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KING PAISAL SUPPRISED.

HIS QUEEN ADOPTS EUROPEAN

DRESS.

Mesopotamia has lately been the scene of a transformation which at first caused unbounded astonishment to King Faisal its monarch, according to information received in London,

King Faisal's garen has adopted Was tern ideas, and her wardrobe is now be ing plentifully adorned with the latest estions of Fund-street and Paris, while the art of manicure and the use of toilet never-ending accessories afford her source of enjoyment.

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THE QUEEN ACTS. -- For some time the queen had been taying with King Faisal's father, King Husin-the King of the Hedjas, whom the Emir Ph Saud of Nedj ejected from Mreen.

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the shelter of her father-in-law's hode, and was on her way to Baglad to join The Court of Bagdad was the king.

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Wirdess inquiries. were hurriedly male, and they brought a new sensation. The queen had not only began her jour- ney, but, instead of travelling by the ancient amet route, she had booked a passage in a fine and was due at Basra Ju a few lays.

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curr, across the desert for Bagdad.

King Faisal, Overcome by fastonish- meat, required time to consider these unexpected events. He ordered an aero- plane and flew in it to Mosul.

The queen arrived in Bagdad, and King Faisal, apprised of the facts about her adoption of Westera ideas. extended his fail approval.

Not the east interesting part of the story is the statement that the queen's conversion to Western ideas is the out come of her acquaintane with a remark- abir Englishwoman-Miss Chertrude Low- thian B, daughter of Sir Hugh Bell, B. the famous ironmaster.

APT AND CHARMING.

Miss Bell is Oriental peretary to the High Commissioner of Mesopotamia. She wedduated at Queen's College, London, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She was in the military intelligence depart ment at Ciro in 1915, and afterwards Jinisun, officer of the Arab bureau in

She has published sever Mesopotamin al books, and an official view of the civil administration of Mesopotamia # few years ago...

Miss Bell has now, it is said, under- taken the task of continuing the modern deention of the queen, who is, described am an apt and charming pupil.

The quien has not yet made her ap pearance at public or social functions, but is expected to do so before long.

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Mr. Waldwin's eagerness to do good by stealth and his passion for anonymity are illustrated in a story told of him by Mr. Wickham Sterd.n

Hidden away in an old-world village: ia Gloucestershire, says Mr. Steed in the Review of Reviews, the Premier once came upon a local asylum for fechle

inded girls, which was maintained by two old ladies in strailered circumetan.

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Hearing that the "home" was in dit.. ficulties, he walked into Strond, good many miles away, collected with much trouble 200 of the dirtiest Brad- burys that could be, found, and wrap- ped them up in a piece of newspaper, together with a letter written and word- ed with complete illiteracy.

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"It was to the effect that a vagabond wish to do what he could to keep up an establishment the like of which might, perhaps some day afford a refuge to himself.

A yokel was then induced to bribe an urchin, who went back to the village and delivered the dirty-Jocking parcel, with out being able to explain how he had come by it. The "ngabond", escajud detection.

NICKNAMES OF REGIMENTS.

A DICTIONARY OF SERVICE PHRASES.

HUSH-HUSH PLANES. SECRET TRIALS OF LONDON DEFENDERS.

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Mr G. Backus

HONGKONG HOTEL.

Secret oficial trials of new fighting | Mr C. G. Alford - accoplanes, witnessed by Air Chief Mar- Miss M. Alloni ahat Hugh Trenchard, chief of the Air Staf, and experts of the Air Ministry and Mr N. Bexle Royal Aircraft Establishment, have just Capt. J. Bick

carried ont t a Government Mrs B. R. Balilies. bee

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Mr J. H. Coor Dr. & Mrs Coltman

Mr B. F. Cox,

Through the 2nd Battalion at the seth Foot enme the sobriquets "Murray'a g Backs" and "The Surprisers, the former battalion was originating when the stationed at Edinburgh as "A tribute to gay appearance in the Scottish Royal During the war, ju algust every walk the latter dating from the

Lavery, of life, lang wards and phrases were

American War, with special reference to the surprise of the enemy at White Plains interspersed with the ordinary talk. Many of them have passed out of ceramon use and have been buried in the limbo in September, 1777.

