Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1914 — INSANITY IN ROYAL FAMILIES [ARTICLE]

INSANITY IN ROYAL FAMILIES

UareMon deems te Be the Rule Rather Than the iMeeption Among Oecur~tetn sb* Csinnnaan TAaaMMBAM. We have to go very far back In the life of the deposed King Otto of Bavaria to find any aiinstas to him which show Mm otherwise than m a lunatic. But m a boy he to quoted to have been at pata to be cheerful and agreeable, while hie eider brother Ladwig sulked. They wore brought up on a severe system of economy, being allowed only 60 cents a week. The story used to be toM that Prince Otto, hearing that sound tooth were a sateable commodity, went to a denftat*a and offered to have hto own extracted 'tor a consideration. The deposition of King Otto brings reminder that the Bavarian to not the only royal family in Germany with a touch of insanity. King Otto's mother wm PrincoM Marte of Prussia, ctaeiy akin to Frederick WUMam IV.-brother of the oM kaiser, and granduncte of the present emperoe—who tat Ha reason in lie?, and for four yearo had to be superaeded by the prince <* Pru Mia m regent—just m George IV. of Bngiand, tor the same reason, artsd for .Moral years in the same capacity

to Ms insane tether. In neither case however, wm there a deposition as now in Bavaria, m both the periods of regency were so short. Long before the official declaration of Ms infirmity. Bredertek WlUiam's fantastical sentb mentality had amounted aimoet to insanity. .■ . ;