The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-28

Hapsburg princess and bound TO them
by the ties of blood. Thenceforth they
hung about their plebeian relation. eager
to pick up anything from conquered
lands to second hand Partisan gowns
that he might pass out But the mo-
ment fortune turned upon him they, too,
ton Il wife from her husband and a son
from his father. Surely HapsburS blood
il as cold as It is blue.
Ambitious matchmaking always has
been an important side line i'll the busi-
ness of the Hapsburgs. 1t was by a
marriage into the family OF Frederick.
IN. HUhenstaufen. that they became q
ruling house and passed from being the
terrors of the valley of the Aar. which
they raide'l from the ruinOuS old castle
the Hawks Nest-that still rises above
that pretty little Swiss river. And II was
by vell-CalcUlated marriages that they
of Hungary and Bohemia.
1t was by marriage. too, that the dis
tinGuishing facial feature of the family
was acquired. the big under lip Of u
Polish princess having now been trans
mittcd through a dozen generations. until
il has become the trademark of the
The Hapsburg lip, The IiapsburG lip"
Napoleon exclaimed in childish delight
when he first looked on 70 rtrait of the
daughter OF the Caesars who had been
b":rOthed to nm. And the possession OF
the Hapsburg lip is today the pride alike
OF Francis Joseph and of King Alphonso
of Spain.
HapsburE Eugenics.
Francis Joseph remains as firmly at
tached as any of his ancestors to the
policy of employing matrimony for the
promotion Of the imperial interests. 1t
so many members of his family have
reacted from and rebelled against this
Hapsburg custom in the Curse Of his
reign.
II Z. g, Pa,,;,;,r I'D x.r-t,>Io ,,koror,o
tho Emperor's only son. the Crown
Prince Rudolph. dying with his mistress;
the Archduke Johann finging the Order
Of the Golden Fleece at the Emperor's
an opera singer into the unknown: the
Archduke Henry exiled ror a morganatic
marriage with an actress: the Archduke
ma ANS daughter and becoming plain
Herr Burg; the Archduchess Louise we'd
ded by the Emperor to the now King Of
Saxony. fleeing the Dresden Court with
her sons tutor. whom she afterward
exchanged for a pianist: ArchduNe Leo
pold Ferdinand marrying n girl from
the stage and living in trees and eating
little Swiss wife; and morganatic
spouse was the choice of tho late Crown
Prince Franz Ferdinand. for whose as
sassination lasS summer Canadians. Aus
tralians. HindSSs. Algerians, and Ger
mans are numbering one another in
Flanders this winter, and Siberisns.
Turks, and Arrenians are hunting one
another like rabbits in the snowdrifts
of the Caucasus.
Hapsburg eugenics has not only fled
the Family closet with skeletons. but it
has also brought upon the race a gen
eral suspicion of degeneracy. Nor does
the new heir to the throne. Crown Prince
Charles Joseph. give sound promise of re-
deeming the imperial lineage from Bis
marck's cruel thrust wnen the German
chancellor spoke of the idiot archdukes"
at Vienna. For the Crown Princes
grandfather bore the description of men
tally Irresponsible" and his father was
the helpless victim of lunacy. while his
Crown Princess. the Bourbon-Parma
Zita. comes of family OF twenty with
no less than eighteen detectives among
them.
The Dual Monarchy.
Peoples as well as princes are but
pawns in the Hapsburg game. Perhaps
the policy Of the house has been a neces-
sity of the situation. Perhaps the only
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