ROMANCE of aThe REAL LIFE CINDERELLA %or Years Over- looked in the Gay- ety of Palace Life, a Powerful Young 30 LoveMrs. Prince Finally Epigrams Comes Along and Chooses Her as His Blanche Princess. Wagstaff

Love, to the Society Poetess, Once Possessed the"Gold- en Fume of an Ambrosial Dream," but She Has Some Different Ideas About It Now.

Love is the mist-born breath that buys awhile. The golden fume of an ambrosial dream. It seems only the other day that Mrs. Alfred Wagstaff jr. penned these passion-freighted words. Now she is out with something ,, differ- ent ? love is "degrading; "the,, trade of the unhealthy minded; "marriage is laioless parasitism, smug self-sufficiency." Mrs. Wagstaff was Miss Blanche Leßoy Shoemaker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Shoemaker. She Prince and Princess Franz of Bavaria. began writing verse when a small girl in petticoats and pigtails and G. Cab asino-Renda. Now it chanced soon afterward that almost through charity?the girl who has been at it ever since. Married less than six years ago, she has (Berlin correspondent of the Giornale another prince came to Vienna seeking .had been little more than her maid of ever since been one the most d'ltalia, the leading newspaper of a bride. He was' George of Bavaria, honcr. of popular young matrons in New Rome. Translated for this magazine cousin of Prince Franz. But he picked "The Protocol is all right," she said. by Arthur Benington.J York's smartest set. By marriage his bride from the very front rank of "I have the greatest respect for its she is a connection of Mrs. French upon a time, in a splendid Most Serene Archduchesses and took authority. But that very Protocol, Tanderbilt. TVagstaff "MRS. ONCEarchducal palace in ' Vienna, away with him to Munich the other which is the law of respect for royalty, In literary circles Mrs. there was a flock of little princesses. Isabella. So the two cousins became has no right to permit that a Most is regarded as both a poetess and a thinker, and in an article entitled BLANCHE They were seven, and six of them were doubly cousins and went to live, if Serene Archduchess of the Imperial "Is Love a Symptom of Degenera- nothing less than Most Serene Arch- not under the same at least and Royal of WAG roof, House Austria be out- tion?" published in the Internation- STAFF. duchesses, the daughters of Archduke at the same court. This would ranked by a mere yon Croy!" al, has set down these epigrams, Franz. The seventh was their cousin, have filled any two girl chums with And she did not stop at remon- which are reproduced with the, per* accept as a ing to his sweetheart wom- The man -who pursues a phantom is / of much less noble birth joy, but at the Cotirt Munich it .strance. mission the editor that maga- an who feels for him an actual dis- but she was of She was indignant and she D/ of adjudged insane. Some have been own ?-a cousin on their mother's side?a caused a tragedy. said emphatically and explicitly to her zine: inclination. All he seeks is his known to follow a star, worship a despotic gratification at the expense Simple Princess yon Croy. As soon as Princess George arrived husband that she wouli remain at should a colossal amount of statue, or sacrifice their lives at the al- of the other's happiness. tare up for far in Munich after wedding she only energy be expended upon a of phantasmagoric gods. These To make this she was her tour Munich on condition that the WHY is the trade of the unhealthy subject (love) that has mainly a Love individuals were cane compared with away prettier than her Most Serene was startled by a fact she hail not Protocol be amended so far as she and poet, dreamer, minded?>the the illogical the man who pursues an ideal of love. Beauty, however, does not thought of befoie marrying; in her cousin were physiological foundation? pivot of cousins. all the concerned. Otherwise the nomad. It is the woman's Sophocles, Homer, Plato and Aeschy- There has yet to an iconoclas- fact, count in the Almanach de Gotha, you receptions and ceremonies of the court ?back to Vienna, home and mother occur life?ln as a rule, it is her only lus completely ignored woman's aes- against and Many of our great st think- know; so that, in spite of her loveli- she had to take a back seit, while for her! tic rebellion this lawless business. thetic heart-eide element in their ers have expended their finest energies the princess was in a cousin Isabella shone m the front Poor Prince George appealed imperious passion of love. dramas, the Greek mind refused to as- ness, littlecousin for aid in it. the dissecting sociate the love of woman any way the Cinderella of the house. At all rank. The Protocol, which governs to the Grand Master of Court Cere- It I\u03b2 an indubitable fact that pas* with 'Men and women think