WHAT DOES THE PRINCE OF WALES DO?

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2177, 24 June 1890, Page 1

WHAT DOES THE PRINCE OF WALES DO?

In the matter of tours, blending public, social, and private functions, the Prince has done, and continues to do, an amount of work that has never been equalled, much less excelled. During his Indian visit he was always engaged in some interesting public business, and varying his commercial and royal duties with recreations of an active and exhilarating nature. It hus been the same with his European tours. No living man has received more public addresses, or conversed with more of the public men of all countries, or had better opportunities of acquiring the most cosmopolitan information. The range, rapidity, and variety of those quasi-public tours once furnished ' Punch ' with the materials for a humorous TALE OF MAGIC AND MYSTEBY. An ambitious mortal was depicted as intent upon following an Illustrious Person in his travels by means of a magic opera hat, which conveyed him from place to place. He kept up the chase for some days, ilying from capital to capital, from country to country, from court to private castle, from public ceremony to privato entertainment, until, physically and mentally exhausted, he was glad to be rid of his opera hat, and to resume his quiet life as an ordinary being. The story conveyed some very useful teaching. Keference has been made to the pressure of circumstances, and all that needs to be said in interpretation of the phrase is that the Prince of Wales has for several years been called upon to assume many of the public fuuctio7is that were formerly discharged by Prince Albert, and more legitimately fell upon a king than a queen. He has patterned his conduct on THIS EXAMPLE OF niS FATHEE. The Prince Consort aimed at beiug short, pithy, and exhaustive. The Heir A pparent has taken him for his model, but he has touched a much greater variety of subjects. The published speeches of Prince Albert ran go from 18-10 to 1850, and are 34 in v. umber. The Prince of Wales's collected addresses run from 1863 to 1883, and are 154 in number. Jileven have been delivered at .Koyal Academy banquets, six at Trinity House, and four in connection with the Koyal College of Music. The more numerous addresses touch such diversified subjects as commerce, agriculture, education, public works, medical chanties, and general philanthropy. They are short, kindly, and appreciative, obvious y bearing about them the Btamp of the Prince of Wales's individuality. — ' Cassell's Family Magazine.'