WHY HIS BOOTS SHONE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 529, 9 June 1909, Page 3

WHY HIS BOOTS SHONE.

'. / • American papers', are telling a story"of how Mr. Brycejthe British-Ambassador at Wash-' :.j/:;ington',f'wlien he was tho guest of Mr.'.Van :. ( : ; presidentof •: the University of Wis-'" ■ consul, placed his .boots' outsido Ins bedroom door over night,: in-accordance with the English,custom.-;'; .Van .Eliso household V: : . boasted no manservant, and in America maid- :: e °rvants nover clean .boots.; Determined that nothing should be lacking in the : hospitality extended -to tHei rr d istir guished '■ guc-st,' '.tho ;.. two : . pretty, daughters'/of ■; the': house. . aged : i'twenty,:and; : sixteen respectively;' carried tho 1 ; boots': off "to. the- kitchen. and polished tlieni :y beautifully. '-.The girls .could not refrain from .' • smiling noxtimorhing when V.they beheld tlieir . (shining handiwork, and, Mr. Bi-yco, on.lea£n- ;./" ing the-cause : oftheir mirth,' donned a hew , pair of boots, keeping tho old .-ones as a souvenirs If guests in New Zealand homes purchased a now pair of boots, each ti.mo the: 'i 'daughters of the noti'so.put a shir.e on their* old ones,:tho boot shdps' -hereriToulii do-a ■■ briskotradej .|aud';the- railways would-.-feceire .;,a handsome revenuo from excess.: luggage.! .There are. two.women;in.charge of wireless telegraphs: in important -'positions.'in' America. 'One, Jlrs:' Tucker, who. is ..stationed :on the ; : .steamship,lndianopolis,: was' tfie first woman. ' /wireless operator-in the world j and tho other, , who, is a.clergyman's daughter, is in'chargfi •;.. . of•:the wireless 'business ;oh the roof of ■ the' V Great-Waldorf, Astoria Hotel, in Now' York.