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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1921-7-28, Page 7"EC6NONIY IN THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD HARD TIMES ARE LOT OI ALL CLASSES. Even Royalty is Feeling the Pinch and Economy is the Watchword. The King, like meet of his. subjects, is feeling the effector ltirih prices and high taxation, It Ls stating but nhnple feet to any that very hard times are being .experienced today among members of the Royal family, writes :a retiredmember of the Royal hr,nve• holt;, The Income received by hie Majesty from the $tato is $2,550,000 per an num. This may appear to be a big income, but the calls on it are enor- mous' Only a amen fraction of it— about $125,000—ever at any time Oras roa01100 the Kluges 'private beerking account. To -day not a pony reaches it, On the contrary, the King has to supplement the income lie receives from the State out of his private re- scurces, in circler to matte it meet ex- penees whiete itis quite impossiblo for the Kingto cut down, ` • Appointed for Life. The Khig, for example, cannot dis- miss any official or servant ia the Royal employ. Anybody employed in the Royal Household holds. what, is tantamount to a permanent Govern- ment appointment, and never can be dismissed without being fully pension- ed, or being puid an ample sum of Money to eontpeneate for dismissal. There are 150 men and maid ser- vants, in the Royal employ. With the exceptionof the chief chef, the King'a valet, tee Housekeeper, and 'a few others, all the servants in the Royal employ Veceevo an allowance for board. The "board" allowance in pre-war dere paid to mole servant was 37.50 a week. Today the aflowanee amounts to $17.50 per week, which means ae in- oreave in the expenses of the Royal establishment of about 51,800 per week (estimating that 130 servants aro paid the increased allowances for board) or $65,000 per annum. no money paid under different con- tracts for the laundry work at all the Royal recldences amounted in Juno. 1014, to $25,000 per annum. The amount paid ander contracts now exceeds 356,000 per annum, The increases in servants' wages (apart from the increase in board- allowaueee) and .Ln salaries since 1914 amount to (testily 3100,000 per annum. Out of His Private Funds. Other increases in the expenses of the Royal establishment, such es the increase in the cost of coal and light- ing ehurges, amount at least to 525,000 per annum. To say that the running expenses of the "twat establishment have Increased by 3250,000 per annum since 1914 Is probably an underesti- mate of the fact. But taking the figure as being cor- rect, the King would have to .find at least 3125,000 out of his private ine come to meet expenses that his Majesty menet possibly cut down in any way. On the King's accession to the Thrcne, when Parliament fixed the. ear, rue allowances to be paid to his ltlejesty at 32,350,000 per annum, it was estimated that, after meeting allI the expenses of the ltoyal establish - inane including the cost of entertain tnenti, there would be a earn of about $115,000 left for the personal expenses r,f hii Majesty, such as-dress•bille for hiineelf and members, of the Royal L'ast'ly, travelling expenses, costs of new motor -cars, etc., etc. Today the increase In expenses of the ltoyal establishment not only wileu out this sum of 5125,000, but necessitates hie Majesty having to find a sun; of 5125,000 per annum out of O:lc awn pocicet to meet the currant °epons;s of the ltoyal household. To do this,the Icing and Queen have been obliged to make the most drastic economies in their present expendi- ture, In 1914 Queen Mary's expends-' tune cu drees amounted, roughly speaking, to 54,000 per annum, and her Majesty was certainly one of the most eeonotrecally-attired of Queens in Europe, even then. The -Queen's 'Dress Bills. To -day her ;Majesty's dress -bills amount to less than 53,500, which means' .an expenditure at ,about 31,000 per annum io pre war days. Hoe Ala- jos'ty's' State gowns cost at least 3600, so brat on her .ordinary attire tee Qaeedl at the n,nment Is not spondete 111010 titan' $5011 )eel' an'eunt.at Weever ilgtaretr. The way in which the Queen keeps• (irwn her dress-bille to so low a figure is by having hes' pre-war dresses al- tered, and In came eare,S, even (Vol, to avoid the mime. of buying new gowns.. The u^lry and the King have era( ! .e.1 eiet.1.1 e• emu• mics as rogerd to liar ,• r!