THE GOOD WIFE THE DUKE OF connaught HAS WON.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 266, 16 November 1878, Page 5

THE GOOD WIFE THE DUKE OF connaught HAS WON.

The Paris correspondent of the Baltimore " inuu *' writes as follows : — Thia bring me to speak of the marrißge of the Duke of Connaught to the Princess Louise, daughter of the Prince Frederick and Princess Maria of Prussia. The Princes3 is reputed to be the most practical of any in Europe. She keeps her accounts accurately, balances her books periodically, works on a sewiug machine occasionally, and is constantly indulging in feeding the hungry, clothing the nakeJ, and comfortiDg the sfilicted. She ia one of those very rare young ladies in Europe, audai.nji America for that matter, who &'&jssoL° l )(iV0 8U objfict in life. It is Y&sߧ£sffipu% the large number of ladies ■S|^^|fej' ve3 are a perfect blauk as far Ssiifcatiy aim is considered. The exception is so charming and so small, that we ore brought to regard the large body of female ciphers not at all from au exalted position— l mean that class who have no family or household care?, but who sit from one end of the year to the other with their hands in their laps und their beada " nowhere." Of such ia not the fair Princess I speak of. She has founded an lusiitute for the teaching aud providing of the portionless daughters of poor members of the nobility, und 1 have good reason to know her clients are neither few nor fur between. This institution has none of ,4&e features of objection shat mark poverty — the crime of Europe, as well as of England, as Sydney Smith would Diy. It is now a self-supporting estah.lishment. The young ladies are skilled in ilirt fine arts, and some light industrial ouee, and the results of their ac- . compliahments are to be found in a

liberal supply of dollars. I must say that these practical lessons have been tuiighi; by the mother, the Princess Marie of Prussia, but the daughter lias been quitq au active co-operator. She has a jorle in the fine arts, and that is in architectural designs and colors. Berlin is not ignorant of her utilitarian talent in this regard. The family of her father, the Prince Frederick, has appeared but; very little at the Prussian Court, they preferring the country to the city. Their large mansion or chateau, enabled then to have the young lady students alluded to always under one roof, and that of the founder of this ideal school, where the gracious surveillance of their moral and material education never wavered. Many of these young ladies, in consequence, have made excellent Court or aristocratic marriages, as it has been regarded as a guarantee of their worth, both as housewives and moral mothers, a fortune in wives rather than with them — to have been scholars of the Princess 1 Maria. Thus the Duke of Counauj»ht may be called a lucky man, and Queen Victoria a happy mother. In this age when the tongue of European scandal wags most woefully over court and camp personal intrigues, such instances to the contrary are grateful to note.