Show ROYAL CLOCKS WAYS Al FAST King Keeps Time Half Hour Ahead for Punctuality LONDON LO reb rob 3 9 CIP CA tiP an- an announcement an announcement that King Kine George Nit eat Ills his Is Christmas dinner er at al 8 30 o'clock at surprise for tor It II Is h custom for Ills Majesty to dine ditto Jt t any other time than 8 I o 0 clock or er b A n generally generall unknown tact fact that for more mor titan than halt a century all of oth the clocks at ot the ro roial III estate nt at ha c been ben kept balan an hour hou hour ahead o Greenwich Ich time The Idea Idell was stas Introduced by KIng ICing Ed ard when hen PrInce Princ of o Wales Wale an and 1 borl 0 ed b him from a 0 neigh neigh- neighbor neighbor neighbor bor the late Earl Bar I of I Leicester r to whom In the early das d s of their marred marrell life lite the tho late lat king and nd his hi bride were store ere frequent visitors It was as the tile earl carl s custom to keep kee all 11 of the clocks clock on his bh estate hill hlf en an n hour fa fast t so as IlS to Insure jail lIty The Th prince as so taken t ken is ith the Idea that he h adopted ItI It I This seemed teemed to have hove been ben un- un for so o punctual at most times ass as w s the tho late lito that he h he e gained tho reputation of net er be- be bIng belog be beme me log late So well ell was stas the lh custom out In practice and so deep rooted roote Is I It among limo th that there 19 i no other time timo In the th antI and andesen ln esen the th trains stopping there use ue It |