Monarehs as Shopkeeper

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 48, 26 September 1913, Page 1

Monarehs as Shopkeeper

I Many of us are apt to 100 upon kings and other exalte personages as lucky people wh are above the need of mono} and sort of play at being reall serious persons. The Great German Emperoi for instance, owns a porcelaii factory, as does the King o Saxon} 7 , both industries that re quire a great deal of busines acumen to run successfully. Few women know, perhaps that the celel rated “ Hohen lonhe ” corsets are made in tin lactory presided over by Dukt Ulrich of Wurtemburg. The King of Servia, who lia: been so busy lately, doubtless to hi motor-car agency, in which he h greatly interested, though per I haps he may have to makt : practical use both for himseh I and his soldiers of some of the j patent medicines in the manuj facture of which he has a pe- " j cuniary interest. The autocratic Czar of all the j Russians has also stooped to i dabble in trade, and has turned j his huge tracts of forest into a satisfactory source of revenue. | He has done much to develop I the timber trade between Russia j and England. | Candle-making is rather a • novel trade for a woman, but the j Arch-duchc-s Frederick of Aus- | triahas a process of her own by which she makes a scented i variety of wax candle, and is I able to supply the palace with I all the candles needed for the i daily illumination, a by no means | small task. j How nice it must be to have a j mother who makes toys for you, just the toys you want —toy solj diet s dressed in quaint uniforms, i and animals painted wonderful ; colours, lo say nothing of a doll j with a particular style of nose j that cannot be bought at an or- ! diuary shop. All these delights ■ the Princess Carl of Sweden, who ! is a very clever toy maker, and j is said to construct many of the . I sery, to their great pride and de--1 lightThe young king of Spain, who jis always lo the lure in any . invested a v.-r\ considerable pori ' bicycle factory near Madrid. ; Another enterprising royalty is the Grand Duke of Saxe v. • | several businesses including a i butcher’s establishment and a ! Berlin publishing house, two concerns that, would seem to re--1 quire very different systems of management, but no doubt the 1 royal Duke is sufficiently veri satile to oversee them both suc- ! cessfully. The beautiful Crown Princess * of Roumania, who is usually associated in one's ivind with only j the most romantic ideas, has, it j would seem, a very different and more utilitarian side to her aetivities, for site has founded and : financed one of the largest quill tooth-prick fact trie- in the w«>rld.