Show THE MINICE OF how he spends ills leisure hours the prince one of the most hospitable country squires conceivable life al bluch as abo prince of wales en joys the artificial life of the court and the landon season he is never so thoroughly a his line jovial self fliege off the tall hat bull f of cockney dona aull tt ns the country jig for abood ti tie in his country home landringham sandringham Sand ringham was well for the future king of england it is the country house in the typical english country norfolk is a sportsmans sports mans paradie e and its shores are lapped by the waves of the north sea landringham sandringham Sand ringham lies out of the main railroad highways so that it his fair privacy yet it is easily reached from and the mansion lies a few yards from the pretty read and you pau through a splendid set of wrought iron gates ther gift of the neighboring old cit Y of norwich the county town of norfolk the site is elevated but the house lies low or rather flat on the rich vel vety green sward that is kept as smooth and bright as a new billiard table it is not at all striking in appearance app but has a good old english style ila its chaste ty A new wing has recently bean added it might be mistaken for one of the chapels which some of the older mansions have attached to them but this is somewhat othero wise being the gorgeous ballroom ball room built according to the princes own taste Theto neof is exceedingly rich and yet for a wonder cheerful as much so by day its by night there was great doings when it was opened and many a brilliant spectacle has it presented the prince is the most hospitable country I 1 re conceivable and were it possible he would have a ball every night to everybody there an three grand formalities in ea 0 it season the co atry ball the far mers ball and thu servants ball the former is the grandest and most exclusive in ea glish country afe only countr y people are invited and great are the heart burnings that fullow alie pershal of lists accepted or rejected at landringham sandringham Sand ringham house this bullo tion is observed wilh strict etiquette and yet the poorest country person and the most impecunious of the now aurely impoverished gentry are not only invited but receive a bially cordial welcome the farm ers eipl W s itself and many a hap farmers farm ers wife regales her town py trie lids with recollections of her first dance with the as a partner the servants ball is neither less brilliant nor bees hearty than othe re the marlboroug house go to landringham sandringham Sand ringham in a body ilia french iania and german daises from london vying with the old ma arons bud country lasses of sand riligh arn in the arts and braces the prince always leada off with the housekeeper or upper chambermaid and the princess with perils PS the butler or cook and once the pon derous but awfully jolly bucheri Du cheri of teck followed suit with the wee mite of a coachman W ho driven the princene pr incese there bisno stuck about these entertainments the host and boi are host and hostess in the grand ald be glish way all the time and make everybody feel quite at home BU t let a u y one presume by one hairs breadth bre alth upon propriety or forget his mandere man nere the prince finds a prompt but graceful way of leaving a lasting mark on the unlucky boor I 1 may as well mention here the suppers given to the laborers on itsie on t princes birthday bud at christmas theadare rousing affairs of roasted pudding and ale and of the men as are politically opposed to they now no stint in their enthusiastic cheers abt their landlord employer as you would find could you bear them roaring the chorus fo r hei jolly good fellow the various rooms of 1 ng ham hou seare elegantly and light ly decorated for the most part ia creamy white and gold these rooms ruti along the main side of the house acing the garden the jamous portrait of landseer bi himself Lim self and a dozen other pictures of worldwide world wide popularity through their engravings give you the feet in of bui welcomed by old fr tends the more sombre dining room is in brown and gold its gnarl darld carved old hakea 1 ii asters alid the richly ing use betl I 1 the gorgeous t we step out of this into the billiard room dark and solid and from it into the aberi can bowling alley with its hodg in planes and groove sand cush boned pews high over all forth ladies on the wall flothe windo wa is a of the scenes in the home to landringham sandringham Sand ringham of i buddha frola judis a gift to ille prince and aher e in the jg arden right facing the window siti the great equal brazen athe lookia erasmine Erah od ever adored by baC banals all mine ile beams with con tag ious smiles as be bit there in each sublime content in his goda fair fat at 1 east the bowling saloon leads I 1 atole large and will ed ta ow end tast efing of the houie the bed rooms are furnished iff red blae white japanese and other idyles the garden is charmingly aid out every here and there you t and across the miles of pines and brack en to the glass y sea few miles abbad the g aden bud ground would need a column to barely liftee ita cli arms everywhere are of new ideal tracks diverted open bugs made in woody knolls d W drives out through the vast brack ed tracks so that ao boik dri vs abou t the park you have a constant sue cession 01 surprise eur prise views by find by you come all unexpectedly through trim dutch a n d italian garden beda into the a lovel Y nook I 1 bounded y trees that ook ah icka s where in nature appears to be head gar deller assisted no doubt hy well concealed art the ir regularity of the view here the ab clatuce of scissor it and prini casprini ness the luxuriant don t r ras ei h ess of the happy go lucky shrubs and trees and of gorse delight the soul with the true grace of freedom denied to the cut and dried garden plots and to comple the allu 1 there roam the elks and the newly arrived reindeer rein placidly near the artificial rock bohunil lake as ild in its cat aracka awill t had popped d V ou J it tropics sky away in the dis tance are th e h busand tell and fallow deer and the topa ot these high trees come the i of lord Bacon fields peacocks that once paraded the terraces of geden the tennis court the same as that in which the cedr jeses played the conle in st jarlies park years ago A little way off in a cosy nook is the bachelors cottage in whose doyen the guein of the ham house steep the sleep of when and how they choose A gaoa kitch en suggests that creature conff orts are not impossible of procurement even at unholy hours if need be you soon 6 your way in the tangled maze invented in distant a geato assist true lovera in the art of ii here are th palatial stab where seventy aristocratic horses enjoy existence when the family are at hume the farm I 1 a adjoining where we cannot now linger our way lies far across the stretch of woodland where the ruddy sand of the new broad drive strikes a harmonious contrast with the dainty green shoots of the barches larches and firs and the drowsy frowsy brown of the rabbit haunted heath now we reach the dainty swiss chalet just over a jonely valley where the princess giba her picnics and cos afternoon teas afler the drives a ud from whose glass walled tower a mighty t sweeps from the eggland ig gland I 1 scene to the shimmering sea |