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thrift as she was famous for her wit n
her kind heart. Once upon a time long
suffering creditors ever tried to attach
the Duohess's jewels.
To this brilliant, buoyant spirited, gayety
loving woman these periods OF storm and
stress and these years of financial uncer-
tainty made little difference. Her only
daughter, Victoria Mary, felt, however,
very deeply over this painful situation.
She W a desperately proud and sensitive
and when the romance Of her girlhood
ended with the death OF her fiance, the
Duke Of Clarence, and her marriage to his
brother, Prince George, she set about
ordering her home and her life on a basis
thai would simply not allow Of eItrava-
gance in matters of money.
In other ways besides her owe OF thrift
and ord: is this Princess almost unique
among royal ladies. Sip does moi affect
any fads whatever.
Wifehood and motherhood she says give
her little or no time for pets and accom-
plishrnents. She is too busy to collect
fans, little dogs or priceless cats or to study
photography, and 1t is an open secret in
London that while she is not an easy hostess
nor fond of society and shows rather poor
taste In dress she has made her husband
absolutely devoted to and contented in his
home.
No Darby and Joan ever lived IN more
charming accord than these two quiet folk,
and II 1t Is possible the royal wife always
accompanies her husband on his trips away
from home, whether he spends only a
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one Of the satin upholstered chairs that
adorned the long salon.

one Of the satin upholstered chairs that
adorned the long salon.
1t was in the opinion both Of artist and
valet a splendid position from which to
view and paint the boots, but not so did it
seem to the Princess. At that very hour,
unfortunately for these masculine culprits,
she was making her daily rounds Of inspec-
ton, and on entering the big, fine room her
sharp glance lighted first ON the boots
in one Of her most costly chairs.
1t was the wrath Of the careful house.
keeper that flashed in her eyes while she
ordered the boots down on the floor, a
dueter brought forth and in no uncertain
tones reprimanded the crestfallen valet
for his III treatment Of one of her choicest
pieces Of furniture. She has little or no
patience with care'eseness, and II the Primes
OF Wales were a mere salaried bank clerk
instead Of the son OF a king no keener care
could be taken of his expenses and his in
come by his wife.
In all her big and complicated and costly
household not O penny Of reckless, useless
expenditure is permitted and, like Queen
Victoria, she believes in wise economy and
safe investments. Every year out Of her
allowance she saves enough to entitle her
to the reputation she bears at court OF being
an excellent manager, and it Is significant
of her character that she has profound
detestation for an unpaid bill.
Until the time of her marriage she knew
a great deal too much Of these documents.
Her mother, the gay, witty, popular
Duchess of Teck, was as noted a spend
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directs and oversees tho u~pleepins Of her
big establishment.
Every morning she is ny and about at q
surprisingly early hour, She not only
knows the duties Of every employee hut she
sees to 1t that they are fulfilled. and woe
betide the servant who thinks to hide q
mistake or careless action from her quick
glancing, bright blue eyes.
The Princess Is wonderfully prompt to
see and to reprimand. An artist who
was called to Marlborough House In order
to paint the portrait OF the Prince gives
an amusing little bit Of evidence as to her
housewifely care and thrift. q
The Prince In full uniform was posing
In one Of the big drawing rooms when .
call from the King came. The artist said
that he could paint In the tall, shiny military
boots II the Prince would leave them be-
hind him. According ely a valet soon re-
turned with the stately objects and quite
On his own responsibility placed them In
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The eldest, Prince frankly confessed he
liked sveete, but that his mother bad for.
hidden them. =, u.
.Never mind,' soothed tho induigent
Queen, Il will make it right with mamma
and you can have the sugar plums II ! say
you may zISh
LITTLE Primes Eddie stood his ground lilse
q hero. sGreatly annoyed, the Queen put
the b6nbons on the unacceptable, and there
for months they stayed untouched, orTuntil
the Princes came home and her permission
could be asked. "a
Thus surrounded In her homo by much
love and respectful devotion. given{by her
husband and children, the Princess 81 Wales
IL quite indifferent to society and careless
Of. fits estimation, and the eayinG fs that
when she does come to share her htisband's
throne her court will be q model Of dignity
and the highest proprieties.
