Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-04-27

The next day the King OF Italy went
hunting with Count Gianotti In Romagna.
while the Queen departed for the beauti-
full valley OF Adorno. 1900 feet above the
sea, where. In stout boots, she climbed
like a channels. and led the life OF a
mountaineer. The Due d'Aosta only lived
a year after this. He had In his youth
desired TO be a monk, and was, like his
sister CIotiide. very devout. He was quite
elegant. slender and taller than the king.
who loved him very dearly. He died,
commenting his young niece bride, Le-
titia. to the care OF the King. who has
never neglected the charge.
Princess Letitia has a very strong Bona
parte face She lives in England a great
deal, and seems TO enjoy 1t better than
Turin. The Empress Eugene sent her all
the jewels OF Hortense. which she wore
at her wedding.
Another King who takes his pleasure
mot sadly at AK is George Of Greece
brother TO the Princess of Wales. He
IL not handsome. but a man OF amiable
manners and gracious character. He comes
as a patient, seeking the baths, rest and
recreation, and. perhaps. stakes Ma
poleon at baccarat of an evening. n
few of his gentlemen accompany him.
but he has no badge Of royalty. walks
dDOUt anu NtdtS NCiy
badly fitting clothes.
UNPRETENTIOUS LOYALTY.
The audience rise when he comes into
the theatre. and when the national air
OF Greece is played he rises. as do all
the members OF his suite. but else he
might be Mr.. Barnes. of New York.
The everyday aspect Of the Queen Of
England at AK was exceedingly plain.
She drove with two or four ladies I'm n
barouche every afternoon. and had IL not
been for the little pad groom. who went
before her waving his whip vociferously.
no one would have known that the En-
press of India was about. Nothing but
the subserviency and the toadyism Of
the toads OF all nations can betray these
people. That is melancholy sight. 1t
brings Carlyle's famous estimate of the
English people to mind. and what Is
worse. II shows us that some so-called
republicans are the worst toadies of all
Why should one piece OF human clay
bow to another piece of human clay with
such a cringe Of the back? There is a
peculiar muscle in the back OF a snob
which betrays him. In America II bows
To the golden calf. in Europe TO the
shadow Of a golden crown, now rapidly
going out Of fashion.
The Prince of Wales is really popular
ilOiu HlS hliiI HIS EOOu Idllllt1S
and his alteration of pretty girls. He has
that weakness which makes the whole
world kin. lie Prince des Gales they
say in Paris. yes. especially gal. says
a sardonic American. But the Princess,
She Is adored for her adorable manners,
her remarkable air of youth, her won
derful beauty.
Her everyday life with her children
and her homelike occupations make her
a woman to admire, on a throne or off os
II. She Is n superb musician. and has put
the little white hands OF her children on
the piano herself for the first time. Her
sorrow in the death of her frstborn will
last her her life. and perhaps II will sweep
away that glorious beauty, that look Of
youth. But there is no doubt that she
will always be a handsome woman; she
makes everybody else look plain.
SPANS SENSIBLE QUEEN.
The everyday aspect OF the Queen Of
Spain Is most pleasing. She is of that
proudest race In all the world an Aus
TRAN, but you would say some humble
little New England woman vas taking
out her three children TO drive. should
you see her with them In the Prado In
Madrid.
She used to make the little King ride
her side. one of the great ladies' OF the
court demonstrating with her for this.
she said: THE King must learn that
his fist loyalty is to his sisters" She
has shown great tact and sense, shown
herself entirely I'm the loyalty of the
Spanish people. She goes out without an
escort. and Is no doubt much stronger
for doing.
"Who can make war on a woman and
a baby?" asks CASTELAR,
The little King will grow. probably not
to be very large, but TO be a fine young
man, like his father. Alfonso, who left
most noble record at Sandhurst, where
he was educated with the young gladia-
tors of England. the future conquerors of
Africa. and whatever there is left to
conquer.
The course at Sandhurst seemed to me
from its games to be harder than even
West Point. and noticed the young men
crawling through a thorny chapperal
which tore the skin from hands and face
Hardening them for the Cape" explained
one of their instructors.
The everyday life of Augusta, Empress
Frederick. Of Germany, is hard student
life. She is very ambitious in all literary
ways and takes high rank even in that
hardest of all places, Berlin, as an artist
in painting music, and the sciences She
and the Queen of Italy are two scholars
on throne. She Is at the court of her
son only an empress In name. Perhaps
she has many sad hours to get rid Of
Ii Is curious that the remarkable per-
sonality of Victor Emmanuel has not been
transmitted to any of his descendants.
The two sons. King Humbert and the
late Due d'Aosta, do not resemble him
In the least: neither did his daughters.
nor does the little Duke of Naples, fu-
ture King of Rome. look like him.
The tall. slender. conventionally hand
some sons of the Due d'Aosta look even
still less like their ugly but distinguished
and impressive grandpapa. Perhaps in
some great grandson the resemblance may
yet appear
Now in Queen Victoria's brood the like
ness to her il very recurrent They all
have that protuberant blue eye, and the
Duchess Of Fife bears very great like
ness about the mouth to the Queen. The
Princess of Wales has not reappeared in
any of her descendants. 1t will be pity
If that beauty dies and leaves the world
no copy
MODEST KING LEOPOLD.
Leopold. King of the Belgians, walks
lamely ABOUT ScneNcnlngen without an at
tendeant, the most modest and unpre-
tending man at the crowded watering
place, and in Brussels he shuns every
thing like display; perhaps he leaves
uniforms and gay trapping to his two
young kinsmen. the Emperor OF Ger
many and the Prince of Wales. who are
obliged to sometimes don five uniforms a
day.
The inhabitants Of the household Of
every monarch are expected to be very
reticent of the daily doings. the quar-
rels, and the little infelicities OF the royal
household 1t is only when a quarrel
unseals the lips that one hears OF the
love affairs of Princess Glum Chum. or
the bad behavior of Prince Charming.
Sometimes such lady as the one whom
the Duke of Hesse wished to marry
writes a book and tells everything, then
one learns that the everyday aspect Is
something like what happens In the best
regulated families. sometimes.
or course the divinity which doth
hedge a king Is very much more power
full near to the person than further OF.
but the age is not reverent one. and
the monarchs feel and know that their
thrones rest on insecure foundations.