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Show MAHARANEE OF KAPURTHALA Once she was only a Spanish dancer, dan-cer, graceful and charming, to be sure, but poor aad quite without social so-cial standing. Now she is the favorite wife of his Highness Jagat Jit Singh Bahadur, maharajah raga-i-raj-gan of Kapurthala, and with him is making a tour of the United States, including a visit to the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco. The maharajah has traveled much in Europe, and it was on one ot his trips that he saw the pretty Spanish dancer and succumbed to her charms. He decided that he needed another wife, a contract was drawn up, 56.000 was paid to the young dancer's parents and she was whisked away to India, nothing loath, and married lu regular Sikh fashion. Over there her husband Is the lord of a Punjab state 59S square miles in area, and 500 servants are at his call in his palace. That isn't all, either, for his highness already had three wives Ax when he found and won the Spanish girl. But she knows she is the favorite one, oeing the youngest and prettiest, and declares that no jealous thoughts ner enter her head. |