The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-17
LIFE IN STORE FOR
 QUEEN OF SPAIN Rules and Regulations of the
 Spanish Court A DREARY EXISTENCE Bride of King Alfonso Will Be Hedged in by Ceremonies and Attend ants Who Will Make Her
 Miserable.
DREARY EXISTENCE

Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati
 Enquirer.
 Madrid-The court and aristocracy are getting ready for the Queen to be. One hundred ladies-oount .nem!-for cere- mony, ,250 "women" for service And a mo- bleman's bodyguard, and "the Queen s Own" 300 Halbardiers, each a six shoot CT. And "chief grand charges" "grand charges" and Charges" galore, ladies and gentlemen, that must walk ahead or be- hind the Majesty or at her side, or nope in her ante-room, or read her letters, books. newspapers or magazines before she may.
 For Spanish royalty is a plant of such delicate texture that the full grown man and woman Is hedged and watched and coddled and prevented from doing things as long as there is life In them.
 And Her Majesty will have a Grand Falconier-though there are no hawks in Spain now, and a Grand Huntsman- though her steaks and chops and venison are delivered at the kitchen door; and a Grand Fisherman--though she may never eat fish; and a Grand Feeder of the Royal Swans, a military household, Master of Archives, Master Librarian, a Director General of the Horse, a Chief Architect and marshals and masters and other gold sticks too numerous to count
 Poor little woman-lest she be as self assertive as Queen Bess, as wise as Cath crime and as diplomatic as Victoria, these empty-headed busybodies will smother her with offcousnes and under guise or tightening her burdens. keep her occupied with antiquate formalisms 12 hours out of every 24.
 Book of Titles.
 Since times immemorial, the fiancee of Spanish King receives, immediately af- ter the engagement Is officially an- nounced, a 4O0-page book enumerating the names, offices, titles. privileges and duties of her e-blooded servants to be really her masters.
 This she must memorize by heart. If she , ever failed to remember that gold stick of the first order has three buttons at the side of his knee pants, while one of the third order has six or that the mistress of the robe is privileged to unfasten her corsets, while the lady of the bed-cham- Der must not hand her a skirt as long as a royal Princess is around to do so, she would be accounted a failure even 1T she had the beauty and grace of Mime. Re cenleT, lne MlsuOli Ol Niiiits bN fD''NA s'itN, the winning ways of Empress Josephine.
 Nearly all officials of the Spanish court hold offices created by the Burgundy Princess in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In those days the King Killed his meat on the hoof; his own employees caught the fish that graced the royal board and the retainers', the Majesty was his own condlestck maker, by proxy oi course, the proxies being necessary ad- tn household. managers cashiers and lobbyists are today part and parcel of Rockefeller's staff. In lieu oi salaries they were entitled to various priv ileges and these latter the Spanish court perpetuates to this day thereby giving work to a lot of noblemen and noblewo- men, who, on ceremonial occasions, dress up in strange toggery, and at all times surround the King and Queen, separating them from their subjects. The Spanish ceremonial" then, stands In fact for old RlIrqundy court usages, but 1t must be admitted that, the Hidalgo wondrously im' proved on them. The main point; The Burgandians enslaved their servants anc officers in Spain the King and Queen are slaves of ceremony.
 Rising and Retiring.
 Everything in the King and future Queens household is regulated according to old, musty laws The Queen. for in stance must go to bed in winter at S:S' D. m in summer at 10 D. m.
 'I won't" once upon time Spanish Majesty asserted, stamping her more or less pretty foot. The first lady of tho bed chamber, to whom the royal will was announced, informed the mistress of tho robes the latter told the master of cere mony, the third bladded to the majol domo in chief. That official said there was no answer, but at S:20 sharp-it wal in winter then-all the grand danes o the household walked into the Queens chamber. This one knelt down to tak' off her shoes, that one undid her hair, third pulled off her stockings, a fourtl unfastened her dress, a fifth took th' jewery out of her ears, etc
 And, with Her Majesty kicking, clawint and screaming the undressing brigad proceeded gently but firmly and withou saying a single word.
 And at sSO she was actually deposited