Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-09
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Pretty Daughters.
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Apostrophe addressed by the late Lord
Tennyson to the Black Mountain King
dom Of Montenegro, ruled over by
Prince Nicolas. The recent betrothal
OF his third daughter, Helena, to the
Crown Prince of Italy. the talk of
courts and a problem for statesmen,
recalls the picturesque personality of
Prince Nicolas and the unique polit-
ical Importance of his little principality
the size OF Rhode Island-with 2o0.
900 inhabitants.
Princess Helena, one of seven daugh-
tiers, was born in the royal palace in
Cettinje in 1873. With her sisters she
inherited the superb dark beauty of
their mother, the daughter of Mon
tenegrin nobleman. She has been most
carefully reared by tutors and govern
esses, and is not only admirable in all
the arts and graces Of European courts
but is well versed in the play of poll
tics and in every way qualified to sue
coed even so lovely queen rs Mar
gherita of Italy.
For several years past the name OF
the Prince of Naples has been matri-
monially mentioned in connection with
nearly every eligible princess in Eu-
rope, and the affair has operated to di-
vide Roman society into several par
ties. One section, the first to appear,
wishes for marriage with Princess
Clementine Of Belgium, youngest daugh-
ter q kipg Leo2old Il Another large
party hopes for an alliance with an
English princess, because of the friend
ship existing between the two nations
and the good feeling of the two reign
ing houses one for the other. A third
agitates for Princess Fedora of Schles-
wig Holssein, sister of the Empress of
Germany, in order to consolidate the
alliance with that country. A fourth
wants marriage with the Archduchess
Maria Annunziata of Austria to pop
ular:ze the Austrian alliance, which
still has in Italy many opponents. Ac-
cording to others, the Prince will look
to the east and marry Princess Maria
Maddalena, fourth daughter of King
George of Greece, born in Athens in
1876.
Last month it was rumored in Lon
don that the beautiful and unsupported
little Princess Helena had won the
great prize, and this -rumor has now
turned out to be correct.
The groom to be and future King of
Italy is the only son of the present
king, and is named Vittorio Emman-
uelo Fernandino Maria Geunaro. He
was born in 1869, and has the repute of
being a liberal, scholarly and soldierly
man, being general in the Italian
army and a patron Of art and liter
AZURE.
While this young couple await their
supreme happiness-no date is yet fixed
for the wedding-it will be entertaining
to turn for moment to the remarkable
personality of the father of the bride
Prince Nicolas Of Montenegro.
For ages the history Of Montenegro
was bound up with that of the Servian
kingdom, and was finally merged after
q series of bloody wars under the do
minion of the Ottoman Empire, yet
while all southern slavdom was under
Turkish dominion the Montenegrins,
perched on their black rocks, were still
able to keep up show Of independ
ence.
Like all mountaineers, they loved
liberty, and were willing to fight and
die for it. The skirmishes with the