The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-04

church and state she bestowed upon Ger
many one of the greatest blessings she
has to be thankful for by terminating the
thirty years war There has been more
than one instance where brunettes have
had to give up their crowns in honor of
their blonde sisters.
The Creole Josephine had to give up her
imperial crown that it might adorn the
brow of the blonde Marie Louise.
Margaret of Valois, the queen of Henry
the Fourth of France, had to share the
same fate that Gabrielle d Estrees might
be made queen; but death, the mightier
monarch, claimed her for his own ere
the coronation; and while she may have
been placed on the great white throne.
yet one good action of this woman whom
Henry so tenderly loved has immortalized
her name. 1t was her influence over the
monarch who confessed he could refuse
her nothing that the edict of Nantes was
signed.
How much her people preferred her to
Margaret was shown when they bore her
in triumph through the streets of Paris
covered with diamonds and other precious
stones.
The fair Margaret of Anjou, who was
likened to her emblem flower the daisy
was another queen of power. After the
death of the king, Henry the Sixth, she
carried on the war of the Roses, and
fought with untiring zeal for the rights
of her beloved Edward One Of l4er MS
torians has said: England has never
had a queen more worthy of a throne
than Margaret; no woman surpassed her
in beauty and few men in courage. 1t
seemed that she had been formed by
heaven to supply her royal husband the
qualities which he required to become a
great king
The unfortunate termination of her zeal
is no reflection upon her mentality. AZ
matters stood with the houses of York
and Lancaster, it needed but a torch 70
turn the scale either way. Although she
was powerful in battle, Margaret was a
woman; when her physical force began to
weaken the current turned.
Among those of this type who turned
their strength and influence in the wrong
direction Isabel of Bavaria and Catha-
rine de Medici must take first rank The
latter, wife of one king and mother of
three, so literally endowed with all the
qualities BETTING ruler, will ever be as
ISOLATED in history with the massacre OF
st. Bartholomew.
she whom Mile. de Scudery introduced
in the Cyrus of Parthenie. "A tall grace
full woman, with fine eyes, lovely com
pleXion and the most beautiful throat in
the world. A fine smile. expressing the
sweetness or bitterness of her SOUL" be-
came the most important parsonage in
France. But rage and suspicion (not
without foundation) taking possession of
her countrymens minds against her, she
lost control, and civil wars followed her
to the end of her life.
Queens must now step aside to give
place to one who, while she never wore
a crown, yet ruled Sara Jennings, Ouch
ess OF Marlborough, that beautiful and
spicy lady whose will was ever law, kept
the color of her golden hair, by the use
of honey water until she reached a ripe
old age, and so successfully preserved. her
W a n
three daughters could rival her in ap-
pearance, although they were all hand
some women.
OF La Belle Jennings, as she was known
in her youth, Colley Cibber feelingly mar
rates fifty years after the memorable
scene wnen she stopped at the house of
the Earl of Devonshire, accompanying
the Princess Anne in her flight. "There
Deing more guests than attendants. L who
was well known in the earls family. was
called upon to wait upon the table. II
Iell TO my lot to wait upon Lady Church.
III; the consequence was l heard but two
words, wine and water, which came from
the lips of the fair creature 7 was a.
tending. All my senses were collected In
my eyes gazing upon this vision before
me- A OeAole
Sne and the princess had been intimate
since chlldhood. Mrs. Morley and Mrs
Freeman as they later styled themselves
C-O' ~ eAAAcGy uIlIlI the princess heCanna
queen Then much trouble ensued. While
Sara's dominating nature caused her to
queen it over ALL she was sincere and
truthful, adored by her husband. who
called her his souls soul; and when dis
grace came upon him it was she who
brought him through
Had her education been in accord with
her talent her power might have been un-
limited. Brilliant as she was. her letters
were most ignorantly written. A beauti-
full, brilliant, hot-tempered, arrogant wo-
man, who took such a high hand in public
affairs and was so self-assertive that all
of her good deeds were forgotten on the
morning when the news spread that "Old
Marlborough was dying"
This article would be incomplete with
out the mention of England's virgin queen:
blonde, but not beautiful, and possessed
of more vanity than any beauty named In
her latter days her maids spent much of
their time keeping mirrors out of her
way, as her wrath knew no bounds when
she caught glimpse of her withered face.
Her love Of admiration was her weak
point -e wanted to be thought capa-
BILE of inspiring passion in others, but very
little was ever inspired in her own heart.
In order to appreciate what this queen
of famous memory" as Cromwell said we
should not be ashamed to call her, did for
England, one has to understand how the
country Hdu SUNK before Sne came 10 the
throne. Few rulers have had to contend
with such formidable and complicated
difficulties Whatever adverse criticism
may say, she ruled her country with sig
nal success for forty years. She is one
of the blonde queens to whom England is
much indebted. to say nothing of the pres
ent ruler.
Whenever the fair-haired, blue-eyed Sax
ons have planted a colony it has always
fOIIrished and whether the loss of their
beautiful coloring which made the Romans
liken them to angels will be their gain or
loss remains to be seen.
INDIAN ARROW POISON.