Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-03-26
KING GEORGE OF GREECE, WHILE
DEMOCRATIC IN MANNERS, WAS
TERMED AS EVERY INCH A King

Under the heading, The Philosoph-
ical King Of the Hellenes,9 Current
Literature for April 1910, contains
an interesting study OF King George
Of Greece who died recently at the
hand of an assassin. Pertinent para
graphs taken from the article are as
follows
Few would suspect that the elderly
man whom tourists in Greece are apt
to find slipping coffee in one Of the
cheap restaurants of Athens is the
brother of the queen of England and
the husband of the Grand Duchess
Olga OF Russia. His majesty's attire
is as likely as not to comprise
worn slouch hat, gray sack coat
and pair Of increased trousers. His
entrance into the coffee house in
spires no demonstration beyond
nod from one or two frequenters of
the place and hustle OF preparation
from the proprietor as he strikes a
match for the kings cigarette.
His majesty is soon absorbed in
the perusal of his newspaper or in
the progress of a game OF drafts be
tween a cab driver and teamster.
Or his majesty may drop in at the
afternoon performance OF one of the
cheap theaters, paying his way like
one Of the general public and sitting
, plainest sort of people. He does not
disdain seat the side of the driver
of farmers wagon when his walk
in the enyirons of his capital has
taken him far afield. The spectacle
he presents on these occasions at
tracts no particular attention from
his subjects, who nod as if he were
familiar acquaintance-wh which he is
/ in fact, notes the Figaro hail
with the Greek equivalent of the
words; How do you do, King?"
While it may be that the king's
modest mode Of life is due to his ex-
treme poverty, it is more than likely,
observes the French daily, that his
natural simplicity of taste and dispo
sition is reflected in all he says and
does. Few monarehs have so little
consciousness Of their royal dignity
and it is unthinkable to the Paris
Gaulois that any other sovereign
than King George could have endur
ed with such perfect equanimity his
election from one of the German
Spas for bringing his dog into the
place, This dog is the invariablt
companion of the monareh's Ions
walks over the mountain near the
royal palace. Animals are one Of his
hobbies and travelling is another.
Whether or not King George con
! tinues to rule Greece, there can b,
no doubt that he will long swa,
the beautiful watering place of AK
Le-Bains, according to the Figaro
Every year finds his majesty install
led there for at least a month, ming
ling indiscriminately among the bath
ers and supping with the crowd a
a local restaurant Introductions ar
effected with as much lack of cere
tf 40 ~ I'll
were an American politician, Thes
absences of his majesty from his owl
realm never interfere with the keeE
ing of the diary which has becom
the repository of his reflections an
experiences. 1t is declared that n
incident is too trivial for record i
this volume. but even the politics
secrets of the reign are transferre
to its pages.
= A London weekly narrates the cor
fusion of a Greek prime minister VIII
figures conspicuously in the king
diary. The politician in the eours
E of conference with his sovereig
E announced line of policy whie
!. later, in the parliament, he disavov
: ed with the utmost vehemenct
/ Thereupon, summoning the states
e man to his presence, King Georg
e read aloud his notes of the intervie,
of months before, from which 1t al
n peared that the politician suffere
e from lapse of memory, to say tn
e least Every word in the famou
e diary is written down by the king
y own hand, its details having referenc
r even to state secrets of highest in
It portance.
e Possibly. If the king of Greco
a were well to do, as the Paris Ecla
: surmises, he might live less like
b plain business man. The simplicit
$ of the meals in the royal palace hs
been ascribed as much to the po