The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-11-28
a Pen and Ink sketch of Queen Isabella.
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] am sure you will read with interest
n pen aud ink portrait Of the last Hour-
bon that sits on an European throne 1t
was contributed above four weeks since
to a French newspaper:
spain requires at this moment a great
King. or "a great statesman. or lacking
the latter, great people. But it has
only Generals wso c0ugpirc, Princes who
arc exilcd. Queen delivered over to
every contradiction. and to the protection
Of ali the saints in bc4gcn
Tho Queen Of Spain is only thirty.
eigh; years old; she looks older. She /
/ has the common characteristic 0l the |
whole Bourbon family, caused either by
regimen or excessive appetite, or both
these causes together, namely, all the |
family 60 from early youth TO middle age |
without any other transition than rapid |
obesity mud premature wrinkles. The
portraits Of Isabella II, Louis, XVI, |
Louis XVIII, Ferdinand VII. and Of
Louis PhiI'i?pi, represent al OF them
young aud brilliant iu their youth, or
thiekenei BY maturity, and almost sud.
denly old.
| Qaeen Isabe.la's lace is round, her
features aTo strongly marked, her nose Is
slightly Larncd her eyes arc small and
blue, her hair chcsnut, her complexion
highly colorcd Fortunately for her,
NATURE repudiated fram her parental IN
heritanec The cnoFmolS, and unusual nose
of her father, but, unfortunately, she
does not possess tic cnrhaniing grace Of
her mother, Queen Christine; che has
nothing which rciaiuds one OF her pa
rents, she has nothing Which reminds one
Of Spain. The radiation OF though; is
los; or belic1 on tha; uumcd.,atirc face.
| Her voice Is strong, slightly hoarsc,
slightly masculine. Her manners are
those of shopkec2er's wife. tamiiiar aud
without originality. Louis XVI, au ex.
i cellcnt locksmith; Charles ~, good
furniture maker; Christine, jealous
amateur Of painting, aud possesses rare
skill in embroidery! Queen Isabella has
no taste whatever for letters or the
the fine arts, or for the manual arts.
i She dresses richly, as becomes queen,
but she looks like queen in Sunday
tnery, and not ike woman who adds
the coquetry of her sex to the attraction
OF her Office
While her mother reigned she gave her
name to color, Christine Blue" No
cloth, no ornament, no color has ever in
Spain borne Isabella's name. Her way
OF life Is convenient, but not exactly in
accordance with the laws of hygiene.
She sleeps longer than is reasonable
She breakfasts gluttonously, as Louis
XVI ate, between one and two o'clock.
! She very often hears mass at four clock
P. ~, which makes the post of Court
Almoner very dangerous for the health
According to the doctrine of the Church
of Rome no priest can celebrate mass ex.
cept fasting, no morsel of food shall pass
bis lips until mass shall have been cele-
brated. To fast from the previous mid
night until o'clock p. IL, must tell on
. the health.
Toward evening the Queen takes a
drive in the retired portion of Retro,
and sometimes in the most freqnented
avenues Of the favorite Madrid drive.
| Saturday she goes to Atocha church to
pray Whenever she publicly leaves the
! palace she goes out in a stage coach with
} six horses, escorted by cavalry, and fol-
, lowed By four or six immense coaches
: drawn by mules-such coaches as those
cardinals at Rome ride in.
At nightfall the Queen returns to the
c palace and eats with as much arpetit,
+ as in the morning. She is sometime:
|; seen at the performances of the Theatcr
! Royal and of the Opera and although the
|. theater is only gunshot from the palace
9 she goes there with the inevitable pro
y cessiou of cavalry horses, mules, coaches
! and lackeys wearing fesh-colored stock
/ ings and those immense hats worn by the
o grooms Of the Pontiioial court Aftel
$ the performance, fhe,queon presides over
! ! the Council Of Ministers, and the secre
= camarHas, after which she is free ant
disappears.