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FÀTHER'S FOOTSTEPS

Diana Maugham, whose first no- vel was published last month, is a daughter of Somerset Maugham,

There do not appear to be many men of letters whose daughters have followed successfully in father's footsteps.

QUEEN VICTORIA'S JUBILEES

ALL THE WORLD PAYS HOMAGE

BRILLIANT LONDON PAGEANTS

(By: Hector Bolitho),

ON the eve of another Jubilee and roster, doing nothing but open-

Dickens's daughter, Mrs. Peru- we may be allowed to wipe telegrams.... gini, did not make much of a show; the mists from the window of time; It was in 1897 that the glory nor did Tolstoy's daughter, Alexans and peer back to the scenes of the seemed most intense, and wonder dra.

two Victorian Jubiless, 1887 and ful. By this time, there were few

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Lady Richie, W. M. Thackeray's 1897, and capture the colour of the people who could recall

a. time daughter, was well enough known celebrations and a sight of the when she was not their Queen. She In her generation, but nobody hears ilttle, black-dressed figure "guiding could remember three Kings who of her to-day.

the land, the nation, the world al-had ruled before her, in the dark. Among our contemporaries most, with her venerable influence." Georgian times,, Now, on the six whose daughters have taken to When Queen Victoria was horntieth anniversary of her accession, writing fiction are Gilbert Frankau people still talked of the bravado she could contemplate three Princes and E. V. Lucas. But is there a of a woman who had dared to an who would rule the Empire after case of an important novelist pro-cend in a balloon, and neither the her.

ducing a daughter whose books daguerreotype, the railroad, the She wrote of the present King, were better than kor father's?

Your Daily Smile!

telegraph, nor the steamship had and Queen: "Every time I see them been invented. When she was a love them more and respect them child, Princess Victoria" had seen greatly. Thank God! Georgle has the Fleet cross the Solent under got such an excellent, useful, and

[good wife."',«

Sixty Years Queen

He: “You should see the new altar;full sail, in our church."

́She: "Lead me' to it,"

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One Viow

Momentous Years

During her reign many of the She turned away from the calm shadows of. ignorance passed from domestic scene in June. This He was asking for the hand of the the face of England and, to com- eventful day," she wrote. "How wealthy man's daughter and certainly,

displayed assurance and confidence. pensate for the perils of opulence well I remember this day. 60 years "You want to marry my girl Doria" and the ominous triumph of the ago, when I was called from my Aaid the surprised parent. "Why, machine, there came hygiene, edu- bed by my dear Mamma to receive mari, you were caddying for me only cation for the poor, and the des the news of my accession !”

ja year or go back."

The Queen was so feeble now that she could no longer walk very

"Ob, there's not much in that," asid struction of certain walls between the applicant. "I don't see why a poor the classes. | golfer shouldn't make a decent sort of The steamship had been invented far. Her eyes were dim and her:

father-in-law."

and a canal had cut Africa and Ministers had to use specially Asia asunder, bringing the new broad nibs to write thefr, letters to

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Marked

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some specimens were included, A customer entered the grocery southern countries closer to the her, in big round black characters such as the lines sung by Marie store and said to the assistent: "I don't parent England. The Queen bad The doorway of the train which Lloyd, those who remember that care much for the pot of, jam I had used the telephone and the gramo carried her from the quiet of Wind sprightly lady in the flesh cann It."

That week. There were ido many stakes phone had made records of her sor to the amazing pageant of the witness that the impression of

voice: the scenes of her last Jubilee London streets, had to be widened! Assistant: "Madam, if you look atį

it was noticeable that the repro- chés everywhere'}" duced joke provoked the same

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personality is true to life, and the jar igain you'll read of it, at had been photographed by the mov-to admit the wheeled chair in

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ST. TERESA'S

Remedios-Roza

The wedding of Miss

ing picture camera and, at Wind-which she travelled

Ten Million Eyes sor, where the Norman Conqueror - had eaten his venison by the glow Among the mány Princes whoi

her at Buckingham of torches, the great rooms of the waited for castle were lighted by electricity. Palace was the Archduke Franz:

Ferdinand, who was shot at Sára. Into A Fairy Tale

jevo in 1914." - བཿ ༔1 Queen Victoria had given her As the went to bed, she could name to a great century and her hear the noise of the streets and

