Show ADVICE TO THE PRINCE OF WALES in the opinion of carpers Harper 9 weekly the proper thing for the prince of wales to do to strengthen his prospects ecta of becoming king of england to is to go on playing bac baccarat carst and lot let no opportunity escape in demonstrating to the english pebbie that he is a thoughtless shiftless characterless nincompoop back of this rather original advice to the prince is the theory based upon what seems to be first claw class evidence that this is precisely the sort of a person most fitted for the english thron thrones and that any other would be so highly unsatisfactory as to endanger the perpetuity odthe of the british crown along with the seeming foolishness of this estimate of England En glands va loyalty there is a prodigious amount of fact and good sense seabe in view of the place which royalty yat at present occupies in english politics we do not see e wh why y horse borse racing baccarat and fast women would not make as appropriate attendants of the throne as any according ding to the testimony of lord chief justice coleridge the life of the prince would woul be a dreadful bore unless seasoned with some such innocent diversions as an the gambling party at tranby croft his duties being a perpetual succession of uninteresting ceremonies it was only common charity to allow am a little litti choice as aa to how and with whom he should entertain himself this is the sort of occupation which the english people have conceded to their prince and according to the best beat authorities from the english point of view it is the most moat appropriate occupation of a king there is no evidence that the theoretical leal sovereign of that mighty realm has had any others other that could be called official for nearly a century it does not seem unfair to pre presume surae that if the english people really desired anything but a nincompoop for a king they would have left something more than uninteresting ceremonies for his share of the government kil AJI things considered we are persuaded that the advise of harpers Harper 8 weekly to the prince to go on playing baccarat la is well enough if it is his bis wish to enjoy the happy and exclusive indolence of ef an undisturbed reign |