Show TROUBLES TROUBLES OF ROYALTY ROYAL TY Let the commoner comm ner cheer up Royalty also IsO has ha Its troubles Theres the royal household of ot Portugal figuring in inthe Inthe inthe the dispatches now and figuring in a decidedly unpleasant way wa A coarse unfeeling butcher er has secured a judg judgment judgment ment for for meat furnished the queen dowager and the Duke of Oporto where the wine comes from The story stor runs that the royal house household household hold kohl had a penny since the as assassination of King Carlos CarIes and the crown prince four tour months ago The queen and her family have been living on credit entirely And it must be con confessed confessed teased they have been bean living econom economically leaHy too It if they bought all an their meat from one butcher But It tragic to think that a queen may be sued by a butcher A cat may look at a king the old saw tells us and we have no objection to toa toa a butcher looking at a king kin If or ora a queen When he sues one however he takes unwarranted liberties It is possible of ot course coure that the man needs his meney money Perhaps his creditors are de demanding demanding manding mantling payment pa from him He doubtless exhausted every other re recourse recourse recourse course before he filed his suit Still Its an awful thing to contemplate The only remedy we can suggest is for the queen to put the male members of ot her household to work King Manuel ought to attract a lot of ot custom to any store he might honor by accepting a clerkship In it The Duke of ot Oporto too whoever he may be bew would w uld undoubtedly be a card Here Is Isa a 30 great chance for some enterprising American theatrical manager Let these scions of royalty be offered po position position as actors The point as to whether hether or not they can act is not of ot the least They would draw enormous houses and thus vindi vindicate vindicate vindicate cate the managerial judgment Best Beat of ot all the queen dowager would be he able to settle her bill atthe at the butchers and she ahe might have enough over to pay the gr grocer the dressmaker the mil mu milliner milliner liner and the others to whom hom she Is In Indebted Indebted indebted Seriously though times have changed In this merry old world Fancy a vulgar tradesman having the ef et effrontery effrontery to sue one of ot the kings or queens It would be a case oi ot off oft with his head immediately and andall andall all aU his goods oeds and critters would be for forfeit forfeit feit felt to the state His children and his childrens children would be b lucky if ift t they ey were not executed also Kings were not supposed to t pay in the good old oki oJ days The commoners attended to all aU matters of that sort |