THE BEE: OMAHA. SATURDAY, MARCH 23. .1918.
KING OF SPAIN
IN INTERVIEW
TELLS OF LIFE
Young Monarch Very Popwla
in England; Holds Ideals of
King Edward; Will Not Ex
press War Sympathies.
New York, March 22. The follow
mg interview with the king of Spain,
written for the London Daily Mail
is, by special arrangement with that
paper, made available for members
of the Associated Press:
The first time I saw the king of
Spain he was running up the steps
of the Ritz hotel in London, and the
cabman to whom I was paying my
fare remarked, "Good old Alfonso."
He was certainly not old, and it is
possible that at the moment he was
not particularly good; but the words
expressed faithfully enough the atti
tude of mind, sympathetic, half-pro
prietary, wholly indulgent, qt the Brit
ish public toward the boyish mon
arch of a friendly but foreign land-
It was enough that he was coming to
England for a wife, and that he was
the friend and protege of King Ed
ward; he was one of us.
The next time I saw him was at his
mother's palace of Miramar, in Se
bastian, where he did me the honor to
receive me in private audience. The
first touch of autumn was on the roses
. and (it must be confessed) the gera
niums of the palaee garden, but the
sunshine lay hot and brigKt on the
blue waters of the sheH-mce bay,
w'here, under the very windows of
the palace, the great yacht Giwrlda
was rouing ai us moorings.
Makes Impressive Sight.
On the walls of the room wfcere I
waited there was but one picture an
' enlarged photograph of a little boy on
a horse; little boy sitting firm and
Upright in his saddle, his face turned
to look you straight in the eyes with
an expression of keyed-up courage, of
anxious boldness, as though to meet
whatever destinies might ne before
him. I thought as I regarded the
picture, . that some good influences
must have af work moulding the Httle
mind that, looked out through the
windows of these smiling, fearless
eyes; and - the words of the London
cabby came back to my mind and gave
me the sense that in a foreign country
and amid the uncustomary environ
ment of roval state, I was about to
familiar friend.
Just at first, on being Ushered into
his presence, that sense forsook me.
The young man who came forward,
; with just a touch of formality, to
greet me, seemed to be a denizen ot
the historical rather than the actual
world; and the arched eyebrows, long
HapSburg chin and the divided mus
tache, a la Philip IV, under the long
..Bourbon nose, produced strangely
foreign Impression which it tooK. a
few momenta of the easiness of the
modern manner and the well mod
ulated English of the quiet voice" to
dispel, isut only a tew minuies.
i Velasauez faded, and the little boy
bn the horse and the youth enjoying
himself in London became so real
that presently I told him-about-the
cabby's remark. It was-'obvious- that
it represented just the kind of feeling
the sportsman in him would wish'to
inspire; and the wide, slow smne
spread over his facevas we talked of
London and Engtend especially of
King Edward, of whom he spoke witn
an affection and regret that were
very touching to an Englishman. The
love ot lite that enaearea tawara xo
jiis world found a ready echo in the
vnunflr heart of Don Alfonso.
"He was my professor," he said,
and the boy who had never known a
fathervfoun J in the worldly wisdom
'of the English king a supplement to
the loving, tnough stricter, influences
K'of his own circle. He told me of . the
dozen ways in which King Edward,
by snowing a ready sympathy 'with
vouthful high . spirits, could hold
Ahem back irom follies or excesses
?by a single word or hint, and at the
same time win the heart of his young
fellow traveler on the difficult road
of royalty.
Loyal to Edward.
4 t "I was his most -loyal subject," said
,King Alfonso, and very gracefully on
ithe part of his Catholic majesty. "
I have had other talks with his
majesty in the same and other sur
roundings among them in, those of
ihe royal palace in Madrid, perhaps
the most magnificent of the inhabited
jhouses of kings. There the setting is
5so elaborate that one could hardly
be surprised to find the man being a
ittle obliterated by the monarch. But
it was not so in my experience. When,
after being passed from hand to hand,
pne traversed alone the great cham
ber under the glowing canopy of
Tiepolo.'it was the same friendly and
unaffected graciousness that waited
for one and led the wav to the little
"ante-room where chairs and "- cig
. . . ..... e . ..
arettes were suDsmutea tor inclina
tions and formalities. By dwelling
7 on what he has in common with you,
and seeming to ignore the rest, - he
throws a light bridge across what
ever gulfs of training, race or estate
.may separate you from him; and so
makes it possible for one . whose
knowledge of. him is as limited as
mine to form some living acquaint
ance with the mind and character
that lie beneath the smiliner surface
The first thing that strikes one in
King Alfonso, apart from the fact
that he is a young man of extremely
agreeable manners, is a certain mod
esty of mind which I imagine is un
usual; in ruling monarchs. It is' true
that he is the king of Spain; but you
feel also that he regards that position
as furnishing him with the means
of his life's work, rather than as being
itself the end; that he values it much
less for the sake of its privileges than
of its opportunities. In every serious
word he says ; you realize his own
sense, that. besides geing king he is
a human being, in a position of great
responsibility toward other human
beings; that his lot is cast in a dif
ficult time, in which all true men are
called upon to exert their whole
w strength and pull their whole weight
King Has No Snap.