nothing of sensuous Idolatry? By the permeating Most monies. No use. Then he went to his sion of love occasions- the greatest pos- the court festivals, while the six precedence in Bavaria as in all mon- lying, stealing, murdering and perjur- of the Alexandrian period with a sem- cousin Franz and made matters even sible amount of human suffering. Serene Archduchesses appeared in the archical countries, gave the family of ing themselves to obtain this elusive blance of mawkish, iea*ale adulation be- worse. For Franz, very naturally, rose are sport a deep-seated front rank with all the other royalties, the heir apparent precedence over the We the of ?Paradise. gan the decline of Greece. to the defense of his pretty young wife. effectua? instinct that actuates our ungainly an- Just as "we treat curable maladies, so It (love) represents merely an obses- she had to take her place in the crowd, family of his cousin. Franz took tier part enthusiastically, the lovesick should be segregated, sion?a mental unrest, misery "among present." tics. and es those Now, Princess George found this sit- even fiercely. And so the situation guarded and they are Sex a negation observed until domination. yon uation not a bit to was went from bad to worse, for the rivalry is of the soul. What is a humble Croy in a her liking. It on the road to convalescence. Growth, attainment of the nohlest between the two princesses became In love we extract enjoyment from country where no one is a lady who altogether intolerable that she should Has any one ever loved without at ideal, is denied the married, couple, quite open. Therefore, is is not at least a baroness? take her place behind the girl who another. it not an ad- some time contemplating in his heart ol who in their smug self-sufficiency ex- Prince George, seeing his wife's case violence young had been brought up in house? mirable emotion. hearts such as murder and perience no divine urge of progress But she was too and too beau- her lost, and being very much in love with Woman is a .martyr to exclusive mon- suicide? within their souls. tiful and too full of the joy of life to her?which may happen after only ogamy. The tension of emotional ardor con- Love is 3, selfish, desire to find equi- her And then four months of marriage, even to a iworry over position. It is evident that when beloved sumes the best vitalityof man and ani- librium?to realize ourselves. royal prince?told her sorrowfully and the ihe was united in bonds of the tender- one merely object mal, causing a deterioration of blood Observing passionately that he was ready to aban- becomes an of reasonably a human being with one of those Most UTILITY, and brain tissue. ?st affection don Munich for and a vehicle of procreation in .the thrall of love, it is incontestable good retire with To an love Serene cousins, who was about the her to Vienna. through which man can perpetuate absence of we owe much that he is imbued by a singularly HIMSELF, through he of the great human achievements, con- same age as she and bore the same This, however, did pot at all suit which can real- fierce madness. Elated to a point of ize his only ceived during intervals of reasonable- imbecility, ?Isabella. the Archduchess. Now that the fight immortality?love ceases to he is at once absurd and name anything grossest ness. with her cousin was really on, this be more than the maniacal He is the victim One day a Prince Charming arrived form of vanity To realize the of of a powerful would seem like consecrating the tri- and profanation. fulness ourselves toxine, a devitalizing poi- archducal palace. He was not Woman as a necessity to the comfort and all humanity is to rise son, blent of Rt that uinph of her rival. Furious with her above the delusion and hallucination. of man, aa means agree- conquer really bo very charming, nor was he husband for what she considered lack woman a of and our lesser Union considered ethically, psycho- able sensation, as she is now consid- selves. logically and pc very handsome, nor so very 'of backbone in fighting her battles, she biologically, is . . ered, is degraded and enslaved. The purely spiritual contact between the negation of the woman and tlTe foung?he even wore eyeglasses?but decided to* take a serious and decisive . two sexes step. If she was to be snubbed by the Love is more or leas the cause of the has the complete charac- man. to make up for this he was a genuine 1 of ter of Bavarian royalties, she would up the hysterical Woman's Movement aesthetic joy. (Love is a form of inevitable dissolu- prince, a son of the heir-apparent stir the present age. the royal a real scandal that would make some Since modern emotional vitality tion, a dissemination of our forces, an Bavaria. demands to the throne of Following of them sorry they had preferred a