THE SUNDAY OREGONTAX, PORTLANB, MARCH- 13, 1914.
ROYAL PRINCESS, LUISA OF TUSCANY, WRITES ABSORBING MEMOIRS
. Rich in Romance and Tragedy, Interesting Story of Intrigue Which Affected History of Europe, Blighted Hopes and Stained Court Honor Unfolded.
An Explanation by the Princess
have frequently been urged to make a public repudiation of the
various inaccurate statements which for nearly ten years, have been cir
culated regarding my life and actions.
Hitherto I have maintained silence, because I have disdained to
reply to those who have maligned me. It has, however, been indicated
to me that as my sons are now approaching an age when the mendacious
assertions in question may be communicated to them, it is my duty, as
their mother, to make public the actual teasons which led to my leaving
Dresden and to my ultimate banishment from -Saxony.
That is my principal motive in publishing my own recital of the
facts, and I am likewise desirous that future historians of the' Houses
of Saxony and Hapsburg should not perpetuate errors through lack of
contradiction dn my part.
I also wish to give an unqualified denial to the prevalent assump'
lion that I am the author of "Confessions of a Princess." I neither wrote
the work nor supplied, directly or indirectly, any of the material it con
tains, and I am at a loss to understand how any woman could be credited
with writing such a revolting account of her amours.
In conclusion, my thank re due io mV dear friend, Mrs. Maude
Mary Chester Foulkcs, for her kindness in helping me prepare my book
-for the press.
MEMOIRS OF A PRINCESS.
Herewith la printed tha flrst In
stallment of the memoirs of Princess
Lulea of Tuscany, entitled "Her
Own Story."
This is a human document reveal
ing the Inner life of a Princess.
The story gives the details of a
court intrigue successfully waged
against a much-mallgned woman,
who would have been Queen of Sax
ony If she had not Bed the court.
It U a woman's life story, tinc
tured with the color of romance and
at times of tragedy.
BY PRINCESS I.TJISA. of Tuscany.
CHAPTER I.
8 WAS born at the Imperial Castle of
Salzburg, on September 2, 1870. My
father was Ferdinand IV, Grand
Duke of Tuscany, and my mother was
Princess Alice o Parma.
Genealogical details are frequently
dull, bo I do not propose to write at
any great length about my family his
tory. My father's ancestors had
reigned in Tuscany since the death of
Gian Gas tone, the last Medicean Grand
puke, in 1737, wnen Francis, Duke of
Lorraine, and his wife, the Archduchess
Maria-Theresa, assumed the sover
eignty until the death of Charles VI
made them Emperor and Empress of
Austria. Their 6econd son, Pietro
J Leopold o, then took the title of Grand
Duke and he was succeeded by his son,
Ferdinand III. who had married Prin
cess Louisa-Marai-Amalia of Naples.
Ferdinand, who was the first sovereign
to enter into diplomatic relations with
the French Republic, died in 1824, and
his son, afterwards Leopold li was my
paternal grandfather.
Leopold being very delicate as a
young man, it was considered desira
ble that he should marry early, with
the object of securing the succession.
Princess Maria-Anna-Carolina of Bar
ony was chosen for his future wife and
negotiations between the two courts
resulted in a marriage by proxy tak
ing place at Dresden in 1817.
The Princess, a highly nervous girl,
was so terrified at the idea of meeting
- her unknown bridegroom that she re
I fused to leave Dresden unless accom
panied by her sister, to whom she was
devotedly attached; and cajoleries and
threats failed to change her decision.
LESSON TO OREGON TAKEN FROM
CALIFORNIANS LOYALTY TO STATE
L. Samuel Says Even Floods and Frosts Are Called Blessings, Water Ts Unmetered and Use Is .Encouraged,
While All People Unite in Efforts to Bring About Improvements.-
"C
i ALIFORNIANS are optimistic.
philosophical upbuilders," de
clares L. Samuel, who recently
returned from a trip South. "They be
lieve in California first, last and all of
the time, and they talk it and nothing
else. Never once in all my travels did
I hear one word about 'hands round up
and down the Coast.' Never once did I
h 5ar any other state mentioned; no,
not even once did I bear Pacific Coast
mentioned. It was always California
climate, California fruits, California in
dustries, California's wonderful future.
