THE GOOD WIFE THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT HAS WON.

Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3029, 30 October 1878, Page 1

THE GOOD WIFE THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT HAS WON.

The Paris correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes as follows : This brings me to speak of the marriage of the Duke of Connaught to the' Princess Louise, daughter of the Prince Frederick and Princeas Maria, of Prussia. 1 The Princess is reputed to be the most practical of any in Europe. She keeps her accounts accurately, balance! her books periodically, works on a sewing machine occasionally! and is constantly indulging in feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and comforting the afflicted. She is one of those very rare young ladiei in Europe, and in America, for that matter, who appear td have an object in life/ It it marvellous the large number of ladies whose lives are a perfect. blank as far as any aim is considered. The exception is so charming and so small that we are brought to regard the large body of female ciphers not at all from an exalted position—l mean that class who hare no family or household cares, but who tit from one end of the year to the other with their hands in .their laps and their heads " nowhere."; Of such is not the' ftrir'"Princess I speak of. She has founded an* institute for the teaching and .providing for the portionless, daughters of poor members of the nobility, and I have good reason to know her clients are .neither few nor far between. This institution has none of the features of objection .that mark poverty—the crimes of Europe as well as of England, as Sidney Smith would say. ' ';! ••: It is now a self-supporting establishment. 1 : The young ladies are skilled-in the fine arts, and some light industrial ones, and the results of their' accomplishments are to be found in a liberal supply of dollars. I must say that these practical lessons have been taught by the mother, the Princess Maria, 1 of Prussia,'but the daughter,has been an active coop'eratoi 4. She has a forte in the fine arts, and. that is in architectural designs and'colors. Berlin is hof ignorant of Tier utilitarian talent in this regard. ' The family of'her father, Prince Frederick, has appeared but little at the Prussian, Court, they preferring ,the coup try 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 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 guaranty of their worth, both as housewives and moral mothers—a fortune in wives rather than with them—to 'have been scholars of the Princess Maria. Thurrthe Duke of Gonnaught may be called:* 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. : :