Lady Astor, MLP., caused a momentary gasp of amazement lat the court of governors of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond-Street London, when she suggested that the Prince of Wales, who occupied the chair for the first time as president of the hospital, was "'going the pace."
"When men like a man they call him a white man,'" said Lady Astor, "and I believe his Royal Highness will be known as the White Prince. That will be better than the Black Prince, who didn't last very Jong, and certainly wouldn't have lasted as long as he did, if he went the pace like the Prince of Wales."
The Prince was convulsed with laughter, but the audience weren't quite certain that they ought to join in unti] Lady Astor proceeded to explain that their chairman was so busy with public duties that he must often long for a quiet little cottage in the country where he could rest.
The new president proved extremely business-like in the chair. In his speech he referred to the fact, that Princess Mary had received two years' training as a nurse in the wards of the hospital, and he paid a warm tribute to the neatly-clad nurses who sat, blushing with pleasure, on his right,
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