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THAT'S WHY MR. J. JOHNSTON
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Listowel, Ont., May 3. -,(Special) -
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resident in this locality. "My neigh-
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Dodd's Kidney Pills are just a kid-
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KING OF SIAM, LAST OF ABSO-
LUTE MONARCHS
It has been sugges' d by a cor-
respondent that the vis of the King
and Queen of Siam w ld make it a
graceful and timely act on the part
of this writer to devote a column to
the Siamese twins. We don't think it
woulid be very nice. By an associa-
tion of ideas which may or may not
be plain the proposal reminds us of
a talk between two of George Eliot's
characters. They were wrangling a-
bout women, whom one held to be
stupid, The other replied that if they
were, God made them so to match
the men. "They match the men," said
the victor in this repartee "as the
horse fly matches the horse." It seems
to us that it would be more appropri-
ate on the occasion of the royal visit
to write something about the King
and Queen and about Siam itself. Per-
haps the most interesting, and at the
same time most unpleasant, thing to
be said about them is that His Maj-
esty is visiting the American contin-
ent to take medical advice or treat-
ment at the Johns Hopkins Hospital,
an intimation that the healing science
in Siam has not attained its full sta-
ture.
The King is perhaps the only im-
portant absolute monarch left in the
world. It is true that the King of
Abyssinia and the ruler of Afghan-
istan are absolute monarchs, but their
kingdoms are relatively small, pri n-
itive and unimportant. Siam has a
population of 12,000,000 but whether
the twins count as one or two we do
not know. In a sense it is a back-
ward country, but in the past two or
three generations has made remark-
able progress in the adoption of
western methods. It is a. free coun-
try, despite the absolute authority of
the King, and a \happy country. An-
other important thing about it is that
it is a tropical country, and one may
doubt if our civilization will ever be
•t
rice, and it is the best rice in the
world. We regret that we have heard
lately -and we hope that His Majesty
will take no offence -that the quality
of the rice has deteriorated, that
cheaper rice has been mixed with the
superior quality in an effort to get
even with the importers who have of-
fered lower prices to the growers.
King Prajadhipok, or, to give him
his full title, Prabat Somdet Pra
Paramindr Mahe Prajadhipok Pra
Pok Klao Chao Yu Hua, pronounced
Praehatapok, with the, accent on the
second syllable, and who will be
spoken of hereafter more compactly
as the King, was educated at Eton,
and saw military service in both the
French and British armies. Siam, it
ought to be remembered, especially
when there is any boasting on the
part of our neighbors to the south,
also fought in the World War on the
side of the Allies, though what Siam
ever owed to France except black
looks we ,do not know. The truth is
that not so many years ago France,
desiring .to expand her Indo-China
colony, which is next door to Siam,
picked a quarrel with the little coun-
try and seemed to be on the point of
overrunning her. But Great Britain,
which happens to be a neighbor on
the other side, thought it advisable
that Siam should be maintained as a
buffer state. So France was persuad-
ed to be satisfied with grabbing a
substantial slice of Siamese territory.
The treaty which•composed the dif-
ficulty guaranteed the future inde-
pendence of Siam, and may have been
responsible for her declaration of
war against Germany, which amount-
ed to little more than a formal break-
ing -off relations. The blow struck by
France had the effect of rousing the
Siamese people, or rather the aristo-
cratic and. office holding classes, to
the necessity of increasing their mil-
itary and economic strength. It was
the father of the present King who
led the march 'toward progress. Slav-
erywas abolished and a proper sys-
tem of tax levying was adopted. Ex-
perts for many services were import-
ed from Europe and also from the
United States. Railroads were laid
out; the educational system was im-
proved, and large sanitary engineer-
ing works put under way. Finally a
regular army was created, based on
the system of universal conscription
to which prince and peasant were eq-
ually subject. When the King died
the work was continued, but not with
the happiest results, by his eldest son
who was deceived by dishonest or in-
competent officials. The present King
has won great praise from foreign
observers by the wisdom and industry
with which the reform program has
been carried forward.
The Siamese are essentially a con-
servatiive, ancestor -worshipping peo-
ple, and that is one of the reasons
they are perfectly content with their
absolute monarchy. They reverence
their King not only as the secular
head of the state but as the defender
of their faith, which is Buddhist.
He is a demi-god in their eyes, and
it was because of this that his father
and grandfather were able to put into
effect refo'rms which deprived some
of the most aristocratic and powerful
of their subjects of lucrative offices.
There was no talk •of revolt. All sub-
mitted as to a decree from on high.
If there is anything particularly
wrong with Siam it is the absence of
a middle class, a bourgeoise. There
wholly adopted. Its chief export is are plenty of aristocrats who consti-
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country with the nee. sand*on, anti,.
there are plenty' POW* ePltivat'`,
ing rice • by the e'ame method's they
employed hundreds of year& ago. But
since the arrangement 'seems to have
lasted for at ;least a thousand years,'
one can discern a certain element of
permanence in it.
LAST OF THE WENDELS PASSES
TO THE SHADES
j4Iiss Ella Wendel, one of, the larg-
est property owners of New York,
and one of its most eccentric citizens,
is dead. It is supposed that she left
an estate of $100,000,000 nearly all of
which will go to charities. There is
no next of kin surviving unless they
may turn up among the relatives of
the late Prof. Luther Swope, a bro-
ther-in-law, who died several years
ago. Miss Ella was 80. She lived a
recluse in a brown -stone house on
Fifth Avenue which in recent years
has been pointed out to sightseers as
the residences of Russell Sage and
Hefty Green used to be pointed out a
generation ago. The house was
without modern conveniences. There
was no telephone. The windows,
which were never opened, were grimy.
