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Between Cousins;
OR, A DECLARATION OP WAR.
"Yer;' said Ronald ahsthactadly f RE Am Ii p m T� D
She waited far a moment to see �}j' 1111
whether he was going to say more;
Tor the shilling shocker had a sequel. Sweet or Churning Cream, Highest
which likewise had found its way into market prices paid. We eupply cans,
the papera, in a more or less delicately pay exprese eharges, and remit dally,
veiled form. But Ronald, though visibly Mutual Dalry 8c Creamery Co.
uneasy, said nothing. It was to her 743.5 Rina St. West, Toronto
that the initiative remained, Nor, ---''----- ,.
would she let it slip. Yet, deter ; Food Control C
mined though she was to reacll elear ; Food 3
nese, and innocent of ditl'ectence on
ordinary occasions, something at this' _
P eople who wish to help in food
aching the desires} subject seem conservation should consider potatoes
oiler
moment made an indirect way of tip -,
a4 good way to treat an old moss.;
back of a pasture is to run a stout
harrow over it, scatter lime seed, and
go over it once more with a light
splice -tooth harrow. If not too rough,
the job may be nicely finished by put-;
ting the roller over the land after the
last harrowing.
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SUN LIFE OF CANADA
IN STRONG POSITION
preferable to a direct one. Simultane as a partial substitute for wheat flour. As will be seen from the essential
ously such a way presented itself to Potatoes are the chief staple of the features of its year's operations sot
her mind, ' semi -perishable foods, Canadians do forth elsewhere in this issue, Oana-
The laugh she gave now, still shad- not eat their fair share of potatoes da's largest life assurance company
ing her face from the lamp, seemed, even in normal times. We have (las Lust closed a highly satisfactory
the continuation of some amused in-
ner
been largely a wheat, beef and pork Year. Total assurances in force on the
ue" reflection. . consuming people, These staples are books of the Sun Life of Canada have
"Yes; Ardloch leas been quite exert- 1 1 P
ing lately. Events just tumbling now required for overseas and it be -
now croesed the $311,000,000 marls,
over each other. Why, your humble hooves us to substitute other foods; assurances issued and paid for in cash
I servant herself got mixed up in them. for them whenever possible, We , during the year totalling over $47,800,-
You'11 never guess what happened to, consume, perhaps, two and one-half , 000, the largest amount ever issued by
me no later than tho day before yes- bushels of potrtoes per capita per a Canadian ilio company,
She looked at hurt•
Year'or about one-third of a pound The Company's Head Office staff Is
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terdayt" I
with a b ✓lance _equal to one farrsized po - now installed in the fine new Sun Life
which plainly Bald: "Duni ti want per day
tato. In some Euro one pounper can countries Building recently erected on Dominion
to know?"—then without gailing for d da per is con- Square, Montreal, where the adoption
a demand that was evidently not sour- y P f of the most up-to-date office equipment ,
lug, rattled on:
"I got a proposal of marriage:
There now! And from a native, too,
—that young man with the red hair,
the ministers son, you know. Never
was so taken aback in my life. IIe
had been very useful all summer" (his
(failure in one of the uses he had been
', put to, that of stirring the present
hearer's jealousy, was necessarily left
unmeetioned)--" and perhaps I had
been a little too imprudently grate-
ful; but how was I to guess that he'd
'take it for anything but gratitude?
When I saw how cut up he was, I felt
dreadfully wicked,—really I did. For
the futur•e I mean to be unapproach-
able to any person under fifty. But,
; all the same, it is rich, isn't it? That
, young man will go far yet."
, Through Ronald's transparent phy- than potatoes, olomargarme and a
siognomy something like the sym-; little fruit. Potatoes contain pro-
pathy of fellow -feeling was looking,' tein of the very best kind. They also
ae though from a window. contain ]mineral salts which neutralize
"By Jove, that's cheek! But, all harmful acids in the body. The food
the same—I'm sorry for the fellow."