Where is the man of sufficient fine- always "madder music and undeviating march toward degeneration only stronger -wine," it the traditional custom of Bavarian humble yon Croy to her Most Serene ness who -desires of woman the seems almost a pre- and death. best ehe can give?lier spiritual com- monition of effetenesa and princes, he had come to seek a wife self. To the courts of Bavaria she pre- national ruin Eroticism destroys the intellectual as- panionship? contemplate growth sented a petition for divorce on the to the of this de- pect in :both sexes, and diminishes their In that well stocked aquarium of arch- average generative paranoia ground of "absolute incompatibility of The male tyrant is often will- of love. psychic capacity. duchesses, the Court of Vienna. character." To the amazement of everybody at A princely divorce who is of would not ordi- The wrath of Prince George, House Wlttelsbach are hostile del, transformed afterward into the. magnificent bunch of flowers. narily arouse much young camps. 'the court, he sought her not in the curiosity in Ger- a army officer and a famous ath- Baroness Waller see; and a few years Criticism against'the.Regent wa.-, not many, ago, front rank of Most Serene Archduch- but this family row of the Ba- lete and boxer, can well be imagined. The Wittelsbachs are one of the most, after the aeath of his first wife, spared them, as it has not been spared varian princes has taken a And it is easy hilar- ancient and among the gave court and good esses, nor yet in the 6econd rank of on decided to understand the illustrious Ger- the the people of in these days by those who affirm that flavor of scandal, ious man because Princess astonishment with which this new dynasties and exceedingly proud Bavaria a new sensation by wedding a the 'battle of the ladies might have, Archduchesses not quite so Serene, but still George, furious and chafing it the complication of the scandal has been of tiheir ancient and noble origin, proud very young debutante at the Court been prevented by a powerful royal away back in the rear, in the crowd way was the affair dragging along, hats received throughout Germany. The enough, in fact, to hold themselves in Theatre, who was at once transformed hand able to bend all to his will. just of simple "vons," where the great asked that her marriage be de- Prince has left Munich, retiring in fury some ways superior to the imperial into the B&roness yon Bartolf. The But the just deceased Prince Regent clared null and void. to flashing eyes of the young Isabella ti3 hunting lodge at Steiermark, house of Hohenzollern. But in it have royal family naturally tried to ignore was a philosopher, a hunter and a Now the reigning house after breaking off attempt? at never lacking yon Croy dimmed the coruscations of of Bavaria all the been those matrimonial this new relation who had dropped simple man. Then he was ninety yeara is stanchly Catholic, and a marriagfe reconciliation mothe-, Prin- alliances which the Hohenzollern fam- down among them which his from over the foot- ojd, and at ninety, if one be not senile, ? erchducal diadems. null and Leopold, always can be declared void only be- cess lhas been raakinjr. The ily has proudly scorned. Per- lights. But the girl was so beautiful one has learned so much and seen so cause of mental or And so the erstwhile Cinderella of physical defects on latter Princess has been moving like a haps this is because in Southern Ger- and so good and so kind, her modesty much of life, witiiits tragedies and its part of one of the parties shuttle many the Austrian Court was taken away the thereto between the courts of Vienna even the royal families take life and devotion to her aged husband made comedies, that he does not disdain any- sufficient to make marriage impossible. and Munich. has given more joyously and vivaciously than her so from Vienna to Munich, a bride, trans- The Prince popular throughout the capital thing and has a kind smile for all. So And Princess George, with a refinement orders to his they do in the North. the conspiracy of into Her Royal Highness his counsel that wife's that scowls soon dis- to him a bitter fight, of princesses and formed now of not to set vengeance, does hesitate annulment suit be fought to the bitter A real specialist in such alliances is appeared. Not long ago the late Prince :ourtiers over a little matter of prece- the Princess Franz of Bavaria. She up ground for her as plea the one cause end. Duke Ludwig of Bavaria, who wedded Regent had her presented to him, wel- dence must have seemed like a buzzing was not yet twenty-one years old. Princess George of Bavaria. which the Canon law admits a3 valid. Thus the Court of Bavaria ?.cd the first a Hessian actress. Henrietta Men- comed her gladly and even sent her a of distant files.