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D Now Their Sweethearts d Now Their Sw Too hv PuMu' r Co., eethearts, ' f?' " J I or influence came sera were found dead under shocking too late to save crystallized into action, but perhaps Too and mysterious circumstances. Again the empire. many factions tore the memory of it is the thing which ind again fate struck at the sorrow-- ' it asunder. Her best efforts made, at first made the ex-Crow-n Prince aden monarch. His wife, estranged most, a stumbling stone for the Ger- upon divorce. Cecllle had lost for years because of his attachment mans where she tried to raise a bar- faith in him and she didn't care who for the actress, Frau Schratt. was as- rier. knew it. sassinated at Geneva in 189S. Throughout these two anxious years Germany cast itself into a furore of The memory of this horror had of a losing fight the young Empress Joy when Wilhelm married Cecllle In ccarcely begun to wear away when a took personal charge of her children 1904. Securing the young Grand She second double tragedy cast the court four boys and a girl devoted spe- Duchess of Meoklenburg-Schwerl- n as into gloom. Archduke Francis Fer- cial care to their rearing, evidently the next empress of Germany was con- dinand and his morganatic wife, the with the thought that in those trou- sidered a very clever move on the Kai- heirs to the Austrian throne, were blous times the closeness of family ser's part. Cecllle numbered among surest source of fcer assassinated at Sarajevo in June. 1914. ties was the corpfort. near relatives the ruling families It is not. easy to forget the cry of So long as her husband felt confi- - of Denmark. Holland and Russia a fact which did not escape the war lord's notice. Incredible though it may appear. Cecilie felt a very real affection for her husband. He soon cured her of that, however, by hopping briskly from one flirtation to another. From being a lively young girl, eager for brllHant entertainments, Cecil:e developed into rather a sad and pensive young ma- tron, who had many bitter disputes with both husband and father-in-law- . Vhen her admiration for both of thes as a i that 1 V nperbr "'IS. M 'handy jtfcsa.sinu ft apparent ' passed ,,fWy freshness ui 'looked shyly up ai ,,rid sNsfid. "Who ihe? .'wo one to answer, "The - r . i iniin f . , , . 1 ..... 1 - . rK! the man who will wreck the king ..f. it cause clom and your life." tlb EiinitfS They merely told her that he was rjj)ecteu to rejoice the noble but unimportant Archduke her-heart- . 'Out Charles Francis, twenty-two- , . aged and 4i. i or tins Belgium as good-nature- d as his friendly blue .rfcr of tSmore strongly two, eyeg and mild yellow hair would sug was ' heroes was at the vanishing point QuVenlof Belgium ,;est Th tokl her also h " th - scn For , Jier cousin and that two of her own 'sis-.ter- s- they snuffed it out completely by going to be the guest of her cousin, Bepedictine nuns were being ignominious flight to Holland. Archduchess Marie Annunziata, and th 'felt at first a deep a, bombed Hun airmen as nursed i Nobody has explained whether by they this was a most fact. For of Bulgaria that same Feiuinan a important n her husband. Each queejed" it fori the wounded in the hospitals of Eng- who swung Bulgaria to the Hohen-zoller- n Prince made any plans for " Zita happened likewise to be in ' a brilliant court. Each land. Nor did chance omit the final the guest side of the war and is now Cecilie and his children. space of Archduchess Marie, and from the safety of mother of touch: Zita's two favorite the minus .his con- proved to be a devoted ghastly blithe little house-part- y kingdom. But it seems that they have been brothers enlisted in the Allied army. frolics there When Zita met the Archduke many .children. And each saw her;star grew a which somewhere around Potadam It was. indeed, one of these friendship ripened into Charles she had returned from cealed and fainter till it van- through love. just were grow fainter brothers that Zita became embroiled a long visit to the Isle of Wight, m while the Bolshevists peppering a war in n ished behind the smoke of in accusations which have led to talk The Twelfth Child England, where two of her sisters the streets of Berlin with machine-gu- which she , had no .heart. Five years of divorce. When Emperor Charles were nuns behind the walls of Ryde to a Zita had an even more il- bullets. A husband fleeing women wrote his now famous letter to Duke ancestry At the convent Zita ' ago these two young looked lustrious than that of the Abbey. studied remote Dutch island, secure from the forward to a future blazing Sixtus, suggesting. ia separate peace Hapsburgs. music, literature, Latin, history