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February 14, 1939,
GEORGE WASHINGTON, DEMOCRAT, CAME OF ROYAL STOCK
GEORGE Washington, the revolutionist who finally shattered the power of royalty in America and waged a merciless war on the principle of aristocracy, was him- self an aristocrat with more than a trace of the blood royal in his veins.
He traced his descent to Edward I. and his Plan- tagenet predecessors; and, thus a kinsman of King John, he was also, by a supreme irony, related to nine of the 25 steel-clad barons who wrested the instrument of Magna Charta from that king in 1215.
The man who discovered this is Mr. Anthony Richard Wagner, 30-year-old, tall, dark, slim Portcullis Pursuivant, one of the Junior Officers of Arms.
I was working on the British; exhibit for the World's Fair to open in New York next April; and this will include Washington's pedigree.
"Although conts-al-arms are notj oMelal In Amerlea," naid Mr. Wagner, numbers of American pre extraordinarily keen on heraldry and tracing their own descenta.**
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Dog Dazed
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Every Hen Its
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Australian hens are not only Jaying cars, but printing quile a lot of Information on them.
A device called a henomeler Is strapped on each hen and as the exts are falú it stamps on them the breed of bird and tho date.
The Australian Department of Health may use it to prevent the sale of preserved eggo as
new-Jald.
Perfection In Speech
FORTY school mistresses and one
master sat in 匾 Bloomsbury room recently making Bounds Jike pleased cals (p-r-r-r) and angry ones (8-8-5-5-).
Fined £6 nt Nottingham recently for keeping a dog for six months in a house which had the blinds drawn, They had travelled long distances William Arthur Drake, of the Grey-to the vacation school at the Speech hound Hotel, Folkingham, Lincoln-Fellowship and Institute, Gordon Square, and their strange vocal exercises were part of their "school work."
The British Pavilion w include shtre, declared: noi only one of the only four existing "I have been an animal lover ali copies of Magna Carta-list from my life. My last dog died when it Lincoln (the other three are in the was
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Record Office, the British Museum, When the animal was liberated by and at Exeter)-but 140 coats-of-the police it was so dazed by the arms of British notables from the sunlight that it lay down and made twelfth century to the twentieth. no attempt to get up.
Mr. Wagner has unearthed oll 140 Drake said that he and his wife described blazoned them (that is, visited the place twice a week, the them in heraldle terma), gave the dog food. He "called" the Had them emblazoned (correctly dog Itself to show that it was in good drawn) by an artist, and supervised condition, but an R.S.P.C.A, o in the moulding of the final plaques by fretorted: "You have had a month In two sculptors who worked from the which to clean it up." drawing.
"Cat sounds produce a perfect un- broken column of vocal breath," explained the lecturer, Miss Barbara Storey.
DIALECT DEFENDED
Each year ambitious teachers bring their special speech problems for solution to the Fellowship's holiday schools. Their aim la to learn to produce their voices perfectly, so that they may in turn teach their
pupils. They represented more than 2,000 children speaking more than a dozen dialects from Sunderland and Hali- fax to Bristol and South Wales,
The South Pavilion will contain exhibition of contemporary art, a another heraldle exhibit, Royal Room, Hall of Metal, organised by the the ground floor of thin section being Federation of British Industries, a Miss Coles, senior English mistress completed by the Silver Room, which elnerns and a Hall_of Democracy, will contain an exhibit of plate wherein
at Thame, Oxfordshire. won, the Magua Carta will be approval of class and lecturer by her provided by the Goldsmiths' Com- enshrined.
defence of dialect. Other rooms are devoted to the Above these three rooms are three railways and travel associations of
pany.
others; Australia, New Zealand and Britain, a department explaining our Flowers Under Snow
the Colonial Empire. Canada has social services, and maritime, ne its own exhibit.
woollen, Irish linen, leather and pottery sections.
