Royal Joke

His blue mess jacket and his jokes all in order, Edward of Wales rode down London's Birdcage Walk one night last week to Wellington Barracks to drink a sherry aperitif, eat a dinner with the officers of the Welsh Guards of which he is colonel. With the walnuts, the port was set before him and passed clockwise. Everybody rose to drink the King's health in port, after which it was permissible to smoke.

Edward of Wales told his brother officers several jokes, of which one made news:

A man complained to his doctor of shooting pains that he could not locate. The doctor told him to put a piece of paper under his shirt, punch a hole in it wherever he felt a pain. Several days later the doctor called to ask for the paper. The man turned to his wife who turned to her daughter. "Do you mean the piece of paper with all the holes in it?" the daughter asked. "Why, we put that in the pianola and it played 'O God, Our Help in Ages Past.' "

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