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Show TAU5HT THE PRINCE A LESSON. Young Woman Administered Staging Rebuke to Germany's Future Ruler. "A fiod is as good as a wink to a blind horse," says the proverb, but . tome men are so obtuse that neither jiods nor winks have' any effect upon them. Such a person seems , to be the foung crown prince of Germany. An" American girl wis recently graveling on the continent.- It was during the "emperor's regatta that MlssiBernice .Willard, a Philadelphia girl, was introduced intro-duced to the crown prince at a d'.rner on the water. They were all sitting nn deck, the -.'gentlemen -smoking, when a whiff of the smoke from the prince's cigaret- blew into' the lady's face. . ' ' " ' ' ' "Smoke withers flowers,'' rerrtarked a lieutenant across, the way. . "It "is no flower," - remarked the prince jocularly- "it is a thistle." Miss Wfllard raised-' her eyes a trifle. tri-fle. "In that case." she'said.--"I had , best retire hurriedly i or I shall be devoured" de-voured" The party saw the point; the prince ' was discomfited. |