PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7749, 15 July 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

HEX AND WOMEN OF TO-DAY. President Poincare has made a collection of photographs of English soldiers who have won the V.C. Miss Baden-Powell. sister of “8.-P.," keeps an apiary in her boudoir. She is an authority on bee-keeping. Prince George, the King’s fourth son, who is fourteen, is very expert with the knitting needles. A number of articles ne has knitted have been sold in aid of various war funds. Each year Sir Edward Grey leaves London for a week to mark the anniversary of his wife’s death ten years ago. No Foreign Office despatch boxes are forwarded to him while lie is away. Toni Longboat, tlie famous North American Indian runner, has enlisted in a Canadian regiment. “I have realised,” he said on attesting, “that the time has come for married as well as single men to enlist ” Tho Hon. Victoria Esme Erskiue, only daughte rof Lord and Lady Erskine. would have been a debutante of the present season, but is now devoting herself to the drudgery of washerup in the local hospital at Lord Erskine’s country place. Tho popular Canadian soldier-politi-cian, General Sam Hughes, has been a ‘Varsity don, the editor of a newspaper, a Parliamentarian, and an author—all more or less at the same time. He has seen active service, too. and was mentioned in despatches in South Africa. Queen Mary, in writing to her personal friends, uses a small sheet of notepapor with “Buckingham Palace” stamped in dark blue letters. Queen Alexandra uses a much larger sheet, addressed from Marlborough House, But neither of their Majesties has a crown stamped on their private notepaper. as have almost all other European Royalties.