The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-20
: Her Mothers
 Forgiueness--- And Gets Only $1,OOO from the Millions She Hoped
 to Inherit

PES HE unhappy and notorious Princess de Chimay-born Clara Ward, of Detroit, Michigan, has again left America after a brief and very disappointing visit The Prin- cess, broken in health both her beauty and her fortune gone returned to seek forgiveness from her mother, who was dying.
 The prodigal daughter had returned, but, alas, too late In place of feasts and rich raiment she was met with the warning she must not appear before her mother, unless she wished to kill her. Alone, and paying this last penalty of her will ful career the Princess remained in close hid ing in New York, praying for her mothers con dition to improve that she might at least win one word with her. She was told it is said, that her presence in America must not be made known for fear of it's coming to her mothers ears and of it's probable effect The Princess obeyed But unexpectedly soon, her mother died She died without ever having known that the daughter who had caused her much un- happiness was within speaking distance!
 And after she had died it found that she had left the Princess de Chimay just one thou sand dollars out of her million-and-a-halfdollar fortune. A large proportion of her money did indeed, go to the Princesss two children by the Prince de Chimay, but this must be added sor- row for the prodigal daughter, because she is not allowed to see her children. There can be no doubt that while the oncebeautiful Clara Ward crept back to America to win, if possible, her mothers forgiveness, that there shrewd reason for this outside of her own proper sentiments There is little doubt she felt that if she could once show herself again in her mothers life she would receive the bulk of her fortune. In this she was disappointed.
 And so as nothing was to be gained by re- maning in America, she sailed away quietly for France it is said couple of weeks ago, un- known, still poor-and with the problem of how to keep body and soul together for the remain ing years of her life before her.
 Such is the last punishment Of the once-beau- tiful Princess de Chmay, who had the adoration of her husband, the love of two wonderful chil- dren, the promise of wonderful social career and a fortune large enough to have kept her in happiness all her life. But she chose to give up all the thinsg in life worth while for life of wantonness.
 A mothers love never dies-all the centuries have proved that But this dying mother had made her will in the English home to which her second husband had taken her, and 1t had done for Clara Ward all that she was deemed to merit "a pittance of $1,000.
 Many an American girl would find such a legacy godsend, solving the knottiest problems affecting her future. To Clara Ward, who has squandered scores of thousands on pleasures of the hour that pittance only represent the husks earned by her prodgal acts.
 For more than dozen years the names, Clara
 
 Madame Ricciardi,' have stood throughout Europe symbols for nearly all that woman ought not to be. They reflected humiliation upon the whole body of American women, for in the gay European capitals Clara Ward, Princess Chimay, was catalogued a type" Her Desire to
 "Marry Murderer"
 Twenty years ago her position was truly enviable No American girl had married into a more exalted social position, for Prince Chimay and Caraman was closely connected with the royal family of Belgium and was an unusually worthy member of his class. She enjoyed from the estate of her father, the multimillionaire Michigan lumber man. an income of $5O0O0 a year Besides, the purses of her mother and a millionaire uncle were open to her almost with out limit. Her beauty dazzling and pro- claimed all over Europe. She had presented to the Prince, her husband two charming children In spite of all these blessings, she was restless and discontented. It is told of Clara Ward that as a girl of seventeen in fashionable London school, she wrote in her diary: "The humdrum life Is not for me- I must feel, must have emo tions. Ordinary marriage and snug respecta- bility appal me. feel that 1t would be joy to marry murderer"
 The presence of her children could not restrain her. She began to visit Paris incognito making the round of the gay cafes and music halls At one of these places 'temperamentat, Gypsy fiddler caught her eye and played to her with exaggerated passion. He Janscy Rigo Then and there he won her-as abundantly shown in testimony given at the hearing of Prince Chimays divorce suit.
 When the Princess left her husband to go to Paris 1t was shown that she was accompanied by Rigo, courier and the latters wife. In the rail , way train the courier inquired whether the Princess did not regret her children. Her answer was:
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