A Merited Rebuke

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1911, Page 4

A Merited Rebuke

Tlio irreproacliahle politoivcss ol tho late Kiiiji Edward VII.. \v:is not only individual and relative to per-.-soiis; it was huiina.ii and general as well. Once at Marionbnd his inii.josty and a few friends were 'having tea in a restaurant in the pint , woiuS near the town. At a table close by *at .another party, tho b;>st of which was a well-known Gernnin prince.

The work of attending to the guests at both tables devolved upon a young English waitress, and the King did not fail to notice tho rure. blustering manner of tho royal German, who fchimttMiod to report tho terrified girl every time she- had occasion to answer his summons. -Annoyed by this most unjustifi".blo behaviour, tho Kino , s-Mid to Sir Stanley Clarke: "You n/re to convoy my thaiiiks to tho proprietor here far the rirompl and admirable way in which my party has boon served at this restaurant." The command was instantly ■obeyed, much to the- dtisgnst of the adjoining table, 'a disgust whicifr was intensified when the King gave tho timid waitress a gold piece.