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...There is no limit to the amount of poetry a prince might have published, to be sold to all loyal subjects at a price sufficient to build a couple of battleships. For those of ample means, however, this would be a small matter; the real menace of that the royal author might command his books to be read. A revolution among the educated classes would probably follow such a decree...
...Tadcaster, Yorkshire, one John Short, venerable huntsman, dipped his fingers in the blood of a fresh killed fox and smeared therewith the eager face of a Royal and Imperial lad of four...
Well limbed. His Imperial Highness stands 5 ft. 7 in. in his stockings. His complexion is a light olive tan. His features are regular, his eyes dark, level and un-slanting. He has climbed more mountain peaks than any other Alpinist of royal or imperial blood. He is an all 'round sportsman with a keen interest in baseball. His attire, when he landed from the Majestic, was faultless to the point of being inconspicuous: a derby hat, black coat, black suit, black tie and a correct white mourning shirt with narrow black stripes. Yet neither shopgirls nor stenographers yearned...
...means vexed, Prince Chichibu continued equably to Washington and was welcomed by Secretary Kellogg. Next day the President returned and received His Royal Highness for ten minutes at the White House. Soon Prince Chichibu departed for Chicago, where he rode about the city for two hours between trains. Then, dutiful, he sped on to San Francisco to take ship for Japan...
Died. Wilfred, "The Royal Rabbit" (TIME, Aug. 30), gobbled by a stray dog which broke into Wilfred's pen near Bolton Abbey, the estate of the Ninth Duke of Devonshire. The King-Emperor had purchased one-half of Wilfred for ten shillings from Bob Tomlinson, the local rector's son, and presented this fractional interest to Bob's sister Kathleen who already owned the other half of Wilfred...