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His elbows will be fairly raw with rub
bling against those of the monarchs,
princes, potentates and peers gathered at
the new Georgian court, of which, for the
time being he will rank as courtier
Having presented his credentials at the
foreign Office, he will call at Buckingham
Palace and pay his respects to the un-
crowned king. Then will come a round
of dinners, at which he will thrust his
golf-limbered knees beneath the same
mahogany that shelters the equity and
rheumatic neither limbs of the nearest OF
kin Of the proudest rulers of the world.
By virtue OF his sacred title of am
bassador he will be treated with all Of
the honors due to a royal guest, even to
being attended, while in London, by some
of the kings lords and gentlemen-in-
waiting, while there will also be placed
at his disposal horses and grooms from
the royal stables.
Precedence will be yielded to him by
Whitelaw Reid, our regular ambassador
to the court of st. James-for such is the
rule. And wherever he goes upon state
occasions, including the coronation cere-
mony proper, he will be accompanied by
duly accredited staff consisting of
military aid, naval aid and special sec
rotary of embassy. appointed by Presi-
dent Taft.
Upon coronation morn Mr.. Hammond
his wife and STAFF will take their seats
in the abbey and witness the arrival of
the respondent peers and besparkling
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peeresses in the galleries about them.
At II o'clock the boom of cannon without
will announce the king and queens de-
parture from Buckingham Palace in their
great golden coach of state drawn by
eight cream-colored Hanoverians-the
its long springs used to make King Ed
ward seasick when he rode in 1t through
London streets.
But you and I, propped up on the box
which we hired for a handful Of shillings,
might now have the advantage over our
ambassador of beholding the procession
escorting these two happy sovereigns to
the Abbey-a brilliant pageant, including
the kings bargemaster and watermen in
white-skirted scarlet tunics, the car
riages conveying their majesties' house
holds, the long array Of royal aids-de-
camp, the regulars, the marshalmen, yeo-
men of the guard, equerries and the SOW
ereigns escort of Horse Guards.
Through the window Of his numbering
coach George v will be seen wearing his
cap of estate and by his side Queen Mary,
both bowling their gracious welcomes;
Solemn music within the abbey will be
the signal to our representatives that the
royal party has arrived. and presently a
stately procession will commence to pass
near them, through the choir and into
the nave Of the great church-grave men,
standards Of the three British kingdoms.
then the bearers Of the queens crown
and regalia and finally her majesty her
self, supported by two bishops and
flanked by gentlemen-at-arms.
The queens gorgeous train will be
ton of her two predecessors-but by six
girls, each an earrS daughter and the
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Why, II we women should take to doing
our hair in plain bands. putting on MOTH
ing more frillified than clean ginghams.
and saying what We mean in simple
terms. life would be as savorless as rice
pudding without any seasoning whatever.
If we should all of sudden cease to
smile at the same time that we sigh; If
We should turn right around and be as
sorry about things as We have been try
Ing to persuade him that he ought to be;
II we should speak with consideration, but
without undue Stiffness to our dear little
pink and white babies, never cuddling
them up under the rounded corners of
white ch1ns and putting our cheeks down
ever so softly on the top of little downy
heads: II we should have 1t so arranged
that our husbands would never have to
meet with thing In that happy home life
that they couldn't easily explain at first
glance, this world would be no fit dwell
ing place any more for anybody except
people who by nature prefer to read in
structive literature, who would rather at
tend the lecture on lost causes than 60 to
gay little laughing comedy that has just
got his tootsies On the boards, and to
whom cabbages cooked to a condition of
utter raggedness are more attractive than
gardens full of red roses, which have no
proper standing as perfect ration.
or course, man can act perfectly
sensible. and. as they say themselves, get
away with it.
*
1t is, In fact, expected that, except on
the subject of the girl he happens to be
in love with at the time, he should en-
deavor always to behave as near like a
human being with brains as a grudging
nature has given him the capacity to.
He Is expected TO have, In plain sight of
the world. enough active gray matter to
prompt him to go in out of the rain.
But with us 1t Is entirely different
Even taking into consideration and al
lowing for what they say about life en-
craving beautiful things upon our ala
baster brows. nobody likes girl who has
any of those bits of wisdom scratched
in plain sight on her alabaster brow, or
even. SO far as they can tell, on the heart
hidden deep down In the white breast OF
her. AS for the rest of US who have got
to where we look back over our right
shoulder when we want to see the shad-
ow of the days of our youth, We have
to put In about half our time setting
those lines engraved by the hand of life
smoothed right smack off our alabaster
brows, or people will say that We are
not keeping ourselves well groomed ana
are beginning to show our age.
And yet just often and often girl has
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United Kingdom Of Great Britain and
Ireland. and of all the British dominions
beyond the seas, king. defender of the
faith. Emperor of India to be pulled
off in dear old London the 22d of June
Although Martin Van Buren, sent his
representative a-strutting into Queen Vic
toria's coronation hall most gorgeously
caparisoned In uniform. topped off by
''three-cornered hat adorned with gold
en- eagle" and augmented by a Sword
in a white scabbard"-although further
more President Cleveland's special am
bassador at the cars crowning exhibited
his we'll knit legs in knickerbockers and
silk stockings. President Taft hath de-
creed that Ambassador Hammond must
mar the scintillating, glimmering picture
of June p with the habit noir'' which
our particular brand of civilization pre-
scribes for hotel walters and other digni-
fed gentlemen of opulent profession.
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expression of heartfelt satisfaction upon
your classic features. stand straight UP
on your toes while you get the last wrin-
kle out of the snake buds, pull your tur-
tank, turn up your nose at the matters
which have been stirring about within the
said dome of thought, say to yourself,
Sensible? HUH and step right out on
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the street with a calm consciousness Of
your own superiority.
And every last man Of the lots and lots
Of men who have been up to this time
shifting to their fellow men about how aw-
fully silly women are, and how awfully
wise We ought to be, will, upon sight of
you, bring his feet down from where
they were with q loud thump, stretch out
his neck after the fair apparition in glad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-23
BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

