The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-18
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princely house of Murat are descended
began life at the close of the last cen,
fury as a mere stable boy while the first
Prince Kutusoff, founder of the grand
Russian family of that name, achieved his
greatness a hundred years ago by the
skill which he displayed as the valet ana
barber to Gar Paul, a monarch whose
own great-grandmother, Empress Gather
Inc, was the cham bermaid of village
inn, where she first attracted the atten.
ton of Peter the Great, who ultimately
married her. These are but a few In
stances which could be cited in order 20
show how very little reason there is for the
belief in the existence of that deep gulf
which is held to separate high life abov.
stairs from life below.
That the prejudice which formerly ex-
isted in exalted circles against mental
occupation is rapidly disappearing is
abundantly proved by the number of titled
personages who are content to take NJ
meal time their place, not at the table of
the master of the house, but at that Of
the domestics in the servants hall Thus
1t is only the other day in the course of
a civil suit against Sir Charles Nugent
1t came out that he was earning his liveu-
hood as groom, while Lady Nugent was
taking in washing. Yet the Nugents are
among the most ancient and illustrious OF
all the grand houses of the nobility Of
Europe, some of their members being
princes of the Austrian empire while the
head Of the family is the Earl of West
meath, who is at the present moment n
secretary of the British embassy at
Washington.
Here In this country Lord Drummond.
the grandson and heir of the British Earl
of Perth and the French Duke of Melfort.
died eight years ago while occupying a
mental position, that of door porter in the
establishment of one of the proprietors of
the great New York daily newspapers, and
myself can remember having found, some
ten years back, Prince Benjamin Rohan.
who, by virtue of his birth, is the titular
cousin of every crowned head in Europe
and is descended in direct line from God
frey Duke of Bouillon, leader of the first
crusade, and the first Crusader King of
Jerusalem, figuring as a waiter i'm one of
the smaller restaurants in Second avenue
Sir Thomas Echlin, head of the ancient
house of Echlins, who has been settled in
Ireland since the reign of King James l.
and whose baronetcy is nearly 300 years
old, is now serving on the Dublin police
force in the humble capacity of an ordi-
nary bobby at Sc a week. and was for
merly footman in a London family
One of the last things that Lord Bea-
consfield did before his death was to OBJ
tain from the queen a pension of $500 a year
for the widow of the late Lord Kensing-
ton, whom in spite of her rank as a peer
ess of the realm, he had discovered earn
ing bare living as a washer woman in a
large family at Kensngton. Her husband
prior to his accession to this ancient peer
age had been a waiter in a Dublin hotel
but on becoming a lord, through the death
of his uncle, abandoned this calling and
preferred to rely upon his wifes earnings
at the washtub. While it is difficult to find
words sufficiently strong to condemn the
conduct in this respect of the late Lord
Kingsland, nothing but commentator
need be expressed for those titled person.
ages who, unable to find other means of
existence, resort to mental service for a
living sooner than to depend upon the
charity of their relatives or of the public.