MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE.
President Woodrow Wilson has a very quick wit. A man in the courss oj an animated conversation, noticing that Wilson's glasses were perched perilously near the tip of his nose, remarked "Your glasses, Governor, are almost in your mouth." "Thsta all right," was the quick respose, "I want to see 'what I'm talking about." Another instance of the King's hereditary tact and consideration is provided in his action in deciding that in future the cost of. the temporary private post and telegraph office always established at any house the visits for more than twenty-four hours shall be met out of hia own funds, and not bo borne by his hosts, as hitherto. The expense is about £IOO, chiefly entailed by the erection of the private temporary wiro between the house where ths King is staying and the nearest telegraph office. If; is told that a gentleman who particularly wanted to hear Mr Lloyd George speak sat patiently in the public gallery of the House of Commons and waited for nearly five hours for the Chancellor to appear. He began to notice that he seats on either side of him were always occupied by oth ir men and that aa see:; as one of
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 607, 1 November 1913, Page 6
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206MAINLY ABOUT PEOPLE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 607, 1 November 1913, Page 6
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