THREW THEIR SPATS AWAY.

Shannon News, 19 August 1924, Page 4

THREW THEIR SPATS AWAY.

AMERICAN VISITOR’S ANGUISH. LONDON, July 26. Doubt as to whether they were correctly attired for the various social functions to which they were invited has caused much distress to the American lawyers and other public men who are in England in connection with the sessions of the Reparations Conference. , _ . . To conform to what they thougnt was the English fashion, they bought canes, spats, silk hats and gloves after their arrival. Some of them went to the Royal garden party on 'Thursday thus attired. _ „ Judge Crawford Biggs, of North Carolina, tells how he saw his compatriots hiding behind bushes in the palace gardens, and throwing away their spats, because they saw the King was not wearing them. - . Mr Joshua Marvel, a member of the council of the American Bar Association, says that when he saw the Englishmen were carrying umbrellas instead of canes, he approached thebandmaster and gave him his cane, saying, “If I forget to call back for it, it is yours.” x : Mr Marvel says that afterwards he kept away from the band as far as he could, but that he was still uncomfortable, because he was wearingbright yellow gloves, while the King s were dark grey.