St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-07
ROYAL MARRIAG ES.
Something About the Daughters {
Queen Victoria.

SOmethluS ABOUT the DauS hterS VI
Queen Victoria.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Persons who are interested in the royal
family of Great Britain will regret to hear
that the marriage of the Princess Beatrice
does not promise to be as happy as might
be wished. While it is understood that she
is likely to give proof this winter that she
loves her lord. the London newspapers
which make a speciality of report
ing the feelings of the royal
family and the nobility. state pos
itively that she is in low spirits, and in such
condition that gossips declare she is disap-
pointed in her marriage. Marriage is a
lottery, in royal as in other circles. The
fair Beatrice got for her lot the handsomest
man in Europe. We know on this CONT
nent that the handSomest man in society is
apt to prove poor matrimonial bargain.
Those of us who have both daughters and
experience are content with the second or
third handSOmest man, and those of us who
have more than once gone through the mill
are content to dispense with good looks
altogether if we can get for our daughter
a man who is honest and well-behaved and
able to earn his living. Male beauty is
even shalower than the skin deep beauty
of woman.
The queen had five daughters. Of these
two proved perfect women. who would have
been an honor to their sex if they had been
born in lowly station. Perhaps the bright
est and bravest woman in Europe to-day is
Victoria. crown princess OF Germany. She
is the one redeeming spot in the dull Ger
man court; woman gifted with all good
gifts, and so sweet that even those who
cannot appreciate her adore her in silence.
Her sister Alice. the Inflated wife of the
Prince of HeSSe, was so tender daughter,
SO true wife, so devoted a mother, that
her memoirs are given by American mothers
to their daughters as the record of life
which good women should strive to emu
late.
Of the wife of Prince Christian nothing
is known. Louise, princess of LOrne, did
not convince the Canadians that she was as
loyal to her husband as the cOnjugal law re-
quires. She may be good wife, but
European gossip describes her as too con-
stantly separated from her husband to
fulfill strict matrimonial obligation. The
law says that the wife shall cleave unto her
husband. She cannot well cleave if he is
at Edmonton while she remains at Ware.
The queen says in her memoirs that her
marriage was a love match. dating from a
boy and girl affection. AS rule the nur-
sery is bad cradle for conjugal love. Both
men and women tire of nursery fare. Now
Princess Beatrice is said to have drawn a
blank in the matrimonial lottery. If so,
kindly people will be sorry. She has been
a gentle daughter. tenderly atfecto to
morose old mother. She was fairly entitled
to good husband.
\ story is floating through the papers
that the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.
who. if he lives. will come to be king of
Great Britain and Ireland, and emperor of
India is about to marry all American girl.
We do not believe it. The laws OF mon
archical etiquette forbid any such alliance.
The young prince will probably be re-
stricted in his choice to those pauper Ger
man families whose stock in trade is their
various quarterings and their strict ad
herence to the Protestant religion. 1t would
be hopeful sign if the Prince of Wales
dared to depart from precedent so far as to
permit his son 10 marry plain Miss Smith.
of New York, or Miss Jones' of Philadel
phia. But the American public would be
surprised to learn that modern ideas had
made such progress that such marriage
was DOSSihe