The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-15

according TO Heine, is country Of
matchmakers-are busy finding hus-
bands for the Kaiser's youngest
child, and only daughter, Princess
| Victoria Louise
Princess Victoria Louise recently
completed her eighteenth year, and
at the first court ball of this season
appeared as thickly bediamonded as
is the Kaiserin at her best. But It
is not the manageable age which
has set the matchmakers talking, but
the momentous fact that the Princess
has suddenly and for some myster-
ious reason become extremely good
I looking.
"The little Mouse Princess" - "die
kleine Maus- Prinzessin"--as she us
ed to be called, was always regarded
as the least well-favored of the Kais-
er's seven children. Only a year ago
Berlin used to stare at her, a typical
gawky, rather untidy schoolgirl, with
dull hair and an old-fashioned hat.
Everyone spoke of her as a child.
Then one fine day she unexpectedly
put up the dull hair, bought the lat
est Paris hat, and in wink trans
formed herself into a beauty. When
she drives down the Linden in her
English dog cart, or appears, dressed
as a gallant hussar, at a military par
ade, everyone finds her pretty, vivac
ious, frank looking, intelligent, and
good enough wife for the best Ger
man prince that ever appeared out
side a fairy tale.
! The matchmallers would have no
trouble finding a suitable husband
were the case of the "Mouse-Prln-
cess" an ordinary one. But it is not
The Kaiser, it appears, insists that
his daughter wed only a German
prince, and the Kaiserin puts the
still harder condition that the bride
groom must reside within easy reach
of Berlin. In other words, the Kais-
erin refuses to be separated from her
only daughter. That is one reason
though there are fifty others-why
the pretensions of the little ex-King
of Portugal were long ago laughed to
scorn.
The matchmakers affirm that the
Princess is ikeliest to marry tho
eldest son and heir of the King ol
SaNony. This would SATISFY one condi-
ton, as Dresden, the Saxon capital,
! is only a couple of hours from Bgr-
lin. The Saxon Crown Prince, who
bears the sufficient name, Frederick
August George Ferdinand Albert
Charles Antoine Maria Paul Marcel,
is Of suitable age, having been born
only few months after the Princess,
and Europe's heirs to thrones nearly
always marry women as old as them
selves. Frederick August George,
ETC., is fine, smart-looking lad. Civ
en- to sports and fond of accompany
ing his agile father up Alpine snow
peaks. He lately made a trip to the
iZilIelthal, in Al stria AMI crossed a
pass hitherto considered impossible
in winter.
King Frederick August of Saxony
is reported to be in favor of the
proposed match. But difficulties stand
IN the way First, the Saxon house
Of Victim is Roman Catholic, MT
withstanding the ac that Saxony is
predominantly a Protestant state.
The Prussian precedent does not fav-
or mixed marriages. It is doubtful
whether the Pope would grant the
necessary dispensation, and it is I'M
likely that the Princess would be will
ling to change her religion. The Kais-
err. too, does not favor Catholicism
Another trouble is the Saxon family
scandal. The Kaiser and Kaiserin do
not conceal their belief that King
Frederick August was himself partly
guilty Of the domestic misery which
in 1903 led to the divorce Of his wife,
the lady who as Countess Montigno-
so has since scandalized Europe with
so many fleeing love affairs. The
Kaiserin holds the opinion of the late
Queen Victoria of England with ref
erence to divorces, and she has scru-
pies about handing over her daughter
to the child of the rough martinez
King and of the frain Countess Mon
tignoso.
There are, of course, other German
lines which have possible bride
grooms. But some Of them are Cath.