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QUEEN [MARY IS 81 YEARS OLD TODAY

18931 Honeymoon picturo after 1018: Queen Mary inspects a 1038 With 12-year-old Princess.

the marriage on July 6.

detachment of WAACS,

Elizabeth.

The Royal tradition

EXT to the Papacy, the British monarchy is prob ably the most Recure of

all political institutions,

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In other parts of the world hereditary Rovereigns have had to pack up and go; there are hardly any of them left.

Queen Victoria's unpleasant old uncles gave the institution a shake. No tears were shed over the deaths of George IV or William IV. Queen Victoria herself was not very popular in the earlier part of her reign.

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

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by Dr. W. R. Inge

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slippet from her hands. her

symbolical valuo increased enormous- ly, and such affection and honour were lavished upon her as no British sovereign, not even Queen Elizabeth, She was a power in the land. had ever enjoyed. and determined to assert her She was raised above the con-

trovcrates of constitutional rights, but in im-

polities, and became a Bort of universal grandmother. Τα portant matters of policy her the British Dominions beyond the Ministers often resisted her seas she embodied the Empire in

most acceptable form will.

In India especially she was an

in the sixties, and once to stou Ger- present year by the almost ecstatic In her later years, while power Noyal family.

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Twice she. Intervened very wisely object of reverence. How great the in foreign politics-once to prevent value of a living symbol of unity shown in the us from going to war with America may be lins been many from attacking France In 1876. welcome of South Africa

the

When I was in Germany in 1911 I found that King Edward was looked upon na the bogy man. He was supposed to be chiefly responsi- ble for a sinister policy of encircling Germany with a ring of enemies.

Sitting on

on the Fence

O far the voice of that

well-known

Fleet-street quuck, Dr Gubbins, has 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. not been heard on the new health service to begin in July. He thought he would let the B.M.A. shout itself hoarse be- fore he offered his opinion.

HE NEVER KNEW A WOMAN WHO COULDN'T BE HIS OR A MAN WHO WOULD DARE STAND IN HIS WAY!

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YOU'LL HAVE TO SEE TO BELIEVE!

SEE THE SHOCKING MURDER

OF HITLER'S NIECE!

In Paramount's

The Hitler Gang

After all, they are qualified, and he is only a quack, though" he would remind them that all people with new ideas are con- sidered quacks or cranks in their time.

Long after they ure dead duller minds catch up on them and the ideas conceived by the quacks and cranks become or- thodox.

Then new quncks and cranks are born, are sneered at in their turn. and

and when they dle the timid unadventurous adopt their ideas.

As with medicine, so with politics,

world literature. The art. gresses through ignorance and pre- Judice to (one hopes). the final en- lightenment.

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pro-

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Therefore, Dr Gubbins, with the largest practice and the cheapest fees in the world (more than 2,000,- 000 patients at 2d. a week) offers the soundest advice ever proposed _tp suffering world. He offers a new idea on health which may one day be universal.

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To those who are wondering what to do about medical attention in July, he says do without it al- together.

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

If you don't believe your Doctor G., strip and have one good look at your body in a full-length mir- ror. Then try to forget it, if you

can.

In other words, you're a plg.

. You're

You're

a

stomach worshipper. an "I me." "I ought

to have this" "What I Koing happen

to me?" "Me first, me second, and if there's anything left. third." You're a "blast" you, how me moment Consider for a much time and trouble you have Jack, I'm all right," and I hope worse and spent on that body you are trying your Indigestion gets to forgel

Most of your walking life has been wasted in washing, clothing

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As you grow older you'll think more and more about that stomach of yours, put more and more things into it that it doesn't want and more and more powders into it to keep it quiet, until you're nothing but a grumbling bag of acids and aikolines.

Then you'll start worrying about they your heart and liver until get into a state, too.

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The Kalser, after his death com- plained that "King Edward, who is dead, has more power than I who am alive." This notion wpa of course absurd.

The only foundation for it was that the King disliked his nephew and liked the French,

There to no doubt that his tact and geniality during a visit to Paris nt n time when our country WOR

intensely unpopular in France was. in cementing the of great value Entente Cordiale.

King George V, will live in history one of the best of our sovereigns.

Then you'll get rheumatism and gout and lumbago and sciatica and This was not his opinion of himself. "I am a very ordinary sort of Bright's disease and double vision

A king who barber's rash and athlete's foot fellow," he said once, and lamplighter's colle and road can say that is not an ordinary sort

throat and sweeper's

dustman's of king. elbow and housemaid's knees..

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Maybe you'll get basket-maker's who was likely to be well informed, thumb, too, and it will serve you told me what happened at the crisis

be to right. You shouldn't' making of 1031. The Prime Minister, Ram- baskets unless they're for export. Bay MacDonald, came to the Palaco

almost in tears.

Ho said to the King: "My party have forsaken me. At this moment Dr Gubbins is Your Majesty had better send for not feeling so hot himself. Her Baldwin." "No." said the King. thinks he has barfly's toe, unless I don't want you to go. I want you This is a touch of the salmon, which

to stay, ac trustee for the poor. Como is much the same thing.

back tomorrow morning, and WO But don't follow his example.will see what can be done. But Follow his advice. Then you won't need a doctor, and the RM.A. and now you are overwrought,

bed." work Buy all the powders you like at the Minister of Health can

The Archbishop thought that this the chemist's Buy a stomach that one out between them.

"Go to bed" ought to live in the pump for all I care. You will.

But you'll get • Cockney rhyming clang-salmon history of the time.

Ught. certainly got relief.

and trout-gout.

worse.

It certainly will, anyway,

it, warming it, cooling it, feeding is Dr Gubbins telling you. it, indulging it, and working that you will have enough money to wash it, clothe it, warm it, cool it, feed it, and indulge it.

