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

Simple life is just at present in the
air. 1t appears to be sweeping all over
the world. In Sweden we find the new
King not only declining to be crowned,
on account of all the pomp and cere-
mcny which it would entail. but also
preclaiming his intention of dispensing
ias much as possible with the fuss
and feathers at his court and of inau-
gurating an even palmer mode of ex-
tstence than that of his father and
predecessor, Oscar II, who was re-
nowned for his democracy. In Dem
mark Prince Eric, the eighteen-year-
old son of the Kings brother. Prince
waldemar, is devoting all his atten-
'tion to the study of agriculture, for the
purpose of taking up farming, which
is the principal industry of his coun-
try, as his calling. When we recall
the fact that in ancient times cattle
lifting was the favorite pastime and
an important means of livelihood of
the great, we should certainly regard
1t as a sign of enlightened progress
that they should now manifest an en-
thusiasm about cattle raising.
The death of the last Grand Duke of
Tuscany and the publication of his will
serve to call attention once more to
the action of his eldest son, who OF
his own accord resigned all his i'm
perial honors and prerogatives as an
archduke, as well as his rights of sue
cession TO the thrones of Austria and
hungary. in order to become plain
citizen of Switzerland, with a small in
come, under the name of Leopold
woelfiing. From China comes the
news that the Manchus, who have
constituted until now the ruling and
nobiIiary caste, have voluntarily sur
rendered all their special immunities
and prerogatives, placing themselves
ION the same level as the ordinary Chi
nese citizen: while in. this country
there is a very pronounced tendency
on the part of the rich to avoid every
thing that can be construed in the
light of unnecessary ostentation, an
attitude prompted not only by their
own personal taste but also by an APP
preciation of the trend of popular feel
ing.
HAPPIEST IN RETIREMENT.
Queen Alexandra and her sister, the
widowed Czarina, insist that they are
never so happy as when living together
in that villa which they have acquired
in the suburbs of Copenhagen for no
other purpose than to escape from the
atmosphere of palaces. 1t is merely a
plain dwelling, such as a retired mer-
chant of moderate means might select
as the home for his declining years,
and is surrounded by garden OF
very limited area-just enough, IN
fact. to insure a certain amount of
privacy. Empress Victoria Augusta
delights in slipping away to her farm
at Cadinen. where she lives like the
wife of an ordinary German country
gentleman, occupying herself about
the dairy, the cows and the poultry
while her husband, in spite of his
reputed fondness for the trappings or
ROYALTY. still speaks with enthusiasm
of the few weeks which he spent AT
Highcliffe Castle, in Hampshire, not IN
his role of Kaiser. but in that OF
plain English country squire.
Wherever we look we find this same
anxiety on the part of the Amounted
of the Lord" to escape, even IL only
for a time. from the limelight of royal
" and from the glare which envelopes
all thrones. An actor does not yearn
TO be before the footlights all the tlLne