Show jt F ti I t A B t f t i j 1 iw S r The Prim I onna tl- tl je me a Who Has t w r 5 r l r 44 All AU Su UI 1 and y c t the c 10 f v 5 ir l Heart i 1 i S Strange History of the Crown Jewel Once nce a Kings King's ing s v 4 1 I 1 r I k rc 1 Nuptial Gift Afterwards Haunted by D Distressing M l gr I In l ll iI I Tragedies and Now t k I r r. r a J l Worn in America by I Defiant Mitzi Hajos I J I. I f. f Heart Hearton Heartt IJ 4 Th Thon The e Bleeding t on the Hand of Its Us Present at Owner F Y A t V r rl r Yf i 1 1 I f 1 r I 14 t tr r rry 7 r r r. r i s. s h r i L r C I e r. r i Je t N I 5 r f r r At rl ii t AG a t The Bleeding Heart J Jewel ewel M Magnified Curious S to Show the 7 1 That Suggested rt fe Form tey s TT-S TT r is Its Name M iy r l V AT V w Jfe T B By y Ada Aa Patterson SYMBOL ot of the bleeding 11 heart 0 art ot or Belgium 11 has 0 5 a ar arrived arrived ar- ar r- r rived in this country Unique among the crown Jewels of ot the tortured land It has bas BB ne many stories as flashing facets Gloaming from tho the finger of at a beautiful worn worn- an aD who Is very much of the present hour It tells teU J once again the star story ot of an unhappy people and a s ravaged land It Is as is though one turned tho the pages page reaching at nt last n a na na of an Intimate family tamU history 0 Ac At A national Import a new nev volume of ot broader and t c cluster oluster of rubles and diamonds Is the bookmark In an extended sorrow punctuated volume p To Mitzi Hajos came a long letter from a friend in London So dire are aro the straits to which tho the theY Y war has brought all who are Involved in In It that I some of at the crown Jewels of at Belgium are In the shops for sale One known as tIle the Bleeding Heart of at Belgium hB has always a crowd about the window In which It Is displayed Those rhose who can are buyIng buying buy huy in ing the Jewels for the relief of at Belgium sufferers The little prIma donna donno cabled an Inquiry There Thero was wag a word three reply Several Interchanges eB of or cables followed One was final Buy bleeding I heart price quoted Add a thousand dollars and anda a distribute as soon loon ns fiS possible among Belgians The gem was wag brought to this country b by a 1 messenger The Singer opened tho the package placed the ring upon her little finger in Inspected admired k and signed for It ft The serious British h a 1 messenger doffed his cap ap and left t the e opera house to take a a. wailing awaiting boat back to London The BleedIng Bleed Ing lug Heart of ot Belgium had become a pinky ring 4 A most individual ring Is Ig this which may be called a compendium of at the sorrows of Belgium ti 4 Its heart the c central diamond Is ot of nine and three three- e. e sixteenths carats carata It Is white as moonlight and andA nf A flawless No blemish mars Its form orm nor lustre About it in du a circle ot of blood are rare lare old mine rubles rubies Outside and defining this sanguinary circle ell cir cle Is IB the white border of ot diamonds The rhe lower point of ot the heart twists sharply to one aide as ase e though an artery had been torn From roDl l it seems seem i r to tx to pour a stream of blood represented by the circle of rubies rubles J The Gipsy's Pro Prophecy h y f i ti The ring of ot the torn heart hoart Is 18 at a 5 It may be older Young Leopold II of ly Belgium made of at it a nuptial gift to his bride the tho w Archduchess Marie larie Hen Henriette daug daughter tor of t Prince Palatine of ot Hungary Hungar Their wedding occurred w within the same twelvemonth In which Napoleon W III espoused the Empress Eugenie Eugen fe The Tho next year car 1859 1869 was born an heir beir to the he Belgian crOwn throne He was christened the Duke of or Brabant T Turn the page in tho fife history of ot the tho strange gem serif It fC and we are re told there thero is the incident of at the young oung k and vivacious Queen of Belgium walking In the tho 2 a palace grounds with her ladles ladies in In w alting The Tho TheN Thew w N youngest and lightest hearted among them approached ap- ap t tho o Queen courte i t lo low os and lifted laughter-brimming laughter eyes to her sovereigns sovereign's face tace II Gracious Majesty y she sho implored grant your Jour r permission to extend our walk wall around the palace K gates Bates A band o of at t gipsies is camped without and andIs andI Is F I we would learn leara what fortune good or bad awaits us us to w u I tou The young Queen gay as Marie Antoinette In I. I her lightest moods boat bent k the royal rOal head bead In con can d sent She commanded tho guard at the tho palace a gates to open them Surrounded b by her ber laughing 1 ladies in phe bo Issued from the gates and ti f surveyed eur the 1 of ot gipsies that was break