The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-30
CHRISTINA IS
NOT POPULAR.
$50
Secret Of The Revolt Against
Asturias Marriage.
SLAP AT THE QUEEN REGENT.
Spanish People Are Tired Of Hearing About
Virtues Which Their Ruler Does
MOI Possess,
SLAP AT THE QUEEN REGENT.

A"N' 4du q CONVERSATION with
spaniard OF distinction just come from
Madrid. IIo tells me that the opposition
10 the marriage OF the princess OF the
Asturias was a way OF showing dislike
TO Queen Christina. now tho most unpop.
uIar woman that ever illed a regal sta.
tion In Spain says writer IN the chi.
cago Inter-Ocean.
Feelings were kept down so long a.
she was I'm widows weeds. and surround,
ed by three young children. But now
that large fortunes for all OF them ars
amassed, and that the kings majority
Is at hand, they are bursting out Span
ish Chivalry Is 10 longer I'm play.
Were the royal family 10 go into ex-
ile they would fall on bed Of roses al
once. They would toe i'm the best society.
New-fedeed mllIonaires would vie with
each other Ia have them at tn ir fetes.
80 long as the Emperor OF Austria lived,
CHRISTINA would be treated by him as a
daughter, and her children be on a most
favored footing at his court.
''She would have the social support OF
her brother the Archduke Frederick the
richest member OF the Imperial family,
ana lind a second home at the Archduke
Joseph's at Buda-Pesth.
"I'ho whole family. or any OF its indi-
viduai members. might join az giIt-edged
royalties les Rois en- exile I'm Paris and
on the Riviera. Why then should Span
ish chivalry restrain people from assert
ing their right 20 stand up against tho
court?
People are very tired IN Spain OF hear
ing OF the domestic virtues OF Queen
Christina. As in other countries. they
nave 10 accept these virtues on faith
which is evidence OF things not seen.
There is hardly a Spanish woman Of
decent character who IL not an excellent
wife and mother and who never dreams
OF taking credit 10 herself for the sacri-
hces she is always making for the sake
OF her husband and children
IT goodness OF the domestic kind
were To be the sole Qualification for a
regal situation In Spain. there must be an
embarras de richesses. The Judges would
have hundreds OF thousands To choose
from But great deal more is required.
CHRISTINA Is WITHOUT VIRTUES.
Queen Christina may be as virtuous in
the recesses OF her palace as the late
Senior Morphy. her secretary, used TO tell
the journalists she was. but she has no
public virtues, and has no idea what they
are
'She confines herself in going 10 the
churches on Saturdays or red-letter DAYS
10 exhibitions of the stately bearing that
she learned from the court dressmaker
at Vienna. IL Is little I'm the Sarah
Bernhardts style OF department with
a face that has as much expression as a
mask.
Her material virtue. like that of the
French bourgeois. tends TO parsimony
Alphonso. her late husband. was more
than provident i'm money matters: but
II was his fate TO die early before his
faults had become confirmed, aud he had
aifable manners and cleverness in con-
yersation
Above all, he contrived 10 be dissipated
at the expense OF band Of wealthy no.
blemen whom his ma jor-domo used To in
Vite 10 those bachelor evenings" of the
King at the Casa del Campo and other
places.
The boon companions dashed about
their money, and the king invested his
income regularly. But as the ball was
kept rolling and the court looked alive.
{ did not matter To the Madrelinos who
paid for the gay goings-on.
My Spanish informant tells me that
he regent is all mistrust and cautIen.
The way SHE looks at people when per-
chance she shows herself is in Itself an
insult.
She has for IL years shut herself nm
With her children and a small number or
servants, who know they will
% dismissed IL any ctrcumstantial evi-
lence about the inner ways OF the court
appear i'm the papers.
Since she has been no longer able to
otst of on cuba the families OF those
Vho render her services, she has shrunk
completely into herself II Isabella III
~ ma mn. 1t.a NHt.s
'opular, had been In the regents place al
he time OF the Asturias- Caserta mar
iage all Spain would have rejoiced with
Ter and the princess
Tho SparHards would have said: 'You
ec. the Carlists know the game a nm
ma they are coming round 20 tho royal
amily.' But when Cascrts was ac-
epied by the regent as a son-iu-law.
here was general explosion. The ner-
ous tension her npopularlty had caused
al become unhcaable.
~ revolution must have taken place |
al not the country been so depleted ar |
En- tlto long war with Cuba. followed bv /
lat with the Cuitcd States.
Spaniurds are too oYertaNed. too de- |
rcsSed. now 20 rise I'm revolt they com I
lain and threaten, but have not the I
ireugth 10 rise. Resides they have no /
sder whose name Is familiar 20 all
TIE OTHER CHRISTINA.
The other Christina tsa bella's mother
was very virtuous princess i'm her pri-
ate life, when once Pope Gregory in
sted on her marrying Munoz openly.
nd thus putting an end 20 scandal
ever was there n more devoted wife
nd mother than she proved To- the ex-
'rgeant. whom she made duke, and TO |
pr second hatch of children.
Her cradle was never empty. Babies
each other with annual regii-
rtty. They grow up handsome (but dis
patodl young men and beautiful women
The former died Of consumpfion nnd
10 latter. Tor they were thiekly giiacd
AIDE brilliant matches out OF spain.
lristiua. "a her providcnt care for their
forests nlchoc, c0unscated abbey lands.
II was partner IN slave-traiinx
mpauv,
she had fne civil-list allowance. and
q two royal daughters were magnin-
ntly provided for. especially the Young
~ whom the private estate OF Kms
srd.nand was left. Bat beans q good
other, she could net endure " see her
gngz cbloren much less wsll N than |
ma Luiss then Princes cf the Astu->l
,e
Her privats virtues thus became
llTus Of sins aanfuGf The rsfl,U TIfs |