Show ROYAL GIFTS Sold By Recipients Without Dell eacy or Restraint It muse be rather distressing to royalty roy-alty to see the small value set upon the gifts which it is in the habit of distributing among its frientis and followers fol-lowers These gifts are constantly being be-ing converted into cash in a most public and open manner without the slightest delicacy or restraint Thus at a great public auction held at London there was a valuable gold mounted and jewelled cane which belonged be-longed to the late Maharajah Dhuleep Singh and had been presented to him by the Prince of Wales as a token of friendship and regard It was but the other day that a number num-ber of very charming etchings made by the queen and the late prince consort con-sort fortyfive years ago were put up at auction at Dublin They had been presented by her majesty and her husband to one of her former ladies in waiting on whose death they had been offered for sale by the heirs The shop windows of one of the great pawnbrokers at Berlin were filled some months ago with an entire collection of valuable watches snuffboxes snuff-boxes adorned with gems articles of jewelry etc all presented by various sovereigns and royal personages to the late Count Visone minister of the household of the king of Italy and pledged without being redeemed by his scapegrace son who until the other day was a secretary of the Italian Ital-ian embassy at Berlin Thus it happens that one finds pins rings snuffboxes and even autograph portraits in the possession of people fcB whom they were certainly never intended in-tended and who make improper use of them for the purpose of obtaining social prestige Perhaps the grossest case of all however was that of Baron von Rado wits now German ambassador at Madrid Ma-drid who on the conclusion of his mission at Constantfnorjli1 whpro > IP had represented Germany diplomatically diplomatic-ally for a number of years and enjoyed en-joyed the PUUCUIJ tan who was never tired of loading him with valuable gifts deliberately put up at public auction Constantinople Constanti-nople itself under the very eyes of the sultan all the presents which he had received from his Ottoman majesty majes-ty Chicago Record |