Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-08

of his income and a little more besides.
II is an open secret that the German
emperor has raised loans on various
occasions, so that IL can be well under
stood that the family finances are not
IN the most prosperous condition. The
crown prince will suffer financially from
the fact that he has five younger broth
ers and one sister all OF whom must
be provided for by the emperor out OF
his own private means.
All these circumstances combine To
make It essential that the wife OF the
German crown prince should be II
princess possessing large private for
tune. I'm addition tO the requirements
OF health ana wealth II was necessary
that the selected candidate should be a
Protestant and il was, OF course, es-
sCntlol that she should be young. 10
Was extremely difficult to nnd prn-
cess who fulfilled AN these conditions,
because 10 WAS found that those who
enjoyed robust health had no money
and those who were certain to receive
satisfactory dowries were weak, scllly
maldons and unfit to be the ancestrcss
OF future German cmperors Those who
fulfilled both these conditions were
either Roman catholics or Orthodox
Greeks who had conscientious oblcc-
tons 60 changing their religious be-
liefs for matrimonial and political pur-
poses
CONSUMPTION IN THD FAMILY.
Although Duchess Cecilia OF Mecklen-
burg SchNcrlu was finally selected as
the best Of all the possible candidates.
the German emperor ana his advisers
have not shut their eyes. to tho fact
that She does not possess all the quail.
tics which they considered essential To
the position. 1t ia true that she viii
iulill their expectations in regard To
financial matters, because her grand
father the Grand Duke Michael Mich
olaiyit1h of Russia, has promised Ia
make her his heiress, and ne rs "A man
Of fabulous wealth, The grand duke viii
present his granddaughter with sub
stantial doWry on the day OF her wcdd-
ing so that she win bring her hus-
band big fortune combined with the
certainty Of colossal legacy at a
date which cannot be- POSTPONED much
longer, for Grand Duke Michael Nlcho-
laiyitch is already sayenty-thrce years
OF age
Duchess Cccilic Is also Protestant
but here her qualifications end. Al
though she herself appears 10 be
healthy glrl and although she lives
rational life largely devoted Ia outdoor
sports and exercise, she comes of
stock which Us so unhealthy that the
grpvest fours must be entertained for
the future of the Hohenzolern dynaa.
ty Her rather was cunsumptvc ana
for many wears Of his life was I'm such
delicate health that he was obliged To
spend the greater part Of the year I'm
enforced exile I'm the Riviera i'm the
mild climate of Italy ana Sicily. ITs
died of consumption, and his son, the
roigning Grand Duke of Meclilenburg.
SchWerin, who is Duchess Cecno's
brother appears to have inherited tho
germs OF the terrible disease. The
grand duke. with his pale, cmaclated
features and sunkcu checks. has Tho
appearance 90 "a man doomed 10 COM
sumptivn decline into am early grave.
The Duchess Cccilic's mother, Grand
Duchess Anastusla is so delicute that
she ~ quite unable 10 spend the Wine
ter I'm Germany and mlgrutea TO tho
south Of France from the beginning Of