Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-14
Sketch Of the Duke of Kent, the Father
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- ~, -I of Victoria.
Z The Duke Of Kent was the fourth son OF
that narrow, bigoted, and stubborn mon
arch, George Ill, and was born in l767. His
great falling was a fatality of falling into
: debt and the more he was allowed for his
support the deeper he ran in debt. This
made him odious in the sight of his father.
He was'A brave and firm officer, and in 1874
received the thanks Of the British House OF
ECot,mons and Of the Irish Parliament for his
gallant conduct and meritorioua service at
the capture Of Guadaloupe AT the end OF
his campaign in the West Indies he went to
Canada, as Commander-in-chief of the forces
in British America. In 1872 he was ap-
pointed Governor of Gibraltar, and by his
! energy and firmness succeeded in suppressing
very formidable mutiny in the garrison.
He then returned to England, and remained
there in retirement until his debts had SO in
creased that he found it necessary 10 seek
seclusion on the Continent, taking up his
residence in Brussels. This was in 1916 In
1918 he married at Coburg the Princess Lein-
ingen, a widow, who was as poor as himself.
They made out to live pretty happily in a
very humble style at Amorbach, the pretty
capital of the small Principally of Leinin-
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In due course of time it became evident
that the Duchess of Kent was pregnant, and
the Duke regarded it as of the first import
ance that the child should be born in Eng
land. But the united resources of the pa
! rents were not sufficient to meet the expenses
of crossing the channel. Not member of
the Royal family, when applied to, would aid
them, and it was only by the contribution of
few obscure and untitled friends of the
Duke of Kent in London that the money was
raised The impoverished couple reached
Kensington Palace but few days before
their daughter Victoria-the present sover-
eign Of Great Britain-was born, May "a,
1919. They returned to Amorbach within
few months, and there, in January, 1920, the
Duke died Of inflammation Of the lungs; In
politics the Duke was steady on the Liberal
side, and to this fact the hostility of his
father and brothers is attributed rather than
to his imProvidence. Such being the history
=, Of her ancestor, it is but natural that the
Queen should desire. that her eldest son,
should visit some of the scenes of her fathers
exile. The treatment he received seems to
separate him from the ignoble race of the
-four Georges" 7e ~ D."
The social and Ethical Condition of the
Japanese.
r. H. Dana, jr,, writes long letter to the
New York Euenmg Post from which we
make the following extract: rf
The social and moral condition of the
Japanese presents curious problems, and
what seem TO US to be anomalies. That sense
~ of propriety which suggests neatness in the
sperson and the house, the table and the bed,
.ssjs to be reconciled with an absence or igno-
rance of mOdesty unequaled among any
people who have made the first steps in civil
ization. u EJ1 ta
~, We are to understand how il is that a peo-
pie who in all classes punish adultery in the
p wife by death or perpetual ignominy, and in
= the upper lasses guard the honor of q daugh-
40 ter with the sword, should take their wives
yes, even the gentry and nobles--from the
z 5jorogas. No people are more neat in their
persons, bathing daily--the poorest of them
ioin wihters asiiRell as summer, and warm
. baths are as frequent here as drinking g-shops
in England or America. Yet the sexes battle
together, and the baths aud the platforms on
which they dry and dress themselves are as
butchers shops, Not only is the vail be-
tween the sexes rent, but the vail which pro-
tects other decencies. of life. The maxim
seems to be that whatever is necessary 70 be
a done, oris known TO exist, there need be no
ta ATTEMPT TO conceal aal
Again, while you are relieved from the
offensive sights of abandoned women who
!, beset the streets of English and American
cities, the jorogas are legalized and made
as respectable as possible There, fondlings
or the daughters of the poor OF unfortunate
- or needy, OF less scrupulous, are bound as
apprentices, and are educated according to
the style and degree of the establishment in
the necessary learning and in the accomplish
ments as at neutrality-suspicious.. From these
places,7 where the prices over the doors fur
nish the only restrictions upon the admis-
sion of all men, are to come many of the
confidential servants, and, in cases not few
nor disreputably esteemed, the wives and
mothers OF the better classes.