This loyalty to California and her
home industries, and the magnificent
roads they have built and are furthe
extending, together with the personal
pride every person takes in his prem
ises, and the planting of ornamental
shrubbery along the roads, also the at
tractive stopping and resting places of
hotels everywhere, are making Cali
fornia attractive and prosperous. It
takes water to grow ornamental trees
along, the roads, and they spend mil
lions of dollars to bring the water to
them. And right here I want to say
that it strikes me as absurd that Port
land is about to expend 4500,000 in
order to curb the use of jvater, when
a much better Investment would be to
make water more plentiful and cheaper
and encourage a freer use of It, even
if another pipeline must in time be con
structed so that our gardens , and
grounds may be made more attractive.
Our beautiful lawns, shrubs and trees
are Portland's chief Summer charm.
"Those 100,000 rose bushes which
Portland says it will distribute next
Fall to encourage people to follow my
picneer efforts of planting roses on the
curb will stand a mighty poor chance
of coming to rose-bearing fruition un
less water is made available. We must
forget all about the extension of that
metering system (although my home is
now on a meter) and make water more
available. Every taxpayer can, if
necessary, afford to offer a premium
for making Portland still more beau
tiful, and water will do It.
Rain Called Blessing.
"Talking about water; it rains in
California when it does rain; as it
never rains in Oregon, and this in spite
of the fact that in Southern California
they speak of that section as The
Kingdom of the Sun.' Unbelievable as
it may seem, more than nine Inches of
rain fell in Pasadena in less than four
days. When I referred to it, they as
sured me that this rain was a double
blessing; first, it assured bountiful
crops; second, the destruction and
damage done gives immediate work to
the unemployed. That's California
philosophy.
"When I mentioned that the frost
last year destroyedka good part of their
citrus crop, they assured me that that
also was a great blessing, aa Ji kilted
The two girls, therefore, arrived at
Florence and the unexpected happened,
for the old Grand Duke Ferdinand III,
who was a widower of 69, fell in love
with the unmarried princess. He
shortly afterwards married her and In
this way she became the mother-in-law
of her own slBter.
Two daughters were born of my
grandfather's first marriage; one died
when she was 18 and the other. Prin
cess Augustine, married the present
Prince Regent of Bavaria, who recent
ly celebrated his 90th birthday. In
1833 my grandfather married again, his
second wife being Marie-Antoinette,
daughter of Ferdinand III, King of
Naples, and his wife, Caroline, a sister
of the ill-fated Marie-Antoinette of
France.
Queen Goea to War.
Queen Caroline seems to have pos
sessed considerable individuality and
she must have been a woman of excep
tional courage and iron constitution,
for she Insisted on accompanying her
husband to the wars and rode by his
side, indifferent to discomfort and fa
tigue. She bad 16 children and nursed
them all herself; the youngest infant
went through these campaigns with
her. In charge of a nurse, and the
Queen used to dismount at intervals
and suckle her baby, sitting by the
roadside, undisturbed by wars or ru
mors of wars. Her last child was in
fact almost bora on horseback.
Napoleon Bonaparte found an unex
pected champion in this strange wom
an, who was the grandmother of Marie-
Louise. She had always regarded him
as her peculiar enemy, but after his
downfall she was touched with com
passion and strongly resented, the ef
forts made by the Viennese court to
separate him from his wife. "II fallait,"
she declared, "que Marie-Louise at-
tacbat les draps de son lit a sa fenetre
et s'echappat sous un deguisement."
("It was necessary for Marie-Louise to
fasten the bedclothes to the window
and escape under a disguise.")
Grandmother Inspires Fear.
