Making Others Happy

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IT is related of the lamented Princess Charlotte, that in one of her walks with Prince Leopold, in November, 1816, she addressed a decent-looking man, who was engaged as a day-laborer, and said, “My good man, you appear to have seen better days.” “I have, your royal highness,” he replied; “I have rented a good farm, but the change in the times has ruined me.” At this reply she burst into tears, and said to the prince, “Let us be grateful to Providence for His blessings, and endeavor to fulfill the important duties required of us, to make all our laborers happy.” On her return home, she desired the steward to make out a list of all the deserving families in the neighborhood, with the particulars of their circumstances; orders were given to the household that the whole of the superfluous food should be carefully distributed according to the wants of the poor; and, instead of the usual festivities on the following birthdays of the prince and princess, £150 were spent on each occasion in clothing the poor.