The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-11-27
OSCAR /. AND JOSEPHINE.

By Prince Eugene, Duke OF Leuontea
berg, and bis son Euguste, and saker
ct once to the ducal palace, where
the family were gathered to receive
him. Among these as yet entire
strangers to him was one whose feat
ures ct least was not unfamiliar, th'
Princes Josephine. whose lovely fscs
in the Stockholm Palace 6tieler port.
RAFT had 80 often charmed him; and
on the 18th Of November, 1922, hli
bethrothal TO Josephine Was celebrated
with great maguificence at Eiehsla1t
Prince Eugene. had be not chosen
to decline the honor. might have been
himself in the place of Oscars father
on the Swedish throne, as it was offer
ed TO him in 1910 by Napoleon. and
the SWedes themselves were st one
time accustomed to think OF hin as
their future soveriegu;it was therefore
curiously appropriate that it should
await his daughter. Oscars mar
riage with Josephine took place IN
the chapel of the Leuchtenberg Pal-
ace on the END May, 1928; and just
q month later, all Stockholm, with
the Grown Prince himself at the head,
had gone to the fortress of Wsxholm
to meet the gallant ship OF the line
Carl XIII. bringing to her new home
the young Grown Princess. There
we're great festivities and bridal tray
els through the realm, and the love
then born in the hearts of the Swedish
people for this good and beautiful
woman has endured like q neW-kin-
died fire to this day. On the Sd OF
May 1926, their first child was born,
Carl Ludwig Eugene, Duke OF ekana.
In her Joy over her frst-born, jose
phine thought with new compassion
of less fortunate little ones. She
founded an institution entitled, "The
Society for the encouragement OF
Tender and Moral Motherly Care"
The Princess josephine was at first
the warmth and life of social
Stockholm. But she withdrew from
society after a time because OF
her five little royal highnetsss. She
did everything in her power to please
and content them. In the National
Museum are carefully preserved some
play things, among them a sofa and
come chairs which the Crown Princess
made with her own hands at the
command OF her imperious babes.
But this devoted mother Was a de-
voted wife and citizen as well. In
1929 she placed herself a. the head of
@ charitable society which did q really
grand work for the capital during the
years OF famine and epidemic diseases
which ravsge1 the country at about
that time. The primal object OF this
society was the maintenance OF in
valid women, poor widows. and des-
titute children. With the energetic
cooperation vi the Crown Prince, she
also started society for the ho me
cultivation OF elk.
Experiments in France had shown
that this labor was sufficiently easy
to render it practicable for aged wo-
men and even feeble children to en-
gage in it pro6tably. The expert
ment of the Cro@n Prince succeeded
well, the white mulberry-trees stood
the Swedish winters brsvely even at
Stock holm, aud there are plantations
st the royal castle Haga, at Djurs-
borg, G.ipsholm, Wisingeos, on the
isles of Oelsnd and Ge.tlsnd, and
many in Skina. This society has
received medals and diplomas for its
productions at expositiens in Paris
and London, AMI in the Scandinavian
expositions at Copenhagen.
Several of the late Queen Dowager's
rooms are ornamented with the silks
of this society. But Josephine's
health failed, and she was at last fox.
ced to sop and consider herself.
In 1886 she went to the lovely
watering place of Medevi. Here
she lived with extreme simplicity.
No court etiquette, no gold breid.
cries, nor Strengthening chamber.
lains, nor misunderstanding per-
picked the royal couple. They rode
about in a simple carriage. The
Crown Princess spent her time
among the sicK, MANNED. and poor,
making it glad and hopeful for them
continually. She purchased the
work of the poor of every kind, for
presents, for playthings tor children,
for her own, or domestic use. Her
children studied and played as other
children, no other signs marking
their rank than exquisite kindness
and lovely manners. Their teachers
we're their only guardians, their cloth
caps and simple quits of blue-striped
linen their only adjoining. Indeed,
their life at the capital had been 81
most the same. Their father alec
took an active part ia their education,
bringing them himself to the cots of
the poor, to the hospitals, and prisons.
He gave special care to the improve
ments in the prison system, and In
the condition Of the poor and sick.
His share in the literary gifts OF his
family appeared in his able works on
science and political econ
,my. He was also q fine painter.
The "Frigate EiIrydice in Storm"
and others of his paintings ornament
ing the Queen-Dowsger's private
apartments, are highly estimated bs
Among his muslcal