My grandmother had ten children,
my father being the eldest. I have dim
recollections of her,' but she did not
emulate her mother, jthe redoubtable
Caroline, in a single trait; she was
stiff and a slave to etiquette. She was,
however. Intelligent. We were always
very much afraid of her, and she was
mean to miserliness; indeed, to dine
with grandmother meant getting hard
ly anything to eat. She died near
Salzburg in 1898, a lonely, colorless
woman; and heredity, so strong te our;
off all scale and other fruit pest, and
from now on their fruits would be bet
ter than ever, and they naively called
my attention to It that their fruit in
spectors were alert and permitted no
Florida citrus fruits to be landed in
California, as It might be scale-infested.
Incidentally, too, Florida grape
fruit and oranges compete with their
own fruits, which wouldn't be - good
business. That's some more California
philosophy.
"Californians slyly poke fun at us
about our auditorium. They say we
lack unanimity and they advise that we
build it in sections and give various
interests a section thereof, either In
their front yard or back yard; other
wise we will never build an auditorium.
They claim hat while we have been
talking auditorium Ban Francisco has
been practically rebuilt, the Panama
Pacific Exposition has been designed
and nearly finished, San Piego has be
come a city of 80,000 people, and It had
only 40,000 when we began talking
auditorium.
San Dleffo Prepares Fair,
"San Diego has also prepared a most
artistic creation of an exposition which
they tell you is only a California Indus
trial fair and not a world's fair. It Is
located on 15 acres In their 1400-acre
park in which thousands upon thou
sands of ornamental trees have been
planted and are growing. One large
orchard containing every known va
riety of citrus and other fruits which
grow in California has been planted,!
is now two years old and will be in
bearing when the fair opens. It takes
water to do this, because it rains less
in San Diego than in any other part,
of Southern California, bnt they have
brought the water there and are using
it unmetered and things are growing
luxuriantly. It is not nearly as large
as the San Francisco exposition but it
gives promise of being unmatchably
artistic.
"San Diego men possess a remark
able amount of nerve. Nowhere in
history can we find that so few people
raised so large an amount all among
themselves for exposition purposes,
namely, Jl.000,000. Mr. Collier, of this
enterprising coterie of men, gave $100,
000 towards it. They rf er with par-,
ticular pride to the fact that th,eir
wonderful show is produced without .
one cent of Government aid.
"Oregon should be represented at the
Sam Diego fair by industrial displays
of such things as they do not produce;
there. It will be a waste of time and
money to show things they do produce,
because their strong spirit of loyalty
always causes them to give preference
to Southern California productions,
even if a little higher in cost.
"Just at this time they are holding
a home industry fair preliminary to
the big exposition of next year, and,
it 4i4 my heart $004 to hear those peo-1
:-:g.;;;.:-:.:a;.K
family, gave to her children the indi
viduality she had been denied.
My father's childhood was passed in
Florence at . the Pitti Palace, which
George Eliot has described as "a won
derful union of Cyclopean massiveness
with stately regularity. The story
goes that Puca Pitti, the opponent of
the tMedici, built it to out-rival the
Strozzi Palace, and he is said to have
boasted during a banquet -that he
would build a palace with a courtyard
which would alone be able to contain
the whole of the Palazzo Strozzi. The
building was not completed until the
middle of the 16th century, when it
came into the possession of Eleanor of
Toledo, the wife of Duke Cosimo I,
and it was thenceforward the home of
the Medici until my ancestors became
Grand Dukes of Tuscany.
The Pitti is too well known to need
detailed description. It has always
struck me as imposing in its cold way,
but I do not think it could ever have
been a "home" for Its occupants. The
salons are splendid, the art treasures
are wonderful; but it is cheerless, and
the only rooms in it which I ever covet
are the tiny boudoir and bathroom of
Marie-Louise, which are decorated and
furnished in the best Empire style.
My grandfather's court was as gloomy
pie talk about the superiority of their
products and what great things they
are accomplishing. No man in San
Diego ever said to me, we are going
to build a city.' Everyone is positive,
ba says, 'we are building it,' and when
you look at what they have already
done you realize that they are in earn
est and1 are doing it.
