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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 22, 26 July 1920, Page 2

It is generally presumed that all Royal residences are fres froir rates, but this is by no .means the case. The only three •that escape thi.» taxation ara Windsor Castls, Buckingham Palace, and the greater portion of St. James's ' Palace. Queen Alexandra pays the- full rates upon Marlborough House, which now amount to over £6000 a year, and tne King paya rates on Sandringham, Tort Cottago, and Balmoral. These are all regarded as being tho private residences ol tho Kiujr and Queen Alexandra, and not as '"Royal Palaces," in the, strict sense of the word. More,rain falls by night than by day WJieri a Japanese girl is born, a pair of dolls are presented .to hor, and she plays with them until she is quite grown up. Then, if she marries, she .takes caro that the dolls, are eventually given to her daughters' (if any), and she adds to the number of dolls 1 in accordance /with' thenumber of her daughters! Consequently, in some cases, a large number of dolls ss* collected.