Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-06-03

4HH 49, ASANt ~ P0St Nh0 - WIN - III
IN couragement there. In appearance
AMT she is no different from any old lady
0 OF Lightweight, unless the keen OBJ.
server may see that she has suffered great and
enduring sorrow.
The aged woman is Eugene de Montiio, for
seventeen years, 1~S5S-1S7O, empress of the
French, wife of the Emperor Napoleon III and
mother of the Inflated prince imperial. who was
killed in the English war against the Zulus in
1879.
me old woman of sorrows has been an en-
press OF romance as well as of France. Grand
daugnter OF an lrishman named Kirkpatrick and
a Spanish lady, with her mother and sister she
roYed the cities of Europe for seven years. look.
ing for a great marriage. Scarce of noble birth
though her father was known as the count ~
IeDa IN Spain, a petty title at best, her cbancas
= a grand union seemed vague indeed. At the
age OF twenty-five she achieved a notable IL not
"a grand marriage. Nc doubt it is a very grast
tnlng to be empress of the French and renrtad
one OF the most beautiful and charming woman
IN the world and to set the fashions of the mi.
verse. For 1T was to Eugene that the worId
owed the terrible crinoline or hoopskirts ond ~
dreadful chlgnon of the sixties. Previous IL az
plrth or the prince imperial, Eugene. yerv win
OF her figure, assumed the hoopskirt. The worIJ
= women foioWed suit to the great amusement
and derision of their daughters and granddaush
tiers. Yet Napoleon III was far from heinz
grand man, though he was emperor of tbo
French. In the early ffties the countess Of Tobo
and her TWO daughters, the elder a dark Snaniord
the other a type of northern beauty. chestnnt
mar, floiet eyes, q perfect complexion and lovely
oval features, appeared at various Euronaan
capitals. The mother lived a semibohemian life
at hotels, something which was not approved NJ
those days, when grand ladies' believed that A
lady should live at home and visit only at the
houses of her friends Tho Oirfc 20 - -.
when they should have been in a, convent. So.
attractive as they were, and popular, 1t was
noted that many more men than women called
upon the Spanish countess and her daughters.
Women viewed the attractive Spaniards with
lifted eyebrows of question and s~uspician. The
daughters of the, countess of Teba were beautiful.
rarely SO. They were not Of great accomplish
ments and it cannot be said that they were re-
spected in the fullest sense Of the word. They
were interesting, they were lovely, but in the
early fifties it was held that ladies Of rank should
not live at hotels or be seen at public dining
rooms.
However, both girls made brilliant marriages.
The elder married the duke of Alva, owner Of a
historic title. This marriage was regarded as a
triumph for the managing mother. A wit said
that the duke was unfortunate in that she did
not choose to marry both daughters to him by
papal dispensation, the implication being that not
SfSh bhOf POPO " DlduuiSuIu6uI5
of the countess. No one, however, imagined
that the lady would be successful beyond her
widest dreams and see her younger daughter
an empress, received with honor by the courts
of Europe, especially by the intensely proper Vic
toria Of England.
Eugene had been, it was said, a good deal OF a
femme gallante, or very forward lady in love
affairs. She had thrown herself at the heads of
two young noblemen. At one time she had a
violent fancy for the Spanish count di Galva
and tried to commit suicide by swallowing shoe
backing when he made it plain that he did not
desire her. Women gagged her as a wild and UNI
disciplined girl, a sort Of Lydia Languish, Becky
Sharp and Lady Teazle combined, a girl calcu-
lated to fill the mind of even ardent suitors with
misgivings as to her conduct as a wife. She
was always Spanish and never understood the
French. She had great personal courage and
feared nothing. She was a meddlesome match
maker and in after years earned the unenviable
distinction of having married the famous song
stress, Adelina Patti, to the marquis of Caux, a
marriage which turned out most unhappily. She
was superstitious, dealt with mediums, would
flrt audaciously, yet was always cold and emo
tionless within.
This was the young lady of twenty-five. who
appeared in Paris in 1851, just after Louis Napo-
leon, president of the republic, had accomplished
the bloody coup d'etat in which his troops shot
down hundreds of innocent persons along the
boulevards Of Paris. But Napoleon caused him.
self to be re- rejected president for a term OF ten
years, and later, in 1851, had himself declared
emperor of the French.
The previous life of the new emperor had been
rather discreditable one. He had been a con-
stable in London, a penniless exile in Hoboken.
n. j., he had made several futile and ridiculous
attempts to restore the empire, his reputation
was that Of a silly. impracticable dreamer. He
had had many dlsreputable love affairs and It
was known that an English woman who was
enamored Of him had financed his successful
effort in that direction. Soon afterward he
caused her to be deportcd by the police,
Though he bore the magical name OF Rona-
parte, it was doubtful that he had a drop Of Ma