St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-10

black log ODScureQ the WlnuOWS OF
Marlborough house, and eXerted its de-
pressing influence upon the most eX-
allied as we'll as the humbleSt Of the res
ldents of London, says the Boston Her
aid. The prince sat up in bed and
yawned prodigiously while a servant
placed a small tray on his lap. and, re-
firing obseQuiouSly. busted himself with
the bath in an adjoining room. His
royal highness drank his cup of coffee
slowly, and continued to blink at the
black fog without. He WAS bald to Il
very pronounced degree. Indeed, few
men are more more destitute of the
customary thatch. The whole up
per portion of his head, almost
down to his ears. was pol
ished shining pate, which ri
vailed in white brlliancy the sur
face of a newly polished billiard ball.
The delicate tracery of hair which the
artists OF the illustrated papers usually
place on the top of the princes head is
a purely gratuitOus compliment. His
beard was of sandy color, heavily
streaked with gray. His face was col
orless. He looked fifty or sixty years of
age. While one of his Wallets attended
to the bath, which had to be warmed to
a temperature of exactly y deg, an
other laid out the princes clothes. 1t
is particular tad of his highness that
he can dress more rapidly than any
other man in the kingdom. Even princes
have foibles, and this is one of the most
innocent of those which distinguish AL
bert Edward. The pervading horror of
his life is his increasing corpulency.
Hence he takes two baths day. and
Fubs himself briskly and violently with
coarse towels, so as to keep down the
fat.
Shortly before o'clock the prince en-
tered his own breakfast room on the
second floor of Marlborough house
and stood with his back TO the CRATE
fire, carelessly scanning the Times. He
runs over three or four papers in the
morning as matter of form. but he de-
ponds very greatly upon his friends for
giving him the news. Two of these
friends had already dropped in to see
him, in the persons of Sir George Chef
wynd and Lord Arlington. Though
neither of them are particularly tall
men. they lowered above the little
prince like giants. The heir to the
cutaway fashion. trousers of small
black and white check, vanished boots,
a very high collar, white stock and
dark waistcoat. He listened with ap-
parent superficial interest to the talk
between Chetwynd and Arlington about
the Australian horse Ringmaster. which
had startled the race-going public the
day before by his run in the Two Thou
sand Gnlneas, and continued to glance
up and down the papers.
AT exactly 9 O'Clock he sat down to
breakfast. The others were not invited
TO join him. The prince began to talk
at once about his arrangements for the
shooting season, and the talk was nearly
all of sporting nature during break
last.
He Lighted n Cigarette
toward the end of the meal. and received
half dozen other visitors before 10
o'clock. They were all men, and the
etiquette of royalty was entirely sps-
pended. The names of the visitors
were brought quietly to the prince by
butler, and they were admitted by a
nod of the head or denied by an almost
imperceptible motion of the eyebrows.
They all belonged to the princes per-
sonal set, and they drifted i'm without
ceremony after the first profound bow
at the door of the breakfast room.
The punctuality of the Prince of
Wales has grown almost into proverb.
He is never behind time, and he is
about the only member of ANY of the
royal families OF Europe who does not
keep special train waiting for hours
after he has ordered it. At 10 O'Clock
he walked into the library with a fresh
cigarette in his hand, and talked half
an hour with the secretaries who at
tend to the vast correspondence of the
prince. Only small portion of the let
tiers were submitted to his royal high
ness. The others, which were in a
large measure petitions, gifts or invita-
tons OF Il semi-social kind. were attend
ed to without the princes knowledge.
While his royal highness was looking
over one or two letters of special
importance Hon. Harry Tyrwhitt-
Wilson. who is the favOrite equerry
of the prince, and who always &C
companies him on his continental
tours. hurried in and began all excited
talk about foX-terrier which was just
.hen the property of Lord Arthur Som
erset, and which Col. Tyrwhitt-Wilson
was very anxious to get for the prince.
1t transpired that the prince was anx-
touS to get it for certain sprightly and
beautiful somebody else. but Lord Ar
thur Somerset was inclined 20 hold on
to his priZe-W;nner stubbornly. The
thing was to get the dog secretly and
quietly. All the details of the CORE:
spondence were thrust aside, while the
discussion went OIL concerning the fox
terrier. Col. Tyrwhitt- Wilson talked
with the utmost absorption and without
much ceremony. Perhaps his useful
ness tn the prince in his continental
tours had something to do with his ease
In the presence of his future sovereign.
He left the room by one door as the
Prince OF Wales strobe out by another.
and went back 10 his dressing room to
select some wedding presents for the
daughters of several peers of the realm
WHO were shortly to lie married. The
presents mad been spread out artist
cally. and his highness picked them out
with wave of the fOrefinger and told
his secretary for whom leach gift was
intended. This duty over, he drew on
his gloves. put on his hat, and descend
ing to the Pail Mall entrance of MarI-
borough house, stepped into
The Heavy Family Carriage,
which he uses on civic visits, and drove
over towards Kensington Oval.
The Duke Of Beaufort, who is a
stauch Old ally of the princes, was
waiting beside the carriage. He drove
with the prince to the cricket grounds.
The old dukes spare figure was held
upright by stiff stays, and his lace
displayed the amiability of beau of
the last century. despite It's hundreds of
wrinkles and the marks left by life OF
extraordinary dissipation. The occasion
was game for the championship be.
tween the gentlemen amateurs of Great
Britain and the professionals. Both OF
the eleyens stopped playing to cheer the
prince when he appeared at the window
of the club house. Then the game went
OH. The prince and the duke sat side
by side, with their hats tilted over theil
eyes and their feet on the window-sill
The president of the club and half s
dozen officers lowered around the chair:
of the two distinguished visitors, bu
they were chatting together i'm low
tone about the game, and paid 10 at
tention to thei1 hosts.
At ~ o'clock precisely his roya
highness rose, and, bidding the duke
remain where he was, descended the