Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 June 1898 — Page 3

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OUR ROYAL ENEMIES.

THE QUEEN REQENT OF SPAIN ANO HER CHILDREN.

Christina a Saddened Widow, Alfonso a Pampered Prig of a Boy and the Infants Maria a Tall, Sallow Girl Already

Betrothed.

[Copyright, 1898, by American Press Association. There is probably no more sad and unfortunate woman in Europe than Maria Christina, queen regent of Spain. On the part of the late king, Alfonso XII, the marriage was a mere matter of state. Although it is quite likely he respected highly the good qualities of the young archduchess he never forgot his first wife, the beautiful Mercedes, the daughter of the Duo de Montpensier. That his fiancee was aware of this the following story goes to show:

One day on entering the apartment in the palace where the then archduchess awaited his eyes fell on the portrait of the dead Mercedes which stood on a table, and forgetting all else he stood gaz-

Sho tried hard to overcome the German accent, but the king, who was a practical jokor, loved to misinform her •bout the use of Spanish words and laugh at the blunders and surprise caused by hor misuse of them.

On Nov. 26, 1885, King Alfonso XH died of consumption, and she beoame quoen regent for the eldest of her little girls, who reigned as queen until the birth of the present king, May 17, 1880. If hor lot had been an unhappy one before, it was now doubly sorrowful.

Although as a queen she is a failure sho has boon a good mother to her three littlo children. Her aim has been to bring up hor boy So be good and patriotic.

It is quite probable the little Alfonso is a rather spoiled, self willed little prig, but that he loves his mother no one can doubt He, too, early acquired an appreciation of his own importance. One day out driving with his governess he took a notion that his hat was too warm and heavy and proceeded to take it off. Tho governess protested that it was against court etiquette and probably that ho would catch a cold. Alfonso remained deaf to entreaties when the governess used her last argument a threat to report him to his mother. "If you do," said little Alfonso, "I'll make faces at the people the next time you take me out to drive." He had been taught to bow and smile politely to the people who cheered and crowded about his carriage, and it bored him unspeakably.

One among the pet names by which the queen calls him is "Alfonsito," littlo Alfonso. One day meeting in the palace a minister of state of whom he was not particularly fond he delivered the following snub: "How are you, Alfonsito?" said the minister.

The little boy looked at him for a minute in what he intended to be royal hauteur and answered: "To my mother 1 am Alfonsito to you I am the king." it is to be hoped that Queen Christina when she heard of this incident administered a wholesome spanking to the little boy, who thus insulted an odd yan and faithful servant of Spain, bat ahe probably did not, for what would Vc looked upon as impertinence aad Baughtlnees in an ordinary youngster are called originality and wit when emanating from a baby princeling.

It is rumored that the princess of the Asturias, eldest sister of the little king of

Spain, will be betrothed next year to Prince Albert of Belgium. She reigned tor six. months as queen of Spain in the time ttlftpfrfng between the death of Al-

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Mxt September she will be 18 yean «td. She is a tall, sallow looking girl, with heavy features and rather dull l«k eyes. In neither umanaM nor 4am dm

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BTFA.NTA MARIA OB LAS MKRCEDBS, PBDK3B8S OF THB ASTDRIAS. ing upon the beloved features. This evidenoe that so little of tho king's affeotion was hers must have hurt Christina deeply. She said, with voice choked with emotion: "If I must suooeed her, I dare not hope to replace her. My dearest wish is to resemble her in all things."

The archduchess was 21 when she exchanged that title for that of queen of Spain. She herself cried bitterly on leaving Austria forever.

Hitherto she had been to all who knew her a rather shy and shrinking gM. merry hearted and affectionate with those who knew her best, but preferring retirement and seclusion to public life. One of her special interests was music, and in this she had both proficiency and talent

The Spaniards do not care for the Anstrians as a nation besides, they wero not attracted to the new queen. Thoy did not like her German accent and misunderstood her reserve. All her early years at the Spanish oourt were besot with difficulties.

French princess for whom she was n«mnH and who was her father's first wife.

The royal house of Spain is Soman Catholic, therefore the two daughters Queen Christina will have very little choice in the matter of selecting a husband. Nearly all the other royal houses of Europe are Protestant The young ladies must either marry one of their Austrian cousins or else into the deposed house of Orleans. Prince Albert of Belgium is about the only prospective king of the avail&bles.

There is no special need to worry about the future of the royal ladies Spain. The family has a large fortune safely invested, as have all the royalties of Europe in these days of republics and revolutions. MABOABET MKBBIAM.

HOT WEATHER GOWNS.

What Xs to Be Worn by the Saratoga Swells This Season. [Copyright. 1898, American Press AJBSO-

Women always seem to run a fashion into the ground, so to speak. Let a new thing please and every one must have one like it or cry her eyes out, and it takes but a short time for fickle woman to weary of it

These sage reflections were induced by letting my fancy run upon the blouse waist Women are heartily tired of blouse waists, but just now nothing better is offered to take their' places, and the only thing that can be done is to get new fancies in the way of trimming them. The backs tnay now be made quite smooth, all in one piece, or they may have side forms and a center seam. Even a little postilion was added to one. The front always has the baggy effect, but it is less pronounced than it was and is brought forward to the center. There are others where the whole waist is gathered from a yoke to the belt all the way around. This style' makes the waist look slender.

