Arizona republican., 1898-10-01
GOSSIP OF EUROPE.

in har old age, writes MarquiSe De FOn- tenoy in the Washington Post. Last spring, for the first time On record and to the undiSguised horror Of the more st-aight-laced of her subjects, she tray eled beth cut to Nice and back again to England on that particular day of the week which is biblically prescribed for rest. And now as a climax she has actually sanctioned the playing of lawn tennis on the Sabbath.
 During the past summer her grand children have been in the habit of de- voting their Sunday afternoons at Os- borne to lawn tennis. This found its way into the society newspapers, at tracting the attention or the church press, and ultimately led to very inn pertinent inquiry bsing addressed 10 the queen in the shape Of letters asking her majesty for information on the subject, expressing the hope that the report of so terrible a dissertation of the Sabbath was untrue and requesting permission to deny the terrible charge. Now, if there is one thing that Queen Victoria resents more than anything else it is the intrusion of strangers i'll her domestic affairs. She realizes per fectly well that her political conduct as sovereign may be subject to the crit icism of her subjects, but her domestic affairs are no ones concern except her own. So instead of treating the in Quiry with silent contempt and ignOr- ing the impertinence she caused very sharp reply to be sent thereto to the effect that it was perfectly true that lawn tennis has been played on Sum days at Osborne; that it had been done with her full sanction, knowledge and approval; that she saw no harm in in nccent amusements Of that kind on the Sabbath day, and that under any cir cumstances it was matter which con- cerned 10 enc but herself.
 This reply, which has received wide publicity in all the church papers, has excited perfect hurricane of indigna- tion, her majesty's critics taking the ground that her expression of views is most serious as coming from one who is the acknowledged supreme head of the Established Church Of England.
 How greatly the queen has changed in matters of this kind is shown by the fact that only few years ago she caused the late Archbishop Of Canter- bury to issue in his capacity of primate of the Church of England a pastoral letter condemning in the strongest
  don society of giving dinnsr parties and ether entertainments of an anal ogous character on Sunday evenings, a practice for which the influence Of the prince of Wales is largely rasponsi- ble. Indeed, by many the pastoral of the archbishop was regarded as being aimed more particularly at the heir ap parsnt.
 The altered attitude of England's court and society, with regard to the respect due to the Sabbath is, how ever, due to other causes besides the influence of the prince of Wales. The admission Of Jews into society, both in England and on the continent, has had no little 10 do with the mattsr, and besides there is the effect Of cosmopol- itanism and of travel.
 On the continent Of Europe Sunday is par excellence the holiday and the day of relaxation Of the week both for rich and poor. It is on Sunday that the theaters and places of entertain ment do their best business, and it is on Sunday, tCo, that court society, as well as the middle and lower classes, reserve for all their dinner parties, banquets, balls, picnics, and every other form of entertainment. The principal horse races and regattas of the year are held On Sunday on the con- tinent, and the Sabbath is made in every sense of the word a day Of relax atiCn from work and of innocent mer- riment.
 Formerly the Englishllen who tray eled abroad were few and far between, a continental trip necessitating the ex- pendituTe of good deal of cash. To day foreign travel is within the reach Of every shop clerk and saleswoman, who all Of them bring back with them from abroad a distinct preference for the continental method of spending the Sabbath.
 So many of the queens grandchil- dren have received their entire educa- tion abroad that quite naturally they share foreign views on the subject Of Sunday, and it would seem that they have won over "Grandmama England to their way of thinking.
 Emperor Kwangsu is to be congratu- lated on the proclamation of his re- solve to shake himself loose from the trammels Of Chinese precedent and civ ilization, which cannot even be de- scribad as medieval, since they date from times anterior to Christ, and to adopt western ideas.
 Whatever the effect of this resolu- tion may have with regard to his enl- pire there is TO doubt that it will ren- der his own life infinitely more agree able Until now there has been no man in all Of his dominions more of slave to etiquette than this absolute ruler Of 100000, GOO of human beings.
 He has been made to rise every morning at p. m., and the dishes con- sumed for breakfast have been fixed from time immemorial. Everything is served in couples. Two ducks, two chickens, two soups, etc, follow each other Should he appear to like any food particularly, and eat heartily of it. the state physician, who stands be- hind him all the time, at once orders it to be taken away. The story of Sancho Panza in his kingdom, fantas tical as it has always seemed, is, there fors, really founded on fact.
 When the emperor is seized with fancy to drive out, which, fortunately, does not occur very often, it has hith-