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1 i- Si. Copyright, 111, Xrr. tfc eta Company. Ort Bittala BJshta JUserVek altt HIS feb rue jot Tbe Wop Id 'jt 'ft Pretty Chorus Girl Wife of Duke Ludwig of Bavaria Cruelly JS Antonie Barth, After- v0 tA 'III 1 2v wards Created Baron- 0 lO fSJ Pretty Chorus Girl iWH WMV Whom the Duke Mar- JM 1.1": fe Mm ASmiK ried 1892 a Year life I Mt After Hi. Wife's Jf WfeA Death, and Whom He Surprised When He Treated Her as a Horse, a Dog, and a Goat and Cheated Her Out of Her Pin Money ii 103 He hid a nest of wasps in her bathroom and they stung her when she was quite Munich, July 19- AN astonishing drama of royal domestic life Is occupying the law courts.

The Duke Ludwig of Bavaria, who is eighty-two years old. is suing his morganatic wife, a former ballet dancer, for divorce. The Duke Is the brother of the late Empress Elizabeth of Austria. He belongs to a branch of the Bavarian royal family, which, though separate from that now occupying the throne, enjoys rights of equality with reigning houses in every respect. In youth the Duke was considered the handsomest prince in Europe, Just as his sister, the Austrian Empress, was the pearl of princesses.

In early life he married a very beautiful Bavarian actress named Henrietta Mendel, who was created Baroness Waller-see. She died in 1891. They had one child, later the Countess Marie Larisch. who has recently written an astonishing book revealing the flirtations of her aunt, the Empress; the mad eccentricities of the Bavarian royal family and the intrigues that led up to the tragic death of the Empress's only son, the Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria. In 1892, within a year of the death of his first wife, the Duke Ludwig hastened to contract a second morganatic marriage.

This time it was with a pretty ballet dancer named Antonie Barth. She was ennobled end received the name of "Baroness von Bartolf" on her marriage. She was more than forty years younger than the Duke. She had less artistic standing than the first actress wife, but was decidedly alluring. Today she is under forty and still quite hand-Bome.

Two years ago the morganatic wife left her royal husband. This episode was represented a3 a scandalous piece of misconduct on the part ofthe former ballet girl. The facts now presented in her defense suggest, however, that it was more or less excusable. The case is being heard behind closed doors, but the friends of the Baroness von Bartolf "On his seventy-fifth birthday the Duke had a baby's high chair made for himself compelled his wife to act as nurse and bring him champagne." them. They were not a bad fit for her, except that the legs were too long.

had military trousers made for her and ordered her to appear before his friends wearing these with his old army coats. The Austrian Emperor has alwas kept up friendly relations with his brother-in-law and paid him occasional visits in spite of his morganatic marriages. The poor Baroness looked forward with considerable interest to her meeting with her august relative by marriage. When the Emperor last visited the Duke st Munich, she says that the latter compelled her to appear before His Majesty in her uniform and perform military exercises for his amusement. Then he iade her wait on the table.

The Duke compelled his wife to wait on him like a slave, and whenever her services did not quite satisfy his Insanely capricious needs, he punished her severely. When he reached his seventy-fifth birthday he had a high chair constructed, large enough to hold himself Instead of a baby. In this he would sit wearing infantile garments, while he compelled his wife, dressed as a nurse-maid, to wait upon him. Instead of bringing him pap and milk, however, the nurse-maid had to serve him with champagha and other strong delicacies. Soon after this his capriciousness took a turn that seriously threatened her life.

He forced her to jump into Lake Starnberg, the lake In which his kinsman, the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, drowned himself. She could not help feeling that her husband was anxious to see another drowning In the same place. The Duke has a country house and large estate upon the shores of the lake. The Duke then played a trick that finally decided her to abandon the dignity and luxury of being connected with a royal family. He said to her one day: "My dear, you are growing entirely too tout.

You are losing your beautiful figure. I have thought out a way that will reBtore you to the most exquisite proportions. Now, yyy i A- J' ir'y'yS The Duke at the ffl fi W'Mi Time of Hb Mar. llJrJfis WM VX-tf riage with Hen-' AgMtp- fSl SilX 5i netta Mendel, mSf A TOP lTl SX 211 When He Was Aj fmm- ,5 Considered- the 1 fePlL Hi Handsomest HiMR 4fi Prince in Europe. He made her walk with bare feet on sticky fly paper I i.

jr .1 il upon a hot Summer day." don't ask what Just come out with me angry and forced her to obey him. She iff vj, fafci -XS" II angry and forced her to obey him. She have told the astonishiulg story of her married life. Many women envied the ballet girl when ehe married a royal duke, but now they know It Is better to be the wife of an amiable and prosperous grocer. The Duke appears to have been the meanest husband yet discovered.

He treated his wife as a horse, a dog and a One morning, as she was about to take a Actro. Who W. foXlili I MVJ One morning, as she was about to take a Actress Who Ws Henrietta Mendel, Baronets Waller-see, the Beautiful the First Morganatic Wife of the Duke and Who Died in 1891. 3ffl From "My Past," by Countess Marie Leriscn, Daughter of the Baroness Wallersee and the Duke. Published by Ci.

