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...weeks ago U. S. Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York wrote a letter to his friends. He invited them to subscribe to stock in a new corporation in which he is interested. Said he in the letter: "Naturally it will add to my happiness if my friends are stockholders. That will make it a family party." But one of these letters was presented by a stock salesman to a man who had never met the Senator. He resented the letter, especially because it was written on the stationery of the U. S. Senate...
Came two grave silk-hatted mummers who marched with thoroughgoing dignity. Impersonating not only the Prince but the entire Royal Family, they quitted the station and seated themselves in two wagons representing the imperial landaus. Ceremoniously they were driven to Buckingham Palace by exactly the same route which the royal party was to follow next...
Came the two royal landaus and Edward of Wales was whirled off through a drizzly rain and an ovation unprecedented even for him. On the balcony at Buckingham Palace his perennial "shyness" was again observed; many Britons would have pledged their hearts blood that his uneasy fussing with the busby was genuine nervousness...
There sits His Majesty on a carpeted dais. Over his head a monstrous curtain is furled with droops of golden cable. His crown rests beside him; a sceptre leans in the crook of his arm; a sword is propped against his leg; the royal coat of arms, painted on the wall, has the look of an automobile trademark. And in the stiffness of the paper-doll body under its innumerable ribbons, sashes, badges and magnificent sweep of falling draperies-in the exaggerated dandyism of the spindling white-stockinged legs, in the pointed hands, in the dainty bearded face, burns...
Once, with the Marquis of Queensbury and Lord de Clifford as judges, before a crowd that had torn down the side doors of the Royal Aquarium to get a look at him, Sandow met Samson. Samson began by bending an iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him. Next Samson burst a wire cable wound around his chest. Sandow burst its fellow. Samson snapped a chain on the muscles of his arm. The chain was too small for Sandow. He called for his big dumbbell. The greatest moment of his life had come...