BOUT as reSplenQ-
ent as an ink blot
on a gaudily illu-
minated page will
our special ambas-
sador, John Hays
Hammond, appear
in the choir of
Westminster Alb
hey, during the
crow n ! n & o f
George V, by the
grace of God of the
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apparel, sigh, smile, shipper at his own
image. reflected in that mirror of what
ought to be but isn't. his mind, and say
to himself. Gee! What @ peach!'
And he is also going, let me tell you, to
finish up this performance by putting en-
tirely out Of his life for the present all he
ever knew or had an idea he ought to
know about how sensible women owe it
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Iludlly IIilO q uSdltIlIlS
Of cheers.
Drums roll, trumpets sound. and from
the Tower Of London comes the cannon
boom OF the royal salute, announcing To
the people Of the kingdom that their SOW
ereign has been formally inaugurated.
Then after all of the peers have come
up, one by one, to doff their coronets,
kneel and kiss the kings hand as well as
lightly touch his crown-sn ancient signal
of their loyalty-practically the same
ceremony, throughout, Is repeated in the
amounting and browning OF the queen.
who has occupied a throne below that Of
her sovereign lord.
When she steps up to be anointed-
upon the crown of her head oniy-a
canopy known as 1.-The pail OF gold cloth"
will be held over Queen Mary by six
duchesses chosen on account of their
stately stature.
Queen Mary will be invested with the
ring the ivory rod With the dove"
and 1.-The scepter with the cross" and
finally, as he repeats the words, Re
ceive the crown Of glory, honor and JOY,
the Archbishop of York will place the
crown upon her head, whereupon all OF
the peeresses in the abbey Will don their
COTOHetS.
Having dotted their crowns and
knelt side by side in prayer. hay
ing received communion ana having
each presented at the altar an offering
of pound ingot of gold, and an altar
cloth of costly silk, the newly crowned
sovereigns will pass to an inner apart
ment and enjoy an hours rest prepara-
tory to re-enterng their state coach and
riding back to Buckingham Palace in
the great coronation procession proper
the most brilliant pageant that is any
where given the eyes of man to feast
upon.
Copyright, 1911, BY John Elfreth watkins)
Al per cent is the amount in England. 81
in Germany and 4s in Fran. e. Veal
shows a low per cent In all countries,
with France leading with 10 per cent,
then comes Germany with 9, America
with 4 and England with 3. For mutton
and lamb II is found that We eat per
cent Of that meat, England p. Germany
but and France Is.
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OF all the meat consumed In Germany
60 per cent is pork. while 40 per cent OF
the meat eaten in this country Is also
pork. Englands per cent IL but % and
that Of France but II.
The amount Of beef consumed in the
four countries comes nearer averaging.
as IL per cent Of the meat We eat Ia beef,
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TOHN HAYS HAMMOND
Will Get Abundant Thrills
for His Money-Treated
Like Prince, Received as a
Courtier and Waited On by
Royal Lords in Waiting
Will Rub Elbows With Roy
atty and Mingle His Knees
With Theirs Under the Ma
hogany of London's Palaces
What He Will Wear and
the Wondrous Spectacles
Which He Will Witness.
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to the race to look as if they were.
This idea about being sensible is alto
gether misapplied, anyway. This notion
that the world would be better and a
happier place IL we women would-on the
surface-give scientific attention to why is
a lobster, and look with critical eye upon
the causes Of all creation, is what per-
son might almost call something else
again.
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x" PLAT sad, awful place this
world would be If we women
NM should suddenly decide to
w seem as sensible as some
manila EAU then think Aharr,d
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1911-06-09
On . Grain Of Wheat.

