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Show A ROYAL DORCAS ANNOYED. Tho Princess of Wales Overwhelmed lj IntUcent Centenarians. A kindly act of oh arity privately performed per-formed by the Princess of Wales without with-out a thought of advertisement is nary causing her much inconvenience. Some weeks age the attontion of tho princess ' was drawn to the sadly destitute condi tion of a Mrs. Thomas, a centenarian ! living at Burryporr, and tho anoient dame was mado happy ny a handsome donation. This came to tho knowledge of tho local reporters, who naturally boomed royal benovolonca Therosultis that tho princess is simply overwhelmed tvith applications for assistance on bo-half bo-half of agedmbn. nndvoniGn, and to judgo from her corrosponaenco'" there must be thousands of centenarians in this happy country. Public notice has been given that the princess can give no more, but the stream of letters continues to flow to Marlborough Houso and Sandringham and Miss Knollys, tho chief private swj-rotary, swj-rotary, has been driven to deviso a litho-graphed litho-graphed form of rugretful refusal. Many of tho applications are undoubtedly genuine. One from Llanelly, Wales, for instance, is accompanied by documon fcary evidence that Mrs. Elizabeth Morns Mor-ns attained her ono hundred and fourth birthday on last Tuesday, but thero are a good many undeniablo attempts to swindle tho royal Dorcas. London Letter. |