PENCE, POUNDS AND PRINCES.
caro of the-ponce and tho pounds .will take care of, themselves" 1 i 3 a maxim httlo .Princess;Mary\of s .JVales;has Wlcen-to hearty and though; tho.savings;sir© deposits so regularly>at the.'St.''Jamos' 3'Street' Post Oihco ;arp ' slightly.(in exe'ess of ;-tho "pence", stage; 'they are'^not huge' : sunis;;- : --' ■! ■ lr °rj - W?p;-'.othor;;;;young ! ". members'.-.of, .the Royal Family,'. shi2.•receives , only qiiiU) a small amount''each 'week as pocket-money! It hasnever been the rule,'in/fact,' for our. little 1 rmces and Princesses' to havo much money to spend. , -- Indeed, if report, speaks':true,';ono-young member of the Xtoyal family for quite a long : time^only, received - ; tho. munificent : allowance •• of' threeiience per week,'.'-but 'history 'doos not' toll us whether ■ho.'niana:ged,to save anything out. of. this. -.; Princess ltiary is businesslike as well; as,thrifty,.;for: she-never; forgets, to 'carefully-; examine,, her .book- when ;it is' re- ■ turned: to; her, ~to mako'sure that the entry has.--; been, correctly- 'maclo ; and - - officially stamped. . < v ■ •, 1 Put, there,, are. .other".Royalties l .- who .don't -seem to, have been:blessed- with the .capacity ; for boing: economical ; and - and. amom' them ■ must-'be;, counted—at ?least, ■ according to tho Kaiser—tho fiuke of Saxe-Cobiiri' arid his wife. ■■: : 0: ; , '/ ,-: /reckless', yoiiiig .-.people .actually -..proyided ,ior jtheir infant j son - a cradle - which cost '£2SU.It, is, certainly; a '.very - beautiful cradle,. for it .is; decked .with ■ much : fine.- laco. And-no doubtifc is a very comfortable cradle too;-but in-spito;'qf .these points in itsfavoiir tho.- Kaiser'has,decreed,, that it cost-tooimuch. : Ho is very, anxious, that Germany's. minorruling ;princesshall :.bo, economical; ■ and' certainly. ±,28(J is' not a very 'economical ~price .tor a cradle. Besides, *as his, Imperial Alajesty points out:'. "How r could ono expect the little prince (.to-grow, up- a .man and a; soldier aftor being coddled in a cradle rc--preseuting the year's 'income of an averaco Fn? i?f S r -'" a " ■ ;Aluerioa n- : Gmillionairbs mignt tako a., lesson from: •. this.—"Delineator." jv ■.• . *
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 3
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304PENCE, POUNDS AND PRINCES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 3
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