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Elizabeth. Twice, towards the end were sleeping in the open, so that of her reign, the nation celebrated they might see her on the follow- the Queen's achievement...her per ing morning.. [sonal achievement, winch grew out]

She rose, after a hot, restless of character rather than cold in night, and put on her black dress tellect and upon courage rather "with panels of grey satin valled" - Mr.

than, sly diplomacy.

with black .net and steel, em-- St-the edge of reality into a story There were creamy white aigrette In June of 1887 she stepped over broideries, and some black lace!” Tong which Hans Andersen might have in her bonnet,

Thelma

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planned as a tribute for her

Indian Homage.

Before she drove out to the

It is a very good rule of evl-laughter which never failed to Geneva's Motto dence that the most convincing greet the original. There can To confer is human deductions can be drawn from be no question in the future of what is not consciously and de-writing history and leaving out

Shell House came through, an an- liberately stated. In the film the flesh and blood of the men xious period last night with flying the title of which we have bor that made it, or glossing over colours. rowed it was the last crisis that the social conflicts and changes most created the feeling of fel that make up nine tenths of life PRETTY WEDDING AT age was compared with that of the parke, where hundreds of peopl lowship between the King and his for most of us. And when the subjects, and it was also by far romantic plots have grown stale, the most dramatically represent it will be the "shorts" and "news ac réels" that will be raked up and ed. Improved counted for much, and in all the reproduced. inventions that have marked the

Another aspect of the record Maria Lila dos Remedios and Georgian period there has been a

almost is the increasing speed at which Luiz da Roza took place at development that has

How could history is being made. Twenty Teresa's Church at Kowloon made a new world. any historian Talsify completely five years is but a short space in

yesterday afternoon. the career of a man whose man- the life of a nation, however

The bride is the daughter of Mr. The Kings of Denmark, Greece, crowded streets; she touched nu". ner and speech has been faith long for the individual; but it is fully recorded by a mechanical amazing how many events have and the late Mrs. E. A. dos. Reme-Saxony, and Helgium came to pay electris button which sent her mes device which is not open to any been crowded into the Georgian los while the bridegroom, former their tributes, and with them the sage of thanks to the lumbermen of ly resident at Shameen, Canton, Queen of Hawall. The Crown Canada, the. Scottish settlers in the a really serious kind of sentimental distortion? reign. It is

Princes, Princes from Persia, south of New Zealand,, and the The flashes of remembrance of question whether it will be pos-is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.

C. B. da Roza. Ja the old Henrys and Edwarde,rid sible to continue long at the same

Japan, and ́ ́Siam came, and one miners of the Transvaal. The car. After the wedding ceremony, afternoon the Thakore of Morvirlage drove out from Buckingham ing forth on fiery chargers may pace without a general nervous

Proposals for a reception was held for friends and rode up the Windsor hill, where Palace, drawn by six cream horses... or may not appeal to the imagi- breakdown. nation, but what would we not "battleship holiday" a "stand relatives at the Catholic Union the ghosts of the Conqueror, of She drove. through the Lendon give for a "movie" record of still of debts," and many other Club, Tak Hing Street, Kowloon.

Shakespeare and Cromwell might streets, and it is said that 10,000, have watched him.

000 eyes saw the little, bowingTM their real appearance and sorts of cessation of activity, aret "talkie" preserving their words constantly made; but there fe

figure before the day was over. bf command? The historical no sign of anything of the sort.

Six Crowded Miles He rode a young horse covered conscience bids us not forget that Rather does the rate seem to get

by a coat of mall, heavy with orna- they did not Inspire their men faster and faster. How many

ments, and with an amulet upon to valour in English at all, but more moments of crisis are

one of its legs, Queen Victoria in Norman French, and that their there going to be before a review wars were fought in a dynastic of the reign as a whole can be

Mr. H. T. Louie, otherwise known met him at the castle gates.. He quarrel in which for the English-made? It was only a short time as Hawk Yet Loule or Lui Hawk leapt from his horse, bowed at her man victory would have been ago

that the Oxford Union Yat, alias, Louie Leong, merchant, feet, and begged her to accept the more disastrous than defeat. adopted the resolution "that this formerly of No, 265 Georgia Street, charger which he had brought all Even the chargers are a hope House will never again fight for Vancouver, BC, Canada, who died the way from India.

