New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1919, Page 10

Srose briliant in's feii at first a deep’ Ser hnsband. Fach qUes n - a to be a devoted hildren. And each inter and fainter Bach of ta space brilliant our proved many mother aw her grow till it van- ished behind the smoke of a war in which she had no heart. Five years women looked future blazing igo these two young lightly forward to a with privilege and power. Today each stands among the smoldering ruins of an empire, her life endangered, her husband fled, her rank impeached by the shadow of divorce. " Hints of disagreement, of intended geparation, have before now reached . the ears of Europe, so high at times did the voice of dissension r from [ -behind - castle walls in Berlin and ! Vienna, Formal denials served merely as postponements. Even though this latest announcement of definite divorce proceedings be contradicted, the rumor is merely a forerunner of fact. Wil helm. and Charles refused to play a kingly part in great events. They neglected to be gallant in defeat. ™o high-spirited wife is going to overlook these 'details—and a high spirit is the only lasting gift which the fairies dropped into the cradles of Zita and ¥ Cectlie. ¥ The paling of Zita's romance— L vhether it end in absolute divorce or ¢, the separation occasionally per- . mitted by the Roman Catholic Church or in a patched up imitation of recon- fpectea 1o rejuice ite her he Out- he art. nuns of Belgium T the,more strongly of two it elie Quienlof Belgium was “cousitt and that two of her own sis- ters—Benedictine nuns-——were being hombed by Hun airmeén as they nursed the wounded in the hospitals of Bng- nd. Nor did chance omit the final ghastly touch: Zita’s two favorite brothers enlisted in the Allied army It was. brothers that Zita became in accusations which have led to talk of divorce. When Emperor Charles wrote his now famous letter to Duke Sixtus, suggesting a separate peace for Austria, knew well that thix favorite brother of his wife would hand on the request to the I Government. But when the matter leaked out Charles weakly denied the whole affair and the fury of the Aus trian populace turned against the Em- pri Quick to take advantage of the situation, the started, through his agents, a ser slanders against the fair name of Zita. No proof that these were true has ever been offered. On the contrary, the Emperor and his wife seemed devoted cach other mtil Austria-Hunzary began definitely to dissolve. By that time the Kaiser appeared to have poisoned the Bmpe- ror’s mind enough so that he quarreled with Zita over the Austrian proposals for peace and gradually began to treat her with coldness and contempt. Long before this unhappy denoue- ment Zita must have seen that her idol's feet were made of the poorest quality of clay. Bui he was a veritable idol, all gold and godlike, when first she saw bhim riding in the park at Franzenbad. in Bohemia. on a indeed, through one of these embroiled he rench Kaiser s of to By fresines fBoked shy Feaid. “Who i¥ he? one to answer, ““The/ pevor—your future husbano the man who will wreck the king dom and your life.” They merely told her that imimportant Archduk Charles Francis, aged twenty-two, and he was the noble but as good-natured as his friendly blue eves and mild yellow hair would sug . They told her also that he wis zoing to be the guest of her Archduchess Marie Annunziata, and cousin, this was a most important fact. Zita Iror pened likewise to be the guest of Archdu Mavrie, from the blithe little house-party frolics there grew a friendship which ripened into love. hess and The Twelfth Child Zita had an sven more il lustrious than that of the Hapsburgs. She is des from Parma family, which other things that she King of I a King of Spain and a King of Etruria among her The Bourbons of Parma descent in a direct from King Louis XIV of France, the Suu Monarch, whose grandson, the Duke of Anjou Philip V. of Spain. Philip V is another direet ancestor ot the Bourbon-Parmas. At various times the family ruled the king- of Btruria the Duchies Lucca, of Parma and of Piacenza. The girl who empress had Villa Reale province of Lucca the Duke Robert and the Duchess Marie Antoinette of Parma. Zita happened to be the twelfth in a family of nineteen children—many of them mentally stunted, though no taint of mental deficiency dimmed Zita's in- tellect. Her mother was the Duke's second wife. A half sister of Zita be- came the first wife of King Ierdinand neestry cended the Bourbon- means amonsg can count a ane ances. tors. trace their line became has dom| and was to become an her birthplace the at Pianore, in the Italian Her parents were as New Triplane to Carry Sixty Passengers Model of Charles H. Day’s mammoth new triplane model h Charles H. Day. IAMMOTH designed by new lting engineer president, and con % the Standara Aircrafi Corpor Elizabeth, N. J., inventer of the type of airplane which has ¥ versally adopted by manufacturers. This machine will introduce a new transportation. It sixty era jn aerial capable of carrying been vice of 13 other existing alrplan passengers with all the comforts and safety ot Pullman car. filght In the spring of 430 vill o CRPRCILY s Hangl, superior v-Paige or an; 5 cauipped It is being prepaved for ail 1700 capable of per horse- traveling m. ving in pewer ston ard eighty-Gve ¥ miles hou s recognize in this aiplans a dis et eavance | teal engineering 1eronan- W Now Their Sweethearts, Too dzer Co of Bulgurin who swung Bulgaria zollern side the minus his