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l throne or the present king, and there Is much more bitterness manifested in papal circles toward him today than was ever toward either of his prede- | cessors.
 From a physical point ot view. King Victor Emmanuel furnishes a striking illustration of the disadvantages of unions between first cousins and of the | ueleterious effects of consanguinous 1 marriages. He is less than five feet in height, and although Emperor Nicholas Of Russia is a decidedly short man. yet during the Italian monarch's stay in St. Petersburg Nicholas, greatly to ! his satisfaction, lowered head and shoulders above Victor Emmanuel The latter is keenly sensitive about | his size, and also about other physical peculiarities which he ascribes to the fact of his father and mother having been first cousins, and for a long time hesitated about marrying, being con- vinced in his own mind that it would be impossible for him to ever become the father of healthy children. Indeed. 1t was on the strength of his openly avowed determination never to wed that the exceedingly ambitious Princess | Helene of Orleans became the wife of the Duke of Aosta, who failing male issue of the king, is next heir to the throne of Italy. When the king mar ried, the Duchess of AoSta did not hes ! itate to conceal her disappointment, and, later on, when the present queen | Of Italy gave birth to a healthy and sturdy little baby girl. she gave such public expression to her resentment that an open break almost ensued be- tween herself and the king and queen. It is only fair to add that while physically Victor Emmanuel shows the unfortunate results of too close blood relationship between his parents, he gives no signs whatever of moral de- generacy. Indeed there is no sovereign in Europe who stands morally and in- tellectually on a loftier plane, or who has given more abundant evidence of strength of mind and character.
 l His parents, as I have stated above. were first cousins, Queen Marguerite being the daughter of the Duke of Genoa who was the younger brother of King Humbert's father Old King l Victor Emmanuel himself likewise married his first cousin, with the re- suit that his third son, Prince Otho of Savoy, who bore the title of Duke of Montferrat, was not only hunchback, ! but otherwise so terribly rnisshapen from his birth that his death at the age of twenty was nothing mI,e nor less than a happy relief.
 Another marriage of a consanguin- ous character in the reigning house of Italy is that of King Humbert's sec ond brother. the late Duke Amadeus of Aosta, who reigned for a time as king of Spain, and who, after duly obtain l inp a ClicnanSafion ho married his niece that is to say. Prin- cess Letitia Bonaparte, only daughter of his sister. Princess Chlotilde Bona parte. There was a son born to this | union, who bears the name of Hum l bert, and the title of Count Salemi | But, although he is now thirteen or fourteen years of age. nobody at court has ever set eyes on him. None of his pictures have ever been put on sales, like those of the other members of the reigning family, and it is currently re- !! ported that he is either mentally af- fiicted or else miSshapen, or perhaps both. and that it is owing to this that the people of Italy are kept in such profound ignorance with regard to his appearance and even existence.
 In Spain the most notable case of q union between first cousins is that of the Infanta Eulalie and Don Antonio, both of whom visited this country at the l time of the worlds fair at Chicago. Eulalie is the daughter of Queen Isa- bella. while Don Antonio is the son of the latter's sister, the late Duchess of l Montpensier. The marriage, however. turned out most unhappily, and the ill., matched couple are now judicially sep arated.
 The late King Alfonso, too, married as his first wife his first cousin, the Princess Mercedes, daughter of the lat, Duchess of Montpensier But she died after only a few months of marriage Old Queen Isabella herself married her second cousin. and had, therefore, tn obtain a dispensation from Rome be- fore she could wed.
 The late Count of Paris, who served as aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen eral Mcclellan during the civil war here, married his first cousin, who sur wives him, and it is probably owing to this consanguinity of his parents that the Duke of Orleans, the present French pretender, gives such pro- nounced evidence of moral degeneracy and has proved such a source of bitter disappointment to the monarchial party
 
 in such a manner as to subject himself at the present moment to ostracism by nearly every court in Europe.
 The French royal Duke and Duchess of Chartres are likewise first cousins, thanks to which they had so much trouble with their eldest son, the late Prince Henry of Orleans, who was, as long as he lived, the black sheep of the Orleans family. The French Duke of Vendome is married to his third cousin, Princess Henrietta of Belgium. and his union can therefore not be looked upon as coming within the class of consanguinous marriages.
 Of course. the announcement of the vatican that it will grant no more dis pensations for consanguinous unions applies only to Roman Catholic royal houses. But il must likewise be re- garded as a condemnation of matri- monial alliances of an analogous char acter among the Protestant sovereign families. Among the latter they are quite numerous. Thus the present | Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of