South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-03

the Grand Duchess Marie had
brought a considerable increase in
her daughters income. the latter
decided that the best thing she could
do was 10 make the best out OF a
very bad business, and so she re-
tired TO Baden-Baden, where there
existed at that time a large Rus
sian colony. She created for herself
an existence in which she found
more than one pleasant side and
which the presence Of her husband
troubled but little. because he much
preferred the pleasures, such as
they were, OF Carlsruhe. TO the joys
OF the Casino and OF the Llchten-
thaler alley which made Baden SO
attractive for those who liked the
kind of life one leads in those wa
tering pleasures. where health is
the last thing which is taken into
consideration.
This ill-assorted couple had stwo
children; one son. Prince Maximil-
ian or Max, as ne is familiarity call
ed. of Baden, who will in all prob
ability succeed his cousin as sover-
eign Of that state, and who married.
after an unfortunate love affair with
Grand Duchess Helene Of Russia,
who Tilted him almost on the eve
of their marriage, the eldest daugh-
( ter Of the duke OF Cum berland, the
Princess Marie Louise Of Hanover.
He has had two children, one of
which is the now widowed duchess
/ of Anhalt.
! The latter, as I have just related,
| had been violently in love with a
most ineligible sutton. when she had
been forced into the bonds of mat
rimony with the eccentric young
man who died the other day. The
object of her affections had been an
officer belonging TO the Prussian
crack regiment of dragons of the
guard. whom she had met during a
visit on which she had accompanied
/ her parents, at the Berlin court.
/ Things had gone so far that. If we
are 20 believe the rumOrs that cir
culated at the time, the princess was
| out to elopse with her admirer,
when she was stopped by one of
her mothers maids, who caught her
going out Of the grounds of the
castle of Ballenstedt at an early
hour in the morning. when she gave
the alarm and caused the plot to be
discovered.
The Only Way Out.
Marie of Baden was compelled to
! return home, and everybody treat
ed her so badly and made her so
miserable as a consequence of her
unsuccessful 'escapade" that at
last she was glad to marry Prince
! Leopold of Anhalt in order to es-
cape from the thraldom of her ex-
| istence in her parents house. The
wedding was hurried on, a wonder
| full trousseau was provided for the
bride. after which she was told to
accompany her husband TO his an
| cestral castle of Ballenstedt and to
/ try TO make the best of her life with
/ him there.
1t seems that I'm a certain sense
she made the best of il, inasmuch as
she was a thoughtful woman, fond
of study and music; one, moreover.
who found pleasure in promoting
artistic tastes in the small town of
1 Dessau Of which she became the
sovereign lady. But she never got
on very we'll with her husband
family and people, with whom her
widowed sister-in-iaw, Elizabeth.
vas a great favorite. She used TO
say that if ever she became a widow
she would bid good-by TO Germany
and settle somewhere in Italy or in
the south Of France. 1t is not likely,
however, that she will now be in the