The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-28
MEETING ROYALTY UNAWARES.
Adventures of People With Kings ant
Queens They Did Not Know.

queens They Did Not Know.
From the London Mail
Many amusing stories are told of the ad-
ventures of royal personages when they
have Invested themselves of what may be
called their official dress and assumed the
guise of ordinary mortals. And no one
loves more to tell these tales of misad-
venture than the royalties themselves
The car still recounts the story of an
experience he had some years ago in
Scotland. 1t was in the early days of his
cycling enthusiasm and he was riding in
company with Princess Maud. When the
royal cyclists were walking with their
machines up one of the steep hills near
Balroral they overlook an old Scotsman
who wished them good day and seemed
disposed for gossip.
The young pair entered into the spirit
of the adventure and chatted merrily
about their cycling until they reached the
top of the hill. Before they remounted
the Sarrulous old man looked wondering
ly al the machines and said:
''Weel, weel, they're grand things for
you toon lasses and laddies."
When they had got out of hearing the
royal pair literally laughed until they
cried, and the car even yet answers to
the name of "the toon laddie" among his
cousins
Not many months ago the German en-
peror sustained quite a shock. Like King
Leopold of Belgium, the kaiser loves uc-
casionally to take a solitary stroll in the
country One day last summer, while at
Potsdam, he had wandered further than
usual. and at dusk found himself, dusty
ana weary, still a dozen miles from the
place. When at this stage a country
woman driving a cart overlook him he
greeted her politely and asked her to al
low MN to take seat in the cart. Tho
woman looked down critically al the dus-
ty and disheveled man, and, whipping up
her horse, said: Not me; don't like the
looks of you
Some distance ahead a mounted patrol
stopped the woman and asked what the
emperor mad said to her 1.-The kaiser?"
she queried, in Amusement. "What kali
eer?' Then, as the truth gradually dawn
ed on her, she turned pale, gave a fright
ened look at the dusty figure coming
nearer and drove rapidly away.
Ex-Queen Emma of the Netherlands
and her daughter the queen of to-day,
mad many amusing experiences in their
wanderings incognito. Last summer
when they were staying at one of the
hotels in the Tyrol, the young queen won
all hearts by her sweetness of disposi-
ton and vivacity. There was one Young
Englishman who was SO overcome by her
charms that the followed her everywhere
in spite of a frowning mamma, and. il
must be said, with some mischievous en-
couragement from the daughter His at
tentions at last became so marked that
lone day the young girl and her mother
disappeared without warming and it was
only some days later that the young En-
glishman learned through the papers
that the young lady ne had wooed so per-
sistently was the girl queen of Holland.
Many good stories are told of the GU
rious adventures of Queen Margaret of
Italy on her mountaineering expeditions
The story of how she entertained a party
of tourist climbers in one of the mountain
huts is well known. but few have heard
of another little adventure which befell
her this summer. The queen, whose en-
ergy is always the envy and despair of
her suite, had wandered away from her
attendants, and had not only lost her
way, but was both hungry and fatigued,
when she saw a peasants cottage in the
distance
Making her way to it. her knock was
answered by an old peasant woman.
whom she asked for rest and refresh
meht. Come in, my dear and welcome"
the kindly old peasant said. The queen en-
tered ana insisted on helping her hostess
to prepare the simple meal of bread and
mHk. When the belated attendants
reached the cottage they found the
queen and the old woman gossiping and
eating W:th all the freedom OF old
friends, and 1t was not until some days
later, when handsome present arrived
at the cottage, that the woman learned
now she had entertained her queen.