„th '• The Prhu.t ce Mary Les eedc rr1 but six new dles.ee, ;Mien tiro Arne rice, The Bing 'has macre$ no 'new clothes' Mace then. Hie Majesty had a tolerably full wardrobe et the out- break of war, and as he lived mainly in khaki throughout the war, he is even yet, fairly w.oll euppliod with 01 Mlles. Over their personal .expenditure their Majastles have• Lo consider every item very carefully, The be'eakfaet, l+etneh, and dinner menu& at' Die Royal table have been rigorously cut down. Iry pre-war days the dinner menu at Buckingham Palace never: contained less than the names of twelve dishes, Today it never coutatns more than tour, except when their Me-feet/lee en. tertain, The breakfast menu that used. to contain at least six items in pre-war dayse now never contatineemore than teee. The King's usual breakfast le boiled haddcclt, fruit, and a glass of water. Iiis Majesty in pre-war days used to drink Russian tea at breakfast, -the cost of which was three dollars, a pound. Russian tea being now unobtain• able, hie Majesty drinks water at breakfast. The King and Queen, when twee hag, rarely nowadays order a spebial train, the cost of which is at least treble what it was in pre-war days: Must railway compaafes supply the King and Queen wtb a specs; Royal saloon earriage (which is paid for), but when their Mafestiee travel flows. - days the saloon is simply attached to an ordinary, train. Much to their regret, the King and Queen have been compelled to cut down the coneiderable sums, they leave been accustomed to give to charity. Their regular subscriptions they have not reduced at all, but the large sum that boot bee King and Queen used to give away 'in 'stray and casual gifts has beers reduced. No Royal Visits. In one way, however, the war has benefitted King George financially to some little degree. It has practically freed him from the expense of having at least once a year to -entertain some great European monarch. The war has resulted in the downfall and dis- appearattce of the chief European sovereigns;so that there are few to entertain. This tact also saves King George the expense of having to visit, from time to time, some great brother monarch, The visit of a reigning monarch to England used to cost his Majesty at least 550,000. The actual cost of a visit to the Eng- lish Court of a great monarch was far more. But a special giant ;sed to be made to the King to cover the ex- panses of such a visit, Tho grant, However, never covered the total cost of it. Then King George haat to pay all the expenses of the visit when he and the Queen visited a foreign mon- arch, which never was lase than $25,- 000. To -day Icing George simply could net afford to entertain, or bo enter- tained bya great European monaaeb. The richest member of the Royal Family today Is the Prince of Wales; but if, anti when, his Royal Highness marries, be will have to spend thous- ands in cettirg up his establishment, and he Is compelled, therefore, to save fn 11e0 of this prospect. And to save is neat an easy thing to do under pre- sent conditions for the Heir -apparent. e The Richest Royalty. The Prince's tours coat elm far more than the suns voted by Parlia- ment for those purposes. The visit of hie Rayal Highness to Canada and the United' States cost him at least $50,- 000 more than wile allewed• for the v',.?t by Parliament. The poorest member of the Royal Family to -day is Queen Alexandra. Her Majesty's allowance from the State is' 3350,000 per Annum, but that faits far below what it acets her Majesty to maintain, Mallboraugh House and Sandringham. Queen Alexandra to- day Is only just able, although living If the neighbors were to return al I the groceriee they have borrowed, UniversityExPp ansion., 7 incomparative retirement, to make both ends meet, and that elle could not do but for ler private resources, which are by no means Targe, Frenchman Claims to Make Steel in Five Hours. A French Inventor claims to have discovered a process of converting iron directly into steel, eliminating the expensive pig iron process . Thie has Ingbeen the dream of experts. A, re- duction of iron oxide is effected by us- ing en exactly predetermined amount of carbon. This takes place in a cham- ber having a high temperature into which is blown powdered carbon, and air previously raised to a temperature between 700 and 1,000 deg. F, The carbon is Introduced in amounts suf- ficient to produce only oxide of carbon in burning Per the heated air, but the heat thus emitted is nevertheless ex- treme, and 'assures the rapid and al- most complete reduction of the miner- al with the' production of steel direct. By this system there is realized In five hours' operation what takes six times