The Washington times., 1903-02-08
PRINCE cHAwFAs LOVE SONGS.
Slams Future Ruler Indited These to
Pretty MabeIIe Gilman.

The passionate press agent for Ma
belle Gilman hls broken into that act
ress writing desk and stolen therefTom
a packet of letters. and yesterday be
gave TO the world the love letters OF
the Prince OF siam. Miss Gilman, VINO
I. Is called "TCheTno OkaEa" BY her ST.
amese swain. was sorry. quite ErieEed.
IN fact that ;hey letters had got out
She could not understand how tie press
agent dared to take them aIthou. her
permission
The prince. by the bye. has left the
country and is well on his way TO SIAM
The wise heads may take this fact f0c
what it s. worth
The Prince OF Siam frst met Miss Gil
man IN London. when she was there with
The Belle OF New York and a danger
Gus rival OF Edna Nav in the affections
Of royalty (the phrase Is a bubble from
the lips Of her press agent). Their
friendship seems to have inspired the
crown prince 10 pour forth verse that,
II quantity counted should have won for
him the NeNdigate prize. Letters from
him TO ner in 1901 bear the seal Of Christ
College, Oxford. and in all Of them are
Enclosed verses sometimes two or three
separate poems on the backs OF the
photographs he sent her he was more
moderate, cont entiBg himself with quot
ing from the poems of other men.
Il be letters themselves did not fur-
Ujsh proof Of the Eeuuf ueuess Of the
story, the fsct that these quotations are
from LoTelace. CsreW. s. T. C0Ieridg-,
and Omar the Tent Maker would ar
once put them beyond i'm the invention
Of Miss Gilma IS press agent.
The first Of the letters made public
Is dated from he Slamese legation, Lon
don, IN December, 1909 and begins Ny
Dear Miss Gilman"
One year later, writing from oxford,
h opens as follows.
1Iy .'Tchern9 okaga.'
I hope you know shat this means BIZ now,
Tor you should have got Tie book J sent y5u the
other day. But ~ case af accidents I had best
explain tiIas 'Tcheruo Oksvs Russian, and
being translated means Sparkling Eyes. Who
deserves the name better than E1uE
This he signs "Biiou"
In this letter the verse begins Il
is funny how Oxford affects people. as
Sue used 10 remark 10 Jude. The poem
inciosed Is called The Princes Rev
erie" and consists Of Eve quatrafns
modelled on the Rubaiyat and preIaced
by the famous qUatrain beginning Al.
Love, could you and / with Him cox
spire. which the prince misquotes,
though MabeIIe probably didn't know il.
His problem seems 10 be something ike
that which faces the hero Of Alt
Heidelberg" for he sings after three
predatory and ardent sta8zas.
Al love. IL only thou vert born princess,
Or else myself were only something else
Than which ara now--ot rank 50 high
Oh then We tvvo might know such happiness
The best hours Of my life away have Gown.
Bot thankful that have known
The best and sweetest JOY upon this earth,
And that once I did call thee Love my own
n
Writing from Washington IN October
Of the present year he again reverts
TO verse Tor consolation the shadow OF
coming parting cast across his paper
The poem is of four stanzas, wherein
he goes Lo=eIace. who furnishes the
model, enc better. The poem closes as
follows
An would ] 60. were Il not such
As LcYelace sang o yGTe-
Il could not love thee. dear- 20 mueh-
Loved 7 not honor moTeE
Vt the Bijou Theater last night Miss
Gilman said she might some day visit
Siam. but on the whole she considered +
America good enough for heT- In reply
10 the question put to her by an una
Dashed reporter whether or not the
prince proposed. she replied, What
would you have dOne2'
This seemed 10 admit Of but one an
swer, and she was allowed 70 make her
entrance on the stage. where rIIe could .
be heard singing, ooh. listen the The
hooking bird. New York Tribune.