Arizona republican., 1899-06-01


 Like So many of her subjects, Queen Victoria, once she has left her native land and is on the continent of Eu- rope, relaXes that strictness which at home she is accustomed to exercise with regard to those who are admitted to her presence. and accords, not only recognition, but likewise the hospital ity to individuals whom she would never dream of permitting to cross her threshold in England. I mention chis because I find in the sC-caI,ed Court Circular, published in the London daily papers and edited by the queen herself in person, an announcement to the eff feet that the evening before she left the south of France she gave a dinner party tC, which she invited, among other distinguished guests, the Com jesse de Vigier. Now, the countess in question is no other than the great prima donna, Sophia Cruvelli, who took Paris and Londcn by storm with her voice, her dramatic talent, and her beauty in the latter part of the forties. Like so many others of her sisterhood she could not abstain from seeking to introduce into her private life the TO- nance and the drama of the stage, and her 'affaires de occur" were of the 1uOSL StdILlIUS luTD1SBlnS material for constant gossip alike Cn the banks of the Seine and on those Of tho Thames. A German by birth. she halls from Bielefeldt, in Westphalia. She manifested that tendency to senti- mentality, which, inherent to the Teu- ton character, softens much of it's na- tive ruggedness. But she cCunterbal- ances this feeling-if feeling it can be called-by very strong dose of c0m- mon sense in all financial matters, talk ing good care of her pecuniary inter- ests and putting by for a rainy day.
 All these love affairs finally culmi- hated in terrific scene with NaD0l- con ITS Jewish minister of state. M. Fculd grandfather of Miss Garner Of New YOrk) the statesman receiving a box on the ear Ill public from the actress, two days before she ran away from Paris with young Vigier. whom she subsequently, married. She retains now only a few traces of her former beauty.
 A well kncwn essayist and keen ob- server of English society recently said: Queen Fictoria's married life was moral lesson and an elevating. improving picture in itself. For more than a generation it worked wonders. and it's influence extended far beyond the circle which is more CT less com pelled to follow the lead Of the court. But of late years there have been of relapse
 Assuredly, there are indications of 3 relapse when enc finds a person with such past as the Ccmtesse de Vigier dining at the table Of 2 queen orce famed as the most stern of all mor- aIists.
 Queen Marguerite of Italy, in adGi- ion to her ordinary dressers and maids, has very clever Parisian mil liner, permanently attached to her The milliner selects ma -erials, matching or contrasting with he dress which the queen may happen Q have on, forms them into a pretty with gold and jewe.ei pins, and faste1s them to her majesty's lalr- That is the secret why Queen is never seen twice with i he same hat or bonnet on her head. | The moment she removes it it falls 10 | lleces- 1 commend this practice to | American elegantes. IL certainly nas | he merit of originality, and consti- | utes the surest kind of safeguard | -gainst the commonplace.
 
 The proposal to signalize the return f Admiral Dewey to the United States i y presenting to him house, the cost f which shall be defrayed by public while deserving of com can hardly be said to pos ess the merit Of novelty. Not only 'ere Admiral Farragut, President frant General Mcclellan, and ether isl iy1 crIJi c 1oJ Cf of ecession thus h0nored by their fellow itizens. but there are several great obles in Europe who occupy man ions, palaces, and chateaux presented their mere or less remote ancestG Grs y their respective grateful countries. nus the duke Of Marlborough, who is larrIed to the daughter of w. K Van erDllt, has as his principal home that alace of Blenheim, which was tEe fit of the nation to the first duke. af- 1T his winning the battle of Blenhcim. considerably over $2.0G0 GOO in the loney of the epoch, or probably five mes that amount in the currency of le present day, were spent in build g the palace according to the de- gns of the famous architect. Sir John anbruGh, and the mansion, together ith the large estate previously known the Crown Manor Of Woodstock, instituted gift in every sense of the ord worthy Of the grandeur of the ctory which the great duke had won. he present earl of Nelson has s ais lief abode Trafalgar house, situated {
 the neighbOrhocd of Salisbury, and ; esented to the surviving relative of most famous admiral after e battle of Trafalgar. Apsley house, Piccadilly, London, a pa,atial ab ,de Joining the entrance of Hyde park, the hcme of the present duke of Vel lgCCn, and was presented to his the first duke of Yelling { n, after the battle of Waterloo by e nation, along with the estate antl untry seat of Strathfeldsaye { All these national gifts are he'd not
 freehold property, but as tenures I m the crown. in return for annual { Us to the sovereign of a couDIe of 2 ench flags by the dukes of Marlbor- ( gl and Wellington and bV I,0rJ e