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THE DUCHESS OF YORK.
FASCINATING STUDY OF
HER LIFE.
A fascinating study of the life of the Duchess of York is given in an entertaining book written by Lady Cynthia Asquith The Duchess of York "), just published in London
ATTEMPT TO REVIVE" BALLOONING.
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Do you balloon !' may soon be naked over a cup of ten sinong those who are jaded with the thrills of fast motor cars or are air planes Efforts now being made to revive ballooning in EngSanitary Board Meeting, 415 land, and the only obstacle is the want of a conventent gamometer.
Balloons are indated with ordin The book, written with the per- sonal approval of the Duchess, in fary cool gas, and, as this is sup- aludes many details hitherto un-plied at household rates and costs published, of her childhood and twice the pre-war dere, hallooning girlhood, and of these recent years will be an expensive pleasure. It when, by her marriage with the costs approximately £20 to inflate a balloon to carry-four, or Ave Duke of York and through bar own charm, she has become most popular | passengers. throughout the Empire.
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Airship Ginb
Queen's Theatre: "Spring Fever." World Theatre: What Frics Glary.”
Star Thesire:- "Fast and Farions NA
Ten Dance: H.K. Hotel, 4.90 p.m..
Wednesday.
(October 3rd.) The idea is being developed by Seaman's Institute Whiss Drive. The youngest but one of ten child-
Union Church, Farewell Meeting. ren, Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Airship Club, which is associat as she was until her marriage, was ed with the Royal Aero Club, for Rev. J. Kirk Macomachie, Ď bora on August 4th, 1900, at St. body originally formed for balicon,
Queen's Theatre: "Spring Fever.!! Paul's Waldenbury, the Hertfort appeal for additional mem World Theatre: What Price shire home of her father, the four-bers has been issued by the Airship Glory"
Stär Club committee, and is signed by
Theatre:
Frat and It was here, in the delightful | Mr. Griffith Brewer, Lord Cunlife; | Furions.". Queen Anne house and Seventeenth Captain F. L. N. Boothby, 35r. A. Tea Dance; H.K. Hotal, 4.30 p.m. Century garden alternating with F. do Moleyna, And. Mr. C. C. Princips Mailig-Outward: yearly three months' visita to the Turner,
Europe vid Vancouver and Europe ancestral home at Glamis Castle,
vid Biberia (Empress of Canada), in Forfarshire, that she spent most
10 am. of her childhood. Few children can have had so happy childhood, although, states Lady Cynthia, "It was in no artificial 'bothouse, but in the hurly-burly of big brothers and their big dogs, that the Duchess learnt to walk and to live,"
The story of the Duchess of York's early life," she adds, "is peacefully devoid of startling incid- ents. It is unpunctuated by any melodramatic accidents or illnesses. ". It would be agreeable to be able to say that she was very naughty, but, alaa! it would not be
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*Ballooning in Great Britain,# they say," formerly a popular and inexpensive pastime, with some little scientific interest and a spice
(October.. 4th.): of adventure, safe, and having s useful connection with airship. K.O.S.B.; Queen's Royal Billiards League R.E. and R.O. work, is now in almost complete Artillery: Warders v. C. and P.O. eclipse. Airplanes have absorbed Club; Dockyard v. Water Police; efforts at one time spent on balloon Land Police . Garrison Mess. ing, and the increased cost of labour and material since the war has been a deterrent. In the United States, and in France, Bel- gium, Italy, and Germany, how- over, ballooning is still widely en- joyed, while every year, the Gordon Bennett and other balloon races at- tract large entries. 187
Tenants Tied To Trees,
Three Balloons, "There was plenty of what the
"Recently the Airship Club has tenants of Glamis Castle still call acquired three balloon one of her merry mischief. This merry 80,000 cubic feet capacity one of mischief they are not likely to 60,000, and one of to,bur cubie feet. forget, for many of them spent-con- The club is now in a position to siderable time tied by string to
provide the means for ballooning fences and trees. Sacrifices to to its members, many of whom were realism, they were greatly contri-balloonists before the war or went buting to the joys of the game of through balloon courses during the Red Indians. Visitors, too, were
war. All over the country there often startled by cascades of water
are many who will hail with satis- descending from above, followed by faction the opportunity for an oc triumphant peals of laughter from casional balloon trip, and the club
child concealed pn the roaf."
will now be in a better position to In all her pranks Lady Elizabeth's secure Great Britain's represente inseparable companion Wa9 hertion in the international Gordon young brother David
Bennett contest.
