The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-30
THE DUCHESS OF FIFE.
When She Pegan to Love the Duke

When She Fegan to Love the Duke.
From the Worlds London Letter.
just now London is occupied in inventing
loyal gossip at, ut the new Duchess of Fife,
to whom they are suddenly atUributing all
the virtues and charms, though society
used to sa quietly before this marriage
that the Wales girls were CHI painful
contrast to their mother that AluerC Ed
ward was ashamed of them. 1t is ce tainly
true that Princess Loui e has blossomel
out wonderfully since her eddi g,
and is not only much better loo
ing, but very much more amiabls
and agreeable. L. consequence OF
which people have turned about on a ne
tack and decar tnat the Prince of Wales
kept her girls in the background and ueve
did them justice. 1t is certain that the
princess has always dressed her daughters
in the most unbecoming manner one could
imagine. She had exquisite taste for her
self, but from their eariiest years she seems
to have secured the shops to find the
welrdest sort of garments for he
three ugly daughters, who should
have had every aid that dress uld
aft I'd. They rave been guys al
ways and had their hair done, o. in
the most trying way possible The princess
has always been very strict with her i'll
dren, and these girls we q not only mad. to
y. that
they grew self-conscious and awkward The
truth was that the princess felt it as a
dreadful trial that they had not inherited
her beauty and grace, aud was YER
patient at times in her e ,de tvors TO shape
them into something approaching he ieaI
OF what her d lighters SHOULD be. II con-
sequence, Louise gre v up with the awkward
ness That comes of too hu BILE opinion of
ELS self, and neve knew how to make thu
best of what she uad.
This is what they yell in London of how
the Fife marriage came about. 1t seems
That the earl-as he was then-was always
We Y good-Nearted, amiable fellow. and
used to have good deal of sympathy for
the ugly little princess, who was such a dis
appointment to her parents. He was a
young fellow of % when she was a little
girl, and he took great deal of no ice of
her, begged her of when she got into
scrape and frequently had surreptitious
bonbons in his p cketS for her ioueh her
mother had rigidly forbidden him. The little
princess adored hun in the innocent wa
that small 81. Is beStow their affec ions on
good-looking young men who notice them
occaslona ly, AID used 20 prick al. he i
of her royal fingers maxim pin-cu4 10 IAN
pen wipers for mis- birthday. When shs
grew up TALL plain girl OF 16 she adored
lin STILL but IN a ditferen fashion now.
and, conscious # this feeling, she grew
desperl tely shy with hin, and be.
thinking she was growing proud aud
sp lied, let her alone. Every year still she
sewed hard, embroderiny hin elaborate
gifts with his coat-of-arms and mo Aogram
all over them, and hen W leu his brit .day
came lacked the courage TO give them to
him and locked them away in her drawer
one day some OIe discovered these four
blrthd ~ gifts aud told Fife about it. He
was lnexpressibiy touched and made no OBJ
j. tlon when the amiabls busybOdv, who
mad Informed him, proposed telling the
prince the whols story. He minated very