The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 13, 1897, Page 27

THE N N FRANCISCO C UNE 135 1897. Prime Minister Canovas and His Cabinet Handicapped the Queen in Her Dealings With Cuba. Just the outcome of the recent Cabinet crisis t Madrid, is about to inaugurate an 1 her new policy with recard to her colonies, and particula Cuba, it may be of timely interest to utter a few words with the £ positi sbject of ex Reg ot only of cen the reted in the| s been held uld not be s been much t her door and w ered accountable ere she ha Pos- der fact of their ight from the £ en by one w ted wi the court of Spa who, not for services rendered nor yet as | dip compliment, buton the | trary as a token of personal friendship, | ceived from the hands of Queen Chris- e's husband, the late King, the star of is Royal Order of Charles 111 at it stine that Queen Chr throughout the term of cffice of v buppily defunct Canovas Cabinet soadverse to its policy, toth at home and | at had its leaders dared they | would have endeavored to put into execu- tion their frequently and even publicly discussed pet project of depriving her of repency, and of transferring it to her -in-law, the Infanta Isabella, who is | as much of an uitra-Conservative | 25 her Majesty is un advanced Liberal. The ground taken by Canovas and by his adherents in the matter was that art cle LXX VILI of ths Spanish constitution declares that *in the event of the minority of the sovercign the rezency must be | held by the nearest membe: of the reign- ing family of Spanish nationality.” Now | if the term nationality means Spanish lood, as Senor Canovas and other Suvan- | statesmen declare, it is evident that the regency should b held, not by | Queen Christine, who is a member of the | imperial family of Austria, and as such a foreigner, but by the Infanta Isabella, who | is the young Kin.’s nearest relative of | Epanish birth. At one moment the Princess apparently gave coptent to these view: he actually took part in a carefully organized cam- paign which was destined to prepare the ground for the change, and which com- prised a series of provincial tours for the purpose of arousing enthusiasm in her bebalf. Indeed, the plot might have suc- ceeded had 1t not been for Senor Siivelas, at that time Minister of the Interior, who decl ned to be a party to the plot. went to the Queen and laid bare the entire maneuvers of Canovas and the true object of his attempt to remcve from the jost of Military Governor o! Madrid General Pavia. who is known to be devoted to the Regent. This incident brought ahout the final split-up of the Conservative party, the | winority of which under Silvelas with- | drew its cupport from the Cabinet and | voted on nearly all occasions with the | Liberals, especialiy in the debates relat- | ing to Cuba and 16 the Pbilippine Islands, | Indeed, Senor Silvelas and his followers | have contributed in no_swail measure to | bring about the recent Cabinet crisis, ana | nave enjoyed throughout the good will of | the Regent, which has been shown to | them in many ways. Lot me add that 1t is 1o this sestion of the Conservatives that belong Marshal Mar.inez Campos and Generals Polaviejs and Blanco, the three most honest solciers of the Spanish army, distinguished above all oihers hy their | stainless integrity in money matters and by their unswerving loyalty to the throne, The other branch of the Conservative party, namely, theones which const:tuted { the ministerial party until the resignation of Canovas the other day, was what may be described as the Uonservative machine and exceeded in corruption, malfeasance, in perversion of justice and in shameless- ness every other political machine in ex- istence. Not content with administering | Company. part, we advantage 1the machine istat the present rioment when Spain, | all Government offices for personal and instead likewise of for public fostered the grossest kind of dishonesty in all munici- pal administrations, It will doub! Christine ess shoul have consented to be asked why Queen in- trust the conduct of the Government to an adm ion so thoroughly corrupt s0 di-loyal to herself and with which she was at ach variance in all matters of o that of Senor Canovas. To this it may be replied that Christine, realizing after the sudden de sband boy until hi- major what no Sp: fore, namely, to honorably the stipu t on, which demand the precar ousness tion as a foreigner, made up her mind {that the means by which she could hope 10 preserve the fotterinz throne for her little ity would be by doing h ruler had ever done be- observe strictly and | 1lations of the cons hat the admi tration should always be formed of the ed of party poss>| ment. At Madrid it THESE ARE NOW THE MOST PROM Within a period Francisco will presence of three % ered by the Ea-terr have been graced by a majority in Parlia- is no secret whatso- | | Commerco of Madrid petitioned the Go ever that the Queen Regent is imbued with sentiments of horror toward the methods pursued by Captain-General | Weyier in dealing with