SCRAPS OF "LONDON OPINION"

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 152, 27 June 1914, Page 15

SCRAPS OF "LONDON OPINION"

A woman has just become tbe captain of a ship. She was probably attracted by the idea of a perpetual sail. After May 2S public-houses in Scotland will not open till 10 a.m. This attempt to discourage early rising will by many be condemned"A great feminist movement is sweeping the world." —"Good Housekeeping.*' But what of the great feminist movement that is sweeping the kitchen? Nine-tenths of bad temper comes from alcohol, says the Bishop of London- And the other tenth from finding -that someone else has just finished the bottle? General Villa vows that he wil not be dragged into war with the United States in order to please General Huertn. He will be, in fact, quite a detached villa. A suffragette dressed as Joan of Are has been parading in a procession. This suggests that the punishment for hungerstriking militants might be to tie them also to a steak.

Mr Singer, the American millionaire, has appointed a French aviator as his "family pilot." The latter, of course, will bave sole charge of Singer's soaring machines.

The King's chauffeur, who was hit in the face last week by a suffragette petition, is said to have been much struck by the force of the. appeal, though not in sympathy with the aim.

"Young George Cornwallis West, having been divorced from Lady Randolph Chun-hill, his first wife, has gone and married Mrs Patrick Campbell." The speaker was a well known wit. He gave a loud laueb and added: "Sarah Bernhardt had better look out!"

The post of Constable of Windsor Castle, left vacant by 'the death of the Duke of Argyll, was formerly one of considerable emolument. In bygone days. for instance, the Constable of the Castle had the right to demand a fee from the whole of the King's guests entertained there for the night. One class, however, was carefully exempted from this levy, this being, as is rather quaintly worded in a warrant still in existence, "ladies for the pleasure of the King or the Royal Princes."

When the Duke of Marlborough took out his auctioneer's license he only followed the example of many other peers who trade—like Lord Londonderry, who sells coal, the various earls who sell dairy produce, and the dozens of peeresses who run dress and millinery businesses, and act as agents for wine and motor car firms and curio dealers. So far I am reminded, it is yet impossible to "et shaved by a king or to get served with soup by an emperor (even in toe Kaiser's restaurant at Potsdam), but such joys may yet come it Mr Lloyd Geor"e lives another ten years. Meanwhile, it is the simplest thing in the world to "ct cheated at cards by a titled person of either sex any night in London.