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an American who Married q Princess.



that many ambitious young Americans were
anxious TO get abroad with the hope Of pick
| ing up Princess for wife. The result of
the Perkins experiment sh iuld make them
reflect. Marrying 4 princess, without one
has very large annu income, safely Sc
cured, about the most zardous speculation
that one could undert .. Unless she re-
tains her position in society the main object
of the marriage would not be attained; if
she does it requires great deal of money to
keep up her necessary state do not know
what fortune Perkins possessed when he be-
came the husband of Maria Isabelle Fran
co.'s Garowska De Bourbon, Infanta Of Spain,
and niece of Queen Isabella, but we do know
that the happy couple were soliciting aid
from their noble relatives a very short time
! after the marriage. 4 certain amount of
help was accorded. When the Queen fed
! from Spain the couple were left In 4 most
precarous position, and after many unfruit
iul efforts to get along comfortably, they
borrowed money enough to come 10 Paris.
! They arrived as poor as hundreds Of our
Americans who come here every gear to suf-
| fer, to beg, to swindle, or 10 die. They APP
uiied to Isabella who declined 70 help them,
and to all the members Of the Bourbon fami
] !
/ for the honor Of his race, sent them all that
he could possibly spare; bat his Offering
was n bGgatelle. lhcy found relief in the
mistress Of boarling-hoGse, No. Rue de
( Bllzac. who fed and lOjged them for nearly
three years, and gave Perkins l 600 francs
in cash to % to Boston to get 50 ,OOO francs
from the Successor Of his father He did not
60, nor was there any evidence Of his sue
ceSsion found among his papers. nor any
letter from his family, but he kept the money.
When his child WAS born the Ex-Queen
came to his house 10 act as godmother, and
this was good for another years credi; 10
Mr.. and Mrs Perkins. They were then at
their wits ead. Perkins pretended to have
a concession Of a submarine cable from Spain
to England and upon this pretext he kept
up Mme Meilhan's hopes for some months,
bat these hopes were finally destroyed, as
the Lores OF the American herit5ge were by
the great fire in Boston. When the parties
owned her 80 500 francs, Nine. Meilhan
could 20 on no longer. She Wa utterly
crushed, and had exhausted her own credit.
She made an appeal TO Queen Isabella, ana
learned that there was no hope in that quar-
ter, for Perkins had been stupid enough to
try To raise a loan for Don Carlos lie thus
lost all the sympathy Of the ex-royal family.
Nine. Meilhsn was forced into bankruptcy.
She had gone on for one year hoping against
hopc, because she thought that II she stopped
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