"These are not easy times in which
to be a king," he said to me; "one has
to know a great deal more and work
a great deal harder than in any other
time. And if you fail, your failure
means a great deal more. I may not
be good enough for the post," he
added, "but anyhow I mean to try
my- best."
I quote his remark because I believe
.represents n6 mere affection., but a
genuine sense of his responsibilities
aud of the difficulty of discharging
them aright. It is. not that he has an
obsession as to the greatness of his
position; rather that he has arrivejd at
i the conclusion alone with most men
j of sense and spirit that it is none too
easy a task to fulfill one s whole ob
! ligations in any walk of life, and that
the complications of constitutional
sovereignty are not exactly things
that make it easier.
His conversation is, I thrnk, less
an expression of his own mind than
a search and angling exploration into
the mind of the person he is talking
to. He wants to know things, you feel;
to inform himself, to fish out and ex
tract the note of truth from that
changing tune of voices, all modulated
to one more or less deferential key,
with which it is the royal lot to be
surrounded. And his methods are
very clever. He has a trick of starting
a subject by suddenly expressing a
view, probably rather a startling
view, and possibly not at all his own
view, in order to hear what you have
to say. He is much more interested
if you disagree with him than if you
agree; and I am sure he takes a sly
pleasure in the embarrassments of
those who desire,-but are afraid, to
disagree with him. And, he is success
ful in his method. At' the end of a
conversation he will probably know
much more about you than you know
about him.
But there shines through the inter
course, certainly as I have found it,
a certain clear . preference for the
truth, even though it may not be
agreeable, which courtiers are per
haps not very quick to gratify. It is
difficult for an ordinary person, to
whom the source of information on
things in general are open and who
approaches them by the common
access, to realize the difference be
tween his views of them and that of
a monarch, to whom they are always
interpreted in the light of his own
position. The very minds of men
are as difficult for Mm to know as
the streets of his, own capital. Both
are self-conscious in his presence;
they are turned, as it were, to him,
ana present the aspect which they
deem suitable. He sees everything
in full face, and nothing in profile.
He hardly, ever . overhears or over
looks; what he hears is spoken to
him, what he sees is prepared for
him to look at.
Has Royal Disadvantages.
The king of Spain is perfectly
aware of this royal disadvantage, and
does what he can to overcome it,
partly by seeing as many kinds of
people as he can and partly by the
exercise of his own very considerable
intelligence. It is his character,
moreover, to be sympathetic, and this,
too, has its pitfalls, for in matters
outside his immediate knowledge he
is readily open to persuasion. Per
haps too open, for he seems some
times to be influenced by views and
ideas the basis and origin of whfch
cannot be really congenial to his own
candid mind. It is the weakness of
graceful natures, and in Don Alfonso
there is an essential' grace of char
acter outwardly . matched . by the
gracefulness of attitude and move
ment which is remarkable even in a
country . where - gracefulness is a
masculine rather than a feminine
attribute. Whether one woujd say
that, he is more open to persuasion
than to conviction, and the voice of
the latest persuader seems to have
most influence with him, I say
seems," because whether this
susceptibility to influence is based; in
the case of the king, on real weakness
or strength I do not'pretend to
know. The young tree swings and
sways to the wincL but only the
storm can prove the depth of its
roots or the strength of their
anchorage in the soil.
It is possible, indeed, that in some
things he is too modest. Where his
own instinct or judgment would "be
a true guide to him, he seemsat
times to act on the advice of those
whom he possibly feels to be better
informed than himself, and besides
whose judgment he perhaps deems
his own to be insecurely founded.
The fear of acting indiscreetly is
always being installed in the mind of
the occupant of a throne, but King
Alfonso is in a unique position, in
which he can do more to influence
his country by his own character
and example than any other among
the diminishing number of consti
tutional monarchs.
We talked about this one day, and
he was remarkably frank and clear
minded about it He loves his Spain,
there is no doubt about that; more
than once in our talks he has sa:d:
Remember, I am a Spaniard first,
a Spanish soldier next, and a king"
or a pro-this or anti-that "after
wards." His first anxiety is to do wisely and
rightly for Spain: how to do it and
wherein wisdom consists is' naturally
not always clear. The army is what
he knows best in beam. M'htarv
science has been his special study.
and in his role of soldier he takes him
self very seriously indeed. BuJ the
millions in his country are necessarily
cut off from him personally; between
their lives and his life, their difficulties
and his difficulties, is interposed a
peculiar system of government, over
which, in fact, neither they nor he
have much actual control; although I
like to think that the crowds of poor
people who- loat all day m the. sun in
the very shadpw of the palace walls,
who bring ..their meals there and'tlay
their games there, symbolize an in
timacy tbat exists in the heart, even if
it finds ftp; other outward expression.
, Loves Active Sport.
Don Alfonso has this attribute of
kingship;' that in more than cne
respect he is in advance of his neon'e.
