched in the raptuous days of his welded joys the full meridian of his glory. Yet only four years after those April dreams and April hopes on the garden rench at Com piegne. alien troops burst into that very park and the terrace ran with the blood of Frenchmen defending the honeymoon chateau of Napo'eon and Marie Louise from the assaults of Russia Austria and all Europe banded against the son-in-aw of the Hapsburgs
 (Copywright, 19is-14. by James Morgan)
 Next Sunday-The birth of the King of Rome. and his great inheritage