Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-12

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~ lists of the day is the infatuation of young
men possessed of little beyond good
= ~ looks and adventurous disposition for
Processes of the Blood. The hero is
invariably untitled, though gentleman by birth and
education, and usually winds up by marrying the
royal object of his alteration. Richard Harding
Davis, Mrs. Gertrude Anterior, and other American
authors have written in this strain; but of
them to such extent Anthony Hope, whose
Rudolph Rassendyn" is of the most familiar
and popular figures of contemporary fiction.
1t is undeniable fact that there are and
have been quite number of Rudolph Rassen-
dylls in real life; that is to say commoners who
women belonging to the sovereign families of
Europe. In several instances the heroes have been
Americans, and in one case that l can recall this
romance in real life resulted in a marriage
The successful one was the late Charles Allen
Perkins, son of Connecticut farmer; his mother
was Miss Northrup, of Duchess County, New
York. By dint of college education and political
influence he was enabled to secure the position of
Secretary of the American Legation, first at Naples
then at Stockholm under General Bartlett, and
finally at Lisbon. There he fell in love with Isabella
the only daughter of Her Royal Hghness the Infanta
Isabella of Spain and Count Ignatus Gurowski.
The marriage ceremony took place in the Church
bella, then living in exile in Geneva, accompanied
her consent and her blessing with costly presents
and a handsome dowry to her favorite niece.
couldn'e Keep Out of Politics
DOLITICAL considerations, arising from the fact
i that the Bourbons had been recently driven out of
ton with the American Legation at Lisbon and
later the young couple, by the direction of Queen
Isabella, repaired to Paris. On the birth of their
eldest son, he received the of Alfonso having
SPONSORS Queen Isabella and her son the late
King Alfonso, who at that time had not yet been
restored to the throne.
Unfortunately, Perkins was foolish enough to be
led by the temporary successes of the Pretender
Don Carlos, in the Carlis instruction then raging
in Spain, to pin his faith to the Legtimst rather
than to the Afonsist cause, and as this was
discovered Queen Isabella naturally stopped the
allowance. About this time his second son was born
in Paris and received the of Carlos, in honor
of the Pretender, who deputed his principal repre-
sentative in France to attend the baptism in his
behalf. Don Carlos, however, showed himself much
less generous than Queen Isabella and Perkins be-
came involved in all sorts of financial difficulties,
which finally landed him in the Mazas prison.
1t was while he incarcerated there awaiting
trial that the restoration of Don Alfonso to the
throne of Spain took place, and Perkins wife took
advantage of the joy of the royal house to invoke
the assistance of her uncle. exKng Francis and of
her aunt Queen Isabella. who furnished the money
to effect a settlement with her husbands creditors
and prosecutors. Queen Isabella, however, stipu-
lated that Perkins should remain in Paris on
small allowance and that his wife and two children
should take up their residence at Madrid, where
the children would be brought up under the drec-
ton and at the expense of the King, members of