A DETERMINED GIRL.
V It is remarkable to what extremes jpeople will go in order to get a dance |with the Prince of Wales. When he jjwas in America on Ids first visit to the jj States there was a young woman who f had tried through the most influential to get au invitation in the 'dances that the Prince attended, but i all in vain. This did not dishearten | her at all, she just bided her time.
Shortly afterward she heard that the i Prince- was going on a trip to Africa, ! aud accordingly the' moment that he ' got out there she left America in the tirst available ship for Cape Town—a voyage of 5000 miles.
When the Prince left Cape Town to go up country the young woman, followed him, and at every town that ho paused she also was there. At last her patience was rewarded, for at a littlo back-veldt town an :mpromptu dance was held to which all the town, went, among them the indefatigable American girl. For precisely two minutes she had the honour of dancing with the Prince of Wales. Then another partner claimed him.
The next morning the persevering young woman was on her way back to America, the wish of her life fulfilled.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 9
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212A DETERMINED GIRL. Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 151, 23 December 1929, Page 9
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