Show t Misadventures of o Kings Kin s Amusing Experience Experiences of Various V Monarc When They W wit V Not Recognized Died tr INC ING ALONSOs AIJO SOs latest amusing KINO K experience cX when he had to produce pro produce produce duce a coin cola hearing his own On pre presentment presentment presentment before b he could satisfy ry ft n t group of or wayside washerwomen at that he was waR really the king kins reminds ono one of ot several similar stories In which a monarch has had like dim cully culty cull In proving his hla Identity to his own subjects A story which was widely circulated ed At nt tae Ibe time of the present czars cur coronation was to this effect cl After the terrible catastrophe which rot cost so 10 many lives of ot spectators on the Flodin Field his hi majesty paid a II visit to the hospital to which the Injured had been carried carrl d Standing by b the bedside of a poor old woman who had been badly badh crushed In the melee I Nicholas Nichol asked uk d Why Wh were you ou In the tread Why Wh to 10 see set the emperor of oe I course courie was the not very ver gracious an answer anSler answer Then why wh dont don you OU look at him now non no continued his hie majesty he la III standing by b your our side lido Dont tell me lies Ilea retorted the woman indig indignantly as If It I 1 know emperor emperors are not made like that thaI When the king of or Italy a short time ago called for lor refreshment at a way wayside wayside wayside side Inn and tendered u a coin In pay payment pa payment ment men the lady of ot the looked first at Al the coin and then at her h r guest gust Why b she ahe exclaimed you fOU are like the Ih king So 80 tome some people say MY emil smil smilingly answered his hi majesty But Dul the woman went on after otter another cam comar Pe r Ion icon with the head ead on the coin rain you are lite not nearly nearh as 81 No said Victor Ictor Emmanuel the king Is le a 1 much man than Ihan I am Even more amusing Is II the story told i of ot the kInK king king of the Belgians which nl III although though by y no no means unfamiliar Is II good 1001 enough to repeat r One day when Leopold II U wax U Walking with lIh a Scottish friend he stopped topped at It a farm tarm house houe for fora forR a R glass of or milk mille As AI he was chatting chattIn with his companion In English the woman oman turned turn to her husband and said naldI I f wonder how much the tho Englishman will pay Permit me m said Mid the as III he handed han ed her h r a coin cointo cointo cointo to present you OU with a portrait of ot the Englishman In Parts Paris where Leopold Is III known even enn to the street urchins urchin such a II mis mistake mistake mistake take would have h been less lens likely than thanIn thanIn In his hi own kingdom Not long Ago ato It ItIs I Is said a Paris gamin seeing the tall figure of ot the king approaching walked walk d dup up to tt him and without the slightest fear tear greeted him with Ohe Leopoldi Leopoldia a greeting which so delighted tho the unconventional monarch that he pre pee presented presented rented the lad with a piece When the king kin of Sweden S den a R few fe years yeara eua since visited lilted a small mall town near n ar Gothenburg ho hll joined the th crowd which thronged the streets to catch a 11 glimpse lImp 1 of ot himself When the news nes passed used that the tha king was wu coming a R shrill female voice olce at his hI back exclaimed ex exclaimed exclaImed claimed Let Iet me get Ket In front Do you think Ive walked all this way and spoilt my mO b best st black dress dr iI for nothing I 1 want grant to see ace what the king Is like let lei me ace see where he the king Is ls Turning round with lIh a smile Oscar Ocar said ald to Ihl pushing perspiring dame Here Jer is III the king whereupon after atter looking hint him up tip and down she remarked Well 11 Im Irn been been glad waiting waiting to 10 have hwe here here seen tor for lOU jou h houri hou at i hat J r h look at al the hole they the have bae mad lad best beet black dress I Was e t ta not hae a that that spoiled and then roll all see Ie More for startling was wag a an Rn Mv the German emperor when It t e thour hour II at all ll It one he decided d ld too surprise tide to his bis uncle at in 10 door dour f ringing the was as or o nw ne maid who ho at al sight eight of or the Ih tm em a by b promptly slammed Jammed it in his hii face shouting out Himmel V It I C k h On another nother occasion when mw th I was returning to Potsdam a and Ind weary after a lone long tra Inn n asked a peasant woman I KP t driving a 1 to give t 11 h lift The woman ey e eyed d 1 the t stained atranter In an liking his looks whipped ed up her lar t v bt and drove away as ai fast fat as A ah she he S A hundred yards rudl farther away a a On met a soldier who stopped w her asked BIked What did the emperor amt your ou f I 1 dont understand eke Ibe plied piled d and when the man mm ex e who ho the wayfarer was to Whom had refused a seat scat In her i r r was so 10 alarmed that abe be lashed f I h horse horn Into a gallop and An Quickly from tac ru u sight light One more time of at r king of who durin s 1 cent motor tour round his lua kirr rr y wiled called at 11 A small wayside l ten Inn n r glass of or beer He lie paid the th 1 for lor the bf beer er and added a mark i tip Well hell exclaimed the your sit I I man as she looked first nut at al the t r then at It the generous donor l on O ont t t tsee t see It I that thai you OU an a are not a anyhow t |