Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-08-01
SWISS ARE TIRED
OF ExILED KINGS
Poor In Funds and Spirit and
MoodiB Waiting for Some
thing to Turn Up.
'TINO' SPECIALLY OBNOXIOUS
ksIser's 5rother-In-Law Accepts lnvI-
tatlons to 5anquets and Then
"cuts" HIS Hosts-oId Lud.
wig saddest Of All.

Chiasso, Italo-Swiss Frontier
Switzerland is getting tired of exiled
kings. They seemingly cause a rise
in food prices, already toned up to
breaking point, and give q good deal
Of trouble In international relations
owing to their craze for political In
trigue. Their faithful friends plot to
get them restored to their former
thrones. Switzerland is now the favor
lite resort Of dethroned and crownless
monarchs. Many Of them, ~unhappily
for Swiss hotelkeepers, are %fortuneless
as well.
Ex-King Constantine of Greece,
known to his foes as "Tino," has not
been paying his bills with regularity
Of late. Since Kaiser Wilhelm, his
brother-in-law, fastened into Holland,
help from Germany fails to ONE. So
hard up Is "Tino' and his family, who
live at the Hotel National, Lucerne,
that he has had to borrow from former
subjects, notably a courtier named
STREET. and the once f~ire-eating Thesto-
kis.
The weekly bill is 2,400 francs
t$4S0), a modest sum for even an ex-
sovereign, with a following Of go peo-
pie, all told. But ever this bill (the
entire family and encourage are on
regular board rates) is paid with great
difficulty.
Had to Cut Him Out
Then, "Tino'' LIS no longer the little
god Of all those war proiteers who
still flock to Switzerland from the ex-
central empires. They are tired Of
him. His way Of accepting sumptu-
GUS banquets and then cutting has
hosts and hostesses Of yesterday when
another dinner-giver had arrived, has
finally bored them and invitations are
few and far be .ween.
NO longer do his German, Austrian
and Greek admirers give balls for
him, where lights were turned out at
two In the morning, though the party
did not break up till several hours Ia
ter. The orgies Of "red balls" and
pink balls" and even 'black balls"
(so-called just because the lights went
out before the party broke up. and
everybody wore black when the lights
were on, and all the decorations were
black) began to shock the decent
health or pleasure-seekers at Saint
Morftz. Lugane and other resorts, so
that the Swiss police had to intervene,
and s'Tino" was cut off from these
lurid joys for the sake of public de-
cency.
10 crown all, the exchange is so bad
for his dearest friends that they no
longer have the money to spend on
his amusement. And so he has to
walk up and down the shores at Luz
cerne on foot, for he has not aver a
motor nowadays.
kaIsers Sister Sees No One.
The rest of the family pass their
time as best they can. His grand
daughters and nieces, for the lack of
q carriage or a car, go about on bicy-
cles. People turn r. und to look al
them, not because they are exiled
princesses, but because they happen
to be very pretty into the bargain,
with fair hair and dazzling complex
ions; and beauty is not among the
list of Swiss women's good qualities.
'Tino's" wife, Sophia, Kaiser VIII
helms sister, goes nowhere and sees
nobody. She Is clothed in melancholy
silence and takes her place at the
head Of the family table in the public
dining room of the hotel with an ex-
preston of settled melancholy. They
simply can't afford to dine In their
rooms, because 1t would cost at least
20 per cent more, and goodness only
knows how long they will be able to
pay the weekly bill as it now stands.
"Tino's'' n extravaganza nowadays
consists Of very strong cocktails. He
quite recently asked Germany for q
loan of 100000 marks, but was CURLY
refused.
Prince Nick and His MonocIe.
His brother, Prince Nicholas, walks
q good deal on the lake side, with a
huge monocle In his right eye-his one
extravaganza. The crown prince's
cousin, known as the duke of Sparta,
shares these melancholy walks. Prince
Paul, his younger brother, kills time
with a pretty little girl from Vienna
but as his whole income is $500 a
month he cannot paint Lucerne red,
and Is content to listen to the public
band, or to take coffee in a public gar
den where popular prices prevail.
None of the family is popular in the
little city, however. The Swiss say
they are rough and disagreeable. They
certainly all look bored to death.
Old King Ludwig.
The ex-king of Bavaria has taken
a home In Switzerland, too-an old
feudal manor, half convent, half fort
ress-at Zizers, in the canton of Girl
o not far from Chur.
Ludwig III, 10 seventy-four years
old. looks the saddest and most de-
pressed of all the dethroned royalties
now on Swiss soil. Karl, ex-emperor
Of Austria Hungary is almost turbu-
lently gay in comparison with him, and
even the "Tino" family look cheerful
by his side.
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