Ths daughter of the eAse and leisure and
lauehbsr loving Duchess Of Teok holds no
way at III With easy going manners or
morals. Hbek as great q stickler for the OBJ
Vscscias; snd. d determined 70 hold scandal
makers and scandal Inongerea at arm Angths
sAcross the Threshold Of Marlborough House
none of thu card playing, gossir.nY and
frivolous spirits who the present.
court 81 Windsoy Or Buokang-iam PaIa %
Ia "a s q TX 3: Ter dthadsnce the prinoess Of
Weles H. Qulte appallin9ly frank aud re-
preesingly naughty -when the need Arises
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first and foremost In the list OF great obi
CATIONS which she. owes 70 her position, to
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The Future Queen Of England
Personality Of the Princess Of ~ales-Resefve and Retiring, a
Careful Housekeeper, a Good Mother and a Devoted Wife.

Of Wales, unlike Queen Alexandra. shirks
whenever IL Is possible all the pomp and
circumstance and social functions necessary
to her position. Yet. In common with
Queen Victoria, she ohershes q sense Of
duty that carries her through the oere-
monies in which she is required to partici-
pate.
Duty, indeed, Is the watohword Of her
existence and the guide to most Of her ac-
lions, and in no way does she prove this more
clearly than in the ordering Of her family
life. F...
The greater part Of the year she and her
husband and her children live by choice In
Marlborough House in London, which at
one time was a ducal residence and conse-
quently is less formal and announcement in
its arrangements than. the average royal
palace. 1t Is quite big enough for state
illness, 10 modern In It's fittings, it's broad
rear windows look out on a charming garden
and alec on the beauties OF st. James's Park,
and the only Indications given that royalty
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and even nave real lovers in preference to
professional ones~
AS even doctors Of philosophy will be
illogical at times, this coed possessed a
menaoing and inconceivable %penchant for
picture hats and other trivial and eminin
folderols. Her teachers agency had given
her a list of possible vacancies and she
prepared for a fortnight of cross country
trolley rides to interview the school super
~intendents.
THAT hat will never do an actress
who was putting up at the same boarding
house warned her. @Ill lend you a hat
that is simple and demure looking, such
as a school teacher should wear"
The coed borrowed a neat, atmospheric
colored toque which appeared to have
an educational aspect and started out
upon her travels. She met with depress-
ing Indifference on the part Of the scholarly
gentlemen as to her fate.
The next day she tried all the folderols,
eliminating in a picture hat Of ultimate
dimensions. She had a delightful day OF
adventures and found the superintendent
all vieing with one another in gallantry
and encouragement.
SITS the picture hat for mine. every
time!" she laughed as she returned the
Shaker bonnet to its proprietor.
During the Easter vacation a party OF
kindergartners came down from the Berk-
shire Hills region to see New York. They
put UP at a house run by professional
women and gave the jaded metropolitan
ladies' numerous tips that n to freshen
them up and teach them the Importance
Of existence.
They were a pretty lot. these Berkshire
Hills schoolma AIMS, and the way they did
up their hair and hung on the folderols
set masculine New Workers agog. They had
a good time doing New York, and plenty OF
spending money. Talk Of independence!
ANY cook, even, might envy them.
Somehow the school teacher. with her
sweet freshness and refined social sur
%sonnndings, loves to talk about bohemian
life" and ape the hail fellow we'll met ways
Of her less fortunate women laborers.
One girl with a budlike natural complexion
even tried to make New Workers believe
she could smoke q cigarette without suffer-
ing. The yarn was not credited.
While trying to be very sophisticated a
couple of teachers told these after dinner
stories:
"A kindergarten tea cher was taking adj
vantage of the eruption Of Vesuvius to
teach an object lesson. Trotting out OF
her desl, a vivid represe NATION Of the blaz-
ing crater Of vesuvius che smiled the prac-
tised and alluring Froebei smile as she
inquired:
@"See, children. what does this look like?'