the insurrection in Cuba. She shares to the fullest degreo the bumane views of her trusted old friend and champion, Marshai Martinez mpos, who, as every one is aware, was recalled from Havana for his lack of severity toward the revolutionists, and for his common-sense recognition of the fact that the demands of the Cubans fo: reforms were justified. Autonomy for Cuba and the Philippines means the loss of the msjor portion and by far the fattest part of the patronage at the disposal of the home Government, a | patronage which by the means of some | maneuver or other has always been r tained in the hands of the Conservatives, even when out of office, owing, perhaps, to the immeasurably superior honesty of the Liberals in every conceivable walk of life. Moreover, it must not not be forgot- ten that Donna Joaguina, the imverious and masterful wife of the *Monster,” as Canovas is nicknamed, has large interests in Cuba, her father, the late Mar quis de La Puente, havirg been the chief of a Spanish-American family and born on | this side of the Atlantic; and Donna Joaquina, it is well to bear in mind, isa very important personage 2t Madrid where she ru es her husband as we!l as the members of his party to such an ex- tent, especially in all questions affecting colonial politics, that she goes by the nickname of ‘‘the Queen of Cuba.” in conclusion it may be stated tha Spain owes a deep debt of grazitude to the Queen for having transformed the court of Macrid from the most immoral to per- | haps the purest in all Europe. Her in- | fluence exercised und-r the most adverse circumstances bas throughout been of a | most beneficent nature, and if bu Il-fight. ing to-day in Scain 1s to such an extent on | the wane that the Associated Chambers of | ernor of the capital the other day to d minish the number of “corridas,” a peti- tion which was indorsed by the greater part of the population, it is maizly dus to the fact that she has invar ably refused to countenance this peculiarly brutal form of national sport. In all times of trouble and distress she has always been the first to extend motherly sympathy and assis- | tance to the subj-cts of her little boy, and | ile one day she coula be seen bathing the temples of a starving man who had fallen in a fit of ep.lepsy just as she was | passing in her carriage on her way to the prado, on another occasion having met | while out driving through the strectsa priest carrying the last sacrament of a dy- ing man, she ulighted with her son, made the priest enter the royal equipage, and | then followed reverently behind with her littie boy King on foot, inns recalling one of the prettiest and most picturesque in- cidents in the career of the founder of 1he house of Hapsburg, to which she belon There is not a word that be said against this good, kind ana sagacious woman. Sbe is 1 every sense of the word a blameless Queen. = Ex-ATtacmE. | AMERICAN BEAUTY AT VICTORIA’S JUBILEE The American girl, like the American Beauty rose,wi'l be one of the notable fea~ tures of the Queen of England's jubilee. This has beex placed beyond all doub: by personality of the young iadies whom mbassador and Mrs. Hay have chape- roned through the awesome channel that leads to the harbor of the royal presence. | Many very handsome young women who | hail “presented”’ at court, but the debutantes of 1897 in court life from the other side are unusually attractive. Glancing at the list of names of those | who have bowed low in the royal presence | there is noticed one of the most notable of the New York pretty society girls, Miss | Daisy Post. Perhaps one of Miss Post’s| is said to be engaged to Bradler-Al Jr., the son of that couple whose masque- rade b1l will be famous in New York an- nals long after official history has been forgotten. Tuen there are Miss French of rtin | New York, Miss Taylor and Miss Caroline Puelps Stokes of the same place, and Miss Drexel and Miss Julia Rush, Philadelphia. Peéple Lo Footlights Have Vie Only twice I tripped on the steps as I | masde my way through the stage entrance to the theater. Half way down the stairs there was a little room, with a door standing 1nvitingly open. and photo- raphs—an nconceivable number of them—about the wails, How strange and dingy it was, and cob- webby, tco. Lingering about the famil- | jar scencs, now pushed out of the way to | meke room for rehearsal, were strange lit- | tle ghosts of the past season. Cise wink, with its inanity, and her dancin with its bad attempt at wickedness; Fanny Rice’s voice—ugh! I hurred o into the hall and rushed blindly after the guide as be led me to “the lights,” It was a cozy little room. Miss Blanche | Bates was busily looking in the mirrors, while Pnrosa McAliister and Georgia Busby uttered little ahs! and ohs! of de- it “Isn’t it beautiful?” and Miss Busby sank down in a chair, overcome by her transport. 