The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-13

her heart and soul in the great move
ment for the Italian meeting next spring,
whose chief object will be to go from
Rome 10 Paris. across the Alps, In aero
planes. She has presided a an Alpine
congress and some of her favorte books
belong 10 Alpine literature.
In the palIazo Marghcrta, where her
majesty lives. the dowager queen OF
elite Of every land. To Americans who
attend her functions she Is fond OF
telling that her son. King Victor EN-
manuel IL, is O doctor of laws OF the
University OF Pennsylvania, and that her
nephew. the Duke OF Abruzzi, !s a doc
tor of laws of the University Of Har-
ward. The progress which women have
made in Italy. especially during the past
decade. is largely due to her. She Is
not quite a suffragette. although che has
been known to advance the argument
that II women voted the standards would
be moro lofty.
The great ambition Of Queen Mar
sherita's widowed life has been TO make
kings Of her nephews. This has now
doubtless become an idle dream. although
1t Is said 10 have been the handspring
Of her objection to her nephews marry
! ing American girls. The queen admires
Americans verY much Hence people
could not understand why she so Bit
terly opposed the marriage Of the Duke
Of the Abruzzi with Katherine Elkins. or
why she had the Count OF Turin sent to
Africa because nc fell in love with Ara
thusla Schuyler Ross of New York, But
her opposition becomes intelligbIe when
We know that she had hopes of putting
| the duke on the throne OF Hungary and
Of making the count king Of Bosnia and
| Herzegovina.
For the Duke d'Aosta and the young
| Count dc Saaemi. prince Of Savoy. she
| dreamed OF finding two Balkan states.
| And why should these things have
seemed impossible TO her? Was not
Amadee. brother of her husband King
| Humbert called 10 the throne OF Spain?
! The best tribute that can be paid this
up to-datc widowed queen Is that her
| daughter-in law, the magnificent Elena
from the bleak and black mountains of
Montenegro Is fun OF Difference for her
mothcrin- Jaw
King Alphonsoe Mother.
Tho official title OF King Altonso's
mother is Her Most Catholic Mejesty.
Christina c'tI ma aF IS only s. She @ still plays q
most important role. not obtrusively. but
| in a consultative way. in the affairs OF
son OF an altogether political and wholly
loveless marriage. is dearly devoted to
| his mother He takes no serious step
without consulting her. The only slight
| variation in this consultative authority
| is that since his marriage with the niece
Of the late King Edward he asks fire.
duentIy. What do they think Of this.
that and the other thing In England"
| This English orientatlon has become so
pronounced that Carlists use II as
reproach against the young king, Yet,
|
would follow that OF his mother. And
we'll he may. for when she was queen
! regent she steered the ship OF state
| through many dangerous rocks and
| shoals less capable captain would
have lost the ship during the war with
| the United States, when Carlists taking
| ADVANTAGE OF reverses 10 the Spanish
| army and of the total wlping out OF her
] navy by Admlrals Dewey and Schley.
distributed arms among their sympathtz"
| ers In the north of Spain.
Today the queen mother is doing her
best In n discreet way to keep the peace
between the vatican and the Spanish gov
| crnment She is deservedlN esteemed by
both sides. The country trusts her be
cause she won her spurs long ago when
In the darkest hour she declared proud
lv that she meant 10 hold the throne OF
/ Spain for her son against all advcrsaries.
Firmly did she maintain her rights, oven
when some scornfully spoke Of her
THAT Austrian woman, az the French
revolutionIsts did OF her compatriot Marie
AntoInctte. one hundred and twenty years
| before.
The vatican trusts her. first of all be-
| cause Of hcr severe training as an Aus
trian arch-duchcss. She was q canoness
and head of q community OF nuns when
reasons OF state compelled her TO marry
the fee bic minded Alpbonso XII. So much
has the vatican thought OF her eminent
virtue that she has been given the
golden rose-a very rare honor indeed.
| And II Plus the Tenth has warm cor
ner for the son OF his frIepd, Don Carlos,
the many princes OF tho church whoeare
faithful to the memory Of Leo Kill do