The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-07-28
Poor in Funds and Spirit and
MoodiIy Waiting for Some
thing to Turn Up.
TIKo' OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
kslser's Brother-ln-Law Accepts invL
tations to Banquets and Then
"Cuts" His Hosts-Old Lud-
wig Saddest of All.

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
as well.
EYKing 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 come. 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 %fire-eating Thesto-
kis.
The weekly bill is 2,400 francs
($4S0), a modest sum for ever 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.
Then, ''Tino" is no longer the little
god of all those wal profiteers 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 his
hosts and hostesses of yesterday when
another dinner-giver had arrived, has
finally bored them and invitations are
few and far between.
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 la
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
We're on, and all the decorations were
black began to shock the decent
health or pleasure-seekers at Saint
Moritz, Lugane and other resorts, so
that the Swiss police had to intervene,
and 'Tino" was cut off from these
lurid joys for the sake of public de-
cency.
To 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 mp and down the shores at Lu.
cerne on foot, for he has not even q
motor nowadays.
kalser's 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
a carriage or a car, go about on bicy-
cles. People turn round to look at
them, not because they are exiled
Processes, 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 thu
7 head of the family table in the publ,
dining of the hotel with an ex
2 preston of settled melancholy. The,
| simply can't afford to dine in theiI
I rooms, because 1t would cost at leas
2 20 per e n more, and goodness onl,
q knows how long they will be able t,
pay the weekly bill as Ii now stands
I "Ifno's" "a extravaganza nowadayl
I consists of very strong cocktails. ii,
quite recently asked Germany for
: loan of 6,0OO,OO0 marks, but was curtl,
refused.
Prince Nick and His Monocle.
His brother, Prince Nicholas, walk
a n good deal on the lake side, with
huge monocle In his right eye--his on
I extravaganza. The crown prince
cousin. known as the duke of Sparts
shares these melancholy walks. Prime
Paul, his younger brother, kills tim
with a pretty little girl from Vienna
but as his whole income is 5000
month he cannot paint Lucerne rec
and is content TO listen to the publ
band, or to take coffee In q public gar
den where popular prices prevail
. None of the family Is popular in th
3 little city. however. The Swiss sa
they are rough and disagreeable. The
certainly all look bored to death.
e Old King Ludwig.
The ex-king of Bavaria has take
q home in Switzerland, too--an Tol
d feudal manor, half convent, half for
ress-at Zizers, In the canton of CIR
sons, not far from Chur.
Ludwig III. now seventy-four year
old, looks the saddest and most dt
- pressed Of all the dethroned royaltie
4 now on Swiss soil. Karl, ex-empero
! Of Austria-H Hungary Is almost turbl
lently gay In comparison with him, an
even the s@Tino" family look cheerfl
by his side.