The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-28
OF SAXONY
 FACES END AL0NE
On BeggarIy Stripend She Is Now Described As "A
 Little Old Woman"

MONTREAUX, Switzerland, Oct. 27. (By Associated Press,) s,)-The esca- pades of some royal ladies of Europe in the days before the war, TO- mances in some cases and in others just plain scandals, | we pursued their more or less thorny paths of re- cent years without attracting much attention. People have had more inn poJtant things to think about. But now more lightsome topics ind TO, '. for discussion, or the end of the woman's search foc happiness will revive memories of the "beautl1ul princess" who, a score CI yea s ago, left the beaten tracks and went or at a tangent, looking for love In a cottage.
 Today the rate of exchange on Ger man marks is showing up as big factor in the final chapters of the lives of more than one such woman So long as marks were good, the al- lowances paid by the generous families anxious to preserve what was left of the ancestral name, suf- ficed for comfortable and quiet liv- ing at some Italian watering place. But the income in marks that equaled s1o,OOO or $15,000 year a dozen years ago is now no more than d few francs a month.
 So Louise of SSaxe- -Coburg- -Gotha in a Paris hotel, is considering the offer of a casual American acquaint- ance to give her the money to pay the funeral expenses of her count, Geza Mattitich, and Louise of Sax ony, actually in penury on a beg garly stipend is described as "a lit tie old woman, in great physical misery. spending most of her days in prayer In a bare chapel"
 Two years ago an elderly woman calling herself Madame Toselli rented little house near Montreux. No one then remembered her as Louise, Crown Princess of Saxony, or as the Countess Montisgnoso. It was only when she asked the SaXony authorl- ties to increase her allowance, in marks, that her identity became known. No increase was granted. and the income that in 1912 gave this woman $10,000 a year, now amounts to less than 20 cents day.
 Her brother, at one time Archduke Leopold of Austria, is now plain Leo pold Woelfing, a Swiss citizen. He was compelled last year to seek paupers aid in Regensburg.
 Louise of Saxony, whose~ husband later became the Saxon King, found court life dull in 1902, and ran away with Andre Giron, the tutor of her children, of whom she had six. They went to Geneva, where the princess said the royal ranl- of the crown prince her husband, did not make up for his royal stupidity.
 Giron did not last. The princess friends said he was only a means to an end, liberty Saxony gave her an allowance, the title of Countess Mon tignoso, and let her go. But for years there was ,ickering over the children particularly the baby, Princess Anna Pia Monica.
 Louise lived in England, with fre- quant visits to the winter resorts of Italy. She met an Italian pianist named Enrico Toselli. Music was a bond between them, and she married Toselli in London in 1907. She was then 37 years old and he was 24. Re- ferring to her earlier life Louise then said: Now my future is going to be happy as plain Madame Toselli."
 But this Louise was not so for tunate as Louise of SaxeCoburg- Gotha, who could say the other day in Paris referring to her husband: T have lost him who was the whole world to me-" Five years after the London marriage the Saxon Louise was estranged from her musical hus- band, and they were quarreling about their only child, boy.
 Louise displayed her musical abil- ity by writing an opera, "Tle Bizarre Princess" which failed, however, to do what she most wanted, bring in little mon y. And also IA pub lished an autobiography in 1911 in which she treated some of her rela- lives without gloves.
 During the war Ma&ame Toselli was lost to the public view. Now she has emerged again in this cot tage at Montreaux, 52 years old, liv- ing in sorrow and poverty, trying | to raise money, spending most of her time ir prayer, thinking of the days when her bold escapades created one of the greatest scandals in the courts