Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-11-07

ern capital. One of the most beautifully situated
cities in southern Asia, stretching down on botn
sides of the Manam river and sumptuously pro-
vided with cool gardens, broad highways and
inviting parks, Buddha's city is as Cosmopolitan
as a united New York, Moscow and Budapest
On her street, and her waterways-for Bangkok
is the Venice of the east and is provided with
canals than roadways-are to be seen
Americans and Chinese, English ladies and
French cavaliers, German barons and Russian
diplomats. Malays, Abyssinians, Parthians and
Turks
Ever since the days of King Mongkut there has
been delightful colony of European and Amer
can society in the capital. King Chulalongkorn
with his many years spent on the continent, en-
couraged the sending of some of Europes best
diplomatic timber to his little Paris of the
South" and fostered the intercourse between his
native princesses and the foreign hostesses, and
King Vajiravudh is stimulating in every way the
mngling of the races within his realm. There
are half dozen clubs in radius of few miles
from the palace all with more or less activity
of social nature, and springing from them and
from the embassies, from the increasing foreign
population and the aristocracy of the native gen.
try there has arisen a large cultured community
in Slams capital community that needs lead
er. And who can do these gracious honors with
more dignity than the sovereign's queen!
But there is far more than all this that the
King Of Siam" is looking for in the American
most cultured set in the kingdom. Vajiravudh
has stupendous ideas for his country and it's peo-
pie, and already Tin less than two years since
he set the crown of Siam upon his head he has
had time to show of what stuff kings are made
The reported rebellion and reputed uprising Of
republication he halted with word; the wishes
of his late father in affairs of state and religion
have been carried out; he has revised where re-
vision seemed best and has made new where
the old could no longer serve; he has chosen
into Positions; himself young he has drawn
about him the youth of the kingdom-the new
minister at Washington, Prince Triados Prabandh
is only thirty and, like his majesty, graduate
from English university-and he has planned
and put into execution seemingly impossible i'm
provements. from the laws on the statute books
to the trivialites of everyday living. Altogether
he is personality to be watched one upon
whom already are focused the eyes of both the
east and the west.
Vajiravudh is the first Asiatic ruler to have
studied in western schools. Numberless japan
csc and Chinese of high rank have been vel
coined to the educational centers of Europe and
America but never before has crown prince
or budding emperor been allowed to mingle witt
the rough and ready westerner. Vajravudh the
king of kings; head of the most ancient empire
of the earth; he who in his supreme rulershi
holds rights and privileges wfthholden from al
crossed swords with the daredevis at Heidelbere
drilled as private at Sandhurst and won h
spurs in competitive theses against the brainies
of Britishers at Oxford
This is the who, according to rumor
seeking an American wife to aid him in his rule