The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-08-01
Poor in Funds and Spirit and
MoodiIy Waiting for Some
thing to Turn Up.
'TINO' SPECIALLY OBNOXIOUS
kaiser's Brother.n-laW Accepts inVi-
tations to Bancuets and Then
Cuts" His hosts-Od lud-
wig Saddest OF All.

ChiasSo, Italo-Swi>S Frontier
Switzerland is getting tired Of eXiled
kings They seemingly cause a rise
in food prices, already toned up TO
breaking point, and give a 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 deIhroned and crownleSs
monarchs. Many OF them, unhappily
for Swiss hotelkeepers. are fortuneless
as WELL
EX-king Constantine of Greece.
known to his foes as Tine" 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 come. SO
hard up is "Tino" and his family. who
live at the Hotel National. Lucerne.
that he has had 10 borrow from former
subjects. notably a courier named
STREET. and the once tire-ea,ing Thesto-
kS.
The weekly bill is 2.IN francs
(S4S0). Il modest sum for even an ex-
sovereign, with a following of GO peo-
pie, all told. But even this bill (the
entire family and encourage are on
regular board rates) is paid with great
difficulty.
Had to Cut Him Out
Then, "'rinO" is no longer the little
god of all those war protiteers who
still flock to Switzerland from the ex-
central empires. They are tired of
him. His way of accepting slmptu-
Gus banquets and then cutting his
hosts and ho>teSseS Of Yesterday when
another dinners iver had arrived has
finally bored them ana invitations are
few and far between.
No longer do his German, Austrian
and Greek admirers give balls for
him, where lights were turned out Al
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 "back balls"
tSo-called Just because the lights went
out before the party broke up. auG
everybody wore black when the lights
We're on, and all The decorations were
black began to shock tie decent
health or pleaSure-Seekcrs 1T Sainl
Moritz, Lugane and other resorts. sc
that the Swiss police had 10 intervene
and ''Ifno" was cut off from thcst
lurid joys for the sake of public tic
cency.
To crown all. the exchange is 50 ha,
for his dearest friends that they 10
longer have the money to spend or
his amusement. And So he has /,
walk up and down the shore. 1t La
cerne on foot. for he has net even ;
motor nowadays
kaiser's Sister Sees No One.
The rest of the family pass thei'
time as best they can His grant!
daughters and ntrceS. for the lack q
carriage or a car, 90 about on bicy
cles. People turn round 70 look IL
them, not because they are exile,
princeSseS, but because they happe,
To be Very pretty into the bargain
with fair hair and dazzling complex
ions: and beauty is not ar.ong III,
list of Swiss women's good qualities
"Tino's" wife, Sophia. Kaiser VII
helms sister, goes nowhere ana see
nobody. She is clothed in melanchol,
silence and takes her place ar III,
head of the family table in the publ,
dining room of the hotel with an eX
preston of settled melancholy. The,
s!mpl. can't afford to dine in thei
boOmS. because it would cost at leas