THE GOOD WIFE THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT HAS WON.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 88, 7 June 1879, Page 3

THE GOOD WIFE THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT HAS WON.

The Paris correspondent of tho Baltimore Sun writes as follows :—This brings me to sjjcnk of the marriage of the Duke of Connaugbt to the Pmeetts Louise, daughter of the Prince Frederick and Princess Maria of Prussia. The princess is reputed to be the most practical of any in Europe. She keeps her accounts accurately, balances her books periodically, works on a sewing machine occasionally, ■and constantly indulges in feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, andcoinfoiting the afflicted. She is one of those very rare young ladies in Europe, and in America for that matter, who appear to have nu object in life. It is marvellous the large number of Indies whose lives are a perfect blank as far as any aim is considered. Tho exception is so charming and so small that wo are brought to regard the large body of female ciphers not at all from an exalted position—l mean that class who have no family or household cares, but who sit from one end of the year to the other with their hands in their laps and their heads "jiowhere." Of such is not the fair princess J sj>eak of. She has founded an institute Jor the teaching and providing for the jmrtionless daughters of poor members of the nobility, and I have good reasou to .know her clients are neither few nor far between. This institution has none of thefeaturesof objection that mark poverty —the crime of Europe as well as of England, as Sidney Smith would say. It is now a self-supporting establishment. The young ladies are skilled in -the fine arts, and some light industrial ones, aud the results of the accomplishments are to be found iu a liberal supply of dollars. I must say that these pructi•cal lessons have been taught by the mother, the Princess Maria of Prussia, but the daughter has lieen quite an active •co-operator. She has a forte in the fine .arts, and that is in architectural designs «nd colours. Berlin is not ignorant of Jier utilitarian talent iu this regard. The family of her father, the Prince Frederick, has appeared but little at the Prussian Court, they preferring the •country to the city. Their large mansion, or chateau, enabled them to have the young lady students alluded to always under one roof, and that of the founder •of tliis ideal school, where the gracious surveillance of their moral and material education never waved. Many of these j'oung 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 iu wives rather .than with them—to have been scholars of .the Princess Maria. Thus the Duke of •Connaught 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 intrigue, such instances to the contrary are grateful to .note.