And if you are a man and marry another body you will have to work harder to wash, clothe, warm, cool, feed, and indulge the body you have married.

to

no cure.

C.V.R. THOMPSON reports

the U.S.

NEW YORK. MERICANS have got a warning from two quaT-

scene.

this country from some of the people in it who are trying to save the world.

Nothing has ever come to

Go to

to diminish the reverence and grati- tude with which his subjects re- member this King. Queen Mary, whose Bist birthday is today, must look back upon her long life with great thankfulness.

foot- At the present time even ballers and cricketers must take a The second place in popularity,

and the young. King and Queen Princesses, snapshotted at every function which they attend, fill the and attract record

Do-T-have-to-tell you, that if you have children you will have more bodies to wash, clothe, feed, and so on?

Perhaps not, but I think I ought bodies remind you that these you are washing, clothing, feeding, Unless you are the victim of in-

and indulging will soon be worry- herited disease, or unless you meeting about themselves, soon be muters not to expect any bargain IT was not enough that Washing-newspapers with an accident you don't need a king themselves ill with worry, basement touring in Britain doctor at any time.

be worrying you about it,this year. soon

All you need is some common sense and self-discipline.

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First of all, don't worry about yourself.

What is the becret of spiritual health?

Any bishop, who ought to know more about these matters than. Dr G., will tell you (or ought to tell you) that the secret of spiritual health, and therefore happiness. is to forget yourself.

Stop asking yourself, "What Is going to happen to poor me?" and nothing "very unpleasant will happen to you.

But go on asking the question, not enly muttering it to yourself, but to other people, and Dr Gubbins can prophesy something unpleasant that will happen you.

You'll get a great thump on the nose from somebody who can't stand your whining any longer,

Forget that body

IT'S

the same with your body. Forget your body, Surely it's ugly enough, isn't it? 'Hurdly worth remembering, hardly worth worry ing about all day and half tho night?

You're a pig

.

ton

strike,

Had to head off a rail crowds. a coal strike, and a Dossible had also to head off a woman -strike of atom bomb workers; they

Treasury boss John Snyder ac- cepted a challenge from Govern-

We are in the middle of a revolu- of the

ment-hating Vivien Kellems, one of tlon, in which the words America's few women Industrialists, Magnificat about pulling down the mighty from their seals are being: over pay.

fulfilled more drastically than in the Miss Kellems sent Mr Snyder a

But the Royal note saying she was not going to French Revolution. net as an unpaid tax collector any family are not in the slightest dan- the fate of Louis longer, and that as far as she was

ger of sharing concerned her workers would pay KV1, and Marie Antoinette.

The no more Income tax.

Crown is more popular than ever. We

and soon be yelling for a doctor. News magazine Time blumed the

Unless they have, broken their

cost of living in Britain on the legs or they have caught some in- fectious disease (probably through overvalued pound, and said that

France is a better their own fault), Dr Gubbins ad-

me the tourist wanting to save money, vises you to take no notice of them.

The Wall Street Journal predicted They are probably suffering from nothing than self-pity.

that Britain might lose many dollar-

to spending tourists France after they had spent just a day or two in Britain.

Reasons

In addition to France being cheaper "Food is skimpy and dull. Yankee trippers will miss

Faced with o spreading revolt whopping helpings of butter, choice

Loyalty is always symbolic. culs of meat, bacon and eggs. A against the system, Snyder an-

We will use all our re-do not really think that the National second helping is unheard of. Vege- nounced:

or its sources to deal with her.

Anthem is a noble poem, tables are monotonous, salads Incl Imagination, desserts are dreary,

It is vastly in- bathi I л

THE FIRST British-made Fords tune good music. THE The hotel room with

have arrived ir America toferlor to the Marselllaise. luxury."

compete for dollars with American-

But when loyalty is attached minde Fords. How they compete

human being, the necessary the British model at £349 Is the a cheapest car, except Bantams, in this idealisation is easier and pleasanter, country. The American model costs America 13 in the

£375. The British model doen 28 perhaps especially when, the heir to

the throne is a pretty girl. D middle of an election campaign miles per gallon, the American 18. her father is a candidate, The British model Is delivered in American Int a Margaret Truman will not sing any three weeks, the more until after polling day in year. November. She is afraid she would

have THEN consider what you

done to this body since you Brew up and had full control, of it.. How many times have you eaten too much, drunk too much?

Don't turn your head away in Dr Gubbins is also guilty shame. of self-indulgence, though he can honestly

esten say he has rarely Honesty

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And the Wall Street Journel nisu ton much. During the last eight promises its British-minded readers on hotel problem. It says "British hotels are filled with the Brilish:" DECAUSE

or nine years he hasn't had chance.

and

But what do you think is the cnuse of that indigestion you aro always moaning about? Ealing too much? Eating too Hitle? Eating at the wrong times? Eating war- time, bread? Monotonous dict?

No. It's worry. Worrying if you'll get enough to eat. Worrying it be accused of singing for votes. somebody else is getting more. Worrying if you're not getting your fair share. And, some of you, nib- bling at the black market, worrying If you are.

NANCY Too Many Cooks

THERE'S THE NEW

RESTAURANT. 'THAT · JUST OPENED.

BUSINESS MUST BE GOOD LOOK AT. ALL

THOSE COOKS.

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ASHION: Now American makers For women's shoes are joining the New Look's backward march. will feature high- Autumn styles

more buttoned shoes, with buttons decorative than useful.

By Ernie Bushmiller

I BET THEY SERVE AN AWFUL LOT OF SPOILED BROTH:

to

We have a few curmudgeons who' think that loyalty is all humbug, just as there are some who say that patriotism. is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

They are the kind of people whom one would like to see driven to their last refuge, with a: kick in the pants,

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