Arizona silver belt., 1896-08-06
LOVE LEVELS ALL.
It Places the Servant on the Plane
 of the Master.
Likewise Bridges the Chasm Between Aristocrat and Picbeian--Titled Per sons Who Have Welded
 with Meniais.

with Mentais.
 Old Sir Henry Parkes, who at the age of S1 has just married 23-year-old chambermaid of his household, is by no means the first titled Englishman to seek matrimonial alliance in the serv- ants hall. As a rule, the bridegrooms in such cases have been of less mature age than Sir Henry, who is the most distinguished of all Australian states men, and has repeatedly held the office of prime minister of New South Wales. Among the most notable cases are those of Sir David Evans, who was lnighted during his term of office as lord mayor of London, and whose wife was cham bermaid at the Seven Oaks hotel in Kent, where he was in the habit of staying on his fishing excursions. Sir Henry Haw- kins, the eminent English judge of the supreme court, married his housemaid; while the second wife of the late Lord Bramwell had previously filled the of- flee of cook in his establishment. The late Earl Stamford married his general servant, negress.
 Nor are such marriages as these con fined to the English aristoeracy. The dowager duchess of Rochefoucauld, mother of the head of that illustrious house, was laundress; while the dow ager countess of Waldstein, whose son, now dead, married Princess Metter- nich's daughter, Pascaline, had been a chan.bermaid in her husbands house. hold.
 Count Eugene Kinsky married his laundress, and old Count Octave Kinsky, whose death at the age of s2 has just taken place, disgusted his relatives by wedding a wholly uneducated and ex- ccedingly objectionable woman who had filled the position of scullery maid in his kitchen. After marrying him she rendered herself so abhorrent to the people of the district, especially the peasantry, that on two occasions she was shot at. The. count himself was placed under legal restraint couple of years ago by his relatives to prevent him from dissipating his vast estates and running his property in order to sat . isfy the greed of his plebeian-born wife. |
 Yet another noblcmau who has mar ried servant is Prince Gregory Stourd- "a, the Roumanian general. senator and statesman. There are two instances of women occupying menial positions we'd ding royalty-one being RoSina, the morgaratic wife of the late King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, who was a chamber maid at an inn when she attracted his attention. The other was that of the consort of Peter the Great, who was ele- vated to the dignity of empress of Rus sia. and from whom is descended the present occupant of the throne.
 Still more numerous are the instances of women of rank seeking mates in the kitchen or stable. Princess Adolph Chimay is married to her English but Ter, who rejoiced in the name of Jobson before she purchased for him the Italian title of count: and the duke of Flies sister, Lady Ida Hope, first eloped with and then married her groom. Princess Elizabeth llohenlohe married one of her fathers assistant gnmekeepers.
 Besides these there are good many families of rank who are descended from servants. Sir Horace Rambold, the British envoy at The Hague. and one of the most distinguished diplo- matists in the service of Queen Vic toria, is descended from a man who worked his way up from the buffers pantry of one of the clubs in London to the post of governor of Madras, and it was for his services in the latter ca- pacity that he was created baronet, the dignity now borne by Sir Horace. Then there is Marquise Hervey de Saint Denis, one of the leaders of Parisian so- ciety, and an intimate friend of the comtesse de Paris, who is the daughter of an English groom named Ward, who, commencing as stable boy, ended by becoming the prime minister of the luke of Parma. Prince Henry of Batter berg's sistcr-in-law, the now widow ed Princess Alexander of Battcnberg and countess of Hartenau, is the issue of union between the valet and the cook of old Field Marshal Count Martini. The entirely princely house of Murat is descended from King Joachim of Naples, who began life as q stable boy; while the first Prince Kutusoff, the founder of the powerful Russian family of that name, achieved his greatness by the skill which he displayed as valet and barber to Czar Paul
 The dukes of Marlborough are de- seconded from a chambermaid; while the first duchess of Marlborough lived to see man who had been in her service blossom into q secretary of state and postmaster general.-N. Y. World.