Those grandchildren must be getting a little old for active service.


TINO IN EXILE.

[As indicated on another page, TINO'S actual opinion of his Imperial brother-in-law is probably not too amiable; but it has to be disguised in his letters, which are liable to be censored by his wife.]

Thank you, dear William, I am fairly well.

The climate suits me and the simple life—

No diplomats to spoil the scenery's spell,

And only faintest echoes of the strife;

The Alps are mirrored in a lake of blue;