The Washington herald., 1912-11-09
rolner aore

0ooxeAfy member o. ~
aoues of LordA Who . nons eehes tAas
oenker. commeeciei pfivy eeseeass: - =
HIS daushtsr. .fsr. fourtssa ysass pm
Marianne Friediasnder. hut Tor the 30
DIX years Aiss Aax1s-Aune vca yf3ed
lAander-FuId. has bsen Q mueh-ooughf'
aftef prize IN Tie axaseocrat1o masS!ael
mart Of the German metreDclia H.
name frst was coupled witA thss g :
German baron and diplomat but Il \
Whispered. ''Unter den Anden." that ~
lees personags win satisfy the On.
nobled papa" OF one Of the wealthaes.
heiresses OF Prussia than duke. ana
not merely Q plain serene hlghnaeC @
his grace" but one who has TO BE- a
drsssed n Imperial highnsa6-an soosf
the Duke Of Leuehtenberg.
To tell the truth. the history Of ma,
house 10 20 remarkably chscksred And
unique that tho report Of the approach
ing engagement appears quite plausible
The founder Of the family was Eugene
de Beaucharnais. son Of Empress Joseph'
Inc and stepson Of Napoleon !. His Wife
was Princess Pauline Of Bavaria, enc
after the fall OF the great Corstcen
King Maximiiian Josef Of Bavaria: hii
18SuoLeiu~l8Ws u8o0 sAesD = @>Sss>
Of LeuchtenberH. The latter died In Ba'
varia, and his remaina repose In Q vAuit
in the royal Chapel Of et Michael a
Munich.
The son Of Eugene Beaucharnais. ol
the frst Duke Of Leuchtenberg. Duke
Max. won the love OF the beautiful
daughter Of Csar Nicholas Of Russia,
Grand Duchess Maria, and married hef
after the consent Of hsr father had been
1hx x1tNtamafptAN0 And
In order to mako his son-in-law OF
equal BIRTH" according to the strict
Romanoff House regulations. the Car
raised him to the dignity Of q Prince
Romanofsky. with the title Of imperial
hishness."
Ever since this prince. his progeny
have held the status and occupied the
position of Q younger branch Of the
reisning house Of Russia, and this to
such a degree that when his son. Duke
Nicholas. married q Miss Annenkief.
and later q sister Of Gen. Skobelef. the
unions were both declared morganatic.
both ladies' being known as Countess
Beaucharnais. Later on tho Car re-
tented and gave the sons Of the hrst
union the privilege to have their fathers &
former title as Duke OF Leuchtenberg.
but only as serene highnessea"
The duke whose name Mrs. Grundy at
Berlin is coupling with that of the
wealthy miss Of Prussia's most recent
commercially nobility 10 either Duke
Alexander, Prince Romanofsky, the son
Of Prince George Romanofsky, who died
in Paris last summer and whose mother
is Princess Theresa Of the reigning
House OF Oldenburg. or his youthful
step-brother. the only son Of the afore-
said Prince George and his second wife.
prtncaea atopfa of Agoptene1r0 who left
him and fs now married to Grand Duke
Nicholas Of Russia.
In either case. the Jewish merchant
princes daughter would marry into an
exceptionally illustrious family: but, Of
course. ''morganatic." as far as Russia
would be concerned. But perhaps 1t is
all idle gossip.
The Bulgarian atrocities OF 1876 brought
Gladstone from his retirement to lead .
crusade of emancipation. In fact. the
traditional opposition OF Bulgaria to
Turkey constituted one Of the chief fac
tors OF European progress Wealth II
more evenly divided there than In any
other European state. Poverty IL rarely
to be found. In the towns there are in
dividuai cases Of destitution, owing to
drink and misconduct. but these cases
are few and insignificant. There Is no
need to make any public provision for
the relief Of the poor: there Is no quee-
ton OF the conflicting interest OF work.
men and employers: strikes and trade
unions are unknown. Bulgaria, As at
precent constituted, approaches closely
to the ideal state Of latter-day social re-
formers, in which there are to De no
poor and no rich.
Only extreme poverty will drive a Bull
Earian into domestic service. As rule.
widows are the only servants to be
found. and they will only come to work
II they may bring their family with
them. Servants insist upon being intro
duced to and shaking hands with all Wis
itors. and will leave upon the least re-
buke The only way to keep them Is to
let their wages fall into arrears. So
strong il the sentiment against doing
anything in the nature OF menial work
that there 10 q case where a girl re-
fused to fetch medicine from the chem.
ist for her own mother. But the same
girl would work in a strangers garden
or do needlework, because these occupa-
tions are considered honorable for Bull
garian women.
The Bulgarian may not have 4 liking
Agricultural laborer. II you give him a
barren piece OF land. he will make 1t
blossom like the rose. while his Monte
negrin brother will stand and look on.
On the other hand. the Montenegro.
placed in a drawing-room. behaves like
a gentleman, while the Bulgarian in the
same environment cannot help being a
boor. The Montenegrins are the de-
scendants Of Servian aristocrats who ned
to the mountains to seek freedom. or
one claim to culture Montenegro cannot
be deprived. She established printing
press at Obod only twenty years after
Caxton began his labors. But the Turks
made pie" Of everything. and the press
was not re-established until 1SS2.
As far back as 1717 an Englishwoman
who toured Bulgaria tells Of the not
baths at Sofia, famous for their medicinal
and the beauty Of the women.
She went to see the bagnio. or. the wom-
ems coffee house. as she termed 1t. and
though she entered the marble hall OF
the baths in her riding habit, the ladies
there were so polite that there were no
disdsinful smiles. These ladies. she adds.
wore nothing but their smiles. but they
walked and moved with the same ma
jestic grace which Milton describes our
general mother with. There were many
among them as exactly proportioned as
ever any goddess was Drawn Dy the
pencil Of a Guido or a Titan.
In the Balkan countries the ballad
makers have certainly been as important
as the makers of laws. Servia's national
ballads, commemorating the giories OF
the servian Emperor Dushan. the fatal
battle Of Kossovo, and the legendary ex-
ploits Of the hero Marko Kralyevtch and
his horse Sharats, are Of Homertc pro-
portions, and. sung to the accompani-
ment of a guitar with cords Of horse