Evening star., 1924-09-21
BY STERLING HEILIG.
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spanish French

Frontier, September IL.
" HESE are the things which do
not get into the papers: Many
Spaniard has burned down
his house because the king
came. 1t was in the grand
old days of galloons, when the king s
grant could make a grandee rich-but
| the kings smile could raise him above
riches.
So, when the fountain Of honor con-
descended to sleep one night in a
grandee's castle it must not be desc
Grated in the future. AS the court
| rode off, with solemn gesture, the
grandee applied the torch and watch
ed his castle burn. Those ashes were
tn q elimination of his glory.
Today they do not burn the house.
They burn money.
Instead of ashes there is a mort
gage.
Spain has lost her world empire.
but the grandee's heart is faithful
| The kings smile can still raise him
above the plane of money. Once a
year the noble Spaniard burns his en-
| tire annual revenue and often risks
his capital to win the royal glance.
The place is San Sebastian, the
kings vacation city. Santander is a
mere political residence.
You have heard how American AM
bassador Moore keeps IN his end with
the money-burning erandees.
His latest was to contend that the
fox-trot, led by a right jazz band,
would become mmediately more pop
| ular than the tango itself, in the very
court of Spain. And he went to Paris
| to hire and fetch down the jazz band.
The fete was eXtravagant and beau
tiful. Fox-trot triumphed, and the
American Ambassador Won his con-
tention with applause. But what is
not told in the papers is that the
American glish contingent of San
Sebastian. abetted by the wild mil
iionaires of Bilbao" turned the scale
in sly and humorous rivalry. to go the
solemn grandees one better always
and egg them on from extravaganza
TO extravaganza of earnest endeavor:
The rich returned Basques of South
America are with their cousins of
Bilbao.
SO, TO make the king smile-or
rather. to amuse the kings friends
(Which is the proper way to put it,
the gay young English wife of Bill
bao mine owner gave haying party.
with prizes of jeweled trinkets, high
ly valuable. for every couple that
could dance the paso doblo on wag-
onload of hay without falling off.
All couples but three won prizes.
1t made the Spanish grandees wild
with envy. On top of it, an Ameri-
can great lady Grom the nature of
things, it will not do to give any
names), entertaining sumptuously in
a great furnished villa in its grounds
made hit with her pastoral gym
khana.
Lambs were to be led by Louis XVI
sheph erdesses, and the American
woman furnished the lambs, gym
khana tents as big as houses. and all
kinds Of expensive accessories.
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MONEY has no value here. Lambs
A'A are not dear. evsn when selected
from dozen mountain villages for
gowns. designed by Biarritz annexes
of Paris couturieres, cost scarcely
500 apiece, and you can get a nice
crook, with rose-quartZ handle, as
cheap as $50
II is the idea that counts. The king
approved it, as poetic and eighteenth
century (whcn his ancestors were
still importantly, and test Of mag
netism in the ladies-to decide which
could lead her lamb most dociIely, as
if the tender, timid thing should rec
ognize the beautiful soul of it's pro-
tectress and cling.
They were Merino lambs, washed.
soaped and etrol-shampooed A
Bayonne hardresser marcel-waved
each lamb.
Then, as the show was starting, up
rolled a brand-new race course horse
van, and a lovely widow from Bilbao.