Tho cher.ts, who were all younger than
8, could at first summon.no ideas of simili-
tuGe which ~i'ertained to a. spectacle 30
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wifely anxiety and how clearly, through
all the noise and shouting, she heard those
two restrained little coughs. Turning In
her seat, she gave her husband a look Of
tender solicitude and then bending over
pulled up and tucked in the fur rug that
lay over his knees. Z
Her stern face rela xed 40 she did this
and the Londoners evidently liked the
very human touch Of loving concern she
betrayed, for they burst into q hearty cheer.
Their compliment, however, she only an-
swered with q deep blush, for, In spite OF
her, birth and rearing and position and tho
fact that her mother was n Of the best
poised, most talkative and s~eh-oonfdent
women of her ttns the Princess OF Wales
il almost painfully ehy. @
When, for example, she was travelling
inoognito on the Riviera and at Nice she
cam out on the lawn to seea tennis tourns-
mentand q tall, pretty American girl stepped
to one side gracefully In order 70 give her
good position to the Princess, abe received
no thanks for her courtesy. Tho royal
lady merely blushed, looked confused and
hurried away. Later the astonished young
American was stopped In the grounds by
an English Countess, who begged her TO;
accept the Prncess's belated thanks for her
kindly action. =. :
Shy and even haughtfly evere 90 she
Seems In public, tho Princess OF Wales isi
In her nursery, an ideal mother. No ohil-
dren are brought up moro sanely or simply
than hers. y
Unless her ofloial engagements arc too
long and too many she eats one meal every
day with them. bathes her babies with her
own hands, nurses the little ones whom
they are ailing and gives the s~triotest care
to their diet. Before starting Of for o
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horrible. At last a bright youngster raised
his hand.
Il know he ventured. but I'm afraid
to tell you
"The teacher added a touch Of yielding
familiarity to the smile and said:
4 guess you may tell me. and don't be
afraid; what do you think it looks like?'
1T looks like helY replied the brave
little boy, and took his seat"
The other story was credited to a lead
ing professor of English literature in q
university. 1t was told apropos Of the
greenness of the Berkshire Hills school
teachers.
a little quivering old maid from the
country came to New York, and attempted
for the first time in her life to board q trolley
car. She let several cars go past, but at
last one stopped long enough to permit her
a word with the conductor.
81 say, mister she said, shying ner-
vously as he put his hand OF the bell rope,
do you think. il l should put my foot on
this track, that I'd get a shook?'
mo madam the conductor assured her,
you wouldn't, unless you should also put
your other foot upon the wire.'"
1t is not only the didactic art that teachers
find amusement in. They have a genius
for spending money. Certain ocean
steamers which sail during the latter part
Of June or the first part Of July carry half
a cargo of school teachers OF on their
annual vacation. They don't 90 moping
off alone, but travel in parties or In pairs,
and sometimes the pairs are Of the hy-
meneal variety.
The month Of June Ia not only the month
Of plans and antioipations for intended
brides and bridegrooms, but also the month
Of release and merrymaking for the whole
standing army Of school teachers. And II
they don't take along on their pleasure
jaunts a guide and protector, who will
later lave the right by contract to their
Of life's s~ojourn, it is because, like the hired
girl, they prefer to hold on to their proud
independence.
A rough estimate can be formed Of the
number of teachers who are marrying,
dropping out of the educational army,
by the statement from the superintend-
ent's Office Of Greater New York that at
least 1,40o new teachers could be taken on
next year. Teachers are getting married
despite DR.. Felter's assertion that educa-
ton breeds old maids.
Whether it is the honeymoon trip or not.
the school teachers all 60 somewhere, in
nice, new broadcloth gowns Of the very
latest cut. II a teacher does forego the
pleasures of the honeymoon she is sure
to be compensated by "a journey. a new
friend, a surprise, Al acc-se-., a blond
gentlsmanr-and everything else that the
seeress usually promises out Of the pack Of
fortune cards.
