The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-18


Matches.
Ex-attache in the New York Tribune.
King-makers occupy a conspicuous
Mace in the pages of history, but the lat
ter is strangely silent with regard to
oueen-makers. BY queen-makers 1 mean
those who are primarily responsible for
the matrimonial alliances of manageable
princesses to royal bachelors and widow
ers. My attention has been called to this
neglect on the part of history bN the Sc
rious carriage accident which has Just
happened to the popular Nine. de la Fer
ronays at Paris. 1t is to the maruuise
that the Comte and Comtesse de Paris
are Indebted for the crown worn by their
eldest daughter as Queen of Portugal
While spending few weeks,
at Lisbon the Marquise de la
Ferronays was frequently visited by
the crown prince, whose acquaint-
ance she had made during one of
his frequent stays at Paris. Among other
of his marriage, and he complained Bit
terly of the difficulty which be had OK
perienced in his search for a bride of his
taste At the time he had Just been Tilted
by Archduchess Valerie, the youngest and
favorite daughter of the Emperor and
Empress of Austria. The~ match haa
been arranged and the young people were
afianced, when at the last moment, the
archduchess broke off the engagement
The reason she gave was that her health
was altogethe too delicate to ad-
nit of her performance of
the duties of consort to n
reigning monarch-duties that are far
more onerous than most people believe
and at the same time she expressed her
intention of entering convent and de-
voting the remainder of her days TO re-
ligous practices. The true reason, how
ever for the termination of the match is
believed to have been the opposition
thereto on the part of the empress and of
her sister-in-law, the Archduchess Marie
Therese, of whom she is very fond. Marie
Therese is the favorite sister of Don
Miguel. of Braganza, the Legitimist Pre-
tender to the throne of Portugal while
the now reigning house of Portugal is
responsible for the banishment of
her father, who was not only deprived
Of his throne, but even his Por-s
tuguese citizenship Empress Elizabeth's
aversion to the match was mainly due to
the fact that her fayorite child would
have as mother-in-law daugh ter of King
Victor of Emmanuel. the arch enemy of
bllC OhuANh VI " IN IA ShO 10 SuEll IL uG-
voted follower; and, moreover, she was
well aware of the reputation which the
Dowager Queen of Portugal enjoys for
imperiousness and arbitrary, dispotic con-
duct-failings which have more than
once led to pitched battles between her
self and her present daughter-in-law.
The Crown Prince of Portugal was
greatly disappointed and mortified, and
found a sympathetic aud willing listener
in Nine. de la terronays. She quietly
wrote OF the Comtesse de Paris, who is
very fond of her, asking for the best
photograph that she possessed of Princess
Marie Amelie, her eldest daughter In
due course the photograph arrived hand
somely framed, and displaying the some
what marked features of the princess to
their very best advantage. The marquise
assigned to it prominent place in her
salon, and the next time that the crown
prince called, it naturally caught his eye,
with the result that he soon became inter
ested in the original, playing Nine de la
Ferronays with the questions as to
whether the moral qualifications were on
Far with the comeliness of the princess
1t may be taken for granted that the
answers were in every way both Halter
ing and satisfactory for a few weeks
later saw the crown prince first of all at
Nice, where the Comte and COmtcsse de
Paris were staying at the time, and there
after at Paris, where he formally applied
for the hand of the princess. This was
Immediately granted; and so pleased was
the Comte de Paris with the distinction
in store for his daughter, that ne even
manifested unusual generosity as regards
financial matters, settling upon her an
annual income of s40,000. This at the
present moment is exceedingly welcome
to the king and queen, their income from
the Portuguese civil list being sadly in
arrears, owing to the emptiness in the
national treasury. The engagement, it
may be remembered, was officially rati-
fled at a grand reception given by the
Comte and Comtesse de Paris at the Hotel
Galliera at Paris-a palace which the
millionaire duchess of that name had
placed at the disposal of the
Comte as a metropolitan resi-
dence. This entertainment was pro-
ducJive Of not altogether pleasant efe It's.
Slightly intoxicated with the magnificent
prospect in view for his daughter, the
comte permitted for the first time his fol-
lowers to address him as hlng of France,
and to style him as Your Majesty"
moreover, the ceremonial of the evening
was precisely as if both he and his wife
were seated on the throne of France The
result was that the government saw
therein not an innocent ''soiree de con-
trat," but political demonstration of the
PdIG Ol Tue hOydllSJ parry, WHICH was
little out of place when il is borne In
mind that the comte was holding at the
time the rank of colonel of. the republican
army, and that he had, like every
other officer of the territorial
forces, been Obliged to swear fealty
and allegiance to the government of the
day. Accordingly he was deprived of his
military command and banished from
France, along with his eldest son while
the old Duchess of Galliera was so an
noJed at his Lack of good taste in using
her palace as the scene of a political dem
onstration against the government, that
She requested him TO remove his belong
lngs elsewhere, and altered her will, leav-
ing the mansion not to him as she had in
Tended and promised to do, but to the
Emperor of Austria, who has now estab
hshed his embassy there. Her, Jewels,
also, as well as her fortune, in lieu Of
being bequeathed 10 the daughters of the
Comte de Paris, were left to the wild
owed Empress Frederick Of Germany
and TO the city of Paris.
Another lady who deserves 3 to be
ranked in the same category as Nine. de
Ia terronays, is Baroness Mohrenheim,
wife of the Russian ambassador,at Paris,
who played a leading and primary part in
The difficult and delicate negotiations
which led to the marriage of Princess
Dagmar of Denmark to the present car.
The baron was Russian envoy TO Den
mark at the time and his wife who is q