1% takes more than an incident like
the reign of Edward VIII to upset the
Crown of England, but it did tip ever
so little. The task of the govern-
ment and the present monarch is to
set it straight again,
OW that the coronation
is over—what of the newly-
For that is just what the British gov-
ernment intended they should do
when it so swiftly moved to rid the
Empire of the eldest son of George
V, that his brother might be hur-
ried to the throne.
George VI and Elizabeth have a
job cut out for them: That is to
live and reign just as nearly as
did his parents as they possibly can.
Only by such a program can the
Crown, greater in significance than
any king who wears it, recover com-
pletely from the jolt its dignity re-
ceived under Edward VIII.
So long have British kings been
above reproach, above even criti
cism or controversy, few who recog-
nize the task now set before George
V1 also realize that he is not the
first of his line to have faced it. In-
deed, Queen Vctoria, a hundred
years ago, successfully undertook
to restore the dignity of the crown
in the face of a far greater crisis
than the present one, if the present
can be called a crisis at all. Queen
“Vic” had to undo the bad work of
a whole series of incompetent rul-
ers.
Crown Is Symbel.
In this case the Crown has only
tipped ever so slightly. But for the
safety of the Empire it must not be
allowed to tip at all. The immense
job of promotion which the govern-
ment applied to the coronation—
which would not have been nearly
so magnificent or well-attended had
it not been for the events of the pre-
ceding year—was the second step
in righting it. The abdication of Ed-
ward was the first.
It will not do here to go into the
actual meaning of the Crown itself
in too great length, for that has
been done time and again in the
American press during the weeks
leading up to the coronation. Suffice
it to say that the Crown is a symbol
of the emotional bonds which hold
the Empire together. The domin-
jons and territories which make up
the Empire remain in it because
they cherish the protection of the
British navy or the advantages of
British trade, or because by nature
or blood they are fundamentally
British. But they are government
ally independent states; the actual
expression of their unity is found
in their love for and allegiance to
the Crown. The Crown in itself is
virtually abstract. The man who
wears it provides them with a real,
respectable person, a concrete ob-
ject for their devotion—if he is the
right sort of ruler.
When Edward ascended the
throne, the Crown had enjoyed three
rulers in a row who so perfectly ex-
emplified the British ideal that Brit-
ons had, begun to believe the mon-
archy itself (not the monarch) was
permanently perfect. The short
reign of Edward jarred them
abruptly out of this misconception.
Such an idealistic view of the mon-
archy also increased the public in-
dignation to his shortcomings all out
of proportion to their importance.
Falls Readily in Line.
Edward VIII became openly,
sharply criticized in a manner en-
tirely foreign to his three predeces-
sors. The fact that the press had
withheld reports of his romance
with Mrs. Simpson and the impend-
ing crisis until only eight days be-
fore he abdicated only served to in-
crease the shock when it did ar-
rive. The prestige of the monarchy
suddenly dropped to the lowest point
in many years.
George V was known as a father
to his people, a family man, a figure
of the court and a country gentle-
man, His second son is already
much like him, although he is of
another generation, more progres-
sive in many activities—but all of
them highly respectable and com-
mendable. He is not destined to
furnish anything new for the gos-
sips, once they run out of wind.
At forty-one (a fresh, boyish for-
ty-one), he has reigned six months
and in that short time has returned
a dignity to the throne worthy of
the best efforts of a much older and
more experienced man. He seems
willing enough to fall in line with
the idea that he should emulate his
late father.
He goes to church regularly and
has brought back to the Bucking-
ham Palace chapel the daily
prayers that were absent during the
reign of his brother. Whether
prompted by the case of Edward
or by the strict rules of the Church
of England, he has made the slight-
est suspicion of divorce excuse to
refuse anyone aspiring to the hon-
ors of the court.
That he may have expert advice
in following his father's footsteps,
he has returned to the post of pri-
vate secretary to the king his fa-
ther's life-long friend, Lord Wigram.
Other members of the old king's
household have likewise returned.
The country seat of the family at
Sandringham, Norfolk, will be car-
ried on as it was under George V.
The tenants who left under the
“‘economy’’ of Edward are coming
back. Even his father's racing sta-
ble and loft of pigeons are to re-
main intact.
Newspapers of England have
helped him to build up the resem-
blance to his father by calling at-
tention to it at every opportunity,
even to the statement that his sig-
nature, “George R. 1.”, is penned
in strikingly similar fashion to the
way his father wrote it, despite the
fact that he prints the “R. IL.”
while his father wrote it in long-
hand.
Has Retiring Nature,
He is expected to become, indeed
he has become, admired by Britons
for the way in which he has sur-
mounted personal handicaps. He is
quite at ease in public today, de-
spite the semi-retirement long
forced upon him by illness which
required his quitting the navy and
by stammering which all but tied
his tongue. An operation upon
his stomach restored his health
some time ago, until he has become
an accomplished athlete, and per-
sistent training under an Australian
specialist so corrected his stam-
mering until today he rarely ever
does it, except under the most ex-
citing conditions.
