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But for some years pass the glory of the old Church as the popular place for art Society wedding has departed. race now-a-days that anyone of In- note goes there to tie the knot." stead St. Margaret's. Westminster, next door to Westminster Abbey, has come into favour for fashionable marriages. Loan JELLICO'S RETURN.

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of New welcome reminding

Lord Jellicoe has arrived back is

years THE IMPERIAL PILGRIM.

England after his three

as Governor-General The Prince of Wales went away this othce

Ho had

2 rare week on his tour to South Africn to bo Zealand,

in Leadon, arriving followed later by a trip to the Argentinen and Chili, carrying with him the best some who were present of the sort of raight be accorded the wishes of every man and woman in the

Freeting that land for a pleasant journey. His Royal Victor of & entupaign against a forgiga Highness will be missed during his abfae, for there were fourteen Admirals.c0 sence, for his movements here add a cer- the platform to great hins Lord Jellicus tain piquancy to national life People are shook them all by the hand amid a very fond and proud of the Prince, who charons on their part of So glad you is easily the most popular man in the have come," and he was obviously de- country next to the King. His sayings lighted with his reception. and doings during the next six months willbe watched with an eager confidener, He is rightly regarded as the type of everything worthy that is associated with the British name,

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When he was able to extricate himsell for a minute or two from the breezy ad. mirals Lord Jellicoe confided to an inter- viewer that he was very sorry to leave New Zealand. Er described it as the Only those who are informed or best country in the world outside Eng- stupid can affect to regard the Prince of land, with about the best people in the Wales's tour as 4 pleasure trip in the world, and he added that his heart was ordinary sense of the word. Those who still there. Asked as to his future plans. know the Prince are well aware that he Lord Jellicoe said he has none so far. His For the immediate tuture he will be con. naturally is averse to ceremony. tastes are simple. He much prefers spors tent to pay a visit to his brother-in-law, to functions about the Court or in So Sir Herbert Cayzer. at Rotherwick. ciety; he likes the country better than

EMPIRE DAY. town life. But owing to his position and

I hear that special efforts will be made the obligations of bis exalted rauk he

Years ago has to appear in the limelight day in this year to celebrate Empire Day more and day out, and put his personal wishes worthily than ever before. and desires on one side. This is especially when the Earl of Menth was doing fine true when he is abroad as on the present work in spreading the observance of tour. It is a case of wing always on Queen Victoria's birthday one parade. his lightest word being noted heard the remark that in distant pacts and repeated, and he himself discussed of the Empire greater value was placed and scrutinised as a bring set high above on this observation than among ourselves 'ut home. Although a lot of water bis fellow men....

pleasurebas run under London Bridge aince then, This sounds anything but a trip.

It is indeed as exacting and there is still room for improvement.

seems from what I learn that laborious a task as could very well be

hand for impused- ordeal, in fact, which has Unionist organisations everywhere are to in faerd. But it has one compensat-putting arrangements in ing advantage. The Prince will gain hazaars, concerts. Empire meetings for It is not being done as first-hand knowledge in a new field, of children, etc.,

party politics but from the point of view of Empire development and to bring home to people in their own localities some of the lessons which will be learned again at Wembley this year. As May 4th falls on a Sugulay, the Empire Day celebrations will most cases take place on the Saturday.

| travel, which together with his previous experiences as an Imperia! Pilgrim must prove extremely valuable to the future King of England.

INSIDE ST. PAL'S

THE LURE OF LONDON.

often

This week saw the last servie in St. Paul's Cathedral under conditions that permitted worshippers to look up at that part of the great fane that makes for

A number of distinguished people have its glory and its fame. For this week was finished a huge wooden wall that has been dining în Landon this week to com- been erected to cut off the space under memorate the day. when Charles Lamb at the dome and the choir from the nave, the age of fifty and after thirty-three A pension and the former have been shut out from years spent in the service of the East It is recalled view. The woodwork reaches from Boor India Company retired on to roof of naye, a height of tome ninety exactly a century ago, feet. A large oaken platform has been that Lamb was devoted to London, and made to serve as a temporary setting for even encouraged the ideal do not know the choir stalls and the altar. An old whether he originated it-that the streets wooden pulpit which has been resurrect. of London were paved with gold.

