The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-04-03

Duke OF Orleans to Marry.
OF all the extraordinary marriages that
have ever been arranged or even mooted,
assuredly that between the Duke Of Or
lans and the widowed Duchess of Aosta
nee Princess Laetitia Bonaparte is as
suredly the Queerest. The couple met
for the first time at Brussels the other
day, and since the return of this ex-
cecdingly gay and frolicsome widow to
Turin, where she habitually resides, she
has been frequent and almost daily
visitor to La Mandria, where the duke
lies in bed with a fractured ankle, brok-
en- collar-bone and dislocated shoulder,
the result of an exceedingly bad spill
Helene of Aosta, and her husband.
On reflection, it is ut once apparent
that no two people could be more suited
to one another than the Duke of Orleans
and Princess Lactitia. She is just the
kind of .Juno-like woman that he ad-
mires, and with her insati tie ambition
and restlessness is likely to act as pow
full incentive to him in his role of pre-
tender. Moreover, her large and broad
way of looking at things to the extent
OF extravaganza will serve to correct
the hereditary meanness and close-fsted-
ness OF the duke in money matters, while
there is no doubt that union of the
Bonapartist and Royalist factions into
one united party would vastly strengthen
the mOnarchical cause and give it a
chance of success which at present it
does not enjoy.
Prince Victor BonaDarte has so COM
pletcly realized that he has not the
slightest chance of effecting an imperi-
alist restoration that he has gone to the
length OF contracting a private mar
riage with dame possessed of more
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eminence. His younger brother, Loms,
has given no indication as yet of wish
ing to abandon his military career in the
Russian army for that of Il BOnapartist
pretender; while the ties of friendship
and even relationship between the
princes Of the house Of Bonaparte and
the members Of the Orleans family are
ing on Empress Eugene whenever she
goes to London, and Princess Mathilde
Bonaparte often receives him to dinner
at her Partisan mansion in the Rue d..
Berri. Then, of course, there is the mar
riage between Princess Laetitia's step
son and the Duke of Orleans sister.
The match is certain to be promote
by King Humbert who for many rea-
sons would be glad to be rid of the
moral and financial responsibility of his
frisky slster-in-law, who is at the same
time his niece and who has been a
source of anxiety and trouble to him
since she became a widow. 1t will like
wise be promoted by all those reignins
houses i'll any way related to the Or.
leans family, such as those of Spain
Great Britain. Portugal, Austria. Den
mark and Sweden, all of which arc
exceedingly anxious to see the Duke OF
Orleans converted into a reputable and
decent member of society by a mar.
riage with strong minded. masterfu
woman who will have the energy and
the power to keep him in order. They
will make a comely COUPLE both OF
them eXuberant with life and VIM and
should they manage to seat themselves
together On French throne, there is nc
doubt that Paris would witness the re-
viv:l of such an era of brilliancy and
gayety as has been unknown since the
days of the First empire in the begin
ming of the century.-New York World
The Clever Woman.
Il wish I were clever
The woman was charmingly dilnpled.
| wore Felix gown, was the mistress of
! a luxurious establishment, and WAS dis
penSing tea to afternoon callers in cups
of priceless faicncc.
Women who WRITE" had been the
| subject on the tapis, and the remark was
delicate compliment to the woman tc
whom she handed the tea She was a
successful writer-successful to the ex.
tent of making a good income as the
fruit of unwearied industry. She had
| or her own carriage, or Il box at the
opera. She sometimes spent a hard
earned IS for drive. but there was
neither luxury III the carriage nor swift.
| Hess in the steedS. and she was con-
| scious all through the drive that when
she went back to the office she would
write something about the country in
! spring, or the tlotsam of fall foliage and
| flowers with which the suburban resi-.
| dent could decorate his house and
| table.
| If she took 50 seat in the opera
| house. she rarely lost herself completely
! in the music as she would have liked
| to do. because skeletons of parag graphs
on theater hats and theater manners, on
! lovers who make love in the stalls as
we'll as on the stage, and thousand
other things for the next days paper
fitted through her mind. She never
had a Felix gown. on the contrary, she
walked ten blocks and climbed seven
stories to find dressmaker who would
make, though at the same time, mar,
her own gown for $40. Her modest
house was pretty, and she was even
quite famous for her petitcs soupers. at
| which one sometimes met eminent, and
always delightful people: but only her.
self and her one maid knew at what
cost of perspiring brow and smutched
fingers and aching back those dainty
little dishes were evolved.
SO there was almost reverence in her
tones as she replied:
my dear. you are the clever woman;
you are far more clever than George
Eliot. The really smart woman is not
the one who makes her own daily bread.
even though there be Nessclrole pud-
ding thrown in now and then. 1t is she
who, without IA Using her hand. can cause
all this luxury to be laid at her pretty
satin shod feet. 1t is like eating Del
monico dinner and lamenting that you
are not the chef who cooked 1T. Not the
woman who works, hut she who gets
all there is in life without working, is
the really clever woman"
"May there not be two kinds of clev.
crness?' said the woman who came to
make her adieux.-New York Herald,
Gymuasju ms for Girls.
How much less essential to perfect
manhood and womanhood is physical
training than education? How much
more important is it that scientific rules
and principles of health should be OBJ