Prayers have been written and en-
graved ON many small objects. but
only one person ever has been patient
aud painstahdng enough 10 inscribe n
complete prayer on a grain OF wheat.
One day Sir Moses Montehore received
small tin boz IN the mail. On the
cover OF the box was written. "a
prayer for Sir Moses Montenore. by
nauch Mordecai. son OF Zebi fIirsch
schelnemanh OF Jerusalem" The box
contained n single grain OF wheat on
which were Inscribed In characters 40
small they could only bo read with the
aid OF a powerful microscope the $50
Hebrew letters OF the prayer and the
date OF the year 0Iebrew reekoning),
b045, Sir Moses kept the prayer In his
private desk until he died, and II Ia
preserved with religious care by ono
OF his friends.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1911-06-09
OUT FOR THE FEES.
Cooperation Directors Want Their
Rights and Usually Oct Them,

Cooperation Directors Want Their
Rights and Usually Oct Them,
A lnrge corporation held a directors
meeting a few days ago As the meet
Ing was coming to n close one OF the
directors, reputed 20 be worth $4,000.
900. ran IN all out OF breath. Just as
he entered the other directors were
making their exit, says the Hartford
Cournnt.
Look here" the incoming director
shouted 10 tho chairman. II want 10
know why haven't received notice OF
this meeting"
II am suro I don't know" the chair.
mnn said. Notices were sent 20 oil
directors. You surely must have re-.
ccivcd one"
The director finished up an excited
TRADE by saylng. II want my rights"
Just then the secretary was brought
Into conference. who IN turn handed
the late director an envelope. lie de.
parted with a smiling countenance.
This recalls the story OF New York
corporation where $40 for each director
was laid on the tablo and those who
attended divided the whole pile. n
half came each got $40. Tho members
were men fur advanced IN years aud
IN riches. One day II stormcd violently
when meeting was 10 be held The
executive officers did not believe n
single director would be there. but
every man OF them was on hand. each
having ngured out that nobody else
would appear and that he might swipe
the entire allowance.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1911-06-09