as long in a blast furnace where there are mixed alternate layers of oxide, iron, and cope,` An Important bearing on French military strength is seen, as the process utilizes a low grade of coal, of which France has en abund- ance, eliminating coke altogether, and the necessity for the importation of the same. Further instructions. An old man went to the doctor for a prescription for an ailment from which he suffered. The aoctor made up a prescription and gave it to him. The next day, However, found the old man back at the doctor's surgery. "How do you feel now?” the doctor asked. "Just about the same, sir," answered the old man. "Did you have the pills made from the proscription I gave you?" "Yes, sir," "And did you take them?" "No. sir." "But why not?" "Because, doctor, the label on the box said, 'Take one pill three times a day.' Well, I couldn't understand how I was going to take one pill more than 1 once, so I've come back for further in- structions." Canada's Grand OId Man. Lord Mount Stephen, the Grand 010 elan of Canada, is ninety-two. At pre- eert he is living In Hertfordshire. The voteram peer is in excellent health, and still follows events with keen interest. He is a wealthy man and has had a romantic caareer, The aaout of a email farmer in Banffshire, George Stephen emigrated to Canada in 1850, when he was twenty-one years old. Ho may be said to have been the "mile begetter" of the prosperity of that great Cauadian institutiou, the Bank of Montreal, of which, from be- ing a director and vice-president, he rose to be president For years he supervised the management of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Wanted to Know. John pie—" AIo titer!" "What is it, Johnnie?" "When a shoe is run down, does the shoemaker have to look at Its tongue?" To prove the immense penetrating powers of X-rays, M. Contremaulin, before the French Academy of Sciences, produced photographs of hu- man bones which were taken across a courtyard two hundred and fifty feet broad and through a thick brick wall. HIND l t1>=a�oTfi Acte. 7644' I HADPPA `t go -to -nit✓ De2r-Vrisrsi leg Tenders for a new Anatomy Build- ing for the University of Toront" will be advertised within a few days. This is the building stipulated by the Rockefeller Foundation as n condition necessary to the granting of the en- dowment of one million dollars for research in Medicine in the Provincial 'University. During the recent ses- sion of the Legislature there was a good deal of doubt whether the mil- lion dollar endowment could be se- cured but, ecured'but, recognizing the need for every dollar that can be obtained for the University, the Government gave its promise that the Anatomy Building would at once be proceeded with. On the strength of this prom- ise, the Rockefeller foundation has forwarded the first quarter's instal- ment of the annual interest of $50,000, This money is to he used for the furtherance of medical knowledge and for this purpose only. With this ad- ditional income, and a new building which has been urgently needed for years, the University of Toronto will be better equipped to produce the best physicians and surgeons that can be had. Because it is a question of the lives of the people of the country no legitimate expense can be spared in providing for medical education. This Rockefeller endowment puts the Faculty of Medicine of the Pro- vincial University on a satisfactory basis, but other faculties and depart- ments are still struggling to do their work on a totally inadequate revenue. 1f, at the next session of the Legis- lature, the Ontario Government adopts the Report of the Royal Commission on University Finances, the present deplorable condition of affairs can be remedied and the University of To- ronto will be in a position to serve the Province as should and as it is tanxious to do. The present necessity (for standing still as far as new de- velopments are concerned is injurious both to the University and to the Province. Marvels of Water Pressure. An accident unlike anything else in Nature can and often does happen to fish which live in the depths of the ocean. Down there, at 2,500 fathoms depth, the pressure is about two and a half tons to the square Inch, Every living creature to bearing upon Its body a pressure equalling about two hundred tons. It is a pressure so great that It will twist copper like paper, and grind glass to line powder. If .these deep-sea fish, in following their prey, or for any other reason, come tae near the top their swimming gaise9 expand, and they carter central themselves. They rise to the region of white cape and billows, being killed by the great cbange iu the conditions.; surrounding them, Often deep-sea fish are found float -1 ing dead on the surface of the ocean. Dreams Brought Them Fame Y . It is no of the tnyseu"tes of eleai) that under its magic influenee leen aro seenct'ntecs ino'pirc1 to do things which are impossible in their wakeful mala Lute, Robert Louis Stav r cyst, the famine novel ;t, 014 net, c unee1l the feet that mere b, p"retien cane to hire during 1.11 ?ewe cf-slumber. "The Ijfao"n`ry he fed& "117) halt' any wurht dieing bleep. I have al wove been a greet (Gc nrcl, , a.n 1 meee or m}' xpee.1113. 