People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — Women and Royalty. [ARTICLE]

Women and Royalty.

'“During the Prince of Wales’ tour through Canada I had attributed the strange conduct of the ladies to an excees of loyalty. As soon as the prince had left a hotel they would rush into his rooms, seize all sorts of articles, from a furniture button to a soiled towel, as souvenirs, and even bottle up the water with which lie had just washed his face,” writes Stephen Fiske in The Ladies’ Home Journal. “But in the United States the women were equally curious and sycophantic. The luggage of the royal party was carried in small leather trunks—a trunk for every suit of clothes—and whenever the train stopped the crowds'would beg that some of these trunks might be handed out, and women would fondle and kiss them. I need not say that the trainmen were never too particular as to whose luggage was subjected to this adoration, and I have had the pleasure of seeing my own portmanteau kissed by mistake. Before the prince arrived at Richmond his room at the Ballard House was entered by the ladies, and the pillowslips and white coverlet were so soiled by the pressure of hundreds of fingers that they had to be twice changed by the chambermaids. When he attended church on Sunday, the whole congregation rose as he departed and climbed upon the seats to get a better view of" him.”