Long subjection to the more dy-
namic personality of his older broth-
er as well as long periods of ill
health have left him with rather
a retiring nature, so that there is
likely to be no more idle gossip
about him than there was about
George V. The raciest tales told
sbout him concern his revealed abil-
ity to cuss when some sailors inter-
fered with his shark-fishing and
when the microphone failed in a
public hall where he was speaking.
Oh, yes, and the time at college
when he was fined for smoking in
the street while wearing cap and
gown.
Yet in some ways he differs from
his sire. He does not live quite so
much the life of the court; rather
would he spend the days in the coun-
try, at his great, white house in the
park at Windsor, with the queen
and his children.
He has the interest in industry
that characterized Edward in one
George VI and Queen Elizabeth,
now that the pomp and circumstance
of the coronation is a thing of the
past, face the task of satisfying the
British heart by emulating King
George V and Queen Mary,
of his moods. He frequently inspects
electrical plants, cotton mills, tex-
tile factories, telephone offices,
warehouses and shipyards, and he
knows every industrial section, ev-
ery slum, in Great Britain. These
have proved a valuable post-gradu-
ate course to Cambridge, for there
he developed a real interest in the
problems of capital and labor. Hous-
ing, citizenship, property and state,
and welfare were other subjects
which were important among his
studies.
Elizabeth Follows Mary.
George VI is definitely of me-
chanical bent. He served in the
forward turret of twelve-inch guns
on the battleship Collingswood in
the battle of Jutland. He can take
an automobile apart and put it back
together without having pieces left
over, He is a good airplane pilot.
He loves to operate mode! railroad
systems and motion picture cam-
eras. He has even been known to
take the throttle of an actual rail
road locomotive,
Queen Elizabeth should do equal
ly well in her task of filling the
shoes of Queen Mother Mary. She's
a gal after Mary's own heart. The
faci that she is the first commoner
to become queen in 250 years fur-
ther endears her to the British imag-
ination.
Elizabeth's family is one of a type
that every commoner knows and
admires. Her brothers are not cap-
tains of regiments, but captains of
industry, one of them chairman of
one of Durham's largest coal-min-
ing firms. Her family rates high
in Scotland, but no member of it
would think of approaching her at
any court function,
Just as she is the first commoner
queen since Henry VIII took Cath-
erine Parr as his sixth wife in 1543,
she is the first woman of Scotland
to become queen since Henry I mar-
ried Matilda of Scotland in 1100.
Never a “modern,” Elizabeth
shied away from most society, was
noted for her lack of interest in
fancy clothes. She was small in
stature and rather plump, with a
flashing smile and a pleasant fresh-
ness of manner; in short, she was
a simple country girl. Since be-
coming queen she has been ob-
served to become more particular
in her dress and more interested in
society.
Enjoys Boys’ Camp.
Like King George, she loves to
visit among the people, is frequent-
ly seen at orphanages, hospitals
and the like.
interested in institutions of this kind,
one at heart.
working boys which he established
shortly after leaving Cambridge. He
likes to visit it himself and the year
1834 is the only one since establish-
ment of the camp when he has failed
to accompany the youngsters.
Donning shirt and shorts imme-
them and is a well-loved figure in
the campfire gatherings of an eve-
ning.
These are not the only times when
he has become surprisingly human.
More than once, the story is told,
crowds waiting for him at a rail-
road station have been shocked and
delighted to find him alighting from
the cab, grimy with grease and dirt,
rather than stepping clean and
white from a comfortable coach.
But these things will probably oc-
cur much less often now that he has
dedicated himself to becoming a
carbon copy of his father. That that
is certainly what he intends to do
is further proved by the latest re-
ports from London:
He is reported to be growing a
beard. The crown is safe!
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“Spirit From the Stars”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
66 QO PIRIT from the stars.” That's the way Anna Nolan of Long
v7 Island City, N. Y., explains it. Anna thinks that the sign of
Aquarius, under which she was born, gave her the courage to
face the terrifying predicament she found herself in. I don't
know whether she is right about that or not. Where courage
comes from is a question that’s a little bit out of my line, and I'll
leave it to the doctors, or the astrologers, or whoever wants to
try to answer the question.
But adventure IS in my line and I will go on record as saying that the
one Anna Nolan had in August, 1914, in the town of Boyle, County Roscom-
mon, Ireland, is a hair-raiser and no mistake.
August, 1914! That's a date that the world will long remem-
ber, for it was in the early days of that month—and in that year—
that the World war got under way. All England was in a turmoil,
and that excitement reached clear over to Ireland on the other
side of the Irish sea. England was calling out the Irish reservists
—men who were called for six weeks training once a year—and
a number of these reservists lived in the town of Boyle.