A new caprice is to have the blouse and shirt waist belted in with a large heavy dog collar. These are made with silvered or steel spikes and heavy metal tongue buckle. The belt is a real dog oollar, and they somehow give a girl a very swell appearance. They cost, too, as much as |6 and $8. Other leather belts have military buttons fastened along the belt at intervals of two inches, and in front the clasp is of crossed sabers or cannon.

There was a very pretty gown in one large establishment made of military blue cloth, the skirt having two stripes of white braid, one on each side front seam. The waist was a blouse of the same, with a yoke of the same outlined by white braid. The collar was of a decidedly military shape, but the hat that goes with it was just a dainty feminine "confection" of blue crepe lisse, black laoe and yellow buttercups. But the belt was of tan leather studded .thick with military buttons. Where a large

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one would not go a little one was set, so that the whole was incrusted. And it was so pretty that I've no doubt the whole suit was eventually sold on account of it

While not every lady wants to wear too noticeable a gown, there is a decided leaning toward semimilitary designs in tho trimmings of costumes. A tan colored gown of alys cloth had the stripe down each side of the front suggesting those of the men's garments. A short jacket not unlike the shape of the West Point cadet had revers, and this had rows of braid, ending with gilt buttons. It looked "too awfully killing for anything."

The bicycle suits, too, have more or less of the military and naval effects in their trimming and often in the shape. This is somehow wrought out in the blouse waists. They open in front over a vest that has the deft touch that makes it draw all eyes toward it with an involuntary sigh for the soldier or sailor sweetheart in Uncle Sam's uniform.

There is to be a great crowd at Saratoga this season, and every one knows that is the hottest plaoe on the outer surface of the earth. The heat and the crowd presuppose many dainty thin gowns.

The Vanderbilts have always liked Saratoga, and the Twombley and the Sloane families always pass the better part of tho season there. They have several pretty daughters, and they will have some of the "sweetest things" made this season, or so a famous modiste told me.

There was a white silk muslin gown for Miss Emily, with faint green leaves, one would call them parsley, if that did not suggest a vegetable gardesL The waist was in blouse fashion, puffed and shirred with pink chantUly lace. The belt was green and so was the oollar with pink lace rosettes.

These dainty summer gowns all have slippers to match the principal color and stockings to match them, so that it Is not uncommon to find yellow hosiery as well aft pink, btae, green, plaid fiowfgnd, openwork, E and Uw pmhtsuoasisms to heather for tap airi drab for evesyday instead of jjfek ..wJfiEnHessswen.'

THE RED CROSS CHIEF.

Prominent as she was before in the role in which she has been best known, her work in connection with the association over which she presides for the relief of suffering Cubans has extended: her fame wider than ever before. Until within a few months the Bed Cross association had no official recognition in thin country. Fortunately this barrier to its greater usefulness has been removed by the action of the government in giving to the association its official sanction. This places the American branch cm an equality with other branches of the international association and will have the effect of making it more actively operative and successful in its work than would be possible without such official recognition.

Fifty-two nations are n&w boYUid together by the Bed Cross treaty of neutrality, Spain also being included. Though this fact alone should tinder any circumstances be regarded as a guarantee that members of the association would be perfectly safe in Cuba, some doubt was entertained as to this. As a consequence, when the State of Texas sailed to Cuba lately with supplies for the sick and wounded, none of the Bed Cross sisters went on the vessel, though she sailed under the "humanity and neutrality" flag of the association. Ten of the sisters of the Bed Cross, were prepared to start with the relief ship and awaited the commands of Miss Barton. She in her turn awaited orders from the government which did not come, it being evidently considered risky by the authorities to send women from the United States to Cuba.

Miss Barton was bom in Oxford, Mass., in 1880. She was typical of the best class of New England girls—conscientious, intellectual and ambitious. She attended the village school and worked in a factory to procure money to eduoato herself more highly. After graduating from an academy she obtained a position in the patent offlegjn Washington, and on the brealdrtrvrc.' I the civil war she found and life's work in and wounded.

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Ml«a Clara Barton, president of the American National Bed Cross association, recently became domiciled in New York city to enjoy a much needed brief rest after her fatiguing work in Tampa. For some time previously she had been there superintending the distribution of stores awiftng the Cubans exiled from their homes and dependent for their subsistence upon charity. Her labors at that place were very harassing and exhausting, and she finds herself now, with the weight of yeara-pressing upon her, unable to stand the strain as she did so long ago, when she first began her career as a ministering angel to war's victims.