The Pump and Tortoise" is the of forgotten things, but others still description of the South Staffords. This

The country in the vicinity was carefully persist.

name was earned by the 1st Battalion as Such phrases, whether forgotten and the 38th Foot. The account given in the patrolled to ensure that no unauthorized

volume is: Dating traditionally from persons witnessed the fights.

The new machines, which are intended still in ur are to be found in Messrs. Eraser and Gibbons" "Soldier and Sailor the 18th century, when for 39 years Words and Phrases," London, Routledge, (1707-5) the haitalion was kept in the for the air defence of London and other 129%

work 6. The

is compiled in West Indies, apparently forgotten by the centres, are on the ulicial szeret list, and dictionary form, and some entertaining home authorities, and existing practically in the national interests their technical moments may be fussed in scanning its fee the most of the time ragged and details and actial performances are be pages and spotting the words once in shuess The officers, as a fact, received ing kept secret. It is understood that Common use in the trenches. There is ann pay lor seven years on end, and their in their speed, climbing capacity, and

Miss M. B.. Cra appendix containing a classifell list of consequent enforced teetotalism, coupled neuvrability they eclipse any previous the Fatte honours at the Great War with the incapacity of the half-starved and British craft of a similar type, and that Mr J. D. Deckie the scoret trints they performed Mr C. W. Derr awarded to each unit in the British Army. enfeebled men to exert themselves ou the in

L. Descans Under the head of Nicknames, Sobri- drili-ground, apparently suggested the astonishing evolutions, ascending almost Mr & Mrs L

vertically into the air and going through Miss O. Eccles

T. the manorures of fighting at a pheno- Miss the origins

Mr E. E. Ellis quets, and Titles of Regimenta," explana nickname. tions in detail will be found

menal speed, and meaning of these. The origin of

Experts have reason to believe that the Mr & Mrs C. Eugetra the well-known sobriquet The Boody

The President and Fellows of Magdalen latest types of aeroplane represent the Mr. J. W. Focken Monsieur Foignette Eleventh for the Devonshire Regimcat is explained, and there are sevcial nick College Oxford, have elected to an offici- fruit of a policy which recognizes that we names. Many of them, such as The Redal Fellowship in the College, as Tutor must depenal for our air defence mainly Mr & Mrs A, H, A. Feathers, The One and All, are given English Language and Literature, for

artament of single-seater fighters, to the D..L.. There is one term which five years as from June 23th, Mr. Clive up the useentional, power, speed, and is applied to the D.CL.L., which is not a Staples Lewis, M.A. (University Col- familiar one, for they are called The legal r. Lewis was educated frst at in classic at University College in 1915, Does." from the initisis D.C.LL, although | Malvern College. He won a scholarship

was in comman the phrase "The Dooks"

Another anand (after war service) a irst-class in during the "wat. 11 3 Է assigned to the D.CLL is "The Lace classical Moderation in 1999, the Char- demonians, which is said to date from celior's Frize for an English esany.in 1777. in allusion to Col. Markham, of the 1921, a first-class in Literde Humaniorra 1st Battalion, who just before an action in 1999, and a first-class in the Honour in the American War made the ten a School of English Language and Litern- long address on the military discipline of ture in 1923 the Spartans, the Lacedemonians.

Mr. Steed also recalls the already pub lished story of how, during the war, hid- ing himself from a public under the initials F.S.T." Mr. Baldwin wrote to The Timer stuting that, in order to help the country in its grava financial situation, he had, with one-fifth of his fortune-£120,000-purchased £130,000 of new War Loan, returning it at once to the Gavertinent for cancellation.

Few people followed his example, for the Treasury only received £500,000 War Loan for ensenllation in all. But, as Mr. Baldwin has since said, "I would Tather sink with faith than swim with-i out it."

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