Evening star., 1912-08-26
ALL MISS THE PRINCE
EnqIand's Heir-Apparent Pop
uIar Among French People.
PARIS MOURNS DEPARTURE
Incidents of His Contact With the
Humble Glasses.
BY A. w. L'AMoUREUX.
espondence of The Star.


Foreign Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, August Is. 1912
All Paris misses the Prince of Wales.
and especially the humble folk of the
quarter in which he lived. Every day the
shopkeepers of the Rue Rude were on
the alert for glimpse of the prince. The
cobbler whose trade kept him at the win
dow was the most fortunate
II saw him every day he says with
justifiable pride. Every time he went out
he passed my shop. and. let me tell YOU,
he never failed to give a glance at it. He
was a charming young man. and not a
bit proud. One day little girl saw it
with my own eyes-ran into him as she
was playing. The prince held her to keep
her from falling, and asked her pleas
antly If she had hurt hersel."
Still more precise are the Impressions
of the news agent at the corner of the
Rue Rude and the Avenue de la Grande
Arme for the princed used often to buy
picture postcards from her shop. When
the prince came to live in Paris she pur-
chased English stationery in the hope
that she would some day be honored by
royal patronage. Honored she was, but.
In her own words. 1.-The prince seemed to
take no interest in the English goods l
displayed. He bought French illustrated
cards, which he chose himself, and l
could see him smile with pleasure when
ever he found a card which represented
some historic monument he had just Wis
tied. Every time he came to my shop he
bouhgt picture postcards: every street in
Paris must have been represented among
his purchases
Then the good old lady told with pride
a more personal incident-how one cay
the prince, in pulling a magazine from a
rack, had brought down several others !;
how she had run forward TO pick them
UP, and how her royal customer had ex-
charming. and not bit proud she
ended, and that is the verdict of all
Alleges She Aided Fraud.
Described as femme fataie." Nine.
Lucie Motto, teacher in the Paris
municipal schools, has been shot and
mortally Wounded by man who alleges
that she had helped to defraud him of
800. Nine. Moitie is the divorced wife
of school teacher. and to add TO her
income she let out a few rooms. About
two years ago she had as a lodSer
commercial traveller, witE whom she be-
came very friendly. lie had $500 which
he wished to invest in some small busi-
two other men whom she knew. and who
we're about TO open shop for. the sale
OF illustrated postcards He did SO. but
the shop. he alleges. was never opened.
and he did not know what had become OF
his.-money. He also alleges that she had
proposed to some one TO poison him.
Whether her former lodger is justified in
these allegations remains to be seen. but
there are some indications that his mind
was of rather peculiar turn.
He says that lie belonged to The
Mystic Society of Universal Fraternity"
| That such society exists is not ascer-
tanned. but. according to him. its motto
| is. Authority is not power: power comes
| from knowledge" He also had gold
medal in his possession. to show that he
was member of the society, and he
carefully preserved the names Of some