Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-27

NNttNNN>Eiso fit little Ell import port.
MItt AERN ance, but as a
family celebra-
ton it will command the attention of the
world. Americans care little for kings
and queens, but brave men and true wom-
en- are more admired and better appreci-
ated in the United States than in any
other part Of the world. Under such cir
cumstances do not much care to write
on this particular occasion of Christian
TX and Louisa, as king and queen of Den
mark, and all the Wendes and Goths
They are only very small potentates
among the crowned heads of Europe,
and their country is not much larger
than Ohio and has less inhabitants than
that state; but | like to write of their
standing as man and wife, as father and
mother. As such they are entitled to
our highest esteem and have set a shin
ing example to all the world.
De la Bruyere once said of kings, "Je
ne manque rien a I'm roi qui la douceur
de la vie privee," which means that
kings have everything except the sweet
ness of family life. In King Christians
case history very empha cally contra
diets this utterance of the great French
moralist. The kings public life has
been one constant trouble ever since
he assembled the throne on Nov. 10,
1868. As matter of fact he has been
one of the most tried sovereigns of Eu-
rope. The war with Austria and Prussia
cost him Sleswick- Holstein and Lauen-
burg, and he has been in chronic feud
with his parliament, and ministerial
crises seem perennial in the little king
dom. He detests democratic ideas, but
his subjects adhere TO them and conse-
quently as a ruler they do not love him.
As man and father, however, they adore
him. The popular ditty of which the
refrain runs lit is a fine family, that of
King Christian. had no derisive mean
ing when the populace sang it beneath
the royal windows on a raw November
evening in 1888.
As husband and wife the royal Danish
couple are among those fortunate par
ents whose children are credit and
honor to them. settling in life and adorn-
ing exalted positions with a grace and
dignity which would be recognized even
in a republic, where honesty. frugality,
temperance and virtue are regarded as
the qualities which beft noble charac-
ter. Among the daughters of the royal
couple we think first of the beautiful
Princess Of Wales; then of the czarina
of Russia, whose stately lot involves so
much solicitude that no simple American
wife need envy her crown and throne;
of Thyre. the duchess of Cumberland.
tall and handsome as lily. The sons
are Prince Frederick. heir apparent to
the throne of Denmark; George, king
of Greece. and Prince Waldemar, the
sailor. The latter also could wear a
crown like his father and brothers and
sisters but he did not care to. His king
dom is the seas, and when the Bulga-
rians asked him to step on their throne
he wisely declined.
The private lives of the king and queen
have been blameless and irreproachable.
As parents the Danish sovereigns have
been blessed with all the happiness that
heaven can bestow on mortal beings.
The king is the fourth son of Duke Will |
liam of Sleswick- Holstein-Sond |
Glucksburg and was born April 8, 1918. !
Like many other German princes he had !
little of this worlds riches. As a poor
princeling he chose his wife, not so much |
for her beauty as for qualities which
would insure happy future. He mar
ried Princess Louisa, daughter of the
Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel. on May 20,
1912, at Copenhagen, she being his senior
by one year. They were handsome
couple and much admired. He manly, |
tall, erect; she fair and sweet like a
precious flower of womanhood
Many tales are told Of how their
daughters, now sovereigns themselves,
made their own dresses, trimmed their
own hats and took their turns in keep
ing house, so az to relieve their royal |
mother. At that time it was not unusual |
to see them driving out all squeezed in
one carriage-father, mother and six
children. The king was then a superior
officer in the Danish army, and lived