Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-23

A1uaPfeS8 VICTORIA ana the GERMANS
From the St James Gazette. London.
We were ourselves, once upon time, exceeding
ly unkind to the prince consort, and we ought t
remember this when we criticise our neighbors
Had the positions been reversed and he survived
the queen, cannot think his lot would have beer
at all happy one.in England. Two things art
singular in the real or supposed unpopularity Of
the elnpreSS-firSt, that she should be upOrafdec
for being too English, whereas the most TeutOniC
or pr1ncesses could scarcely be more entirely Ger
man In blood. She has had, We may say, In hel
genealogy three English-Dorn and English-feeling
the least pretenslon to be Englishj, heI
Of German mother; the queen, the daughter s1I
OF German mother, while the empress herself Is
the daughter OF q German father. 1t would be dit.
ncult TO nnd an af1l1atlOn less mixed. Her impe-
rial majesty has spoken German from her cradle:
she has been surrounded by German servants and
governesses. ON our SIDE were IL not for the pres
sentiment OF home regard and possession which
the royal family enjoy among us, 1t might easily
be that we should upbrald the house OF Guelph
with being too German. Granting the royal neces.
sity for foreign conSort, which 1t seems impossi-
Die TO SurmOunt, no less foreign cOnSOrt than the
empress Is could have been imagined. To be sure,
that has been no less necessity in Germany than
anywhere else in the world. German princesses
have always abounded for all the purposes Of state
Still princess OF Great Britain and Ireland (not
to say princess royal differs in some degree from
Mecklenburg or HesSe.
Then there is the Odi0us lnsnuation that the
empress has introduced strain OF unhealthlness
among the ROBUST HohenZollerns Whence this
persistent and prevailing Islander comes It is very
hard to say. One sees IL cropping up in all kinds
or places: among the nasty gOSSips Of the back
stairs; In the very face OF theevident fact that
family more vigorous than the royal family of
England does not exist anywhere. The work they
get through In the most conscientious business
like way would kill on In year or Two q delicate
or unhealthy race. Out OF all her large family,
the queen has had but one delicate child
rpc nf
princes and Processes are hale and hearty; no
pale Specters have ever gathered about our royal
formalities bow till our sympathetic necks ache
merely to see 1t, stand till our sympathetic limbs
tremble under US, and are ever ready to be called
upon for a thousand unintereSting duties The
queen herself Is far from young, as must be al
lowed. She Is great-grandmother; but there are
not many working women who within sight OF
selves or any one else OF doing the work carried
by our sovereign without either complaint or ap-
other when we md the grandmother of the cottage
stlll toiling. something must be done for her;
that, at least, cannot be- allowed 70 60 on we say
neys across Europe, presents herself after travel
ing two nights In succession, untired, ready for
everything, TO throngs OF gazing strangers, al
crowded Is not naturally agreeable to her majesty
And 1t Is the queens daughter who is supposed
70 naNe M ad Q, me- 10 inc prus
younger potentates, was bOlstered up periodically
with baths and cures. The queen requires no
Gastein, no healing and soothing waters heard
at Windsor who had been reprimanded for falling
asleep before his work was over. 1t was his duty
to put out the lamps. "Nobody oughtnt to sit up
30 late" the young man grumbled In his self
defense. 1t was the queen, busy over work, who
kept this humble attendant out OF bed. And the
child among her descendants 1t Is time tina tail
Od1ous whispers should be cOntradicted. Let the
gossips name a family less subject to illness In
NObOdY hrf In
the meantime it is easy to whisper about invisible
taints where no such thing Is