Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-27
REAL MOTHER.
Queen of Spain Plays This Role Best

How would you like to be the per-
sonal guest of the Queen of Spain and
meet her and her children in the pail
ace at Madrid talking just as If you
We're old friends?
Well, it is not genei ally known that
in Baltimore there is a woman who
had that pleasure, and she is modest
retiring little Quakeress-Mrs. o. Ed
ward Janney With her husband. Dr.
Janney, she has been the official guest
of the Spanish Government, but their
entertainment by the royal family was
not the sort where those honored are
given brief audience. 1t was whole
delightful evening as personal guests
of the King and Queen.
Mrs. Janney has recently returned
from a trip and she is full of anec-
dotes of the First Lady of Spain, and
described her as a genuine mother-a
woman in the best sense of the word;
a woman, for instance, of such SYM
pathetic temperament that, attending
the Spanish bull fights officially, it is
said, she personally refuses to see the
brutality, and wears Opaque glasses to
deceive the populace and preserve her
humanity.
How Mrs. Janney happened to meet
and be entertained By the royal family
is an interesting story.
1T came about in this way she
said. The Infanta Isabella, aunt of
the reigning King OF Spain, had been
deeply interested in subjects relating
to moral reform, and through her in
fiuence King Alphonso in 1910 per-
suaded the Cortes to appropriate $780,
900 for the entertainment of the Inter-
national Congress for the Suppression
of the White Slave Traffic. The
Spanish Government itself invited the
congress to convene at Madrid.
while the congress has met in
many countries, Spain is the only one
where the invitation has been extend
ed by the Government and where dele
gates came into immediate social re-
lations with members of the royal
family.
"Dr. Janney and Minister Ide were
appointed to represent the United
States Government at the congress.
Mrs. American and Miss American
went as delegates.
THE Infanta Isabella was the host
ess at a reception given, the first night
of the congress, by the Spanish COM
mittee and the next Gay we were her
personal guests at an at home from
to 6 o'clock, at her own residence,
where she was assisted In receiving us
by the ex-Queen Marie Christina, the
Infanta Paz and other members of the
royal household.
''All were as cordial and unaffected
as American ladies In their own draw
ing rooms, with the exception of the
Dowager Queen Marie Christina, who
is the most beautiful woman l have
almost ever seen.
"A Princess of the House of Haps-
burg, she radiated an atmosphere of
icy dignity that was not rudeness but
rather an imperial aloofness and iso-
lation.
by order Of the Infanta Isabella we
were shown all over her residence,
even her own bedroom and boudoir.
and upon the wall of the former hung
familiar Longfellow calendar sur
rounded by American autumnal leaves
and upon it was inscribed To Aunt
Isabella from her loving niece Ena,'
so / concluded that while to the world
the Queen of Spain is the stately Vic
toria Eugene, in the bosom of her
Spanish family she letains her English
girlhood name.
"As / was making my adieu, the In
fanta asked if l had been shown
everything / thought / had. Had
been shown her own little private
theatre? had not, so an attendant
was instantly called and was escort.
ed to the pretty theatre, furnished in
birdseye maple and finished in white
and gold. where guests to the number
of about 100 might be seated and
where the drop curtain reveals the
beautiful Lake Como.
"The municipal reception was open
20 the public. There was splendid
y,,,,sicol oropram the ROYALTIES were