Show I U V h n a BY ALBERT ALBE M cZ tr W Ws s u C eLEANOR SCHO 1912 gUo tor br Tt The Pr C c. c ma If EUGENIE THE GIRL WHO BECAME EMPRESS A T FAn England AT dwells a withered old ald warn woman an years two Forty years ears have havo passed sinco since she became an au exile shorn forever of oC power and alid grandeur Yet sho she still sUll re retains retains retains re- re In a tiny way a r remnant of at her former imperial dignity dl lt Among Among- the many that stare curiously at her when she appears In public are arc a 3 few graybeards graybeards gray gray- beards who remember her hor as Eugenic Empress of af the French arbiter of at th the tho worlds world's fashions most beautiful and gracious of at all sovereigns sovereigns-au all so an adored Empress with not one ano drop drap of or royal raYal blood In her veins Her full name apart from a largo large mouthful of oC Spanish titles and honorary honorary hon han appendages es was sas Maria Marin Ignacio Augustina dc de Her H r father was a n. grandee g of or Spain her mother was a The father died when Eugenie was a baby She and her mother and her elder cider sister led a roving ra bohemian life sometimes seeming to have o more monc money than they knew what to do with at other ather times flat broke It was sas a bohemian existence an and it kept them drifting all over o Europe l Eugenie was tall and anti gracefully slender with deep blue eyes and fair hair From early woman womanhood loo her beauty countless a admirers Among these were the Duke Duko of Sesto the Duke Duko of or Ossana Ossan the tho statesman I Rosas and Prince Jerome Bonaparte The Princes Prince's cousin Louis Nepoleon Nephew to III Ill wrote earnestly warning warning warn warn- ing lug Jerome against tho the peril perU and foll folly of or marr marrying ing such a woman A A. Roving Roving- Girlhood Another admirer was the Duko Duke of oC Alba and when Alba decided to marr marry her elder sister Instead of herself Eugenie Eugenic Eugenie Eu Eu- genie is said raid to have tried to commit suicide In the winter of ot 52 1851 Eugenie Eu- Eu genie enle and her mother were in Paris lI There re Eugenic Eugenio had caught the tho fancy atthe of at the vcr very cry man who had once so bitterly warned w Jerome Bonaparte against her hor This man was Louis Napoleon arch arch- I charlatan promise round all high class mountebank 1 Presumable hIe nephew to the great Napoleon and us as such heir to ta the throne should the tho French Republic I ever again as-aln give way to an Empire ho he had made mude several vain aln efforts to overthrow overthrow over over- I When not In throw the thc government o Jail for Cor such uch attempts he was In exile special policeman policeman police police- At one ono time he was a man malt In England at another he was a school teacher in New Now Jersey At last he lie made himself President of It France and in lS 2 had himself declared Em Em- Then he set about to find rind a aro ro royal al wife But the reigning haus houses s sar of ar Europe would have none of ot him cheap ad adventurer adventurer adventurer ad- ad They looked upon him as a n. and his hopes hapes of oC a ra royal nl marriage were everywhere baffled Meanwhile ho he had fallen tallen desperately In love lo with Eugenic Eugenie Once rid riding ng past her home he saw her standing on all a balcony balcon Wishing Ish InS to join her and uncertain how haw to ta get to the balcony bC ho he called up How ma may I reach you ou Z Through the door doar of the church alone sire was her quick retort But OVO oven even this broad road hint did not bring His Majesty to a a. proposal So bo afterward Eugenie Eug rushed weeping weep weep- ing to him at ai a court ball bali declaring must leave court at once as ns i sho she sho has just been insulted b by tho the wife aCan of aC ambassador an your promised uI I will avenge YOU JOU Napaleon eon promises And It Is one ane of or the tho few for tor on an January 30 1953 ho lie kept he Paris of or married her hor The Tho municipality her wedding gift it of aC voted a found a woman womans woman's s tho the sum to She eh used colle college c. c By B n a gift of or to charity charlt endeared herself to she sho still further the tho people An tn Exiled d Empress Empresa For the next seventeen years Eugenic Eugenie the tile ruler of ot Europe's fashions was fads and hearts Her court was the most brilliant on earth Her Hor word was waslaw waslaw law in all matters of ot dress g and social usage Almost never novel before had a woman oman experienced such uch swa sway But she also meddled right disastrously disastrously disastrously dis dis- dis- dis in politics She has even been accused of bringing bringing- on th the Prussian Franco war of ot 1870 that tha humbled France and wrecked and sen sent lent Napoleon III s scuttling Into exile Eugenic Eug-enle escaped from Paris and joined her husband in England In 1873 the exiled Emperor died there thero In 1879 1879 Eugenics Eugenic's only anly son san the Prince r Imperial was killed b by Zulus in Africa Since then the tho once anco powerful all worn wom- na fla has lived U In heartbroken seclusion amid tho the ghosts hosts of ot dead grandeur grandeur- widowed childless half hal |