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much earlier period than usual they have
exhausted that keen zest for sumptuous
meals which is in the possession of thought
less one-and-twenty but the temptations'to
which they are exposed by a succession of
deliberately varied feasts are obviously
very dangerous. How do they get through
this continual dinner-giving which would
pretty soon send the hardest-riding squire
of one of the English counties into the
hands of a doctor?
OF course, the 0nticlimaX arr ives.
Everything is done to make these s rious
labours of ROYAL persons as light as pos
sible; but they tell on the system all the
same. Travelling is made easy by
carefulIy-planned arrangements about spe-
ciaI trains, carriages, and what not, although
an Imperial yacht may occasionally get
aground, and ~disappoint the legitimate
expectations Of thousands ofpeOple. Then
it is to be presumed that the food and
wine at the ceremonial banquets are as
wholesome as may be. Moreover, Royal
persons have abundant opportunities of
taking out of-door exercise they spend o
l~arge..portion of their time in the country,
and by the sea, breathing sweet air as
a rule, when they do not intermeddle with
affairs of State, they have not much to ha-
rass their minds. Nevertheless, from timeto
time one observes that this or the other
Royal person has gone to a particular
German town to drink the waters. If we
are not misinformed 1.-The Gar Of RUSSIA,
on leaving England, went to drink the
waters. 1t is In no spirit of cyniclsm that
we mention the fact on the contrar y, the
wonder still remains how, any number
of people should get through the arduous
life led by modern Princes with such
marked impunity If the German Turn
vereinssa Kings Cross were to pick out it's
most stalworth member and put him through
the duties of a Prince for q single year,
what would be his condition at the end
of it? If he had to stand for hours at
dreary Court ceremonies, if he had to par
take of an endless. series of long and elabo-
rate banquets, if he had to make speeches
to city guilds, and open orphan schools,
and shoot pigeons in Lords and Commons
matches, where would he be in that period
of time? 1t may be that continual habit
has produced a sort Of hereditary capaci-
ty, and that the " divine right" theory is
so far countenanced that a Prince by birth
is more likely to be able to undertake
the ceremonial duties Of the station than
Prince suddenly raised from the ranks,
could such a thing occur. There is q
popular belief that in the English Royal
Family the faculty of remembering faces,
and therefore of being able to pay the
compliment of recognition, has become
hereditary. Be that as it may, there can
be little doubt that much is expected
of modern Princes, and that, in fulfilling
these expectations, they undertake IN
amount of hard work which might fairly
frighten any ordinary person. They live
a high-pressure life. There is rarely
an interval of rest in the list of festivities
which they have more or less patiently to
get through. 1t is true that the ordinary
mind cannot always understand why they
should appear to be always in a hurry
why, for example, such a visit as that Of
the Gar should not have lasted for a fort
night instead of a week. But then the
probability is that the addition of a week
would have involved no increase of rest
ing-time. With each day would have
come its ceremonies, its sightseeing, its for
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