Evening star., 1924-02-09
BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.

By THE MARQCISE DE FONTENOY.
| Germany's government. especially
since the arrival of Gen. Dawes mis-
! litigation to Berlin. has found it nee
esSary to take some steps TO check
the scandal created by the ostenta-
tious extravaganza of Teuton tour
lists, especially of the profiteer class,
who are crowding out the ordinary
foreign visitors from the principal
winter resorts, especially in SwitZer-
| land and in northern Italy. by their
numbers and by their aggressive be-
ihayior Just at the time when the
German government is sending ap-
ipeals to the United States and other
icountries for charity to relieve the
talleged poverty in the Eaterland and
, the loudly heralded destitution and
even starvation which are decimating
the aged and undermining the ply
sique of the rising generation. the
wild extravagance of the German
Visitors in Swiss and Italian resorts
constitute a fragrant scandal.
| The result has been that the Ger
man government has shut down with
heavy hand on the grant of pass
ports, which it is now only issuing
when proof is furnished that sub
stantial grounds exist for journey
abroad New passports. moreover,
contain n number of drasticly worded
instructions for behavior of their
holders while abroad, especially in
the matter of ostentation of wealth
| and extravaganza.
In addition to this. the German au-
thorities have established a system
| of secret agents at those Swiss and
/ Italian resorts where German guests
abound in order to keep track of
their conduct and, whenever their re-
| ports show that IL German tourist
! has been guilty OF undue extrava-
: gance, he is confronted on his return
! home by judicial investigation at
; the instance of the treasury depart
ment to ascertain whether his in
come as assessed for taxation in his
native land justifies his extravaganza
abroad. The Berlin government at
!: length has realized that the eNtrava-
gance of it's citizens in foreign
/ lands. and especially in thermal and
pleasure resorts. is of n nature to
sincerity Of the official insistence
upon Teuton poverty and the alleged
| inability of the nation to pay its
lawful obligations.
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There is no truth whatsoever in
the stories that have been cabied to
! this country to the effect that the
mind of Empress Marie of Russia has
given way and that she is living in
seclusion and under restraint at
the charming and spacious villa of
! Hvidoere, in the vicinity of Copen-
hagen, surrounded by large grounds,
which she owns jointly with her sis
ter, Queen Alexandra. She spent the
greater part of last summer and
autumn in England with her sister,
the English queen mother, at San
dringham and in London at Marl-
borough House; also visiting certain
i country houses, such as Althorp, the
| historic country seat of the Earls of
| Spencer, and all sorts Of public insti-
tutions and exhibitions in the metrop-
J oils, returning shortly before Christ
mas to spend the holiday season in
Denmark-that is to say, the land
of her birth-with her youngest
daughter, Grand Duchess Olga. and the
latter's children by her morganatic
husband. Col. Koulikowski.
According to the present plans she will
| be joined tnere ABOUT Easter line py
| Queen Alexandria, who, after a stay
| in Denmark of few weeks, will take
her back with her to England for the
| summer. The widowed empress. now
seventy seven, that is to say, several
years younger than Queen Alexendra
has retained, like the latter. to an
| astonishing degree, her physical and
| mental vigor, amazing when one bears
\ in mind the sorrows and the trials
l which she has been compelled to endure
/ in
In Petrograd in 1917, the loss of hel
throne, Of the greater part of hel
fortune, the butchery under the most
i atrocious circumstances of her eldes,