Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1881 — Bismarck’s Alleged First Love. [ARTICLE]

Bismarck’s Alleged First Love.

Oor. of the Poatl Hlrlap. For some months there resided iu the family of a neighboring land proprietor (in the Torontal Comitat) a lady past the age of sixty, who in her youth was Bismarck’s first love. She was born at Greifswald, where her parents let rooms to young students attending the University in that town. About the year 1840 a certain Count St ■ • w ho later on made a brilliant military career, lived at their house and frequently received the visits of a fellow student from the Agricultural Academy. The visitor was Otto Von Bjsmarck.wbo soon conceived a tender affection for the ten-year-old Josephine the daughter of the house, and manifee ted his sentiments in seranades and similar spectacu|ar tokens of his affection. Owing to pome unpleasant little oonnict with the academical authonties, he was obliged to leave Griefswald, his departure, however, in no way prevented him from addressing the most tender and touching epistles to the sweetheart left behind. In one of these missives he formally sued for Josephine's hand, which, however,was promptly refused him by the parents who strongly objected to give their daughter to “so ill-reputed a young man.” Thereupon, in 1842, the correspondence ceased altogether. Josephine’s parents, who had met with sad financial reverses through the instrumentality of their own spendthrift sou emigrated to America (Minnesota) in 1845, and afterward went to Brooklyn to live, where in 1852, a*er much reluctance on her part, Joseph.ne became wife of a Hungarian emigrant, dealer in petroleum, J. H os byname, who took her to New York. H eg died In 1872, and by invitation of his sister married to Mr. Gy here, Josephine has recently come to Hungary to spend the rest of her days. Mrs. H cs faithfully preserves the pieces of poetry addressed to her by Otto Von Bismarck.

There is treasure to dig for somewhere on Stone Mountain, in Arkansas,. Ben Munell was a noted hermit. He lived thirty years all by himself, was a highly successful trapper, and is believed to have accumulated $15,000 from the sale of skißs. He has now been found dead in his hut, and his money is buried in some unknown spot near by. Wide open mouths have come into fashion for women. This is a change from the prevailing style of the past. The proper mouth now, says the New York Graphic, is worn in a constant but mild smile,the corners being drawn buck horizontally with the lips left c, osed- The expression is one of amiable, quiet satisfaction with all the world—as though the mind was free from sorrow and the feet free from corns. Care should be taken apt to broaden this into an active grin except on mirthtul occasions; nor should the lips be compressed. AH should be in repose. The lips may be reddened, if the natural color be too light. A practice of painting the exposed membrane oi the upper lip broad and bright just at the centre has crept in, but it is bad, tot it gives an artificial and eensnong

look. The fashionable belle has cut the puckering string of her mouth, and no longer murmur* *‘prunes, prunes, prunes.” She can kiss two men simultaneously and give good satisfaction, wbert before only one oould And room at a time. The reader who supposes that the above is fanciful and not plain, straightforward fashion news is very much mistaken. Women can change the style of their faces, if not at will, at least considerably. The hair over the forehead can be so arranged as to produce any desired outline for the upper part of the face; the mouth can be made to widely vary its expression, the eyes can be kept partly wide open or languidly half-closed) the cheeks can be rounded by using “plumpers;” the eye-brows can be arched or straightened; the color can be controlled to a high degreet Thus It is apparent that women ban, ifdever, have to some extent the kind of face she wants. 'The nose is about the only Intractable feature. It sticks right out in unalterable Independence, defying all efforts to shorten or straighten it. Let me interpolate the fatit that hot one Woman In ten evet laughs or smiles naturally. Knowing full well our defeots of teeth or expression, we try to hide or reform them. I know a girl 'who will never go to the minstrels or other shows because she isn’t pretty when She laughs. If Inadvertently caUght by something bomic she buries the laugh in a handkerchief; but whenever possible she does does all her laughing internallyThis wrenches her terribly, and sooner or later her vitals will get broken all to pieces; but she prefers death to a display of her scraggy teeth.