Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1881 — How a Princess Lives. [ARTICLE]

How a Princess Lives.

The positions of the Princess of Wales is too exalted a one to permit of much social Enjoyment, yet has not the splendid potentialities of reigning royality. The Princess, too, is peculiarly unostentatious, and evidently finds the magnificant loneliness of her position an actual trial. To be young aud beautiful and idolized, and yet to be shut out from most forms of social amusement, can be by no queans delightful, Yet, there are few houses, even among those of the highest nobility, to which the Princess of Wales can go as an invited guest. And when she does go, an awful state hedges her around. She is passionately fond of dancing, yet no gentleman can ask her to dance. She it is who signals out the personage whom she desires as a partner, and when she stands up to dance, all other dancers must sit down. After circling around the room some half dozen times, she sits down to rest, and then the remainder of the waLzers may take a turn, but as soon as she stands up again they must stop. This solitary Grand Lama kind of performance can not be very amusing to this kindly, gentle, amiable lad\’. She is, lam told, a most accomplished dancer, despite her slight lameness. But of all the recreations ot her life, she most enjoys driving in the park. In her little victoria, with aame de compagnia beside her, she is free to eqjoy the testimonials of affection and enthusiasm thtt meet her .everywhere, and no one that notes the gracious smile and bow wherewlth'she returns every salutation can doubt her delight at her own popularity.