Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-02

assigned is a bent and pald old z woman of eighty-eight. Painfully she IF N hobbies from cot to cot, giving a EAA flower here, pat and word of en- M couragement there. In appearance MNS$Y she is different from any old lady @11@'>@ of eighty-eight, unless the keen ob- server may that she has suffered great and enduring sorrow
 The aged woman is Eugenie de Montiio for seventeen years. 1853-1S70, empress of the French, wife of the Emperor Napoleon III and mother of the ill-fated prince imperial who was killed in the English war against the Zulus in 1879
 The old woman of sorrows has been an en- press Of romance well of France Grand daughter of an Irishman named Kirkpatrick and a Spanish lady, with her mother and sister she roved the cities of Europe for seven years look ing for a great marriage. Scarce of noble birth though her father known as the conn+ of Teba in Spain petty title at best her ebancas for a grand union seemed vague indeed At tba age of twenty-five she achieved a notable if not a grand marriage. No doubt it is a very great thing to be empress of the French and renuted one of the most beautiful and charming women In the world and to set the fashions of the mi verse. For it to Eugenie that the world owed the terrible crinoline or hoopskirts and tbo dreadful chlgnon of the sixties. Previous to tba birth of the prince imperial Eugenie very vain of her figure, assumed the hoopskirt The world of women followed suit to the great amueen,ort and derision of their daughters and granddaueb ters. Yet Napoleon III far from being q grand man, though he was emperor of tbo French. In the early ffties the countess of Toba and her two daughters, the elder a dark SDaniard the other type of northern beauty chestnut hair, violet eyes, perfect complexion and lovely oval features, appeared at various Epronean capitals. The mother lived semibohemian life at hotels something which was not approved of those days, when grand ladies believed that a lady should live at home and visit only at the houses of her friends. The girls were of an age when they should have been in a convent So attractive they were and popular it was noted that many more men than women called upon the Spanish countess and her daughters. Women viewed the attractive Spanards with lifted eyebrows of question and suspican 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 ifties it held that ladies of rank should not live at hotels 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. wit said that the duke unfortunate iii that she did not choose to marry both daughters to him by papal dispensation, the implication being that not
 
 of the countess No one however. imagined that the lady would be successful beyond her widest dreams and her younger daughter empress, received with honor by the courts of Europe, especially by the intensely proper Vic tora of England.
 Eugenie had been, it said, good deal of a femme gallante, or very forward lady in love affairs. She had thrown herself at the heads of two young nobemen At one time she had a violent fancy for the Spanish count di Galva and tried to commit suicide by swallowing shoe blacking when he made it plain that he did not desire her Women gauged her wild and disciplined girl, sort of Lydia Languish, Becky Sharp and Lady Teaze combined a girl calcu- lated to fill the mind of ardent suitors with misgivings to her conduct wife. She was always Spanish and never understood the French. She had great personal courage and feared nothing. She a meddesome match maker and in after years earned the unenviable distinction of having married the famous song stress, Adena Patti, to the marquis of Caux marriage which turned out most unhappily. She was superstitious, dealt with mediums, would firt audacousy, yet 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 reelected president for term of ten years, and later in 1851, had himself declared emperor of the French
 The previous life of the emperor had been rather discreditable He had been a con- stable in London, a penniless exile in Hobokeu, N. J., he had made several futile and ridiculous attempts to restore the empire, his reputation was that of silly, impractcable dreamer. He had had many disreputable love affairs and it was known that English woman who was enamored of him had financed his successful effort in that direction. Soon afterward he caused her to be deported by the police
 Though he bore the magical name of Bona parte, it doubtful that he had drop of Ma