The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1895-01-31
THE RUSSIAN RULER AND THE LADY
An American Girls Meeting with Hili In
"a Toy shop at Copenhagen.

Every autumn the Czarina has been
i'll the habit of going with the Gar to
Copenhagen to visit her parents, the
aged King and Queen of Denmark. Al
the same time the Princess of Wales
would journey northward to Denmark's ;
shores accompanied by the Irince. and
from Greece would come King George
and Queen olga, until the Danish King
and Queen had all their children about
them. Three years ago an American
lady and her daughter were visiting in
Copenhagen at the time OF the royal
gathering. In vain they tried several
times 10 oct near enough to FredenboY..
the castle of the Danish hosts. to see
sCsle of the royalties: and when once
the daughter caught glimpse Of the
Princesses Victoria and Maud driving a
pony through the town, she felt herself
well rewarded for the hours of watch
ing. For so do mortals love the sight
OF royalty.
One morning the younger lady want
ed to do little shopping. She went to
a toy store to buy a few of the queer
looking Danish playthings to take home
to her little nephews, and she also want
Ell to buy a box of the queer-shaped
candies made there. The toy store was
crowded. There were nearly a1lozen
children and with them half Il dozen
maids. The whole party seemed to be
in charge of tall stout man with a lair
beard and pleasant face He had the
build OF an athlete and the mild express
sion of woman.
Wait on the lady first, he said pleas
antly in Russian to the shopkeeper, and
then to the young lady he said in En-
glish, Il will not allow YOU 10 wait and
be served after this horde of Youngsters.
They can well wait"
At this the youngest child Of all,
boy carried in the big mans arms be-
gan to kick and cry and behave very
badly.
Il will wait, said the young lady,
laughing at the Youngsters screams
and kicks. for see you have an impa-
tient member of your party"
With a bow OF thanks the athletic
looking man picked up a small drum
with Danish colors upon it and handed
it to the struggling child i'll his arms.
Then the others each received a pretty
present. while some town children who
had wandered in were treated to gifts
of toys and pretty tritles. When all
had been served with playthings the
gentleman whispered to the child in his
arms, and a minute afterward the little
one, stretching out his little hands to-
ward the young lady, handed her
book.
Uncle 'Nander says must give you
this because | was SO rude, he said in
fairly plain English, and | will give
you this myself" handing over a stick
of many-coIored candy.
When the company had filed out
great sleigh-lize affair on wheels drove
up to the door and all piled in. There
was a struggle to get near the gentle
man whom the little lad had called I'm
Gle 'Nander," and tiny but pretty child
who spoke nothing but English began
to cry and show as much temper as the
other had But they were well-behaved
children considering that they were all
the way from two Years up 10 fourteen;
and the American girl and the shop
keeper cast admiTing eyes after them as
they drove away From the back seat
of the queer-looking vehicle child
waved his little hands as far as he could
be seen.
That is the Gar of Russia, said the
shOpkeeper. He is on his annual visit
to Copenhagen, and this is the way he
amuses himself He buys alternately
of all the shopkeepers and is friend to
every one"
and who was the child in his arms?
o, that is the son of our Crown Prince.
He may be the King of Denmark some
day. And the little girl who cried be-
cause she could not sit OH the Cars
knee was lady AIexdra Duff, who comes
here every fall with her mother and
grandmother This year her father, the
Duke of Fife, is here also The child is
a dainty mite, and if she were to come
to the English throne 1.-THE Duke of York
had not then married the Princess May
/ everybody around here would rejoice.
The baby waving his hands from the
back of the wagon is the Crown Prince
! of Greece. His father isthe best of all
the family, ! think, and that is saying
a good deal.
The Gar nodded back at the young
| lady and the shopkeeper just before the
/ vehicle went out OF sight, and his tall
! shoulders and fine head were outlined
like a siIhoutte against the sky.
/ i have read a great many pretty
/ things about the Gar, and nave known
( people who received friendly words
! from him at their presentation to the
/ Russian court, the young lady said
afterwards; "but | think | am the only
/ American girl who ever saw Alexander
at his best, among his lite mephews and
nieces, laughing with them over a toy
/ c0untpr ~ y SIM