PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 144, 11 February 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

MEN AND WOMEN OF TO-DAY.

Mr. Balfour never opens a letter during his holidays. All are dealt with by his secretaries. His intimate friends address tiieir letters to his sister.

Mr. Marconi has still in Irs possession the apparatus with which he made his first exper ments in wireless telegraphy in the garden of his father's house in Italy. He was then fifteen years old.

Yiscountess Esh.er, who has just been made a Lady of Justice in tlie Order of the Hospital of St. .John of Jerusalem in England, is a Belgian by birth, and was married at the age of sixteen.

S'r Guy Laking, the King's Armourer, has in his possession a helmet of the fifteenth century which is worth £2.000. Only one other helmet of the same period in perfect condition is known to be in existence.

Lord Kitchener is never called n the morning; he awakes regularly himse'f at six-thirty, when he has his private letters and a cup of tea brought to him. He rises at seven o'clock, and retires, if his duties perm't, at midnight.

King George follows the recruiting figures very carefully. In a conversation a little while ago with the Secretary of War, His Majesty was able to give the precise recruiting figures in a certain district off-hand, without having to consult any reference papers.

One of Mr. Winston Churchill's greatest treasures is the gold-mounted cane that was given him by King Edward as ;; wedding-pre-ent. Once Mr. Churchili, when stay ng in Paris, left the cane in a railway train. Tt cost him a lengthy telegram and a big ree for a special messenger to recover it.

"Don't some of you," sii'd Mr. Will Crooks at a recruiting meeting : n the East-end, "want to jo : n? What a' you hanging back for? Are you waiting to-,- a safe job till somebody doesn't come back for it? I can imagine what will happen. The employer wiil ask where you were in 1915-16, and if ho finds that you belonged to tTft l 'Stay-at-Honie Rangers.' he will say to you, 'Good morning: mind the step.'""