PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 193, 21 July 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

MKX AND WOIIKX OF TO-DAY.

President Poincare has made a collection of photographs of English soldier> who have won the Y.C.

Miss Baden-Powell. sifter of "8.-P.," keeps :m apiary in her boudoir. She is :t 11 authority on Ixv-koeping.

Prince Giorge tlio Kind's fourth son, who fourteen, is very export with il„. knitting noodles. A number of articles liv lias knitted have been sold in aid ot \ a! ions war funds.

Kach year Sir Kdward Grey leaves* London ior a week to mark the anni-ver-arv i-f I lis wile's death ten years

ago. No K )iv : »n Oilice despatch boxes :i:e ior.variled to iiini while he u away.

Tom Longboat, the famous North Ainer.can Indian runnel', has en'isted in a Canadian ;'og | mont "1 have realis- , ,i." he said on atie-ting. " that the time ha-.- e'liie for married as will as single men to enlist "

The Hon. Victoria Ksnio Ivokine, milv daiiLrlito Jot Lord and Lady Ersl ine. would have been a debutante of the pre-"lit season, but is now devoting herself to the drudgery ot wash prop in the local hospital at Lord hrskint'.. country pbe e

The popular Canadian sold'er-poli'.i-eiaii. General Sam Hughes, has been a

'Vainitv don. the editor of a newspaper, a Parliamentarian, and an author—all more or less at the same time. He has soon active service, too. an:! »■.-;• s mentioned in despatches in St,iitli A rica.

Queen Mary, in writing to her personal friends, uses a small shoot of liotcpnp.T with "/Siiek'ngham 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 notopaper. as have almost all other European Royalties.