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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 1928.
THE STORY OF PRINCESS MARY.
THE GOLDEN PRINCESS,
Princess Mary is one of the most interesting members of the Royal Family to the general public be cause so little is known about her. Her life has been one of genuine delight in the multifarious duties of the only daughter of the King of England.
43 she had
his head buried in the lap of Prin ceas Mary, crying because he had sustained the loss of a favourite bird at the hands of a marauding cat.
When the Duke and Duchess of i York went on a Colonial tour in the Ophir in 1901, Princess Mary, who was standing rather tearful her mother and, clasping her fondly with her brothers, sprang towards around the neck. said:
Never mind, Mamma, I will take good care of us!"
The little Princess at that time was scarcely four-but already the mothery instinct was aroused and she looked upon her brothers as her own particular charges and responsibility.
At the coronation of their par eats in 1011 the Princess found un limited scope for their proclivities for mischief, and the ladies in waiting who had charge of them had some fears that their excite
She appears from which are told of her nursery days the stories to have been like all little girls sometimes naughty and at others a delightful sunny child. Not un- til August 1914 did she really come into her qwn when she become the right hand of her mother, the Queen, in the organising of various branches of war work. She enter ed with enthusiasm into hospital and nursing work, with the thor ough and conscientious energy characteristic of the Royal Family. After the war the golden Princess come to be called drifted back in the quiet waters of family life until her marriage.
Princess Mary was born in Aprilent and exuberance of spirits
at York Cottage, Sandring bitch in the well-planned
might quite possibly cause some ham. Queen Victoria wished her to be called "Diamond" in memory
monial. of the happy jubilee which had. been recently celebrated but her parents did not consider the name suitable, while King Edward (then Prince of Walca) shrewdly pointed out that in later years the baby might not thank her parents for a name which would so clearly eatab lish her age.
A few weeks later
1807
Princess
ccre.
were
Mary's robes, purple velvet trimmed with ermine with a long train-thia over a white dress...
White satic shoes
and silk stockings, three ropes of magnificent pearl round her neck. completed her toilette, with the exception of her coronet, which was perched rather precariously on the she was christened Victoria Alex-top of her mass of golden curls, andra Alice Mary, and by the
which were allowed to flow freely special wish of the Duke of York down her back. (King George) she was known as Mary after her mother.
As a baby Princess Mary was by far the most troublesome of all the Royal children. It is told of the Prince of Wales that at the age of four when thoroughly exa perated by her crying he remarked to his nurse: "That baby really gets on my nerves!"
the
other three
young
WOMEN DOCTORS IN TROPICS.
PROFESSION OVERCROWD- ED AT HOME.
OPPORTUNITY IN INDIA.
Dr. Andrew Balfour (Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), speaking at the London (Royal Free Hospital) the opening of the winter session of School of Medicine for Women, recently, dealt with the possibili ties for women doctors in other climes.
"While women doctors have for long time taken their position in the world of medicine, be said, there are, I understand, some aspects of the situation not alto- gether satisfactory, I am not re- ferring to the recent controversy about the medical schools which women should be permitted to at tend, but to that overcrowding of the profession in England which sometimes renders it difficult for a woman to earn a decent living and now and then, I fear, spells tragedy...
He gave an exhaustive review of the possibilities for medical women in many parts of the tropical world, and insisted on the neces sity, particularly, for their work in India.
Eciency.
It was a little short of criminal, however, to send medical men or women to hot climates, he said, unless they knew how to take care the Prince of Wales only, every special knowledge which, if proper Had she shared the carriage with of themselves and had acquired the thing would have gone well, but applied and assimilated, spelt sitting opposite on the front seat efficiency. As Mr. Bernard Shaw were
had said There are only two Princes, Albert, Henry, and qualities in the world: efficiency George. Owing to his tender years and inefficiency; and only two sorts little Prince John had been left at of people: the efficient and the in-
at Buckingham Palace-a eficient." very distressed young man at being deprived of all the joys of the ceremonial accorded to his brothers and his sister. As a great treat, however, he was allowed to stand at the window of one of the state apartments overlooking the court yard of "Buck House" and watch the procession start and, later,
home
"There is a strange corpse traf fie in Iraq," he said. "due to a transit of bodies for burial in its holy cities; and as there is a mys- tem of inspection and a tax on imported corpses, à considerable amount of smuggling goes on.
York Cottage, Sandringham, was the scene of the early childhood of the Royal children, it having been given to the Duke and Duchess of York on their marriage by the Prince of Wales. Within few months of her firat toddling days, the little Princess Mary became the inseparable. companion of the return. Prince of Wales and her other The procession had not travelled brother,
far before the dignified equanimity "She was the most unselfish of of the Prince of Wales and Prin- children," is the verdict of one cess Mary was considerably upset who knew the Princess from the by the "ragging" of their younger time of her babyhood at York Co. brothers, whose sense of humour England... tage to the day of her marriage was somewhat tickled by the sight mastery in tropical countries over amid all the splendour of a state of their elder brother and sister maladies which not long ago were
This is an illustration of the quaint and curious side of tropical medicine which is never lacking in the element of surprise, and can rarely, if ever, be dubbed flat, stale, and unproñtable.'
India, he added, remained the Mecca for the woman doctor from We were obtaining
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knowledging the cheers of the crowds so very gracefully.
A REALLY NOBLE ANIMAL.
