Show I Prince ce of W Wales Ies Nearly 30 I Seemingly confirmed Bach Bachor lor I F A nr fly CILAS a McCANN United ted I I r Mi Staff Ct Correspondent L IXil ft May 5 One 5 One by one the available ble candidates for tor the hand of the Prince of Wales Vales are retiring from the matrimonial market market and and no entries have haye been noted re re- re Nearly 29 years of age the prince seems no nearer marriage than he was was- wasten ten years ago Ills His days are filled fl with hunting to hounds riding In Steeplechases laying cornerstones of ot new poorhouses and making speeches tat at at heavy aldermanic dinners dinners' din dIn- I ners nerd No hint o of putting on the hy hymeneal hymeneal lay lay- meneal ball and chain Within the last year of ot two to and a half dozen always mentioned R Abilities for tor the future queen of ot n- n gland land has married Just recently the Italian Princess Yolanda Inconsiderately became en engaged engaged engaged en- en to and married a dashing cay cay- Iary lary captain hardly captain hardly a week after alter some fame of oC the London newspapers heard exclusively far tar too exclusively exclusive exclusive- ly as it happened that announcement announcement announce announce- ment men of her approaching marriage to the Prince of Vales Wales was nas im imm Im- Im m I nent L' L Elizabeth Lyon Bowes another possibility became engaged to the princes prince's younger brother the Duke of York Now Lady Mary Cambridge daughter r of pf the Marquis and Marchioness Mar Mar- of ot Cambridge has been crossed crossM ot off the little list that occupies pies bies so prominent ent a place in all newspaper morgues i She was always third or fourth on the lists of or candidates She Sh was a distinctly eligible candidate popular lar mr larIn in court circles and a brilliant horse But she has l ta become come engaged to the Marquis l of Worcester Worcester ter ter year old son and heir of of the Duke of Beaufort It has been bren a long time since a year old heir to the British throne was far from matrimony as is the present Prince of Wales The line must be preserved and a n son SOH of the heir apparent nt Is al alwa's always always al- al ways was awaited anxiously There is Is' Is a complication in the princes prince's recklessness He lie Ie js an enthusiastic en- en horseman and rides Inmany in Jn inmany many steeplechases as as well as at attending attending attending at- at tending an av average rage of ot three or four fox hunts a week He will wll tr try anything anything any any- thing in the j of offences fences hedges edges and brooks brooka About once a a week he takes a tumble over a fence tence Into a brook Frequently he appears at solemn London dinners with an arm armin in a sling or using a couple of ot sticks sUcks in lieu of or crutches There is always alwa's the fear that something will happen to him Th The i list st of candidates for his hand and grows shorter and the prince himself himself him him- self his days full tun of sport and speeches his nights of speeches and theatres and dances danceR seems every day and in every way as far tar as ever from relinquishing the f freedom of ot bachelorhood and taking up upS the duties of ot a ro royal al husband and father |