HALL OF DEMOCRACY
The two pavilions are to be linked The North Pavillon holds on the by a bridge, built on the model of ground floor [
cocktall bar, an Westminster Bridge.
Produce of Australia
West Hartland, Conn. Snow a foot deep failed to harm a flower bed of pangles' and California poppy plants growing In Mrs. Barbara Goetz's yard.
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"FRANCE" (LEFT), A BLONDE, IN WALKING-OUT COSTUME; AND “MIAMI- ANNE," BRUNETTE, WEARIND AN EVENING CLOAK IN KRMINE, VALUED AT TWO HUNDRED GUINEAS,
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"France" and "Marianne," the dolls presented to Princess Elizabeth and Prinosas Margaret by the children of France during the visit of the King and Queen to Paris, were recently on exhibition to the pubite ot St. James's Palace, with their miniature sets of clothes. The proceeds will be devoted to the Prince Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children and to a French charity. The traditional French taste, workmanship and artistry have been exploited fully to make the gift a thing of beauty. Fack doll has about forty dresses in her "troussent-made in 1930 autumn fashions adapted from those of the best Parisian dressmakers. There are smocked baby frocks; scarves patterned with designs of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; fur coats of nutria, summer ermine, ocelol, grey broadtail; and a coal of Russian crmine. The dolls have also shoes of satin, crepe-de-Chine, and gold and sliver, with matching handbags and gloves. The gift will form a historial memento of 1838 fashions, besides being a most attractive plaything for the Princesses.
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To Mayor Of Bath
A ROPE-CLIMBING scene at a New Year's Eve dance at Bath Assembly Rooms-recently renovated at a cost of £50,000-damaged a wall panel and brought the Mayor (Captain Adrian Hopkins) into Bath Police Court recently as a witness against two men, one of whom, he said, had made an "extremely rude remark" to him.
Edward Piercell Yong, of Rodway Hill House, Mangotsfield, Glos, and Michael Parker, of Maida Vale, London, summoned for committing damage to the amount of £7 15s. to a wall in the Octagon at the Assembly Rooms, were fined £2 each and ordered jointly to pay the cost of the damage.
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Famous Rail Station Closes
Sheerness.
A RAILWAY station patronised by kings and queens is shortly to be closed.
The Town Clerk (Mr. J. B. Ogden) said that Yong climbed up a rope to
gallery and Parker slid down.
"RUDE REMARKS" Captain Hopkins, although it was stated to be unusual, was permitted to give evidence, and described how he and the Mayoress saw two officials with Yong. One of them drew his attention to a panel which had been disfigured by black marks,
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"I said to Yong," added the Mayor, "you ought to be ashamed of your- self for such behaviour. He asked me what concern it was of mine. said 'Every concern, no I am the Mayor of the city. He then made an extremely rude remark to me.
"When
I arrived on the scene his attitude towards the officials, who were doing their best to straighten out the case, was one of extreme insolence, Seeing there was nothing else to be done I told one of the. oMcials to fetch a uniformed officer." The Mayor added that the only man who was behaving disgracefully was Yong, who was sober.
Mr. S. E. Naish (defending) sald
Port Victoria station was opened in both men apologised very humbly to 1000 on the bank of the Medway the Mayor and Mayoress and any one facing Sheerness. It had a large else who might have been offended. staff,
and in Edwardian daya Port The Incident was due to high spirits; Victoria was the most used royal both men had clean records. port.
From here, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra voyaged to the Continent. Many times the ex- Kalaer landed at Port Victoria from his yacht Hohenzollern.
Local legend haw 11 that once. when he came into the port, his yacht failed to dip its ensign, and. the guns at Garrison Point were manned and remained so unif an explanation and apology were bade.
Now the large staff and glamour have faded awny
the glory of Port Victoria has dwindled to a one- man staff-Stove Hills.
And now Steve Hills has heard the death sentence on Port Victoria. It deals with fewer than 10 passengers a month,
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