and lightly She is descended from the Bourbon-Parm- a have howled through Berlin. each for Austria, he , knew well that this philosophy. Italian and French she riots that with privilege and power. Today family, which means amons listened to ; brother- of his wife would whiVe she and the children stands among the smoldering ruins favorite other spoke equally well, though when she on the to the French things that she can count a within occasional shell whis- of an empire, her life endangered, her hand request of got the shadow of the Austrian bullets and an But when the matter King France, a King of Spain and throne and to' husband fled, her rank impeached by Government. a of began study half a down the avenue in the face of leaked out Charles denied the King Etruria among her aricetv dozen of the dialects tling the shadow of divorce. weakly tors. The Bourbons of Parma trace spoken within such husbandly and fatherly solicitude intended whole affair and the of the Aus- the Austria-Hungaria- n ," Hints of disagreement, of fury their descent in a direct line from empire it was cannot have been much hurt have before now reached trian populace turned against the Em- found that Zita did not love hard Cecilie reparation, King Louis XIV of France, the Sun - . to take of the in f& the startea in m the ears of Europe, so high at times press. Quick advantage whose digging languages. Music, however, iww mMmMmmmi&im&K by proceedings ' rise from situation, the Kaiser started, through Monarch, grandson, the Duke of roused her enthusiasm. si court. Who wants to remain did the voice of dissension became V of She practiced divorce and his a series of slanders Anjou, Philip Spain. lessons )?J behind' castle walls in Berlin agents, against V of piano the hour and some ihe wife of a man whom the world has the fair name of Zita. No proof that Philip is another direct, ancestor times acted as Formal denials served merely Bourbon-Parma- s. organist in the con Vienna,.. ever been offered. the At various christened Clown Prince? as postponements. Even though this these were true has vent chapel. the and his times the family has ruled the king- A Not for years has there been a ' latest announcement of definite divorce On the contrary, Emperor tall, dark, slender girl, Who seemed devoted to each other dom of Etruria and the Duchies f the crowned heads of 7 proceedings be contradicted, the rumor wife seemed more ltali;m th divorce among Wil-heln- y of Parma and of Piacenza. : of v until Austria-Hungar- began definitely Lucca, Zita had the come two in one is merely a forerunner fact. who was to become an charm of manner which Europe, and here refused to a to dissolve. By that time the Kaiser The girl 'is more and, Charles play had as her the potent than good looks when day! The last important case was ! in events. They appeared to have poisoned the Empe- empress birthplace Charles first saw her. kingly Part great Villa Reale, at Pianore, in the Italian Vivacious, quick of Louise of Saxony. Before to be in defeat. No ror's mind enough so that he quarreled of gesture, she made " that neglected gallant of Lucca. Her parents were strong appeal and still the sad- d over province Charles and Zita of to Louise the biggest U high-spirite- wife is going to overlook with Zita the Austrian proposals to the somewhat indolent Emperor Empress Austria, who, according report, to treat the Duke Robert and the Duchess young man. to because of for ?'' for and . are be divorced her alleged sympathies the was of Josephine,, whom these 'details and a high spirit is the peace. gradually began They met at festivities Hot-bur- g opponents dest that ' Marie Antoinette of Parma. Zita in the of the House of I onlv lasting gift which the fairies her with coldness and contempt. Palace or at the Hapsburg Napoleon put aside when he grew am- denoue- happened to be the twelfth in a family hunting lodge 'h dropped into the cradles of Zita and L,ong before this unhappy of the Archduchess Marie Therese. bitious to marry an Austrian princess. " seen that her of nineteen children many of them anguish which feil from Franz (ience in her judgment and in her loy- ,' .CecUJe, ment Zita must have An especially Like Zita, the Princess Louise of were of the mentally stunted, though no taint ot graceful dancer, Prin- Joseph's lips when they him alty to himself Zita handled the Hun Th tialine of Zita's romance idol's feet made poorest cess Zita attracted attention a brought Saxony had the blood of the Bour- of But he was a mental deficiency dimmed Zita's in- at court the dreadful news, "Oh, I am spared with a high hand and a high courage.
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