Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14

Margaret Cassini told me later)
American girls are very close about
their real heart affairs She said
this to illustrate the fact Cor affirma
tion) that she herself, who had been
so much engaged In the newspapers,
returned to Paris from Washington
unengaged to any tman-and ignorant
(as she insisted) of Miss Alice Roose-
velt's engagement to Nicholas Long
worth.
You and she were great friends"
said.
yes, we visited together. Once.
went with Alice to Philadelphia, visit
ing the Morrells, and another time to
Baltimore. House visits. Those were
lovely days.
Although insisting that she had re-
turned to Europe unengaged, she
confessed Git was in those days.
shortly after her return. she said
this) an immense admiration and
liking for American men.
She married a Russian. Count
Cassini was transferred to be Russian
ambassador at Madrid. There, in his
embassy, she met Count Loievsky, one
of the secretaries.
Count Loievsky was young man
of wealth and position. with a
promising diplomatic career before
him.
The young couple were quite happy.
Countess Loievsky gave birth to two
sons.
But the war was looming.
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TOCNT LOIEVSKY had been ap-
~ pointed to the Russian embassy
at Constantinople. The countess was
about to join him there when the
brusque attack on France and Bel
GUM darkened the world. She re-
manned in Paris, hoping for a change
of post.
1t came. the next year-to Bucha-
rest. At first it seemed favorable.
but II became the year of the first
Russian retreat from the Carpathi-
ans, and communications with the
Balkan states were daily more diff
cult and unsafe. Countess Loievsky
remained in Paris. watching her OPP
portunity. She had her two little
boys to think of.
In 1916, with the second Russian
offensive, Rumania decided to join
the allies. The countess travelled to
Bucharest with her babies-arriving
on the very day of Rumania's decla-
ration of war! Just in time for the
tragedy. Bucharest was the enemy
aviators' aim. and for weeks together,
mother and children were driven to
the legation cellars for safety. sell
dom seeing daylight.
Time II passed. and things went
worse Count Loievsky deemed 1t his
duty to volunteer. Joining Admiral
kolchak's army, he had placed his
wife and children in safety, as he
deemed, at Copenhagen. But as the
terrible times went on his letters
ceased to come through.
One day she went to bank for her
allowance. There was no money!
"All Russian property has been con-
fiscated," said the bankers How
can we make advances. when neither
YOU HOG your .huSUdH0 Will nave any
thing to make good WITH
She sold her jewels, one by one.
The children were delicate. by war
privations. She made her way to
Switzerland, placed the little boys at
Leysen, and took a room at Mon
treux-where she opened shop. She
sold gowns ready to wear, and her
taste In dress turned to account. She
was even making money, but you've
heard of competition? 1t was q queer
kind of competition. Switzerland
became so overrun with refugees that
1t narrowed the market. Such bar
gains in Jewels, furs, ETC., were Of
fered the Swiss natives! Fewer and
fewer foreigners with money came.
The countess was actually going
out as seamstress by the day, when
by the intervention of the late Grand
Duchess Vladimir and others. in 1920.
her husband, who had been hiding at