The furniture, most of it bought about
the middle of the last century, was
moth-eaten and dust covered. Except
when she went to her Summer resi-
dence or down -town to consult with
her lawyers, Miss Ella never left the
gloomy house but to take her little
dog for a walk in the back yard. Sev-
eral years ago a firm of builders of-
fered $800,000 for this back yard. John
Gottlei'b Wendel, Miss Ella's brother,
and then head of the family, said
that Miss Ella must have a run for
her dog, and he refused to sell. But
it was not because he was fond of
Miss Ella or for Miss Ella's long suc-
cession •of white poodles known as
Toby, irrespective of sex.
It was because of a Wendel prin-
ciple never to sell any real estate.
The Wendels declared that Broad-
way grew ten blocks in every decade
and that therefore property bought
along Broadway in advance of the
growth would yield rich dividends.
So in the course of a hundred years
or so, the Wendels have increased
their original patrimony, which, may
have been a couple of million dollars
to the sum of $100,000,000. The foun-
der of the family was also a John.
He was a contemporary of Astor's
and like Astor made his fortune in
the fur business. Dying, he bequeath-
ed his property to his son, John, who
dying, also, left the estate to a third
John and his daughters, Josephine,
Henrietta, Georgina, Rebecca and El-
la. Of these Ella was the youngest.
All. the Wendels lived to a good old
age. When one of them diedshe left
her share to the others. John's idea
was to conserve the family fortunes,
for what reason we cannot guess. He
did not marry and he ruled his shrink-
ing spinster sisters with an iron rod,
insisting that they should not marry
either.
All of them obeyed him but Re-
becca who partly rebelled and be-
came the wife of a professor, probab-
ly having vaguely in her mind the
story of the young unmarried woman
who had a baby and sought to justi-
fy her lapse on the ground that it
was a very little baby. But when
Professor Swope died, Mrs. Swope re-
turned to the Fifth Avenue maus-
oleum and resumed her former life.
She was perhaps the strongest mind-
ed of the sisters, and when brother
John die•d she became the head of the
family. Eight months ago she de-
parted and Miss Ella alone survived.
Miss Ella was perhaps the most
shrinking of the sisters, and drooped
under the tremendous burden of the
estate which had passed into her
hands, even though this rarely a-
mounted to anything more onerous
than signing cheques or clipping cou-
pons. Whether she had to approve
the investments of her lawyers we
do not know. She had no trouble in
the matter of selling property for the
most conspicuous sign on the old
downtown office that the Wendels
maintained was "We have nothing to
sell."
So Miss Ella, living in that gloomy
house with a few old, deaf and in-
capable servants without a radio or
a phonograph or a motor, or any of
the other conveniences which sug-
gested that something had happened
since old John Wendel sold his furs,
moved like a shade. She had no
more than half a dozen acquaint-
ances. Others whom she had known
had died long ago. The Wendels
were known to be kind and consider-
ate landlords, and were proud of the
fact that they had never figured in
a lawsuit. One of their peculiarities
was that no theatre or saloon should
ever be built on their properties, nor
should an electric sign be displayed.
They were extremely pious, which in
their minds obscured the fact that
they were not given to benevolences.
By a coincidence the best story we
have heard of Miss Ella appeared in
last week's New Yorkers and it is so
good that we refuse to accept semi-
official denials of its truth.
It appears that Texas Guinane runs
a daily column, a good deal unlike
the present column in a New York
tabloid. Some times ago she used her
space to address an open letter to
Miss Ella Wendel. She asked her why
she didn't get in electric lights or
radio, and why she didn't go out
more and have a good time. A few
days later Mist Guinane was waited
upon by an elderly gentleman, who
announced' himself as Miss Wendel's
attorn4y. With visions of libel suits,
Miss Guinane turned white, or what-
ever color she really is at bottom,
and could hardly speak for a moment.
The lawyer said that Miss Wendel
proposed to accept Miss Guinane's
invitation to visit her night club and
a date was mentioned. At the ap-
pointed time Miss Wendel, accom-
panied by the elderly lawyer, appear-
ed at the club. She sat at a table
and watched the dancers and talked
for half an hour with Tex. Some-
what at a loss for conversation, or
perhaps forgetting for a moment the
sex of her auditor, Tex told her of a
valuable handbag she had lost recent-
ly. Later on Miss Wendel took her
leave. A few days afterwards Tex
Was astonished to receive With Miss
Wendel's compliments a duplicate, or
almost a duplicate, of her lost hand-
bag. The bag had cost about $4,500.
Read These CornparatFe
Prices. They:tell the Story
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Are Reduced Price Price
Men's Dark Blue Overalls $2.25 NOW $1,75
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Men's Penman's 71 Union Underwear $1.25 NOW ,,95
Men's Hatchway B.V.D. Underwear, $s$111....32525055
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Men's Fine Shirts $1.50 NOW 95
Men's Fancy Sox .35 NOW .25
Men's Balbriggan Combinations ...i, $1.25 NOW $1.00
Men's Work Shirts $1.50 NOW $1,10
Men's Felt Hats (Special) $3.50 NOW $1,50
Boys' V -Neck Wool Sweaters , $1.75 NOW $1,25
Boys' Overalls, good weight $1.50 NOW $1,2'5
$1.00 NOW 39
Boys' Caps $1.25 NOW ,95
Women's Tweed Coats $15 NOW $10,75
Women's Dresses (New) , $8.75 NOW $5,75
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Women's Satin Stripe Bloomers $1.50 NOW $1,00
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Men's Wool Sweater Coats
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Wabasso Sheeting, 81 inches wide
White Cotton, 36 inches wide
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Hemmed Pillow Slips
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,55
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