FOR "MEN ONLY"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 16

FOR "MEN ONLY"

"THE HAREWOOD NEWS"

PRINCESS'S OFFER DECLINED

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London Representative.)

LONDON. February 13

Most people know that the two sons of the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood write, edit, publish, and print on a duplicating machine a journal called "The Harewood News." Its subscribers include the King, and the Earl of Harewood is a contributor. _

But when their cousin, the Princess Elizabeth, offered to contribute to the publication, the boys announced their desire to keep it for "men only." They have probably missed the chance of getting a useful contributor, because Princess Elizabeth is reported to be better at essay-writing than they are. The current issue explains that the paper "began with twenty-four copies duplicated on one of those jelly machines —the jelly had mostly melted on to our finpers while being cleaned." INCREASING CIRCULATION. With fresh duplicators, the circulation rose from 24 to 100, "and by that time so many complaints of overwork had been received from the Junior Editor that the Executive Committee decided a little expenditure on a new machine might not be amiss." ■ So now "the office resounds with the clack of a wonderful apparatus with silver knobs —and a patent feed that sometimes clogs. "However, the clack of the press is better far than the language with which the Junior Editor used to shock the rest of the staff in the days of the old flat bed." Contributions include articles on such subjects as a surgical operation, the railways, gardening, cricket, and football notes, play and film notices and news about the activities of the people of'Harewood. Viscount Lascelles and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles spend most of their spare time on the magazine, while they are at home in Yorkshire. Now they want to continue their journalistic activities during term-time at Eton. They would like to assist in the production of the school magazine, the famous "Eton Chronicle."