The Hawaiian star., 1912-06-29
OUR EUROPEAN LETTER
Antiquity of Lake Nyanza--Prince Jaime
of Spain--Princess Victoria Louise
Shocks Homburg Society

Strange TO say, the intensely hot all
was stimulating to the nerves
drank a gallon Of milk day"
NEVER COULD BE KING.
MADRID, Spain, June S.--Prince
Jaime, the second son of King Alton
so, who was sent to a private hospital
in Switzerland to be treated for deaf
ness by an eminent aurist, has return
ed from Fribourg very slightly improv
ed. He can hear the sound of the
silver trumpet given him on his ar
rival by his elder brother the Prince
of Asturias, but he is still unable to
speak and, unhappily, it seems more
than probable that he never will do
So
The King and the Queen took him
for drive a few days ago through
the streets and the royal party was
most cordially greeted by the people,
who have profound sympathy for the
prince in his affliction.
On Wednesday it became necessary
to operate upon Prince Jaime for an
abscess in one ear, and the operation
was performed by Prof. Moore Of Bor-
deaux, France, to whom King Alfonso
has been several times for throat treat
ment.
Prince Alfonso OF course is a Span
IN soldier and is attached to the First
Regiment of the Line, but alas! he
has outgrown his uniform.
He is such a big boy, fair with blue
eyes, but he has something of his
Bourbon ancestors protruding lip. He
is very clever, though indolent and
somewhat quick tempered. Yet he is
very kind to animals, and treats all
interiors with exquisite politeness
Upbringng of the Royal Children.
The royal children of Spain are
brought up very simply They have
their apartments in a sort of entresol
that is over the private apartments Of
the King and Queen. In fact, Their
Majesties can hear early in the mo. n
ing the patter of tiny feet overhead
that tells them it is time to get up,
because the children will soon come
down and want their morning romp
The apartments of the royal chill
dren are very English. but quite pret-
ty. One would think, looking at the
small windows from outside the palace,
that they could not be healthful, but
once inside one finds plenty of air,
there being three windows or even
four for each room, with ventilators
above and below the windows.
The playroom, or study, is all white
with cupboarLs everywhere ful of
toys and childrens books, simple furni'
ture and a pretty frieze whereon the
children can follow The House that
Jack Built and "Who Killed Cock
Robin?" in white tiles. A bright fire
burns in the crate all winter. The
Queen allows no other means of warm
ing her childrens rooms.
The night nursery reminds me o
mine (when a little girD and fame!
the Ang o-Spanish Queen has built he
babies nest just in the same way al
the mothers in old England did. There
are the three windows, quite undraped
looking out into the beautiful gar0ens
There the clothes OF the baby haRi
before the open fire to get quite dry
although in Madrid everything dries
up very quickly. There is the las
! baby's cot, with nod raping but 10
cf lovely linen. In distant corners are
the simple white beds of the future
King of Spain and of Princess Bea
trice.
Prettiest, Brightest, Never Could 3,
King.
Prince jaime has his own also ther
in a corner Dear little prince. Bor
deaf of course he is dumb, but he !
the prettest and the brightest of tn
Kings chi dren, and perharS wit
modern treatment he may yet tall
even if his hearing is bad
This is the great sorrow OF tn
Queen of Spains life. She often ha
a saG look on her face that we use
to attribute to that awful Anarchis
bomb thrown on her bridal carriage o
her wedding day when both the Kin
and herself miraculously escaped an
over fifty of her new royal subject
were killed.
A year later the Prince of Asturia
was born and he is a healthy, brigh
boy. full of life and health Anothe
? wear later came Prince Jaime, s
clever that he can read on every Il
the question, and make himself III
derstood with the beautiful expressly
eyes one often sees in dumb animals
| At first he was supposed to be entirel
normal hut he COulu never aruculab