No Little Trip

Among the changes which life has brought to Alfonso XIII. whilom King of Spain, is that he who always used to appear in the press as the Merry Monarch, the Gentleman-Sportsman, the Genial Host, has lately been thrust into the less popular role of Stern Father. Only last month he abruptly broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz on learning for sure that she and her sister Maria Christina were "carriers" of haemophilia, the family scourge. Last week he smashed the romance of his big-boned 23-year-old second son, the Infante Jaime. Prince Jaime is no haemophile, but until a few years ago he was a deaf mute. Even now it is a little difficult to follow his conversation. Early last week Don Jaime said something which was interpreted to mean that he was going off on "a little automobile trip." At the last moment the family discovered that what he really intended to do was rush off to Bayonne and marry an unknown Spanish girl. Don Jaime's Spanish father talked to him like a Dutch uncle. Sadly Don Jaime wrote a letter of renunciation, took no little trip to Bayonne.

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