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F YOU were heir to a throne or a metn-
hrr at some rnval familv. would VOU
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renounce title, position and brilliant pros
? feds for lovef
J? . Would you give up the adulation of
' ' Subjects, abandon a life of pleasure, ease and
j $ fashion, and bravely face the world, with its
i u hard and hitherto unknown conditions, for a
woman you loved, though she be below you
t-in rankt And remember the fetich of rank
in monarchical countries.
1 4 Perhaps you would, being an American,
J Tkttowing little and caring less for the glamour
and prerogatives of the purple. To one born
to the purple, however, such sacrifice is much
more difficult.
During the last decade a number of such
sacrifices for love have startled the courts of
Europe. Time and again one near to a
throne or high in court circles has renounced
his or her hopes of preferment in order to
wed an affinity.
"IVait," said the courtiers who opposed.
"Wait. We will set the time when they will
bitterly lament having given up title and posi
tion for love."
What has time toldf Let us see.
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T HASN'T been so loner sines cables from the other
i - v aid announced that the love romance of Leopold
Woelfling;, once Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of
' Atutria, had gone glimmering.
k It wsn't Leopold' fault, according to accounts. When
h became enamored of Wllhelmlna Adamovltch, dauph-
ter Of a postman and herself an actress, he did not for an
- Instance place his proud position and his prospects In the
cale with love,
f Brother of the Crown Princess Louise of Saxony, he
liad encouraged, even assisted, his sister In her flight
With Glron, the tutor of her children. He believed that
love should be untrammeled by rank.
, Leopold was always unfortunate in his love affairs.
4 !When he was a young man he adored a young woman
Of the court circle, who, however, gave him little encour
agemert, and finally eloped with a painter.
y Theu. for a time, the prince, to the great disgust of his
family, plunged Into all sorts of dissipation. He became,
ft Is said, a eort of Austrian Prince Hal, and consorted
with all kinds of queer and disreputable folk.
I, Once he wanted to marry a waitress at a railroad sta-
Uor. His relatives took prompt and effective Bteps to
care him of this infatuation by placing him in an asylum
f tor six months.
i He bad not been long out of this enforced retreat be-
ffire he fell head over heels In love with Wllhelmlna
: Adamovltch.
When he announced his Intention of marrying her
there was a row of remarkable proportions. For a man
cf such exalted lineage and proud rank, marriage with
; a woman of the people, according to the special code of
ethics that governs royal folk, constituted the one un
it pardonable sin.
. All this was pointed out to the infatuated archduke.
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f ; . INFATUATION CONQUERED
' "Xeverthelees," he responded, calmly, "1 shall marry
ber,"
"But what will you do?
other words, exceedingly scant raiment appealed to her.
She heeded the appeal.
This was more than Leopold Woelfling, once an arch
duke In the pro idest court on earth, could stand.
It smote his love for the simple life hip and thigh. It
also swept away his Infatuation for Wllhelmlna Adamo
vltch. According to latest advices, he has separated from
her.
Unfortunate as the denouement seems, the fact re
mains that the archduke willingly surrendered for .ove
much mor- than many others of hl rank would probably
have done
Was he a hero or simply a misguided mortal?
Affairs of the heart have caused more commotion In
Austrian court clroles than in any other during tho tost
few years.
For the most part. Austrian archdukes appear to be
an Ill-balanced lot When they fall In love they lose their
heads. And they do not seem to care whether their titles
and prospectr go with their heads and hearts or not
Even the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the
Austrian throne, threw all his prospects to the winds to
wed the woman he loved.
Could you blame him? She was a most lovable and
lovely woman, according to all accounts.
State requirements and court traditions might have
doomed him to an alliance with some hideous woman of
his rank, deemed worthy, by Imperial measurement to alt
upon a throne But what of her as a life companion?
"Not on your life?" said Francis Ferdinand, when
the names of this and that lady were suggested to him
as a life mate.
"I am of the royalty, It Is true; I will need an em
press to share my throne when It cornea to me, but these
women you have suggested to me ugh I"
Then he fell in love with a woman below his rank.
It was plainly stated to him that this woman might be
probably would be the price of a crown and one of the
proudest crowns on earth.
"Nevertheless," he said Just as Archduke Leopold
had said "I shall marry her."
And he married her. She was the Countess Chotek
lovely, charming, well educated; a patrician to her finger
tips, but not of royal blood 1 Ah, there waa the rub.
EMPEROR WAS POWERLESS
Swearing fiercely that the marriage should not be, the
aged Emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph, seot for bis
nephew and violently upbraided him. He pointed out in
terms of command the advisability of the young man's
allying himself with a princess of one of the royal houses
of Europe.
