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THE ROYAL -ENGAGEMENr.

4rdnoeSs Bsatr1cs and Prince Henry Free
~ discussed.
London Letter to San Francisco Argonaut
Princess Beatrice's engagement to Prince
Henry of Batenberg causes considerable talk.
For several reasons does it do SO. In the first
place, it was thought that.the Queens youngest
daughter would not marry while her mother
lived; secondly, the choice was somewhat Of q
surprise; and thirdly there will have to be an
other appeal to the pockets of the country,
through the house of commons, for the where
withal for the young couple to go housekeep-
ing upon. But the first two reasons are quite
lost sight of in the third, which really becomes
the only serious matter for the public to con-
slider In regard to the betrothal. Naturally.
there has been the usual gush over the engage
ment, INDUCED in chiefly by such papers as
the Morning Post . journal which ever leads the
van in fun kyiah toadying of royalty and aristoc-
cracy. Bnt the people at large take a differ
ent view Of the affair. II is out of their peck
ets that tho ssannuity" will have to be taken.
Blk Thousand pounds . year is what
the Princess Louise gets; and, OF course, her
when there is so much poverty and distress,
throughout the land, it does seem 3 most un.
necessary addition to put upon the already
heavy load OF taxation under which the nation
Is trying to keep up. II the princess must
marry, why not her mother give her . dowry?
The Queen has been SAID to give each Of her
daughters . marriage portion. I don't know
how true this may be. Perhaps she does; but,
for my part, / seriously doubt it A hundred
thousand pounds would mean an income Of
four thousand per annum, and that ought to be
enough, in all reason, for such comparatively
obscure royaltiesa as Princess Beatrice and
Prince Henry Of Battenberg. II they were ia
have four thousand ayear from what the Queen
gives them, they wouldn't have to ask Parlia-
ment to give item another six Oh, no.
The mcst that can be said for Prince Henry
is that he 10 o lucky follow. Clearly, from 4
princely point Of view, he is q nobody. Heis
one OF the thousand and one beggaily young
Germans left to their own or some other coun.
try to support, by the prolific Heases, Batten-
bergs, etc, etc He has been q lieutenant in
the Prussian Guards, but has resigned since
the engagement l don't fancy he viii be over
popular in England Neither the Prince Of
and just after the engagement was made pub.
nc = very silly hing was done, and one calcu-
lated TO make army men preiudiced against
him The queen and princess are just now
staying at Osborne, in the Isle Of Wight Near
by is Parkhurst Barracks, at which are quar-
tered . very swell Highland regiment-
viz the Seaforth Highlanders. Well.
Prince Henry was carted over there toluucheon
one day, and the regiment ordered out for his
inspection. After looking the men and their
SSOS WHY Nv lhA q bpOGCuE ON
plimlenting them, and saying how their fame
shad reached his ear OF course it got into
the papers, and then the row began, and the
impertlnence of q German lieutenant ainspect-
lng" a British regiment has been commented
on in terms not the most civil or polite to Her
Majesty 4 newest son-in-law. He is good look
ing, certainly, and Young. for he is nearly two
years younger than Princess Beatrice.
She deserves a handsome husband, does
poor Beatrice. She has been go patient and
waited SO long, While loads of girls were mar
rying off on every side OF her. OF course,
Prince henry gets a good warm billet for, the
rest Of his life, but he can't exactly be envied
IN his wife in many respects. Sentimentally
and physically she's decidedly stale. and she Is
q martyr to rhnmatism All the kind wishes
in the world can't make her pretty. She has
the same square,, far, cullen, Dutch face that
all the royal family have, and where it is you
can't have beauty. 1t comes from the Queen.
for tho Prince Consort was a man of rare good
looks. However, IN these days, good looks be-
ing about the last thing required or
Thought of when a marriage is mado
up, it does not mst.er. She is a nice
girl, and q %throughly we'll brought up girl. /
believe, and that is u great deal She has al
ways been at her mothers aproastring, and
there couldn't BIO q greater drasonesa than
Victoria. OF course, we all know the tales that
have been told of the Princess Louise. Bnt
she is the only one Of the Queens daughters
against whom q word Of scandal has ever been
spoken. Louise is fast--ay, decidedly more
than fast one might almost venture to saw. but
her most silly marriage can be blamed for it
all. Still, if she enjoys that sort of thing, md
don't mind being photographed in bodiees cut
1--WE than q burtesque ACTRESSES 1T is her own
look ont nd-Ecr husbands. But then ahe is
the only one.