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The manner of the work is as follows: A large, bold and very conventional design, such as a pomegranate scroll or large leaf or flower, is traced on the cloth. This design is thrown in relief by the squares which form the background. These may be from one-quar-ter to one-half an inch along each side of each square, according to the design. They may be traced with a pencil first, if there is any trouble in following the lines of the cloth, and must all be uniform in sixe. One stitch goes to one sids of each square, the lines meeting at the intersections of the squares. When the outlining is finished, each square is filled by a caress stitch. The background ia all in the one color aad when it hi completed the design is outlined in the blade la otdinaxy. cl^with say

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FAMOUS CHARACTEBS

SOME OF THOSE DRAWN FROM UFE BY NOTED AUTHORS.

Writers Who Made Enemies by Their 8a tires on living Persons—Dante Wrote Bis Enemies In Hades and Michael As* gelo Fainted Them There.

The characters in the writings of most eminent novelists are living realities. We.see them around us we reoognize than in our relatives, our acquaintances, and, if not blinded by vanity, frequently in ourselves. Who has not numbered among his friends some individual who is the living walking image of a character made immortal by 4he pen o{ a Dickens or a Thackeray. And rest assured, my dear sir or madam, that while you are recognizing in sfane one else a character that agrees in every detail with one that the world has learned to laugh at or to love in the works *bf*the great writers, some one e]ae is dis6overing the same thing about you.

The world is full of the characters, eccentric, serious and great that literary genius has thrown a halo around. It is easy to ascribe a reason for this. Most of the characters in the books of Thackeray, Dickens, Tennyson, Soott and the list'of great authors were drawn from lay figures selected by the writers from among the people with whom they were aoquainted.

The most recent instance of this is Sherlock Holmes. The Scotch professor upon whom Conan Doyle founded the great detective has been recognized fetid has been Written up again and again unti^ he ip. as well known as the detective.

The original of the charaoter of Micaw ber, who eternally looked for something to turn up, was Charles Diokens* own father, as is well known, while the weak and easily victimized Mrs. Nickleby was the mother of the novelist. Boythorn in "Bleak House" caused a quarrel between Dickens and Walter Savage Landor, for the latter recognized in the charaoter his own peculiarities and resented the fact that he had been so treated. Leigh Hunt was angry Vith Dickens because the famous character of Harold Skimpole, in the same book, resembled his mannerisms so olosely that there was no possibility of the likeness not being recognized.

The original of Thaokeray's Bulwig in "Yellow Plush Papers" was no other than Bulwer, and there was a tremendous row over the naming of a murderess in one of his books'Catberine Hayes, Which was name of a famous songstress. Andrew Arohdehne was the original of Thackeray's Foker. Archdehne never forgave Thaokeray the liberty taken with him. The celebrated

Cornish was Thackeray's Portman, .*ub8treet in the "VirginI. ^b^^md Yates to a dot Ct^Bmed^^undaboutPapiers''waa ilds a^jhre built on life jxxraliaririch big! living people, as Thack' acknowledged. '^Nathaniel Hawthorne was kept busy after the publication of. "The House of

Seven Gables" assuring a large and ever multiplying army of Pyncheons that his charaoter of that name had not been drawn from life. So easily were Charlotte Bronte's characters in "Shirley" recognized by their originals that the latter called each other by tlyir fictitious names.

Byron wrote of his own peculiarities of life and temperament in his verse Alfred de Musset did the same thing Mme. de Stael depicted herself in "Corinne," and "Delphine" and Thackeray's portrait can easily be recognized in Pendennis. Dr. Holland is supposed to be the original of the villain in his novel of "Bitter Sweet," and many .people believed that Amelio Bives Chanler was the original of her heroine in "The Quick or the Dead Charles

Beade admitted that he was his own lay figure in drawing the character of Bolfe Charlotte Bronte was Jane Eyre, and George Eliot was a composite of Bomola, Maggie Tulliver and possibly Dorothea Goldsmith was his own original in "The Good Natured Man," while Fielding was the original of Tom Jones.

Dante wrote his enemies in hell and Michael Angelo painted them in. Dryden was noted for his satires on living persons. Pope actually erased the name of one of his characters and put Coll] Gibber's in its place. Byron heavily soored his critics and Bulwer did a like office for Tennyson. Bulwer was rathgt accomplished in this respect He satirised The Athenaeum Magazine in "Paul Clifford." Even George IV of England was depicted as the keeper of a low den in the same novel.

Tennyson repaid Bulwer in his onslaughts both in "A Character" and in "The New Timon and the Poets." Captain Marryat who wrote such humorous naval stories, notably "Peter Simple, once sent a challenge to Piofassor Maurice because the latter used his name for a character in "Eustace Conway." Browning soored Wordsworth in "The Lost Leader." He also, at various times in his career, caricatured Cardinal Wiseman, Napoleon HI, and John Home, the spiritualist The latter figured as Sludge, the medium. Even our own Whittier made Daniel Webster figure in one of his compositions.

Mme. de Stael drew Talleyrand's characteristics so pointedly that the portrait was recognised by the French statesman, who resented it in one of his famous mots. When Alfred de Musset and George Sand returned from the escapade into Italy, they proceeded to score each other in novels they soon after printed. Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Trollope aad Lady Morgan used the personal element repeatedly, while to corns upon the real intention of Disraeli's novels requires a key bringing in the names of many prominent people ia England.— Bmhaiwa.

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