The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-10

their nayol familys good looks reflect
great credit on themselves and to take
pleasure in them accordingly Their
ewes CLEAN with delight as they tell
what a beautiful sight it was to see
their old king standing there the other
| afternoon on the Amalienborg balcony,
with his some and daughters around
hin-the English queen on his right
! hand. the Russian Tsaritsa Marie on his
| left.
| / once met a man, Dane, VINO nau
personal grievance against King CHRIS
tian; his majesty had stepped on MS
toes in some way or other-had propa-
bly wounded his vanity. He Is one OF
the kind, too who look askance on all
crowned heads, who hold brief against
them. as it were, and can see no gooo
| in them at all And this man askeo
whether King Christian were really So
popular as he seemed to be. his reply
was an outburst of indignant Wrath.
That the king should be popular was a
public scandal, he maintained, us
grace to Denmark; but that popular ne
was, he could not deny.
"It is one of the strangest things IN
life this love the people have for him,
he told me. zone Of the things that no
man can explain. For, as ruler he -
execrable-the very worst in all Europe
During his whole reign he has SET every
constitutional law at defiance. he mas
persistently Haunted the majority ol
the Folkething, and has chosen his MIN
istry from the minority; he has Kept
them in office, too, in spite even OF I'M
peachments. Again and again parma
ment has refused to vote MIN taxes
but little he cares for, voted or not VOL
ed. he evies them all the same COM
pared with our Christian Tx, your
Charles l. was quite aW-abldlng' con-
stitutional sovereign; yet you cut OH
YOUR kings head, whereas we have aup-
he'd our The Much-Loved.' Ana we
Danes pride ourselves on being SUR
/ DIV, freedom-loving race! 1t is enough
n ms,,xe a man tear his hair to think OF
it, .
Evidently he regarded King CHRIS
tian's popularity among MS SUBJECTS al
national misfortune
Nonsense sheer nonsense anothe
Dane exclaimed when l reported u
course. been little difficulties between
hin, what had heard. There have, o
o,,r king and ourselves fro mtime u
time We should most of us nave peei
very glad could he have seen ms wa.
to doing what parliament wisheo' pu
there were rights and wrongs on poti
sides and perhaps he knew better tiiai
we did where the danger really lay IL
anv case. one thing is sure; IL we MAJ
. ever really been compelled to choos
between him and parliament, II Il
around him we should have railied-
tbere is not a politician in the countr.
h,,t knows that. We could never real
w have turned against him, you see
: we know him too well; he ana we wen
through SO together. and that heithe
he nor we can never forget. Hau so'
been here in those days you would un
derstand what we feel for him
"Ponular-our old king popular! n
continued in reply to an inquiry; 'wh.
tha great mass of the nation ldoll2
him. The only people who ever serious
" attack him are the socialists an
even then they only do so when thos
cerman deu1agogues have been her
stirrinp them up to disloyalty ono
saw the king meet a. party or soclal,s
demonstrators, and each one as
nassed, dotted his hat and joined III
hearty cheer They looked quite pleas
ed TOO. when his majesty replied /.
their greeting, as he did with as kindi'
smile as If they had been persona
friends of his-bishops, at least
Tn Denmark many odd little Store
are told of King Christian and MS kinu
y, navs above all of the friendly IN
+srsst he takes In the doings OF III
subiacts. Until within quite rfcen
davs when HE strength has begun =
soi him he used to spend much OF nj
time when in Copenhagen Wa'kinl
about the streets; and nothing please
VIM better than to stop and have cna
WITH anv workman he CHANGED TO en-
counter, He was found one DAY WITH
gronn Of bricklayers around him. carry
no On heated argument as to IN
!, RIGHTS and wrongs of strike, Ahothe
dav when some democrat deputiss can,
"a the palace with a long list Oh thei
grievances, he insisted on their peih
brought into his private apartment az
ensconced In comfortable chalrs' Una
t,a might talk things over with thef
ouietly-Iondon World.
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