THE PRINCE AND THE CHILDREN.
. /To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sao,—Yon published a very charming paragraph last week about the Prince of Wales spending his birthday amongst a thousand of the humblest of his little subjects, who were the guests of the Fresh Air Fund in Epping Forest. Will you allow me to add to that account a message which His Royal Highness, as he bade me "good-bye," authorized me to send forth in his name? It was :—
"I shall be glad if you will cause it to be known that should anyone wish to make me a birthday present, they cannot give me one which I should appreciate more highly than a contri- bution to the Fresh Air Fund."
May this gracious message touch your readers' hearts as surely as I know that his heart was touched when, in Thurs- day's burning' sunshine, he dropped all royal pomp and panoply and entered wholeheartedly into the little joys of the little people who rapturously welcomed him among them. Times are bad for charitable efforts like the Fresh Air Fund. One thing I have always had clear in any mind is that though sorrow and tribulation will probably come to most of us as the years roll by we can at all events give to our own children and to the children of others happy days which will live with them in their future lives. Only a few words more, and these are to ask your readers to send our Prince his birthday present addressed to: The Hon. Secretary, The Fresh Air Fund, 18 Henrietta Street, W.C. 2.—I am, Sir, &c., Awniva Pssasow.
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