Show Prince of Wales is Fond of Cob Pipe London Condon May Soon Become the Biggest American City in Europe Protest to No NoA Novail A Avail vail 1 By Df JESSIE The Tho cw V Yorker 1101 1 Spec Ill Dispatch to The Stand Stand- Copyright 1926 by Press Association LONDON Dec Dee Your IS-Your 18 Tour dyed dyed- wool the WOO roast beef Briton Is snortIng with nation Indignation this week Somebody has told bIn him that it If things keep on OB as the they are go- go goI ling co-ling I now London long will willbo willbe willbe In bo be the biggest American city Europe and nothing has no so stirred him Im since G Washington T 1 T JeI- JeI Jef Jefferson ferson terson and that lot actually decided that America was a separate Insl- Insl Institution by Itself PRINCE S SMOKES COB COD So mild and a a thing as 85 the tho corn cob pipe precipitated whirlpool of consternation While Americans dill are strain strain- straining ing every cry o nervo to possess real Inglish It seems that the tho Prince of o ales VI W ales Is la contentedlY pulling a corn cob and under this high bis OW cu cuI I I speedily making It way Into aris aris- aristocratic aris- aris aristocratic aristocratic and proletarian London so- so society Ot Of 0 course some loyal protested Didn't the king kine deplore the fact tact only a I few tew month ago that British firms were using altogether too many typewriters And hasn't the cinema clientele stood tood up on Its Us hind legs and roared over the appalling pre pre- prevalence pre prevalence valence of American films The loyalists pointed out that If It real English pipes were vere good enough for Wellington James II 11 and Samuel they ought to suffice the tho present effete DEMAND FURNACES CES The corn cob however continue placidly to hold Its own while the th prediction that soon London will Dc D the bl biggest l ut American city In Europe Is 19 rapidly being fulfilled Several wealthy Americans who meant to enga engage e quaint Tudor and Queen Anno Anne country houses louses this season hM hate haie e declined to do so un- un unless Unless un unless less central heating and electric lights were Installed Flickering gas jets may have hn been all very well for tor Charles Dickens but they are not tor for the Americans And the fact tact that Queen Elizabeth dIdn't object to chap chapped ed hands and eyes eyes bleary dont don't seem to bo bo be much of an argument these days STANI KRS ST I The corn cob the tile central heat heat- heatIng heatIng heating I Ing ing crusado crusade and the electric light o have served to turn up man many facts disturbing to the British standpatter London railway Is 15 building a a near skyscraper at Its and nd building It as much as a p nice lUte a w ew York skyline A lot ot of o tho the corn corncobs corncobs corncobs cobs are arc tilled filled with American to- to tobacco to tobacco bacco a 0 lot of lifts lilts turn out to tobe tobe toba be American elevators and a lot of at fastenings on London house doors are American locks Moreover two oe 01 the London theatres have re- re recently recently re recently rut put In American bars whore where they serve American Ice cream soda Yet Its It's still quaint enough here iere- shouts to please even n a wealthy American For Instance the Lon Lon- London Lon Lon- London London don aristocrat wears a high silk hat while chile ho smokes his corn cob |