The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-11
our EUROPEAN LETTER

Tie ROnui W6ddtnq at WtndSOf Cas-
Hc.-hoydi Bi,fh, Uith Royal Porer
no Longer secognized.-" WOmon'S
Righis' in LOndon, Chinese Com
trtbUttoas 10 q fashionable Wo'Fd.
LONDON, Eng, March 81, 1879.
The marriage of the Duke of Con-
naught, tie third son of the queen, to
the Princess Louise Margaret, third
daughter OF Prince Frederick Charles, |
better known to us aud TO all the world
as "tlic Red Prince was solemnizcd AT
Windsor on Thursday. The deep in
terest which the people feel in all that
concerns the domestic happiness of ilr
royal family had no scope for its dis
play, except so far as it obtained a
representation by the loyalty of tie
people of ''thc royal borough" Lon
don was us dull and as uninteresting as
eyer on the day of the wedding, and il
did not even occur to the authorities to
| cause the new peal of bells of "The
| Metropolitan Cathedral" to be rung on
the occasion. In the present state OF
| depression, commercial, social, and po-
litical, it would have been wise to have
provided the distraction of an interest
ing event for the people at large. Roy
| ullN las IT'S sltllltS us Mtll IS It's 1l2IliNs
and a metropolis containing four mil
lions of people might have been graft
fed by a spectacle nj once interesting
from domestic and national aspects. A
very select crowd only could have the
opportunity Of witnessing the process
sion, and the chapel of st. Georges,
Windsor, contained an even more Sc
lcct assembly TO witness the solemn
rite. II requires no very acute pene-
%tration to discover that in the future
the existence ~ofroyalty will much more
depend upon domestic than dynastiC
ideas. Within the last half century
history has recorded the complete fail
urc of all diplomatic matrimonial col
ncctions. Two of the continental pow
crs have reason to say that to an astutt
policy directed to the accomplishment
of marriages, they Owe thirty years o
confusion, revolution, and discord
ended in one instance by Il Rcpubli,
that ignores no less than three dynasti,
families, and in the other by a frail re
establishment of the expelled dynast,
after the disappearance of a Republic
If ever Prince Louis Napoleon SHOULD
come TO n throne, it will be remembers,
to his advantage that he vcnturcd to e,
out TO Africa to fight the battle of civil
cation against barbarism. Men are no
= now born great, and though they ma
: have greatness thrust upon them, the,
: are liable TO be pushed aside by men o
genius who can achieve greatness
: Princes must go into the competition o
!, the worlds work. or they will be thrus
. aside, and even in the heat of the battl
,, they may be called upon to play sccon,
: to some Moltke, like the Crown Prime,
: and Prince Frederick Charles, VIII,
were content to take their orders from
: a man of genius, an obscure Dane VIII,
l found the method ofhandling the splen
did machinery created by Won Room.
The British House of Commons ha
been the arena of a very spirited debat
on a resolution to remove the e~lectora
disabilities of women. The result wa
not q fortunate one for the fair claim
. anus, the resolution being rejected by
, large majority. Mr.. Courtney, who IN
. troduced the measure, based his argu
l ments for the admission OF women [
the electoral franchise on the fact tina
women had votes in municipal an
i school board elections, therefore tn
I right of voting at Parliamentary cleo
tions ought to be conceded TO then
. The Territory of Wyoming was the
imported into the debate, and made [
: do good service as an exceptional Pan
adise, where women not only gave tn
Il men apples to eat, but partook of thei
. likewise, to the great advantage OF a
I concerned. The resolution was prii
cipally opposed by an incorrigibl
? bachelor, Sir ii. James, who quoted
I very rude paper which, among othe
disagrceable things, said: "Thc mai
i rowness of women's range of ideas
, absolutely deletcrious in its effects
i Our earliest lessons are received frOI
them. Are they not often lessons tina
we have afterwards TO unlearn wit
great difficulty and pain?' The dutie
of both men and women are so essen
} tally distinct III this life that il is diff
cult TO understand the precise advan
tage which either sex would gain from
trenching OF the peculiar ayocation
of the other. Political power woul'
bring women in rough contest wit
men, which is to be deprecated in tn
interest of both exc alike. The influ
ence which women exercise in on
modern civilization would be diminish
Ell especially and not increased b
the possession of electoral privileges
l 1t must be remembered that these elec
toral privileges are but the thin end q
the wedge, and must logically lead u
to female members Of Parliament o
; Congress - perhaps TO female prcsi
| dents. What would then become q
J fashion, when among other things it |
, known to be an established fact tina
= ...A I1,A1 n.l laramie ,...lf tl4..-
: and pounds of human hair were i'm
: ported from China during the yea
1898. Rather strange, is it not, tina
. the most fashionable of Occidenta
, nations should borrow from barbarian
highly priced works of art, furniture q
really exquisite style, material dccne,
, worthy of setting of the beauty of th
l most renowned eleqdnfcs of the age
and even hair destined to crow
Natures work, or perchance 10 con
ceal her failures. 1t is said that at tn
time of the greatest glory of the Re
man Empire, Roman ladies were will
ing to pay for the hair of Gallo womel
: its weight in gold, and even clipped Of
! the golden trcsses of their Gallo slave
to wear them rs their own. In on
; days English and French peasant
know fully well the value Of thci
[ locks, and so highly do they prize them
that hair-dressers and wig-makers hay
given up buying them and purchas
J instead of those OF the daughters of tn
l Celestial Empire. doubt if our tast
for multicolored stufls can be attribute,
: to the influence eXerted OF our mind
by Chinese hair, yet, since Il few weeks
! we are admiring above all Pompadou