Threatening, entreating, even weeping, the old emperor
employed every persuasive power at his command to
check the marriage.
"If you persist," he said, "you will forfeit your right
to succeed to the throne of Austria-Hungary. I will
have the line of succession changed and will make young
Archduke Karl my successor.
Then the Archduke Francis Ferdinand did rather a
bole thing. He remembered some words his august uncle
had spoken once when off-guard, as It were; at least. In
the privacy of the family circle.
"I am simply taking your advice," he said. "I heard
you say once that in choosing a wife an emperor should
pay no attention to politics and should follow the Im
pulse of his own heart"
"But but," spluttered the emperor.
But Archduke Francla Ferdinand married the lovely
and amiable Countess Chotek and has lived happily ever
since, according to all accounts.
In doing so, Francis Ferdinand voluntarily and for
mally relinquished his claim to the throne of Austria
Hungary. He did it for love, and declared he was glad
to prove In this way his devotion to the oharnilna woman
who had won his heart
In this Instance, love's devotion was not without Its
reward. After a number of years of fuming and fretting,
the aged Austrian emperor decided to recognise the mar
riage of Francis Ferdinand and to acknowledge him, once
more, as heir to the throne.
Was this a case of love's labor lost? It seems not.
The archduke retains his wife, and he will succeed
to the throne if he lives; but none of the children of the
couple will be eligible to the crown, according to present
arrangements.
Tbeen there was the unfortunate Archduke Jonann,
who renounced his royal rights and fled from Austria
with the daughter of a shopkeeper.
Paaaln; from the world of the purple to that of the
plebeian, he asjumed the name of John Orth, and became,
eventually, a aallor of the seas.
No more Interesting romance Is there In all history
than this of the rleasant companionable young member
of Austria's royal family, who relinquished all that seem
ed best and brightest In life for the sake of the fair
voung girl of the common people who had won hla heart
In 1889 the archduke became infatuated with Mlzzl
Strubel, daughter of a Vienna ahopkeepej. He was
known to her aa "John Orth," a atudent, until one day
aha aaw him in command of troops at the army ma
neuvers. When "John Orth" next called at the Strubel ahop he
waa met with reproaches, but he admitted hla Identity,
and declared that he intended to marry MlxiL
He kept his word. In vain the emperor fumed and
the court went Into an uproar. The archduke anapped
hla fingers at them all, collected what money he could
from hla estates and married the girl of hla choice.
Tou aee, he proceeded under the old but ever new
theory that love waa worth moye than titles or rlchea
From that time the Archduke Johann disappeared.
There came upon the scene a simple-living, unpreten
tious man of the people, who styled himself John Orth.
After a time John Orth became a sailor. He set out
with hla bride upon a aea trip. The ahlp touched at
Buenoa Ayrea and sailed thence for Valparaiso, nlnce
then nothing haa bean heard of the oouple.
The ship waa wrecked, but whether the archduke and
hla bride were rescued la not known. There have been
many rumors alnce that "John Orth" has been seen In
various parts of the world, but If he survived the ship
wreck, the one-time archduke haa never betrayed hla
Identity.
He remains true to hla vow, that when he renounced
titles, estate and prospects he would hold faat to hla
plebeian love.
When the Archduchess Elizabeth, favorite grand
daughter of Emperor Francis Joseph, fell suddenly and
violently In love with Otto von Wlndlsch-Orata, or von
Oratz, as he is usually called, and decided to link her
life with hla, her aged grandfather sorrowfully con
sented to the union.
The first stipulation he made, however, was that
What a foreigner Thinks of American W
You will have to give up
hope lor the future,
how will you earn the
i shall marry the
your rank, your income und jour hope for the future.
-s xou nave no proieB&iun, no uiue
muni'v nttcessarv to live?" .
"1 care not," the archduke replied;
, woman or my cnoioo.
. And he did. ......
Abandoning all that held him to the realm of no-
bility, the arcuduke assumed the name of Leopold Woel
r fling and settled down to a quiet lite with his wife, near
' Geneva, Switaerland.
Perhaps, at that, all would have gone well had not
tils wife been converted to the- teachings of a bimple life
colony op the shore of Lake Maggiore. This colony took
the name of "New Men," or "Nature's Children," and
came so near to nature in its teachings and practices that
, oven Leopold Woelfling revolted In time.
For a while Woelfling did not object to these new
Ideas of hla wife. In fact, he acceded at nm to her
iTlews; he became a strict vegetarian and permitted his
't'ltalr and beard to grow long in order to gratify her.
