New-York tribune., 1911-03-19

"Oh. yes said Ann, interested at last. And Is he
real Prince .,;.,...
not 10 mention ni, claim TO the SerVian throne.
Ann lifted her club to drive, and Buckley Stickler
for form in al walks OF life, preserved the religious
silence Of the initiate. t ,,.,
other dav She said aS they walked on. When asked
YOU if he wa, a real Prince | wasn't thinking OF his
titles. but of the man himself
Its not an easy task to be Prince nowadays 80 80
far rs know Roloiav measures up 70 his role Has
somebody found fault with im:
"NIr. Page thought his manner rather, she heSi-
tated an instant. -" well, rather too assured.
MIR Page, YOU mean thc-the inventor the chap
whose acroparc wouldn't CO.,
"Yes. Hc saw something Of Prince Rodoslav at
Rheims.
stoops to instruct a kindergarten. "That young mans
IDEAS Of ROYALTY seem As rudmentary as-as his flying
machine" he ~iid He should see more OF the Cld
World before prc,umng to criticize 1t. As Tor
Rodo;avs manner. the Almanach de Gotha mi8ht
modify his snap judgment if he would take glance
at it, ..
He mentioned the famous authority as If 1t was Holy
Writ Ann turned her dancing eyes on the hills
Tha's kind of royal directory, isn't it?, she asked
with sugary innocence Il must have look at 1t my
"AIlow me- Buckley tuggcd at his hip pocket.
You carry it with you! ,,
"Nyays." He produced the fat, red covered little
volume with a violent Jerk. ITO man in my position
II J. lPn' lpll7't)C'
THE face OF their di,istcd caddc said plainly that
this wa, not golf but the absorbed Buckley LETT MS
ball in the ignominou, depths Of a bunker and tutered
the pages Of his sacred volume I'LL he put ms inger on
the paragraph that was to dcmoli5h Oliver Page.
"!Pr. Nthel- Ncxanlre-C Con5tantin-S Scphcn-Pau
he read me c II ianyicr 1876, Prince dc &odoslV-
Ncmanya. due dc Kron ,bourg. comtc dc Felshcln'
Grand 4 ,pagnc dc crc Claic Chambclan autucllcf,
chcvalicr dl lorlrc'-but mind the orders, ne
broke off, rcap ing into Engi with shortened breath
and obvious relief. You won't be interested either, 10
hear about his military rank. He has estate IN lower
Uunqary a h,uc in Vienna. villa on the Adriatc. and
some Kind Of ancestral ruin in the herzegovina. note
refers YOU to IN earlier edition for his gcncaogy but
can give YOU the gi-t of il from memory.
You told me he's related to half of Europe. said
Ann.
1T, true. Ilapsburgs. Bourbons, IIohcnzollcrn',
Witcl bach,. Guclis they re all cousins OF some sort
But al that is comparatively recent. It the serb IN
him that Interests me. He dc;CcniS from the great
stephen Nc,nanya who showed himself the strong man
Of the Balkans about the time they were building goic
cf1er'S in this part Of the world His dynasty lasted
sonnet hing like three cenurcS atogchcr but by and by
the little Scryidn Empire went the way oi all Empires
and the Turk, ovcrran everything. RodosavS par
ti,,r branch of the family lived for period IN the
Urzcgovina but when Ottoman rule became too upprcS-
siyc they migrated 70 lower Hungary. But they never
forgot their nationality, and never abandoned their
claim 10 the Scrvian throne l. has turned up AT inter-
walls all down the line They're Of fighting stock AUS
,ria has uscd them repeatedly against the Turks In
fact one of them useful that they gave nm the
highest reward they could think OF and married him 10
an Archlu,hc-~ That $ where the lIapsburg Bourbon
strain bcgin, He's an extraordinary mixture. Rodo
sliv and back Of all that I've mentioned there /, iiSh
= medieval Greek blood which link him to Heaven
know Nhar past IN classical antiquity. There isn't
NOR. interesting family ,rrc IN Europe. always see