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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1903)
October 4, 1003. THE ILLUSTRATED DEE. Is Allowed to be, taken to the seats. The scenery and stage management were ex cellent ; thu play was well set and the act ing was good. Speaking of Ibsen, It Is wonderful how proud these people are of him. He has a statue in the heart of Krlstlanla, his bunt Is In the art gallery and there are alo Several fine portraits of him belonging to the city. The poet is now well up in the seventies, and at present ho is in poor health. He lives quietly and comfortably here in Kristianla. Norway's New Holer. I saw the new ruler of Norway and Sweden while in Stockholm. It is now nine months since King Oscar withdrew from the government of the country and made Prince Gustaf, his eldest son, resent of the two kingdoms. The young man has been ruling well, and, so far as 1 can learn, ho is popular in both Sweden and Norway. He is now 45 years old, and is at the be ginning of his prime. He is a straight, tall, fine-looking fellow, martial and kingly Pi his bearing and possessed, it is said, of much of the ability of his futhcr. He was married In ISM to Princess Victoria, daugh ter of the grand duke of l'.aden, and ho has three sons, so that the line la secure In his family. Th'i old king does not absolutely with draw from the government, and he could, if he wished, resume the throne. He has been ruling Norway and Sweden since 1872. more than thirty-one years, and he is now 74. The whole royal family of Sweden Is tiemocratlc in its tendencies. King Oscar has visited every town In the country, mid he knows all the leading men by sight, and many of them intimately. He goes about through Stockholm in ordinary dress, and often unaccompanied by attendants. He is accessible to almost any and there has been less red tape about his court than about any other in Europe. His son Is a little more stiff, but he Is, I cm told, a very good fellow nevertheless. He Is more of a theorist and a dreamer than his father, r.nd is not so literary or 'Scientific. I sat one night at the restaurant in Skan sen, outside Stockholm within five feet of Prince Eugene, the youngest child of the king, who is now 3S. He came Into the restaurant with a party of friends and sat down perfectly at home in a crowd of 500. He had on a black hat, and both he and Ids companions kept on their hats as they 'ate. This wns the custom of most of the men present, although many had ladles with them. I noticed the prince took a substantial meal, washing down his viands with a pint of 60 cent claret. When he left the room people rose and he took off his hat and walked through the crowd bare headed. This prince spends most of his time painting, and is said to be the best painter In Sweden. I have been stopping here in Krlstlanla at the same place with Prince Oscar Berna dotte and his family. In fact, they have rooms Just across the hall from me, and they eat In the common dining room, sit In the comomn parlor and act quite like com mon people. Prince Oscar is the second son of the present king and his wife was Ebba Munck of Fulkila. She has no royal blood in her veins and in order to marry her the prince had to renounce his light to the throne. He did so and Is now known ' as Oscar Bernadotte, taking the family name of his father. He has a beautiful wife and a very charming family. The royal -family of Sweden Is a thrifty one. It has a civil list of very nearly a half million dollars from Norway and Sweden, and In addition the king has a little more than J82.000 a year from tho fund voted to King Carl XIV and his successors. At the same time his majesty has pal ices both in the city and country, In Sweden and Norway, and he owns stock In many undertakings. Among other things he Is Interested In a brewery and I am told that the royal beer Is always served at the royal luncheons. I visited one of King Oscar's palaces on n Island In Lake Malar, going through a score or more of great rooms covered with gold and carvings, floored with tiles or mosaic and walled with Impossible pictures of the kings and queens of the past. Later on I strolled through the grounds and tried to enter a tower where I was told the king often came to drink after dinner coffee and look at the view. The place looked like a restaurant, and, king like, I wanted to drink coffee, too, and feast on the view. I was kept out. how ever, by a lady, who told me she had rented that tower of his majesty for her summer residence and would permit no tresspassing. FRANK O. CARPENTER. ;.r A3 4 VVi EH II ,1 I 'J if ItTKfcW Jill aiii! iftfi !kii ifesfiii Swift's Premium Hams and Bacon satisfy the requirements of discerning cooks everywhere. 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Command Was Moved After It had been settled that the com mand was to be moved from one post to another an Inquisitive citizen asked an officer how It was planned to do It. "The orders from headquarters are for the men to march," was the reply. "Pretty long march under the circum stances, isn't It?" was asked. "O, yes; but I guess they can stand it." "The cavalry has a little the best of it, then?" "Well, hardly. The cavalry marches, too." "Hut the horses " "O, the orders are to ship the hor.-ea and march the men." "The horses ride and the men walk." "Certainly. That's the usual way." "Hut why should" "A Hew horse would cost the government money," interrupted the officer. This Is F. M. Russell, The artist in Gas and Electric Fix tures who car ries the finest assortment of Oil il, Gas and Electric Rpadmcr LampS In the United States. 'Phone F2112. 313 So. 15th St., Omaha. '"" ".WW........ !' I I Irish Change of Heart A Bachelor's Reflections A pretty story illustrative of the change of feeling which has come over the Irish peasant toward the king since the recent royal visit appears in the Knglish press. Two London Journalists on their way from Lublln to Cork accosted a shaggy, farmer looking native at a Queen's Count station with the words: "Well, Pat, what do you think of the king of England now?" "King of England, is it?" replied the Irishman, and there stole over his face an Inlmitlbla expression of drollery as he went on in a tage whisper: "Sure, avlc, ye ll want a It is as hard for a man to remember an old lova affair us for a woman to forget it. A woman would laugh at a section of the constitution If you told It to her as the latest joke. A woman always has an Idea that if her husband parted his hair differently he would have more brains. 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