But Fau Woelfling was progressive In her belief. She
leaned more and more to the simple life. She discarded
All fl M u u.ma.ha k ..r.nl i n a .aa n t fr woro a.in1'ilG
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nt bureheaded and took aun baths.
' She refused to have any servants In the house, and
tin other waya adopted the strange habits of the cave
., dweller of Aseona.
Thl was bad enough. Rut later, It is whispered In
knowing circles. Frau Woelfling went still further. She
. thought that the example of life and dress furnished by
; the Inhabitants of the Garden of Eden abould suffice; in '
omen
F THERE is one thing
that will bring tho
volcano of high
strung Americanism
into full play," said
Dr. Emil Reich, a
noted European writ
er, recently, "it is a
sneering or covert at
tack upon tho attrac
tivoness of their
women.
"Every American
has in all truth and
sincerity a deep-seated
respect for and a
strong desire to wor
ship his womankind.
He is chivalrous and
invariably polite to
them. He treats every woman as if 6he were a
lady born."
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can man, once, replying to some of hla criticisms
of an American woman, responded "not without
a sense of truth" "Right you are. Doc: she's no wo
manshe Is an angel."
"This explains," continues the European observer,
"why the American man will readily endure the doml-
neerlng tone of his women; why be gladly nay, proudly
-submits to all their whims, and even to their ex
travagances. "So did the real retainer for his overlord; so did
a Campbell for an Argyle. And aa these clana went
into furious combat on account of the slightest affront
to their liirds, so 1o the Americana with regard to
their lairds their women."
This Qer-the-aoas critlo thinks, with hundreds of
his kind, that "the American gentleman ia quite satis
fied to pile up money by contlnuoua and most worrying
labor In his office or factory provided hla 'missus' is
thereby enabled to give receptlona, to 'do' Europe, to
become a scholar and to shine generally In eoclety."
ADMITS THEY EARN FREEDOM
It is true, also, he acknowledges, that millions of
American women work Just aa hard aa American men,
and they deserve whatever freedom of action and
liberty to travel and aee the world they asaume.
But to some extent he thinks thla la making a
virtue of necessity.
"Any one of the hard-working American women
would, as soon as her husband made money enough to
render her personal labor superfluous, at once rise to
the occasion and shine shine in the parlor, at the
theater, at the watering places, while her husband
would continue to drudge for her with a contented
amile."
of course he would.
Dr. Reich visited this country some yeara ago, but
seems to have taken away with him aome rather
atrange Impressions.
"Men In America are not supposed to Interrupt the
literary' conversations of the ladles. When I attended
my first reception I found all the men standing apeech
leas, with arms folded on their breaata, la the back
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drawing-room, while the ladlea were briskly discussing
Emerson.
"Being under the Magyar delusion that a man In
society must be amiable to women, I stepped among
the ladles and alio talked Emerson. A few minutes
later I heard one of the Americana remark to an
other: " Has that Johnny bean hired far that?'
'The fact of the matter is," concludes the Euro
pean, "that the women In America form the ariatooraoy
of the nation.
, "No P0Dl cn be without an aristocracy of aome
kind. With one the posts, with another the soldiers,
with atill another the lawyera or priests constitute
what la really the dominating or socially supreme
caate or class.
"In the etatea, for reasons quite patent, such a
clana could not grow up among men. But alnce It la
Indispensable, aa all history proves, It arose, perhaps
for the first time among women. In America.
"Already the Greeks, who thought, did, aald or
fore felt everything, epoke of thft realm of the Amaxona
In Asia Minor. Were they not rfcjrbt?
"If a sculptor, a great artist f our time, waa to
represent in marble the type of wfcmanhood ao char
acteristically embodied by the American woman, what
better thing could he do than hewut of the finest
Pentelio marble an Ideal Amazonf
"8o great ia the domination of worn In the atatea
that I have no hesitation In saying that her position,
rights, activities in abort, that the woman question la
the moat grave of all questions In America.
"Nobility la not aa radicals imagine, althlng of the
Middle Ages and ephemeral. It Is a standing category
of human soolety; and the American, hisrprloaily un
able to produce European kinds of nobility,) baa speed
ily Invented a new one the ariatooraoy et ttromaa,
Elisabeth ahould renounce, for herself and her be Ira all
claims to the throne.
This she promptly did.
It waa a real sacrifice on her part, too. Aa the
daughter of the Ill-fated Crown Prince Rudolph aha
waa nearest In aucceaaton to the throne.
