Show EMPRESS EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE CLINGS TO SHADOW OF FRENCH COURT COUNT Onh 41 S T ONDON May ay The a-The SI The rustling of or orthe LO DOX the wind In tho the branches tho ho mili mili- military military tary note of the thc bule buglo and the distant sound of or gunfire from neighboring n l camps and Just now tho the fragrant late lato spring in iho tho English countr thero theLio form Corm the setting for the penultimate penultimate mate scene In the drama sta staged ell at In Hampshire tho the loit lut Empress of or Trance France Mario Mario I Eugenio Ku- Ku u- u genio I Ignace Augustine DC De Is Montijo-is Is spending tho time closing years ears of oC her life lIfe- Tho The shadow of the thc tragedy which robbed the ex of a 0 throne ant and ami the thc later Inter tragedy which robbed her 0 of nt her bier son non tho the prince Imperial remain sh shadows 8 0 but tho they do no not throw a darkening d gloom doom over vcr tho the final chapter chapter chap chap- ter The rh hou house hoU c sho aims occupies is 13 T ounh hall a n fine tine old Elizabethan manIon mansion man man- lon Ion standing hl high h up in fifty tt o ncr nert's s of or grass land Tho The u o Itself which IB is hidden from the tho ro roadside by tall pine lime trees contains eighty rooms She l is IH t i c It Tt Is not so easy casy to gain admittance to her IIer presence The procedure now In force IP Is when the thc visitor has not nM been en personally Invited In ho lie must outer his nume In tho the visitors' visitors hook book leaving also hl his s i il gach l ich nl night ht the book Is ti l taken on up to to the ex empress who examines the particulars par par- entered Should she site agree to o receive an any onn one of ot tho ho callers a formal In tUlon In lit Ul then n sent Although h the ex empress is la approaching approach approach- In ing h liar r third ninety-third year car her health 11 is still good her only apparent ph weakness Is IN tailing falling o eyesight which hat has lately latch grown more mol pronounced lI Usually sho aho rises at 1030 In the tha morning morning- and breakfasts at nt 11 fl After r breakfast she sho adjourns with her secretary nail and goes oc through her correspondence correspondence always alwan always Calr fairly heavy That Thit finished tho the empress ox pays a n adaily adaily nall daily all visit to the thc officers ly lying ly- ly lug ing- ingIn In n tho the hospital which she BIO his had built as a separate wing to the thc house Courtly ou I tIl II tt Not ot since the war h his has s the p- p pem r em prop profs given week end nal parties but on certain ceremonial lolI shit sh ih j still lUll i m clings to the thc etiquette of a reigning qu en For Tor example c when a number of or distinguished l guests are invited the they are arc expected to await her hor arrival arri and amid after the manner mannor of or r royalty when whon sho she appears sho she makes one ono sweeping courtesy courtesy courtoS cour cour- I toS tesy to include the tho whole Company and I Ithon thou then precedes them Into the tho au audience I room Just now the work workpeople poop Ie on her cs cs- tato aro are bus busy felling trees to meet tho the I requirements made matJo by tho the British government to gov- some sumo time ago It Is a matter In which she sho takes much personal l in interest interest jn- jn terest and she frequently goes oes through the grounds and marks tho lie trees I 1 which ma may bo be foiled tolled as there me mo n a nj j number t which she tho has had planted I there thore for old associations association's sake salte and andI I t which she wishes to p pres preserve reserve r e These she will not allow to bo be touched a a I hug huge t for COl ex cx- cx ample amplo Talks of ur Ir mOne m One of her chief pleasures IP is to meet with some fomo officer in tho time hospital who I can chat clant with hei Iter I about France Franc o r nc and ard of oC tho localities with which she alio he was wn I most familiar TIer Her second d absorption though thong though probably probably n ably l the tho first in hi Interest Is Interest Is time the preservation of ot anything and owr t everything thing which has relation to the old olda Napoleon Napoleon- a olton- olton Ic c dynasty dynast Although h sho she no now rarely tall talks s of It It sho she still hol holds tho R the belief that the thc dj dynasty na nasty t will be bo revived re and j that Franco Tranco may once again have hi a aI Napoleon apolon on tho the throne Attached to tho the house Is a museum I which are sometimes allowed to Inspect This contains the remains I of Napoleon I and some somo of ot the court dresses which she wore when she dhe tat sat tatIon Ion on the Trench French throne There horo Is also aide the tho carriage In which she sho dro drove o to be marI marred mar mar- red to Napoleon III Ill I War nr Ite-dm Ite td I Entourage Her IIer prewar entourage consisted of oC I two twenty servants but this number cr Is cut down at t the tho present enl line to from frogs fifteen to tv eighteen From French h Is 13 the thc language cl used In to n- n the household when wll n visitors ate are present out when the thc l English h lan language hI la is adopt adopted tJ I Recently a newly nl arrived cd English ErlIsh maid was waiting fruiting on the tho empress e s at ut tea CU and und she sho was rather startled when hor her august mistress asked for Cor forono I uno ono A brush your our majesty faltered lter tI tIthe the maid The Tho order was then given in English English Eng Eng- lish but Lut tho the French Trench accent still leUthe left leU the maid in doubt and sho she told the assistant as- as t cook that tha t Her lIer majesty wants a bono bone The Tho cook cok greatly wondering carried carried carried car car- ried tho time order to the chef who sent ent back to know what sort of at boric bono wel required Not ot caring a again aln to approach her mistress for enlightenment nl the Iho maid fled Cled to an Interpreter and amid explained Uio to whole matter to him lie He then told her that did I not moan brush but was the word for tor bun bua |