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NO oats; but then We may 10 ec<ae
other neighborhood where nobody putaap:
cat guards and the cats reign supreme. 4
"Lsuppose, In fact, that the presence oeth0s
oat guard IN some localities and its absence.
IN others must naturally tend to concentrates
oats In neighborhoods where Il Is not, ~
by law; now; we could make the pIttinai
up Of cat guards compulsory, and by rigid
insp cotton we could have that law enforoed.s
why, then, We might be- rid Of cats enttrelyN
but, as it ts2 And ! seem now TO have settlsd5
and where the cats not only outnpmbet5
but outhowl all the assemblages OF cats3
I have ever known before y
'I won't attempt to describe to you;
their wild wailings and sweeping Screams
/ couldn't, for that matter, IL 1 tried. Ands
say the people living in the block around
this range OF ~backyards, are here to suferf::
When that m~idnight-.or # may be ! on
e - = a MA sSySdSsIs End the then "s sets D bloc
and come jewellers there are around that trys
Il bear q window go UP somewhere and n
know that somebody Is sticking his head,
as Aeroely as he can between his olencheda,
teeth 'sssstl sssstl ssssti' but even in my
anguish this always makes me laugh for you
might as well try TO, stop'a comet by sissing
81 iti and ip fact ! think 1t makes the oatsE
Then. pretty soon, the cats keeat2- on
bowling, we hear something slam agS-4nst
the fence with an old time, familiar olatter
lit soundsllike q boot or a brush or q
bottle, thrown probably by some old man,
producing results ia concerned 1T might as
well have been thrown up in the air. And
then--
4'Gerzooml'
= ar1~.k .S,,-J~i -. 10 ~ ,aioht How, haop n
chair or a table, or even q refrigerator. or
something like that, for it struck the fence
with a mighty crash and shook every cat
of to the ground, and then for a brief space
there was silence, but q minute later they
were all up again, screaming their weird
And then, somewhere down the block
bless you, my brother, I'd like to know
you aud shake you by the hand-there Is
a mar who fires a gun-it may be only a
pistol, but 1t sounds like a gun-to frighten
the cats.
"It's singular about the effect Of that
gun-so metimes the cats only howl the
louder when they hear it, bur ,o.ae-
times at the report they stop, And That
has suggested to my next door %neighbor'
a somewhat eanguinary man that wo
might rig up a gatling gun in the yard or
& mitrailleuse, or something OF that sort
where it would sweep the fence tops, and
10 actually. rid these yards Of eats for
seriously, rejecting that maybe the maker
of the cannon could give no guarantee
about where the bullets would stop, We re-
luctantly gave this up.
S now we are practically right "her?
we were, with the cats still bowling. And
is there no inventor who can rise to this
occa, ion, and not for our benefit alone
but for the benefit Of all, and to his own !
great profit as well, devise something thas
win stop cats bowling nishtsf' sshV
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Among all the royal ladies' Of Europe
there Ia not a more interesting personality
than that Of the present Princess OF Wales.
Some day, when her husband wears the
crown Of his forefathers, she will share q
great throne as the consort Of King George
V. Of England. Meanwhile she 10 very
little known sven to the British public,
b~eforewhom she win eventually appear as
first lady Of the land, for the present Prin-
oess Of Wales bears slight resemblance
in either temperament or appearance to
her immediate predeoessor In the title,
her mother-in,law, now Queen Alexandra.
From the first hour OF her arrival In
Great Britain Queen Alexandra has been
considered n OF the most beautiful and
popular women who ever appeared at the
English Court. Naturally and gracefully
she has always accepted and enjoyed the
publicity Of her great position and has done'
much to adorn and dignity it.
Her daughter-in-law. OF the other hand
Is neither a be1uty nor a ~favorite. She
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NAR. GRIPTONGS'S
lVl ANXIOUS CALL.
Wants Somebody to Invent Some
thing to Stop Cats Howfing
at'Night.

