RUSSIA’S ROYAL FAMILY
The former Czar of all the .Russian is not u man of resource (says I he. London Mail), and he is Feeling horribly bored with, uofhipg to do but water his flowers and talk to the wife ol his bosom on the-telephone in Ihe ]u e,settee of a guard. He is allowed to see his children, (mi; only under supervision. One ol his) girls also beeame so nnliappy
at his plight—it is ilu' Grand Duchess .Marie, who .dotes on him—that she. had a nervous breakdown. The other girls, with the Czarevitch, try to keep up their spirits with tennis and lessons and music, Tatiana,’ the second girl, has quite a lovely voice, and is a;-i musical as her brother. Had her lines been east in other places she might have made, her fortune, as a prinm donna. As it is singing means good fun to her. Those who have come in contact with the Czarevitch feel very sorry for the poor little, chap for the change in his life. ■ lie was patriotic above all things, and it was a passion with him to stay with his father at headquarters. Although he had been rather a terror as hoys go before the war, his keenness to servo made him behave well, and the officers of the chief stalT, instead of finding him a. nuisance,, say that he was as willing to do this hit as. any common or garden scout boy.
SAMMY’S HELMET
1 am told, says a writer in the Pal! Mall Gazette, that the American troops in France are, to have the very latest in helmets. Oflicor.-, on General Pershing’s stall have decided that, the best trench headgear for “.Sammy"’ is a steel helmet, combining all the strong points of the French and Biitish headpieces, hot also ot the German helmet. Ii will bear the coat ol anus of the United States on the front,.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1010, 13 November 1917, Page 6
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