The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-08-08
Poor in Funds and Spirit and
MoodiIy Waiting for Some
thing to Turn Up.
'1|No' SPECIALLY OBNOXIOUS
Kaiser's Brother-in-LaW Accepts lnvi-
tatons to Banquets and Then
"Cuts" His Hosts-Old Lud-
wig Saddest Of All.

Chiasso, Italo-Swiss Frontier
switzerland is getting tired of exiled
kings. They seemingly cause 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 dethroned and crOwnless
monarchs. Many of them, unhappily
for Swiss hotelkeepers, are fortuneless
IS 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
orother-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,
mat ne has had to borrow from former
SUBJECTS, notably courtier named
slrelt and the once fire-eating Thesto-
klS.
The weekly bill is 2,4OO francs
@4oo). modest sum for even an ex-
sovereign, with a following of 60 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
ihen, limo" is no longer the little
soa OF all those war profiteers who
sun hock to Switzerland from the ex-
.en'rai empires. They are tired Of
Hiu' His way of accepting sumptu-
su' oahquets and then cutting his
u0sls and hostesses of yesterday when
suother dinner-giver had arrived. has
.uay bored them and invitations are
'eW and far between.
No longer 70 his German, Austrian
~ aau Greek admirers give balls for
n' where lights were turned out at
% r' IN The morning, though the party
=. ~ w. break up till several hours la
49, Inc orgies Of "red balls" and
sAA oails" and even "black balls"
A., .'s'ied just because the lights went
wy before the party broke up. and
w., ssoooy wore black when the lights
N. "n. and all the decorations were
49,, began to shock the decent
~. or pleasure-seekers at Saint
h., Lugane and other resorts, so
Y Ana .1 SWISS police had to intervene,
n,s no was cut off from these
/
4 sncy. '"e SaAe oi PUBIC oe-
sr ~, a'"n all. the exchange is so bad
7" Oo,o. nearest friends that they no
q nave the money to spend on
" ,n "usement. And so he has to
- up and down the shores Mt Luz
~ lo,o. vi loot. for he has not even a
K 'r nowadays.
y n Sister Sees No One.
|na resi- OF the family pass their
su,,a best they can. His grand
~ err and nieces. for the lack of
a h or car, go about on bicy-
- ep ple turn round to look at
a. koeoa1' because they are exiled
- b. out because they happen
- A 81, pretty into the bargain.
n rs. hair and dazzling complex
i Of Gu beauty is not aI.ong the
fino,." women's good qualities
: kn's g. wife, Sophia, Kaiser Will
4, &dr Get goes nowhere and sees
aes enc is clothed in melancholy
= ID q. ~ takes her place at the
~ kas me e family table in the public
~ kSson ~ OF the hotel with an ex-
= boz -. =. settled melancholy. They
" "a r.. AFFORD to dine in their
9ss it would cost at least