The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-17

hopes, and they who had resigned them
selves to lifelong sorrow and separation
reunited again upon throne!
''Of all the romantic happenings among
the royalties, none has ever been more
romantic than this love story of the Duke
and Duchess of York, and those who tell
this foolish tale about the secret marriage
in Malta have small conception of what
happiness the two young people
who are some day to gov
ern England have found in their longed-
for union. So devoted are they that
Prince George cannot bear to let his wife
be separated from him for even a day.
If duty compels him to travel Princess
May leaves even the dearly-beloved new
baby behind and follows the sailor prince
wherever he goes-rememberlng how
nearly their separation was for life"
This same gossipy traveller, speaking of
the meek submission shown by members
of the royal family of Europe when the
question of marriage is decided for them
by their elders, said the Princess Alike Of
Hesse, Queen NictOria's granddaughter
is said to be desperately reluctant to wed
the CzarOWitz, although he is the most
brilliant royal parti in the world.
Her reluctance is probably the fruit Of
her sisters (the Grand Duchess SERGE
experience. She, before the development
of Alike into womanhood, was easily the
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was considered a great match for this
poor pretty princess from the little OBJ
sCure principally of Hesse to marry into
the royal family Of RUSSIA match which
she owed solely to her great beauty,
But she has paid a heavy price for it,"
said the gossipy narrator. Serge is the
typical Russian, who requires very little
scratching. indeed, to show the Tartar.
lie has ell the savage instincts of Peter
the Great, and they are only kept very
slightly in check by the opinions of a more
civilized modern world,
Some years ago, before Prince George
was married he was visiting in Athens,
| The Grand Duchess Serge was there,
and very pleased to see again her kind,
pleasant English cousin. At a ball at the
palace one night they danced the cotillon
together, and anything more enchantingly
beautiful than she looked it would be
| hard to Imagine. One would have supposed
/ that any husband would have been ador-
/ ingly proud of such q lovely wife, but the
ugly-tempered Serge chose only to- be
furiously jealous Of her evident happiness
! and coming behind her chair, where she
sat beside Prince George, waiting for her
Turn in the figures then being danced, he
pinched her bare arm until the blood
| nearly spurted from the slCin. Everyone
knows how terrible is the suffering caused
by nipping the muscles and flesh at the
back of the arm, and the Grand Duke
Serge, like ali of the cars family, has
fingers of iron. The poor girl gave q
gasp and fell back in her chair, almost
fainting with pain George made mo-
ton as if to catch the malicious brute by
the collar but q glance from his cousin
restrained him Serge passed on, and the
dance was finished somehow Prince
George, flushed and angry and bitterly
distressed for his pretty cousin; she
white-lipped and desperate looking, as one
almost at the end of her patience. When
she left the ballroom as soon as the dance
was concluded, her arm all down the
back had already turned green, as If
| from Some horrible bruise.
Now that little Alike has grown up tc
be even more lovely than her beautiful
| sister, her fairness has opened to her q
wonderfully brilliant future, if one con.
| siders it from a worldly point of view
! only, for to be Empress of Russia is q
! great rise in the world for a Princess OF
| IIesse, but it is common balk in Germany
! that Alike, knowing what her sisters
/ private life has been. is very distrustfu
| OF all Russians, and enters upon her mar
| ried life with many and great misgiv
! ings."