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Show KING AND QUEEN ATTEND MASS Queen Is First Woman Within Monastery in Nineteen Years. SANTA BARBARA. Cal.. Oct. 12 Ibert of the Belgians, with his consort con-sort and the Duke of Brabant, attended attend-ed mass today in the historic Spanish mission of Santa Barbara. The scene within the ancient church was in striking strik-ing contrast to the pomp of the service in Boston's cathedral last bunday, but was no less coioriui. Franciscan friars in their dark brown ablts waited upon the gray stone steps to receive their majestic; and a throng of parishioners had gathered around Ihe doors when the royal cars approached. The Spanish fathers formed In line and led the procession while four of them held a canopy )ver the royal Belgians as they filed Blowly down the aisle. The kins and queen dlpocd their fingers fin-gers in boh water and crossed th.-m-selves reercntly when they passed the sacred portals. Thc were ushered to seats at the left of the altar, upon the sanctuary which never before has received a ruling rul-ing monarch although it had been a place of worship for 133 years. All three knelt as the simple service began be-gan and followed the mass devoutly. Sisters of St. Vincent and St. Francis sat just back of the king's entourage i but tho cowl.-d nnd long-cloaked monks Uiad a room apart. The Belgians were welcomed by Father Julius, the superior of the or-Ider or-Ider which has conducted the mission I since it was founded In 1780 bv Fatuer jFermine Laruen. The original adobe ! structure was destroyed by an earthquake earth-quake in 1S12 and tho one which now stands was dedicated in 1820 Famer Julius greeted them not only In the name of his own priests but in tha' of "all the Franciscan friars up and d wn the const and every loal Catholic who I (worships everywhere iu the church I which, after loyalty to God, teaches the virtue of patriotism a virtue of which Ihe Belgian king and people have given giv-en so Illustrious an example." After the mass the party filed into the mission church yard wnere the, king planted a cpress and an orange i tree to memoralize his visit there. 1 be I queen was the first oman iu nineton ( years to pass Inside the garden w.i'l-. ' Tin last before her was Mrs. W ilnam ' McKinb-y, wife of the former president. I The Countess de Daratnah Chlmaj ! mrl Afro TifnA M ' U ! 1 I . I l I jiniiu " iiiiiuih j.m.-ii-u IU also with the queen. All three were I greeted cordially although the law of the church forbids the pa.ssag i of women wo-men within the walls of a monastery except by ispecial dispensation From the church the king and his physician were driveii to the beach at iMiramar, where they plunged into the ocean and swam out to the end of the )i'-r, sporting about In the water without with-out a rest for fully half an hour. The queen did not go In. but followed them to the beach and snapped their pictures. pic-tures. She wore a long tan colored coat of silk, but she was shod in white, canvas shoes. The king and J. M. Nye, chief special agent of the state department, took a long motor ride this afternoon and Albert Al-bert drove. They went in and out among the mountains of the coast kiiiu iiu irtiqucui stops ior nis majesty tO tramp up the hillsides As he gazed off over the Pacific he exclaimed ex-claimed It Is hard to realize that but three weeks ago I was In Brussels " At Mountain Ride, not far from Rattlesnake Rat-tlesnake canyon, the king told Nye ho was thirsty The state department agent started in search of a well and MMinu uut a.i int: uoiiie oi ivirs. jonn Brinkherhoff Albert followed close behind, "Mrs. Brlnkerhoff." said Nye, "this is his majesty, the king of the Belgians." Bel-gians." "Go on," scoffed the owner of the well, "You can't kid me." "But madam, it is so," interposed th king You may be a Belgian," said Mrs. ' Drinkerhuff, "but you aren't tho kmc I for I know how he looks." She finally was convinced but "her embarrassment was no greater than that of his majesty. Crown Prince Leopold took a long tramp over the mountains with Major W. W. Hoffman, military nttache of the United States embassy at Brussels They took with them only a few sandwiches sand-wiches for luncheon and the prince enjoyed it hugely. After the tramp he went for a swim The queen last night commanded Lieutenant Ro F Williams, aide to Rear Admiral Long and who was decorated dec-orated two days ago as an officer of the Crown, to play American ragtime lor her on the piano at the home of William H Bliss. It was the flrt time she had heard such music and It Is not known whether or not she cm-Joyed cm-Joyed it-' Her majesty Is an accomplished accom-plished musician. The kinc will give an audience at 10 a m tomorrow to the members Of the Southern California Press association, .1 The royal train will leave at 11 p. m I tomorrow for San Franci BCO. |