"So am I. He's such a queer mix-; material in potatoes is 98 per trent,
iture of sharpness and simplicity.. digestible. lies of
j When I said Aro, he seemed to jump to Canadians have large supe
ithe conclusion that it was his sister's potatoes, carrots, onions and ttirnips
marriage that was putting me of, and by consuming these vegetables
I You have heard about that too, prob-. freely, they can economize with bread.
ably. It's the proper romantic end -i More than 800 ways of cgoking
'4 ing to the boat story." potatoes are known. They combine
Over the feathery edge of her fan well with many flavors. They can be
Mabel's eyes grew keen with the used to economical advantage with
grows, superfluously keen, for the something in
growing agitation was large, meat and fish, in stews, croquettes,
' Yes—I—there was ssomhash, chowders, meat pies, etc. One
the Scotsman about that too; but I half a cup of mashed potatoes and two
wasn't sure whether it wasn't just cups of flour make a bread mixture
talk," that helps the flour go farther,
_..._...a "It's past the stage of talk, by this' Good cooks know the ways of using
, time, quite a properly attested fact; potatoes are various—boiled, steam -
none, XXPI. none, and she had several things to; and it isn't nearly so startling either ed, lyonnaised, baked, chipped, fried,
say to him, That was why she look- as it looks at first sight. The man hashed brown, creamed, escalloped,
Some two wanks or so after the day ed so hard at the door, and also why. is her own cousin after all; and
to which Duncan itdead, nM had rte she had chosen the seat in the room though she swears, more or less, fash stuffed, au gratin, and scores of come
turned as from the dead, Mabel At- which seemed to ensure the most; lendable frocks now, her father be-; binations.
Parisian
attired in a black and scarlet an b working in the quarries just' Canada has plenty of potatoes and,
Parisian "creation;' which admirably privacy. ' the same as his father did. In a way' although the price Is high compared
set off her dark beauty, sat ro a well- The door unci opened, and his eye the marriage is quite suitable; though {o normal times, it !s not high in
appointed lowland drawing -room, ex- caught, it required no more than a in another way it's of coarse a big comparison with other foods in war
changing commonplaces with some' slight suave of her Feather -fan to come -down. Nobody seems pleases
half-dozen other maidens and ma bring him to her side. At dinner al time.
trolls, pendia- the male invasion from, ready she had privately noted that he except
them8inistteou shouldes, ober —O
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Among
dining -room. was not looking as cheerful as the Polenta, an Italian wady of serving
Among the different pairs of eyes' prospect of to -morrow's slaughter; patting the girl a head as approvingly corn -meal, makes aan w a mea} in it -
present, it was Mabel's that turned ought to have made him; and while he ae though she had just finished a Self. Put slices of cold mush n it -
most persistently towards the door„ crossed the room towards her, the dictation
yea suspe ted for some ed ctimectback baking dish, cover with a u of
impression was strengthened. The cupful
just as it was her ears which listened p' that mamma's a fraud. My young sliced onions that have been fried in
most attentively for the ascending observation fixed her determination to
steps. Arrived barely in time for -say what she had to say. I man seems to feel the thing a good ham or bacon fat; over these pour two
deal. He would have felt it more, no' cupfuls of canned tomatoes and cover
the dressing -gong, she had been' Freta few airy generalities, so as doubt, if they had stayed in the coun- all with a cupful of grater cheese;
agreeably surprise to find her sou-• get under weigh, then, upon the. bake until the cheese is melted and
Mil, Ronald Mac rlvra figuringsame tone: try, but he enures me that they won't.
among the actors in to -morrow's' "I'm fresh from Balladrochit, you!Going to decamp to Canada or some_slightly browned,
where. The old father, who would
dl t P ?„ have Y.
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128 and SO pones'° Street, Tornio, Ont.
Money in Maple Sugar.
Maple sugar and syrup is produced
at the time of year when the farmer
ie leaet busy, and it costs him little, if
any, more now than before the ever.
By tapping 100 trees he can sell
500 pounds of sugar or 100 gallons of
syrup, netting from $100 to $150 in
three weeks.
This is more than the soldiers fight-
ing in France gets in thrice the time
and he offers in exchange his life.
Will you who have maple trees not
offer so short a space of your time
to help hilt and to put money in your
pocket as weld?
