The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1919-08-08
Poor in Funds and Spirit and
Moodily Waiting for Some
thing to Turn Up.
s7lNO' SPECIALLY OBNOXIOUS
f<alser's Brother-in-Law Accepts Invl-
tations to Banquets and Then
"cuts' His Hosts-OId Lud-
wig Saddest Of All.

Chlnsso, Italo-Swlss Frontier
Switzerland is getting tired Of exiled
kings. They seemingly cause rise
In food prices, already toned up to
breaking point, and give good deal
OF trouble In international relations
owing to their craze for political In
-trlguc. Their faithful friends plot to
set them restored to their former
thrOnes. Switzerland Is now the favor
ate resort Of dethroned and crownless
monarchs. Many of them. unhappily
for Swiss hotelkeepers, are fortuneless
rs well.
TxKing Constantine of Greece,
known to his foes as "Tino," has not
e.been paying his bills with regularity
-<of late. Since Kaiser Wilhelm, his
Z brother-in-law, fastened into Holland,
! help from Germany fails to come. So
khard mp is "Tino" and his family. who
five at the Hotel National. Lucerne,
that he has had to borrow from former
subjects, notably q courtier named
:Streit and the once fire-eating ThestO-
llxis.
The weekly bill Is 2,4OO francs
X$46O), a modest sum for even an ex-
sovereign. with following Of 90 peo-
,pic. 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 profiteers who
still flock to Switzerland from the ex-
central empires. They are tired of
hlm. His way Of accepting sumptu-
Gus banQuets and then cutting his
ahosts and hostesses of yesterday when
another dinner-giver had arrived, has
finally bored them and invitations are
few aud far between.
No longer do his German, Austrian
sand 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"
Vso-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
Morltz, Lugane and other resorts, so
that the Swiss police had to Intervene,
and "Tino"- was cut Off from these
surid joys for the sake of public de-
Icency.
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 tho shores at Luz
ccrne on foot. for he has not even a
motor nowadays.
kaiser'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
n carriage or a car. go about on bicy-
cles. People turn round to look at
them. not because they are exiled
princesscs, but because they happen
to be very pretty into the bargain.
with fair hair and dazzling complex
IONS; and beauty IL not aE.ong the
dist Of Swiss women's good qualities.
"Tino's" wife, Sophia, Kaiser Will
Seim's sister. goes nowhere and sees
nobody. She is clothed In melancholy
silence and takes her place at the
head Of the family tnbIe In the public
dining room Of the hotel with an ex-
iprcssion Of settled melancholy. They
simply can't afford to dine In their
vpcma because II would cost ct least