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NJ Arthurian legend-albeit perfectly
palpable in substance and infn-
itely more important, because entirely
pra actical in Objects the story of the
quest of his Britannia majesty, Edward
VII, king of England and emperor of
India. and his American born subject,
Consuelo Duchess of Marlborough,
But it were gratuitous to impress
high sounding metaphors or fulsome
phrases into the service of this story,
Tor. being an epic, it may be told in the
homeliest words without losing whit
of it's broad significance.
And the story of this kingly quest
does, in every sense of the term, consti-'
tute an epic; because in it is embalmed,
as in amber, the very quntessential
spirit of the age in which 1T Is being en-
acted--that spirit of practical Chris
tianity for which the twentieth century
stands.
Briefly. the facts are these: By spe-
cal command of King Edward VII d
royal commission has been sent to this
country to inquire into and study
American methods of caring for and
controlling feeble minded children. and
to report to the king on their return all
they have seen and heard. with such
experience may warrant toward q
Wholesale reform and revolution Of ex-
istent English methods of dealing with
similar DETECTIVES
This royal commission has already
officially visited and studied the New
York municipal institutions on Ran
dall's island, and is now making a
painstaking tour over the whole United
States before returning for further and
more specialized investigation of what
are regarded abroad as models to be as
siduously copied.
The commission Is doing everything
quickly and with the utmost lack of os-
tentation or publicity, as is the preju
dice OF the English, but it's personnel,
as scheduled on the parchment creden-
tials presented to Secretary Root. Is d
long and distinguished one, consisting
as it does of the following we'll known
persons:
The Right Honorable the Earl of
Radnoir.
Ys William P%trick a%a ByFne IrnrJ Es} qioS5o.s b
Esq. member of parliament
Frederick Needham. Esq, NJ. D.
Heron David Greene, Esq, X c.,
member of parliament.
Charles Edward Heley Chadwick
HeleY, Esq x. c.
The Rev Harold Nelson Burden
Willoughby Hyett Dickinson, Esq.
Charles Stewart Loeb, Esq
Mrs. Ellen Frances Pinsent,
Horatio Bryan Don<in. Esq. NJ ID.
James Crawford Dunlop, Esq, M. ID.
The visit which the royal commission
crs made to Randall's island and the
subsequent visit which the Duchess of
Marlborough tried to make and would
have made but for her sudden Illness
constitute q record breaking episode in
the history of the institution, as indeed
It might in the history of any institu-
ton, for never before, though we are
now living in the twentieth century of
Christianity, has a Christian king per-
sonally interested himself in the well
fare and happiness of the imbecile child
or any other class of congenital un-
fortunates to the magnificent extent
shown by King Edward in the equip
ment of this train of royal commission
erS.
And never before has there been seen
the spectacle of colony of hundreds
of feeble minded children all on the
qui Vive to catch a glimpse Of duch-
ess from a palace over the sea coming
to spend the day with them in order
that she might take back to the king
and queen what she had seen and
heard.
There is but one person with author
ity to give out the facts of the story or
such facts as are public property at this
juncture and that person is Mrs. M. c.
Dunphy, the superintendent of all the
municipal institutions on the island.
Yes, it is true that we were visited
by the royal commission ON the care
and control of the feeble minded" said
Mrs. Dunphy 1T is also true that
we expected Il visit from the Duchess
of Marlborough, and that she and our
selves We're disappointed at the last
moment by an unforeseen circumstance.
We received notification of the duchess
coming several days in advance and
the children We're in "A fever of happy
Il real live duchess.
"Oh, yes they all know what a
duchess means. 1t is one of the tri-
training the feeble minded that they
ing that very thing, and that the pros
pect of a duchess and commissioners
from the king coming to see them
should fill them with pleasurable ex-
citement,
"They are taught TO read and their
lmagnations are developed 1t Is lack
of Imagination which most usually
distinguishes the feeble minded from
the normal child, and the fact that we
had managed to foster to the last de-
gree whatever rudimentary imaginative
faculty our children are possessed of
was one OF the things which most i'm
pressed these very same commission
ers
II might almost say that our work
here was a revelation to the members
Of the commisslon- They declared that