TYPEWRITERS -VI alga
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Look at these baraatns:--Trcewrlters
Rebuilt, guaranteed to poP$0.0...< order,
front 826.60 to $06.00. Savo thne.'• aney
and trouble and buy a Tysewrite?�• ;';
soured, and in some dlatrlcte our our business, 1>rofessfon, or rot Sou
pounds per day, and nearly twenty- should result in still greater olflciency i some ilea, inn sent free on anmratlon. chance of succeeding in the States,
in the administration of its large bust- pa>RAan srugEWlazrn axpasrvga T both the Maxim and the Lewis
five spit et per year. 1 mess Arta ifIIPPX•le CO, Tet Main 2202 3,4t
Des rte the increase In ]rice since ea St. James at., Montreal, P. glue. guns were taken up by the British,
the war, potatoes are still among the _ - -e eeneen�""'" anci it seems a providential circum -
cheapest of foods. One pound of T:; t, stsn•e, considering what an asset the
roast beef costs ten times as much ` Lew}: gun has been to our men in
as a pound of potatoes, and twenty i i r the trellehes anci tanks, and in the atr,
Per cent. of beef is bone. Three and ( y:�• i R :d t? that B•!tish capital came to Clolonol
potatoes supply
Nt,i :•: zv Lewis' .aid and only some twelve
a third pounds of Pp 5, afore the war broke out.
1,600 calories of energy, at a cost of �t / .' • � months b.
less than 10 cents, while about 2,500 ry fart'., Garman Pre-war Preparations.
calories are required for full grown \�
persons working indoors. That is to �i ' � `i� . After detailing
say, if all foods were as cheap as pota-
toes we could live on 25 cents a day.
Healthy men have lived and worked
for months on a diet of nothing else
CAME TO BRITAIN
COLONIAL LEWIS, INVENTOR O1'
FAMOUS MACHINE-GUN
Has .lust Told a British Government
Committee Some Facts About
His Invention.
When the late Sir Hiram Maxim
showed his gun to the kaiser, that as-
tute monarch patted its barrel, and
said, "'that's the gun!"' And that Buri'
Is not superseded to -day.
But for trench -work, for aeroplanes,
if you ask our boys, they have but one
name to say—"Lewis"---that wonder-
ful little machine gun, manageable by
one man, light, efflcieni, dependable.
Like the Maxim, it is the invention
of an American, Colonel Isaac N.
Lewis. Englishmen are apt to think
that an invention has at least a double
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aura o which the famed peasant Aildlo luaus heard of our latest been the difficult has only a; •
coverts e. B But
leisd were to furnish A: ver sensation, have you not j little bit of tether to run, it seems.' I. . r? 8 a �,•v .ws .til
the scene. But leisure for more than Over the top of her fan, with which it
a paseing greeting there had been she was pretending to shield herself'
vias the shock of losing his son ml the
from the glare of n neighboring lamp, joy of getting him back which is kill
head as to how far exactly that fiirta-; numbers have n
tion in summer had gone, and to -day; hand, from my red-haired swain,'
she meant to know. ' who used it, mind you, as a means of
( persuasion. The workman -brother -
The start of pain he gave, as pal-. in-law wasn't a real objection, he
gable as though the word Ardloch'I argued, since he was ging to vanish
had been the point o£ a sharp knife, from the horizon, That he himself;
could not escape her, nor halting of might be the objection did not seem to
his voice as he said: !have occurred to the innocent youth."',
'You mean about the missing boat-' She paused and again waited, and
man and the search in the loch and this time it was clear that something
then his turning up again? I saw was coming. One little shove more
something about it in the Scotsman. i and reserve would topple over.
It was quite exulting, I assure you, ""Have you ever heard of anything
—quite a story -book sort of affair. So preposterous?" she asked, with an
They were talking of nothing else insinuating trailing of her wards, j
when T got home. Nobody for a mo
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meat believed they'd over see him. if you bad cared for him," stammered
happened t
intent upon the toes of his evening
manage to fight his way to land, he: PumBps.
filet-
head
and If he hadn't
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When my trip heads E.
that way.
