Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-10
.GOVERNESS TELLS
Of LIFE AT COURT
Young Irish Girl Was Teacher to
Children of Archduke of
Austria.
LATTER FOND OF. HUNTING
Would Leave Guests at Dinner
TO Tell Young Princes
Good Night.

I.pNbo.H. september ".--.ilSS iS|ciS II
Higgins was "A young Irish inmate of
the Sacred Heart Convent at Prague
when she received an Invitation TO be-
come English roverncss to the children
Of the Archdukc Franz Ferdinand.
later murdered with his wife In sara
jevo BY Slav conspirators, She was
with the family right UP TO the time
when the assassination took place
the prologue to the great war.
She has written piquant account
OF life IL Austrian royal circles, OF
which the following is Il part
BY EVELYN ~ HIGGINS.
when on glorious day. in tho
Iose-teeming garden OF the Sacred
Heart Convent at Prague. in Bohemia.
the reverend mother. waving in her
hand letter, came UP TO me and said.
MY dear. would you Ike 10 spend the
summer with the Archdukc and
Duchess Of AUSTRIA" confess felt
as If had met magic
Would / like 10 spend the summer
at the table OF the Throutolgor of Aus
tria, indecd2 OF course. would. and
so. while tn" reverend mother dcvci-
oped for me my duties, how | was 10
be a companion for the Princess SQphie
ana q mentor 10Y the young IQICcS
Ernsti and Max, and almost guest OF
Her Highncss herself, the great phloX
flowers seemed TO stand a; the salute
down the beds as | passed
Then came scrVples and fears. Those
palaces were. people whispered, silded
places with the skeletons OF many
songbirds inside. Uneasy lies the
head that wears a crown might be as
true OF the girl.companion 10 highncss
as OF highncss itself. Would be
frozen with ceremony there and
sneered down by All lordly tradition?
Fearful and discreet. too. hoped.
dressed myself next morning in my
dowdiest, ana boarded the train for
my great adventure
Arrived a; las, at Tanncck. the sta
ton for Bluhnback. the first thrill OF
royalty achieved was upon me. Before
was halfway across the station
was in the midst OF courtcs!es. ODE
stances ard awcl and awful marks OF
respect In Buhnbach the first In!
preston OF Austrian kingsh!p was fair
and good. 1t was no ordinary bedroom
they had given ne. but a little sitting
room. Allied. as all rooms We're in the
archdukc's castles, with curios and
canoes,
ARCHDrtHEs> MAKES
coon IMPRESSION
And soon. as / sat OH the edge OF
the mighty ptH' VIZ" us 'A"o'! IN
the roo! OF 'H'o"e t'"p' o'"eir' ~.
go4a above me "tcH"uGneSS "eI sen
entered !" hcauttV!' S'aN''U" '"-t
o!oo't" woman an 'h'''''''SF 80
sweetness ana u''c' "oSil'"'''' al ne
woEGs' as WIKI '"'"P'e'H ''S'' S.' t"f'
me "t' nan" 80 r'Ss a.. 90" ''' 80 ''''7
Hsh' pc ch''t c'! q ''"''
ma" ''"'"t
greeting an, H.u''''"-N' O.
came q 'oN e'!' ''o'.'''' -
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,,.a ;d..d srov.r ms unr.,,i,;tnr
,.i,dross
"Ard nav" said Her ulrhness TO me.
..ou ,,,s, come doun 10 Inc children
hafore we GO 70 dinner. they ar. long.
inrto see what the new English missile
&c like"
In this first nigh, at Bluhnbach
soon began TO discover the uncasiness
Of my crown even as missile" 1T an
French nun kept repeating 10 me, and
do not talk too freely" until began
to lima CINE that my life here would be
prolonged nervous strain In truth.
the sequel did not justify my fears
talked as freely as -"eT had chance
OF dong and found out as much as
/ could from day 10 day.
Inc Irs' ln'he 'ha' Wa
a, Versailles dissolved nv the state,
,a,. h,,bor IN no tho mower behind the
domee,,c throne NJ the Austrian Crown
pri,ca,s castle For Madeanojselle as
~. +,,,u offoctionotcly called her
had an a,nazinr influence over the
artbdnko
AZ J,lrhphach . dov i'm the life Of the
archduko was tvnical lust of what he
wos-tbe mIdalc-arcd man lacking all
,roacina,ion Who having satiated him.