The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-14
GIRLS EYES SWIM
 W|THTEARSA THE
 PRINCE RIDES HOME
England's Future Ruler Has Happy Faculty of Winning Admiration and Love of
 Everyone
BY MARGARET WALTER

London, November i."Wkere are the men?" whispered the Prince of Wales. turning to a friend after his little speech to the crowds which called him to the balcony of Buckingham palace on the morning of his arrival in London after his tour of Australasia
 It was women who lined the streets and filled the windows along his passage from the station to the palace-women and girls-and when his grandmother, Queen Alexandra, took the young Princes face between her hands and looked into his eyes with a passion of hope and trust. she expressed the feel ing of the whole nation.
 But the Prince of Wales has been liv- ing among men and doing mans work these seven months, and he naturally missed the big-throated huzzahs he has grown accustomed to in the colonies.
 In Victoria street, where I saw the Prince drive by, thousands of women and girls stood absolutely silent, their hand kerchiefs fluttering thsir eyes swimming. They simply dared not trust their voices. Children chung to the legs of policemen, street urchins shouted, wounded soldiers drummed their crutches against the stones, old men crowding in club win dows gripped one another's backs, and the schoolboys of Westminster flung up their silk top-hats.
 And the Prince, sitting alone in the great royal landau, with it's six coal black horses, it's outriderS and it's postil- lions in scarlet and gold, looked so tiny, his round. childish face was 50 bonny. bis smile so tremulous. that the mother if every woman took him to her heart.
 Thar Uau cSin no nd other royalties, only the Duke of York followed his brother to Buckingham palace.
 The Prince saw everybody; he seemed to bow and salute to individuals rather than to masses. This is one of the pecu- harities of his royal technique. At one spot a yroGp of young American girls threw kisses to him. He laughed out right and saluted them specially, and then, turning, he smiled straight into the eyes of an old guardsnan leaning on his stick. There is something in this young man which calls out the natural and spontaneous in those he meets. Simple and direct, he inspires sincerity.
 No hot water bottles no easy chairs did lads have to follow him round with, his soldier-servant told me. He done his nine miles of trenches every day like the rest and took his grub in the mud and slime just like us. He's not above talking to you neither. l told nm about a pal of mine who got fortnight in guard house for asking for leave. He hadn't had leave for more than two years-volunteer, father of eight and his missis sick.
 The Prince listened and then wrote a few words on a bit of paper and sent 1t to the officer who had sent my pal to guard house. The lad got his leave, all right, but he said he would rather have had that bit Of paper That's how we feel about, the Prince He's one of us"
 good many people were surprised that he should so easily fall into Ameri- can ways last year when he visited the United States. The ease of the Prince of Wales was the result of hard school ing and incessant practice. For months he studied every American he met. The courtesy which royalty learns early en- abled@ him to quiz without seeming to quiz, and that discriminating sense which is perhaps his strongest characteristic enabled him to discard the trivial and retain the valuable.