South Bend News-Times, Volume 35, Number 51, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 20 February 1918 — Page 5

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THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES

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BEHIND THE SCENES

With Rulers and Leaders of Wartime Europe j

By the Princess Radziwill Copyright, ms.

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m:cod m ki:i.(.i: or Tin: iov.;i:ic ii''in:s, or ntov. It Kfl;l tl.lt t!l" !V..i-'f d'i h--.-of froy N really a it to marry 'iair.. this t ; r: . r in - j r ; 4 - or.' who fr a hntc tiru ) :i- " npied the fanet.ons i.f f hi f v toward of the lar;e Cioy estat s. This r-.l ution n th" i'.irt of

the i'K h --j has ;: I is r:t only to a !r of c i iii in n t iti (; r in a ii a nl J! kian ari.-to-r ratio cirri-.--, but has . al -o c -ttj-'-! an im-Ili.'f.-f S' ,i'.! ll Th d'ivhess, wlm is lv vf-arh old, i.-: by birth a princess of Aren berg, the

Irinr Bawiuill. Hdest s-ister of ; the duke of Arrnbrg, the- head of this il'i-triou.s Lous . il.r marriage to the then li-rr-ilitary I'rinc "harles f 'ro. Wis ;t nine days' won (It rin Hru. "!, hf-ro it was celebrate. 1 on the L'üth "f April, i?jsv, with Mjrh poni and iii:arni!icern-p that th Hdtnan rapital had never seen anything like it before. At that time the ArenheiK's were settled there in their fine castle of H'verh-, near Bouvain, and hardly ever lived in their Prussian 'domain:--. They considered themselves Belgians, in spite of the fa-t that they M.frf hereditary members of th- I'russi.'in "Tppcr House, M and ranked as princess of the holy Corman empire, immediately after those of hlool royal. Hut Duke Engelbert of Arenberg, the fathir of the present holder of the title and of the pönaler dnehess of Cioy, hated everything that was connected with Brussia. and would r.over even consent to visit Berlin. He died a relatively ymin;' man, leaving small children who were entirely brought up hy their mother, who was also hy hirth a pri'iress of Arenberg, a first eou.-in to her husband. The Widow nl I loche-. The widowed due fuss is a threat character, and was famous in Bruss !.- for her pride and the dignified Way in which she irsisted on her

pri'.'ik 'ey. Hvery one rf?pctd and ;tl-o feared her, ami even the' late Kim: Leopold j stood in awe before h-r. since the famous day. when hearing she was about to gi a hall in honor of the coming out of her

eldest tla'jihter. the s;iinc one who j

v., -iv to . married a few months later to Prince Croy. asked her for

an invitation for a reat friend of his a Iidy hep.rjKini,' to the linanriaij f ir' l'-v of the capital. The duchess j

si-ted. and things wen -o fiir that h- declared that he hould consider it as a personal affront if the lady : question was not seen at the hall aVmt to he iriven in the Arenhers palace. Tin- duchess to this replied that there would be no ball 'ivrn in the Arcnl.erK' palace, and proceeded forthwith to cancel her invitations, much to the kind's disgust, who afterward ould never hrinic himself to forgive her for this piece of independ nee in revard to his wishes. The eldest son of the duchess, after a very pay youth, became an omer in one of the crack uard regiments in I?erlir, and much to Iiis mother's sorrow, became quite enthusiastic in his Ccnnan sympathio'. He married one of the nos-t lively p:irl.- of hin time, the Prin -ess Hedwige of Linne, but the couple never "hit it off well" toft t her, and though they have not separated, yt it i.-s an open secret that they see as little as possible of e.ich other, and that the youriR duchess has found many subjects of cor.rsol ttion anions the 1 isappointinents of her married life. When the war broke out, the duke took senier in .1 Prussian regiment. Th.iii';s to his personal friendship with the kaiser,' he obtained the favor that all his Helnian properties and line castles were spared in the i al destruction practiced on such a vast scale by the Prussian troops. Some persons have asserted that on the doors of all the houses belonins to the duke of Louvain was written in chalk. "This is the house of the duke of Arenherg; it must not be touched." This was. of course, very profitable for the object of such a consideration, hut it made the duke most unpopular anions his Iielfian relatives, who all of them, to bein with his own mother, turned their backs upon

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him. as soon as they had heard of j the incident. The Three SUtrr. i

All the three sisters of the of Aremberg married well. tnil'e. the eldest, became, as I alradv said, duchess of Cro

i second is the wife, or, rather, the j

widov of a cousin of hers. Prince Francis d'Arenberp. whilst the third and youngest pave hT hand to Prince .Stephen of Croy, the head of a your.per branch of that family and the owner of one of the most famoiiK castles in Belgium, that of Kueuix. which is considered one of the wonders of the architecture of the middle at;es. The duchess of Croy became a wido w when she was barely Z years old. and for some tiin it seemed as if she would never dream of marry. Ini: asain. She came, however, prominently to the front in social and aristocratic circles when her son, the present duke of Croy, announced, to the indignation of the whole of his family, his intention to marry the lovely American. Miss Nancy Ieishmann, with whom he had fallen violently in love. For some time this puestion of the marriune of the? head of the illustrious house of Croy became the one subject of conversation in Paris. I.russels .and Berlin salons, and the kaiyer was even asked to interfere and to forbid it. This he miht perhaps have done if the crown prince, who was a personal friend of both the duke of Croy and Miss Leishmann. had not interfered, much to the disgust of all those who hoped that this "mesalliance" would be preventi-d in some way or other. The marriage, however, was celebrated in Switzerland. and the beauty and jrrace of the charming yountr bride won for her the hearts of all those members of the . Croy family, who had consented to be present at the ceremony, anions others the Dowatrer duchess, who, much to the surprise of those who knew how proud and arrogant she was, declared herself quite satisüed with her son's choice. This was more than his sisters; did, the eldest of whom married to a Bavarian prince said that she would never consent to receive the "American." as she disdainfully called her. The young couple settled in their castle of Dülmen in Westphalia and once or twice pjt in an appearance in Berlin, but in spite of all the efforts made by their friends and by the crown prince and princess, the duchess was not presented to court and both she and her husband remained more or less ostracized by all those who secretly envied the beautiful pirl, who had carried away one of the test matches in the whole of Germany. Ajrain in Holtum. After her son's marriage, the Dowager duchess of Croy left Dülmen and settled once more in Belgium. One d'd not see much' of her in society and she was supposed to lead a. quiet life and to be very much given to pious practices. Though she was still young and very beautiful, no one ever thought that she would marry' again and consent to change her name and title, of which she had always been inordinately proud. But the other day the news got round that for some years the duchess had been in love with the manager of her son's estates and fortune, and that she was going to marry him, in spite of every oppo

sition which her determination !

in ig hi encounter on the part of her children, mother, brothers and sisters. The haughty lady had discovered at last that she, also, had a heart, and that it was worth while to "live and love," through this misht imply the loss of a position in the world such as but. very few women have hid a chance to till.

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BOSTON. b. 20. The hanging of a Negro boy by a mob Sunday night at Fayetteville. Ga., for attempted icbbery and kidnaping led the Boston branch of the National Fqual Bights league to send a telegram to Pres't Wilson today asking him to issue a message on lynching. 'Are not two or three lynchings a week worthy of a message to congress from the president." says the telegram. "Every lynching incites to repetition. Will you not speak in cur country's narre to let the world know your attitude on these recent horrors, which disgrace humanity and civilization."

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