Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-16
A PRINCE AND HIS FRANKS.
Women Upon Whom the Eye of the
Son Of Victoria Has. Fallen.

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daughter Of the Well-knOWn Bond street
music seller aud publisher. OF course
she was a great heiresS, without which
comfortable fact, i fear, her beauty might
have gone a-begging, so far as Dir. Cayley
was concerned. st all events, money
or no money, It lsn't every nan IN a
swell regiment like his who would
care to marry 2 Trademarks daugh-
Ter, no matter how beautiful she night
be. Most of the daughters Of English
trades-peOple are girls Of low tastes and
vulgar ways-with instincts, In short,
which all the education of fashionable
ls.yOung ladies' academies in the world
cannot overcome. They ike upon dEess,
exist upon admiration, are loud, bolster
GUS and fast, and have a way of attract
ing male attention aud ''gOl2g on" with
gOO6-loOking young men that sooner. Or
later must lead to the divorce court any
man who would have the temerity
to marry them Especially would
as a pretty and fast-gOing woman would
be sureztO be in a regiment full Of hand
some and rapid young swells, such as for
the most part the Life Guards are COM
posed of. Mr.. Cayley, therefore, would
rave been considered, on general prlnci-
pies, to hare taken a decided risk for a
man who cared fer the purity of his do
nestle hearthstOne. But Miss Chappell
was a gratifying exception to the general
rule. Beautiful as a dream and stately
as q Queen-tbSt IS to say, the theoretical
queen, not bulls on the lines of the dumpy
VictOria-she was as modest as she was
beautiful and as clean-minded as shewas
st atelgs
a little incident, by no means unusual
in its i~nceptive stage with the budding
beauties who catch the sensual eye of the
Princess of Wales, Will show the sort of
woman she is. Before her marriage,
which took place less than a year ago,
she had-What other women would regard
as the honor Of attracting the notice
of HIS ROYAL Highness. ByOHe of his III
merOus equiTIies, who play the paftofmale
pan1eTs to tie pTinCely appetite, he signi-
ed his wish to make Miss ~ChappelPs
acquaintance" Nine out of ten women,
old and young, would have jumped
at the opportunity. But what did
Miss Chappell do? With tears in her
eyes, and Il shrinking blush of maidenly
purity, she sought her father and mother,
and begged them to take her away from
London at once. l don't think Albert
Edward ever got such a snub in his life
not even excepting those he has tOendure
from the beautiful Countess of Dudley
every time court etiquette cOmpels him to
be thrown in her society. Shortly after
wards Miss ChaPpell became Mrs.
Caviar ana her marvellous DeaGsy
has been attracting in the higher
social circles, to which her mar
rage has given her the entree, the
admiration it had in the sphere she had
left. Tall and graceful, with curly brown
hair clustering all over her head, large
violet ewes, and one of the sweetest eX-
DressiOnS imaginable, she moves about
with a charming simplicity OF manner,
quite unconscious that every eye follows
her wherever she goes. At the ball given
at Portsmouth the other day by Admiral
HOrnby TO the Philadelphia cricketers
she was greatly admired, and the hlng OF
Sweden was so pronounced in his atten-
lions that she got away from him as soon
as she could, and went c TO the society
Of less p%retentiOus and more intimate
friends with a smile Of relief. Royalty
clearly has no charms for her.
Mrs. Powell, who made such a sensa-
ton at Ascot last year, and from whom
great thing were predicted in the profess
iOnal beauty line Of business, has turned
Out-sO far as princely favor ard popular
notice are cOncerned-a sad failure. Had
she had the patience to make haste slow
iy. the chances are il would have been
different; but she couldn't wait TO let
events take their own course IN ner favor
FIattered beyond herself by the attention
she had already attracted from the Prince
OF Wales, she must 90 and follow him
over to Cannes. Now, the Prince is a
man who prefers to seek rather than 10
be sought. With all his amOrOus pro-
cliVities. the slightest attempt at lore
ing an acquaintance or a familiarity
will be resented by him IN the most
marked manner. He likes to follow up a
quarry in mis- own fashion and at his
princeIy ease. The result was that he left
Mrs. Powell severely alone, and has con-
tinued to do so. Since her visit to Cannes
she has not only lost the ground she had
previously attained, but she has rapidly
gone down hill from a social point OF
view. While there she fOOllshly assO-
ciated with 4 lot Of lOW-Class French leO-
pie. who dragged her down to their level
and taught her ways that when she came
home her own cOuntrywOmen have re-
fnsei TO tolerate. she dresses in the
IOudest fashions, and TO use the express
sion l heard applied to her, wears her
skirts up to her knees" Or course,
this must be taken cum grdnO
sails. Still. if Mrs. Powell does go
TO the limit Of shOrtness in her dra-
peries in these days of scant length OF
DetticOats, she can at all events put for
ward the eXcuse-unaVailabIe to nine
tentbs OF the clumsily-shOd and square
limbed women one sees kicking their heels
ND at lawn tennis-Of possessing a PAIR
OF the smallest feet in the kingdom, scru-
pulOusly bieR cbGUSSeS, and the trImmest
ankles. the inverse ratio Of whose ascend
NO scale is always clad in the latest,
ti9htest and most deliberately decorated
French hosiery. Under such circum-
stances. what but the %jaundiced eyes of
other Jealous women could hDG the faint
est fault? No man could certainly object.
In his rejection of the advances of such
a remarkably pretty peculiarly fas-
cinating woman as Mrs. Powell is, the
Prince only cut OFF his moss to veX his
face. There isn't a man in England who
wOuldu,t have given the world to have
been in his place. But Albert Edward
can-like everything else he dOes-act the
prig with impunity. Burke may show TO
his own satisfaction, by a series Of hero
glvphics. uuinteiiigiOle to any one else,
that 0SOur Mr.. Wales comes in an unbrO-
ken line of descent from the COnqueror;
but. unfortunately. he can't impart to him
n chiyalric Instincts which are common
" supposed TO be ~inseparable from the
nature of a gentleman. let alone a prince.
In his treatment Of and behavior to
women he is simply a brute. There is no
other word for il. i don't mean to say
that his manners with ladies are not as
Derfect as Count D'OrSay could desire.
They are. however, the manners, of the
head, and not of the heart. He is civil,
and polite. and gracious, and cOndescend-
ing to m just so long as it suits him
TO be, but not a second longer. Let him
grow weary of their society, or let them,
in a spirit of familiarity, which it has
been his pleasure to encourage, chat him
or make some harmless jest at
his expense, and, women as they are,
they will receive a rebuke as inconsistent
with manhood as it is wanting in the
gOod-breeding one looks for in a servant.
Supposed TO have sprung from the grand
est line Of ancestry modern times can
furnish, he is positively infnitesimal in
his sticking for the observance OF the
trifing acts OF homage TO his dignity
which one is accustomed TO regard as
being peculiarly delightful to the dignity
of an upstart and a snOb. Particularly
does he demand this sort Of thing from
women. The wonder is that he can get
anv decent woman TO submit to his
instantaneous caprIces. But he seems to
ali the same-tO their shame be it spoken