LOVE-IN-A-MIST!

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 3

LOVE-IN-A-MIST!

iiorefin-a.-Mist; .may . tho angels <guide you •" Safe:from.the.death,and danger beside you, Lead' you .home your unlightcd path, To the love .that's .patient' and yoursi till ■ j..;death. . ~ . Love-in-a-Mist! .. ■THe'.iway'i's;narrow; your foot ; Closo. to the edge' of the precipice treading. So many .have .fallon the way you go, ; A' thousand feet to the valley bolow.-•Love-in-a-Mist! ••••. Dark is the night and the mist is'blinding;. But-the road's still-upward winding and . .winding; The ■ stars come out through the night and ••. gloom,? .•■■■■■ - . .. ■ ■ liove sets a light m tho windows of homo. ■ ;■ • . -Love-in-a-Mist! Lovo-m-a-Mist, may, the angels tend vou! „ The eyes of God lookidown and befriend, you I There: is death 111 the: valley,' but up on the *.: i hill • i ... The stars are shining; tho night is.still. ■ Lovo-m-a-Mist!; —■Katharine '• Tynan - m • the "Westminster Gi/ette " ' THE : ROYAL FRENCH WEDDING.

•'-Eiiglish papcrs just tdiharid arb:full of-the glories of' the Bourbori-Orlearis wetldirig,; the glamour. :and;rdihantic colour of which seems to'■'■ haw caught' '• the "imagination - ofEnglish writers. 1 -; This • niarridgo in an ;Ehg]ish. Tillrigp'.'of.two.exiled', members;' of one-time foyal.".families,' ,0110- of .'whom..had'.adhpted - tlie''.riationality,,of.his.first wiis, the;Priiicess of.JSpain,-.:has brought to; mind the.Vanished glories, of /..tho-. French /Court;., and,ithe; bride ahd' been regarded' as.-repre-senting-tho :gn;co and charm of , the princes of. the old. regime. - , It. is'evident.-that, 'in they still claim royal rights and .privileges, and nothing -was .spared that coidtl give'- a. royal-grandeur'. Tho.following {lescriptibii : from'. dn/English paper givqs perhajismore clearly ..than 'others aii,,;idea; of the,picturdsqiio:features-..0f ' the -affair.,; ~

It i 3 in a,corner of rural. England," which, in» some respects curiously rosoinbles of.- .juralFranco, ■ that ■ Erenohi'royalisiti , ''is-taking the .occasion "of thp wedding .6a Saturday of Princess Loijise oi Erancoi (sister, of the Due d'Orlearis) ;arid Prince ' Charles of Bourbon . (brother-in-law of the King of Spain), to'..display tho. elaborate, .pomp and circumstancb ■ that. aro part of .its crecd. , ; For the Valo of Evesham is . one .of-the, too. few; bits • of . England. where agriculture'.remains, thpjstaplo- industry, "of the people, and flourishes as it flourishes in France.."- :. _ Tho 'whold : valloy smiles 1 with, prosperous .industry.;.. The .close attachment., .of..tho French .peasant to. his land manifests.-itself !' iii tho., same-order) regularity,' and .patient, painstaking-thoroughness . ifhich, mark the. small garden . holdings of. Evesham., v It.jinightl in|;No'rman , {fy; instead, of. .Worcestershire in which this descendant of the. Trance cherishes.., the tradition of what was and-the illusion, of. what might be. .t. Wood Norton, . the - Due . d'Orleans's residence, is not'a great place nor old. .It boasts) no magnificence: of. architecture ,nor associations, 0f... history. . In real Franco it could hardly'be described as a chateau; in real England it would not bo .described as a hall, "It is -beautifully ; situated, in the midst,of fine grounds '-on the hillside, with woods behind arid thp lovely Avon Valley spreading wide in front, blit the. house is.just a .plain, gentleman's .modern gabled country place, .almost,.suburban in. its air of unprc-, teritious, .'compact comfortableness. . . But-'that, the littlo jiousc insists on being , legarded as a palace'''it-3 great lodgb : gates remind you. i Index to tho House.' The gates aro tho' index of the establishment to which they, .belong. . Tho small house riiust'never allow it-self to forgot that it <is a;royal palace;- the -small . household must always, recollect'that it is ~ a royal Court. J Tho "Due d'Orleans may enjoy tho delights of the pleasant English country, but must not allow himself to be regarded as a country gentloman, so little'is 'seen or known of him around 'Evesham'. Tho reigning: monarch of. a great country, may: not identify; " himself with' the -small society of 'a - countryside, so .tho' nobility of W orcestdrshire know little of their neighbour or - his family; They livo secluded' \behind their gilt -gates-in a little world-of splendid illusion; where a-drawing-room' is a'throne . chamber and'a butler-is'a chamberlain. The wedding on Saturday is a royal wedding, which must. lx»'celebrated in'the chapel of'a palace, so a royal chapel of, plaster and canvas stono, with stained glass windows of paint and gelatine, has, been ercntod.on one Bido of* tho ■ little 'houso. • .And the' wedding feast must bo.celebrated, in. a. :palacc bailquoting hall;-so - a .Louis Seize banqueting hall. "of: wood■ and'stucco, : with" marble basreliefs, in, plaster of Paris, and historic; picturos reproduced by, copyists',;has'sprung- up on'th'e.lawn'on.tho other side of tho houso.-'. '■ Ryiojery train • from.. London como distinguished-looking people . of; ; exquisite manners, members of historic Royalist families, to give the .reality of. their generous convictions to . the illusions..