Royal Phrasemaking

Phrasemaklng twó or ; thjee . ttons ago played aa important part tn Freach politics. Louis JÚV. had a Vfajn er&ry prompter wiiöusedto prime hlm with phrases and plan for hlm scènes suoh as would excite the people's admlratlon, says the Youth'é" 'Cbtnpaiirion. "Your majesty wlll soon be gölng '' to th races," sald thls prompter orife ' :t day. "You wlll flnd a nótary entering the bets of two princea pi blood; 1 When you see .him, sire, make the remark: 'What Is the use of th:?ian? ,„r Ought there to be written eontrats Jt between gentletnen? Thelr w.ord .. should be enough.' " The scène ca me off- the prompter, saw to that- rad the courtlera exclalmed: "What a happy thought! How kingly! That Is hls style."': Another scène, more llkely to fan-press the populace, was piajined by thls prompter. A aledging pleasure party was arrangejl for the klng. Just as lt was about to start several carts passed by, carrying wood to the poor of Paris. "These are my sledges," said Louis, pointing to the loaded carts, and he declined to Joia the oarty. TalleyTaad 2oind for Louis XVIII. the remark whlch ne was reported .to . have uspd on the day he entered Paris: . "There is nothlng ohanged; only. a Frenohman the more in Parts." As a matter of fact, the king'dld nqt trouble himsclf to utter the ptirasé, but Talleyrand lnserted tt in the 'Journals of the day, that the people mlght flatter themselves that thelr king had forgotten the past and consequeatly there would b no ohange. Perhaps the most striking phrase uttered by a. modern king was spoken by King Humbert a few years agp, when the. cholera was raging 'in Naples. He had oeen invited by thè municipaMtjr of Oenoa to a baoquet-whien he declined in these words: "Men are feaeting at Ótenos; men are dyine at Naples. I go to Naples"