breaking rig camp and making ready for the road S Out of the group came the oldest of at Its women f J A d shawl of many colors cOlor en enwrapped her stooping 1 J t. t 4 I t I her head She loo cd form torm but she carried proudly straight into the eyes eres of ot Marie Henrietto Henriette were a queen chattered chattered chat chat- Sho acts as though she sho one of or tho the ladies in waiting said the old Tin a queen meeting a queen read tho the secrets written Inthe in inthe inthe gipsy queen May In I asle asked the palm of oC Belgium's Queen sho she Marie drew her white heavily bea jeweled Jew jew- Jeweled hand reluctantly from the folds of ot her silk gown Respectfully yet yot with great dignity the old gipsy queen said aid to the young Queen of Belgium Take off oft the ring of or tho ble bleeding heart your our majesty l' l For or to every everyone one who wears it U shall come orne at least one great sorrow Queen Marie Mario e returned distrait to the palace She told her royal roal spouse of at the tho old gypsy's prediction She dross drew tho the ring from her linger finger Take Tal e It back sire she Implored and give me another I am nm afraid of or its spell King Leopold laughed at h her r fancy but as the tho devot devoted d husband ho then was humored h her r whim Removing Remo the small hoop hOOl of gold that fitted so sowell sowell sowell well upon his wife's middle finger ho gave It to his brother law brother in the hu husband band of or his beloved ed fim i tf 4 o r t A 7 i. t x M E N. 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J J 1 t 1 W v I lr y t 1 ri n m t 3 i J l. l Io w 1 II Ji r mi 1 i i r A if 4 I I t. t o. o b r. r I t I r N Nr r 7 J Jr r r rr 1 r r 1 4 I 1 a. a t b Jr a 24 Princess Stephanie to Whom the Ring Was Wasa a Symbol of Her Own Torn Heart ter Carlotta Maximilian was about to depart delart for forthe tho the new w world world to become the Emperor Emper u of Mexico Leopold bestowed tho the Jewel with his broth brotherly good goodwill will and his ro royal al blessing But though tho the bleeding heart soon shone In Inthe Inthe inthe the collection of or royal roal gema In Mexico Marie Hen lien Queen Belgium of at was unhappy Her little littleson son eon tho the Duke of ot Brabant sickened and died fled The Tho throne was without an heir Three other children came camo to them but Jut all aU were negligible BO so far tar as monarchical values were concerned They were girls Estrangement came between tho the royal roal pair In her mourning and desolation of or spirit tho ageIng ageIng age age- Ing fog Queen often exclaimed I have havo a wretched wretch ed woman rho The gipsy was right In tho the brilliant first da days s 's of his reign Maxi millian rejoiced fu In maa many signs and omens all good 1 The stars are all my friend he he boa boasted ted The I t. t I Kf Y 1 Jo V r r J r 1 f I f Jo J. t r f. v 1 t I Y t r S i. i 1 1 1 J r r v. 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J i l t 1 M t 01 lf L i 4 f z r i y w F kr y r f 4 r rr J Ff J r f 1 Y r rT e T 1 e q y r L r r i x q r I a u to r I Believe in Pate Fate Says Mitzi Hajos Who Vho Is Confident That Her Ring Will Not Bring Bad Luck in America good will of or the Europe Is 15 mine lie IIo showed the tho crown Jewel of oC Belgium My ly brother brother- law in-law tossed me this 1111 bauble as a good by by token I But Dut clouds began to appear and Maximilian's days das darkened He lie needed al aid from Crom the tho European powers to l the discontent ot or a usurped na na- na lion tion Who could best and most faithfully represent sent him In Europe Assuredly none llano so well as his wife site the Empress Carlotta Tho empress s willingly left oft ott her ta task k of or dispensing charity charily and ani am ameliorating the conditions of or life lIfo for their Mexican subjects She Sho cea ceased ed to be Empress and became the tho devoted wife See Seo Leopold Show him this heart Tell him mine Is as torn ton an and ask asI his help Again the jewel was placed upon a hoop of or gold CarLotta wore It where the Emperor had placed It in loving farewell upon her middle fin linger finger er Kneeling before Napoleon site she bogged bossed his help helgi for tor her husbands husband's unstable throne r lire We 0 nce need funds We e nc need d troops the supplicant sup sup- supplicant said l a Napoleon regretted t flat at 1 I e was unable to assist t- t Newspaper C HUll 1118 18 iI t J her and when the full tull meaning of his hlA words dawned upon her Carlotta's reason mason fled fied The shock of or the disappointment nn and her her fear for her husbands husband's life made mado of or her a hopeless maniac Less than a year ear after afler MaxImIlIan had placed the ring upon her Iter finger and sho she waved