New-York tribune., 1905-12-29
QUEEN MAUD'S TRIALS.
Measures to Protect the Little CroSgss
Prince from Tndiscriminate Kissing.

Queen Maud's trials In Norway are already be-
ginning. and the first rift in the rosy colored
clouds at Christania has made its appearance
Tor. owing to the indiscrminate kissing to which
her little two-year-oid boy, the Crown Prince Olaf.
has been subjected by women and children of
every description all eager to give this form Of
expression to the loyalty which they entertain for
their future king and for his family. the Queen
has been obliged to order the gardens of the
royal palace Chrstianfa to be closed to the pub
lle so that the youngster may be able to take his
daily airfngs there undisturbed. Inasnuch as the
gardens of the palace have been opened without
restrictions to the public ever since the Berna-
dotte dynasty secured possession of the Norwegian
throne, eighty years 1t will readily be under
stood that the action of Queen Maud In the mat
ter has excited considerable amount of criticism
among the people of Christiania who until
have been accustomed to look upon the palace
gardens as public property, Just the people
Of New-York look upon Central Park. There
are few mothers who would to have their
children subjected to indiscriminAte OSCILLATION
by strangers in the street, the more as the
health OF the little would be exposed to
siderable risk thereby. Yet the people at Chris
tania will not understand this and Queen Maud
is being subjected to good deal of blame for the
action which she has taken for the sake of the
protection of her small boy.
KINGS NEW MASTER OF THE HORSE
King Edwards new Master Of the Horse and
cIieI uSLntary OF his court, the sixth Earl OF
Sefton entertains of the pronounced preju-
dice against everything American which SO dis
unguished his father, the fourth earl a prejudice
all the more unreasonable in view of the fact that
the wealth of his family is mainly derived from
his ownership of real estate ground landlord of
the greater portion of Liverpool, a. city which is
largely indebted for its immense wealth and pros
perfty to Amerfca-especially to American trade.
With all that the fourth Lord Seton was a won
derfully fine character and renowned for his lofty
sense of honor. This is, indeed a trait of the
family. The second earl almost ruined himself in
order to pay his debts of honor while the fourth
earlthat is to say, the father the present Lord
Sefton-bropghG up in the same strict sehool-was
the most punctilious man In England about all
questions relating to honor and to sport He In
sisted upon everything being open, aboveboard and
straight, and the terror of those members of
the gilded youth who think 1t quite permissible to
play or bet beyond their means and then if they
lose to ask for time protesting their inability to
pay He undertook the social execution Of quite
number of young men of this Kind who at one
time figured in the London great world. and few
who were present the occasion can forget his
arrafgnment of the late Lord D for an offence
Of this nature at Croxteth Hall his splendid coun-
try seat near Liverpool during the course Of a
house party in connection with the Stockbrfdge
races, at which King Edward. then Prince CT
Wales. was presAOt