The only other time I was so happy, E
Goodness ]snows,
Was when a kid Dad bought me E
Red topped boots with copper a
toes. "—,
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town, ta=
They, too, don't want to roam, ea
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Mabel watched her chasm curiously, ing him, but anyway his days are
For months past, she had puzzled her, d I } all this at
o Ronald,
deep -red red in the face, and very I
be an Al swimmer, they never would.( R P'
Even as it was, and though he did
tit one doesn't care for that sort,
nearly smashed his skull in doing s°'! usually."
being hurled etraight on to the rocks,] One does, Mab— sometimes. That's;
according' helpless
as a
own version. see wed,'' what happened to me. I don't know
like a bunch of sea -weed he lay there
if you guessed•• -
all night, as goad as dead. It was And then the flood -gates burst, and
g the story of. his rejected love poured'
there that a party of poachers found unchecked, though brokenly, from his!
him at break of day—the very same lis With the mere act of speak
wretches. I do believe, who have been ing, his ill-treated young heart grew;
thinning out my grouse lately— lighter. After months of tonguo-
sprawling all over a rock with his tied brooding. merely to put hi'+ sinew-!
legs in the water. Between them, ance into words was to diminish it.
they dragged him off to their lair,-- Sunk among the croft -cushions, with,
sumo cave in the hills, I'm told, where her fan now dropped to her lap,'
they have been housing for weeks Mabel listened in a sort of consterna-
past, to the distraction of my keepers, tion• She had not guessed this. That'
When they'd brlught him round with he had been smitten, she knew, but'
whiekey, he naturally wanted a mes- never in her wildest speculations had
sage sent to Ardloeh; but the her surmises gone as far as an arcual'
amateur• Samaritans quite as natural- proposal of marriage. Her natural
ly objected to the publicity of the arrogance of mind forbade alike the
proceeding. As he was too weak to thought of her cousin stooping so low, I
move immediately, and being, at any as of the minister's daughter net leap- i
rate, on the wrong side of the water, ing at the prize. it the most she theta was, therefoe, nothing for it had concluded that, aware of the
l
' what he
was
but to ]is raw. Thats entanglement, Rnuald had :f]etl from ,
doing that whole first day while they the sphere of. (tenger. It. seemed a'.
were scouring the shore and plumbing suff'ic'ient explanation of his ptecipit-
tho depths. Next day, when the ate retirement; and in her heart ehe
search had moved further down the. had cnnnmratded his prndenra•.
loch, he inane!�ed to crawl forth; but (To be continued.:
It took him the whole day to road .... _
the nearest hon".o, that is Balladrochit, �� I
for his ankle, too, had been ill-treated
by the rocks. There he nearly gave
Alielc the gardener, you know ---a At
by stalking In in the dusk and de-
manding
tho heats
head in(ve erderAtooeon.
i vince him that he wasn't a ghost. And
the ]rest, of enures, wile all tears of
joy,
i oeher(; don'tso .yot,Ithinknite enqu shilling
With ie•o rnment aneoureg,men!..
extensive psi iments will be !nude
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with a view to reviving the glowing
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"My overalls and shirts are the best made, because—
they are roomy And comfortable. I designed them with
the idea that you might waut to stretch your arms and
leg9 occasionally."
Insist on "Bob Long" brand. Ask your dealer for
Big }t—the big grey overalls—the cloth with the test,
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SUN LIFE �:ti, EPS G•
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OWING
HE results of operations for the year 1917 show a continuance
of the notable expansion that has marked the career of the
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. In Assets, Income,
Surplus, New Business, and Total Bushzess in I±orce substantial
increases are recorded over the conesponding figures for previous
years.
RESULTS FOR 1917
Assets at December ?,lst, i917. -
increase
Cash Income
Increase
New Assurances issued and Pahl jar hi Cash
increase
Assnrettces In tierce at becember filet, 1017;
Increase
Proffitt paid or allotted to Peneybelders
Imamate
Profits paid uv allotted to golioytolders, in }met five yearn.
