The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-04-29
CAFES OF THE WONDERFUL CITY OF VIENNA
Some OF The Sights of
the Capital of the
Hapsburgs.

VIENNA-The cafes of Vienna are
clearing houses for news and gossip
The entertaining chatter of the idiers
encompasses all subjects from the par
leyings of politicians to the fiirtations
of actresses. History is revamped in
one breath. and prophesy has a brief
inning in the next. For instance, you
hear a medical man say that the cura-
tive virtue of the famous Carlsbad
springs wasaccidentally discovered when
a crippled hound fell into one of them
and was dragged out half boiled but
cured of it's lameness. This curious
startling political prediction. A finan-
cial expert asserts that the continental
governments are becoming 50 complete
1y enmeshed in the net of Hebrew
money lenders that a Jewish dynasty
in Europe is almost a certainty. In
support of this augury the speaker
makes the statement that it already
requires the equivalent of the earnings
of twenty per cent of the population
of France to pay the interest on the
sum that country owes to the House
of Rothschild
EMPEROR RECEIVES POOR.
Frequent references are made to the
democratic character of the aged En-
peror. On certain days of the week
he actually gives private audiences to
the poorest of his subjects. On these
occasions the most humble and penni-
less of his people are admitted to his
presence, and no one ever knows the
nature of these interviews, because the
Emperor holds the condolences of his
callers so sacred that he never makes
known their statements, even though
they include the confession of crime.
Probably no ruler ever lived who en-
joyed mixing with his subjects more
Once when the imperial party was
making a journey, the Emperor pre-
ceded his companions and appeared
alone at a small inn. While he was
engaged in shaving himself he was
interrupted by the landlord who, being
on the lookout for the royal party, en-
tered the room and asked His Majesty
if he knew the Emperor. 'I some
times shave him." was the laconic
reply.
On another occasion good-natured
joke was played on the Emperor when
he journeyed to part of his domain
with which he was unacquainted. A
wealthy Duke sent word that all prep
arations had been made to entertain
His Majesty at a private castle, but
true to his democratic habits the EN-
peror replied that he would rather stop ,
at a hotel There being no suitable
tavern in the place, the Duke hit upon
a novel idea to give the royal visitor
the best hospitality the community af-
forded without offending his whim for
The innkeeper was instruct
ed to take down the sign in front of his !
tavern and a larger one displaying the
Austrian arms and the words Hotel
de l. Emperor Joseph" was then put
I'D in front of the castle. All the mem {
bers of the ducaI court we're instructed
to play the role of attendants at the
the landlord while his gentlemen in
waiting appeared as buffers. Wallets and
walters. The court ladies donned the
white caps and short skirts of the
maids. and upon the departure of the
Emperor he was driven by prince g
attired as a position. Afterwards +
when His Majesty heard of the decep- '
ton that had been practiced upon him, c
he said he could hardly be offended at |
such determined hospitality. t
AN OLD CEREMONIAL.
The Austrian court still maintains :
an old ceremonial called the foot 5
Washing which is a unique perfor-
nance for royal personages to engage
IN. This strange survival of mediae- '
val custom occurs during the Easter 1
festivities and is still given with all Il
he pomp and ceremony that marked l.
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