Evening journal., 1913-10-31
GOSSIP OF THE COURTS
BY FL ANE U R.

Greece has not indorsed what King
Constantine, forgetting the services OF
the French Gen. Eydoux, while visiting
the Berlin court, said in regard to Ger
man military instructors. His words
were the occasion of spontaneous pie
biscite favorable to France Owing to
his evident desire to consign to oblivion
what he said on that occasion King Con-
stantine's visit to Paris has been neither
success nor a political disaster. He
can complain of no incivility, yet he has
learned much. For instance, he was told
that this royal ingratitude may be
very well for home consumption, but 1t
is not an export commodity unless il is
backed up by superior strength"
King Constantine, being married to a
German wife, would have done better in
showing marked civility TO the French
mission and to Gen Eydoux, his fathers
friend, so as to con ey that he did not
allow family ties to interfere with state
considerations. But it was the other way
about and, of course, was resented by
France. When King Constantine LETT
! Greece for his European tour, the Ouai
! d'Orsay had an eye on him. He could
not afford to commit single blunder.
Then came that Berlin speech. Not only
did he attribute Greek victories to Ger
man military science, but, to put eli
max on it al. he added that unfortunate
word exclusively"
Alfonso the Twelfth ofSpain, twenty
J FIVE years ago, was hissed in Paris for
! less Shortly after his accession he paid
the usual round of visits TO the Euro
pean capitals. Emperor William-Wil-
helm der Grosse-named him colonel OF
regiment OF Pnssian Uhlans Unfor-
! tunately the regiment of Uhlans was
/ quartered at Strasburg. the capital Of
Alsace. Still more unfortunately the
/ young King of Spain. ON his way to
Paris, stopped at Strasburg.
The memory Of 1870 was then still
fresh, Paul Deroulede invited his friends
! TO give Alfonso a "wclcome." They as
sembled in the Rue Lafayette, between
the Care du Nord and the Elysee and
as the young King and the French Presi-
dent drove through Paris, the cry, "A
bas le Uhlan' ran all the way. The
King FASTENED TO leave Paris on the day
following and the French government is
sued an apology (of some sort for the
misbehaviour OF the crowd
1t is interesting to see the same Paul
Deroulcde coming forward again after
twenty-five years and sobered by age,
and recommend TO his friends "not TO
hoot King Constantine, but to give him
n wide berth" But both he and Clemen-
ceau are agreed on one point; NO loan
TO Greece" and in giving this watch
word they have struck the keynote Of
public opinion. and a blow to poverty
stricken Hellas.
When Crown Prince King Constantine
was not popular in Greece His future
subjects were recalctrant to his fathers
idea Of getting in the thin edge Of the
wedge for the creation of a court no
blessee BY making him Duke of Sparta.
| The Greeks dislike the title It struck
/ them as paradox. a flying in the face
| of all that is great in history, and they
pcrsevered in calling him the "Dia-
doque." His brothers and sisters never
had any title outside Of the court, and
those which they bore they borrowed
from Western Europe. Prince Georg'
and Nicholas of Greece entered thei
names in the guest book at the Hote
Bristol. in Paris in modern Greek a
"Connt Of Nowhere" and "Prince o
Nothing-at-all"
Greeks are not chaste. They com
planned OF the Kings sons as havinl
the morals Of European officers tGreelo
never speak of themselves as Euro
peansl and blamed the King for no
dealing with them more severity. One o
their grievances was the want of pa
triotism they displayed in living as lit
tie as they could at Athens.
King George deserved great censur
for not insisting on the "Diadoque" cul
tivating the farm in Sparta which tn
state bought for him. It's object il
making this present TO him was to en-
courage the establishment Of a mode
farm, and in doing so to promote tn
creation Of the good roads that Greco
needs to badly. They gave him the yer.
best of the "Morea," a country h j
agricultural resources and beng rapid
" developed, save on this royal prop
erty, which has remained uncultivateC
The "Diadoquess," the not very couI
teous title the Atnenians gave her, wa
more popular than her husband. Sh
took pride in siding against the Quee
in not wanting TO fOist on the peopl
the priests Greek of the New Testa
ment, and showed enthusiasm in doin
what she could to revive a taste for tn
ever glorious classical Greek literatuI
ami language.
The tactlessness Of the late Empires
Frederick (her motherl and her insens
ility to the fact that she had worn OF
her welcome and appeared too ready
make herself at home, did not diminis
the favor in which the Dialogues
stood. But the German Emperor th'
brother) made himself more than offei
sive by the rudeness with which
treated country town mayors, who pr
sumcd 10 address him without the inte
vention of his lord chamberlain.
asked in an irate tone in poor Greek wi
"that old fellow" was who had a
tempted to open a conversation wi
him. The Greeks remain "egalitaire
as in the time of Perricles, and Ath,
escaped the Romanism that the eI
: WIVTAaHrSE nHNW WEVYRR