Show DINNE Row How He Feasted a Par Party of Musicians In Prague In the second Instalment of his I Memories of a Musical Lifer Life in the August Century PI Dr William Mason r re relates lates story tor of f a a French prince I It was as customary In Prage Prague to give once a year an orchestral orchestral concer concert of high order ll Ike pecuniary proceeds of f whIch were for the benefit of the poor and on one of these I wih with orchestra a brilant brilliant composition of a Vienne I It wa vas also also the custom in concerts of thIs order 10 o use the name of some higher the bet bettera tera teras patron On thIs occasion th the name used was that of the Prince de deRohan Rohan Bohan a French nobleman who ex expatriated expatriated had lived for some time in In a of f the old Austrian I I I I Ferdinand who ho shorty shortly be before before fore the time of f which h I write ha had ab abdicate abdicated in favor of his nephew the present emperor A fe few da days s after th the cOncert while I wa was practicing in my modestly appointed room there was a aloud aloud loud kno knock at the door and immediate Immediately J ly there entered a a servant of the prince iU in gorgeous lver livery who avancing advancing t to the middle of the room nd straight straightening straightening ening himself uP announced in sten stentorian stentorian torian tones His Highness Prince Rohan invites you ou to dinner at atthe atthe the same time handing me a large envelope with a bif bi seal on n the back Without waiting for fOl a reply he made madea a a low bow obeisance and left the rom romI room I It turned out that al all the prIncipal I artists who vho had taken part In the con cn concert cert had been invited to the dinner and on the appointed da day y one of these I an opera singer of distinction came to tomy tomy my room nd asked it If he might go wih with me Never Kever having been to a princes house hous and not knowing knowing what ceremony might be considered appropriate l t to such an occasion he eon con conceived I the idea idea of securing a chaperon The incongruity of his selectIng a geen green American youth for this purpose great Iy by amused me but I said Come along they wont hang U us for an anything thing we weare weare are likely to do ArrIving at the pal palace palace ace five or ten minutes before the hour the porter at the outer gate refused us admission sa saying we were oo eady This untoward reception un unsettled settled us for the moment but there therewa wa was nothing for us UR to do but to walk walkabout i about until the appoInted time On ourselves agin again at the gate at precisely the right moment we were promptly admitted After passing through the hands of several servant servants we were finally ushered Into the pres presence once ence oJ of the prince He was not an imposing man in appearance neither was he as we well dressed a as several of the four or live fhe gest guests who d later hiter my companion and I being the The prince offered me his arm and led me through the picture galery gallery adjoining the pointing out the portraits of f his a an ancestors whose names were mostly fa miar to me from French history A Aal As al all formality In hIs manner manner had bad passed away I found the occasion Intensely interesting Dinner being announced we proceed proceeded ed t to the and on being beings s stated the prInce said that he would first geet greet us wIth a glass of f Schloss Cabinet wIne which he had just received from his frIend PrInce Metternich t the owner of vineyard A As is wen vell known this Cabinet wine is never on I the market and can be bought only I at an administrators sale and ther then I commands the highest prIce I It is n nat t unusual for tourist tourists to na pay a large larg price fO for this Wine Ine on the spot even evea then not getting the genuine thIng for forthe tle the space where the Cabinet wine grows Is ver very small as compared wIth the rest of th the vineyard Several kinds of red and white wInes were sered and various kinds of German beer as rell wl as English and Scotch after seven 0 or eight coure a single glass of poured out for each guest guest Liquid refreshment refreshments however did not end there for we afterward to the library where re e to fo nd a a wood fr fire In the vat stone place where cIgars of man many kInds and finally coffee and t ta a with rum were served There was no music |