Her capacity for merriment, did not leave her when she grew to girl hood, and the story is told here of how she once made the members of a big luncheon party, a pompous and difficult one," laugh. Before the party she asked a friend, "Can you laugh Will you laugh with me at luncheon whenever I raise my left eye-brow? Let us practise
now."
The joke succeeded. At given intervals throughout that at first solema meal her musical voice rose' in seemingly natural mirth, accom- panied by a raucous peal of forced merriment, and all solemnity was soon, at an end."
One of the favourite memories of the Duchess's childhood days is the garden at Waldenbury. Lady Cyn thia Asquith states: This is what she goes back to (so she tells me: At the bottom of the garden, where the sun always seems to be shining, is The Wood-the haunt of fairies, with its anemones and ponds, and moss-grown statues, and the big oak under which she reads, and where the two ring-doves, CATO line-Curley-Love and Rhoda-Wrig ley-Worm, contentedly "ooo "*. in their wicker-work "Ideal Home.'
Enchanted Wood, "There are carpets of primroses and anemones to sit on, and she generally has ten either in the shadow of the statue of Diana or near another favourite che called the Rupning Footman" or the Eounding Butler "_(ta"grown-up people known as the Disc-Thrower).
Whenever and this is aften--a dead bird is found in this enchanted wood it is given solemn barial in a small box lined with rose-leaves.
Very often she gets up very early-about six o'clock to feed her chickens and make sure they are safe after the dangers of the night, The hens stubbornly insist on laying their eggs in a place called the flea house, and this is where she and her brother go and hide from
nurse.
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Engines for three small air- ships are now available, together with other parts, and the club only. requires an increase of membership to allow airship yachting to begin."
she met again at Melbourne on the occasion of the Duke of York's visit to Canberra
People were intrigued," writes a correspondent to the author," be- cause her Royal Highness danced sad sat out with, one partner who had no uniform or Orders, and only the medals which show the war ser- vice from 1914 to the end. A pretty story hangs on this."
An Invitation,
The man was 8 young engineer officer who had frequently visited Glazais. A telephone message while the Royal party were at Melbourne invited him to come see the Duchess. It was a delightful visit," adds the correspondent,
“Grand - Tattoo, Sookumpoo. "A
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Star Theatre: The Road To Romance,"
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for the Duchess had him in her sitting-room for a long talk, und so successfully laid aside the weight of Royalty that he could have fan- eied himself again at Glamis with the friend he had Enown. When she Many years before the collapse dismissed him, the Duchess told of the Dual Monarchy the "Austrian him that she wanted to dance with Archduke Leopold Salvator, of the the Hapsburgs, him that night at the ball, and Tuscan line of would send for him. Accordingly, elected to become a "bourgeois that evening, an A.D.C. fetched him adopting the name of Wolfing. and took him up to the dais, and After the collapse he found it difficult to make a living, but re- when the Duke of York came up, the Duchess said, 'I want to intro fused no kind of work, and tried his hand on the films, an in- duce my husband to you.'
surance agent, as a writer, and, finally, as a grocer near Vienna. He sold his personally to his "OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE
That is the explanation why her first and second partners were the Governor-General and the Prime Minister, and the third a civilian customers, my of whom mane in with no signs of glory."''
motor-cars, merely for the sake of They bought, it Lady Cynthia Asquith reveals the sensation. that the Duke of York first saw his may be said, little or nothing. future wife when she was only five Oradually, however, people got years old. "Amidst all the distrae used to seeing the former Arch tions of crackers and iced cakes, duke in the role of a tradesman, the little girl made so deep an im-end although he worked hard, with pression, that, at their first grown up meeting, about thirteen years be immediately recognised Fittingly the book ends with chapter on the mother and daugh ter, the Princess Elizabeth, and their reunion after the long visit to Australia. Two wishes rise in one's heart," states Lady Cynthia Asquith, that the daughter may grow to resemble her mother, and that for the mother the Summer of Life may prove as lair as the Spring
During the War Glamis Castle ber. was turned into a hospital and overy soldier who was lucky enough to be sent there has happy memories of the Duchess, who, though she was was too young to be a nurse, buried herself all the time in Help- ing her mother and the staff. Many of these soldiers have kept up-a correspondence with the Duchess, and among them was a man whom (Continued on next Column).
his adopted daughter and her hus band, he could not make ends meet. The shop had to be sold, "but as he could not settles his accounts- his offer of an arrangement being refused-action for some £120 hae been taken against him inte
Wolfing claims a sum of money. denied him by his dynastic family He has conducted suit against them lee years, and still hopes for a favourable result. Meantime hin impatient creditors are clamouring at his doors, and are even, de manding his sITE
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