The Washington herald., 1906-12-30
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST

TO study the subject scientifically. In italy
spiritualism has heretofore been looked
on as huge joke Lately some serious
attention has been given II By people Of
the highest standing
The French chef Of the royal household
Of England is NJ Menager. He enjoys a
salary OF $3.50 a year. besides free lo5e-
ings near Buckingham Palace. and he
does not reach the palace until after II
O'Clock he then receives from the mas
ter OF the household the menus for the
day, and al once sets 20 work upon them
IN the sunny royal kitchens. where he
has q small army Of cooks and assist
ants, all women, at his beck and call
Dinner is served at Buckingham Palace 1T
= O'Clock. and the servants and attend
ants directed by II. Menager wear. scarlet
sWallow-tail coats. with dark blue gold
braided waistcOats white satin brooches
and white silk stockings unique and
remarkably handsome livery After din
ner, NJ Menager presents his 'GeetIe hilV'
for the day. which Is paid by the treas
urer immediately, and the iovial chef
NOW in the prime Of life) engages a
hanson and rolls home TO his comfortable
quarters a supTemely satisfied man.
Princess Henry Of Battenberg. fl IS IN
mored, Is TO acquire villa at San Sebas-
tian in Spain, near the royal villa Of the
King and Queen Of Spain. The princess
will thus be able 10 spend al least the
greater part of her summers near her
daughter.
More marvellous still than Prof. Korn's
autobiography is an invention an
nounced by a young French engineer of
Nancy, N. Edouard Belin. The Munich
professor is able 10 telegraph a photo
graph. NJ. Belin says he can photograph
by telegraph. The phototelegrams can be
produced not only on paper. but on copper
plates, which can be at once treated with
acids and used for phOtoEravure. NJ
Belin withholds the secret OF his inven-
ton. but it has been demonstrated by
trials between Paris and Havre.
It is a strange irony of fate that re-
publican France has been chosen to be. in
a special sense. the home of kings and
queens in exile, and Of those royal per
sonages who prefer the climate of .1e
beau pays to their own country. Sunny
Cannes, on the Riviera, certainly deserves
its name of The playground of princes {"
All the more important villas are either
owned or hired by members Of the rovaI
caste. At the head of this COSMOPOLITAN
gathering Of royal personages is the still
young-lOoking and brilliantly witty
mother OF a future queen and q future
empress. The Grand Duchess. Anastasia
of Mecklenburg- Schwerin keeps I'D q
splendid, if rather bohemian. state M the
Villa Wenden. and it is whispered thar the
German Emperor, and even the kindly
King Of Denmark, would prefer to see the
mOther-in-law of their heirs apparent lead
more stately existence nearer her sons
dominiOns In the duchy Of Mecklenburg
The grand duchess is however. the only
daughter of Russia's richest grand sf;iI1e
She was a spoiled beauty from childhood
upward. and since the rather tragic death
OF her elderly husband she has preferred
smiling France to austsre Schwerin Her
imperial highness is devoted 70 her many
brothers, specially TO the Grand Duke
Michael, and she did everything in her
power to promote the romantic marriage
Of the latter TO the beautiful girl now
known as the Countess Torby. From
every point of view the Grand Duke
Michael and his morganatic wife are the
most popular royal personages at Cannes
and the Villa Kasbec. where they reside
in winter. is a most hospitable center, and
there the host and hostess, in happy exile
delight to entertain their friends and
neighbors from England.