The sun., 1908-04-26
PRINCE VINO ElRNED 1 LUING.
Poor Cousin or KlnE PeterOt ssr,Ia work ri
NJ = Trade In Paris.

PARIS, April le-PTince B6jidar Kara
georgevitch died here recently, aged A.
He was the great-grandsOn Of the peasant
Karageorge. who freed Servia from the
Turks and placed his family on the throne.
That family after being dispossessed Of the
throne by another family Of peasant origin
is again represented on the throne in the
person Of Peter Rarageorgeyitch.
When the murder Of Alexander and
Draga opened the way to the throne for
King Peter. Prince Bojidar could have gone
70 Belgrade. clad himself in a gaudy uni-
form and lived as a Prince, but he would
not make the change.
Il have a trade, he said; Il am working
ieWeller: and | want to earn my living in
personal freedom
By what miracles Of economy and iinanc-
ing his mother, his brother and he succeeded
in Keeping their little house in the Avenue
du Bois lie Boogne through thirty years of
misery and want nobody exactly knows.
Only the week before BOjidar died a cred-
tor seized the house and contents for debt
Of 500, but friends raised the money, and
Bojidar was comtorted on his deathbed
by the knowledge that roof still remained
for his mother and for their only retainer.
a faithful Slav woman who did all the work
OF the household
Boidar did not allow his poverty TO
weigh on his mind, He made sport Of his
worn ana shiny clothes and turned neck
ties. 'Its too bad my brother IA taller
than | am he would say. "h makes It
so awkward for me to finish Oh his old
and castoh overcoats
At fst he tried to make living byWnt-
ing but although equally familiar with
German, English French and Russian he
found it impossible TO cam money in this
way, so he took up a trade, He be-
came a metal worker. chasing buttons,
spoons and small ornaments with a skill
sometimes striking always original,
Eventually he joined workshop, where
he wore the long blue blouse OF the French
workingman, often took his lunch In the
open air on a bench in the nearest square
with his fellow workers, who called him
-Boii." and earned $3.50 a day Always
cbeerfuj he declined an invitation to 20 TO
A pictuTe show one day lately by saying
sCant do il; il would cost me q days WORK.
ten francs, old fellow"
One OF his mothers friends asked him
one day what he would like for his New
Years gift A dozen shirts was his
testing answer.
YES" he would say. these embroderes
do in the evening at my friends houses
While they play poker | embroider Fer
nand Gregh, the poet and his wife have
given me an order for them With Gus
toners like that | can do freely what
want to. You know the business houses
won't let me work just as like. To please
them have to repeat myself, make series
of things, and that ia torture TO me
He was particularly proud Of one OF bis
articles that appeared in an English re-
view and dealt with children's toys. Per
haps you think the subject Of no impor-
tance LIDO not he said. Il hold that the
modern toy spoils the taste Of children
giving them a love Of things false and
artificial, hate these dolls all dressed
up, with curled hair and painted cheeks
They perver childhood so that the day
comes when the little girl longs TO initiate
her doll. BE sure Of this, II is more seri-
Gus question than il appears to be; the toy
10 the first educator Of infancy