| Show UNWELCOME GIFTS THAT ROYALTY RECEIVES 4 r V fy ty curious and often very er Incon Inconvenient are the presents given U n to royal ty given riven In many nallY eases cuel by not always disinterested strangers stranger About two years eara ago RIO King of at course Prince of oC ti n r check for tor from an nn enormously wealthy merchant In who hail had given alven up Ul JU and who wished to 10 get rIet launch launched ed Into Inlo the world of ot Time TIle check cheek however was IU accompanied aC nied by a it 1 let letter letter ter ler In which the th writer men 11 r t the tho fact that he had for tor t t years been lieen n humble amid si el SIlent ellent silent 5 lent admirer of ot Ire his royal rOal hiGh I l have halo Mid 9 the w rI t a 0 i heretofore ad nil admired mired your roy royal ro royal al 11 at ata a distance d III tan IJ Should your Our royal roal highness The ii luv xi lk I k bl lit pleased to honor me by b dining at al my douse bouse you jou Oll wool Indeed be making h happy w your lur humble servant J This Thill letter was wa replied to as II follows follow II JI It H Jr the of Wales Walts U III Pleased to know that JIll Mr Sir hw has for tor years admired II it t U It at a and atul Ik t trusts runts that Mr Ir will for tor year fa to 10 come rome still continue to admire at ala a distance The Th check k of course was returned About bout six j years ars ar ago an eccentric lady who ho was ID passionately rued fund of ot rats cats tiled died jl d leaving the Prince of or Wales Wile the sum of at her fortune on the condition that the em teen would take tak charge of the whole who of ot othOr her hat Mine feline cats cat In all nU The Tile money mont carne eume straight to time the prin princess cess cese herself lit in Ii time the shape of at Beak Bank of ot notes Your lour royal highness wrote the he old lady lall In is so 10 generally gen rally beloved by nil on nn account of your of at heart that i venture to hulls hope 1101 you ou will 1111 lie Ite kind to the only may friends I J ever tied had during my lifetime Ilie 1 lit of Wales WalH very ver veroon soon toon decided the matter I dont mind the sound hound of oC batik bank notes remarked his hi royal highness but hut I object absolutely ab to Iu the sound of cats notes The Tho man manoy mant oy ey t needless to 10 say lilY was not accepted Neither were the time cats Through the death of at a Dresden wo I man moan a few years jears ago ngo the Duchess of Cornwall and York came In 11 for tor a II most curious but not altogether welcome welcom leg legacy nor Icy For years till old ohl lady had been an enthusiastic collector of or hats anti and bonnets of or every cery age a Je every country and every style Itle Her royal roal highness suddenly found herself the tho happy dr unhappy possessor of or nearly 2600 2000 of these bonnets many of them It must he be confessed very err costly and very cry cu curious alto clone ilous You cant possibly keep those fright frightful ful tuI things merrily said Raid the spoken Duke of DC York to tho the duchess live Jive them Ihm to some of or the friends i thi U Inn lout t wish I h to 10 see again Time Tilt were wurt however ills dl tt United among the various homes bounce hom and charitable Institutions and not to some blind asylum as os the tho duke duko sma rUy suggested The Duke of ot Cambridge Is on one of at the thet st t hearted h men mon In the world During DurIn During M hie lifetime he h lies lias certainly done llone much muO m mood i 1001 by stealth never hoping or oven for tor thanks or tame fame Man Many years ago ao n a certain army om cr er r troll known kimono to the tho duke duko died tiled leas loav lell ng one Olle child a 11 son totally for or The Time Duke Duko Dukat of at Cambridge unknown to any anyone anyone one tools took charge of this boy 00 and Kilt y i sent vent him helm to 10 ft n nood good private boarding school life Ills royal rojal high highness y ness aces would fro fre frequently t write to the little fellow and every ory time I he hI did to so used i to 15 iS 5 for tor spending mon man money money ey Some e day dar when you ou are a 11 arich rich man mon you OU It lI tred 5 parcel trots from can ran pay mft me m Australia I back bacle once Jok Jokingly wrote the kind hearted duke to toI I the boy JoY When he had finished at nt school his royal NIal highness got some ap lP appointment i for the youth out In British i i and for tor years and anti jears yeara heard 1 nothing more of ot him himI I Now how comes com the pretty and somewhat affecting part fort of or the time story Last No November vember the aged duke received a parcel from rein Australia In which was Vas found time Identical letter written by the lime duke to the schoolboy years before anti and wrap wrapped wrapped ped up In this letter was the Iho sum lIum of W 0 the amount sent by him to tho the troy boy Joy he had lied once befriended A few tew da dads s later latr the duke was wn legal legally ly Informed that a 1 certain rich Austra Australian lien lian merchant lad hat died leaving his hll royal lOyal highness the whole of or his wealth I 11 In all alt The once onN little school schoolboy tiny boy 00 hall had Indeed remembered his hili old benefactor |
