Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-11-17
THE PRINCESS LOUISE.
How She Came to Marry the MARQUIS
of lorne

How She Came to Marry the Maroui.
of lorne.
New York Times
When the engagement of the mar
quis of Lorne to the Princess I,oui,s
was announced, it excited in England
very great surprise. Among the bigh.
er nobility the affair was generally
thought blunder, but no sort of zeal.
ousy arose, because an alliance wifi
royalty was not by any means regard.
ed as one to be desired. The .true in.
wardness' of the marriage is known
only to very few, but there is scarcely
doubt tnat it was largely due to q
desire to entirely wean the nrincess
from an attachment which She had
formed for gentleman whose position
was such as to preclude all idea of her
marrying him, unless precedent and
etiquette were to be set aside. At the
present time life in Queen Victoria's
home is by no means gay and festive
affair, but it is gayety itself compared
with what it was for several wears
after the prince consort's death. NJ
young ladies in England led dunn,
that period duller existence than thu
queens daughters. At that time The
studies of Prince Leopold were direct
ed by the Rev. Robinson Ducxwortb
Mr.. Duckworth, son of a highly re
spectacle Liverpool merchant. had
been educated at University college
Oxford, where DR.. Stanley was fol
many years tutor. University is al
most opposite Queens, and the ther
provost of Queens was DIR. THOMPSON
whose wife was the prettiest and most
attractive woman of Oxford. Fond OF
society and of music, Mrs. Thompson
soon recognized in Mr.. Duckworth
who had good looks and a charming
voice, valuable addition to her circle
and he became as great favOrite with
her husband, now archbishop of York
as with herself. DIR. Thompson was the
most intimate friend of Max Muller. the
philogist, who, as well as DR.. Thompson
was intimate with Dean Stanley, and
thus it came about that their younc
favorite. Mr.. Duckworth, was recon-
mended as governor of Prince Leopold
1t was not extraordinary if Princess
Louise found in her very dull life al
home agreeable distraction in the so
ciety Of handsome, highly cultivated
young man, with tastes congenial tc
her own. That she did so is beyond
question, and marriage with somebody
else was doubtless deemed the best
course to make her forget the man sht
could not have. Lord Lorne was un
eXceptionable in character, she haC
known him for years, and thought wei
Of him. There is ample evidence thai
during her stay at Ottawa she did hel
duty i'll her state of life, and there i:
little likelihood that she would have
returned from Canada but for the fac
that the overturn of her sleigh coach il
which she WAS proceeding to the par
lament house resulted not merely in {
serious shock to the system, but il
specific injury. True, she had been go
ing about in England, but it is ont
thing to go about at ones ease among
friends, and another to maintain rep
! i6sentaticn, An invalid nay 20 tn.
one, but not the other Such, then, i!
the state of things upon which Mr.
Labouchere, has thought lit to built
in Truth, an apologize which all de
cent people will regard with indigna
ton and disgust. Of all the dirty
drivel which has appeared in Londor
society papers" it is about the mean
est and most contemplate.
Public Spirit.
We take the following from "a pa
pei by DR.. Holland in The Century
Magazine for November recent,y Serb
ner's):
There is no point at which personal
meanness betrays itself so strongly an6
surely as it does when brought into re
lation to schemes of public improve
ment. Set subscription paper going
Through community, to raise money
for some public object, and it will
usually sift out the mean men us Ger
tainly as screen will sift the dus'
from bushel of coal. We have {
great many men who are not stlngy
with their families, who are by nC
means parsimonious, yet who have In
superable objectioTs to giving away
anything that does not minister direct
ly to their personal comfort or gratltica
ton. A church is wanted, or a public
library, or park, or something els'
for the common benefit, and the wan
and the effort 10 meet it furnish yer,
reliable test of the character OF thos'
appealed to. We have rich men II
every community so notOriously stingy
and so unfriendly to all schemes o
public Improvement, that they are no
even approached for a contribution
On the other hand, we have men il
every community who have what W
call "public spirit" Nothing that Ca
minister to the general good ever rt
ceives cold welcome from them, or
niggardly response to its appeal.
Very few men are so stolidly selfis
that they cannot see that membershi
in family involves certain duties t.
ward the family-support, protection
mutual assistance. The head or u
family-no matter how selfish an
stingy he may be-recognizes the fa'
, that he owes to that family shelte
susie tenance, clothing, education, ct
/. Very few, too, fail to see that, as CIT
, zens, they owe certain duties to u
town they live in, to the state, to Il
nation. They pay their taxes, and e
pect to pay them. 1t cannot be sa
that they always do this willingly
: honestly, but they know that they mu
pay something for the laws that pI
. tect them, for the roads that 81
: them passage across the country, al
for the support of the governmel
AS heads of families and citizens
: the state, they apprehend the fact tn
! they owe duties whose fulfillme
! costs money. What is necessary
, yond this is that they should see 70
membership in social community
, wolves duties just as really and q
: tinctly as family ties or citizenshl
No man can belong to a social col
x,rn;+v as all men do who are q