Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-04-11
LOVE NOTES.
Siamese Princes Wooing Of
an American Actress.
SENT HER MANY WARM VERSES.

SENT HER MANY WARM VERSES. =,
Love Letters Recent Royal Visitor
to the United States In Said to
Have Written to Miss Mabelle Gill
man While lie Was Al College In
The passionate press agent for Ma
belle Gilman has broken into that &C.
tress' writing desk and stolen there
from a packet of letters, and the other
day he gave to the world the love let
tiers of the Prince Of Siam, says the
New York Tribune. Miss Gilman, who
Is called Tcherno Okaya by her STA
mese swain, was sorry-Quite grieved,
In fact-that the letters had got out
She could not understand how the
press agent dared to take them with
out her permission.
The prince, by the bye, has left the
Siam. The wise heads may take this
fact for what it Is worth.
The Prince of Siam first mel Miss
Gilman in London, when she was there
with THE Belle Of New York" and "a
dangerous rival Of Edna May in the at
fections of royalty" the phrase is .
bubble from the lips Of her press AGENT.
Their friendship seems to have in
spired the crown prince to pour forth
verse that II quantity counted should
have won for him the Newdigate prize.
Letters from him to her in 1901 bear
the seal of Christ college. Oxford, and
In all Of them are inclosed verses,
sometimes two or three separate
poems. On the backs Of the photo
graphs he sent her he was more mod
crate, c~ontenting himself with quoting
from the poems Of other men. II the
letters themselves did not furnish proof
Of the g%enuineness Of the story, the
fact that these quotations are from
Lovelace, Carew, s. T. Coleridge and
Omar the Tentmaker would at once
nut them beyond the invention of Miss
Gilman's press agent.
The first Of the letters made public
IL dated from the Siamese legation,
London, in December. 1900, and begins
my Dear Miss Gilman"
One year later, writing from Oxford
he opens as follows:
MY "Tcherno Okaya'-I hope you know
what this means by now. for you snouit
have got the book l sent you the othel
day. But in case of accidents ! had bes
explain that ''Tcherno Okaya" Is RUSSIAN
and. being translated. means "sparkllni
eyes" Who deserves the name bette
than you?
This he signs "Bijou."
In this letter the verse begins. 1t !
funny how Oxford affects people, a
Sue used to remark to Jude. The poer
inclosed is called 1.-The Princes Rev
erie and consists Of five quatrain
modelled on the Rubaiyat and preface
by the famous Quatrain beginning "Al
love. could you and l with him col
spire." which the prince misquote'
though Mabells probably didn't kno'
1t. His problem seems to be som
thing like that which faces the hero {
"Alt Heidelberg" for he sings, aft
three predatory and ardent stanzas:
An. love, II only thou vert born princes
or else myself were only something less
Than that which ! am now-of rank
high
oh. then we two might know such hapT
ness.
The best hours Of my life away ha'
flown,
But | am so thankful that I have known
The best and sweetest Joy upon II
earth
: And that once ! did call thee. love. q
own.
D. Writing from Washington In Octob
of the present year he again reverts
. verse for consolation, the shadow
coming parting cast acros the pap
v The poem is OF four stanzas. where
re he goes Lovelace, who furnishes t
o. model. one better. The poem closes
& follows:
re All. would I 20, were 1t not u
r. AS Lovelace sang Of yore-
;, 1T could not love thee, dear, 80 muc
" Loved I not honor more?"
At the Bijou theater the other MIS-
;, Miss Gilman said she might some d
~ visit Siam, but. ON the whole, she G.
- sidered America good enough for b
Ia In reply to the question put to her
&c a unabashed reporter whether or
II. the prince proposed, she replied. XVI
~. would you have done?"
This. seemed to admit Of but N
swer. and she was allowed to mi
a. her entrance on the stage, where
:, could be heard singing. "Oh. listen
no the hooking bird"
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