Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-29
ELIZABETH, N. j., THURSDAY. JULY,29, 1869.
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by JUSTIN NJ cARTiiY.

Opera, Convent Garden, London. Let
us suppose-it may be essential to our
present purpose-r that Mile. Pauline
| Lucca is the principal songstress of the
occasion. Look at that large box on
j your right--and, of course, on the left
of the stage. 1t is full of people. In
| the front are two or three young
women, in very, very low-necked dress
es. In front also is one young man.
He, has a large, fair, fat face, with
heavy features. His fair hair is al
ready thinning there is even q sug-
gestion of badness about it. He is q
very pull-looking young man. If he
were of your class or mine, people
would say he was stupid, vulgar-look-
ing parsonage. He displays an i'm
mense shirt front, on which presently
land when Mile. Lucca is not singing
his heavy chin descends. Is he lost
in revere ? Has the music borne away
/ on its wings his enraptured soul No.
The heavy young man is asleep. One
Eof the young women by his side gives
him a gentle, pleasant push, and laughs
and he opens his eyes, raises his head
off the vast jshirt-front, and, being like
most fiat, persons, rather good7humored
he laughs also. But if the principal
singer does not come on soon again, he
presently falls into another doze. He
is great admirer of some singing,
however-c'est lie ton qui fera Ia musi-
que. He is enthusiastic about Lucca,
c1aps for her, waits to the very last to
see her as she is called before the cur
I tain, and has evidently very high ap-
probation of her gifts and genius. The
lady with the bright eyes who sits
near him was very pretty once, but
long attack of illness has, truth
to say, made sad work of her beauty.
The other girls have nothing to boast
Of Think the lowness of their dress
is the thing one most remarks about
them. But the young man-did you
ever see anything heavies and stupider
than that fat, handsome face? Well
he is. England's future King; he will
one day, if unkind fate does not inter
fere, be)Albert Edward the First. He
is the Prince of Wales, and has come
with his wife and sisters to hear the
singing of the saucy, spoiled, gifted
little lady from Berlin, who once had
the honor of being photographed in
one carte with the great Count Won
Bismarck himself, to the immense and
utterly groundess alarm and indigna-
Ition of some Of the Count more pious
admirers. Z
"God bless the Prince of Wales" is a
popular song in England. Well, God
bless him, surely. Indeed he has, one
would think. as many worldly bless
ings already as mortal man could we'll
desire. Meanwhile, he wants more
money from the English people; and
it seems that the English. government
do not much like to ask the people for
it, and SO. the Princes royal mother
has agreed to make him an extra allow
ance out of her own rather liberal
means. / confess that | do not think
the country has much reason to be
proud of Prince of Wales. He is a
remarkably dull young man. When
he has to make anything of a public
speech, tits generally understood that
Arthur Helps, author of friends in
lCounciY hnd who has. a well-paid
Office as Clerk Of the CounciD, does up
the little orations for him, and that the
duteous Prince gets them off by heart,
Two or three years ago the Prince
made speech in presiding over the
banquet Of the Royal Literary Fund
| Il think, in which there was introduce
ed quite neat and appreciatiye little
allusion to Thackeray, then not long
dead and literary people were very
much surprised until solution of the
mystery was whispered about But
Arthur Helps does not write all the
speeches; or, if he does, the Prince
hhprdves them with little touches of
his own. II remember, for instance, a
speech of his some two years ago, in
which he illustrated the advantages of
education in modern languages by de-
claring that he found, during his own
travels, the greatest comfort in being
able to'speak the yernacular Of a conn
try ; and I hardly think the world is
indebted to Arthur Helps for that
original and striking contribution to
the philosophy of education. I per-
ceive, too, that he has just been maxi
ing a,speechat a meeting of the Royal
Geographical Society, in which he told
his hearers that you cannot form SO
full an idea OF foreign countries by
reading Of them in books as you can by
visiting of them yourselves ]" and I do
not recognize much of Arthur Helps
style in that proposition either.
No, the Prince Of Wales is certainly
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