Sometimes as the only daughter rigueur opposite to them and ac- and spread. she would receive small presents of sweets and fruit from her relations or those at Court, but never did Louder and more pointed became she forget to carry part of the their remarks and more boisterous sweetstaffs to "David," and more their ragging as the carriage near- often than not more than a halted the Abbey. At last Princess share. Never, unless under compul. Mary leaned forward and delivered sion, would the little Princess go a sound elder sisterly slap to the out for a pienie or any other treat | most troublesome of her little... unless accompanied by her brother brothers.
SWEDISH PROFESSOR'S STUDY OF HORSES,
THEIR PRONOUNCED INDIVIDUALITY,
"David" and once when the Princess Mary's great love of the young Prince Edward was suffer beautiful in art, music, and Etera- ing from some slight complaint and ture Snds a reflection in her hus was confined to his bed, the Prin-band, Viscount Lascelles, and it
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 28th. ress Mary insisted that she should is this love for beauty in every-
The results of a lifelong study sit by his side and supersede the thing which the happy couple have of horses have been published by nurse in attending to the wants of in common that has done so much Professor John Vennerkom, pre her beloved little brother.
to make their marriage, a content.viously head of the Veterinary In- Princess Mary was scarcely five ed and happy one-this, in conjunc-stitute of Stockholm and pioneer in before she began to "mother" tion with Princess Mary's life-long the work for prevention of cruelty her brothers, Sheminded and proference for people older than to animals, The professor has a tended" them and
always herself and her tremendous keen very high opinion of the intelligence responsibly sympathetic when ness on hunting, has made her of the horse, and has found this
David
or "Bertie" fell and choice of Lord Lascelles as a hus animal to be possessed of an ability bruised a knee or cut a finger band such an ideal one.
to read with astonishing accuracy The Duchess of York, their mother,
the mental attitude of persons hearing on one occasion sobs com-
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"Isn't it fortunate," she said to a friend just before her marriage, "that being so fond of hunting I am going to marry a Master of
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Although horses have a mast pronounced individuality, he says, they have one thing in common: they all are from the beginning kindly and sympathetically attuned towards human beings. There are absolutely no bad-tempered malicious horses that have not been raade so by faulty treatment or unkindness and, on the other hand. there is hardly one horse, however savage of disposition, who cannot be reformed by proper treatment." stances of such cases from his own
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"It is time that England's big. "I was busy writing when I felt get together." Under this something brush heavily against my matto a new club is being formed eg, and I looked up and saw & in London, of which the sole quali- In these words
his ability as a thought-reader the a forest ranger fication for membership is a height describes a unique experience when horse infallibly detects any trait of of more than six feet, the appli he was camping out in a district fear or antipathy in the minds of eants to be measured without shoes hut at Kurnool, Madras. He was persons approaching him, and he or stockings.
sented in a room alone, writing at set against such persons, as he inatinetly reacts and defends him a table, with a lamp, when the About 35 members have already animal walked past." It went fur. Suspects them to hear some kind been, enrolled, and they meet on ther into the room, and on looking of malice against him. If, on the October 10th to elcet the tallest among thera, measuring 6 feet 10 behind him, by the doorway leading ute fearlessness he will not do any up he was panic-stricken to End the most savage horse with abso- other hand, one approaches even inches, as president. There are two members with a height of 6 feet into an adjoining room, a
harm."-Reuter, 8 inches, and the shortest is 6 feet sized, hungry-looking tigress. 3 inch.
Fortunately, the tigress passed ranger closed the door against her. through the doorway, and the The alarm was raised, and brought. lined the main streets of the city last. Tens of thousands of.. Berliners others to the scene. Mr. Wimbush, month to see and cheer the popular Conservator of Foresta, armed with hero of the hour-not a famous his rifle, climbed on to the frail warrior or politician, but a man of roof of the building. He removed the people, Gustav Hartmann
portion of the that, and got a septuagenarian cab-driver of Wann- good view of the tigress
see, a suburb of Berlin. Twenty- shoulder, and then
He shot the animal in the two weeks previously Gustav Hart- Tors and mann set off for the longest and last grante, intermingled with snarls, drive of his career from Berlin to Most of the present members are drove terror into all who had Paris and back. His success in ac cx-officers and
some are Regular gathered near. But laboured breath complishing the feat: has appealed Army men. Although the club ising at length gave way to deathly to the popular imagination, and. strictly non-political, it will have silence. In the inky darkness, with Iron Gustav," as he has been a distinct national and Imperial the aid of his electric torch, Mr. nicknamed, had an uproarious wel: leaning
Wimbush distinguished the striped come from the citizens of Berlin as The name of the club will be the cost of the tigress, who seemed to he drove through the streets with "Sixfoot Club." The membership be dead. On second thought he de- bis horse and cab smothered in will not be restricted in numbers, cided off another shot...
flowers and garlands, while hawkers and the scope of its activities will It was fortunate that he took did a brisk trade solling picture depend on the response of Eng-this precaution, for, as soon as he postcards commemorating the me land's big men to the invitation of, had fired the beast made a springmorable drive of one of the last of uniting,
for the flash and then fell dying, Berlin's horse-cab_drivera,
When the club building will have been acquired in the West End, monthly guest evenings will be held, and guests will be required to enter and leave on stilts to make up the required beight... As a body, the club will protest against the manufacture of small cars, narrow theatre seat,' and' other trivances apt to be inconvenient for big men.
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