Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-05-10
DJSIIKED UITRA-BRITISH AMERICANS;
w. WALDORF ASTOR HIS PET AVERSION
But Was Good Mixer With Sincere People, Though Kept
7oya Dignity Always ntact-Liked to Read All Views OF
HimseIf-Habits Temperate in Later Life - Reformed
Household Details of Palace and Paid All His Debts

one OF them with mild resignation, even
IL not with pleasure The fussy mayor
OF some little city was his only fear
These officials get themselves up i'm black
robes. wigs and gold chains and go
through the most absurd, not to say ORR
entail, genufeXions OF respect.
Once. when the king was prince Of
Wales. a delegation OF up-country may
ors visited Marlborough house to present
a royal address on some subject now for
gotten. The chairman was a very fat
man. whose embarrassment was so in .
tense that his knees shook together and
when the time came TO withdraw, the
chairman evidently forgot his cue, for
he continued to vibrate from one foot to
the other. murmuring. God bless you
royal 'iShness." God bless your roya'
ighness. Finally, yank at his coattails
by a fellow delegate started him i'm his
exit backward, still muttering blessings.
But the embarrassment. the feeling that
he had made break. and the difficulty
OF shutting backward over the thick car
pet. were all too much for him, and he
fell i'm a faint.
The prince rushed TO aid I'm picking up
the old gentleman, and ordered the at
tcndants to bring brandy. Strangely
enough, there wasn't a drop in NIarlbor-
oUgh house. and the mayors resuscita-
ton was unduly protracted. So annoyed
was the prince over the absence of brandy
that he ordered that a full bottle should
thenceforth stand conspicuously I'm the
entrance hall. The princes bottle Of
mayor reviver'' has become almost as
celebrated as the Baby Mckee milk pitch
er which used to stand in the front
window of the White House during the
Harrison administration.
Dinner at Buckingham or Windsor was
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often royal or state guests. Since his ILL
ness. the king had to pass by the richer
dishes. and drink nothing but white wine
heavily diluted with bottled spring water
Besides this white wire the kings only
potation was a glass of Scotch whisky
and soda at bedtime. The doctors had
tried to stop his cigar smoking and to re-
strict him to ore or two cigarettes after
dinner. but sb.s rule he frequently broke
FOND OF THE THEATRE.
Edward VII was a great lover of the
theatre aad when no state function de-
mandS1 his attention I'm the evening he
was generally to be seen at one or the
ether of the London playhouses. He took
box. which he occupied with the queen
one or the other of his children. or some
gentleman of his household. The theatre
manager was not allowed to let the public
Into the secret of his coming-this would
be little too good a drawing card-and
sometimes an audience would sit through
whole evening without knowing tha5
the elderly gentleman sitting back in one
OF the boxes was the king. There was no
royal box" after the style of 100 years
ago. except at the opera. and this the
King rarely occupied. He preferred good
comedy or music hall show to grand
opera any day. I think the last time that
he went to the opera was with President
Loubet. at which time the management
took advantage of the occasion to jump
the price of orchestra seats to $50 each
The late Dan Leno. the most popular
character sketch artist of the London