The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-01-07
LOVE LEVELS ALL.
It Places the Servant on the Plane
Of the Master.
Likewise Bridges the Chasm Betwees
Aristocrat and PIebeian-1 tiled Per-
aons Who Have Welded
with Menialn

Old Sir Henry Parkes. who at the age
of 81 has just married a 23-year-old
chambermaid of his household. is by no
means the first titled Englishman to
seek a matrimonial alliance in the serv-
ants hall. KS II 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 wa knighted
during his term of Office as lord mayor
of London, and whose wife was a cham
bermaid at the Seven Oaks hotel in Kent,
where he was in the habit of staying on
his fishing excursions. Sir Henry Haw-
hins, the eminent English Judge of the
supreme court. married his housemaid;
while the second wife of the late Lord
Bramwell had previously filed the Of
flee of cook in his establishment. The
late Earl Stamford married his general
servant, a negress.
Nor are such marriages as these con.
fined to the English aristocracy. The
dowager duchess of Rochefoucauld,
mother Of the head of that illustrious
house, was n laundress; while the dow
ager countess of Waldstein. whose son,
now dead, married Princess Meter
nich's daughter, Pascaline. had been a
chambermaid in her husbands house
hold
Count Eugene kinsky married his
laundress, and old Count Octave Kinsky,
whose death at the age of So has Just
taken place, Disguised 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 a couple of
years ago by his relatives to prev ant
him from dissipating his vast estates
and running his property in order to sat
isfy the greed of his pIebeian-born wife.
Yet another nobicIran who has mar
ried a servant is Prince Gregory Stourd-
"a. the Roumanan general, senator and
statesman. There are two instances OF
women occupying mental positions we'd
ding royalty one being Rosina, the
morganatic wife OF the late King Victor
Emmanuel o. italy, who ', rs cha ber-
maid at an nm when She attracted his
attention. The other was that of the
consort of Peter the Great, who was ele-
waited to the dignity of empress of Rus
STA, 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 purchase 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 lloh"nlohe married one of her
fathers assistant gamekeepers.
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 IA baronet,
the dignity now borne by Sir Horace.
Then there is Marquise IIcrvey de Saint
Denis, one of the leaders of Partisan 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 Batten-
berg's siSterin-law, the now widowed
Princess Alexander of Battenberg and
countess of llartenau, is the issue of a
union between the valet and the cook
of old Field Marshal Count Martini.
The entirely princely house of is
descended from King Joachim of
Naples. who began life as a stable boy;
while the first Prince Kutusoff, the
founder of the powerful Russian family
of that name, achieved his greatness by
the skill which lie displayed as valet and
barber TO Car 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 n secretary of state and
postmaster general.-N. Y. World.