Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-28

at bitter disappointment and discipline, was gone;
he remembered only that he again the truest
friend he ever had.
After his coronation a certain etiquette gave
first place to his sisters, and afterward to other
members of the royal family; but the Queen
mother has no place. At Valencia, when they
arrived, he got out to let his mother pass. None
pass before the King he was told.
If the Queen cannot pass, my mother shall" he
said
By such acts as that he Won all hearts through
Queen Natalie of Servia, whose troubled life has
made her a romantic figure, met first at Florence
when l sang for charity in which she inter
ested: Descriptions of her beauty then not
overdrawn, and her rich appearance was made more
striking by the way she then wore her hair, which
allowed to fall loose in curls, and caught at the
neck with ribbon. Her gay and
bright, and she did not strike then or later as
person upon whom trouble would make very last
One afternoon Queen Christina sent COM
mand for me to sing at Miramar. AS this was the
single time had received any other than verbal
message, l could not imagine what hand.
Arriving at the palace the place appeared deserted;
seemed to know why had been sent for.
Presently l found that Queen Natalie had
to give her little surprise, knowing how fond she
was of music. When the songs were ended we had
coffee in a balcony, and the two Queens quite like
their less titled sisters fell to talking of dress with
me. With all her commanding traits Queen Chris
tina has retained that genuinely womanly quality
of love of clothes, and invariably noticed any new
thing l happened to wear, examined carefully how
it made, and questioned me it.
In forming their estimate of who have
displayed the power of governing and directing
affairs, many have mistakenly imagined that the
gentler qualities of the extingushed. Queen
Christina ruled strongly enough to save throne to
her son, but not woman in Europe knows better
the value of the cut of skirt the set of sleeve.
Queen Victoria had to be obeyed in small things
well great If she not, she had her
little moods, as 1 once learned when changed the
program in singing to her. That at Osborne
shortly before her death.
Romantic Thoughts of Infancy
WHEN l little girl in Austin, Nevada,
w would con ure up such appearance before
royalty by getting all the cigar boxes that could with
portraits of the Queen and Prince Albert inside the
top lids, and opening them out would sing and make
gestures to my imaginary personages. That night
at Osborne when the Queen put out her hand tears
came into my eyes; l only the of open
box lids l remembered only the old happy days.
and that my father and mother gone.
But when l began to sing, saw that something
wrong, and sentiment vanished The Queen
turned the program from side to side then upside
down, plainly nettled Then understood it. They
had put down for song other, and | was
singing the big air from "Lakme" because wanted
to start off with it.
Her dignity ITSELF and her face had
a lovely, even holy, expression, but there
terrific command written on it. She had to be
obeyed, and l would just as willingly not have
changed the program at that moment after had