The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-22

gave the money. and-ah--a little tine to
it, But the princess not only gave her
gracious thought and time to considering
real details of the scheme-how some ot
the rooms should be fitted and what
some of the food should be- but came
rgnt down here and spent two hours
taking her lunch here, with her husband"
It was suggested that rumor had said
the royal party partook of chicken sand
wiches and champagne provided by Sir
Thomas forethought.
NO, sir, the sportsman cried warmly
mo sandwiches. No champagne Why.
that would have been absurd for they
have that sort of thing everywhere. The
prince and princess had plain vegetable
soup, mutton with cabbages and boiied
potatoes. and topped off with plum pud-
ding and coffee. They came to do 1.-THE
future king and queen came to lunch
with their future subjects and eat just
what they did, off the same china, with
the same knives and forks. I didn't even
know they were coming.
You see, he went on, this all came
about naturally enough. In the jubilee
year, the Princess OF Wales made an ap-
peal on behalf of the poor of London. and
at that time / came forward in a small
way (S1r Thomas Small is not the
small OF the dictionary and neIped
On that day her royal highness fed 800. .0C0
poor people, and has been an enthusiast
on the subject ever since. All this is the
fruition of her plans in the same direc-
ton !"
Just then Sir Thomas was called away
for a moment and Col. Knowles took ad-
vantage of the opportunity to say, know
ingly: Let me whisper to you-take that
with grain of salt. and pepper, too. Sir
Thomas has only one great fault, and
that is his modesty. This plan was his
long before our gracious princess tn ught
of it, and he's been right here On tha
spot every day attending to every detail
himself-been in London eight weeks. a
wonderfully long time for nim-digging
away at this thing. and now he goes and
puts himself in the baci1g. ourd ard tries
to get no credit for it at ALL
Sir Thomas came up and was now ready
to talk about the cup.
ABOUT THE AMERICA CUP.
'I must get it next time he said. Our
people over here are eager to have it,
you know, if only fer a year. just to see
how it really looks / don't suppose we
should be able to keep it for more than
a year But we want 1t moro than we
ever did before"
'Supposing,' he was asked. 'you fall
to get the cup in 1901 will you try agtin
and keep trying?"
II will, surely" he said earnestly "I'm
going to keep after it as long as my funds
hold out. or as long as I can borrow And
I'll tell you what 1 believe. 1t may sound
conceitedly cock-sure, but 1 believe that
if l wanted to challenge for the fourth
or fifth time, somewhere in 1895 or 6, and
didn't have the money and couldn't b r
row 1t. / believe the American people
would give me the money to build yacht.
1 do, for a fact"
NO, he went on in reply to a question
Il mustn't talk definitely about what the
new boats to be like. I've been muzzied
on that point, but 1 can tell you that I'm
honestly hankering for America We had
a mighty good time If we didn't lift the
cup, and I'm hoping to run over there late
this summer. I'm pretty wei Tagged now.
I started dropping flesh in America. Do
you know. 1 dropped fourteen pounds 8
week. owing to your calms, fogs, delays
and wins. The excitement of the races
wasn't anything to the nerve-wra cking
waits. Then when 1 got home l d -unged
into this scheme, and have been at it ever
since. So now I'm bit slim, am l net 2
Tomorrow. though. I'm off to the Medii err
ranean for couple of months, and then
shall be in England for a while, aud
after that. if can. I want to go to
America"
IN THE DINING ROOMS.
Sir Thomas wheeled and led the way
into the big dining rooms, with high,
white ceilings, and huge windows through
which the sunlight was pouring-each