The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-06

dissipated by Milan. and ever since
husband and wife have been fighting,
the one holding on to, the other grasp
ing for her funds. The ex-king, spend
thrift that ne is, would consent to again
| live with his wife If she gave him but
a paltry million. Her son, the reigning
King Alexander, would have been mar
ried long ago if he could but find
royal bride with a million or two OF
available cash When it is remember
ed that Miss Bell Wilson exchanged
her s., 900, 900 for the privilege OF pre-
fixing a simple honorable" before her
name of Mrs. Michael Henry Herbert
AleXander'S sad fate is almost uneX-
plainable. Think of it, Miss Marion
Phelps ceded to her husband, who be-
longs TO the lower German nobility,
/ s., 000, 000 and this kings title goes beg
ging. Really Miss Pullman, who at one
time was said to be engaged to the ruler
Of Servia, ought to reconsider matters.
What do you suppose was the dover
of Princess May of Teck, now duchess
of York. whose parents scratch along
On miserly allowance of $25, 900 year
the much-begrudged gift of the English
tax payers? For the last twenty years
her family has often in vain tried TO
keep their furniture out of the clutches
of the money-lenders. The Tecks have,
besides, three lusty boys, each of whom
is good for squandering at least $4,000
per year.
WEDDINGS WITH WEALTH.
There have been during the last de-
cade but three royal or semi-royal mar
riages by which great amounts of mon
ey changed hands-that of Princess
Louise of Wales to the rich commoner,
the duke of Fife, the marriage of Prin-
cess Marguerite of Prussia TO Primes
Frederick Charles of Hesse-of the
Hesse branch that sold thousands OF
subjects to England 10 help put down
the American revolution-and the un-
ION Of Prince Adolphus Of Teck to the
daughter Of the duke of Westminster.
Louise, Marguerite and Adolphus, we
are told married for love, but at the
same time gathered in no end of sheck-
els without giving their husbands and
wife, respectively. anything of none
tdry value in exchange.
But, you will say, these princesses,
though having no dover to speak of in
comparison with our rich American
girls, enter married life with splendid
trousseaus; the newspapers never fail
to describe their things at length be-
fore every impending royal unptial.
They do indeed, and sometimes tell the
truth, but more often they publish the
well-concealed advertisements of thrift
ty tradespeople. instead of the news
article intended.
The WRITER, while in Europe, had oc-
caion to infinitely inspect half a dozen
princesses' outfits-one in London, an
other in PariS, several in Berlin, and
one or two in Vienna. They were not
nearly as brilliant nor as voluminous
as the Journals of the day had painted
them In fact, these princely equip
mentS were remarkable only for their
paucfty. / could mention the sister of
an emperor who got married ION half
a dozen handkerchief" most beautiful
embroidered with crests and ffounced
with costly laoes. But what of it? Al
most anybody may own six decent
handkerchief.
A daughter of the house of Orleans,
whose trousseau was ordered in the
French capital, was satisfied with re
ceiving a. dozen articles of underwear
of each kind; of white petticoats she
had four and three sets of table linen.
Marie Valerie of Austria, began mar
ried life as the happy possesor of three
French corsets-one for state occa-
sions, one for demi-toilet, a third for
every day use.
MARGUER1TE'S LINEN OUTFIT.
When Princess Marguerite of Prus-
STA married the immensely rich Prince
of HeSSe her linen outfit including I'M
derwear and table linen, was displayed
on four tables twelve feet long by three
bundles of half a dozen each, and was
remarkable neither for style nor beau
ty of material. 1 had duly admired it
all, being attended on my tour of in-
spection by the highly elated store
keeper, and was about to depart. when
that gentleman drew my attention to a
little heap of black things, which in
polite society are called "unmentiona-
bleS."
There" he said, ''repose our chef
d oeuvre; they are the first ever worn
by a Prussfan princess; her royal high
ness mother, the Empress Frederick,
cut out the material with her own inn
perial hands,
'But," expostulated, "black silk I'M
mentionableS are not a novelty-at
least not in America Every self-re-
speeding actress wears them, not ITO
mention sportswomen.'
My dear fellow" cried the merchant,
'tsurely you do not know what you are
talking about. l give you my word of
honor that the Princess Marguerite viii
be the first royal lady to own a pair
what do you say? Not one-three
pairs. They are all silk, inside and out,
only the flounces around the knees be-
ing backed up by strips of black CLOTH"
And in his enthusiasm the poor man
forgot himself 50 far as TO seize the
corpus deficit lying on top and hold it
in his outStretched hands against the
light, whereupon the police lieutenant
guarding the store from the outside de-
clared the exhition closed for attempt
ed 1eSe majestic.