Life — January 15, 1903 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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TURN ABOUT Is PAIR PLAY. Life’s Dictionary of Interna- tional Biography. Unal- phabetically Arranged. ALBERT EDWARD, Is these plutocratic days we must not depre- cate too much the influence of kings. Kings have their uses as well as financiers and politi- clans and brigadier-generals. The influence of King Edward over Newport and upper Fifth Avenue can hardly be overestimated. This monarch was born daring the last cen- tury and attained the age of manhood without wearing ® cont that didn't fit bim or using bis knife at the table wrongfully, At an early age he began to attract the attention of prominent actresses and rich Americans, and bis social career was thereafter assured, Ile became the fashion, soto speak, and while his nephew Wilile was golng to church and Sunday-school and learning how to be an understudy to the Divin- ity, Edward was bunching his horses and open- ing up Jack-pots with the proceeds of the India famine fund, Every great man owes much of bis success to 55 the Women he has met. They have awakened his ambiuons, given him confidence and spurred on his imagination, Lily Langtry did everything tor Edward. Prob- ably to-day he wouldnt be the King he ts If it hadu't been for her. She patted him on the back right tlme and sald: «Never mind, Eddie, if the Boer war iecomingon. Chick up and ben man, I'l stand by you while there's cent left.” And she was true to ber word, for there wasn't & social centre In America that didn’t feel the etfects of her rect- tation of the + Absent-Minded Beggar. As soon as Edward became King he determined upon a radi- cal change 1 the administration of affairs, Cablegrams were sent to all parts of the world, and now, what is the resuity Almost every where the cutaway coat Is taking the place of the frock To trace the exciting adven- tures, hatrbreadth escapes and momentous events that have crowded King Edward's life would be too much. Once he was within several miles of a naval battle, but seemed to bear a charmed life. Again at a cotil- lon he came near belng suffo- cated, and during @ yacht race was dreadfully near being blown overboard. But through all bis calamities he has preserved a calm and cheerful extertor ; no doubt, because he is a regular reader of Li King Edward, who was recently crowned by J. Plerpont Morgan and Charles Schwab, has com- mented upon the agreeable sensa- tons that were Incident upon that occasion. “It is pleasant,” he sald, “that though some of my handsomest omicers are in South Africa, socl- ety 1s atill able to hold tts head up and support me in my pressing duties.” Ills favorite occupations are: Cultivating American beauties, wearing bath robes, not talking to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, and re- gretting that Alfred Austin is poet laureate, Principat Works: A new shirt front, patent studs (ricing and bosom),device for keeping down trousers, etc., etc. A GOOD S10. comicbooks.com