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Show A ROYAL DORCAS ANNOYED. Tho Princess of Wales Overwhelmed l)j Indigent Centenarians. A kindly act of charity privately performed per-formed by the Princess of Wales without with-out a thought of advertisement ia ixs$t causing her mnch inconvenience. Some weeks age the attention of the princess was drawn to the sadly destitute condi tion of a Mrs. Thomas, a centenarian living at Bnrryport, and the ancient dame was made happy by a handsome donation. This came to the knowledge of the local reporters, who naturally boomed royal benevolence. The result ia that the princess is simply overwhelmed with applications for assistance on behalf be-half of aged men and women and to judge from her correspondence there must bo thousands of centenarians in this happy country. Public notice has been given that the princess can give no more, but th6 stream of letters continues to flow to Marlborough House and Sandringham and Miss Knollys, the chief private secretary, sec-retary, has been driven to devise a lithographed litho-graphed form of regretful refusal. Many of tho applications are undoubtedly genuine. One from Llanolly, Wales, for instance, is accompanied by docuinon tary evidence that Mrs. Elizabeth Mor. ris attained her one hundred and fourth birthday on last Tuesday, but there are a good many undeniable attempts to swindle thoroyal Dorcas. London Letter. |
