The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-06-23
CORONATION REFLECTIONS
BY A HUM0RiST.

By Wireless Gable From Our Special Correspond
ent. Wil5erforce Jenkins. Esquire.
1t is said upon reliable authority that
when MIR. J.. Pierpont Morgan and King
Edward went into a pleasant little game
of bridge at Ambassador Choate's recent
affair the band began to play God Save
the King"
Mrs. Cold-Steel of PIttsburg. who wrote
last month for terms at a London hotel for
coronation week, received a reply by re-
turn mail. What the reply was can but be
judged by Mrs. cold-Steel's response on a
postal to the hotel manager. which ran as
follows:
"Sir. 7 did not ask you what the Boer
war co&s l asked for your terms for a
single rom, without board. for the corona
ton week. kindly cable figures to Cold
Steel, Pittsburg."
The Emperor of Germany is said to have
had 4 narrow escape last week. It seems
that when His Majesty heard that MANY
of the Jewels in the British crown had
turned out to be Rhinestones. hi nearly
died ~a-laughing.
1t Is denied by the parties most concerned
that Mr.. and Mrs Wigginity-Jones Of Buff
falo. n. Y, have declined to attend the
coronation unless they are permitted to
wear Buffalo robes instead of those pre-
scribed by the Kings chief equerry of the
tailor shop. Mr.. and Mrs. wigginity-Jones
have written to the King himself to say
that they Will come in bathing suits If re-
CURED. rather than miss tho show.
In the go-as-you-please laurel race Mr..
William Watson has been declared the win
ner by seven starzas, five c~ouplets and a
line. Mr. Alfred Austin, the champion light
weight poet of the empire, was left at the
post, while Mr.. Rudyard Kipling proposes
10 eontne himself to an exhibition run to
be brought OF later.
Mr.. Andrew Lang has gone fishing for
coronation week.
The absence OF Lord Rector Carnegie
from the coronation festivities has caused
much uneasiness in Rumpleton-on-Swike.
1t Is believed that Mr.. Carnegie has. by
this act, indicated his -disapproyal of Eng
fish literature. and since the Rumpleton-on-
SwIke Public Library Association has been
founded TO encourage English literature, 1t
is feared that the request of its trustees for
a 10000 pounds library building will not
be met by a return check.
The departure of Mr. j. P. Morgan for
Venice on the eve of the coronation ~festivi-
ties is regarded as a singularly gracious
act. 1t might mar the pleasure of the
If the chief mortgage of the en-
pi-e were to be present upon such an occa-
sion. and the King is said to be quite APP
OF the Americans delicacy.
The report that Mr.. Waldorf Astor is to
be made a peer, with the title Of Earl
Oscar of Waldorf. lacks confirmation.
When the King was asked to make Beer
bohm Tree a Knight he is said to have an
swered that. in view OF Mr.. Trees success
full career as a theatrical "a he
should be made "a hundred knights. not
TO mention the matinees." What will come
OF the suggestion is as yet unknown. |
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew's arrival in Lon |
don to attend the coronation festivities has
been hailed with a laughter which Indicates |
fine British appreciation of American hu- |
NOR. As the representative of Puck. Judge |
and Life. Mr.. Depew will receive the must
distinguished attention from Britasn's most !
humorous society. Thu British lion will roar |
-or three consecutive hours in honor of the
and at twenty-seven minutes past
l. on Coronation Day. the King has era-
ciously consented to salute Mr.. Depey's
asst years Jokes with three smiles and al
harashska