BAD PLACE FOR KINGS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 251, 16 February 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

BAD PLACE FOR KINGS.

Poland has not been very kind to it* kings in the past, and one hopes that iho new ruler, u i-.o ever rules, will not v haro tho fate cf some of his predecessors. Henry of Valois. a worthless man. who was elected to the throne by the Diet, tied, alter a reign of five months, in a most ludicrous fashion; Michael \\ ienio;viie: ki, of a famous general, a weak and insignificant man, who was elected king against his will, "diel suddenly; one Augustus was deposed; li s successor Stanislaus' L-zizyn>ki, was compelled to leave the country: Ladi«laiis had to resign, and had the last king. Stanislaus. When tho tim? came for Sigismur.d 11. to t:iko tho crown, trouble aro c e from lik marriage. he had secretly espou>ed, a 1 a widower, a widow of the / treat ho:i c o of Radziwill, and the nobles required the union to lie annulled because they thought the conn try would gsin more by a foreign alliance. Sigisnnind carried bi> point, and his wife was crowned t|i!pen, but she died s'lon afterwards, not without suspicoins (»• having been poisoned by her mother-in-law.

HR LOST. iirvly Horcm's entertainments tor onr wounded soldiers are well meant, hut nt entirely appreciated liy lur guests, who find that a lit!«* classical music and Shake-.pear-.an recitation goes a vcry hug way indtod. Of this she is quit? uncon.seii ns. and [vrsists in sending preying imitations. One afternoon she recognised a visitor, and ru.she.l np to him, paying—am so Aery glad yo:i have <f>nip; hut why haven't you brought yonr fri.nd with you?" " Very sorry, mum," he replied, "hut you see my ehum ml myself eou'dn't hotli get out. «o we ti!-%e-| up for it." "Oh. de.ir. dear!" exelaimel Ladv llo: em. "And you wee lucky enough to win. I .siippcsep" "No, indeed, mum." sadly replicl the - I< in ni>"; "worse Ink. I lost.'' A little hoy came home the other day to tell some sad news. " And mi your tea her's dead'-" asked Ins nn.ihor. horrified at the lad's :::i- --- " W-. ho replied, thought!ully; "hut that Kn't much n-«* while the \"!if>a|'s still there.---, it