The Delta independent., 1914-02-27
PRINCESS "s0LD OUT"
EVENT At PARIS SURELY MARKS
THE DATE IN ROYALTIES.
Madeap Daughter Of Old King Leopold
Of Belgium Left Little for her
creditorsNEmpty 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 daugn-
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. Al
least the shopkeepers of Vienna thins
so. Half the time the princess con
fidential maid has the real jewels OF
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
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 conn
Dental agents" seek to discern wher
she wears her real jewels.
Do they hope to put the sherin OF
them? Not at all. II is to sell hel
more goods-and get payments on ac
count OF what the princess owes them
When she wears her real jewels II If
a sure sign that Princess Louise is IL
funds. Often she fools them this way
also.
The princess is the queen of shop
pers. Fifty hanging wardrobes in
single Paris fat!
They crowded four spare bedrooms
like a clothing warehouse, lining the
walls and forming alleys up and dowr
the floor.
The Paris sheris found the so ward
robes empty.
Gone. the s23 coo sable coat, made
OF "a hundred black imperial pelts, Sc
lected by an expert during two years
so they told her. Gone, the chin
chilla ulster with silver fox collar thai
was charged $1,000: gone. the ermine
lined chinchilla mantle. whose price
had been $4,000. Gone. also, the
tailored gowns which she bought ter
in an afternoon; the evening cos
tunes, dishabilles. and afternoon
gowns. signed by the great makers al
$500 to 81 900 each; and all those 1os
pairs OF new shoes and 300 new
hats" and the Louise handkerchiefs
at s25 each. which the Vienna papers
told about
All the sheriff found to levy on was
furniture and bric-a-brac, too heavy oi
bulky for surreptitious removal'
Truly. a strange sale in Parts-the
furniture of a princess Of reignins
house, brought up with the greatest
royalties OF Europe, and legal heiress
to a third OF the fabulous fortune OF
her father. King Leopold-of which
with his last breath, he tried. appar
entity, to disinherit her.
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 a single lump OF 'twenty-six mil
lions" could disappear" lump OF
"fifty-four millions" could belong &c
the estate or not. a third lump of nj
teen millions" be described as al
that 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 sun
total OF their millions having been YET
discovered!
An interminahle sale. The first aft
ernoon II lasted five hours! Thrice, II
solemn tones, the governmental func
tionary called aloud the princess
name-to appear. pay the debt anc
claim her goods. Thrice there was
silence. Then, her default established
he proceeded to sell the complete din
ing room set of furniture-whict
brought $446. 1t was the highest price
OF the two days sale, The total tive
days sale brought only $500.