| Show A 7lnylens Empress i I A photograph is just now being shown at Rome at an amateur exhibition exhi-bition which Is the work of Count IriniQlLandwlucIL represents a sam r what pathetic scene in the gardens of the Tuileries It shows an old white haIred and infirm looking lady meekly receiving the angry reprimands of a policeman who judging by the picture pic-ture was assailing her with bitter reproaches re-proaches and threats A few weeks ago when the Empress Eugenie was on her way from England to the south of France where she is spending the winter stopped for a few days in Paris and while crossing through the gardens of that Tuileries where for eighteen years she had reigned supreme as Its most brillIant and lovely mistress she stooped down to pick one single little flower entirely without value and growing in that particular portion of the parle where I the Prince Imperial was wont to use I as his playground A policeman who caught the empress in the act and who was entirely unaware of her identity iden-tity immediately took her to task and threatened to drag her off to the police Itation The scene struck Count Primal who was with his illustrious aunt as so characteristic and pathetic that he took a snap shot of the Incident with the little camera which he always carries I car-ries In his pocket It was only after that that he came to the rescue of the Empress and appeased her sergeant de villes wrath by telling him who the lady was Count Primoli who Js a I great favorite of both the empress and II i of Princess Mathilda Bonaparte is the son of one of the sisters of Cardinal i Bonaparte belonging therefore to the f I I Lucieti branch of the family He is renowned as probably the most successful 1 suc-cessful and enthusiastic of all the amateur ama-teur photographers of tile old world many specimens of his work having been published in the American press Chicago Record 1 |