King and less anachronism; fer all the con-

Country,"

In te morning her Indian ser- That at the age of 59 at the Yeung We temporary tapestries, and illa-motion was carried by the Debat Hospital, Happy Valley, on Novem- vants, wearing scarlet garments minated manuscripts show the ing Societies of several other ber 28, 1984, left local estate sworn and white turbans, kissed her feet fold knights riding, not thorough-versities and Colleges under $58,200 as she sat down to breakfast. The breds, which were not bred till throughout England, and after Probate of the will has been fairy tale had begun. some centuries later, but what the first shock had passed it was granted to Young Shee Louie, wife we should call cart horses, of the felt that it represented a large of deceased, and Kim Tim Loule.

Several Chinese pickpockets, who "shire" or "clydesdale" type, body of opinion. Nobody who

proved no match for the law officers, In fact the elegant hunters of heard the sort of candid discus

appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the film could not have carried sion which goes on in such insti-

At half past eleven we left the the Central Police Court this mor Palace. It was really a magni-ning for stealing purses and money man had anything but detesta-

|ficent sight:... The crowds from from various persons who were- Among the interesting tion for all that is conveyed by While engaged In teasing one of the Palace gates up to the Abbey watching the Chinese procession archives of the British Museum the expression "the Western the Hons, Cheng Yau, one of the were enormous and there was suck yesterday. future generations are a set of native?. laid aside for the information of Front." But what is the alter participants in the Chinese Proces-an extraordinary outburst of en- A fine of $50, In default one gramophone records of typical the acceptance of international heat yesterday. After being treat-in London before...

There is nothing button, was overcome by the terride thusiasm as I had hardly ever seen month's hard labour was imposed on Lo Chu, unemployed, for stenl passages of eloquence by the law, and that implles interpreta-ed by members of the St. John I sat alone (oh without my being 21 cents from the pocket of famous orators of the time since tion and application by some Arabulance Brigade, he was sent to loved husband, for whom this Kwan Yim at the junction of gramophones were brought into sort of international tribunal. the Government Civil Hospital, would have been such a proud day) Queen's Rond West and Centre use. Gladstone and John Bright Those principles are to-day being where he died at 6 p.m. and Joseph Chamberlain will be openly flouted; and the implica able to emulate the old grand- tions of that have been deeply father in "The Last Gentleman" felt throughout civilisation, with

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June 21 was the great day. "beautiful and bright, with fresh air The Queen wrote in her Journal:

they

They sang and they cheered and cried, and some old women who perhaps comprehended her in

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PICKPOCKETS AT WORK

Many Opportunities In Dense Crowds

(„my robea were beautifully Street. He was arrested by a día-

draped on the chair... when the trict watchman.“

service was concluded, each of my Wong Kwal was sentenced to

and speak from the grave! while whatever disimay and resentment, nations," and e parliament that sons, sons-in-law, grandsons, and three months hard labour for the we are left to wonder how it was Sir Austen, Chamberlain's speech was elected to find the way to a grandsons-in-law, stepped forward, theft of a pures from Fan Chl-yes. that Edmund Burke came to be was deeply significant. It is by lasting peace "rose to him." bowed, and in succession kissed my called the dinner-bell" because his own preference that he is That can only mean that the old hand, I kiasing each; - some defect of delivery turned not in office; but there are few policy of later rather than

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TOM THUMB CONSCRIPT:

The smallest conscript to pass

an infiction of boredom.he la no alarmist. Even more sooner rather than later the She was tired when the great day

In the case of our present King signifient lang the reception or debate had been postponed

ed to was over. She wrote: felt and Queen there can be no doubt the House. The speech plainly allow the Dominion Premiers to quite exhausted by this time and before the French medical officers, about what manner of people contemplated the use of force be consulted, and their concur- ready to faint, so I got into my roll- Josaph Gimard, who liver they were. Even with the pri against any nation that "refused rence was announced. Where Is Ing chair and was rolled away to Grenoble

myroom Here I lay on the sola mitiva“ photogr of which to come into the family of it all to end

He weighs just under Lour

and to 4ft, Tim tall20