The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-08

to have a good time without too much
work is to be a millionaire In Eng.
land the young man of similar propen-
stiles thinks he would like to be king.
OF course Americans know that most
millionaires work harder than most
day laborers, but few people either in
England or America realize that the
king also works as hard as the poor
est of his subjects, and a good deal
harder than most of them.
1t is true that much of the kings
work is what most people would call
pleasure, but when one has to work at
pleasure for twelve or fourteen hours
day 1t becomes hard labor and there
is no getting out of it for King George.
He is the official head of British So
ciety, and the English church and the
British army and the British navy not
to speak of the British Empire, and he
must be on show at all sorts of cere-
monial functions all the time, and at
every function he must be appropriate
ly dressed.
On a busy day when he has a dozen
or more engagements the mere labor
of changing his clothes alone would
brighten an ordinary man, who puts on
one suit in the morning when he goes
to business and maybe changes for
dinner when he gets home at night.
The present London season began
on May when the court mourning
for the late King Edward came to an
end. 1t closes about the end of July
and practically until August 1 King
George will be literally on the run all
day and every day, performing all
sorts of social engagements and every
day changing his clothes anywhere
from six to dozen times. The season
will eliminate of course at the coro-
nation on June %, which probably will
be the busiest day of King Georges
life, but the festivities before and after
il will be such that more than ordinary
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TO carry him through. 1t is safe
enough prediction, however, that King
George will come through all right.
Apart altogether from the extra
ordinary festivities of the season King
George is a busy man and even in or
binary times clothes take up a lot of
his time This is particularly hard on
| him because he doesn't care for dress.
King Edward delighted in dressing
up" as keenly as any debutante getting
ready for her first bail. He studied
clothes and was never more pleased
than when he had designed some lit
tie alteration in the ordinary dress of
d gentleman. King George, like all
monarchs, is a stickler for accuracy in
such details, but he does not charge
his mind with them and he takes no
delight in them. He trusts his Wallets.
AS far as ordinary dress is concerned
he is particularly careful never to wear
anything that is at all out of the way.
He never will set a fashion as his faith
er constantly was doing.
King Georges Day.
Here is a typical day in the kings
life, showing not only his actual en-
gagements but how he has to dress
Tor them. He rises at 1870 a. m. gets
/ into breeches and boots and goes for
a ride in the park. When he comes
! back to the palace about an hour later
/ he changes into ordinary morning
dress, a lounge suit, breakfasts at
9:45 and then spends the morning
with his secretaries going over his
/ correspondence and attending to the
ordinary business Of the day. He
( finds an hour during the forenoon for
his physical training with Sandow or
, one of his assistants.
If he has no public engagements he
Iced not change his clothes again un-
til lunch time, when he gets into
frock coat and dark trousers, but if he
must 81 ant an duulCHCG OF receive dl
ambassador he must don one of his
many uniforms. His favorite uni
forms, if man who detests uniform
can be said to have fayorites, are those
of "A field marshal of the British army,
and the undress uniform of a British
admiral. The latter, indeed, is the
enc that he wears most of all and his
naval training is probably accountable
for this preference.
If he receives a foreign ambassador,
however, he must wear the uniform of
one of the regiments of the ambassa-
doris country, to which he is entitled.
There are also 80 uniforms of British
regiments of which he is honorary col
onel which he must wear on certain &C.
| casions, If it is a quiet day he may
get through the afternoon without