"The Panama-Pacific Exposition at
San Francisco is a huge affair. Many
Of the larger buildings are Hearing
completion. They already charge an
admission fee of 25 cents, but hun
dreds of people visit the grounds daily.
If the Oregon building was now under
construction and a big, bright-looking
sign with the word "Oregon was on
our site, we-would gain considerable
advertising. New York has begun her
building, and while our own exposi
tion commission could scarcely be im
proved upon, yet we would get imme
diate advertising if our building was
under way.
"About a year ago there was talk of
planting our native shrubs and orna
mental trees pn the Oregon site, and
to take a few trainloada of Oregon soil
down there to help our trees to feel at
borne. I don't know whether this
would have been practical, but if it
were practical we have lost an ex
tremely valuable advertising feature,
as it is now too late to start planting.
Hundreds of trees and palms 25 to 36
feet high are growing on the grounds,
and thousands of ornamental shrubs
are In boxes ready to be dropped into
the places designated for them where
their growth is to be continued. Hun
dreds of gardeners are engaged in this
work alone.
"There is a sign on the Oregon site
with the word "Oregon' thereon, but it
is scarcely legible. It has a sort of
disreputable "don't - care - a-hang' ap
pearance, and if nothing else is done
at this time, this sign should be re
painted at once, as an evidence of good
faith that Oregon means to occupy the
ground assigned to her. And, by the
way, I suggest to our home folks who
visit the grounds to refiain from reg
istering their names on the signboard
of Oregon. It is bad form, to say the
least
"A few things that California cannot
touch us on are our matchless Summer
climate, and barring their Tosemite
Valley and big trees our wonderful
snow - capped mountains and awe-inspiring
scenery everywhere; but we
must build good roads to reach the
scenery, and we must build good hotels
in available places among our attract
ive scenery, so that tourists ariu health
seekers will feel comfortable when
they do eome and will be eager to tarry
in our midst, or rather tn the midst of
attractive Oregon."
French to Raise 10O Old Gnns.
CorrwpoDdBce of Assoslatsd Press.
PABlS, Marco ?. The French Ministry
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as the Palazzo Pitti itself, and the
Grand Ducal children' were brought up
most strictly. At o o'clock every
morning they were expected to say
"Bon jour" to their parents, a proceed
ing which entailed much ceremony.
They were taken to an ante-room ad
joining their parents bedroom, and
with their governess and tutors in
clese attendance ' the little Princes
stood on one side of the salon and the
little Princesses on the other. All coq
varsation was forbidden, and when 5
o'clock struck the Groom of the Cham
bers threw open the great doors and
they walked in solemnly , and kissed
their parents' hnds. Coffee was then
served, and the children took formal
leave and went to their lessons. Ten
o'clock was the luncheon hourt when
all the family met, and my great
aunt, Princess Louisa, was always
much in evidence. She was a dwarf,
with the crooked, malicious mind that
so, often goes with a crooked body. She
had very long, monkey-like arms, and
whenever she was displeased she would
fling them out like the sails of a wind
mill and hit whichever of her ladies-in-waiting
happened to be standing near
est to her. She was an odious little
creature and hated everybody who was
young and pretty, with the result that
of Marine has Invited bids for raising
the 1000 brass guns which have lain
undisturbed for 222 years in the Bay
of Fort La Hogue, on the English
Channel. The point was the scene of
the five 'days' battle of La Hogue in
May, 1692, when seven warships were
sunk. The combined British and Dutch
fleets, under supreme command of Ad
miral Russell, afterward Karl of Or
ford, consisted of 82 ships of the line.
The French fleet, under Admiral Count
de Tourville, numbered 44 large ships
and a number of brigs and gunboats.
After their defeat by the allies the
French ships, with a number of trans
ports, were cut down and burned by a
boat expedition under Sir George
Rooke, better known as the captor of
Gilbraltar. A salvage contractor re
cently asked permission to raise the
great number of brass guns which
went down with these ships and it was
his offer which has prompted the Min-
BRANDY "MONOPOLY" IS HIT
Arders to Sew Russian Minister Urge
Temperance Promotion.
