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Show King George Democratic. "When he is out of the public eye King George often sacrifices appearance appear-ance for comfort Indeed, while in conversation with him not long ago I noticed that one of the shoes he wore was adorned with a patch 1" This Is one of many Intimate anecdotes of his long connection with - the royal' family told by Ernest Brooks, O. B. E., the accredited royal photographer, In the Strand magazine. Queen Mary's favorite portrait of Princess Mary reveals re-veals something of the king's tastes in regard to feminine fashions. When Mr. Brooks showed the king the first print, his majesty raised an objection to the width of the panniers on either side of the princess' frock and ordered or-dered him to have them taken out of the negative. Quite True. Howell "Do you think the wrist watch has come to stay? Powell "I hope not. I want mine to go." A man who has no sense of humor is naturally short of sense. K His Great Mistake. Joseph Levenson, head of !New York's motion picture censorship, said at a luncheon : "The movies do a lot of good. But they do harm, too, sometimes. Think of the love affairs they break off!'' '" 'It's all over,' a young man groaned one day. 'It's all over now between Mabel and me.' " 'Sorry to hear that, old chap.' said a second young man. 'What caused the split, may I ask?' "T took Mabel to the movies last night, and she said that the heroine of the serial . called "The Pact of Death" was u beautiful girl.' "'Well?' " "AN" ell, I agreed with her.' " Increases In Fact. Wlfey "Marriage soon ceases to he a matter of billing and cooing." Hub "Oh, the billing part continues all right." , Some girls grow up and become credils to their parents and some others oth-ers become lady elocutionists. Remarkable English. The following is a specimen of English Eng-lish as it is printed In n Brazilian newspaper : "Furnitured ronis. At bight and respectuchy family house two let two nppartanients, Jeeing Inch one of them possess a magnify plain. Pension of first ordem'. Tel. Ipanema 3, 077." ' Here Is the translation: "Furnished rooms A high and respectable family house has to let two. large apartments; one of them possesses a lnngnilicent view. Meals of the first order." 1 Daily Thought. Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there Is no Gulf Stream setting forever In one direction. Lowell. . 1 What would a woman rather be: Reautlful or Intellectually brilliant? P.oth. A man's will sometimes ' weakens because of his broad-minded view that so often nothing matters. |