In fact the Hungarian people, who had hoped for
a dynaatlo separation, had pinned their. faith to thla
young girl, whom they hoped to acclaim aa their sov
ereign. While von Grata belonged to one of the first families
of Europe, no royal blood coursed through hla vetna
And Elizabeth might have aspired to a share in one of
the first thrones of Europe, even though she never
ascended that of Austria-Hungary.
To make the alliance more appalling, In the eyas of
the proud Austrian court, an aunt of Otto von Grata
was once a celebrated danseuse under the name of
Maria TagllonL
When the Ill-fated Crown Prince Rudolph waa found
dead under myaterloua and scandal-suggesting clroum
stances, the love of the Austrian emperor and hla wife
waa transferred to little e-year-old Elisabeth. She waa
reared with the greatest oare and received a splendid
education All the time the fact that she might one
day rule the people as empress waa dangled before her
eyea.
She waa given to understand that when the time
came a husband would be selected for her from among
the eligible and, of course, the proudest and highest
princes of Europe.
But this was before her first fall On that occasion
Bhe met her fate a tall, handsome, well-set-up man
with blue eyea and a heavy blonde mustache,
PRINCESS DID THE PROPOSINQ
Later Otto met the young archducheaa at the aristo
cratic housea ahe waa permitted to visit and nearly
always he was her partner. In the summer be played
tennla with her.
It would have been contrary to etiquette for Otto
. von Windiach-Grats to have proposed marriage, but the
young archducheaa ia aald to have made known ber
choice with the frankness of a child.
Blnce their marriage the couple have lived quietly;
their names have not appeared with frequency In the
court Journal.
It Is said the marriage has not proven a happy ven
ture for either.
Has Elizabeth, then, ever regretted relinquishing, for
love, her claims to a crown? Who knowa? v
The aged emperor of Austria, In the natural order of
things, la nearlng the final call to the tombs of hla an
cestors. It would be a proud position for a young woman
empress of one of the world's great nations.
One would Imagine that Elizabeth would have been
Impressed by the stormy story of her mother, formerly
the Crown Princess Stephanie, who cast a great deal
to the wlnda when ahe married "beneath her."
The crown princess, daughter of the king of the
Belgians, for a number of years after the death of her
first husband, the Crown Prince Rudolph, manifested
no disposition to assume again the marital yoke. Not
until she met the Count De Lonyay.
When on a visit to London ahe met him. He was
connected with the Austrian embassy there and was
detailed to escort ber about the city. Then the love af
fair commenced.
Her father, the king of the Belgians, waa very angry;
ao was her father-in-law, Emperor Francis Joseph. It
waa stated clearly to her that if she married De Lonyay
she must cut herself off from her princely rank and
emoluments. Her Austrian allowance of $200,000 would
be stopped, ahe was told, as would also a pension of
szu.Ouo trom her father.
PeralaUng. however, ahe married the man of lower
rank. It did not prove a happy union. Intensely violent
quarrels arose. Bhe waa not only In disgrace at the
court of Vienna, but steps were taken to see that she
was Ignored at other capitals of Europe.
HARD FALL FOR A PROUD WOftCAN
It waa a hard1 fall for the proud woman who, daugh
ter of a king, expected at one time to wear the crown
of an empress.
Only a year or two ago, pursued by creditors and
harraased by the debts of her husband, she advertised
her Jewels and her bridal veil for Bale in Paria.
Among her Jewels waa a pearl necklace, gift of the
Crown Prince Rudolph. It waa composed of 86u large and
perfectly matched gems and valued at 156,000.
Other Jewels consisted of a set of rubles diadem,
collar and brooch valued at HO, 000; a large brooch of
pearls and diamonds, worth $20,000; another, all of dia
monds forming a lover's knot at $12,000; an emerald
brooch at $8000 and a number of articles of lesser value, iv
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work of the lace industry in Brussels, and was a wed
dinr gift to Stephanie from the women of that olty.
Flftv lace makers worked on it six months. The design
comprised garlands of roses and lllles-of-the-valley,
within which the arms of Austria and Belgian were
ntTheee are only aome of the Instancea where Cupid
presented claims more compelling than the' hope of a
crown. There was, for Instance, the Archduchess Marie
Christine of Austria, who formally renounced all claims
to succession In order to wed a lieutenant of the Prussian
Uhlans; the Archduke Joaeph Ferdinand, who threw
away bia chancea of preferment at court by wedding
the daughter of a reataurant keeper, and still others. .
What would you do tf offered a crown on one side
and a heart on the other T .
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