The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-07-19
|TlNo' SPECIALLY OBNOXIOUS
Naiser's Brother-in-laW Accepts Invl'
! tations to 8anquets and Then
: "cuts" His Hosts-old Lud.
via Saddest OF All.

1NrOueS. SWltZcIldHu Is III" TIC LaNOA~
sae resort of dethroned and crownless
monarchs. Many of them, unhappily
Cor Swiss hotelkeepers, are fOrtuneless
rs 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
arother-in-law, fastened into Holland,
Aelp from Germany fails to come. So
aard up is "Tino' and his family, who
nve 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-
His.
The weekly bill Is 2,4OO francs
$4S0). Il modest sum for even an ex-
sovereign, with following Of 60 peo-
ple, 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
aim. His way of accepting sumptu-
eas banquets and then cutting his
hosts and hostesses Of yesterday when
another dinner=giver had arrived, has
3nalIy bored them and invitations are
lew and far between.
No longer do his German, Austrian
and Greek admirers give. balls for
him, where lights were turned out at
swo in the morning, though the party
aid not break up till several bouts la
ter. The orgies of red balls" and
pink balls" and even ''black balls"
xso-called Just because the tights went
cut before the party broke up, and
everybody wore black when the lights
were on, and all the decorations were
Mack) began to shock the decent
heatth or pleasure-seekers at Saint
Abritz, Luganc and other resorts. so
shat the Swiss police had to intervene
and "Tino" was cut OF from these
turtd Joys for the sake Of public de-
eency.
To crown all, the exchange is so bad
fnr his dearest friends that they no
longer have the money to spend on
Ais amusement. And so he has to
walk up and down the shores Mt LII
serne on foot, for he has not even q
motor nowadays.
kalser's Sister Sees No One.
rue rest OF the family pass their
time as best they can. His grand
daughters and nieces, for the lack OF
carriage or car, 50 about on bicy-
tsss. People turn round to look at
mem. not because they are exlled
ertneesses, but because they happen
10 be very pretty into the bargain,
~trss fair hair and dazzling complex
s"nsH and beauty Is not among this
asr Of Swiss women's good qualities.
"Tino's' wife, Sophia. Kaiser VIII
Eelm's sister. goes nowhere and sees
nobody. She is clothed in melancholy
Sflanee and takes her place at the
bead of the family table in the public
dining room of the hotel with an ex-
eressfon Of settled melancholy. They
simply can't afford to dine in their
r.,afsls, because it would cost at least
~ per cent more, and goodness only
SHOWS how long they will be able to
gay the weekly bill as 1t, now stands.
''Tino's" one extravaganza nowadays
consists of very strong cocktails. He
quite recently asked Germany for a
ioan Of 5000 600 marks, but was CURLY
refused.
., Prince Nick and Hls NlonocIe.
{; Els brother, Prince Nicholas, walks
good deal on the lake side, with d
huge monocle in his right eye-his one
=xtravagance. The crown princes
cousin, known as the duke Of Sparta,
shares these melancholy walks. Prince
Paul, his younger BROTHER, Kills time
with b pretty little girl from Vienna;
kut Us his Whole income IS 500 d
month he cannot paint Lueerne red,
and fs content to listen to the public
band, or to take coffee in a public gar
den where popular prices prevail.
None Of the family is popular In the
ntAs city, however. TIE Swiss cay
Aey are. rough and disagreeable. They
certainly al look bored to death.
< Old King Ludwig.
The ex-king Of Bavaria has taken
az home in Switzerland, teo-an old
teus1al manor, half convent. half fort
sessat Zizers,' in the canton Of Gri.
se1s, not far, from Chur.
Ludwig III, now seventyfour years
ead. hooks the saddest and most, de-
rsnssed of all the dethroned royalties
neW on Swiss soil. Kari, ex-emperor
R Austria-Hungary IS almost turbu-
lentIy gay in comparison with him, and
even the "Tino" family look cheerful
~ his side. ~,
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