ST. PETERSBURG, March H. (Spe
cial.) The intimation contained in
the Imperial Rescript to M. Bark, the
new Minister of Finance, that M. Ko-
kovtsoff, the former Premier, did not
sufficiently promote temperance and
cheap credit among the peasants, and
that M. Bark's chief duty will be to
dissociate the growth of revenue from
the brandy monopoly, is received with
surprise akin to the feeling engen
dered by the news of M. Kokovtsoffs
dismissal and bis elevation to the dig
nity "of Count The liveliest curiosity
is evinced in the measures promised
by the sovereign to reduce drunken
ness. M. Krivoshein is an ambitious, strong
man of enlightened views, and is a per
sonal friend of M. Goremykin and M.
Bark.
HUNGRY WOLVES MENACE
Intense Cold and Loss of Tsnal Food
Supply Causes Trouble.
(Correspondence ef Associated Press.)
BELGRADE, March 7. Packs of
hungry wolves, driven out of the for
ests by the intense cold and loss of
their usual food supply, have appeared
in the environs of, Belgrade.
The animals have become a real
menace even in the most thickly popu
lated regions. A Belgrade manufac
turer while driving recently from bis
factory near town to his home was
pursued by a pack. Only the fleetness
of his horse saved him from death. The
beasts evidently were famished and
when they sighted the sleigh they set
out in pursuit with bloodthirsty howls,
which so frightened the horse that his
driver did not need to urge him for
ward. ' ,
A Michigan man who doubts the ability
of his son to take care of money has left
him $100,000 under such conditions that he
will not set the benefit of it until be is 90
years old. The son objects to waiting that
Iocs and has contested tht uJU,
she was cordially detested even by her
own relations.
After lunch the children played in the
Boboli Gardens, which were then better
kept up than they are today. I shall
always remember, how disappointed an
English friend of mine was when I took
her to see the gardens for the first
time. She, is a romantic person, who
quite expected to see something very
beautiful and not the badly trimmed
hedges and ragged grass which met
her horrified gaze.
At 8 o'clock came the diner de cere
monie, which the children heartily en
joyed, as they bad had no food since
10 o'clock in the morning, and my
father has often told me how ravenous
ly hungry they used to become.
Father Has "Affairs."
Papa was a handsome young man
with black curling hair, brown eyes,
and an amiable expression. He was of
medium height, slender and well knit,
full of energy, and possessed the best
disposition In the world. He was very
clever and acquired any number of
accomplishments, as well as being pro
ficient in the more serious studies
which his future position required.
Like most of the Hapsburgs, papa
was always attracted by a beautiful
woman, and he fell in and out of love
NEW YORK DISTRICTS CHANGE; REALTY
VALUES DROP OFF MILLIONS IN A YEAR
One Block Depreciates $3,269,000, While Old Wholesale Dry Goods District Loses $5,000,000 Fifth Avenue
Section Loses $9,000,000 Because Employes Congest Street at Noon Hour.
BY . LLOYD F. LONERGAX.
NEW YORK, March 14. (Special)
The general impression through
out the country is that owners
of New York City realty continually
increase in wealth, especially if their
holdings are in the downtown sSction.
That this is not so is shown by the
assessment rolls made public by the
Tax Department, and some of the fig
ures, are startling.
For example, the block bounded by
Twenty - second and 1 wenty - tnira
streets, between Fifth and Sixth
avenues, has within one year suf
fered a loss in value of $3,269,000. Na
turally the owners of this land are not
particularly happy. The principal loss
in value of this land was due to the
faot that two big department stores
those of Stearn & McCreary have gone
away to the new drygoods district
The old wholesale arygooas oisirici,
which is roughly from Bleecker to
Fourteenth street along Broadway and
nearby thoroughfares, has dropped off
in value approximately $5,000,000. The
reason is that many of the wholesalers
have moved up to .Fourth avenue. An
other heavy loss' is shown in the Fifth
avenue section from Fourteenth street
down to Union Square, where values
have dropped off $9,000,000. owing large
ly to the incoming of manufacturers
whose employes congest the streets at
the noon hour.
