1939-07-20 — Page 14

"I suppose I'm

fussy..

...but I don't see

why, at my age, I -

should put up

with

second-best...For

instance, I'm fond of the theatre;

but, believe me, I'd rather stay away

than see an indifferent play.

So that's why, when you offered me whisky, I asked you to make mine a White Horse. I daresay some men hold that one Scotch whisky is as good as another. Well, when they know as much about it as I do, they will think differently."

WHITE HORSE

Whisky

You can tell it blindfold!

Sole Agents for South China: Jordiae Matheson & Co, Ltd.

Here's Luck!

EWO

BEER

THE CHINA M

THEIR GRACIO

NOT

JOTHING ever was

with more splendid try; nothing was ever

planned several minutes in which to be filst päässenger's aship before wathed the ceremonial machinery

was

By PE STRACH THE 'CHR SCIEN MONIT

more ponderously in bunting and set in motion and the crowd re- officialdom; nothing more effi- membered to make a noise. ciently guarded by land and sen

That quiet first appearance and air; and surely nothing was was characteristic. Following eyer noiser for cannon and trum them about constantly, by day pet and cheering, than the Royal and by night, in the most con- Visit of 1939 to Canada and the centrated series of receptions and United States. And the two per- celebrations ever imposed upon sons chiefly concerned in it tran- royalty, our conviction grew, found themselves scended it all. They rose through that Their Majesties were above the mesh of pomp and circum- the ritual, rather than part of it. British national a stance to what Elizabeth Barrett Everywhere they seemed to pre- the crowds of Ot

in particular one Browning has defined as "the fer, when possible, to drift into an American tablo level of everyday's most quiet places unnoticed. Seldom did they when handed the need."

have such an opportunity, but

of His Majesty's When the Empress of Austra- once in a while they found their He had not watch lia slid silently to her moorings way, unheralded, to the balcony through more th that May morning, at Wolfe's of a hotel, whence they could Cove, something which probably look at the people and make their "George knows ho they stepped punches." It was cannot be fully estimated at this own contact, or period, something which it is diffi- away from the guard lines and cult to shape into words, entered talked with stray individuals not recently arrived f adroit salon hab the North American continent. on the presentation list.

could more easily Canada's Prime Minister, res- I remember other kings and ed anxiously abo plendent in braid of gold, was queens and other public celebra- baize of the Casin ready to go aboard. We waited tions, in England and in contin- lo than anywhere for the dramatic appearance ental Europe, but never before world, who blinke when he should escort Their have I felt anything so profound- ery eyes as the Qu Royal Majesties, King George the ly moving as the influence which Chateau Fronter

consort and murmured, Sixth and Queen Elizabeth, across King George and his

celebrations befor

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the gangplank, to the salvo of exert. This is not mere emo- doesn't it?" 21 guns from the citadel, the tional reaction on the part of one brass band's outbreak of "God born under the Union Jack. The Save the King", and the cheers feeling is shared by those phleg- of the expectant multitude. matic “Canadiens" of Lower Que- Everything had been minutely bec, who had had to be urged Let the scoffer arranged. "At 10:30 a.m., Day- twice by the Committee on Ar- wager that 71 fel light Saving, Time," ran our rangements to have their flags in the Pilot Train p press instructions, “Their Majes- evidence; it is shared by tele- support me in sa ties, attended by the Ladies and graph senders from New York, feeling of affecti Gentlemen in Waiting, will come one of whom wrote a letter to his present occupants down the gangway . "I do not British wife, saying, "I envy you throne arouse wh know the exact moment and your King and Queen", by visit is genuine. The there were later occasions, too, ing Bostonians whose ancestors fession has enou when reporters found it difficult fought at Bunker Hill and who to observe the dif to read their watches but it

was probably about 10:20 when a man and a woman looked out from an upper deck.

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It med hardly real. The action as altogether too natural, too unexpectedly simple, to fit the theatrical 'setting. Quietly the great liner glided to the dock. The customary clatter of cables, the shouting of stevedores, the creaking of windlass and banging about of luggage, were strangely | lacking. A small knot of the ship's crew gathered in a hatch- way just above the water line. And the broad upper decks of the vessel yawned unpopulated, ex- cept for those two slender figures on the starboard side. They lean- ed on the rail and looked over, and they smiled, in a wondering, friendly way, at the astonished crowd. They had staged their own entry, they had come into the Cove quietly; they had had

CONVICIS AT WORK-OUTSIDE THE PRISON nnnnual pleture comes from South Africa and shows COL Work making repairs to the front of the Cape Town Ce Soenės liko This, are often witnessed here where the me ed, accompanied by: warders, for outside work.

EAT AT

hen

INEXPENSIVE SATISFYING

Bringing Up Father

WA-A

IF YOU'D ONLY SOMETHING T I'D KNOWS

YOU WANT

HII

SO I HEA BUT TELL ME- *DIDA

DO IT