1(10: 111 en hrrriblt iii,c;11111111704. 1.31,(31%,,,,n4 l hey., omelet-alaill 3,1'(1' the fi.n rl (1te-e, end reed more 03(n1lariat bu<:.:ca than could be I.;nl e el any library. Of (o'er i (e ar.e. -Ruble Khan" the fulloe ing strange story is told. The peat lard Pollen ,teleep in hie chair af- to read;:19 the following lints in Pur Chas's, "Pilgrimage": "Here the Khan Nubia cclnmanded a palace to be built and a , tat.aly garden thereunto; and thus ten tulles at fertile ground were ene10eed in a wall," "Iu my sleep," he said, "X dreamed two hundred lines of beent(ful poetry. The images' rose up before me without any sensation or consciousnese on my part. When I.aevoke the lines were vivid In my memory, and I began to write them," Aa Lllluck would have it, however, a friend coiled to see him before He had completed his task; and when, an hour later, he sat down to continue his• work his memory was a blank. Iiis wonderful dream -poem was thus lost to the world. Dr, Anna ICiegstord, a well-known - writer of a generation ago, declared that almost every lino Klee published lead conte to her during alee¢l, Or :one of her bucks ohm wrote, "These ehroniclos' are act the result of any conedans effort of imaghiatien, 'rimy ere I eeords of dreams occurring et in- tervals 4uriee the last few years," earl( ed'ly enough, these dreams never 1111111, to her in her own home, 1,pt elwuye endue, her traveis.on tine 1 cntinent. It w s 10 dreams that the world clue l3tnte's immortal "melee Comm dy Veltalr(;'s "Henrladc," which oe.- eurra'd to me In eplte el meet le and in which 1 had no part"; and part at , least of (;;reprep', eleociifel'se 'Warn- ing," o But the most remarkable of these stories of dreamrfnspiratlon be that of Tartars world-fnmuus "Devil's Sona, (5." I "One night I dreamt that 1 met the Devil," said the composer, "1 banded myviolin to him and, asked him to play a solo on 1t. He took the instru. ment`end began to play music of such I wonderful, unearthly beauty that I was eutrauced. When tee music 1 ceased I awoke, lumped out of bed, and reproduced it 1131 accurately as 3 could;' But such stories might be multiplied almost indefinitely—from that of the Bristol mechanic who dreamt that it was raining shot, end thus discovered the secret of making pellets by pour- ing molten lead from; a height, to the late Mr. S. R. Crockett, who once re. calved payment for a story 'which he had not only written but posted in his sleep. "Waking" Motor Car Travels Slippery Roads. A true non -skidding motor car bas been evolved by a Czeoho-Slovakian inventor in which the driving mem- bers are feet and legs instead of wheels; and which propels Itself by a heel -and -toe walking action. The four legs of tate odd cantrivanee are at- tached to the throws of a crankshaft in such a way that as it revolves they are first lifted, thou carried forward and lowered, and again Carried back. ward. Another part oauses them to rock backward at the top as they des- cend, whittle brings the heel of the foot in contact with the ground first. As the shaft continues to turn, the heel gives a backward shoving pulse and rises, The toe then comes into contact and imparts a shove. The throws of the erankehaft are so spaced that the eight heels and toes follow each other with; their impulses In rapid succession one at exactly equal intervals Tavern Signs of London Honor Notables. The .personal element in tavern segue is abundantly illustrated in Lon- don, England, remarks The Manches- ter Guardian: A few years ago an analysis of the names of public houses published In Kelly's Directory showed that all the most famous British kings and queens can be found on the list, in addition to fifty-two King's Arms, thirty-five King's Heads; sixteen Queen's Arms and thirty-seven Queen's Heade. Nineteen inns take as their patron the Duke of Wellington and seventeen Lord Nelsen. A Catho- lic national portrait gallery could, in- deed, be