The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-05
ROYAI BABIEC.

writer in the Charleston NCjrS, excited
over the domestic affairs of EGropean mo-
narchs, INDUCES in this essay
''From tie moment when pealng bells
throughout the kingdom give joyful tiiings
of the heppy nuptials of kirgly Darby and
quoeny Joan, the thoughts of every loyal
subject fondly turn to the expected royal
baby. The veal or woe of the superb parents
Is a matter Of small consequence. The object
Of the glittering pageant IS royal baby, aud
when that limp specimen of royal humanity
Goes come TO town, guns are fired, hourly
Lnlletins reveal the state of the iufautine poll,
and loyal ieges become Loyalty oblvious
of all the cares of life. King Darby and
Queen Joan may now go marching home Just
as fast as they please. The kim TOM is safe,
though tie htir be more interested at the
moment il golden tops and emerald marbles
than teatiea of peace, declarations of war or
the state OF ,bc national excheguer.
Every sque0l of the royal baby echoes in
the maternal heart of every patriotic subject.
Teethipg Is met by public prayer. recovery
from WGoOpiug cough is heraiied by rolling
salutes of lestferous cannon. The measles
become the deadly foe of millions until tho
pelilous crisis is past, and as for smallpox, a
pest upon tie thought. And the royal baby
grows in wisdom ana loveliness in the public
mind. The loyal press chant the praises of
its precorioUs intelligence and robust health
There are two royal babies-the one, the baby
of the loyal public bright, capable, and
strong; the other, the true baby OF the royal
household, habby, weak, and stupid. But it
answers every purpose. The people believe
that the baby is all that they wish it to be.
What mother sees faults in her tOddling first
born? And the mother of the first royal baby
is millions Of loyal people.
"a man is envied who is born with silver
spoon in his mouth, but what can express the
glory of the baby all whose spoons are gold,
whose candy is rolled in gildeJ paper, whose
dolls are galbed in satins fine, whose every
toy is jewel of price, whose tears are dried
with gold brocade, whose intantine accents
reach the outer world through the mouths of
silver trumpets? This is, in very truth, the
glory and the splendor of royal babydom-as
the public mind believes. There may be
within the palace walls holo N-eyed, wea-
zened child, hugging dilapidated wooden
monstrosity to its heaving breast, and loving
mud-pies better than pate dc .Joje grds or
choicest ION. b0aS of Paris; but this, whatever
the truth, is not the royal baby whom the
people think they know and actually do love.
''Time rolls on with royal babies as with
the child of chimney-sweep or dustman, and
by the time that the baby is out of its longs
and into its shorts the minister of its royal
father and mother are on the QHj cjCe for a
royal marriage. Perched on the top of the
social tree, does the baby marry whom it
marry for love and fancy, but the royal baby
must wed for reasons of state, to prop fall
ing throne, to confirm a waiting friend, or
soften bitter foe. This is a part of the price
that must he paid for the golden spoons of
royal babydom.
1.-THE universe is hunted over, and very
soon list is prepared of eligible candidates
for the hand of the royal prodigy. Again is
the public on the alert, eager for another
wedding and more royal babies. \ husband
or wife is bargained fer just as a string of
fish is bought in the market. And then the
bells ring, and more bulletins are published,
and the whole programme goes over again.
'sBut where is the use of it? And where
will it end q? His Majesty Infelix XXIII may
have ten royal babies who are cheerfully pro-
vided for by the loyal taxpayers; but when
these ten are multiplied by ten, and these
again by ten, who is to provide the pensions
and palaces the purple and fine linen, the
Jewels and the golden sceptres? people
is not like the magic horse, whose back grew
longer as the burdens were heaped upon it.
There must be limit to its endurance; and
who can tell whether the breaking of the
popular back will be heralded by silent pro-
test or war of revolution? The royal baby
must beware in time. Unless some monar-
chical Malthus seize the reins and curb the
multiplication and increase, the wealth of a
whole nation will be insufficient to support
its parasitic babies. squall IS brewing,
but, i the same, the Emperor Of Russia and
the hing Of Prussia meet at Ems to arrange
marriage for two more royal babies"
GEORGE SAND.-Imagine woman of low
stature, fat, without obesity, brond-shouldered,
and whose head, out of proportion in size,
has the placid expression of people who are
always dreaming, and who possess the faculty
of abstracting their thoughts from external
objects. Her widely opened eyes are black,
a coarse, deep, Opaque black, without a lumi-
nous point. The pupils are so fixed they
make the owner impenetrable. The mouth
is vulgar, and reveals nothing, neither pas
sions nor appetites The complexion is the
color of old ivory, and a physician would
diagnose liver disease at sight of
a hue which resembles that caused by
extravasated bile AS for her hands, their
microscopic dimensions remind me of the
reply made by princess who was compli-
mented on her small feet. ''When they get
to be that size they are not advantages, they
are infrmities." Madame Sands short,
plump hands look like those of a child eight
years old. She rises at II o'clock, and break
fasts alone, having an egg and cup of coffee
without milk or sugar. Breakfast ended she
lights cigarette of Maryland tobacco, which
she buys ready y-madein Paris. She is veryfo
of smoking, and smokes necessarily. When
her cigarette is nearly consumed she throws il
into a small earthenware pot half filed with
water placed on the table. The pchit made by
the burning tobacco as it falls in the water
highly amuses her. She forbids her guests
smoking cigars and pipes. After breakfas
she walks in her park, if the weather permit
or plays few games of cOchOHH6t Twelve
faced jack, in which she is very skilful. A