The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-11-24
BULGAR|A's RULER
VERY MUCH LIKE
THE KAISER
GAR HAS ALL THE ENERGY AND
TASTES OF HIS BROTHER MON
ARcH-woRks SIXTEEN HOURS
DAILY.

PARIS, Nov. 24.-Prince Ferdinahu.
the new car OF Bulgaria. Is perhaps
one OF the most extraordinary mon
archs reigning today IN Europe. j
do not even except Emperor William
OF Germany. Indeed. Prince Ferdinand
resembles the emperor In more ways
than one.
1t is really extraordinary how Fer
dinand resembles the emperor. He Is
exactly like him In everything except
features. They do not look alike. but
act alike.
Like the kaiser. Prince Ferdinand
Is intensely interested In all the arts
and sciences. He has composed an
opera and Is an excellent musician, II.
spite OF the fact that he takes an un-
holy delight In embellishing Wagner's
scores.
Like the kaiser he has formed the
habit Of working At least 16 hours
daily. He signs DEGREES, designs houses
and bridges, makes new laws, invents
perfumes. organizes alliances. writes
all his own letters, reads books. pa
pers. magazines. plays. goes every
where, knows every one, sees every
thing. He has built modern hotels
and delicious villas, destined to shell
ter the scores Of visitors who flock at
certain seasons to this exotic coun-
try. Thus he encourages trade.
II Is related Of him that his love
for all kinds of animals Is without q
limit--especially dogs. His palace
swarms with dogs. They are under
every ones feet. heard little story
the other night about him which may
interest you to know.
He has tiny little dog that he
loves most devotedly. He is rarely
seen without 1t. She sleeps In lux
urious basket in his room. Not long
since this little dog was Ill. She
moaned In her sleep and awoke her
royal master. He got up quickly, tried
to soothe her and falling took her
back to bed with him, where she slept
blissfully until morning.
Another anecdote has come to me
which think interesting also, and
that touches his great love for me-
chanics. Here again he Is like the
emperor of Germany. who also loves
engines for their form, and power and
speed. Prince Ferdinand Is fine en-
gineer. Not long since he astounde,i
the chief of one OF the great railway
companies of Paris by applying for
permit to run the fast express trai1
from Paris to Calais. And he ran tho
train.
Lastly Ferdinand resembles the
kaiser In his ever-increasing nervous
restlessness. He Is never still. He
radiates action and seems to set In
motion every one and everything with
which he comes In contact.
We have Just been celebrating the
Feast OF the Dead in Paris. II is true
we have no longer very much religion
Religion has gone out OF fashion. but
we still venerate and respect our dead
heroes and hold In loving memory
our dead friends This. OF course, is
] a matter OF sentiment (the French
man is nothing II not sentimentaD, II
is not a matter OF religion with us.
This celebration gave me several
things TO think about. noted for one
thing that the style OF our graveyards
Is undergoing a change. quite trans
formation. may say. Monuments are
no longer CHASTITY and inartistic. One
has only TO look around to see guam
titles Of busts and statues that one
admired at the last salon or exposi
ton of sculpture, This is admirable
is II not? Our dead should have the
most worthy and beautiful In art To
mark their graves and conserve their
memories.
But the epitaph is quite out OF date
There is the name and dates and that
is ALL. A mark of excellent taste.
think.
! AS for mourning. that Is getting to
be almost thing Of the past. Grape
Is rarely seen any more, and this Is
admirable, too. for nothing Is more
sombre and depressing. No. II isn't
chic To- wear mourning very long. Two
or three months for a relative OF
friend. In the case of widow, nc
really fashionable woman dare go IL
the extreme OF mourning her husband
more than two years. II would be con
sidered quite bourgeoise.