The Duke and Duchess of Renfrew may perhaps be unfamiliar titles even to those who are best versed in the pages of De-brett. One would have thought that the name would have been sufficient to allow an English milord and milady to travel on the Continent without attracting more than the usual amount of deferential attention from hotel proprietors. But it seems that the Prince and Princess of Wales on their journeys to and from Austrin ineoy. have not found the title a sufficient disguise of their real rank. The Prince and Princess went first to visit the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland at their beautiful home at Gmunden or the Fraun See in the Salzkammergut. Leaving there the Prince stopped at Marienbad to take his annual cure while the Princess proceeded to Copenhagen. At the Bohemian watering ploce, which is twenty-Gve miles from the etter known Carlsbad, a disgraceful Bay this week when the Prince, us his cus-piece of royalty-mobbing took plice one
tom is, walked out unattended. A crowd of fashionable water-cure patients collected. about him as soon as he was recognised and setting at defiance all regard for privacy so embarrassed him by their inopportune observation that he was obliged to beat a hasty retreat to his hotel. The Marienbad springs contain much salt and much carbonic acid yas and are very beneficial for bilious complaints. In the gas baths a stream of gas is applied to any part of the body affected with disease, the patient being boxed up with only his head Breathing it. The place is supposed to be rejecting, care being taken to prevent his much quieter than Carlsbad or Homburg, the latter of which society resort is said to be much distressed at the Prince's desertion this year.
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