The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-06-11

any great event by smashing shop win
dows and other things OF that sort that
come their way, and yet shopkeepers are
looking forward 20 the coming event with
a feeling akin TO Joy, for they expect 10
make enough profit out OF II 70 console
them for any breaking Of glass that may
occur
lust now II is nll Princess May. Her face
looks out of you from every shop window,
and the penny and half-penny prints
are full OF the most astonishing informa-
ton concerning her. Beside her great
popularity that OF the Duke OF York is
shown in n very reduced light. But
none the less the Duke is very popular
young man. and is deserving OF the favor
shown him.
1t has been the habit here to call the
Duke, or Prince George, as he Is still best
known, the Sailor Prince" just as other
Princes before him have been named.
In his case, however, the title Is not an
empty one, for the Duke Is a sailor and
a good one, too. II has been with him
n matter OF sincere grief that since the
untimely death Of the Duke OF Clarence,
and since after his father, tho Prince
Of Wales, he Is the heir TO the English
throne, he has not been allowed to risk
his valuable life on the sea.
The Prince OF Wales has more than
one superstition that he hugs 10 himself.
and among these is one that he will never
be King Of England. At one time he
was OF the opinion that a republic was
at hand, and later he is said 10 be-
lieve that his mother will outlive him.
He has lived a wearing life, while she
has always been the most careful woman
in all Europe 90 far as was possible in
and strength and
the Prince of Wales Is said 10 believe
that while he will not be King that
radicalism has not yet grown so strong
as to keep the title from going 10 his
son. I'm which Prince George would sue
coed William ", the last King Of Eng
land who was also Sailor Prince"
One thing Is settled. The wedding ring
Is In evidence, and so the match is as
sured, for without some untoward acci-
dent neither the bride nor bridegroom
that is to be seems likely TO die before
the time indefinitely set for the FIRST
week In July The ring was made from
pure gold, mined in Wales, and Will adorn
the handsome hand Of the bride to the
same extent that such trinkets always do.
still. the Princess would be handsome
without It.
London merchants do not much Ike the
matter Of the Welsh wedding ring any
more than many eminent men would toll
crate a couple of Irish ladies to wait on
the Princess at her wedding, but as the
London men will have all the best Of 1t
any way from n financial standpoint this
is not a matter Of any especial conse-
cuence.
Not since the Queens jubilee has there
been the same willingness to spend money
displayed as on the occasion OF the
coming wedding, which proves It's popu-
larity.
Even on the occasion OF a royal we'd
ding here the public must have a share
in the proceedings. They even insist on
seeing almost as much of the affair as do
the American people on the occasion Of
the Inauguration OF the President. They
have a holiday and break each others
heads. They cheer or hiss Gladstone or
some other great man whom they assume
10 own to make things howl generally in
their own sweet, but not too sweet way,
az has been their habit for 10! these many
years.