The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-13
NIECE OF DUKES
A cHAMBERMAID.

A CHAMBE Err MAID.
MADRID, Spain, March 23.-The
great new Prado Hotel opposite the
famous Museum here has on its staff
THE neice of a duchess, Therese Acosta
Osorio de Moscoso, who has been COM
PEELED by poverty to seek employment
as chambermaid, 1t is more likely,
however, that the management of the
hotel, which was opened the other
day by the King in person, engaged
the young noblewoman as an adver-
tisement To be waited on by a titled
maid is quite a novelty
The Heraldo, which made the dis
covery, states that Sonora Therese is
the daughter of the late Gen Acosta,
who gambled away all his fortune. His
sister is the Duchess de Sanlucan la
Mayor. Acostas marriage to a shop
girl led to his being cast out by his
family.
The Prado Hotel has been built
specially to suit the grandees of Spain
and Therese Acosta in her duties may
be called upon to minister to the wants
OF some of her uncles-the Dukes of
Sanlucan, Andria, Soma, Sassa, Atrisco
and Maqueda. She is young, dark,
of prepossessing appearance and en-
joys no special privileges
United States Minister Ide and his
charming daughter, Miss Ide, who is
noted in Madrid society for her beauty
and distinction, were guests at a re-
cent dinner followed by a ball given
by Marchioness de Svinlache, Lady-in-
Waiting to Queen Maria Cristina, in
her palatial residence on the Prado.
Americans visiting Spain this spring,
especially those going to Seville, will
be interested to know that a daily eX-
press service has been established
between this capital and that city. The
train is composed of dining and sleep
ing cars and makes the journey in a
little over eleven hours. 1t is the fast
est train in Spain and the most COM
Portable.
The carnival festivities were hamp-
cred by bad weather and the absence
of King Alfonso and Queen Victoria
Their Majesties kept to the royal do
main of the Casa di Campo, to which
the public is never admitted except
by ticket after exhaustive inquiries
and in carnival time not at all. None
of the royal family was seen in the
streets. 1t is said that the King was
urgently advised not to show himsel
in public, as the Government had rea
son to believe that another attemp
might be made to end his reign b!
means of bomb or otherwise.
The winter has been unusually sew
ere and prolonged, with months o
incessant rain; while lack of employ
ment has caused much distress among
the working classes; the most ord,n
airy neCessaries of life are exorbitant
ly high. The republican newspaper
take advantage of all this to fomen
agitation against the royal family
which at the present time is regarde,
with Indifference by the great ma
= pority of the people, The only reall,
and always exceedingly popular mem
Der of the royal family is Infanta lisa
bel, one Of the Kings aun;s. Sh
never fears to show herself withou
escort. She is very charitable, yer,
democratic, enjoys going among tn
people, taking an interest in all thei
: concerns, and they talk with her il
the most familiar way, which delight
her.
The Worlds correspondent learn
. on court authority that the improve
= ment in the hearing and speech Of Dol
T. Jaime, the three-year-old son of KIM
Alfonso, has not been maintained ant
that the Swiss specialist who has beel
| treating him at Freiburk has said tina
he cannot cure nor even permanent!