kingdom When Zita met Charles had just to the where two her nuns behind the walls Abbey. At the convent Zita music, literature, Latin, philosophy. Ita spoke equaily that same Feraman t the Hohen and now to of war is the Archduke returned from of Wight she a long visit England. wer Isle in of sisters of Ryde studied history and an and French she well, though when got within the shadow of th throne dozen she Austrian study half a within the Austria-Hungarian empire it was found that Zita did not digging in languages. Music reused her enthusiasm piano lessons b: and began to of the dialects spoken love hard . however, She practiced hour and some organist in the the times acted as vent chapcl A tall seemed con dark more slenc girl, Italian than Zita had the charm of ma is more potent than Charles first saw her. of gesture whe French nner which £00d 100ks when Vivacious, quic she made ~ strong appeal to the somewhat indolent young man., They met festivities burg Palace or at the hunting lodge of the Archduchess Maric Therese. An especially graceful dancer, Prin- cess Zita attracted attention at a court at in the Hort: ball in Vienna one evening, two yea: after she had first met Charles. “How daintily she dances?" said one of the ladies-in-waiting, as Charles fol- lowed the girl with his “Has Your Highness watched “For two years,” eyes her Charles replicd In June of that year the betrothal announcement came, The tried to break off the mateh, suspicious of a French-talian princess at the Austrian court. Nobody then supposed Charles would ever become Emperor, and the aged Franz smiled aside the Kaiser's tentative expostula- tions. ‘But Zita remembered, and she helped the Kaiser e began to regret very regretted that Charles her-—which he did, tober of 1911—and had won her at Zita venerablo Elizabeth,” cailing wife. Kaiser Joseph to regr He married in Oc- °d tmost the “Another soon had gloriously, he regr that he enmity the For onee became Franz pet of Joseph he beautiful said her, sadl, ill-starrved re- his and Heritage of Hate Intrigue and of murder power- and meteor were the in the family descendant and into which she married. had dyed France and painted it gold with the luster of their deeds. It heritage of passionate like dark dazzle and bright spots of which Zita was a of the family The Bourbons these red terror was a hates and flaming courage that Zita brought when d the house of Haps- bloody mournful and fitting bursg, th and in Eurone. ro ¢ abot soui romn th shattering affection Lasedyt —the Crown Prince Vet and hi ut ealt Hing. Aljer 1o Baroness Marie sera were found dead under shoeking and mysterious circumstances. Aza ind again fate struck at the His =Orrow den monarch wife, cstranged for years hecause of his attachment for the actress, Frau Schratt vas s sinated at Geneva in 1898 The memory of this horror had scarcely begun to wear away when a second double tragedy cast court the into gloom. Archduke Francis Fer dinand and his morganatic wife, the heirs to the Austrian throne sassinated at Sarajevo in June. 1914 L is not easy to forget the cry of Her influence came Too many Her be too late to save the emy factions tore it asunder efforts made, at most, a stumbling stone for the Ger- mans where she tried (o raise a bar- rier, Throughout these two anxious years of a losing fight the young Empre: took personal charge of her children— four boys and a girl She devoted spe. cial care to their rearing, evidently with the thought that in those trou- blous times the closeness of family ties was the surest source of comfort. long as her husband felt confi- Emperor Chatles and Empress Zita of Austria, who, according to report, are to be divorced because of her alleged sympathies for the opponents of the House of Hapsburg anguish Joseph’s lips when they the dreadful news nothing—nothing!” While limperor sat crushed under the weight of his private grief Germany seized the pretext to thrust war upon the world. The very flare of crime that lighted Zita to the steps of the throne started that flame in which the throne was soon to be Late in 1916 Franz Joseph fell into the sleep of peace which he had long desired. Charles and Zita—the one twenty-nine old and the other twenty-four—found themsclves rulers of a kingdom shaken to fits heart by the convulsions of war ard revolution which feil from Franz brought him “Oh, I am spared consumed. s0 years She Opposed the Kaiser More neath lerns. than once Zita the of An anti-German at the court its proved wiser haa chafed be- the Hohenzol. group formed with the voung Emp; Long solence had ter, and. judg- impor- Eves rmany, sympathies rubbed to the raw the devastation of Belgium and France and the Italian plains, Zita threw all her influence on the side the Allies. Through days of danger and temp tation shining sword that thrust Allied cause. I'o this the of gratitude than it to reckon. The daring of her thing to make the Sun as center. herself in Charles ment tant step open to the sha alliance with ( ago stronger it than ehary counsel her hu grew to de He refused without wdvice. an by of she was a n aid of ti world owes her a heavier debt has yet had time very was a Monarch and Philip of Spain and her other bold and tombs A in their dusty no more erder gisg than T Apl irigu Hindenbu threat posed Ialser with Vou Ludendors She op- heme for scheme. dence in her judgment and in her loy- alty to himself Zita handled the Hun with a high hand and a high courage. But when Charles had his first quar- rel with her over the subject of peace Zita began to droop under the long struggle against too great odds. With the spreading of malicious scandal by German enemies she became actually ill, and for several days kept to her bed. Yet in spite of the blow to pride and her ambition, the loss of the throne came much as a relief. She asked of the new government and ob- tained permission to retire to Castle Brandels, in Bohemia. It was the castle in which her honeymoon had been spent, eight before. 