The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-27

more settled affections. In a letter TO his
sister he once wrote:
II must really marry, for since fathers
departure feel lonely and solitary. aad
mild damp state OF weather makes me
melancholy, longing and ia love. No re-
sistance is of avail. | must marry--the
people will have IL so-and nothing seems
more natural. My lady love does not
produce great impression on me. bat
that no lady does; il Is. at any rite. salts
factory where one cannot change his in
clinations with his shirt, as seldom even
as the latter may occur"
After short acquaintance. he married
his wife, a Baroness puttkammer, on the
the 2sth of July. is4T; made a wedding
tour to Italy and settled down on his an
cestral estate-Schonhaus here he
was shortly afterward elected as member
OF the Prussian house of commons
His marriage proved very happy affair.
The young husband had the usual ex-
periencs of Benedicts. which he describes
somewhat crudeiy in another letter:
THE boy is bowling in major, the girl
in minor. There are two singing nurses,
and between wet diapers and milk bottles
sit as loving father. | have for long
time res sted the entrcatles of my wife TO
visi, q watering place with my family,
that only sea air and water could help
poor little Marie. l should. II / refused.
hear complaints at every cold taken
by the child up 10 her 10Th
year, of my avarice and fatheriy
harbarity. l have very unwillingiy de-
cided to give up my country leisure, but
having done so the affair IS beginning TO
take a rosy hue, and | delight in the pros
pect of shortly being able TO seize with nv
own hands coast herrings IN the depths OF
the Baltic"
A few days later, still occupied with
the excursion, he adds:
''In reality, my yielding 10 this journey
give. me right OF being placed IA the
new mad asylum, or at least OF becoming
\ life long member of the house OF depu-
ties. I see myself already, wish the chill
dren on the Genihin platform, and then
in the carriage with all sorts Of childish
neeessaries, in the midst of party turn
ing an their noses with disgust Johanna,
my wife, is ashamed to give the boy the
breast and he is roaring himself blue tn the
face: then a visitation OF passports.
crowded hotel aud finally waiting with
both crying monkeys At Angermunde for
horses | was yesterday so desperate at
All these prospects that | positively re-
solved TO abandon the Journey, but Jo-
hanna fell upon me in the night with the
boy on her arms, and With sil arts that de-
prlyed us of paradise rs matter OF course
managed that everything should remain
as arranged. feel. however, like one ghs
10 shamefully used. Next year l shall GER
tainIy have TO travel with three cradles.
wet nurses. diapers, beds and II
one only received salary a. deputy But
10 travel with musings, on the remains
of fine fortune, ! arm very heppyl"
Notwithstanding ali these signs and
groans II IL palpable what satisfaction the
Young father fu6s in bis little family.
The princess was strictly and piously
brought ~. of . cheerful and Lively dis
posisson. endowed with . considerable
amount Of mother VIII. Eeeniy sensitive
anes possessed OF excellent taste. Very
musical and an excellent performer on the
plane, she IL az the same time careful
and thrifty housewife. and. ike she noble
ladies' OF former times. possesses some
xnowleGga OF the healing art. Daring ali
these wears she has shared intelligentiy
her husbands hopes and cares, someiin1es
even the political ones
In his letters 20 bis wife Bismarck AZ
dresses her IS NY darling" (EaesH Hsrsl
INV best beloved" he sends her jasmine
from Peterhof, be promises her edes selss
from Gasteta. From the royal castle al
Oea he bids Aer good nignt iFoin lar
nwav. aad sdds- Nv acre can nave beard