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Show ROYALTY AT EASE. Sorope&n Women of High Station Seen 7a an Atmosphere of Democracy. At the Hotel Cap Martin the omperoj of Austria lives iu democratic fashion I was there yesterday visiting some friends from very democratio Chicago and wo met at frequent intervals dor. ing all the morning the once very beautiful beau-tiful and still stately empress taking her constitutional walks about the hotei grounds as freely and with as little formality for-mality as any othor guest. Her constant oompanion is a young Greek student who is teaohing her-his language. The reigning duke of a German duchy, to whom the emperor gives a friendly nod ns they pass each other by, explains to us that her majesty has an insatiable thirst for knowledge; that she has beec giving to a dozen languages within tbe past dozen years each a twel'namonth in attaining its conversational mastery. She has already made astonishing prog ress in modern Greek. She certainly appears ap-pears to converse fluently with her modest young teacher. Wo are further told that Bhe is dressed dress-ed and out of doors each morning at 9 o'clock; that she eats no meat and lives almost entirely upon milk; that she deplores de-plores above all things that her health has compelled her to give up her hunter; hunt-er; that riding after hounds has been the greatest pleasure of her Ufa Tho hour for luncheon has arrived, and we go back to tho hotel. The twa princes who are the emperor's gentlemen gentle-men iu waiting are standing at tho main door, evidently expecting son4 ono. A carriage drives up, and a plain ly dressed lady, with two young girlsj, squally simply dre3seo, steps out and is escorted into the hotel rotunda. From his apartments opening into it the emperor em-peror comes hastily out, bows to the elder lady as he offers her his arm, ia sainted with a courtesy by tho two yonng girls and leads tho way to tbfl breakfast room. The curtains pai-t, disclosing dis-closing tho empress awaiting her guests. Sho has taken off her hat and oloak, and tve see her truly magnificent hair coiled In a veritable crown above her statuesque statu-esque face, her figure, famous always for its perfection, still seemingly that of a young matron, although sho is a grandmother, and a verj sweet smilo of welcome to make tho face beautifuL The visitors are tho queen of Naples and her two royal daughters ho styled In the Almanaoh de Gotha although thero is no longer a kingdom of Naples upon any map. When told by the grand duke who tho older visitor is, we look at her with absorbed interest, for we take her to be that famous queen, wife of Francois U, whom Gaiibaldi dethroned, and who herself was the heroine, under an obvious pseudonym, of Daudet's master mas-ter work, "Les Roia en Exil " But our friend recalls to U3 that Francois II died a few months ago, and, having no children, chil-dren, that the royal (and barren) title passed to his brothor. This lady is therefore there-fore that brother's wife, and it appear that tho fiction of her qneenship is still maintained as real in the imperial court of Austria at least. The heroine of "Les Rois," however the brave woman who defended Gaeto tne crave woman wno aeienaea uaeto against Garibaldi for so many months is herself expected at tho hotel within a few days to visit her sister, the empress. em-press. "On the Riviera," Ballard Bmith iu New York World- |