All of this will show conclusively
that the lot of the New York realty
dealer is not always a happy one.
Columbia University, which spreads
out all over a large section of the
upper West Side, is not making ex
penses, according to the announcement
of the trustees. They, want X3,724,zia
to run the university next year, and
announce that this year's deficit 1
$61,316, which they hope to make good
by special gifts. At the same time it
is realized that these special gifts can
not be counted upon annually, so an
effort at retrenchment is being seri
ously made.
The Columbia School of Journalism
has adopted new tactics with its stu
dents. Heretofore these students have
been sent out on the streets with as
signments to cover real events. They
have made more or less nuisances of
themselves, and unless a story of the
same event 'happened to appear in the
daily newspapers, the instructors never
new whether or not the student had
exaggerated.
Under the new system they will be
shown moving pictures and Instructed
to write from what they see. In this
way tfie faculty hopes to be able to
train the scholars in accurate obser
vation in reporting events as they hap.
pen.
Dr. Taicott 'Williams; director of the
School of Journalism, in discussing the
new system, catd: "In adopting this
itew - experiment in education, the
very easily. At the age of 18 he had an
affair de coeur with a petite bourgeoise,
who lived near the Pitti Palace, but
directly it was discovered he was shut
up in his rooms for a fortnight, and
forbidden to see or to correspond with
the fair one. At last the youthful
lover discovered a means of commu
nicating with his inamorata. He pro
cured a large sheet of cardboard, on
which he cut out the letters of the
alphabet, and covered over the cut-out
portions with transparent papqr. When
night fell he placed the sheet of card
board before -his open window, put a
lighted candle behind certain letters
until he had completed a word, and in
this ingenious way conveyed his mes
sages to the girl, who stood in the
street facing the palace.
Papa was only 21 when he married
Princess Anna, the daughter of King
John of Saxony, who translated Dante
under the nom de plume of "Phila
letea." Anna's mother. Queen Amelia,
was a daughter of Prince Maximilian
of Bavaria and a twin out of two
sets of twin girls. Her own twin.
Princess Elizabeth, married Frederick
William IX, King of Prussia; the other
twins, Sophia and Marie, married re
spectively the Archduke Franz-Karl
(father of the present Emperor of
Austria), and Frederick-August II,
King of Saxony, and it is thus remark
able that two sisters became in turn
Queens of the same country.
Princess Anna Popular.
Princess Anna captured all hearts on
her arrival in Florence, and when she
died in Naples, three years after her
marriage, from typhoid fever contract
ed through eating oysters, she was
universally and unteignedly lamented.
Her little daughter, Marie-Antoinette,
was taken to Saxony and brought up
by her grandparents at Dresden until
she was 14, when her father remarried.
She was a gifted girl with a charming
talent for versifying, but she died of
consumption at Cannes in all the
promise of her youth and beauty.
My family's connection with Tuscany
as reigning Grand Dukes terminated
after the defeat of the Austrlans al
Solferino. The terms of the Peace of
Villa Franca compelled the Emperor
to surrender Lombardy to Victor Em
manuel and also to consent to the in
corporation of Tuscany into the Italian
dominion. My grandfather was in
tensely Austrian at heart, and he re
fused to consider any decree which
made him a constitutional sovereign.
The political situation became so men
acing that the Grand Ducal family had
to leave Florence in precipitate haste
on April 27, 1859. The fugitives were
my grandfather and grandmother, my
father, then- a widower of 24, and his
little 1-year-old girl, my aunts and
uncles, and the widow of the old Grand
Duke. It was a magnificent day, in
tensely hot, with cloudless azure skies,
and as the carriages containing the
royal family left the Pitti Palace
crowds thronged the streets and" im
peded the horses' progress. The Flor
entines viewed their Grand Duke's de
parture quite calmly, many saying with
smiling affability which greatly en
raged my grandfather, "Addio Babbo
Leopoldo."
