The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-09-17
The king OF spain,s New Love.

The Viennese Christina was coy, and
tossed her head impudently when the Span
ish match was proposed to her. This piqued
Alfonso, who soon became an ardent suitor,
left off signing over the likeness of the de-
parted queen, and dwelt with complacency
on pleasing souvenirs of the archduchess,
who had been u gay and espiegle playmate
of his when he was student at the Theresa
College ut Vienna. Christina, who is year
his Junior, was at that time high-spirited
and frolicsome little damsel. She once ran n
race with him in some imperial park. The
monarch in bud was on bicycle, and the
young archhuchess an . feet pony, who,
though the velocipede had the wind with it,
came in first at the goal.
The young idea shoots early in sons and
daughters of royal and imperial houses.
Christina, in playing the number Nip with
the exiled son of Isabella, and romping with
him and tormenting him in various ways,
fell in love with him. 1t is courtier-like now
te speak of her childish attachment to the
king, who did not until within the last six
months requite it. When Alfonso was re-
stored to the throne of his mother, the arch
duchess was glad to learn that his most infu-
entail and paternal advisers, the Due de
Sesto among the number, opined she would
make an ideal queen consort. She discov-
cred that the Spanish costume suited her ex-
actly, and had several sets of photos done in
which she was represented wearing it. On
Mercedes being preferred to her, Christina of
Hapsburg was dreadfully nettled. To show
that she resented with proper spirit the in
dignity, she declared when Alfonso proposed
for her, that she would not consent TO
marry him until she had further opportuni-
ties of meeting him and seeing him, and in
sisted that he should assume the attitude of
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he might have taken, but did not. "If he
wants to win me-" said the archduchess,
"let him come and WOO me. 1t is his place
| to court me and not mine to 60 and pick up
| the handkerchief he condescends to throw
down." Alfonso, who is brimful of chivalrous
devotion to the fair sex, did not think the
worse of the archduchess for the airs she
| took with his matrimonial agents at Vienna
| He handsomely accepted the conditions i'm
posed, and sent word that were he only tc
win the archduchess by penetrating the
wilds of Central Asia he would grady un
dertake journey there. l believe it was his
intention to go all the way to Vienna &c
make her by word of mouth an sfer, and
that he would have this autumn proceeded
there if the life of the Infanta Pillar had moi
been Suddenly cut short. The La Granjs
accident happened so unfortunately for the
king that were scandal-mongers to affirm
that design had a predominant part in it
1 could not blame them. 1t Modified the vexed
| archduchess, and afforded her plausible ex-
| cuse for relenting. She has been brought by
| it to travel more than half the way to Madric
to meet her royal suitor, whose depressed ap
pearance, with his arm in sling, excited hel
interest and led her to treat unpleasant by
cones as such. eef
And now about the personal appearance o
l Christina of Austria, who would show .
polite spirit in dropping that name of, il
Spain, evil augury, and taking some other
The archduchess is tall, slender and harmon
iously formed. Her air is aristocratic. Sh
rides and dances admirably, and is passion
ately fond of horses and brisk exercise
Without being intellectual she is clever. i
is her settled intention to be mistress at tn
Palacio Real. Her wilfulness is tempered
with good nature and disposition TO becom
easily repentant. In her skin, eyes and hal
she is Hapsburg. The rest of the physiog
nomy is Hungarian, and reminds those lik
Nine. Won Langsdorf, who know the crem
of Viennese society, of the Sander family
If Christmas laugh were not pleasant an
communicative, her hair golden fleece AM
her complexion transparent and beautiful
tinted, she would be plain, for her cheek
bones are prominent, her nose retrousse an
u wide at nostril, and her mouth too much ex
'panded. The future Queen of Spain has th
Magyar taste for external splendor. He
court. If she can have her way, will be livel
and magnificent, which would sum the pres
!. .ent generation of grandees. She is a yer