brought together from the London sign -boards, It would find mon far Nell Gwynne as well as Bish- op Bonner, for Lord John Russell as well as Cardinal Wolsey, for Captain Cook as well as Robin Hood, and for Sir Isaac Newton as well Ile Thomas Becket. Perhaps the most interesting of all the historical associations 1 a T — the reminder, in the name of Peter Paying Rent With Pepper. The Prince of Wailes, paying a visit to his Duchy of Cornwall recently, had a line reception, One of the most interesting parte of his journey camp when he sampled a number of ancient customs, that are stili preserved in the West. In many country districts the courts of the lords of the manor retain use ages that once had a clear meaning, but have now become odd survivals. Hampstead, where Sir Richard had a Cornwall anti Devonshire are not be- cottage—and one after Sir Walter 1 bindhand in keeping up these quaint Scott Literature Is further repro 1 Proceedings, (tented in a Comes, a Robinson Crusoe, ' Thus, the Prince received at Launcese a Sir ,Iohn Falstaff and a Vicar of ton, in consideration of certain ancient Wakefield. priv(legee granted to temente, a siver $eel , a hundred shillings, and apound n .......... ... ..o ,,.ate,. Czar's apprenticeship in a Thames shipyard. The mast surprising discovery is of the part English literature has played in suggesting names for London tav- erns. Pave aro called after Ben John sou, ono after Macauley, one after Mil -1 ton, one after Robert Burns, six after Shakespeare, one after Sir Richard Steele—an In an He tock Hill Balancing With Snails. A snail that is placed on au Inclined plume always crawls toward the high- est part. Georges Dombreval, the French aviator, ince placed on the up- per plane of his airplane eighty-eight pounds of snails, two-thirds of which' were the large snow snails of Bour- gogne. After rising to a height of per- haps fifteen hundred feet he was able to take his hands off the controls for the rest of the two hours et flight. Whenever the machine dipped, either laterally or longitudinally, the snails moved in a moss toward, the upper part of the plane and r -established the equilibrium. of black pepper; a pair of greyhounds, Measuring the Sky -Line, a pair of blit spurs, one pound of cum- Ualees you know the way to esti- In, (old a six -pronged ancient seinen mate the distance of the horizon, you spear—which was offered to him, are liable to make some very incor- wdth a bundle of wood carried on the root guesses. shoulder, by, a tenant ninety years old, A good rule for calculating the ells- s To each of these conformers to an- tante 18 to take the square root of e dent custom the Prince handed a your height in feet above sea level, white wand. and add a quarter to the resnit. This gives the distance almost exactly in 1 Why Canada Wilt 5uppert Armenian Orphamts, Riflowing etatemts axil ;nadn Miea byy Revle, tol, W. Pierce, a Caonnadia, aionary, who was in Turkey iturinl?', rho il "Fwaor flvo hundred years, Annelle' has consistently sustained her 0h13is+ ttan faith in (Inc midst of n fianatical Moslem gieo'plo. Periodical outthrenks of measner° have occurred throughout that time with the over repeated. de- mand that Ar-ucnl:t renounce Mirk. tiallity N:4 the price of her freedom, , I went through the nlaeeecree of 1015 rnyaelf, and saw how thousands of,: people remained 'faithful unto death,', "In my 03111 community, I heard our Protestant pastor demand of his peo- pie to Tay clown any arms that they possessed and to trust to God for their help. Manny did it --some . did not, The number of :eases is' surprisingly large where God did take ears of in- dividual families and caved them, "When I•was leaving Armenia et a farewell meeting (held in secret) tiro leader said: 'Go home and tell your people' that A'rrnenia has but two frionds—God in Heaven end the Olkris- tian Missionary on eaarth,' "The despair of Armenia is pecue liar at the present moment, Sho has no Government. The elow working out of international polities hap' MO her now (after two years) withonii political protection. The remnant of the people live in $;ally feat' end can, not possibly settle down to the peace- ful pursuits of life that alone can lead to self-support. The situation of ma , - arty arty in Armenia has never been so bad since the end of the war, "Ninety .per cent, of the bread win- ners have been massacred, leaving 260,000 orphans and thousands of widows upon our hands for support, "They are turning away hundreds and thousands of orphans of the mas- sacres to perish because there is not bread enough in