The traveling carriages soon left
Florence far behind, and only clouds
of dust showed the road taken. The
state of . the Grand Ducal amily was
not an. enviable one.-for they iad left
home so hurriedly that tiiey had no
personal belongings of any kind, and
everything, even to baby clothes, had
to be bought en route.
The gorgeous tapestries, exquisite
pictures, jewels, enamels, gold and sil
ver plate and art treasures of every
description were left behind at the
Pitti; .and when King Victor Emmanuel
went to the palaco he slept between
sheets embroidered with tho arms of
the fugitive duke.
When the unhappy exiles reached the
heights from which a beautiful view of
Florence is obtained, my grandfather
ordered the carriages to stop, and he
and his family alighted in order to take
a last farewell look at their home. They
were all very much affected, and with
one accord broke down and wept bit
terly. They sat by the roadside in a
tearful row and endeavored to recover
their composure, but when my aunt pro
ceeded to dry her tears the awful fact
School of Journalism hopes to over
come its greatest obstacle that of giv
ing the students practice in reporting
actual events, and at the same time
making it possible for the instructors
to know how accurately and thor
oughly the work has been done. With
the motion pictures, the instructors can
become familiar with all the facts and
thus be able to check up the students'
stories."
The first pictures to be used are
three reels of the Balkan W ar films,
which probably will make the students
much better leg men than they are.
There are 100,000 families in New
York City who live on incomes less
than $800, which experts estimate is
necessary to support the average-sized
working man's family io decency.
This statement was made at the Har
lem Y. M. C. A. by Seba Eldridge, secre
tary of the Department of Social Bet
terment of the Brooklyn Bureau of
Charities, v who lectured under the
auspices or- the Board of Education.
Other statements in regard to the Stan,
dard of living in New York were:
That there are thousands of women
workers in New York who are living
on St. S5 and $6 a week, when $8 is
the lowest income on which any woman
should be expected to support herself.
That one-third of tho workingmen's
families in New York do not have
means to purchase sufficient food,
clothing, shelter and other necessar
ies, and that this one-third and an ad
ditional one-sixth, or one-half alto
FEEL HEADACHY. DIZZY. BILIOUS?
. CLEAN YOUR LIVER! A Oil A BOX
Sick headaches! Always trace them to
lazy liver; delayed, fermenting food in
the bowels or a sick stomach. Poison
ous, constipated matter, gases and bile
generated in the bowels, instead of
being carried out of the system, is re
absorbed into the blood. When this poi
son reaches the delicate brain tissue it
causes congestion and that dull, sicken
CANDY
S IO CENT BOXrAtlY DRUG STORE
was discovered that no one in the party
had a pocket handkerchief. This was
certainly unpleasant, for the tears,
coursing down cheeks already covered
with dust, had left dirty and gritty
channels which did not improve the ap
pearance of the "illustrious" family who
were in despair at their ridiculous posi
tion. The situation, however, was saved
by my grandmother, who on this occa
sion displayed a little of her mother's
originality. Lifting her voluminous
skirts, she took a corner of her equally
voluminous lace petticoat and with ex
treme care and delicacy proceeded to
wipe away the tears and dust from the
faces of her family, until, at last, some
what rehabilitated, they re-entered
their carriages and continued their
flight.
After leaving Tuscany my grandfath
er bought the castle of Brandeis in Bo
hemia, and another residence near
Carlsbad called Schlakenwertli. where
he spent much of his time. My father
visited Schonbrunn, but he was very
unsettled and miserable, and finally
went to Bavaria. He spent his Summers
on the Lake of Constance, where Prin
cess Luitpold had a villa, and eventual
ly built a villa for himself, on quite
original lines, at Lindau. He would not
employ an architect, but had the work
carried out under his own din-Jtions by
an engineer and a few workmen. Papa's
interest in house building did not, how
ever, commend itself to my grandfather,
who wished him to marry again.
"Eligible" rrfneesa Sought.
