The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
Amusing Stories Are Told
 About Prince Edward
MRS. HARCOURT HONORED
Quiet Wedding of Miss Beatrice knollys Has Pathetic Sde-kinu and Queen Alarmed About
 Princess Victoria.

SPeSioA Odple to The Age-Herald. Copy
 right, 1907, by W. R. Hearst)
 London. June 1.-The members of the Prince of Wales household are much amused at the accounts which have been received from various sources of the do ings of the princess eldest son, little Prince Edward or "David'' as he is called at home, at the Osborne college for naval cadets
 The other day a certain well-known woman who had lived all her life near sandringham, the Kings Norfolk home. and who, therefore, has known all the royal family since she was q girl, took her son to Osborne.
 The little boy who. like Prince eDayid'' was entering the college for the first time, had been laid up with the measles and so the young prince had several weeks start of him, The anxious mother natu- rally wished to see the dormitory where her son was to sleep
 As she entered the long, bare apart ment she witnessed terrific struggle. A rather fat boy was pummeling another on the floor The under boy" was purple In the face with rage and making de- termlned efforts to get up and do" for the fat boy.
 The struggle lasted a long time. inc under. boy being severely punished. but refusing to shed tear To the amaze ment of the anxious mother, the under boy turned out to be Arlnce David," the future King of England, who had been accused of putting on frllls."
 The Prince of Wales on hearing of the 1 fha remarked: Tt will do him good'' | Among the American hostesses who will be especially honored by the King this season is Mrs. Lewis Harcourt nee Burns. whose husband, MT. Balfour seriously prophesied at a dinner party the other night, will one day be a liberal prime minister of England.
 Mrs. Harcourt has obtained a promise from the King to pay weekend visit to Nuneham, the magnificent old seat of the l Harcourt family. No date has vet been fixed, but the visit will probably take place after the Ascot races, toward the end of this month.
 Nuneham is now fitted with electric light and many modern improvements. Mrs. Harcourt, who has just returned l from Paris, where she has been visiting her brother, Walter Burns and his bride l nee Cavendish-Bentinclx), is as popular as CT husband with both liberals and unionists.
 l Very few people who were present at the rather quiet wedding of Miss Beatrice Knollys, niece of Lord Knollys, King, 1 Edwards lifelong friend and secretary. to Sir Capel Woseley realized the pathetic opposition to the marriage which had Leen l offered by the Knollys family. l There was no question about the br.e | groom, who Is DOpl1lar and pb a rr,ire- man or much culture. but unhappily that 1 terrible northern post in Russia where i the Czar's unfortunate political offenders are compelled to live a life of absolute 1 boredom through terrible winters They are the best class of political pris- oners, 1t is true, and they are allowed much freedom, but theirs is the only so- eiety offered to Lady Wolseley after her ] life in England, and 1t was for this reason that the match was opposed King Edward however, has the strong est sense of duty, and when the knollys family tried to prevail with him his an swer was: If she wishes to marry the man she must share his responsibnue as many royal women do lns was the Kings advice to his own daughter Maud when she first objected to becoming l Queen of Norway.
 Both the King and Queen Alexandria
 
 | cruise on the royal yacht on "Wednesday next. are considerably worried about the health of Princess Victoria of .. ales. who is with her mother.
 It Is an open secret that the princess is subject to fits but unhappily these paroxysms are becoming more and more frequent, and her royal highness caused her mother the greatest anxiety at Athens | recently.
 In view of the fact that she is always at her worst in London where her ex- | tremeshyness makes public functions d | terrible burden to her. the Princess will | be very little in town during the season and will spend most of her time at Sand 1 rngham with her great friend, Lady Mus grave. in attendance
 Little has been allowed to leak out so | far of the serious fight which Is going on | between the motor omnibus companies in | London and the owners of valuable house | property.
 The general public are in the dark on the subject, but they have not failed | 10 notice that hundreds of motor omni- buses have been taken off the streets and | that number of old horsed vehicles have | reappeared.
 The truth is that so many people have been obliged to leave the thoroughfares | on which the motors travel owing to the | incessant noise and vibration that the | landlords. in alarm, have been using all 1 their wealth and influence to get all sorts | of restrictions placed upon these vehicles | The result is that the police authorities | are finding fault with every public motor | vehicle which comes up for examination. 1 and are disqualifying hundreds of others | on the ground that they are public nuis- | ances.
 l Meanwhile shareholders-many of them | humble people-in the motor omnibus com panies are suffering terribly the shares l In more than one company can now be l bought for a song. There is good case | to be made out for both sides, but in the l opinion of those behind the scenes. the public. who want the motor omnibuses, will win in the end.
 l A Spring Rhapsody.