The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-10
DEATH OF ISABELLA
ONCE QUEEN OF SPAIN
PARIS, France. April o.-Ex-
Queen Isabella of Spain died to-
day from an attack of influenza.


for thirty-five years the former proud
Queen Isabella of Spain is dead. 4
majestic appearing old woman of
seventy three years, Isabella was one
OF the sights of Paris. Although an
exiied Queen she lived in almost as
great grandeur in the French capital
as she could have done in the Royal
Palace at Madrid. for she had a mag
nificent mansion on the Avenue Kleper.
surrounding herself with the dignity
of a court-cha1nberlain and secre-
taries and gentlemen of the royal
household. with courtiers. iad.es-in-
waiting. and a host of petty court Dig
nitaries thrown in. And ali this toe
because she stin considered herself the
Queen of Spain. and she had the money
to crafty her whin. for she was colos-
sally rich. She even pushed her de-
iusions of power to the extent of cons
feering decorations on her favorites,
and as she was too dignified an old lady
to invent decorations OF her own she
conferred authentic Spanish deeora-
| tons. which only the ruling monarch
" DIS SdPPOoCQ ~ 4-eAts sNAAti4Al A&SA -
diction, and which She calmly referred
TO the Spanish legation in Paris TO
confirm. They We're confirmed, for
young King Alfonso was indulgent. al
though he knew well that his royal
grandmother hated him as only a blue
blooded Bourbon can hate.
Isabella's biography is a scandalous
one. Her life for over a half a century
has given constant excuse for tongues
to wag and even of late years she has
had the saicy people of gay Paris
talking of her disreputable friends.
When but thirteen the Spanish peo-
pie declared lisa bella of age and made
her Queen. She welded her cousin at
the age of sixteen. but something caus-
ed her to rule both her people and her.
self unwisely. Historians say her
morals were not made in heaven. She
became disso1ute. had many favorites
and corrupted both her immediate
court attendants and officials and the
clergy. Then a stronger rebellion than
the. others caused her to flee the coun-F
try and she was deposed. Her son got
the crown after much bloodshed
throughout Spain and his mother then
assisted Don Carlos, the pretender.
against him. Then Spain expelled her,
cut OA4 HtI ktCflSiO1lt anu St3C SAttSS
lived in Paris.
Had she lived. her grandson. young
King Alfonso XIII. was to have called
upon her during his projected visit to
Paris this year.
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in every case pleasant for all of the
qualities which have been mentioned
in the foregoing review. The embassy
was entertained Iavishly for sixteen
days They visited all the interesting
places in London and. no doubt, were
tired out, had seen enough of the trap
pings. and pomp and circumstance of
the mighty ones of earth and We're
ready to go&onle.
Time and space forbid anything but
ia few lines more upon this interesting
trip. In the last chapter, III q sum-
mary of their interesting trip the auth
or makes some few observations and
reflections on the Islands and their.
Hawaiian race. ssOf al the weak
races" ne remarks. which have come
into contact with the stronger races,
the Hawaiians have suffered the least
from injustice and physical dominance
They have been cared for and coddled
by the whites to an unwholesorne ex-
tent. The new conditions of commerce
ana industry Dy the kAilSAO-SodAOtkS OsGt
Swallowed the Polynesians and caused
their decay, as the growth of forest
trees takes sunlight away from plants
and grasses and withers them"
These observations it may be admit
ted are phiIosophically correct. It has
been noticed even by strangers passing
through and temporarily resident in
the Islands that there seems. to- be
social, economic. and political good
Fellowship between the European races
and the Hawaiians found nowhere else
in the world. When a. superior and q
backward civilization meet at least it
has been so in past history. that the
superior or advanced race ran rough
shod over the backward race
The Germans overran the civilized
Romans and dominated them political
Iy. And yet 1t took the barbarous Ger
mans a thousand years of effort and
growth to get-to the standards of the
Romans when The Roman Empire
fell. The disappointment has been that
the Hawaiians did not accomplish in
three-quarters of q century what it
has taken other races to accomplish in
ten centuries. The hope lies in the
future.
This little review of Mr.. Armstrong;
DoOh Is very Supernclal ana very IfaS-
mentary. There. is not a dull line in
the entire book It is bright, pleasant.
a little caustic at times. but in ex-
cellent temper. The observations made.
which the author. evidently saw at
glance, under the glitter of show and
externals of pomp. make one wish that
the author had travelled under differ
ent circumstances and had had time to
observe those underlying Characters
tics in the different races and systems
that he saw. It is manifest from the
acute observations made that the trip
would have produced book even more
than the present one. The
people of the islands, especially the
older residents knowing all the person.
ages Of the voyage around the world.
will no doubt be deeply interested. We
can assure them that they will be