Sick Sons

In Switzerland up swelled last week the leg of Don Juan, Prince of the Asturias, claimant to the vacant Spanish Throne after his ousted father King Alfonso XIII. As to what was the matter an expensive galaxy of specialists violently disagreed. Some said Don Juan had elephantiasis, others that he is contracting hemophilia, the dread Bourbon scourge.

Meanwhile sick Juan's healthy mother Queen Victoria Eugenie, who rushed to Manhattan when her eldest son Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, was nearly dying of hemophilia (TIME, Sept. 28), continued last week to prove that by firmly declining U. S. publicity it is perfectly easy to escape it. As a British Princess in her own right and a granddaughter of the late great Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria Eugenie last week visited the British Embassy in Washington as the house guest of Lady Lindsay, avoided the notoriety of meeting "those people," Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. Whether or not Victoria Eugenie will now have to rush to her sick son in Switzerland, her sick son in Manhattan was feeling much better last week, except about his income which he receives in French francs. Applying for reduction of the $250 per month alimony he pays to a Cuban commoner, he urged the judge to make this cut because the franc has just been devalued.

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