The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-06
SHE OUTD0ES LORDS
MISS VANDERBILT ENDOWED WITH
AN Extraordinary SUN.


In Comparison with 1t the Dukes and
Princes and Emperors of the Old World
Have Given but Mites When their Dau-
ghters Have Been Married-In Nearly
all cases Royalty has not Been able to
Give MiIlion-Great Many of the Prin-
cesses are in Hard Row of stumps, SO
far as Money is Concerned.
New York, Nov. 5.-Though some
American girls bought their foreign Ii
lies dirt cheap, SO to speak, Miss Flor
ence Audenreid's dover, when she mar
ried the Count de la Forest Divonne
sone twenty years ago amounted TO
but $4,000, and the Marquis de Choiseul
was persuaded to place his coronet on
Miss Claire Coudert's fair brow TO the
rune of $4,000. The average amount
paid for these baubles during the last
quarter Of a century by 134 Of our girls
exceeded s., 125. 000-not counting the
90. 900, 900 which will go to old England
with Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt.
This average amount-not Consuelo's
eniliions-is about five times as much
Is the greatest and mightiest European
bovereigns give their daughters, or sis
tiers, when they enter the state OF holy
matrimony.
The Romanoffs are reputed to be the
richest reigning family in the ward,
yet, when the late cars favorite daugh
ter, the Grand Duchess Xenia, married
L. L. <-1z1
only $3.50, 900 of our money as dot" OF
course she has since inherited a consid-
era1ble fortune from her father, but her
regular income from the crown is less
than Sc, 900 per annum, an appanage,
by the way, which an American girl
once offered to settle on the Prince
Murat for cocktails and cigarettes"
while retaining control Of the bulk of
her money after marriage.
You will pardon me, madame" said
his i1ighness with fine dignity, French
princes are not rated as low. as the Ital-
Tan nobility" and the negotiations came
70 an end forthwith
AlAUD'S ALLOWANCE.
Princess Maud, the granddaughter of
Queen Victoria and daughter of the
prince Of Wales, whose betrothal to
Prince Carl of Denmark has Just been
announced, will receive 800. 900 in cash
and an annuity of f3, 900. Her father,
10 whom the Britishers pay SEQ 900 a
year as heir-apparent and nearly $780,
BOO per year as proprietor" Of the
Duchy Of Cornwall, cannot afford to
make his married children a larger al
aowance. Prince Carl is the son of the
crown prince of Denmark, a gentleman
of very limited means. He receives
salary Of $500 per year as a naval Off
Ger, and his relatives will probably man
age between them TO add to this $500 I'M
the shape of life appanage. That
would give the young couple an income
of $4,000 altogether, which is very
large amount Of money in Denmark,
even for royalty no spend. Still it is not
much considering that the English pub
lie has paid the Princess Alexandria of
Denmark. wife Of the prince of Wales.
$4,000 per annum ever since her mar
riage in 1868.
Queen Victoria allowed five of her
children. a dover of ESQ, 900 per head; the
prince of Wales, the Princess Louise,
who married the poor marquis of Lorne
and the Princess Beatrice, married to
the hundred-dollar-pe young
man, Battenberg, received double that
amount for obvious reasons. These
English princes and princesses, how
ever, remain burden TO the taxpayers
for life, the men being entitled to an in
come of f25,000 per year. the ladies get
ting from IS, 900 to $4,000. That sounds
like idle mendicity, but some of these
Hprigs of royalty stand in sad need of
an apanage. There is the duchess Of
Albany, for instance, widow of the
queens fourth son, with two children.
Her father, the sovereign prince of
Waldeck, was unable to give her more
than $4,000 as dover; her husbands
fortune is administered for the benefit
of her children, and THE queen, as every
body knows, is a most parsimonious
person. Without her allowance from
Gently in the smallest French village.
EMPEROR A SPENDTHRIFT.
Emperor William was called a spend
thrift by his mother for making his sis
ter Sophie an allowance of LOCO, 900
marks when she married the crown
prince of Greece. To his sister Victoria
wife of Prince Adolp of Lippe, he gave
but half that amount or about as much
as Miss Adele Grant brought to the Earl
of Essex as her dot. Miss Grant, in ad-
dition. was world-famed beauty, while
Victoria is ugly of face and endowed
with a frightful temper.
Carmen Sylvia entered her husbands
kingdom in such a poverty stricken
state that his lovely princess was pic
tured in the comic papers and on the
dead walls as Cinderella" wearing
knitted socks and carrying her linen in
an ordinary carpet bag.
The late king OF Holland officially
renowned all rights to dover when
he married Queen Emma, another Wal
deck princess. His majesty was prob
ably afraid his wife would assume too
much" If she was allowed 10 bring
home those SOS. 600, which all royal prin-
cesSes of Waldeck find in their stocking,
on their wedding day.
The present czarina, a sister Of the
grand duke Of HeSse, is said TO have
come 10 Russia with 5000 marks in
gold sewed In her peticoats. That was
all she had left OF her little fortune
after paying for her linen. Her trous-
seau was paid for by the Car Alex
ander, who appropriated 100000 francs
for that purpose at once after the en-
gagement had been announced. thus
forestalling the usual criticism on Ger
man princesses. which Russian aristo-
Gratis indulge in, that they have Moth
ing 10 wear"
FOR PIN MONEY.
The duke of Saxe-Coburg. better
known as the duke Of Edinburgh, gave
his girls 800. 0eo each and allows them
So 600 per year for pin money after their
marriage. That is the reason why they
made such brilliant matches, the one
winning the heir to throne, the other
becoming a reigning grand duchess in
her seventeenth year.
The comte de Paris had 10 part with
two cool millions Of francs $500, 0e0) be-
fore the BraZanga family welcomed his
eldest daughter. Amelia, as future
queen of Portugal, and the young duke
of Aosta eXacted as much from the
duke of Orlenas when he married Prin-
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