The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-22
Court Gossip of Interesting
Events on Two Continents

Copyright. 1913, by Court Gossip Syndicate.)
M. Poincare viii be killed with kind
ness, unless he manages to evade the
many invitations he receives. FREQUENT
dining-out at banquets and houses where
''chefs de cuisine" are kept Is ruinous to
health and digestion. Perhaps 1t was this
knowledge that prompted the French
President to spend the Easter holidays
at his country seat, at st. Mfchaei. on
the Mouse (Maas) River. His grand
father bought sufficient land for him In
that department Of the lovely Ardennes
to qualify him for election to the county
council, of which body he became MEM
Der at twenty-six. This brought MIN
into republican politics. and. growing
fond of the neighborhood. he bought the
chateau. a rambling, roomy, high-roofed'
and brick-faced house. built OF cut stone
NJ Poincare is to be the host OK the
King of Spain next month at Fontaine-
bleau Alfonso has expressed desire
to see the place. His Queen Will NOT
accompany him, owing to ner oehcate
state of health, which is as good an ex-
cuse as any.
FontainebIeau, which was created
by King Francois !, must have been an
ideal residence for a court That mon
arch, like his successor, the Fourteenth
Louis, liked the company OF ladies'
palace without them seemed to the sooo
King Francois like a garden witnout
flowers. He frowned upon husbands VINO
left their wives to NOPE In their castles
while they amused themselves at his
court.
The regal part Of Fontainebleau never
has not been inhabited since 1853 Former
President Carnot used to pass his vaca-
nj fore
court, known to contemporaneous writ
ers as the pavilion de Nine de Pompa-
dour" 1t is spacious enough for mod
ern court, and looks upon the forest SIDE
of the English garden.
Darmstadt. where the Prince of Wales
has been paying a weekend visit to the
Grand Duke of Hesse, whose mother was
a daughter Of Queen Victoria, is consid-
cred the ugliest capital city in Europe,
and any way, the ugliest city in Ger
many, next to Mannheim. 1t was re-
built during the eighteenth century, and
planned In square blocks with the
straight lines and stiffness OF chess
board. One street is just like another;
one house generally the exact counter
part of every other. At the head of the
main street is the unsightly palace; at
the two ends of the cross street are two
plain brick churches. one for the Calvin
lists. and the other for Catholics OF re-
cent years some aesthetic improvements
have been made by a colony of Wen
nese artists and architects, who have
settled in the Alexanderweg quarter of
Darmstadt.
The Prince of Wales might enjoy his
trip to Germany and travels in Germany
much more If he were permitted to view
everything in the unconventional way
adopted by the German Crown Prince and
his royal brothers. Like all the Hohen-
zollerns the SONS of the Kaiser each
were taught a trade and their ia her also
insisted that they taste the delights o.
the true German "Wanderjahr," which
to this day forms leading part of the
education of most German artisans. In
the case of the Hohenzollern princes the
Wanderjahr was split up over several
successive summer holidays, which they
spent tramping through the delightful
sections of the Rhein valley, the Neckar
district with its ancient baronial castles.
or the Thueringer Valid with its quaint
populace and still quainter industries of
toys. pipes, laces, colored glass, &C.
They often have been seen, knapsack on
back. on infrequented roads trudging
along from small town to small town,
well guarded. of course, and enjoying life
in its primitive form in the country, or
sleeping at wayside inns. They were al
lowed no servants, but their military
governor" Col. Won Glakenhoyn, was
with them. and they were recognized but
rarely.
An attache, fresh from Europe, tells
how the recently deceased aged Regent
of Bavaria, Prince Luitpold, starved a
tableful Of invited dinner guests instead
OF dining them, several weeks before his