DANCER'S ROMANCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 98, 14 April 1908, Page 4

DANCER'S ROMANCE

A beautiful Spanish girl who began life as a dancer in the cafe concerts at Madrid has just ascended the throne of a native Indian State. * In a suburb of Malaga was a modest Icafe kept by Senor Delago. He had two daughters, Anita aud Victoria, both remarkably beautiful girls. It was senor ■ and Senora Delago's ambition that their daughters should become Andalusian dancers in the cafe concerts of Madrid, and to that end they moved from Malaga to the capital. Their project was not so easily carried out as they had expected, and the family passed through many vicissitudes before the girls obtained an engagement at the Kuraaal and created a sensation' as the sisters Camelia, their father officiating as waiter in the same establishment. This was in June, 1906. Madrid was full of foreign potentates who had come to be present at the marriage of King Alfonso and Princess Ena. Among them was the Rajah of Kapurthala. He visited th e Kursaal, and straightaway fell in love with the fair Anita. This was the beginning of the romance, which has just ended by placing Anita on the throne of Kapurthala. It is related that at her wedding a pretty fancy prompted Anita to throw the classic mantilla over her gorgeous apparel and deck her hair with carnatom to remind her husband of the day when she first won his heart. Anita's younger sister, Victoria, has lieen almost as fortunate, for she is now the wife of a young American millionaire. Her marriage was thoroughly up to date. One fine morning they appeared at Malaga, entered the church, and knelt liefore. the prie-t ju-t. a- lie wa- giving the Benedict ion alter saying Mass. This is what Spani-h custom calls "marriage by surprise.'' and it is apparently quite valid.