The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-02-23

Archduke Leopold Salvador, eldest son
Of the late Grand Duke of Tuscany,
but also his uncle, Archduke Louis
Salvador, Justly reputed as the most
learned and scientific scion Of the
Hapsburg dynasty. The latter has fire.
uuently visited America, under the in
cognito of Neindorf, and for number
of years he lived at Ramleh, seaside
resort a few miles from Alexandra,
under the name of Professor Neufeld'
His principal home is the old monas-
terry of La Cartuga, near La Palma,
on the island Of Majorca. He has pub
lfshed several works, most Of them OF
a scientific character, which have won
for him considerable celebrity in the
world of letters and membership OF
the Institute of France. 1t is unneees-
sary to make more than passing REL
erence here to the well known instance
of his brother, Archduke John, VINO
surrendered his membership of the
reigning house of Austria ana MS
rights of succession to the throne, in
order to adopt a seafaring life as cap
tain Ortiz, under which name he per-
fshed while on a voyage through the
Strait of Magellan, which has recent
w been traversed by Admiral Evans
fleet of American men-of-war. Two
other archdukes, namely, Henry Sal
vator and Ferdinand Charles, have en-
treated the Emperor to permit them
to surrender their rank and privileges
and become ordinary citizens; one OF
them, Henry, in order to devote him.
self altogether to his art as an etcher
and painter at Munich, and the other,
Charles Ferdinand, brother of the heir
apparent, to wed the daughter of Pro-
lessor Szuber, of Prague University.
1t would take too long to enumerate
here all the votaries of the simple life
among the sovereign dynasties of Eu-
rope. In some instances the cult has
led monarchs to abandon their thrones;
while scattered here and there, some
times among the busy haunts of men
and sometimes in remote corners or
the earth, are to be found men and
women whose plain and unadorned
names conceal the most llustrious or
titles. UtiI now monarchs have, as
rule enVironed themselves with q
pomp, a. ceremony, a splendor and an
amount of etiquette, admittedly dis
tasteful to them on the ground that
the people required it of them, and
would be dissatisfied unless they main
tanned with BETTING majesty and
grandeur the dignity of their lofty
positions. They have been encouraged
in this notion by the criticisms which
have been INDUCED in in the past,
both in France and in the United
States, at the expense Of the Jeffer-
sonian simplicity of the chief magis-
trates of these two great and glorious
republics.
KING GUSTAV AND DOM PEDRO.
King Gustaf of Sweden, who is a
careful student of the times, has come
to the conclusion that this conception
of public sentiment has ceased to be
correct; that the people no longer re-
quire of those in authority that they
environ themselves with a degree Of
luxury and display that shall serve to
maintain them in a class apart from
their fellow citizens, and that royalty
will gain rather than lose in the TWEEN
tfeth century by descending from its
pedestal. by mingling with ordinary
mankind, and by becoming more in
timately acquainted With the views. the
wishes, the prejudices and, above all,
with the life, of the average human
being. Perhaps King Gustaf is right
in his opinion. Perhaps he is ahead
of his epoch. Time alone will show.
At any rate, his conception of the en-
vironment of majesty constitutes the
Inauguration of new departure in the
Old World; and as an experiment it
will be watched with interest.
In this association it is worth while
to recall the fate in the New World
of the late Dom Pedro Of Brazil, the
most democratic of sovereigns, who alb
horred pomp and ceremony and gave
free rein to his prejudices on the subject,
both at home and abroad. Few can
recall ever having seen him in uni
form, his ordinary habiliments con-
sisting of a suit of rusty black, topped
off by an invariably disreputable look
ing and badly brushed silk hat of the
stove pipe order of architecture. He
preferred public to private convey
ances, seldom making use of any OF
his imperial equipages, travelling in
stead by omnibus or tramway, much
to the disnay of those court dignitaries
assigned to attend him by the SOW
ereigns whose dominions he was visit