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JUBILEE
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London, Jan 25 FUTURE OF ROYAL RESIDENCES
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Collins had hoped by now to have had discussions on the proposals in the measure with education authorities in Scotland, but his
whose Jubilee celebrations were pandent, The other royal reald Commons at a fairly early date, ences to which the new King has death of the King-Emperor, 15 tallen heir are Windsor Castle, to all who know him one of the Sandringham House, and Bal most highly civilised men in the moral. It is generally assumed world, Indeed." he might say that these will continue to be oc- Thomme du monde c'est moi. And cupled as the Sovereign's seasonal this polished cosmopolitan whose residences, although there is a face Caran d'Ache's pencil long probability that the King may
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Duchess of York, whose London he can meet the educational re- house nearly all their married life presentatives before the Bill la His followers are not orthodox has been 145 Piccadilly, may give actually debated in Parliament.. Moslems. They are a heretical it up to reside permanently in A SEARCH IN VAIN sect with a most romantic history, York House. Marlborough House
If some inventor can produce a and the Aga Khan's position in will almost certainly become the silencer that will effectively mume their eyes is that of the divinely residence of the Queen Mother, as the din of a pneumatic drill he liumined · end inspired leader it was of Queen Alexandra.
will earn the gratitude not only of (Imam)" of Islam. In Islam there
MOURNING JEWELLERY the world In general but of the are two main branches, the Bunni d
During the period of Court: Westminster City Council For and the Shia, as one might say. that in Christianity there are rumutning the only jewellery worn, years they have searched for such
and
In according to etiquette, will be a silencer, and they are still sear Catholics
Protestants. the Sunni view Imams are man-pearis in any of the usual settings, ching. They invited experts to made and have less importance. such as necklaces. One expert in submit Ideas, and many were The good Shia believes that God formed me to-day that this is due forth-coming. The best of these ordains the Imam, preserves him to the fact that pearls are sup-tested at the National Physical and inspires him in word and pasted to, symbolise tears. At all Laboratory created a noise of 96 deed. The orthodox Shia, who events they were the only correct phons (the new measurement of during the sound), which was only seven chiefly inhabits Perala, believes wear in Jewellery that the twelfth Imam was the period of mourning for King Ed phons less coisy than an un- and Office Furniture. SERVICE TO READERS last, and he will come again. The ward VII, when the demand for silenced drill. In the Council's
Ismailites
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throughout the entire work of re THE CORONATION
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The in-near future. She will, I hear, play 3187, are prepared to give also without much dimculty even necessitate the dxing of a date dramas to be presented in the
in Sunni Afghanistan. You will many months ahead and them easly in Bombay and pression created here that the re-a leading part in The Lady from. Karachi and Kenya, Uganda, and duction of the official period of the Sea, a symbolie play associatHE Undersigned have received Zanalbar. But you will not readily Court mourning from twelve to ed with Eleonora Duse. This an indication genius gave a remarkable per- nine months was find them in Persia itself. For that King Edward would
beformance when the work was pre-sea Persia is a homogeneous Shia
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me have always seemed the classic
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study modern Persia. I have, neither of them by me now, but
London, Janz 25: Commander Hillyard the former
they show that de Gobinasu, Secretary of the All-England Ten- whose own interest in the als Club, who last night broadcast religions of Persia proved a his recollections of King Cheurge, passport, had obtained contact began his naval career as a midi- with the Tamaliites of his day. shipman in the Bacchante and ac- In Iran I have had confirma-companied King: George on his tion of the fact that they are world cruise in 1879-1882. numerous to-day, though I have had no outward evidence.
EX KAISER'S GRIEF
No Festivities For 77th Birthday
London, Jan. 22. The ex-Kaiser will celebrate his to-morrow with 77th birthday great simplicity in view of the The other four midshipmen were tuneral of King George on Tues- HRH Prince Albert, Lord Usday, writes a correspondent. borne, the Hon. G. A. Hardinge. and Mr. Rosslyn Erakine Wemyss, afterwards Lord Wester-Wernyss and First Sea Lord
After Commander Hillyard ro red, he did not meet King George again until the Wimbledon lawn tennis meeting in 1887. The Com- mander then wore a moustache.
In Iran, where the philosophy of Omar Khayyam is common, scep ticism and mysticisın, go hand in hand. According to de, Gobineau the Persian Zoroastrians who were converted to Islam remained in essence what they were before, Certainly they made of Talam something different from what it meant to the Turk and the Arab. These, too, had their bektashis and other esoteric dervishes, but in the main the Ilam of the Sunnis was a simpler, more external religion Next day the Commander ap than that of the Persian Shias, peared at Wimbledon clean-shaven where the educated classes either and has remained so ever since. intoxicated themselves with my He is now the sole survivor of the stical poetry or with daring Bacchante's midshipmen. speculation,
Through the Aga Khan's family
King George said to him: Way don't you stick to the Service way and wear a beard or shave clean?"
the Tamallites linked themselves power felt in Byrin, where Europe, not merely with the Prophet, but wet them in the Crusades on the with the royal house of Persia in 17th day of Ramazan in 1154 an- Zoroastrian times The Iamallies Other Hassan, the ruler of the day were an esoteric sect believed to disclosed to the assembled preserve the essence of the old re- the sector doctrine, and
the external doctrine Ugion under the farm of the new,
Abolished They were also called the Batinites (internalists), because they taught Shortly afterw
ced that he was that everything in the Koran had, and a lineal desce an Internal or
and bild
The rule of the Assassins den
was finally ended by Mulaku in
when 12.00G of them were massacred.
sndden
eleventh bah, who
the societ called from
adope
who
King George was the Arst cousin of the ex-Kaiser, whose mother was the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, and he is deeply grieved. He has requested that no festivi- ties shall be held at Doorn for his
birthday
He will receive presents only from his wife, Princess Hermine, and his daughter, the Duchess of Brunswick, who will be the only guest.
I understand that on January 31 several of the ex-Kaiser's sons and grandsons, and also his wife's children, will come to Doorn to celebrate the birthday.
presidency for four hundred years. Like the Parsis, who came from Persia earlier still they display great aptitude for commerce, and
they form ama comm
bin wenithy has established across The
amily, was too
and pear in Perdis They with the Kajar dym
Bus but he
father was murdered at INDIAN CONVERTS Shah's im
But the
distinguished
inged
Zamsilites
bear the title present folder
'son
in came. Governor
nan, but was compel var ↑ Persia. Of his
and this
the Jamna
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