1f Charle ries through the divorce Zita will probably withdraw to one of the Bourbon-Parma estates in Ttaly, a sad and broken little victim of German treachery. She a crown for less than three tumultuous It is a similar plight ex-Crown Princess I 1f today. Her romance is painted paler tints than she never loved so deeply and her disillusionment came about as soon as the honeymoon ended divorce by the ex-Crown Prince is the thing which could happen to any woman un- lucky enough to be his wife. But no princ can see the of a crown van, without some quaim, and no mother of five children can watch their princely titles dis- solve into meaningles: ciphers without a throb of grief. So the ex-Crown Princess Cecilie is deserving than a little pity. She didn't throw her influence on the Allied but she did contemplate one act which won for a moment the applause of half the glohe. She al decided to leave her husband in pring of 1915. Encouraged by anti-German <entiments of her D nd Duchess Russian Cecilio flight to Switzerland thence to Russia. For reason the sood intenticn never vears wore vears. in which the of Germany finds in Zita's. Being sued for luckiest prospect of more side, most the the the Anastasia, a princess, half planned and a some journe crystallized into action, but perhaps which Prince the memory of it is the thing first made the ex-Crown de- cide upon divorce. Cecllle had lost faith in him—and she didn’t care who knew it. Germany cast itself into a furore of joy when Wilhelm married Cecille in 1904, the Grand Duchess of Meaklenburg-Schwerin as Securing young the next empress of Germany was con- sidered a very clever move on the Kai- ®er's part. Cecilie numbered among ker near refatives of Denmark the ruling families Holland and Russia—a fact which did not escape the war lord’s notice. Ineredible though it may appear, Cecilie felt a very real affection for Ber husband. He soon cured her of that, however, by hopping briskly from one flirtation to another. From being a lively young girl, eager for brilHant entertainments, Ceciie developed into and pensive young ma . tron, who had many bitter disputes with both “Vhen her admiration for both of these rather a sad husband and father-in-law. point by an heroes was at the vanishing they snuffed it out completely ignominious flight to Holland Nobody has explained whether the ex-Crown Prince made plans for the safety of Cecilie and his children. But it seems that they have been con around Potsdam cealed somewhere while the Bolshevists were peppering of Berlin with machine- A remote Dutch island, secure from the the streets hushand fleeing to a gun bullets. riots that have howled through Berlin, while she and the children listened to bullets and an occasional shell whis. tling down the avenue—in the face of such husbandly and fatherly solicitude hurt proceedings the Who wants to remain Cecilie cannot have been much by the rted in divorce court. the wife of a man whom the world has christened Clown Prince Not for divorce among Burope, day! The last that of Loulse of Louise the biggest—and still the sad dest—was Josephine, whom Napoleon put aside when he grew am- bitious to marry an Austrian princess. Like Zita, the Princess Louise of Saxony had the blood of the Bour- bons in her veins. She, too, was French and Italian and Hapsburg, a descendant of Louis XIV and member of the family to which Marie Antoi- nette belonged. In 1891 they married Louise to the man who became Friedrich August 111, King of Saxony. In 1903 the mar- riage was dissolved—Louise having run off with her chiidren’s tutor. “I have always wondered why a Hapsburg princess was selected as a wife for Friedrich August,” she said in her naive chronicle of life at the court of Saxony. “My mixture of I'rench, Italian and Hapsburg blood should have made any stolid family think seriously before they asked the possessor to marry one of its mem- bers, for, as my father-in-law said with perfect truth, the Hapsburg-Bourbon temperament R years has there been a the crowned heads of and here come two in one important ce was Saxony. Before that of is pecu Louise and Napoleon It flared stance, into impatience, for the pronouncement “it is not decent for a p the violin™! in- that cess to play over Even the prospect of a crown almost within grasp of her hand did not tempt Louise. She bolted from the stiff little court in company with the tutor, and when her husband—after his accession to the throne—stolidly handed out to her a divorce she ac- cepted it with every evidence of grati fication There must be something wrong about having a king for a husband The alacrity with which queen-wives accept notice of a divorce suit gives rise to the suspicion that they them- selves played small part in pre cipitating the proceedings. Josephine 8o far, the only queen who even breathed a sigh when her husband began to talk about the laws on ali- mony. But Napoleon proves the fact that any crowned or not, can dare to be anything but a failure. Napoleon wasn't a quitter. He lost everything ¢xcept his nerve. no is, merely husband,