1 It ceriainly was—this wonderful cloak | of two months San | the omen who are consii- | n critics the most bean- tiful at present on the stage and will have the oprortunity of talked-of question tion. ties only by hear: Francisco is a very | days Maxine Kiliott settling that much- 1o their own satisfac- The day is long since passed when | | the Western coast knew the stage beau. say. This City of San attractive place now-a- | has just 1aft us after a two weeks’ engagement in Nat Goodwin's | Perhap: this coast to whom not familiar, le vated positions s there is no one h rexpressive face Tt smiles down at you from in the photographer's | gallery and it glances up at you from the | pages of magazines and periodicals, The papers have been filled with her doings and saying-, what she wears and why she wears it. Beauty i= something which the worid loves and before which it prostrates itself unreservedly. How- ever, it is a fickle world, as changeab! faddish as a young girl. There is much beauty that it doesn’t discover and probably wouldn’t appreciate if it did. Miss M and Mannering has besn for some time in the ranks of the undiscovered beauties. Until last season she was play- ing in the Engli<h provinces, entire!y un- known to the world. Daniel F oh- man was travehng through England on his wheel last summer and happened | Lillian Langtry. | she said, 1. It falls in rs to the floor, a white silk. And dainty, and becoming lining is pink, too, ilk »uk off and hungit n worn at a e sho great mass of gleaming and sat down. *“Our opinion about the new ordinance n rezdrd 1o ledies' hats?’ She stroked the silk folds a moment and then looked around and laughed. “I don’t know,’ she said, doubtfully, with her arch smi “I think there are some vractices worse tuan wearing a hat Phosa McA lister brightened. She al- ways brightens perceptibly when she gets a thought to tell you. Her eyes dance, and her attitude becomes full of interest “Why, at the theater the otherevening,” “all the ladies removed their hats. That was all right, of course. No one could complain; but the iadies are compeiled to hold their hats in their laps. to witness a performance of Miss Mann ing. er- ceeded in securinz £or his Lyceum ine appeared in ew York entirely unknown and unher- atded. at the Lyceum in No- vember and was immediately received as a favorite and has hell that favor ever They have even called her Maxine Eliotts rival—as though there could not be two be tie the world—as though there could not be a hundred and the put- lic zlad tosee them all. Jimes K. Huckett, Iso a member of the Lyceum company, and Niss Mannering have recently an- nounced their engagement in marriage; hence there will be an alded interest at- tached to the new favorite. Separately, He as the Theat t once leadin r stock compa She oper sinee. s bronght fram Parls straight and | They don’t like to put them under their | I seats and there is no placeelse. them for a while, and between each act the men got up and crowded past, crushing the hats with their pro- fusion of spring flowers and crowding the ladies and making a general disturbance. Now, the men have made the fuss avout the hats—or most of it. 1If the ladies are compelled to smother their pride and take off their hats, why can’t the men be com- pelled to smother their thirstand sit still? . ht, of course, for the ladies to be thougntful and not keep people from looking at us,” Miss Busby said, Ler brown eyes simply and showing two rows of remarkably pretty teeth by smiling, “‘but it is annoying to see a crowd of men scurrying down the aisle whon the curtain goes up, wiping their mouths on their waving handkerchiefs and crashing down the seats. When lamou I always feel like pausing snd waiting until the dear things are seated.” i “Of course if the playis so bad that | I watched | sallr raising deem it uncomplimentary. Even then,” Miss Bates said, turning from her dressing-table, which she had vainly been attempting to reduce to order from chaos, “it would be more considerate if they should provide themselves with a po flask and take sipsin the dark.” +Or fill the empty heads of their canes— they might do someth McAlLister added. “F any bill for nuisances when the men for they must vote ag ng uniqus, noone can pose are concerned, nst themselve and the women have no say in the matter. Sort of one-sided business, isn’t And the men will be ordering what and whe: we shall wear the remainder of our clothes presently.” Bless you,” she said hurrfedly, “I'm not a woman suffragist. Icon’t want to vote. I have too much to do in a stock company as it is, but it just seems absurd.” She laughed as she went down the hall and there I heard: her humming snatches | they need fortification it is excusable, but | of song. love and beauty ars won-erful things, b together—well, the world seldom has an opportunity to see the real thing on the stage, and they appreciate it when they do. Miss Mannering is not of the warm dark type of Maxine. She is a demi- blonde with a sweet rather than a sad face and an abundance of brown hair. Her eyes are large and deep, and her mouthis peculiar to her style of beauty. | Its expression is quite indescribable, but | it has a wonderful charm. The third beauty who will