Marlborough house and its occupants, present and past . eason, thePrince had occasion to describe a poorhouse, andmade use of the term union, for doing which somerather unkind remarks were made by sundry peopleof the Gradgrind type, to whom a workhouse is aninstitution for work and nothing more. The Prince,no doubt, was perfectly aware that the very poor arekeenly sensitive, and prefer to hear the milderexpression used when their relatives or friendshappen to be inmates of that last refuge of thedestitute. For business details of every nature, the Princeseems to have a natural aptitude. To the
Marlborough house and its occupants, present and past . eason, thePrince had occasion to describe a poorhouse, andmade use of the term union, for doing which somerather unkind remarks were made by sundry peopleof the Gradgrind type, to whom a workhouse is aninstitution for work and nothing more. The Prince,no doubt, was perfectly aware that the very poor arekeenly sensitive, and prefer to hear the milderexpression used when their relatives or friendshappen to be inmates of that last refuge of thedestitute. For business details of every nature, the Princeseems to have a natural aptitude. To the numerousInternational Exhibitions of which he has beenchairman—notably that of the Colinderies andthe one at Paris in 1878, when he so ably presidedover the British Commission—he has always givenclose and unremitting attention, issuing orders andsuperintending everything with the utmost zeal. Hadnot His Royal Highness been born in the purple,he would have raised himself by these qualificationsto a high position as one of Englands His Royal Highness the Prince ok Wales, Drawing by Holland Triitgham. By special permission the Prince of Wales. Facing f-age 185. Marlborough House. 1S5 Liberality is part and parcel of the Princesnature, of which examples without end might bequoted. Rarely does a well-authenticated appealto his charity fail to meet with a response, while hisactive co-operation in the efforts constantly beingmade to ameliorate the condition of the sub-merged tenth, is well known. In his yachting career, the Princes generosity isconspicuously evidenced. Last year, the Britanniawon nearly every race for which she was entered,and as, in addition to the trophy itself, the moneyprizes offered ranged from fifty to a hundred pounds,no small amount was realized. His Royal Highnessin almost every case gave the whole to CaptainCarter and his crew, besides their usual wages,in recognition of their services. Thus, at theWeymouth regatt
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