The Detroit times., 1912-01-17
PRINCESS TRIES TO HIDE
CHEAP STOPPING PLACE
Infanta Eulalia Fights Shy of
Ambassador Who Insists On
Taking Her Home

PARIS, Jan. 19.-Infanta Eulalia was
rot too considerable TO take all the
limelight with her book The Thread
OF Life" at the very time her elder
sister. Infanta Marie de la Paz had
arranged to publish a volume OF her
"reminiscences. Besides. the profits OF
the book by the elder Spanish princess
are not Intended for her own pocket
but will be devoted TO Spanish char
tiles.
Marie de la Paz. who is forty-nine
years old, calls her production simply
MY Life II is the story OF the usual
secluded existence OF a truly good
modern princess and contains no such
daring opinions as Infanta Eulalia ven
tured, which drew dow on her the
wrath OF her nephew. King Alfonso. On
the subject OF marriage (her own mar
| rlage) lnfanta Marie writes that her
husband, Prince Louis Ferdinand OF
Bavaria, has never uttered cross
word TO her since their wedding, TWEEN
| ty-eight years and more age. Indeed,
the volume is devoted largely to praise
OF Prince Louis Ferdinand, indicating
at least that his wife has found hap
piness which so many OF her house
have sought in vain.
II is probable that Infanta Marie
Isabel Francisco could write the most
interesting memoirs OF any OF the
king of SPANS three aunts. She Is the
eldest of them and is singularly beau
tiful. For forty years she. clad In wild
ow's weeds, has roamed Europe. She
married Prince Gaetan OF Bourban
Sicily in 1863 He died three years
later. She has never taken another
| husband.
! Infanta Eulalia's need OF money, the
difficulty she finds in existing on hel
allowance OF $4,000 year, Is exempli
| fed in an adventure the royal lady had
recently, which was amusing to every
one but herself The Infanta arrived
In Paris on the way to London, accom-
panied by only one lady-in-waiting
| They put up at the bourgeois Hotel dc
Commerce, facing the Northern Rail
way station The same night the In
fanta attended a great social function
AT midnight, when about to leave with
her lady-in-waiting, a certain foreign
ambassador insisted on escorting the
| two unprotected women TO their hotel
/
perfectly safe, for she was loath to dis
close to the diplomat the name OF the
rather humble hotel where she was a
guest. But her protestation was in
vain At last, to shake him OF, Eulalia
told the ambassador that she was
passing the night at a Versailles villa
and added, sweetly:
"Of course that is much too far for
you TO 60"
She did not know that his excel
lency had villa at Versailles, and so
at 1890 a. m. the Infanta, the lady
in waiting and the ambassador found
I themselves in a powerful motor car,
threading their way through the SUI
burbs. The situation was desperate.
All that was left for the Infanta was
to feign illness. The solicitous ambas-
sador ordered his chauffeur TO speed
back TO Paris that her royal highness
might consult famous physician. AS
| the car was crossing the Palace de Ia
Concorde the Infanta recovered sum
GENTLY to murmnr:
ITO the Hotel Meurice."
| So the Infanta and her lady-in-wait
ing passed the night at the fashion
able at the Hotel du Commerce, be
cause OF her false pride and the too ex
IRENE politeness OF an ambassador.
Besides having TO bend the knee te
King Alfonso. Infanta Eulalia has beer
commanded TO get to Rome TO apollo
gize and TO seek dissolution from tn
Pope for her chapter on divorce. Onl!
100 copies OF her book have beef
printed. Needless to say, no more vii
go through the press