The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-08-07
Poor in Funds and Spirit and
MoodiIy Waiting for Some
thing to Turn Up.
.TJNO' SPECIALLY OBNOXIOUS
kaiser's Brother-in-Law Accepts Invi-
tations 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 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
tie 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 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 2,4O0 francs
($480), a 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.
Then, "Tino" Is no longer the little
god Of all those war profteers 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 fred 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
Moritz, Lugane and other resorts, so
that tine 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 up and down the shores at Luz
cerne on foot, for he has not even
motor nowadays.
kaiser's Sister Sees No One.
The rest of the family pass the :
time as best they can. His grano-
daughters and nieces, for the lack of
a carriage or car, go about on bicy-
cles. People turn round to look at
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 it would cost at least