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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 322, 21 December 1910, Page 3

The Princess of Monaco was the first lady of American extraction to attain the rank of a Sovereign Princess. A great Parisian heiress, she became the wife of the Due de Richelieu, and some time after his death she was courted and won by the Prince of Monaco. She is extremely wealthy, and it is said that her private fortune is much larger than the subsidy paid to the Prince by the Monte Carlo company. Speaking nearly every European language with facility, she is also passionately devoted to music, and her concerts at the palace are events to be remembered, She also possesses some of the most wonderful jewels in existence, and the palace, which is surrounded by charming gardens, has within its walls much that is rare and beautiful in art.

In Crotia the bridegroom is required to strike the bride over the head as a sign of supremacy, and presumably as a gentle inducement to obedience. He must not do it too hard, or course, but, on the other hand, there must be no suppicioo of gentleness. In Greenland the bride is rarely consulted at all. It would seem that the first man who like to marry a girl calmly seizes her by the hair of her head and drags her away. This method of proposal must be very painful to the object of his adoration, especially if she attempts to resist. In Afghanistan there is a custom which entitles a man to claim as his bride any nnbetrothed maiden a lock of whose hair he can manage to snip off. This may be a less barbarous idea than the Greenlanders', but it is none the less presumptuous. The unfortunate maiden never has a voice in the matter at all. During the temporary stoppage of a creamery through a breakdown of the machinery, the manager forwarded the injured part by the train to the nearest foundry for repairs and telegraphed to the chairman of directors of his company, asking him to use his utmost endeavour to have the repairs effected quickly, stating that till this was done the milk would go to waste. The chairman, who is a townsman and ignorant of country life, wired back: "Don't waste the milk: do not milk the cows." This story comes from Greymouth.