Writing to a Cambridge friend from ed for the purpose has been set up on the floor of the nave; and although the vast the seclusion of his beloved Temple be space still available is considérable, it said, "Aren't you mightly moped on the All the streets is only & mere fragment of the lordly banks of the Cam? Had you not better extent of St. Paul's to which visitors and come and set up here?

and pavements are pure gold, I warrant worshippers have been accustomed....

turns her mad into that metal-a mind It will be years--how many none may you. At least I know an alchemy that say-fore the part of the Cathedral that loves to be at home in crowds." But now closed will be again available for I wonder what the author of the Essays public worship or even for public gaze of Elia" would have thought dad said and admiration. In those closing days of London now!

Would he have liked the motor buses crowds of people have been gazing up into the roof of the magnificent dome sud the tubes, and the ceaseless rush and B0 many people and studying the mosaics as if to im-burry There are

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15 upon their memories the patterns desirous of getting out of it when they af colour that will be hidden for an in-ean that great broad arterial roads, base definite period.

been constructed to permit of the motor open sea. rush to green fields. and the

REVIVAL OF SADLER'S WOLLS.

The interesting proposal is made to And yet even now there are wonderfully revier the old "Sadler's Wells Theatre quiet places in the heart of London, The which stands, as many of your older Temple where Larab lived within two readers know, about three minutes' walk minutes of the roar of the traffic in the from the Angel at Islington and about Strand remains a beautifully peaceful half a mile due cast from King's Cross.oasis despite the turmoil outside. The idea is to adapt the famous house, HUBBAND AND WIFE IN LAW. which in these days stands forlorn and

The unjustifiable position of a husband. disused, as a modern theatre, and to link it as a theatrical twin with the Old where his wife's debts are concerned was emphasised again this week in a case Vie on the south side of the Thames. The where an incocent ausband was saddled promoters of the scheme intend to pro with the daninges caused by his wife. duce drama and opera alternately in the The point has been referred to from time! two houses; while the Old Vic is giving to time, but nothing is done to remedy opera one week Sadler's Wells will give what is a very great hardship. It is drama, and vice versa, tura" and turu almost incredible, but it is perfectly true about, the same companies performing ut nevertheless that although a busband both theatres.

and wife may be living apart from each Beginping with the Eighteenth Cen-other and not yet separated by a judicial tury, for some 50 years Sadler's Wells order, the husband has to pay any bills weeskin and fashionable, first up and be accountable for any misdeeds of 8 theatre and in the last phase as a the wife. There was a case in the Coartá music hall and then as the one of not long ago where a husband had to Shakesperian.plays. It was rebuilt in pay beavy dainages for a libet published 1873, but at that period it was ceasing by his wife whom he had not set eyes

on for year′′% to be fashionable. A distinguished Com

One of those days the law will, per mittee are behind the new venture, with the Duke of Devonshire as Chaireau, and hapa, be altered to make it conformable as members the Earl of Oxford and with equity and common sense. It is Asquith, Lord-Balfour. the Bishop of absurd and wrong that a man should be London, Mr. Winston Churchill, Lady liable in this way for his wife seeing that Cunard, Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Sidney the lady has the control of her own pro- Lee, Sir Edurund Cosse. Mr. Arthur perty under the Married Women's Pro- Bourchier, Mr. ... Chesterton; Mr.perty. Acts, and has the vots, and in fact John Galsworthy, Mias Sybil Thorndykail the privileges of the mere man as a and many other. I doubt whether citizen. It was different, of course, Commities like this has ever bren got when a woman was ranked in the eye of together before; and it will be surprise the law as a chattel, and her property. ing indeed if the proposal does not prove passed to her husband on marriage The successful

existing anachronism is silly in these. days-B.B.

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If we tell the truth about it. the dola generations us a place for smart wed-is dope-Sir John Simon. dings, The number of people of note, who The extreme Anglo-Catholic and the ex- were married at St. George's make quite treme Evangelical can hardly be asid to a long and impressive list, beginning worship the same God.-Dean Inge.. with the lady who becune the wife of Sir The longer I live the more I am con- William Hamilton and is better known

as Nelson's, "Emma." Thirty years ago vinged that the greatest of all necessities the present Earl of Oxford and Asquith for human happiness is to talk, things was married there. Mr. Gladstone being out. Mr. T., P. O'Connor,

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