The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-26
Tiny Prince Humbert
 Valiant Champion
 Of The Montenegrins

pion of little Montenegro is Prince Humbert, the nine-year-old son of 1 King Victor of Italy. Prince Hum bert does not approve at all of his 1 fathers attitude toward Montenegro | in the Balkan War and learned with Idismay that Italy was in thorough ac- cord with the other powers in de- mand1ng that the Montenegrins lift the siege of Scutari.
 A few days ago Prince Hunbert was playing war; with his sisters in the royal iursery. The King was amused spectator of the game Prince | Humber was the Montenegrin leader and he killed off" all the Turks-his sisters-in the game. Turning to his father, the little Prince demanded to be sent<to Cetttnje.
 | Why asked the King.
 The Prince thought for a moment and remembered that his mother and grandfather were Montenegrins. We'll he replied, 'I think you ought to be there fighting, but as you i are not, I suppose I ought to go to grandpapa and show him that we are on his side. Why are you not with him 9"
 You see Italy is still fighting in ! piled the King.
 But suppose you were not requir ed here," asked the little critic, would you go to Montenegro"
 King Victor hesitated and chose his words with care.
 NO, do not think SOL he said fin ally.
 Prince Hun1bert shouldered his toy gun and shook his head.
 .'I think it is very wrong of you, he said emphatically. "I am going to practise so that can kill all of grand papa's enemies They're all Turks, anyway"
 Another incident to royalty which has provoked widespread discussion befel1 Princess Isabelle, Duchess of Genoa, recently.
 A year ago the Duchess was pass ing on foot through her country place, on the outskirts of a tiny village, when her atetntion was attracted to a party of strolling acrobats, quite as much by their poverty as by the cIeverness of their tricks. She watched them for some time, then made an appoint Inent with their leader for them all to come to the castle and perform. This they accepted eagerly.
 They kept the appointment. The Duchess was quite at home with them, listened to their stories, gave them a good dinner, paid them well and sent them away with new clothes. Then she forgot all about them-
 Months passed. One day the Duch- ess was horribly burned as the liquid
  for rheumatism caught fire. Through out the kiigdom it was published that the wound was an ugly one and that 1t showed little disposition to heal. She was very ill for weeks. When she was recovering the Duke received a, coarse and dirty envelope, addressed in an unskilled hand and forwarded from an obscure town many miles away. With caution the Duke tore it open.
 It was a letter from the band of strol1ing acrobats, signed with appar- ent difficulty by each one of them. 1 They recalled the incident at the cas tie, said they were greatly distressed to learn of the poor Duchess plight, l and wanted to do what they could to l aid her. They were poor, the letter | ran, and had no money to offer, but l wouldn't the Duchess allow them to | come back to the castle and give as i much of their skins as necessary 10 | cover the scar on her arm?
 The Duchess wept when told of the | offer. The sacrifice was not neces- | sary, but the labored scrawl and the among he treasures. |
 Siena, which ranks fourth to Ve- | nice, Florence and Rome, a centre | for the study of Italian art, is awaken | ing to her possibilities. The historic l church of San Francisco, a Gothic ba- | silica, of the thirteenth century. which 1 was enlarged in the fourteenth cen l tury. but practically demolished at the | time of the French invasion, is to be | restored. This is the first step in what may be a general plan to fur ther the attractions of the city.
 The committee of the restoration of | the church, headed by Archbishop Scaccia, includes the best names of | the Sienese aristocracy, such as Mar 1 chese Ballati-Neri, Conte Chfgi-Sari- cini Conte Piccolomini and Marchese Bichi- -Ruspoli. The church, when | restored, will be a new attra action to l tourists, there being in it rich sculp- lures, ancent frescoes now brought | to light for the first time in centuries stained glass from Munich and iron | work of great va1ue-