Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-12
AMERICAN TOURISTS IN LONDON

more or less enforced on him by every
body around him, must have been upper
most. How would you like to have every
body near you with d back at an angle
of fortyfive degrees? So the prince took
IL out of his pride like Mr.. Pooh-Bah in
The Mikado" and went and shoveed
coal and liked it. Then the inevitable
happened and the prince discovered that
he had foreman prince. Suckers pocketed
bits of coal wL.ch had fallen from his
shovel as souvenirs and the shovel itself
was seized and polished and tied with
blue ribbons and hung up in the officers
mess room to be ever afterward u glori-
tied shovel-.the shovel used by H. H H.
the Prince of Wales when stocking his
British majesty's great ironclad r.uiser
the Indomitable."
However the fact that the Prince of
Wales did stoke, and what's more.
people like it. He did the same as
them says Bill at the public house to
jim the corner loafer who is sharing his
beer, "Gawd bless i'm
Maligning the Prince.
Nobody has really been mo.e maligned
or more misrepresented than the next
King of the British empire. The very
fact of his being heir to all the great
ness of his august father forces him into
the background. If the prince involun-
tarily takes step forward 1t is liable
to be mistaken as an attempt to unduly
tread upon the imperial purple of the
kinS-emperOr. He is close to the
throne that he must always remain in its
shadow. The prince is, and always has
been, the most loyal of sons. Between
him and the king there exists a very deep
affection. an affection combined with
deep reverence on the part of the son.
He has. never attempted>to do otherwise
than efface himself, that is to say, as
far as his exalted position would permit;
but, whenever he has had To play his
role of heir apparent and first prince Of
the empire. he has acquitted himself with
complete if simple dignity. His family
mOnGerS has ever coupled his name with
any lady in or out of the court. He is
devoted to his sons and daughter. and is
in every sense stanch Englishman and
gentleman.
One of the most persistent libels upon
the prince is statement that he drinks
more than he ShOuid-a statement en-
HANGED by the fact that the prince suffers
from a somewhat rubicund countenance
owing to a sluggish liver As "A matter
of fact, the prince drinks comparatively
little. He likes a whisky and soda and
probably enjoys cold bottle with d
genial companion-and why not? If one
could only imagine the isolation of being
a Prince of Wales one might realize
even the temptation to drink.
With the early days of September we
wake up in London. and the vast tran
sient population is at its very greatest.
and although it is not quite the correct
thing to welcome the first month of the
fall in town, still quite large proportion
of smart people lunch and dine at res
taurants and attend the first nights of the
many new things promised by Mr.. Charles
Frohman and others at popular theaterS.
Our theatrical nuts will be found to be
full of meat this season. BY the way.
new plays are as thick a S 'leaves in VAL
lOmbrosa" and favortes from both sides
of the Atlantic will add to the gaiety of
nations. | am told that an enormous re-
action is to take place in the financial
and theatrical worlds of London with
autumn's first breath and that ii season
of exceptional brlliancy will follow the
dire dreariness of last seasons many
failures. All of which is to be devoutly
hoped for. ASCOE.