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...Nie Mehr Krieg...
Later King Alfonso went to Paris and stayed incognito at a hotel in the Rue de Rivoli-not at the Ritz as is Queen Victoria Eugénie's wont. His Majesty heard of another disaster on the outskirts of Melillo, in Spanish Morocco, where 57 persons were reported killed last week and some 200 injured, when a Spanish arsenal exploded. For the killed or injured Moroccans, however, the King of Spain was not reported to have shed tears...
Worth. Traditionally important is the House of Worth. Founder Charles Frederick Worth came to Paris from London in the middle of the last century, found himself the man of the hour in the attempt of the Empress Eugénie to restore the magnificence of the First Empire. Eugénie became the patron of the young Englishman. To his shop in the Rue de la Paix came not only Eugénie herself but Charlotte of Mexico, Maria Pia of Portugal, Elizabeth of Austria. Only two reverses came to Founder Worth. Victoria of England would have none...
...thus the slightest wound leads to profuse bleeding, due to the extreme retardation of the process vulgarly called "healing." Now it happens that from the haemophilic House of Hesse-Darmstadt have sprung the last of the Russian Tsarinas, Alexandra, and the present Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain. To each of these exalted mothers came the bitter pang of recognizing in her first born son a haemophile...
...under the influence of the notorious "Black Monk" Rasputin because he could control-it is said by hypnotism-the haemophilia of the Tsarevitch Alexis. Not until the assassination of Rasputin and the execution of the Romanovs did History have done with that dark incident. Today Queen Victoria Eugénie of Spain is said to repose a strong intuitive faith in a certain obscure Catalonian doctor whom she hopes may be able to cure the haemophilia of her first born, Don Alfonso, 21, Prince of the Asturias, and heir to Alfonso XIII's throne...