'total payments to rollcyholders, 1017
t4o:wi e l PojicylOd a since organization - , moots
AEseta bald Ha 'oiler 026612 90,100f0,,170 0g p
b.�tv:mlmnaiocri7odalnoaotganfrnttmt _-�6s.�8 ,'1/41
1epree:ad to f ate oldors Oa Assets held krt them exceed
tis loins nreetven f• , • • • $6,893.204
Undivided surplus at December 31st', 11117, ores aTl ltabllkiea $8 Ei50,781.A0
intitutdng capttal • • • •
• 111E COMPANY'S GROWTH
•
- $00'100,174,000
iD,28ettae n to
47,811,597.00
6SpoOM 270,00
• 8i tranitle 2•G� U
. . 1'8'04,A8 .60o
8,22t,Dee.08
aset9,2-13.00
The Company takes this opportunity of thanking its paliepboiders and the public
generally for the continued confidence and goodwill of which the glove figures
give each strong evidence.
UNs
CONAIn 0
1871 HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL
T. B. MACAUI.AY, President
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his failure even to
give his gun to the American Govern-
ment, the colonel told the U.S.A. Mili-
tary Affairs Committee:
"I went over to Brussels in 191'2,
but I soon Pound out khat my Brlgian
company Was in the lands of the Ger-
mane. My President; and managfng-
direetor worn both ululer Garman tu-
fluence, My company -teas about to
pder man r. suc-
ceedassed,unby theGerhelp of mconty olloyaIl Bel-
gian associates, in ousting our preen
dent and managing -director,
Wouldn't Rave It as a Gift.
"I went to London," he contimeel,
"to the Birmingham Small Arms O nx-
pany. I did not }mow anybody cen-
nected with the company, but I masts
an appointment to go there with the
gun. In forty-eight hours I had clos-
ed a contract for the exclusive manu-
facture of the Lewis gun in Europe.
They are delivering guns every week
into the British forces."
In writing to the Secretary of War
at Washington, under date December
11th, 1917, the colonel has some very
interesting information to give. IIe
says:
"The Lewis glut is no longer a new
and untried weapon. It has success-
fully met every military requirement,
under a grilling test of more than
three years of daily service on the bat-
tlefields of Europe during thy greatest
war in history."
The colonel's story of how his own
Government turned his gun down is
remarkable:
"As early as 1911, when the first
model of the Lewis gun was built, I
took it myself to Washington and pre-
sented it in person to the Chief of the
Stan, requesting 'him to examine it."
He goes on to tell how his offer was
ignored again and again, how, when
he wrote as lately ae December, 1917,
to the Secretary of War, renewing his
offer, and asserting his willingness to
relinquish royalties aggregating two
and a quarter million dollars on forty
thousand guns already under contract
for the Government, no reply was
vouchsafed. Asked why he wished to
make these great sacrifices, Colonel
Lewis said:
For His Country.
"I gut ray education at the Govern-
ment expense. I developed my gun
under very discouraging circum-
stances. I was a poor man with a
large family. But there is a deeper
question, a far deeper question. This
country is facing the struggle of ite
life, Are we to be a vassal nation or
a sovereign nation? That is in the
balance to -day."
PURPLE AND FINE LINEN.
The 'tastes of Ruling Monarchs Differ
Greatly in Matter of Dress.
Before the war the kaiser was in
the habit of changing his clothes at
least half a dozen times a day. IIe
was required to be a sort of royal
I quick -change artist, for he is too much
conceited and too jealous of his im-
perial dignity to appear at any func-
tion improperly arrayed according to
his idea of what impropriety moans.
Many of his uniforms cannot be made
and trimmed under $1,500.
i
His frau, the emprose, is still more
extravagant --or, at least, she was be-
fore the war, In the days of her
greatest glory she swore silks and sat-
ins costing $50 a yard, and wore a
j Court dross usually only once, and
' never more than twice,
I Our own Queen, as everybody
Iutowr, is very simple in her taste in
attire, encs except on some very great
state occasion her stress differs little
n-
i+ 1 middle-
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or nothing from that of he laid
!clads eubjects.
