PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 183, 16 June 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

MEN AND WOMEN OF TO DAY. The Prince of Wales is a 'lOlll member ot the House of Lords, and is not debarred from membership i<y reason of "infancy." * * * Sir Frc-dcrick Bridge confesses that in his young days he was r. cornetplaver m a band ''which was not allowed to play in Hyde Park."

Jr. CWnicnceau, the French exPr.emier, who presided over + ne recent Anglo - French Inter - Parliamentary Committee, is equally brilliant as a novelist, dramatist, and journalist.

King George's favourite attire is a shooting-suit and soft collar and shirt, which he always wears when in residence at York Cottage. His Majesty has a great dislike to wearing tho frock-coat, which is "afternoon uress* in Roval circles.

Lord Kitchener reads all iiis speeches. Even when he has few words to say they arc read from typescript. Without any pretence, he pulls tha document out of his coat tail-pocket, reads it without any modification, and fciti down.

Mr. Poultney Bigelow, whose "Prussian Memories" are just pub! shed, ha 3 an intimate knowledge of Germany. He supped off beer soup wh n he uas eight, and played Bed Indians with the fledgling Emperor and his brother Pi inco Henrv at ten.

Tho four daughters of the C/.ar are brilliant riders. The most skilful of them is the Grand Dunlins Olga, the eldest, who often remarks, "I wish 1 was born somebody else, so 4 h 111 cr uld be a circus rider." She can urivo ti:reo horses abreast, standing on the back of tho centre on.o.

Mine. Patti, lio lias ro.ently celebrated her seventy-third nil t'ul.w, in explanation of lior perp«v.i;al youth, say*.-, " l*p to forty I stinted myself in nothing. After forty I took to a comparatively strict diet, and since then have oaten 110 red meat, and drunk only white wine and soda. I never go to bod early."