The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-29

the MARQUIS of Rapallo Princess Frederick
of Oldenburg is the Baroness de Washing
ton Princess Henrietta Of Sches"lg-
HolStein, the aunt of the future Empress OF
Germany, gave w rank and position 10 wed
a simple professor, DR. Esmarch Ana All
this proves, say the politicans-some eXult-
inglv, others with sorrow--that the rising
tide of democracy breaks down those dikes
and barriers which prejudice had raised
between castles and classes, so that
marriages of inclination like that or
Prince Oscar will become more
and more numerous. The Princes Will sac
rifice their empty titles" and be happy,
while the PrinceSSes will no longer consent
to become old maids on the absurd pretext
that, acting otherwise, they would smlrch
their blazonry. The revolution has accom-
plished this much in favor Of the Sdn9re
dzuI. if it1has shorn royal houses of most of
their prerogatives, it has helped them TO
independence in personal matters. Pohu-
cal necessities have scarcely anything to
do nowadays with the private life OF
Princes, whose marriages have ceased TO be
affairs Of state to be decided in Cabinet
council. The Prince has lost something,
but the man has gained great
deal; so there is compensation.
Then, too, financial considerations,
which have become omnipotent III
this century, must eventually obllge
even the Scions of monarchs to follow the
example of their mobiles i'll the matter OF
matrimony and to look for money bags
rather than for parchments. 1t will not be
very long, probably not another TWENTY-FIVE
years, before we see bankers daughters
wearing royal crowns, as so many Of them
now do coronets. The most llluStrlous
families of the aristocracy of England and
the continent long ago began to adore the
golden calf, and sovereigns will certainly go
and do likewise. Only last week their i'm
perial, royal and apostolic majesties deigned
to grant the honors of their court to the
Baron and Baroness Albert de Rothschild,
to the children of Israel to nothing but
simple bankers" who had bought their title
with hard cash. 1t was an event without
precedent in the annals of the Hapsburgs,
and quarter of a century ago the Emperor
Frances Joseph and the Empress Elizabeth
themselves would not have admitted the
possibility of its occurrence.
But they will see worse than that, for
with vulgar vanity on the one side and i'm
pecuniouSness on the other, lniSallances, as
they are called, must be fruitful and multi
ply. Ten years hence there will be at least
fifty Bourbon PriI cesses in the market,
while the collection of Most Serene German
Highnesses is inexhaustihle, and where will
all these boru-in-the-purple ones find the
wherewithal to keep up the style to which
they have been accustomed, unless they
look for names in the business directory in
stead of in the Almanac of Gotnaf High
neSses as yet have only made m1salliances
of inclination; they gradually will form
misaliances for money. As La Bruyere
wrote POO years ago: The need of coin will
throw into the shade the proof of 81 quar-
terings" Before 1920 NJ FOirier will turn
up his nose at Marquis de Presles for SON
in-law; he'll want at the very least dor
leans Princeling, and, as he will pay the
price, he will get one.
Meanwhile Prince Napoleon, alias Plon-
Plon l., is sorely bothered about the mar
riage of one of his olive branches This
brother-in-law of King Humbert has
daughter on hand, and as Princess Clotide
is opposed to a mere mercenary marriage,
and as to marry a young lady with a very
scant dowIy and even less beauty, is hard
lines just now, Plon- Plon has gone to Rome
to see whether he cannot patch up an ar
rangement with one of the SONS of the Duke
d'Aosta. The Princess of MoncaiieIi was
at first destined to the Duca di Torlonia
but Mme Clotilde thought thought that he
was not nearly rich enough to atone for
his plebeian origin, and so chose her nephew,
which was quite satisfactory all around,
marriages between cousins being alto
gether in the tradition of the house
of Savoy. All went on swim
mingiy, and the day was almost settled,
when suddenly the Pope refused to grant
the necessary disrensation. Why this
severity? asked the Italians, who are used
to finding more tolerance from the Vatican,
where similar favors are very readily
granted to those who will pay for them.
Nobody can read the riddle, and the only
plausible conjecture that can be formed is
Leo XIII wants to force persons to apply
to him personally, so as to have the pleas
ure of seeing as his supplicant this Gard
Il n. IL.
tibet to me; it is the common nickname
which the cousin of Napoleon III. bears in
the lobbies of the Apostolic Palace.
CT.
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