the orphanages to supply then, Let no one doubt the extreme statements that are tieing made about Armenia's agony, I have' witnessed it with my own eyes, enc#' it is in no way to be discounted. "Nothing short of the combined ef- forts of the united Christian peoples of the earth can alleviate this situs• tion during the next few years and especially nea, "The actual work of our Relief in Armenia is organized largely by the help of Ohristian Missionaries of all denominations, whc are administering food and clothes, wisely, sympatheti- cally, and with the end of that relief serving the Cause of Our Master. "As for the Turks --they are report- ed to have entertained some of the distinguished prisoners in their capi- tal city according to the highest stan- dards of military etiquette -u .1 luxury, even offering to rat at the'r disposal a 'harem of Circassian bcaaotie;,' The Turk is quite subtle enough to treat oven his enemies with the (meet catty» tesy when it pays. "But what of the men of the rank and file? Into the city of Tarsus the Turks brought 250 of our L11ili3h Tcm- mies, the defenders of Kat, warn one with the brutalizing they had rereived at the hands of their cantors. They. were turned over to the American, Mission because of their weakened' physical condition. They had received treatment not unlike that which had been administered to the Armenians. Inside of one month o •u hundred and thirty of the ten hundred and fifty were dead. "Shall I ever forget tli•ei day in the city of Beirut when a little group of us stood (11 tie sidew:ali: and 1catrh- ed the hurrelati::g sl.e:enele of car British Tomnive and i,or s of their, officers perm!, a up a.c, l d.:ctr the treats of (Le "city a., .u.,",-ls cf Meals menaiseric, are tee street errh.e ns following after them. "Let no one tome:rate the Turk by: French Land -and -Water ordinary Land milen: Thus• at nine feet above sea level, Ship. you could see three plus three-civar- The hippopotamus is now rivaled by tors ---a distance of three and three - an amphibious tank that travels equal- quarter miles. ly well by Iand and water. It le a tank At e. height of twenty-five feet the only in the sense that it originated in horizon will be distant from you five the fighting tenlm of the war, for it is, plus one and a quarter (six and a quer- as a matter of fact, a passenger ve- ter miles). At one hundred feet above n hide. When ashore, it travels on end- sea level, the distance seen will be b less-trete$ wheels, and looks like a twelve and a quarter miles, motor bus; when atioat, it 4s propelled Sitting in a rowing boat, your eves i and acts like a launch. 1t le the !Wren- are only a few feet above the water, tion of a Frenchman, and was recent and less than two miles of water will ly tested, carrying six passengers, in be within your range of vision, Marseilles, the great Mediterranean port, The French got around the dif- ficultyof giving it an appropriate ap- pellation ey calling it a land -and -water enemy who keeps you anxious to make ship, no mistakes. tiraly repudiates such an attempt. "I a111 mere 50,1 ne re convinced that he world has no me Irate idea of chat has hie i cerain Armen?a dur- ng these pout few years cr we would all be mare interee1'-1 in the situa- tion. What a pity it :s that in the curse of world polities the Turk Has• ever received what lie has merited y way cf suppression. Ile is utterly nfii: to govern anyone. The Armen - an race is not perfect by any mesas, but on the whole, I Baer; a deep res- pect for them, and I believe that yet they will arise from the wreckage of, their devastated land and play a strong part in the development of Asia Minor. • "The Armenians were owe Allies in the world war, and sacrificed even. a greater proportion of their men to the common cause than did any other na- tion." $t30 per year will save an Armenian; orphan from starvation, Send con- tributions to Mr. D. A. Canieron'y! Treasurer, Toronto Manager, 21)$i Canadian Bank of Conuneroe, i3 •i otreet West, Toronto. Not Safe, Brieldayer--"Opit we eau't Wro you a-blowln' teat trumpet rotund 'ciao Boy Scout—"WOtg?" Bricklayer --"'Tal. t settee -yoke know woat'append to the wane Of Jesslande! don't yerl" REGLAR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes DOES -CH loom situ_ Molle? c • ar Luatlt,, : •, M �nl 1 DONT' KN oW CFiE c'Eilvts iepr tr! •v 1y1� Y.L` t; ice Dream Beeson, He treated her With coednese But she didn't mind a bit) He treated her eeith coldness— Some 800011. plates of it. ,,1•:ulify is s. ±sensitive guest; no h,:; .'i . •.., well to be expected end