Show SOVEREIGNS AS JESTERS Shaw Put Dignified Officials on Skates Although the kaiser has ha been known kown to allow alow one American millionaire to slap him heartily on the shoulder and another to tell teU him that he is a jolly joly good fellow without showing a trace trae god of offended dignity says the London he Is said never to permit the tho least leat familiarity from even the most exalted of hIS subjects And Arid yet no monarch better beter enjoys a joke at the expense of ot his officials as aa was recently proven by a remarkable photograph presented by him to an ad admiral t I mimI miral who usually accompanied him on his yachting expeditions On a P recent trip this admiral admirl was wa not present present and ad his hia hi majesty In order to show him what he had missed lad had a wonderful photo photograph photograph graph faked fake representing a a gigantic and fearsome sea soa serpent gliding through the waiter waier W er within pistol shot of ot the imperial yacht jacht achl A more frolicsome ome monarch Is the tha shah of Persia lof ot whom the following story stor is f told During Diring his last lat visit to Paris the shah Must dust as he was wa leaving leavin his hotel summoned the two police polee In Inspectors Inspectors inspectors who always accompany him himon oa Ott their bicycles and ad begged the loan of ot their machines as his court mar marshal marshal marshal and ad chief chamberlain were anxious anxIous ious bus to try tr them These dignified officials of dale cals had never been on a bicycle In their lives and great geat was their con consternation when their royal ryal master mater commanded them tem to mount the unstable unstable unstable ble steeds and ride away There was wa however no escape so s summoning up their courage cure the two dignitaries tucked tuc ed up their frock coats CO t got somehow astride of ot their respective wheels ls and began to down the tha Champs They Tey had ha scarcely gone half hal a dozen yards however be before before fore for crash went wet one machine and then the other and the gallant galant riders were wert sprawling on the te ground gound while tho the shah laughed so consumedly at the lu spectacle that tat he was obliged to dry dr his eyes with wih his handkerchief All AU you ou want is a little lite practice he gasped gaped between his paroxysms of ot laughter as the fallen heroes picked themselves up and began ruefully to brush the dust off their garments On another anoter occasion put several of ot his most adipose and grave courtiers courter on roller roler skates and was so convulsed by their antics that he had to command them to desist But perhaps no living sovereign rel relishes rd a Joke of this kind more heartily than the Irrepressible king of Spain who Is never so happy aa as when he la is shocking his grave and decorous cour courtiers tiers Only the other day It Is said he interrupted an interview with one ons of his ministers to show him how clev cleverly erly he could turn somersault an acre acro acrobatic batic feat which he also performed for forthe forthe the benefit of Queen Alexandra a short time ago In one of the corridors of Buckingham palace Francis I practiced some cruel Jokes on Jacob Paul von Gundling an emi eminent neat nent scientist on one occasion dress dressing dressing ing up a monkey In clothes similar to those worn by the professor and male mak making ing the latter embrace him In public and acknowledge his as his own son eon and on death the king had his body dressed in state uniform and burled buried In a wine cask Charles III loved to go abroad in n dis disguise disguise guise assailing his subjects In the tha coarsest terms He would enter the shops of venders of breakable materi materials materiale ale als and taking up a mirror or drink drinking lag ing glass would let it fall to the f ground laughing unrestrainedly at the damage that he had done and at the tho abuse that was showered on him And to give but one more example Peter the Great loved at Christmas time to take part In the annual sledge procession procession sion in which the clergy gorgeously attired stopped at certain houses sang sanga a carol and received charitable offer offerIngs lags Ings |