Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1908 — A Sovereign Who Is Punctual. [ARTICLE]

A Sovereign Who Is Punctual.

All men agree in the abstract that “punctuality is the soul of business,” but few act up to the maxim with the strictness of the king of the Belgians. Wherever or however he may travel whether the visit be of business, pleasure or ceremony, he is punctual, not only to the hour, but to the minute—it might almost be said to the second. And yet his majesty is never seen to consult a watch. But his familiars know that his habit of passing bis hand along his flowing bead is only a device for glancing at a small watch which he wears fastened to his wrist.