her farewell to hor her husband ho he was as e executed c in is Mexico Leopold personally escorted tho the unhappiest of queens to the Chateau In Belgium where for tor 12 years year's she site was confined The Tho chateau being destroyed by fire In 1870 she was removed remo to The Tito ill ill fated fated led ex Empress ex-Empress of at Mexico her hor gentle nature tran lorme l by her believed believed be be- that all the world i hated hatel her and she sIte returned re reo returned turned umed Its hatred But ono person was spared Carlotta's abhorrence It was her hor niece tho the Crown Princess Stephanie SIp In one ono of ot her lucid intervals Carlotta asked for When hen the girl appeared appeared ap ap- ap and knelt at her feet in tender and weeping obeisance her ro royal al aunt took fr from m hor her finger tho the ring of ot the torn heart Maximilian n who loved lo me gave gayo it me I give It to you ou whom I love 10 Mn May you Jou be IY y as I was happy The Emblem of a n Torn Heart For a brief while after arter ner marriage to the Crown Prince Rudolph o o at Austria It seemed that her aunts aunt's wish would be fulfilled Indeed when moments of at doubt of ot her husband and fear tear of or her own fate Cate visited lIer the Crown Princess looked at atthe atthe atthe the ring and remembering tho the loving wish wih that accompanied it was reassured She wore It the da day that the tho tidings camo came to the castle ot or the sudden and mysterious death of at the tho Crown Prince at hi his hunting lodge In talus The manner of ot his death d the motive mothe of or it It ren remain alt a riddle today Suffice It that ono one who shared his death was a beautiful girl of ot rank ronk Mingled with the long period ot of court mourning g were the pangs of or disgrace and the sting sling of or scandal scan dal Th The Emperor Frauds Joseph mourned as one who would not be comforted the Crown Princess as one who was doubly doubt bereft for tor the trust which tempers tempera bereavement too was wag dead To the widowed Stephanie tho the symbolism of at the tho ran became apparent Carlotta j tragic tears had hall fallen upon it S Stephanie saw sa It now lOW as an r emblem of at her own torn heart She no cr aln wo it It Ji Because It had become a hateful sight to w hersh her ner v the J sh relinquished It and ond it passed into of ot king ing Albert of ot Belgium King Albert of tho the high heart heart King Albert of ot 8 th the torn tom heart for tor his heart was rent b by the sorrows sor sore I rows of his people The Tho royal family of rn contributed their Jewels to be sold for tor the Imme- Imme j relief of or the war-scourged war Belgians The bleeding heart to tossed sed with other gen gem of the court into a n vast Iron chest made a Do quick k Journey across tho the channel With its glittering neighbors the bleeding heart henrt was spread in roe ono the London shops The of ot tho test of ot of tho the arrival of ot the gems and the object of t their theIr Journey was published hed In the tho London newspapers Bond Dond street was so 80 crowded by br those who cane to see ECO the Jewels that a dot double r blo force torce of ot the tho police was called out The crown cro Jew Jewels ls were gradually sold but tor for torn fora a n reason ren reason on the they could not or did ld not give glye p purchasers avoided tho bleeding heart They aw cUd dad J b by a n sinister suggestion sug SUS' not say that the they were repelled that radiated from Its Us white heart that glowed slowed In- In Its blood like blood rim rho But Dut thc they did not bu buy Fascinated b by its unique beauty an artist of oj street strew to th the Bond I London again and again came window an and looked long at Belgium's heart ail Ho lIe wrote to Mitzi Hajos who ignorant Oi ot of its It story bought the tho ring Within a week after sw she Parts Paris o of o. o j fron froLl r received it the cable cabie brought word her fathers father's rudden sudden death heart ro heart fa failure il ore The rhe story o of t tho UlO e misfortune th that t has altea attended every v r possessor por sor of ot the ring slag does not d deter t I-e I e l j jyoung young donna t from wearing it I sw V It gUt gill colored brim from whitely with Its her little finger one night when she he sang a sons seas whose significant title Is All the World Is h SW- SW ing You are n not t superstitious I asked ked my eja efa following the presumably baleful gemI gem answered but one Cot can CS cannot cannot I I believe in fate falo she alIe sh shall It talisman not escape It by casting pasting off oft a be my mr companion and we shall ahall see Events Ennis mon In cycles The rho cycle o of Its malevolence may nUJ II b. 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