Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-23
SPANISH COUnr SCANDAL.
Tho 1nfelicitses which Led GO the
separation Of the King aMd Queen.

The unfelicitses which Led % The
Separation Of the King and Queen.
Madrid Correspondents Innspruck 1sgsblats.
The long expected court scandal shows signs
Of soon developing into public uotorlety. Herr.
where all the avenues Of actual news are closely
guarded, gossip takes Its place, and especially
In the court society prevails freedom Of dis
cussion such as one may not even find the echo
OF in the press. That the queen has long been
contemplating escape from the Latin school OF
morals In which she lives In spite of herself ID
known almost everywhere. Nor is the cynical
indifference OF his majesty to the sug.
gestive conditions Of his own accession
TO the throne less freely debated. How.
ever little the mild and ascetic Francis of As
sissi may have contributed to the character Of
Alfonso. there can be no doubt that the ANNA.
lism OF his mother, Isabella and OF his grand.
mother. Christine. Is repeated with Increased
force and abandon in the king. He has al
ready given to his court a flavor OF pronounced
corruption His first enjoyment OF the royal
prerogatiye took the form OF an insistance on
his drolts de seigneT. His profgacy, shocking
even to Spaniards has been at least candid
ana his subjects have never been Ignorant OF
the times or places when he played the part OF
haroun Al Raschid Ii is generally known
that his life has been more than once
endangered in his street rambles, and
gypsy girl. on certain occasion
nearly Put an end to them with her bodkin His
passions are apt to disdain the beauties OF the
court and gravitate, like those of most Young
men, towards vulgar celebrities 1t is true that
one young duchess suffers the sometimes enyied
faint OF his distinguished preference; but the
ladies' who dance for him after his little supper
In the palace, and those whom he visits incop.
nito, attended by two OF his faithful military
chamberlains, are OF the common class-crcus-
riders, tumblers, singers and half-bred qitqne
ne Is very active and supple. with bull.
nghters physical address. His eyes are brown,
but full of changing tints, and his mouth is sin.
quarry ylvacious and expressive His mustache
Is very fine and silken his hair all but black his
teeth very white and his smile extremely fasci-
mating. He is less hystercal than most iatins
and is great deal more brusque.
The queen is as proud as most Austrian prln.
cesses, and is inclined, perhaps, to quarrel
rather with the quality of her rivals than with
the morals of her huEband. She has not grown
very popular here-not even as popular as Marie
Therese grew with her French subjects An in
tense virtue and q sullen pride are equally fatal
IN spain to the alteration of the common people.
AS for the aristocracy, while 1t views with in.
serves win polite amusement the evident jeal-
ousy and discomfort of the queen. Happily in
spain one does not Overturn dynasty on moral
grounds, 30 the king Is reasonably safe for the
present. But the Austrian contingent of the
court does not scruple to express its chagrin
and, indeed, its Indignation. The queens Ger
manic household resents the circus riders ri IL
genus onne with q loyalty that both irrttates
and abashes the Spanish encourage of their ma
!esties, and 1t Is from this growing discord n
from anything, that the domestic troubles OF
AlphonsO and his wife will derive the dangers Of
publicity and, In consequence. an open rupture.
Meantime "Nuesta Carmeneta" bounds through
ner hoops or IRE as gayly as II the flames were
not likely to be famed BY an international COM