Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1919-08-08
Poor in Funds and Spirit and
Moodily Waiting for Some
thing to Turn Up.
'TINO' SPECIALLY OBNOXIOUS
kaiser's Brother-in-Law Accepts Invi-
tations to BanGuets and Then
"Cuts" His Hosts-OId Lud-
wig Saddest of All.

Chiasso, Italo-Swiss Frontier
Switzerland is getting tired Of exiled
kings. They seemingly cause 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
lite resort of dethroned and crownless
monarchs. Many of them, unhappily
for Swiss hotelkeepers, are fortuneless
as WELL
Exking Constantine Of Greece,
known to his foes as "Tino." has not
been paying his bills with regularity
Of late. Since Kaiser Wilhelm, his
orother-ln-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 courtier named
STREET. and the once fire-eating Thesto-
kiS.
The weekly bill is 2,4OO francs
($4SO), modest sum for even an ex-
sovereign, with 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 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 al
two In the morning, though the party
did not break up till several hours Ia.
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. sc
that the Swiss police had to intervene
and "Tino' was cut off from these
lurid joys for the sake Of public de
cency.
10 crown all, the exchange is 80 baC
Tor his dearest friends that they nc
longer have the money to spend or
his amusement. And so he has Il
walk up and down the shores at Lu
cerne on foot, for lie has not even s
motor nowadays
kaiser's Sister Sees No One.
The rest OF the family pass theil
time as best they can. His grand
daughters and nieces, for the lack o.
carriage or car, go about on bicy
cles. People turn round to look a.
them, not because they are exilee
princesses, but because they happe,
to be very pretty into the bargain
with fair hair and dazzling complex
ions; and beauty is not aIong thu
list Of Swiss women's good qualities
TinQ's" wife, Sophia, Kaiser VIII
helms sister, goes nowhere and see:
nobody. She is clothed in melanchol,
silence and takes her place at III,
head Of the family table in the public
dining room Of the hotel with an ex
preston OF settled melancholy. The,
simply can't afford to dine in thei
rooms because It would cost at leas