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Show that Is, to prevent the union ct Aus- J tria with Germany. j Rerchtold and Andrassy fire In Zu- i rich. But the list of exiled rrnarchs, ministers, field marshals and notabilities notabili-ties of yesterday now eating pension food in hotels of various grades anil killing time as best they may on incomes in-comes which the average New York business man would pity is too long to go over in full. They all have the same characteristics. They are poor, shabby, look bored to death, older than their years, grouchy and dyspeptic. And they all keep as far away from one another as they can. Some Swiss recently remarked thai It would be enough punishment fof Kaiser Willielm to bring him to Switzerland Switz-erland and make him live in close touch with these fallen idols and heroes. he-roes. They would give him such a bad time of It, blaming him for their fallen state, that he would clamor to be tried for his sins by the enemies within a week of his arrival among 'friends aud colleagues." and honored on both sides of the water. wa-ter. The family of each dead hero will receive letters regularly from one small protege who (luring its whole lifetime will hold the name of their bov in reverence. The Clarinda citlzeny have paid ,$30.5010 cents a day for each child's support for a year, through the Fatherless Fa-therless Children of France, an American Ameri-can organization with headquarters at 410 South Michigan avenue, Chicago, co-operating with a similar one in France, of which Marshal Joffre is the head. The organization will see that the adoption of each child is made in the name of and as a memorial to a dead soldier of Clarinda. The town plans to repeat this sum annually for each child until it is capable of caring for 'Itself. It has been demonstrated that 10 cents a day, to supplement the pension of the same amount which the French government, straining its resources, granted its war orphans at the time of the early disasters, will suffice to keep soul and body together in a little victim vic-tim of the war and enable it to remain with its mother or other living relative rela-tive instead of being placed in an institution. in-stitution. From the prayers of such a child the name of the brave American soldier who died for France and the world will never be absent. SWISS ARE TIRED OF EXILED KINGS 20 per cent more, and goodness only knows how long they will be able to pay the weekly bill as it now stands. "TIno's" one extravagance nowadays consists of very strong cocktails. He quite recently asked Germany- for a loan of 6,000,000 marks, but was curtly refused. Prince Nick and His Monocle. His brother, Prince Nicholas, walks a good deal on the lake side, with a huge monocle In his right eye his one extravagance. The crown prince's cousin, known as the duke of Sparta, shares these melancholy walks. Prince Paul, his younger brother, kills time with a pretty little girl from Vienna ; but as his whole income is $200 a month he cannot paint Lucerne red, and is content to listen to the public band, or to take coffee In a public garden gar-den where popular prices prevail. None of the family is popular In the little city, however. The Swiss say they are rough and disagreeable. They certainly all look bored to death. Old King Ludwig. The ex-king of Bavaria has taken a home In Switzerland, too an old feudal manor, half convent, half fortressat fort-ressat Zizers, in the canton of Gri-sons, Gri-sons, not far .from Chur. Ludwig III, now seventy-four years old, looks the saddest and most depressed de-pressed of all the dethroned royalties now on Swiss soil. Karl, ex-emperor of Austria-Hungary is almost turbu-lently turbu-lently gay In comparison with him, and even the "Tino" family look cheerful by his side. The old king Is all alone. His son, Ruprecht, who till lately intrigued for the Polish throne, is supposed to be somewhere in Germany. He spends most of his time studying botany in the garden of his somber home, with an old Bavarian general, the one and only person of his suite who reads books about hunting to him when he Is tired of the garden. The prince of I.ippe, who lives not far off, leads much the same kind of life. New Arrivals Dally. Every day new refugees of distinction distinc-tion arrive in Switzerland. Tirpitz Is at Lausanne, to the disgust of the citizens, who declare they will turn him out. Hindenburg Is expected at Locarno, where there is a beautiful lake and almost an Italian climate. At Ciarens, amid mountains, lives the exiled Prince W'indisschgraetz, who, gossip says, has a secret mission Poor in Funds and Spirit and Moodily Waiting for Something Some-thing to Turn Up. 'TINO' SPECIALLY USNOXIOUS Kaiser's Brother-fn Law Accepts Invitations Invi-tations to Banquets and Then "Cuts" His Hests Old Ludwig Lud-wig S?ddest of All. Chiasso, IfnJo-Sw-iss Frontier. Switzerland Is getting tired of exiled kings. They seemingly cause a rise In foofl prices, already toned up to breaking point, and give a good deal of trouble in international relations owing to their craze for political intrigue. in-trigue. Their faithful friends plot to get them restored to their former thrones. Switzerland is now the favorite favor-ite resort of dethroned and crownless monarchs. Many of them, unhappily for Swiss hotelkeepers, are fortuneless as well. Ex-ICing Constantine of Greece, known to his foes as "Tino," has not been paying his bills with regularity of late. Since Kaiser Willielm, his brother-in-law, hastened Into Holland, help from Germany falls to come. So hard up Is "Tino" and his family, who live at the Hotel National, Lucerne, that he has had to borrow from former subjects, notably a courtier named Streit and the once fire-eating Thesto-kls. Thesto-kls. The weekly bill Is 2,400 francs ($480), a modest sum for even an ex-sovereign, ex-sovereign, with, a following of 60 people, peo-ple, all told. But even this bill (the entire family and entourage are on regular board rates) is paid with great difficulty. Had to Cut Him Out. Then, "Tino" is no longer the little god of all those wnr profiteers who still flock to Switzerland from the ex-central ex-central empires. They are tired of him. His way of accepting sumptuous sumptu-ous banquets and then cutting his hosts and hostesses of yesterday when another dinner-giver had arrived, has finally bored them and Invitations are few and far between. No longer do his German, Austrian and Greek admirers give balls for him, where lights were turned out at two In the morning, though the party did not break up till several hours later. la-ter. The orgies of "red balls" and "pink balls" and even "black balls" (so-called Just because the lights went out before the party broke up, and everybody wore black when the lights were on, and all the decorations were black) began to shock the decent health or pleasure-seekers at Saint Moritz, Lugane and other resorts, so that the Swiss police had to Intervene, nnd "Tino" was cut off from these lurid joys for the sake of public decency. de-cency. To crown all, the exchange is so bad for his dearest friends that they no longer have the money to spend on his amusement. And so he has to walk up and down the shores at Lucerne Lu-cerne on foot, for lie has not even a motor nowadays. Kaiser's Sister Sees No One. The rest of the family pass their time as best they can. His granddaughters grand-daughters and nieces, for the lack of a carriage or a car, go about on bicycles. bicy-cles. People turn round to look at them, not because they are exiled princesses, but because they happen to be very pretty Into the bargain, with f.iir hair and dazzling complexions; complex-ions; and beautj is not ar..ong tln list of Swiss women's good qualities. "Tino's" wife, Sophia. Kaiser Wil-helni's Wil-helni's sister, goes nowhere and sees nobody. She Is clothed in melancholy silence and takes her place at the head of the family table in Hie public dining room of the hotel with an expression ex-pression of settled melancholy. They simply can't afford to dine in their j rooms, because it would cost at least |