"A fortune said Mr.. Griptongs. awaits
the man who oan invent some simple, In
expensive and efioacious way Of keeping
cats from bowling at night, some effective
anti-cat that any man could bring into uses
in any neighborhood, on occasion.
"In this advanced age throwing bottles
and b~ootjacks and old shoes at the offend
ing cats seems q crude and unscientifio
method, and then It il Intellectual. Why,
I have known q cat to be hit square In tbs
midriff and actually knocked of a fence bya
large and heavy and fairly thrown Hessian
or IL might have been a Wellington--boot
and o only to escape 'bei.s annihilated
or even silenced by the same, but even TO
emit, at the instant Of the boots impinging
upon it, shrieks louder than any to which
1t had given vent before. Recovering It
self from the ground and sorabbhpg up
on this fence aGaify It gave forth long,
waving, ear piercing, blood ourdling. hair
nidng screams, to which all previous
screams seemed but as the gentle murmur-
ings Of a Lutte.
-No. You see, the cats have got 90 used
to boots and bottles and bootjacks and
bricks-singular, sort Of, isn't 1t, that all
the things we throw at cats begin with the
same letter, the letter 'b'P Ever think Of
th~ata--have got 30 used to them that they
pay no attention to them whatever unless
they are actually hit, and how often does
that happenf
@I forget how many tons Of lead It takes
actually to kill a soldier in battle. and the
PROPORTION Of misses to hits is about the
same-larger probably, really-in throwing
things at cats. Think Of the ~frightful
waste OF ammunition In this warfare, and
then consider that. in this war on cats,
" hen we do hit the mark, 1t only makes
the cat scream the louder!
aOh, my no! Bottles, bootjacks, bootsand
bricks arc more than medieval, they are
positively ancient and worse than useless as
a means of warfare on bowling cats. True
we derive q certain satisfaction from hurting
these missiles, but that is the only result;
they do no good; and what we really want
now Ia something effective.
There is the cat guard, composed OF
strips of wood with long sharp spikes stick
ing UP through, Which we hnil on the tops OF
fences to keep cats away, a good thing az
far as it goes. but there's the rub: it doesn't
10 far enough. We live for a year In one
neighborhood where everybody around puts
cat guards on his fences, and whore We hear
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few daysa at some nobleman's ooun-
try place or circles tho globe.
When visiting or travelling they
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try place OF! circles tho globe. fNI
When visiting or travelling they ~
always manag &c to slip away, usually
after luncheon, for a full hour to-
gether. Then the Prince lies down .
and his wife reads aloud. His
tory they select, as a rule, for perusal, and
though the Prince often drifts of to sleep
under the soothing influence of her voice,
she always continues gently at her task
until the full time for his nap has expired,
for by this means she insures to him his
midday rest and meantime pursues her one
form Of recreation.
Unlike most Of her family, she is pas
sionately fond Of books, and good ones.
She has read widely and With so active and
retentive a memory that a statesman who
once had the courage to penetrate through
the trying silence Of excessive dif1dence
that she preserved In public found her pos
sessed, he declared, Of a marvellously we'll
stored mind. and, what was more astonish-
ing to him, a profoundly ambitious n
The first and greatest ambition OF her
life Ia centred in her husband and his future,
but his health keeps her In q constant state
Of alarm. One day last November when
fog had orePt up thick and white through
the streets Of London the Prince and Prin-
cessof Wales drove through Hyde Parki the
wake Of the King and Queen Of Portugal,
who had been lunohing solemnly and
sumptuously with the Lord Mayor.
Court etiquette enacted that the royal
folk should drive in four horss open ar
ria ges, and It was a fine sight to see her
sitting very erect. bowling stifiy, her cheeks
glowing like June roses and her blue eyes
glinting with health and vigor. Beside her
was the Prince, pale, smiling. wrapped In q
fur lined coat and salutng constantly, but
when for a moment the gay procession
halted near the park gates he ooughed once
or twice.
Then it was easy to note how quickly tho
Princess could forget everything in her