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Show LIVES AS SIMPLE CITIZEN King Albert of Belgium Cares Little for Pomp That Usually Surrounds Sur-rounds a Monarch. Among the fisher folk of La Panne, where King .Albert of Belgium spends his summers,, he Is known as the old-fashioned old-fashioned king. He lives in a small cottage of unpretentious design, circled by homes of Antwerp and Belgian merchants mer-chants much more kingly. The royal palace and park, at Ostend, where his uncle, Leopold II, spent the summers In gay frivolity, and the gayer resorts of the French coast, have little of in- tprpsr. for th nrurtlrnl nnd rtpmorrntlo monarch. The dress of the king in both fashion and fabric Is like that of the merchants of La Panne. The affairs of the town are the affairs of his household, and one not knowing him would pass the kindly-faced man on the street and not recognize him. ne takes pleasure from his camera, snapping the peasants and fishermen. It was at La Panne where the conqueror con-queror Julius, Invading Gaul, found the Belgae, a people whom Caesar described de-scribed as the roost valiant of all the I races of northern Europe. |