Neighbor Woman Fleeing From Her Cottage.
Anna's husband was already in the army. He was a warrant officer
at the barracks not far away. Anna had rented a house in town—a house
that sat well back from the street with a garden in front of it. Across the
street was a tiny cottage in which lived the wife of one of the reservists,
an itinerant tinker who had just been called to the colors.
It was about eleven o'clock at night and Anna was sitting at her
front window looking out on the garden. She had been there since early
evening, just after she had tucked her children into bed. She was all
alone. Her husband was at the barracks and too busy to come home.
And Anna had been sitting there for hours on end, wondering about the
war, and about her husband who was going to it soon, and about a hun-
dred and one other things that women wonder and worry about when the
war clouds begin gathering in the sky.
The streets of Boyle were deserted by this time. There wasn't a soul
in sight. But suddenly, the door of the cottage across the way flew open
and a woman, clad only in a white nightgown, came running out.
Anna sat bolt upright in her chair. The woman was running
as if for her life. She was barefooted and her long, black hair
was hanging down her back. She dashed across Anna's garden
and took refuge in her doorway.
days old.
night like this?
asked her what the trouble was.
brated by getting very drunk.
She swore he meant it.
town were at the barracks.
She told
into going along with her.
for the cottage.
“He was staring into
baby was unharmed.
in the door.
There stood the husband,
And right there, Anna began
man's house.
alone,” she says.
never so afraid in all my life.’
I was
rescue.
which she was born under.
from somewhere.
drunken man herself.
barracks,” she said.
acting like this?
better get back to the barracks.
to you."
You'd
door.
But
of him.
for visiting before going to France.
Not Excessive in Dress
For reasons of conscience and
economy, the Pilgrims and Puritans
frowned on extravagance in dress,
according to a writer in the Indiana-
polis News. Massachusetts records
with four pairs of shoes and stock-
ings, two suits of doublet and hose,
four shirts, one woolen suit (leather-
lined) with extra breeches, two
handkerchiefs, one cotton waistcoat,
leather belt, black hat, three caps,
a cloak and two pairs of gloves.
In 1634, laws passed by the Massa-
chusetts general court forbade the
use of silver and gold ornaments,
lace, silk and ruffs. Young men
who defied this law by wearing long
hair and silk were arrested, and
one Hannah Lyman, age sixteen,
was haled into court for “wearing
silk in a flaunting manner.”
Before the arrival of the cavaliers
in Virginia, the dress of southern
colonists was not unlike that of the
Puritan. As the colonists acquired
wealth, they began to order ward-
robes from London. In 1737 Col
John Lewis ordered for his ward
“a cap ruffle and tucker, one pair
white stays, eight pairs white kid
jloves, two pairs colored kid gloves,
two pairs worsted hose, three pairs
thread hose, one pair silk shoes
laced, one pair Morocco shoes, one
hoop coat, one hat, four pairs Span-
ish shoes, two pairs calf shoes, one
mask, one fan, one necklace, one
girdle and buckle, one piece fashion-
able calico, four yards ribbon for
knots, one and one-half yards cam-
bric, one mantua and coat of white
string.”
Men among the earlier settlers
wore their own hair, the cavaliers
dressing theirs in elaborate styles,
while the Puritans and Quakers
wore theirs plain and long to the
shoulders.
Ancients Knew Use of Plaster
Plaster for building purposes has
been used for centuries. Its msu-
lating and sanitary properties were
developed by the ancients and its
decorative possibilities furthered by
the Greeks and Romans. King
John of England recognized its fire
resistive qualities after the great
London fire. Sanitary laws in many
states require all habitable rooms
to be lathed and plastered. It ine
sulates against cold and drafts as
well as heat. Other materials give
much less in service for the com-
parative outlay.
With an Initial
Grand, isn't it—that big, stun-
ning initial adding that definitely
Select your initial from
as that!).
Pattern 1399
initials separately as insets on line
ens, too. Pattern 1399 contains
charts and directions for making
a chair back 12 by 15 i two
arm rests 6 by 12 inches and a
complete alphabet, the initials
measuring 3% by 4 inc mae
terial requirements; illustra-
tion of all stitches used.
Send 15 cents in stamps or coins
(coins referred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York,
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Please write your name, pattern
number and address plainly.
M y Favorite
By
Recipe Janet Gaynor
Movie Star
inches,
hes;
an
Ice-Box Cookies
1 pound butter
8 cupfwis Sour
115 cupfuls sugar
3 eggs
Dates and nuts to sult
Vanilla Savoring
Cream the butter and sugar.
Add the eggs, one by one, beating
the mixture meanwhile. Add the
five cupfuls of flour gradually
while beating the mixture, Add
the dates and nuts, which have
been previously chopped into
small bits. Add the flavoring.
Shape this into a roll. Put in
the ice-box overnight. In the
morning slice into thin layers,
making the cookies, and bake in
moderate oven.
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