Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-11

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old sheep, who waddled insolently in
their grease, their wool curled in SO
many million tight kinks that they
could just wink the left eye family as
they passed Alfonso. And the widow
led one and the other followed.
"Girlhood's lamb" the ladies snick-
cred, rather old ones!"
But the young king counted on his
fingers.
They are good. fat, seven-year- old
sheep" he said. (For Alfonso Is a
farmer also.)
Can you beat that?" ragged the Ia
| dies.
Anyone could make the calculation,
proving that the fair Hungarian could
not be over 22 years old at most!
Now everybody wonders where she
got them. Trained sheep are IN
known to the circus business; yet
| these specimens so countermarehed
that the whole show was theirs. The
silly lambs, they were not in it. Spain
was beaten once again on her own
ground!
| A noble hidalgo made hit by risk
| ing his life 10 times. He is one, they
say, who spends nine months in his
vast, gloomy castle, eating beans ana
oil, in order fairly to scatter gold for
| three months at Biarritz and San Sc
| bastian. He rented the Pasajes bull
ring, brought on $1,000 worth of high
| est class, full grown ferocious bulls
from Cordova and a $4,000 bunch OF
| Seville picadors. cape fiaunters and
| fire harpoon acrobats, to give a prl-
vate show-and he was spada, mata-
! dor, the dangerous job.
| More reckless and as skilful as the
best professionals, 10 times he came
within an inch of being killed. He had
sent invitations, even to the more
prominent guests of the fashionable
hotels-bullrings demand a big audi
ence; and this novel event was extra
] brilliant. Some say that he risked
his life from pure spite-because the
king had not come. Folly! Every
body in the court set knows the king
was thrilled, but he must frown on
| Spanish gentlemen going down into
| the ring-too many have been doing 1t
of late, to the romantic admiration of
all Spain.
A beautiful and noble lady of Sc
ville-her husband let's her do exactly
as she pleases-had an idea. Hither-
| to, there had been pastoral diversions
! of a single afternoon. She dreamed
/ of Marie Antoinette, her maids of
honor and the laughing princes. at the
| hamlet of the Little Trianon, playing
milkmaid, churning butter, whipping
/ syllabus and making sweet cream
! cheese hearts.
| She had a play dairy built in 10
days, a pure marvel of architectural
/ planning and contracting. 1t was tile
t lined, decorated with pastoral friezes,
/ Dutch art windows, churns and tables.
running cold spring water, vast ice
room and the girls wore cunning lit
/ tie lace caps, all beribboned, and short,
| tight skirts, and the aprons tied above
/ the knees as cute, as cuite-"As cute
as a sweet cream heart!" laughed AL
1 fonso.
! Only the prettiest Spanish buds and
married young women were invited to
i play milkmaid. cor course. messing
/ there of morning was the real, ex-
! elusive fun And all Biarrita, not to
mention San Sebastian, intrigued for
+ invitations to take tea, at least. The
] little fruit tarts crisp, and melting,
were the work of a true genius. Dur
! ing two weeks 1t was a furore. Then,
what will you? This crowd has been
used to pie three times a day from
youth up, and you can't find any nov
city it won't tire of.
The crash came when a quartet of
! laughing beauties from Brazil, the Ar
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Bilboa moeks at titles and is always
in for fun-sprung the Dream farm
upon the court set and had the
grandees themselves on a run to it's
pleasures.
/ Why, they fed chickens on cream
/ chocolates and sprayed the hay with
/ Guerlin's after the shower" They
I started strawrides gorgeous novelty
along the Spanish border), rolled
Sevres porcelain eggs down the hill,
made a slide from the top of the
barn and went in crowds at twilight
to drive home the cows,
All that was nothing. The great
laugh, the colossal hit was the dream
piggery.
Lambs are Slow said the Bilbao
Brazil Argentine London combination,
Give the pigs chance!"
OF e0urse, pigs are intelligent, af-
i fectionate, humorous and love luxury.
/ They say that the dream sty alone cost
] $500, lined with porcelain tiles, pas
toral frieze. Dutch art and n 1r'ng
water like the Andalusian dairy. The
pig mammas, garlanded with roses
/ and vaporized with "Kadine" and
'L'Huere Bleu" grunted with compla-
cency as fair women handled the pig
let's, scrubbed and tied with simple
| bows of cherry ribbon, fore and aft
Why not? The king laughed.
And Spanish mobiles say that San
! Sebastian society is getting very mix
ed.
In the cost of this wild competition
many an old Spanish fortune is sapped
to the caving-in point.
! Two plain, untitled men, they say,
could practically automobile on their
own land. from the frontier all the
way to Seville. so numerous are the
mortgages on noble Spanish real es-
tate which fill their fireproof safes
| They are the money lending bache-
I lorS of tha boccarat and dOIJiPt of the