In this . attitude towards sport, for
example he comes nearer to the Eng
lish ideal than possibly any other
Spaniard. He has little use for the
kind of sport that consists in looking
on at bull fights and betting on pelota
matches. He loves the active role.
In polo his is a courageous, dashing,
hard-riding, and rather rough game,
variegated by a streak of stunt sii its.
In polo, as in motor-driving, it is the
danger y and the pace that he loes.
He is one of the best partridge shots'
living'apd an implacable killer. Here
also it is the pace that he loves and
the danger in this case to' the par
tridge. -
I once said to him that the real
danger to a king in his position lay
not in the poor people who haa not
enough to eat not in the stiikers
against economic injustice, but it the
idle youne men of the uoner clarses
who do nothing, sacrifice nothing.
create nothing for the good of their
country.
I quite agree with vou. he said.
and proved ;t bv tellinor me of some
of his schemes for training and in-
uucing mis wie ciassto take some
real part in the work of the eountrv I
His influencs on them can only be
for good: but it is an annallinir task
even fftr a king to undertakealmost
single handed the reformation of a
whole class. But here, also, whether
J
he succeeds tr not, it will not be for
lack of courageous effort.
Of course we talked of the war;
but here lie asked questions more
than expressed opinions, and I can
honestly say that on no occasion diti
he say anything as to where his pri
vate sympathies lay. But I am en
titled to my own opinion, and it was
of a nature to make me like, and not
dislike, telling him about the war as
I have seen it by sea and land.
His courage is perhaps the noblest
and the most conspicuous thing about
King Alfonso. It is the courage of
the very finest temper. I spoke of the
young tree swaying in the wjnds, un
tried as yet by the tempest. Really
I have no doubt as to the result ot
the trial. Courage like his can bend
almost infinitely, but it can also stand
firm as a well-rooted tree in the
storm.
And the storm is coming. When
or how, from what direction; I am
wise enough not to predict. I can
only say that in Spain are all the
elements, ripe and over-ripe, for a
commotion of the first magnitude. It
is often threatened. I have seen him
in one moment when it seemed immi
nent, and found him ready to meet
it with the smiling gravity, the calm
but alert courage that has visualized
the worst that can happen and finds
it neither terrifying or unbearable.
When the trial does come, whether
it takes the form of a violent' crisu
or the long-drawn agony of the birth
of a new Spain, it will find King Al-
ionso ready and resourceful. He is
not afraid of the coming storm. Per
hapswho knows he may find in it
nis true nour, nis supreme opportun
uy. At any rate, to hope so is to
wish him well in the highest and best
sense.
Boy's Passion for
Chemistry Ends in Suicide
- A verdict of Suicide during tetn
porary insanity" was returned on Sat
urday at Mornsey at an inquest on the
body of Arthur Easterbrook of
yuernmoreroad, Stroud Green, a
school boy, aged 14, who died after
taking cyanide of potassium.
It was stated that the bov. the inn
of a retired civil servant, was a pupil
at tne nornsey county school, and
that he had shown extraordinary apti
tude in the study of chemistry. He
was found dying in an attic where he
carried on his studies. In a letter
found in the room the boy had writ
ten: . ) . jg
"I have lived and died for chemis
try. Farwell, my beloved chemistry.
I am removing myself to another
planet, where I can carry on my
studies unaisturoea.
Mr. Arthur E. Easterbrook said
that his son often brought hbme
chemicals, and the witness believed
that he purchased them. On Wednes
day two masters of the school came
to the house and inquired about some
valuable weights which had. been
taken from the school, and the wit-
ness soon after found the boy dying
in his room.
Dr. Lockhead stated that death was
due to cyanide of potassium poison
ing. . '
Mr. Gibbon, senior physics master
at Hornsey county school, said that
he missed some articles from the
school laboratory, and that in 'the
boys laboratory he found some ex
pensive scales-which belonged to the
school. The boy said that they were
given to him by another boy, but he
would not give the bdy's name.
Robert John Price,": chemist, of
Stroud Green, said thaf on Wednes
day evening the boy bought some
cyanide of potassium.
The Coroner Did he sign for it?
The witness No, he had signed on
previous occasions, but not this time.
But that is not sufficient? Not
technically. He. did not sign on this
occasion because he was very fre
quently buying drugs.
The Coroner That has nothing to
do with it. This is a Schedule A
poison and ought to be signed for.
The police had better take note o the
fact that this witness sold to a boy
of 14 a poison without asking for his
signature.
Addressing the jury, the Coroner
said that no one could think that such
an act could be committed by any
person who was sane. He and the
jury expressed their sincere sympathy
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Timely, Offerings
From Our
Drapery
Department
Sheer, crisp ruffled
muslin Curtains for sum
mer time bedroom use,
per pair, $2.25.
Filet Nets in white
ivory and ecru. Small and
effective designs, priced
per yard
401, 50t, 654
New Cretonnes in
dainty bedroom effects
35tf, 50, 75t
Madras and Colored
Drapery Materials, 50
inches wide, which is wide
enough to split for most
windows. Per yard
31.25 and $1.50
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