!George the Fourth's wardrobe fetch -
ed $80,000 after itis death. Yet he re-
'collect.ed every article in his wardrobe.
Had he had as good a memory for his
ebligat.ione he would have been a de -
mit citizen, So much ler the so-call-
ed First Gentleman of Europe. The
' entailed: between the Fourth and D'iftlt
George e:mild scarcely be more ruarloi,
or of better augury for the At,otr'a,
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The Company takes this opportunity of thanking its paliepboiders and the public
generally for the continued confidence and goodwill of which the glove figures
give each strong evidence.
UNs
CONAIn 0
1871 HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL
T. B. MACAUI.AY, President
I.r)x7
his failure even to
give his gun to the American Govern-
ment, the colonel told the U.S.A. Mili-
tary Affairs Committee:
"I went over to Brussels in 191'2,
but I soon Pound out khat my Brlgian
company Was in the lands of the Ger-
mane. My President; and managfng-
direetor worn both ululer Garman tu-
fluence, My company -teas about to
pder man r. suc-
ceedassed,unby theGerhelp of mconty olloyaIl Bel-
gian associates, in ousting our preen
dent and managing -director,
Wouldn't Rave It as a Gift.
"I went to London," he contimeel,
"to the Birmingham Small Arms O nx-
pany. I did not }mow anybody cen-
nected with the company, but I masts
an appointment to go there with the
gun. In forty-eight hours I had clos-
ed a contract for the exclusive manu-
facture of the Lewis gun in Europe.
They are delivering guns every week
into the British forces."
In writing to the Secretary of War
at Washington, under date December
11th, 1917, the colonel has some very
interesting information to give. IIe
says:
"The Lewis glut is no longer a new
and untried weapon. It has success-
fully met every military requirement,
under a grilling test of more than
three years of daily service on the bat-
tlefields of Europe during thy greatest
war in history."
The colonel's story of how his own
Government turned his gun down is
remarkable:
"As early as 1911, when the first
model of the Lewis gun was built, I
took it myself to Washington and pre-
sented it in person to the Chief of the
Stan, requesting 'him to examine it."
He goes on to tell how his offer was
ignored again and again, how, when
he wrote as lately ae December, 1917,
to the Secretary of War, renewing his
offer, and asserting his willingness to
relinquish royalties aggregating two
and a quarter million dollars on forty
thousand guns already under contract
for the Government, no reply was
vouchsafed. Asked why he wished to
make these great sacrifices, Colonel
Lewis said:
For His Country.
"I gut ray education at the Govern-
ment expense. I developed my gun
under very discouraging circum-
stances. I was a poor man with a
large family. But there is a deeper
question, a far deeper question. This
country is facing the struggle of ite
life, Are we to be a vassal nation or
a sovereign nation? That is in the
balance to -day."
PURPLE AND FINE LINEN.
The 'tastes of Ruling Monarchs Differ
Greatly in Matter of Dress.
Before the war the kaiser was in
the habit of changing his clothes at
least half a dozen times a day. IIe
was required to be a sort of royal
I quick -change artist, for he is too much
conceited and too jealous of his im-
perial dignity to appear at any func-
tion improperly arrayed according to
his idea of what impropriety moans.
Many of his uniforms cannot be made
and trimmed under $1,500.
i
His frau, the emprose, is still more
extravagant --or, at least, she was be-
fore the war, In the days of her
greatest glory she swore silks and sat-
ins costing $50 a yard, and wore a
j Court dross usually only once, and
' never more than twice,
I Our own Queen, as everybody
Iutowr, is very simple in her taste in
attire, encs except on some very great
state occasion her stress differs little
n-
i+ 1 middle-
:
l
or nothing from that of he laid
!clads eubjects.
!George the Fourth's wardrobe fetch -
ed $80,000 after itis death. Yet he re-
'collect.ed every article in his wardrobe.
Had he had as good a memory for his
ebligat.ione he would have been a de -
mit citizen, So much ler the so-call-
ed First Gentleman of Europe. The
' entailed: between the Fourth and D'iftlt
George e:mild scarcely be more ruarloi,
or of better augury for the At,otr'a,