The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-10

Left to right, above: Ex-Queen So
phia of Greece, ex-king Constantine
and ex-King Ludwig of Bavaria. EX-
Emperor Karl of Austria, photograph
ed recently in Switzerland, is seen In
the center of the group picture.
CHIASSO, Italo-Swiss Frontier, July
9.-Switzerland is getting tired OF eX-
lied kings. They seemingly cause
rise in food prices, already toned up
to breaking point, and give good
deal of trouble in international rela-
tons owing to their craze for political
intrigue. Their faithful friends plot
to get them restored to their former
thrones. Switzerland is now the fav-
orite resort of dethroned and crown
less monarchs. Many of them, unhap-
PLY for Swiss hotel keepers, are for
tuneless as we'll.
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 bro
ther-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 for
mer subjects, notably courtier named
STREET and the once fire-eatlng 1hesto-
kis.
The weekly hotel bill is 2,4O0 francs
(S4SO), modest sum for even an eX-
sovereign, with following OF sixty
people, 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.
i Then, "Tino" is no longer the little
god of all those war profiteers VINO
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
host and hostess 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
2 in the morning, though the party
did not break up till several hours
later 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
were on, and all the decorations were
black began to shock the decent
health or pleasure seekers at Saint
Moritz, Lugano, 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
decency.
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 Lu-
cerne on foot, for he has not even
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
. carriage or a car, go about on d.
cycles People turn around to look
l at them, not because they are expelled
> princesses, but because they happen
to be very pretty into the bargain,
with fair hair and dazzling complex
5 ions; and beauty is not among the
, list of Swiss women's good qualities
9 "Tino's" wife, Sophia. Kaiser Will
helms sister, goes nowhere and sees
4 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 cannot afford to dine In thelr
rooms because it would cost at least
: twenty per cent more, and goodness
= only knows how long they will be
y able to pay the weekly bill as it no"
= ! stands "Tino's" one extravaganza
now consists of very strong cocktails
He quite recently asked Germany fol
loan of 100000 marks, but was
CURLY refused.
= Prince Nick and His Monoele.
: His brother, Prince Nicholas, walks
a good deal on the lake side, with a
huge monocle in his right eye-hls
; one extravaganza. The fallen heir to
the Greek throne, the Grown Princes
cousin, known as the Duke OF Sparta
shares these melancholy walks. Prince
Paul, his younger brother, kills time
] with a pretty little girl from Vienna;
= but as his whole income is 5000 a
month he cannot paint Lucerne red
l. and is content to listen to the public
6 band, or TO take coffee in public
1t garden where popular prices prevail
g None OF the family is popular in the
S little city. however. The Swiss say
y they are rough and disagreeable. They
& certainly all look bored to death.
p The ex-king of Bavaria has taken q
n home in Switzerland, too-an ole
y feudal manor, half convent, half for
ifresS-at 2iyers IN the Canton NJ