The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-10-03
Crown Princess Sophie Is Re-
turning to Home in
Athens.
By LA MARQUISE DE FONTENOY:

By Ia MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.
@R " n p RI n c z SOPHIE OF
Greece is returning this week 10
~ Athens. after having been ABROAD
since the spring. and this in It
self will serve to set at rest the stor-
les so widely printed in America to the
effect that she had determined upon
divorce from her husband
IL is true that they are not very
united couple. and while she has peen
STAYING with her brother. the kaiser.
and in england. the Crownprincess
has led a very gay and frivolous H.e
in Paris where he aroused much CRIT.
ic;sm not only by his mode Of Life, put
also by his readiness to accept -inSIIa-
ali sorts of queer people. especially
from members Of the rastaquouere
foreign colony on the banks OF the
Seine, including some very unoesI aple
Americans, who would be looked upon
with askance on this side OF the At
Iantic.
his fling in Paris, he nevertheless
avoided an open break and on the oc-
CASTOR Of the crownprineesss oirtnday
Europe to be with her on that day.
at Friederichshof. near Hombusg'
where she was staying with her sis
ter. Princess Frederick Charles OK
Hesse
princess does not like AtnenS nor -
She popular there. in spite OF an soits
of phiianthopic institutions which sac
ha. either founded or helped to de-
velop and maintain The fact OF the
matter is that she 10 too German 70
suit the Creeks. who can never forget
Ihe fact that in their last war with
turkey all the sympathies OF her Ger
man relatives from the Kaiser DOWN
ward as well as those OF the German
government. and OF the German peo-
Die were with Turkey. ana that Tue
OTTOMAN troops were not only trained.
bu, even oficered, by Germans
The fact that the Greek army Is be-
ing very successfully reorgantzed by
the French General Eydoux. ana oy q
large delegation Of French army Of
ncers contributes to stu further de-
yeiop the anti-German sentiment n
..hens where the French officers have
succeeded In making themselves very
nopula-. The Greek navy 10 in the
same way being reorSanized by Eng
;sh navy officers. under the erection
=: Rear Admiral Tusnell. r r.. ana
wi,h the existing strained relations
between Great Britain and Germany
.be,r presence at Athens must be re-
-arded as another anti-Teuton factor
From this IL will be seen that the
pos.;ion o: the crownprincess IN the
land Of her adoption IS not altogether
an agreeable one. and the fa~t that
she IL very pronounced in her German
xIsws ard tastes. and docs not hest
tate TO show too freely her preference
for things German over tho:e OF
Greece. does not help matters Add to
this tina; sac does not get on particu-
lariy well with her husbands family.
ara tina, she ID not IN touch with King
George nor yet with her husband I:
hro:hers and thei. wives, and 8: viii
he seer that she has but little 20 at
srac: her At Athens
Owing 10 his having rscorne stone
deaf the Rev. Dr.. Abraham kuyper.
sh~ forner Prime N!asseer % the Meth.
eriaads- and who has sometimes been
deecr:bed ~ the Dutch Gladstone. has
been compelled 20 retire from politi-
cal life While he has undoubsedly
been Tor many years . very command
Ing figure In the public lie OF Hoi-
land ard q most important factor IN
,:s politics. his retirement "! excite
r.sle or no regret. owing to his inperi-
Gus and arbitrary character. Just a.
,-nnatjcu, and irtcie-anf NJ ccnsradic-
,,on a. that % Ensiaads Grand Old
Man
The doctor 10 N stranger to Amcrt-
r.. ue visited the United states dur-
ing she Presidency ~ Mckinley. on
wb,eh occasion he received the degree
a. 4, I. u. ., the University cf Prince
Ton and delivered the series Of ssone
lectures there. He likewise called
a sAe whiss House ssA sesse