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Show BOY RULERS. The Present Seems to lie an Age of Tooth With Enropean Royalty. This may indeed be called the age of youth with an 8-year-old monarch on the throne of Spain, a 18-year-old queen of. Holland, a 19-year-old ktedive in Egypt and an 18-year-old king at Belgrade. Bel-grade. . With regard to the latter I learn from a friend who has recently been in Servia the following account of how King "Sacha" spends his day. Although rarely in bed before midnight he is up early in the morning, and, arrayed in the undress uniform of a general, receives re-ceives his court marshal, his aid-decamp in Waiting and his secretaries, who present to him their daily reports and take his instructions. After glancing over the newspapers he receives his ministers at 10 o'clock and then doffs his uniform and dons mufti for luncheon, which is served in the small dining room of the palace, and the young king usually sits opposite his father, who does all the talking. Then conversation is generally prolonged in the smoking room after luncheon, antil 2 or 3 o'clock, Milan smoking innumerable in-numerable cigarettes, a habit in which ha is imitated by his promising son, a I drive to his suburban palace of Topchida t following. It was here that his grand father, King Milosch, was so cowardly poniarded by Karageorgevlcz. At 6 o'clock the daily council of min-I min-I isten takes plaoeat which tba kirn? 1' '' ..-. MM l...WJ presides, and at 8 o'clock dinner is served, after which the king generally accompanies his father to the theater cr to some great official ball. From this it will be gathered that he has .little opportunity op-portunity for reading, exercise or instruction in-struction of any kind, and the existence that he leads can only be described of the reverse of wholesome for so young a "man. Perhaps the most unwholesome feature of it all is his association with his father, fa-ther, who, when his son visited him at Paris a year ago, disgusted even tha most cynical and hardest of tho French boulevardiers by making the lad acquainted ac-quainted with the principal members 01 the demimonde. Xew York Recorder. |