The Archive · 1900

The Light of Asia

The Shah is decidedly raising the prestige of monarchy in Republican Paris. He is amiable and debonair and bears no mali ided persons try to shoot him. ug that takes his fancy, never haggles about the price, a1 cash. He has already spent more than Gifteen thousand pounds in Paris and is s"ill going strong." His purchases Jude three motor-ears, several phonographs and graphoyhones, furs, watches, rings, a ye! {tilator, an electric heating: apparatus and about a dozen cameras of ious kinds, his Majesty being, ay T have before remarked, a kodak fiend of the most pronoun The only weak point in otherwise perfect character isn te act on the impulse of the moment. has never heard that_punetuality is the courtesy of princes. M. Picard and the officials of the Exhibition could give hi me infor if they were allowed to speak their m On Gwe or three oveasions they have kept ing for hours, and have eventually lent that the Shah had postponed his visit. The Prefect of Police is at his wits' end to know how to protect the/Persian mons reh during his walks abroad

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