The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-23

if he had taken up either musical com
 position or the violin professionally, he
 would have been able to make more
 money in an hour than he will in q
 whole year by doctoring needy pa
 tients at five cents a head. He is an enthusiastic Wagnerite. like his kins-
 man, the ill-fated King Ludwig of Ba- yaria who was Wagner's patron, and
 who. Prince Ludwig declares, was great idealist who was born too soon,
 the world not yet, as he says, being sick enough of utilitarian and Philis-
 tine vulgarity to value Ludwigs rare qualities"
 Until a comparatively short time ago, Prince Ludwig Ferdinand played first violin in the orchestra of the famous
 prince. regents theatre at Munich in
 whose control he took an important. though not an official, part overseeing personally the rehearsals of practically
 every production that was staged there.
 He is proud of the work he did there
 and thinks that if the musicians and
 singers continuesin the course on which
 he started them, the prince regents theatre will some day rank with the
 highest operatic establishments and
 also will have an accent of its own
 analogous to that of Oberammergau.
 Prince Ludwig himself has com
 posed no end of musical scores, per
 laps the most ambitious being the
 musical setting which he made for
 Rostand's most poetic poem, "The Princess Lointaine." In order to con- suit Rostand in connection with this.
 the prince accompanied by Princess Marie and their pretty daughter, Prin- cess Pillar, stopped in France on one of their periodic visits to Spain, avail ing themselves of the opportunity, too,
 to hear most of the pieces that were
 then being sung at the Paris opera
 house, as well as to see the best things at the playhouses, the princess being
 not at all averse to a good French
 farce and not minding either if it is just bit highly seasoned.
 As an instance of how the prince
 combines his two hobbies it may be related that, while on this same visit to the City of Light, he sought the opinions of his medical colleagues as to the therapeutic uses of radium, and that. on his arrival in Madrid. he per formed several operations at the Prin- cesa hospital, many prominent medical men being present.
 As for the former Infanta Paz, now Princess Ludwig Frederick of Bavaria, 1t may be imagined that she was en- chanted at the opportunity of meeting Rostand. for she herself is almost as gifted as a poetess as her renowned husband is as musician and doctor She gives poetic form to her senti- ments in Spanish and, as she has not to write for the book market. like Queen Carmen Sylvia" of Roumania she can write when and how she pleases. Her deceased sister. the late Infanta Ptlar had a similar gift and some really charming verses which she addressed to her Celestial patroness, Our Lady of Pillar, became somewhat famous.
 Because Princess Marie doesn't care particularly to have Munich'ss apple women, charwomen and servant girls galloping over the lawns at Nymphen- berg chateau, or trying to "glad eye" her exalted husband, one must not in- fer that her royal highness is unchari table. Quite the contrary In exile the daughters of the late Queen 1sa- bella of Spain got somewhat too well acquainted with the seamy side of life, and these lessons were not wasted on the spouse of the princely medico. It Is doubtful, in fact If the royal caste has produced better friend of the poor. She Is the foundress of the As sociation of Seraphic Charity, of which her daughter, Princess Pillar, now 23. whom everybody supposed was going to marry King Alfonso, Is president. and which is composed of children of all classes.
 Princess Pillar can hardly be de- scribed as a beauty. but her features are well proportioned and shapely, and her whole face speaks of goodness, sense and firmness. The Sraniards would have preferred her, as the daughter and granddaughter of Spanish princesses, to that English as they disrespeot5ully called Queen Ena,' but it was thought by all parties that Princess Pillar was too young to be the consort of the advanced Alfonso the Thirteenth.
 Each member of the Association of Eeraphic Charity is bound by . sol- emn promise, something like that of the Boy Scouts renewed once Q year, to do all in his or her power to aid suf- fering children. On her twelfth birth day, Princess Pillar, appealed to the Bavarian children of rich or well-to-d families to come to the aid of their poorer brothers and sisters of the As- sociation of Seraphic Charity, and she asked all the poor who could do 90 to devote sn hour day to working for able response the result being a unique show, representing the work of mem bsrS of the Seraphic band, at the Nym- palace.
 The young princess provides the chill dren of the poor whose works she asks with wool and cotton for knitting. silks for embroidery, knitting and crochet needles and models. Any poor child Is free to write to her to ask what may be needful for the fullfilment of the task she has set She answers by postcard. and sends the thinKs wanted ny woman belonging to some charity orgenixetion society who pats tho small worker on the back. recommends pnr-