be here vresently is Lilian Langtry, not a new | favorite by any means—rather one who has held the pullic homage through every kind of weather for many years. There are few theater-:oersin this City | | 7 il Mary Mann i g, INENT STAGE BEAUTIES. who have not seen her many times and remembered well her fairness, Doubtless the public wil! be interested in these three women and will talk of them and critic them to their | hearts’ coatent, It might be men- tioned, however, that San Francisco need not stana on its tiptoes in its anxiety 1o peer into the future for a glimpse of loveliness. Tnere are severa 1adies on the stage and off in the City to- !ay who would not lose by comparison with either or all three of ihe above- mentioned accented beauties. Probably there is no place on earth wnere the women are lovelier than in Califorain, and pernaps there is no place where the general beauty is o overlooked. And as for cleverness, they never ‘ail. the extermination of | irom the United States have been | claims to prominence is the fact that she | ws on the High Hat 1know f 8 pariy that is going to oc- cupy one of the most prominent of places among the sightseers next mounth, which will be composed of four young ladies from America, with the mothers of two of them, one young man from America, and three Englishmen with titles that cause tiie Anglomaniacs to prostrate themselves befor: them. Then Gladys Wallis passed the door and stopped a moment. alking about voting or what?” she asked in her bright little way. “Oh, the hats. Now what is the differ- ence if every one 1s comfortable and bappy ? Why should they bz so particular about their looks?” But suppose they catch cold,” one suggesied. “Then Jet them wear something over their heads. Don’t you remember those dainty, gauzy fascinators the girls used to wear and how effective and becoming they were? It's too much trouble to be un- comfortable,” she said, nestling against the door, “it’s o much easier to always be And you may wonder how she nestles against anything as blank and hard as dcor, but that's a way she hasanda very captivating little way, too. There are some people, you know, who would make an iceberg look warm and a barn appear as a palace. Miss Wallis is a nestly, cozy sort of girl, who [ fancy could not b: uncomforiable even though she tried. ‘But every lady can’t be comfortable,” Miss Bates said, “‘because we can’t laugh at what every one else does and not care. Women are selfish, of course. I wouldn’t dare deny it, and those big hats used to be appallinz:, but that couldn’t compare with some things that the men do. “For instance,' she t on, “at the end of the last act, just before the curtain goes down, the men begin to reach for their hats and canes and overcoats. Not only that, but I have seen a zen from all parts of the actually stand up in the aisle and begin {0 put their coats on. Of course that starts the others. The people wbo would be considerate enough to hear us to the end can’t see anything and can hear less, so they begin to get their things and usually people are going out before we see the last of them. Now, if that isn’t se fish Idon’t know what is.” She stopped after her little oration and seated herself on the corner of a box, whiie the rest of us settled ourselves to hear more. And I know there's not a girl in the country who wouldn’t Lave lovel to be ere in that cozy little room, with the silks and satins and dagzling white gowns hanging all around us on the walls, & great white wig on the table, oceans of hairpins, paint and powder and laces vels, and three actresses who have won app'ause, while there floated in to us from the outside the music from the re- bearsing orchestra. For there is a charm about a theater and everything and every one connected with it that we all feel. It may be only curiosity that prompts us to watch for an actor as he comes out of the s'age door, but it 1s a curiosity not une mixed with awe and admiration, too. What's the use of troubling?'’ asked the comfortable girl “Why, you can't help it,” said Miss Busby in a hali troubled way. “You can’t help being annoyed at thing:, espe- cially when you're trying to make a nit,” “IV's discouraging,” Mis- Bates went on, “awiully discouragine. Just as soon as the audience loses interest, I lose all heart. When you're killing yourself to captivate them—at the vary least so that some wen house | they will go away with the sweetest mem- ory of you—to have them get up in the widst of your smile and grasp wildly for an uninterestiag Lat and coat is too, too bad. Murier, Barvy. *Do you know what you are trying to say,” asked the financal faultfinder, “when you speak of a man going toan une timely grave at the age of 80?2 “Ido,” said the undaunted obituarist. “The oid villain ought to have gone there forty years age.” —Cincinnati Enquirer. iy DS iy The lips and throats of bicycle-riders often become dry and parched. This trouble is caused by riding with the mouth open. Th e remedy is to keep the mouth shut and breat he entirely through the nostrils,