The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-09-02
Love IS COLOR BLIND
WHITE WOMEN OF SOCIAL FAME
WITH DUsKY HUSBANDS.
Color md Race Relations no Bar
With English Girls-Africans, and
With the Daughters of Great Bri.
1ain-Queer Freaks of Cupid.

Egyptians and Moors Intermarry
with the Daughters of Great Bri.
1ain-Queer Freaks of Cupid.
Miss SewalIs marriage to Prince Lobengula
son OF Chief Lobengula OF the Matabeles, in
south Africa, is only one of many marriages
between well-born English women and Afri-
can, Japanese, and Chinese notables
Miss Sewall was young and pretty white
woman, possessed of considerable fortune and
moving in one of the best social circles of
London. Lobengula is a coal black negro who
mas received some attention In London as the
son OF the African monarch. The English
rector to whom the couple first applied de-
clned to perform the ceremony, and they were
l n,s.i, Dy registrar who performed the
civil ceremony according to law. The mar
rage was opposed by. Miss Sewalls mother,
ana the couple have now left England
curious as 1t may seem, European aristoc-
racy has set the fashion in these ill-assorted
unions. 9' wv
The daughter Of Lord St. Vincent, singu-
1ariy lovely girl, married an individual named
Dyce Sombre, half breed Of colossal wealth
lae son OF the Begun or native Queen of the
East Indian state of Sombre Sirdhana, and Of
tnat DaYld Dyce who was the original Of
george Mlddlemas In Scott's novel, 1.-The Sur
geon's Daughter" This marriage of Lord St.
vlocents daughter, like SO many others of
the sort, turned out unhappily and eliminated
~ separation. His wife, who. after his
death, married the third Lord Forester died
about three years ago.
Lazy Hester Stanhope, grand aunt of Lord
hoseeery and niece of William Pitt, died as
Inc wife OF an Arab sheik at Damascus.
| Among titled women who have followed har
example and who have been followed to Ori
ental graves by Arab husbands have heen
the celebrated Countess of Ellenboroueh and
Gne french Prlncesse de la Tour d. Auverene.
Inc present Lord Gardiner is the son Of a
th 'mother' and is married to woman of
tne same dusky race, while the only son Of the
n1tn Earl Of Midtown is welded to an Indian
woman at Bombay, who is destined to become
Countess OF Midtown, Viscountess Russbor-
ough, etc. -.e. =, -
Tilted Mustapha Pasha Fehmt.
one titled English woman Tilted her rovo,
egyptian hance at the last minute. The storv
nas Deen remembered for the singular chain
- circumstances connected Herewith The
woman was Miss Gordon. near relative
OF the Marquis of Huntley. She. was IN ~,
point of becoming the wife OF Mustapha Pasho
Fehmi' the Premier OF Egypt She refused
MIN, however, on discovering that the rea :
son why he always kept his right hand eloyed
was 10 conceal an Unlocking semi circular
scar, the result OF a bite which he had re-
Ge1yeds from. the former IA mister Of Rinarce
Mustapha Pasha sadyk.
Fehm1 got the bite while stranglfnR Sadvk
| oy orders Of the late Khedive Ismail. after
supper on the Khedival yacht on the Nile
1t is to the frequency of such unions
among old world aristocracy that so many
| cases are found Of people with Asiatic o.
negro blood IN their veins bearing full -fedged
European titles.
Thus, the Dowager Countess of Stamford
| peerless of the British realm, and entitled
! to be kissed by the sovereign on the cheek
| when she attends courtat Buckingham palace
| is coal black HOttentot. Had it not been
for little mistake in the arrival in this world
| -" ""-'- -co't.rad mr.
-~~.O WOulu ue al present peer OI the REALM. q.
| Itarl of Stamford and Lord Grey of Groby
| the titles Of the late Earl, parsop who
| had abandoned his calling and had taken tc
;squatting in the w1lds of South Africa, de-
! Iscending to his nephew, who was then earning
| a livelihood as usher In a school in Trinidad
White Woman WEEDS a Moor.
An English woman Of excellent birth mar.
| ried the late Shereef Of Wazan, hereditary &C.
clesiastical chief Of the Mohamme1an church
now Yields sway over the Moorish church IN
his fathers, stead. His mother was by no
means the only wife. of her dusky husband
bu. she was the principal one and enjoyed
power over all the others. IL
| It was only in May last that pretty and
well-horn Scotch girl, possessed Of a fortune
| of her own, first cousin of the Duke o1
Athol, married full-blooded Chinaman, an
lattache of the Chinese embassy in London
bearing the name Of Tseng Chao Kwung.
! And among the most conspicuous figures at
| court entertainments in England are the In
dian Prince Dhulcep Singh and his full
lblooded white wife, Lady Ann Coventry
| daughter Of the Earl Of Coventry, and sister
| in law of that Viscountess Deerhurst who IL
a daughter of Mr. Bonynge OF New York and
San francisco. 5&
In Germany, Austria, France, and Italy
several white women of titled families have
Aecome the wives Of Japanese diplomats.
The children Of Count Henry Coudenhove
head of one of the grandest Austrian houses
long envoy Of Austria to the court Of TIL
Mikado, have Japanese blood, their mother
being a Japanese lady, 0 Mitsu San. Bott
! the historic house Of Borghese, in Italy, ant
the family Of De la Rochefoucauld, in France
are indebted for much wealth and for thetl
strain Of Asiatic blood to the fact that tn
/ Countess Frederick de la Rochefoucauld wa.
the daughter of an East Indian sovereign
Princess and of a French adventurer Of tn,
name OF SPerron, who attucsd Christianit,
to become commander H. chief OF the army o.
the Moslem King Of Gwalior.
And the Japanese court Is now deeply Of.
Tended because deaf ear has been turnet
by the reigning houses OF Europe to Its re-
quests for manageable Princess to become
4 the wife to the heir Of the Mikado. the futur,
Emperor Of japan.