The Grand Duke always hoped to ba
re-established in Tuscany, so he strong
ly urged my father to look out for an
eligible princess, and he, like a dutiful
son, at once commenced a round of vis
its "with a view to matrimony." His
choice fell on Princess Alice, of Parma,
whom he met at the house of her unele,
the Comte de Chambord. who resided
at Frohsdorf, near Vienna.
Princess Alice was the daughter of
I-ouisa, Duchess of Parma, whose
mother was the Duchesse de Berri. She
had married Duke Charles of Parma
when-a mere girl, and her handsome
but flighty husband was murdered
(some say at the instigation of a gen
tleman jealous of .his wife's honor), at
the early age of 32.
Troubles broke out in Parma which
eventually ended in ft revolution, and
the Duchess with her four children fled
in disguise to Switzerland, where they
lived for two years, practically penni
less, in a tiny house near Zurich. Things
changed, however, for the better, and
the Duchess bought the castle of War
tegg near Rorschach on the Lake of
Constance; but she did not like Swit
zerland, possibly on account of some
unpleasant memories, so she went to
Venice, where she bought, the Palazzo
Cavilli in order to be near her half
brother, who lived there. The Duchess
died at Venice of typhoid fever at the
age of 42, and her illness was so sudden
that she did not see her children before
her death, as the girls were at the Sac
re Coeur Convent near Brcgenz, and tha
boys at the Jesuit Seminary of Feld
kirch. When the education of the yountr
Princesses was completed, the eternal
question arose of marrying them as
quickly as possible. One married the
late Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid. Rnd
the Princess Alice became my father's
wife.
The marriage took place on January
11, 18G8, and on December 2 of the same
year, a son, the first child of a family
of 10, was born.
My mother was a pretty, petite, fair
girl at the time of her marriage, full of
energy, and quite ready to enjoy life
thoroughly after her dull upbringing
at the convent She danced exquisitely,
was a fine shot, a good horsewoman,
and before the babies followed fast on
each other's heels, she lived solely for
amusement. Her jewels are wonder
ful; sho has some of the finest dia
monds in Europe, and possesses what
to my mind is worth more than all
a famous necklace once the property of
Marie-Antoinette, on the design of
which Boehmer lavished all his skill.
After my father's second marriage,
the Emperor of Austria, his third cous
in, gave him part of the Imperial Cas
tle of Salzburg for a residence, and
there I spent my childhood and girl
hood. (Copyright, 1911. G. P. Putnam's SonsJ
gether, cannot save for the time when
support is cut off y the death, in
capacitation or forced - unemployment
of the breadwinner.
Many other things besides the in
come influence the standard or man
ner of living, the speaker said, the
most important of them being cost of
living. Prices in New York have
soared 25 per cent in the last 10 years,
whereas the income lias not advanced
proportionately.
Remedies for these conditions were
put forth as: Adequate pay, the cheap,
ening of amusements and the better
ment of educational facilities, such as
night schools, gymnasiums and clubs;
improvement of conditions under which
men and women labor, and the abol
ishment of the harmful forms of child
labor; the Improvement of dwelling
places, notably tenements, the train
ing of mothers and housewives, the
guiding of children along paths o
strength, self-reliance and self-respect,
and the regulation of prices.
Members of the Woman's University
Clut) 1100 of then will be able to
smoke with their afternoon tea and
their after-dinner coffee, with the
opening of the $300,000 clubhouse at
106 East Fifty-second street tomorrow.
A cozy smoking-room has been fitted
up on the second floor.
A dinner to the president, Mrs. Ed
ward Perry Townsend, with a dance,
will follow the housewarming. Mrs.
Ogden Reid had charge of tho fur
nishing of the club.
ing headache. Cascarets will remove
the cause by stimulating the liver, maK
ing the bile and constipation poison
move on and out of the bowels. One
taken tonight straightens you out by
morning a 10-cent box will keep your
head clear, stomach sweet, liver and
bowels regular, and make you feel
bright and cheerful for months. Chil
dren need Cascarets, too.
CATHARTIC