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Show r4 ' BUmarck't Wife. London Pall y News. If little is known in England of Trince Bismarck's private 'life, still les, ,ays Mrs: rcreira.. h knoNvn of the lady who for more ' than 'forty-tw 6 years has shared his home. 'The Princess Bismarck Bis-marck is described as the very model of a practical, methodical (icrman matron, ma-tron, w ith an eye for cery dcla I of household arrangement' and economy, and a heart for the comfort and well being of each houseniale. from the highest to tho lowliest. Weddings, it has been observed, not seldom give rise to other weddings. It was at the wedding of a friend that Bismarck lirst met Frauloin Johanna von Pullkamer. She was one of tho bridesmaids, anil the stately-lady mad"! then and there an iniproission 0:1 the young baru whirh culminated in an offer of marriage three years later. The key to the princess's character is lo b? found, says t he saino biographer, in her words: "That my husband is a public character is a fact lo which I often lind It painful enough to resign myself. Rul as for me, his wife, what have I to do with publicity!! I do not exist for publicity, but wholly and solelv for him." ' This perfect union of souls, however, Mrs. Pereira confesses, has not prevented pre-vented the Princess' husband from pos-ilig pos-ilig occasionally as a victim to family claims. Jn one letler he says, referring to a projeclod xcursiiui lo the .seaside: "I have held, out. against it for a long time; but as all the mothers and aunts are unanimous in declaring .that nothing noth-ing but sea water ami sea air can do poor Marieehen any good. I know that if I slill refuse, every cold in the head i which may iiefall'lier to tho seventieth year of her azu' will be set down to inv avarice and patent il barbarity." Again ho writes: "Vostcrday I whs reduced to such a state of despair" by all these planning that, I was poslli'velv determined deter-mined lo give up the who'e journey; mid I weiit to bed with tho tirm resolution resolu-tion to travel straight through, without stopping any win rj on this wav. Hut Johanna ul tacked me in the night wilh the youngster in her arms, and, bv dim of all the arts which drove man but of Paradise, sho tif course gained her point, aud the original sol o.tie is to I c carried out." - ' 1 - . ... It is only fair to the princess after this lo qu lie her liiis'nind's loving letter from UiurilZ: "'f have a bad conscience, because I am seeing so much that is beaitlirnl wlthoul yon.. 'if you could I only be carried hither through the air. I I would go wil'i you this very moment back to Sau Scbiislian." |