| Show I MATCHFJ BUT NOT MATED The Sorrowful Wife of the Prince of Wales is HaJd ami Ilcrlr How can the Princessof Wales regard this Pall Mall Gazelle scandalin which her husband is said to be involved was the interrogation an acquaintance of mine put to an English gentleman now at the Hoffman Hoff-man house I imagine it makes no outward difference differ-ence but privately she must feel it poignantly was the reply Our people peo-ple have long regarded the princess as an unhappy woman and a brokenhearted wife Her sweet face and gentle ways have endeared her to us all hut she never smiles Her palo features are a mask that hide every feeling What is the cause of such chronic dejection I interrupted I have heard of course that her early married years were far from happy but I thought all that was outlived and that her family had I solaced and cheered her So they do but there are things a woman never can forgetwrongs that sink into the heart Wales and Alexandria Alexan-dria were badly matched and thats a fact And how she has aged Why shes pad and imitation all over That must vex her too to be compelled to stand comparison by the side of scores of famous beauties with the consciousness that society knows she is bald and wears a wig one of fifty she has in her collection that her fine neck is disfigured with irradicable sores which her high collar scarcely hides that her joints are full of rheumatism and not even her artistically built cork heel can conceal the limp that has become historic Poor lady She had enough of trouble before these new disclosures New York Sun I |
