Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-04-09
Our European Letter.
LONDON, Eng, March u, 1879.

AS vi hhO DhhO VI SSA
naught. the third son of the queen, to thu
Princess Louisa Margaret, third daughter
of Prince Frederick Charles. better known
to US and to all the world as "the Rec
Prince" was solemnized at Windsor oil
Thursday. The deep interest which The
people feel in all that concerns the do
mestic happiness of the royal family had
no scope for its display. except SO far as il
obtained a representation by the loyalty oil
the people of the royal borough Lon
don was rs dull and as uninteresting rs
ever on the day of the. wedding, and it di(
the new peal of bells of 1.-The Metropoli-
tan Cathedral " to be rung on the occa
sion. In the present state of depression,
commercial, social, and political, it would
have been wise to have provided the dis
traction of an interesting event fol
tie people at large. Royalty has it,
duties as well rs its rights, and n
metropolis containing four millions o.
people might have been gratified by a
spectacle of u character at once interesting
from domestic and national aspects
A very select crowd only could have
the opportunity of witness ing the pro.
cession, and the chapel Of St. Georges
Windsor, contained an even more select
assembly to witness the solemn rite. 1t
requires no very acute penetration TO dis
cover that in the future the exist ence oil
royalty will much more depend upon
domestic than dynastic ideas. Within the
last half century history has recorded the
complete failure of diplomatic matrimo-
NAL connections. Two of the continental
powers have reason to say that to an astute
policy directed to the accomplishment OF
marriages, they owe thirty years of con-
fusion, revolution and disoord. ended in
one instance by a republic that ignores no
less than three dynastic families, and in
the other by frail re-establishment of the
expelled dynasty after the disappearance
of republic. If ever Prince Louis Ma
poleon should come to 4 throne, it will be
remembered TO his advantage that he vol
unteered 10 so out to Africa 10 fight the
battle of civilization against barbarism
Men are not now born great, and although
they may have greatness thrust upon them
they are liable to be pushed aside by men
OF genius who can achieve greatness
Princes must 60 into the competition of
the worlds work, or they will be thrust
aside, and even in the heat of the battle
they may be called upon to play second to
some Moltke, like the crown prince and
Prince Frederick Charles, who were con-
tent to take their orders from man of
genius, an obscure. Dane, who found the
method of handling the splendid machin-
cry created by Van Room.
The British house Of commons has
recently been the arena of very spirited
debate on Il resolution TO remove the cleo
toral disabilities of women. The result
was not fortunate one for the fair claim
ants, the resolution being rejected by q
large majority. Mr.. Courtney, who intro
duced the measure. based his arguments
for the admission of women to the cleo
torai franchise on the fact that women
had votes in municipal and school board
elections; therefore the right of voting at
parliamentary elections ought to be con-
coded to them. The territory of Wyoming
was then imported into the debate, and
made to do good service as an exceptional
paradise, where women not only gave the
men apples to eat. but partook of them
likewise, to the great advantage of all
The resolution was principally
opposed by an incorrigible bachelor, Sir
III. james, who quoted n very rude paper,
which, among other dsagreeable things
said: The narrowness of woman's range
of ideas is absolutely deleterious in its
effects. Our earliest lessons are received
from them. Are they not often lessons
hat we have afterwards to unearn with
great difficulty and pain?" The duties of
both men and women are so essentially
distinct in this life that it is difficult to
understand the precise advantage which
either sex would gain from trenchng on
he peculiar avocatons of the other. Po-
ilical power would bring women in rough
contest with men, which is to be depricat-
I'd in the interest of both sexes alike. The
influence which women exercise in our
modern civilization would be diminished
specially and not increased by the pos
ession of electoral privileges. 1t must
's remembered that these electoral privil-
ges are but the thin end of the wedge,
md most logically lead up to female men,
'ers of parliament or congress-perhaps
o female presidents. What would then
become of fashion, when among other
hings it is known to be an established |
act that one hundred and twenty. eight
thousand pounds of human hair were i'm
ported from China during the year 1878?
Gather strange, is it not, that the most
of Occidental nations should |
'orrow from barbarians highly priced
works of art, furniture of really exquisite
lyle, materials deemed worthy of setting |
If the beauty of the most renowned |
legdnteS of the age, and even hair des-
ined to crown nuture's work,o perchance
o conceal her failures? 1t is said that at
he time of the greatest glory of the
roman empire, Roman ladies were willing
0 pay for the hair of Gallo women its
weight in gold, and even clipped off the
,olden tresses of their Gallo slaves to
wear them as their own. In our DAYS
english and French peasants know fully
veil the value of their locks, and so high.
do they prize them, that hair-dressers
md wig-makers have given up buying
hem, and purchase instead of those of the
daughters of the Celestial empire. | doubt
our taste for multicoored stuffs can be
ttributed TO the influence exerted on our
minds by Chinese hair, yet, since few
weeks, we are admiring, above all, Pom.
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