P. Putnam's Sons. iS -j wyrK -a -a 'm He trained a flock of geese to come in the bedroom and and we will try! It." The Duke put a belt with a hook to it around his wife's waist. He then took heV down to the park, where one of i iilgh-p a 1 les was waiting for them. Ik fore she realized what was going to happen she found hor-clf attached by a rope to the back of th car.

while the Duke was in the machine driving it at a good pace through the grounds. When she was on the point of dropping he slowed down a little, and when she recovered breath a little he started up again. Had he gone a trifle faster, she would have been killed. This was his method of reducing her flesh. There Is wake her up with their Whenever she protested against any of his mad caprices, the Duke became frightfully states that he beat, spanked, kicked and bit her and physically ill-treated her in many ways.

bath, she reached out her hand for the sponge, and immediately started a buzzing of angry insects. In a few moments she was severely stung by wasps. Some one had deliberately hung a nest full of wasps beside the Bponge. The grinning face of the Duke, which soon appeared in the doorway, left no doubt who had played this cruel trick. The Duke expended much time and tremendous Industry in devising new ways of tormenting her.

Once he asked her to occupy a new bedroom, which he said he had ordered specially furnished for her. At dawn she was awakened by a hideous and deafen ing cackling. Looking around, she saw, about twenty geese cackling and squawking a. the top of their voices. The Duke had with infinite patience trained the birds to awaken the occupant of this bed early every morning.

This performance was kept up 'regularly for three months, when it began to lose ts charm through the accidental death of five of the geese. By that time the Duke was busy with new schemes for keeping his wife amused or tormented. In his youth he had served several years as a cavalry officer and was considered the "He used his pretty wife as a wheelbarrow and trundled her the garden." At this moment the Baroness entered. "I bet your month's allowance that my dog beats yours," said the Duke. His wife did not accept the bet, but she had to go without any money for a month when the Duke's dog won.

One very Jiot Summer day a fiendish method of tormenting his wife occurred to the Duke. He told her to take off her shoes and stockings in her boudoir and walk Into his bedroom, which was two rooms away. She did as she was told and found the whole floor carpeted with sticky fly-paper. She tried to tear the paper from her feet, but only got herself more completely covered with the sticky Btuff. The Duke, comfortably protected by shoes, laughed heartily at her discomfort.

As a result of this prank she went into hysterics and became seriously ill. around coat, and constantly beat, spanked and pinched her. On top of all this he constantly docked her apparently handsome allowance for infringement of his Impossible orders. The aged Duke pushed eccentricity to the verge of madness. His peculiarities became especially marked when dealing with anybody of the opposite Bex.

His conduct is perhaps not surprising In a member of the royal house of Wittelsbach, which has supplied two mad kings to Bavaria. The Duke required his ballet girl wife to entertain him in extraordinary ways. As lie grew older his exigencies increased. At the beginning of their married life she was somewhat puzzled when he made her play horse and drove her round the room in rather scanty costume. The performance pleased him so much that he repeated it, but made up a four-in-hand team by harnessing three young servant maids with his wife.

As he drove them round and round the room he lashed them freely with a long whip. The wife states that these performances were kept up till the last days ho aouDt that it was She declares that she save her life befr? made up her ind dawn of the feUoSrSTdii Iff t0 late" Befor away through tt-SLt Je got. MP nd crept finest figure in the saddle that royal circles could show. An Internal Injury compelled him to give up this avocation. He had still a fine collection of old uniforms.

It pleased his fancy to have his handsome wife put these masculine garments on and parade about his apartments in well. She ha L' au- he knew ua SBW turn to him. and so hVZ kZ. aia to re- 1 ng a divorce suit. What Is a Smf ffragette, AnvBow? treet car A suffragette Is aTtlng of beauty tk.

using agency, in order to and stimulate Interest in their auftra- she spent with him. jawer lorever. A woman who would rather break windows than clean them. A woman whose troubles are certainly not "little ones." One who spends more time airing her views than viewing her heirs. It is interesting to recall that the Duke's grandfather, the Duke Maximilian, kepta Wat efface, we can't forget We love her still famous private circus at Munich.

It see When ahe objected to one of his caprices he chased her round the hall with an ancient that the grandson wished to have a private oeTterl "er ins A woman who will spare no panes to get her rights. cards displayed in the cars, offered cash prizes for the best epigrammatic definitions of a suffragette. Here are some of the results: A suffragette Is a woman who thinks she has been de-voted long enough. Not satisfied with the last word she also wants the first. She is the corset needed to re duce the Government waste.

She Is a woman who needs the' "poll" for her vaulting ambition. A woman Who would rathAr r.V Kmn( TT i circus, too. The Baroness owned a pretty little) Maltese terrier, of which she was very fond. One day the Duke caught a nondescript mongrel down in the stables and tied the two dogs together by the tails. Then he placed pieces of meat where they would entice the two dogs In opposite' directions and started them on a tug-oi-war.

the country than the cradle. rehsr: fhV A female creature, oueer Vmt bars." th. Wrt, Who long. to be Just what -DonJ yott.