The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-10-23
ALONE LOUISE
FACES0LD AGE
AND POVERTY
German Princess, Once En-
wed Beauty Of Germany,
Not to be Envied
NOT RENE M 3 E RE u
Attempted to Write opera
But Failed-Attempts fu'
ture of Common Folk
NOT RE M E M Il E RE ID

Montreux, Switzerland, Oct. 20
The cscapades of some royal iaoie'
Of Europe in the days before "e
war. romances in some cases anu 80
others Just plain scandals nave Pu'
sued their more or less thorny PAIN"
,f recent wears without attracting
much attention. People nave h"u
more important things TO th'hh
about. But now more ligh'sohe
topics find room for dlscuss'oh' VI
the end of some womans search .iol
happiness will revive memories u
the "beautiful princess" who, score
of years ago, left the beaten tracks
and went off at a tangent LOOKING lor
love in a cottage.
Today the rate Of exchange on Ger
man marks is showing up as Dig
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 generous tamliles
anxious to preserve what was lett oi
the ancestral name, sufficed for COM
Portable and quiet living at some
Italian watering place. But the IN
come in marks that equalled $l0ooo
or $4,000 year a dozen years ago
is now no more than few trans a
: month. SO Louise Of Saxe-Copur2
Gotha, in Paris hotel, is consld-
ering the offer Of a casual Amerl-
can acquaintance to give her the
money to pay the funeral expenses
: of her count, Geza Mattitich, and
Louise Of Saxony, actually in penury
on beggarly stipend is described as
a little old woman, in great physl'
/. cal misery, spending most OF hel
days in prayer in bare chapel"
Not Remembered.
. Two years ago an elderly woman
calling nerself Madame Tosc!li re"f'
: ed little house naar Monrrenx. Nc
one then remembered her az Louist
Crown Princess of Saxony. or as thu
: Countess Montignoso. 1t was onl!
when she asked the Saxony author
: ties to increase her allowance, II
marks, that her identity became
known. No increase was granted
and the income that in 1912 CAV
this woman $4,000 year, nov
amounts to less than 20 cents a day
Her brother, at one time Archduk
Leopold of Austria, is now plain Leo
pold Woelfng, Swiss citizen. n
: was compelled last year to seek pau
per's aid in Regensburg.
Louise Of Saxony, whose husban
later became the Saxon King, foun
court life dull in 1902, and ran ava
with Andre Giron, the tutor OF ne
children, of whom she had six. The
went to Geneva, where the princes
said the royal rank of the crow
prince, her husband, did not make U
for his royal stupidity.
Giron did not last. The princes
friends said he was only means
an end, liberty. Saxony gave her a
allowance, the title of Countess Mol
tignoso, and let her go. But for yea
there was pickering over the chi
dren particularly the baby, Princes
Anna Pia Monica.
Lived In England.
Louis lived in England, with fir
quent visits to the winter resorts
Italy. She met an Italian piani
named Enrico Toselli. Music was
bond between them, and she marie
Toseli in London in 1907. She w
then 81 years old and he was "a. K
ferring to her earlier life Louise tn,
said: "Now my future is going
be happy as plain Madame Tosell
But this Louise was not so fort
nate as Louise of SAKE Cobur
Gotha, who could say. the other d
in Paris, referring to her husban
II have lost him who was the wht
~ world to me- Five years after t
London marriage the Saxon Loui
was estranged from her musical HI
band, and they were quarreling abe
their only child, a boy.
Louise displayed her musical al
ity by writing an opera, "The Bizal
Princess" which failed, however,
do what she most wanted, bring il
little money. Also she published
autobiography in 1911 in which s
treated some Of her relatives wi
out gloves.
During the war Madame Toselli '
lost to the public view Now she
emerged again in this cottage
Montreux, 81 years old living in $
row and poverty, trying to rs
money, spending most Of her time