NAMING THE BABY

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2298, 17 November 1925, Page 7

NAMING THE BABY

PRINCE OP WALES’ TASKS. KISSING BRIDE AT WEDDING. Minor trials have been experienced in plenty by the Prince of Wales dur. Ing his recent prolonged tour, but they have never in any way depressed Ins good spirits. Indeed, some of these little trials have afforded him a good deal of amusement. For example, a a village on the veldt in South Africa, a native woman showed the Prince with some pride her children, six boys and one baby girl. The interpreter informed the Prince Of their names. When he came to the baby girl ho told the Prince that the child was yet unnamed and that the mother would feel deeply honoured If the Prince would name her. The request took the Prince completely aback. He was for a moment quite unprepared with a suitable sug, gestion. But he was only nonplussed for the briefest space. He suggested the name Dawn; it was received with delight by the mother and the baby was so named on the spot;-

On another occasion during a jour, ncy across South Africa an aged native was presented to the Prince, who, through the medium of the interpreter, asked the native If there was any kind of gift he would like. The reply was a request for the prince’s pipe. The distinguished visitor at once complied, but It meant that he was unable to enjoy a pipe for six hours, fintil the place where his personal luggage had been sent on to was reached.

It was a fairly frequent trial of the Prince during this tour that the days set apart to give him a rest from the keeping of public engagements, had to bo sacrificed in order that he might attend some entertainment got up un. expectedly. One of these little enter, tainments was a native wedding. The ceremony had been hastly arranged t Q take place so as to coincide with the Prince’s arrival at the village. The Prince anticipated being able to take a day off and enjoy" some hours of really needed rest when he reached the village. But on his arrival he was presented with the invitation to the wedding: he at once agreed to accept and duly bestowed a kiss—another unexpected duty—on the bride. At on 0 little tojvn the Prince had agreed to play a round of golf with a local champion. On his arrival at the links the Prince found that an enormous crowd of all sorts and conditions of persons had assembled on the course to witness the match. This was somewhat disconcerting for the Prince, who never plays up to his best form before a big gallery. But there was another circumstance still more disconcerting—his Royal Highness found that he was expected to play not with his own clubs, but with a weird collection of “irons” not more than a foot in length. The Prince put up with a bad defeat with the best of grace, gratefully accepting the strange clubs that wer 0 presented to him after the match.