Show kings and other royal floyal travelers being scarce they pay nith high for everything there have been times when a court was splendid and nearly starving and sings were magnificent who could have understood the position and felt the pride of the master of ravenswood Eavens Ravens wood but according to the london spectator all that has passed away probably forever the prince of today to day who i is s to be magnificent at all who is to be free in his movements to take trains when he likes to entertain like any other dignitary to show good horses and many of them to keep servants sufficient to secure that guests accustomed to luxury be not neglected to travel when he pleases to patronize art to encourage courage eu charity and to live when necessary among equal princes as becomes the nation he represents mr st pay away money at every turn and always be ready with more everything costs from the special train which secures and free dom doin from pressure to the rooms which loyal or hospitable crowding render exceptionally dear it is all very go good od to speak of good management and of f course there is such a thing and it is is worth perhaps thirty per cent of additional dit ional income but no extent of good management will reduce the cost 0 of f any kind of magnificence or do away with the feeling of the innkeeper who charged a royal guest a franc apiece for eggs not because eggs were scarce but because kings were we have heard of charges paid by an indian viceroy at a paris hotel which would have made mr vanderbilt vande bilt lb wince and there is not hot an uneducated man in any land who if a prince disputes his charges does not become henceforth a republican nor within limits is this feeling altogether unreasonable s for the demands of princes w which are usually only demands for freedom upset the usual routine just a as s the queens train though her majesty asks aski only a little extra security and some privacy upsets the routine traffic on the great railway by which she travels moreover though estr extravagance v is a vice economy economy is often a foible and one rather sympathizes with the hint given by the noble vw assisted lou philipp in his search after a lo 10 0 o t sovereign by lighting a bank etc tu in fact in our days costs vs n ncy and it idas is as expensive to be a pr if you live lire as a prince as t to 0 be ailt li arife ii ial heir |