boulevard from Thompson street to
Bruce street was passed OH motion
of Aid. Davis; all yes.
Ordinances providing the time
and manner OF improving Philadel-
phia street from Hayes to Edison
and Edison from Fessenden to Bur
lington reached third reading and
were held over one week.
Ordinances assessing the cost of
Philadelphia street walk and North
Ivanhoe Improvement were passed
on motions of Aids. Hill and Val
entine respectively; all yes.
An ordinance prohibiting hard
surfacing until connections with
water mains had been made was
held over one week for "repairs. "
Alderman Bredeson wanted the
city engineer placed under $1,000
bonds, as per ordinance in effect
but not enforced. Recorder direct
ed to attend to this by the mayor.
Alderman Horsmau wanted the
ordinance in regard to dirt falling
down upon the sidewalks and not
removed by the property owners en-
forced. He also made motion
that council meet in a body Friday
afternoon and proceed to measure
the distance from the school ground
to the nearest saloons to ascertain
If they are less than 500 feet from
each other. Motion seconded by
Soc. Perrine, but on vote these two
were the only two favoring the
proposition. The city attorney was
to search his law books
with reference as to just what the
provisions are in regard TO distance.
Aldermen Hill and Horsman in
iulged in little uncomplimentary
while the matter was
The mayor stated that the par.
.ial absence Of public notice regard.
ing the ferry bond election was
,ausing undue delay in the sale of
he bonds. and whether the bidder
would accept them or not would he
Known by Saturday.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1911-06-09
Proposals for Street Work

Sealed proposals will be received at
the office Of the recorder Of the city of
~. Johns until June AZ, 1911, al 8 O'Clock
=. ~, for the improvement OF Portland
boulevard from tie nofthcrly line OF
Thompson street 10 the southerly
line OF Bruce street in the man.
ncr provided by ordinance No. $50, sub.
icct To the provisions OF the charter aud
ordinances Of the city Of St. Johns, and
the estimate Of the city engineer. ON file.
The engineers estimate OF the cost IL
Sti ,2ot.oS.
Bids must be strictly In accordance with
printed blanks which will be furn-
ishcd ON application at the Office of the
recorder Of the city Of 81. Johns. Aud
said improvement must be completed on
or before 90 days from the date OF accept.
ing bids.
No proposals or bids will be considered
unless accompanied by certified check
payable 10 the mayor OF the city OF ST.
Johns, certified by responsible bank
for an amount equal 10 ten per cent. of
the aggregate proposal.
The right 10 reject any aud all bids Is
hereby reserved.
by order of the atty council.
4. A. RICE,
City Recorder.
Published In the ST. Johns Review
June y, 10 aud %, 1911.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1911-06-09

The versatile editor, the intrlli.
gent compositor, the artistic job
printer and his satanic nibs, "the
devil OF the Review force are un-
der lasting obligations to the ladies
of the w. c. T. u. The two FIRST
named for beautiful baskets of fine
roses and violets, and the two lat
ter for the loyeliest, great, big bou-
quets of roses left in this office by
Mesdames Kelley and Lidberg yes
terday, The gifts were beauties
such as only Oregon can produce
and one should be thankful that
he lives where the poorest in the
land may freely enjoy such fragrant
beauties. when he remembers the
innumerable hosts who dwell where
only millionaires may hope to revel
in their delightful perfume. Thanks.
ladies, come again, the latchstring
is out to you.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1911-06-09

