A REMARKABLE STORY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 107, 7 May 1923, Page 3

A REMARKABLE STORY

The remarkable story of the Countess Margaret Cassini, the greatest belle of Washington diplomatic circles when she waa in America some years ago as the daughter of the Ambassador from Russia, has lately been exploited partly as publicity for the countess' present and poßt-war business project, a dressmaking establishment in Florence, says the "Argonaut." Her dramatio story began when she was ten at the Imperial court in Pekin, where she was the pet of the dread Dowager Empress and the great Viceroy Li Hung Chang, who taught her Old Chinese, the classic tongue, in five years. At fifteen she was sent to Paris to complete her schooling, although she already read eight languages, five of which she speaks fluently.. Count Cassini's appointment to Washington was succeeded by one to Madrid, where the youthful countess met and married Count Loievsky, a secretary at the Russian Embassy there. The reverses of the World War gave a new turn to the countess' always dramatic career. It was when "the • little Cassini" was reduced to sewing by the day to support her two sons that she happily met a former friend from Washington, Contessa Cornelia Fabbricotti. nee Scqvel, who helped her to her feet and eventually to tiie little hat and gown shop in Florence which the daughter of one of Imperial Russia's greatest statesmen novy runs with a pood simulation of bourgeois business ability.