Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-12-29
MorAER oF rnE POOH.
why This ncautifuI Title WAS Given to
"A prlncpaa,

why This BcantifuI title WAS Givon To
Princess.
10 is not always that wa Ind richos.
fRnk and beauty allied to the high
eetiptellectual attainmonts. laregness
df heart and mind in the person OF n
yonng girl living her daily ifc la
fashionable society! VI such un one,
however. ! chanccd across little
memoir the other day, and In pcrus-
fnE it could not holp thinking how
many OF our youthful sisters OF tho
aristocracy could show q record like
this beautiful girl, TO whom the
name OF ''AnGcl' was more than once
Gpplied. Gwcndalin Talbot, younger
daughter OF John, sixteenth earl of
Shrews bury. woll known in his day
as munifcent church builder, was
born SO far back as 1917. Evcn in
early childhood sho gave promise OF
great personal beauty.
At tho age OF four she already
spoke French, and began to learn
italian. At six she had started u
diary in Italian. heading 1t with n
little drawing OF St Peters Mt Rome.
From her parents, for whom her
love and tenderness were extraor-
dinary. she inherited that religious
disposition OF mind which inspired
and regulated her life. Her early
days were passed in serious study,
interspersed with innocent pleasures
and the culture of tho lighter and
brighter art, such as music, paint
ing. etc. No sooner was she released
from her studies, says tho Gentle
woman. than she rushed OH to visit
the poor in the vicinity OF her home.
Alton Towers. or whorever she might
be for the moment Her father be-
iieved in travel as o help to budding
minds. and she derived considerable
benefit from frequent trips to the
sentiment. which also greatly con-
duced to her really brilliant lin
guistic requirements. At the age OF
9 her diary record of travels in Italy,
Bohemia, Hungary. SaXony, Prussia
and Mecklonburg.
Early in her teens o learned Span
ish mathematician. who was on
visit to Alton Towors. set her u prob.
lem in Euclid, which was solved
almost Immediately, to his great
establishment We arc not there.
eore surprised to learn that when
stopping at Brighton with her family,
being then in her thirteenth year.
she was made much of by Queen
Adelaide, who was desirous that she
should become u friend to her own
niece, tho young princess OF Sake
Weimar Nor that. upon the occa-
sion of a visit to Windsor castle two
or three years later the king (Wil-
liam w. designated her the most
beautiful girl in his domiuions. and
In doing SO he referred to deeper
qualities than mere beauty OF person.
ID her eighteenth year Gwcndalin
Talbot was led to tho altar by Mark
Antony Borghese, prince of Sulpona,
the ceremony taking place at Rome,
and being performed by Cardinals
Odescalchi and Weld, tho latter
cousin OF tho Talbots. More than
ever plunged into the vortex OF so.
ciety by her marriage, tho princess
never forgot her duty to her less
fortunate fellow-creatures, and her
sweet facs aud gentle voice carried
sunshine into many poor Roman
household. That she found tho re.
ward OF her good deeds in domestic
felicity is shown by the simple re-
mark OF her husband to Lord Shrews.
bury: "She is the most perfect be-
ing have ever seen"
But. alas! the princess, in her
twenty-third year, just after the
birth OF her fourth baby. was sud
denly cut Off with an attack OF scar
latina. then prevalent in Rome. All
Rome went into mourning. The flu
neral car was drawn by forty young