The city Of St. Johns does ordain a,
follows:
/ The council of the city of St. Johns
having ascertained the cost of improv.
ing Portland boulevard from the north.
erly side line of Thompson street TO the
southerly side line of Bruce street in the
city of st. Johns, as shown by the resolution
OF the council of said city dated on the
9th day OF May, 1911, and recorded
in the Office of the recorder of said city,
and notice thereof having been publish
ed in the St. Johns Review, a weekly
newspaper of general circulation, OH the
i2th day and Ioth day of May, 1911,
as shown by the affidavit of the
foreman of said paper, which said
affidavit is on file in the Office of
the city recorder; and legal posting of
notices of such improvement, as shown
by the affidavit of the city engineer on
file in the Office o. the city recorder, and
no remonstrances having been filed, and,
as provided by said resolution. the engi.
neer's preliminary estimate Of the cost of
said improvement is fII ,2oI .9S, but shall
be more accurately determined by said
engineer.
Now, therefore, Il is hereby ordered
that said street be improved and the time
for the completion of said improvement
is hereby fixed at sixty days from the
last publication of notice Of proposals Of
said work, which said proposals must be
filed with the recorder of said city on o.
before the 27th day of June, 1911, at
eight o'clock p. M. Of said day.
That said street shall he Improved as
follows: BY grading same 70 the estab-
lished grade by cut and fill and by
sidewalking same on either side with
foot cement sidewalks, "a foot curbs en-
tire length, together with all necessary
wooden cross walks aud boz CUTTERS, and
placing a strip Of macadan f6 feet wide
In the center Of said street, said macadam
TO be 8 inches deep In the center and
o inches deep on either side; said walk |
aud curb 10 have expansion POINTS as III. |
rccted by the city engineer; curb to
have iour-iDch drain tile every fifty feet |
hitch rings TO be placed IN curb as al. |
rected by the city engineer.
The city recorder shall give notice by |
publication for not less than three IN.
.ertions IN the ST. Johns Review, the of.
fetal newspaper, inviting proposals for
making said Improvement.
Said improvement shall in all respect,
be done aud completed In coniormit,
With the provisions of Ordinances Nos
100 aud iy2 except AS otherwise provided
n this ordinance; all work 10 bc dvur
lndet the direction and supervision ul
he city engineer.
That the cost OF said improvement
hall be assessed against the property IN
lie local improvement district as des,
eribed In said resolution aud designated
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1911-06-09
KNEW De oUINcEYs WORKS.
chos,. We. Better po.,.d on Than

choats Was Better Posted on Then,
Than the Author Himself.
Many years ago James T. Fields. the
publisher, was making a collection of
the writings of De Quincy. The es.
suys were widely scattered in various
periodicals and wers often hard to
identify. Mr.. Fields knew Rufus
Choate az devoted student Of De
Quincy and wrote him one day ask.
ing his opinion as to a certain article.
Was II by De Quincy or not7
Mr.. Choate replied that II certainly
was. There could be no mlstaklng the
style Of the piece. A few weeks later
Mr., Choate received through Mr..
Fields a letter from DE Quincy deny
Ing absolutely and somewhat indig.
nantly the authorship OF the article.
But Choate was not OF the stun TO
yield his opinion for tri1e like that.
He wrote to Mr.. Fields.
II still believe that De Quincy wrote
the essay, De Quincy to the contrary
Notwithstanding"
Doubtless Mr.. Fields read the note
with smiling comment, "That's Just
like Choate's confidence In his own
Judgmcntw
Months elapsed. One day there cnme
letter from DE Quincy containing q
humble apology for his previous blum.
der. by chance he had found In his
desk the manuscript Of the very article
In question. Written as Il had been
years before. Il had passed entirely
from his mind, "and you may tell your
young Boston lawyer" he concluded.
"that he knows my style better than
know Il myself"
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1911-06-09

The city of st. Johns does ordain a,
follows:
Section 1. The Oregon Railroad and
Navigation Company, a corporation or.
ganized aud existing under aud Dy virtue
OF the laws of the State of Oregon. lis
successors and assigns, Is hereby author.
lied and permitted to lay a side track
and run cars over the same along the
north side of Bradford street between a
point on the main line of the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation company one
hundred Uoo) feet westerly along the
said main line from the west line of John
street and point fifty (so) feet east OF
the east line of Burlington street, all In
the city OF St. Johns, Multnomah county,
Oregon, said track 10 extend from the
plant or mills of 1.auther's Mercantile
Company, incorporated, TO a point of
connection with the line of railroad OF
the Oregon Railroad and Navigation
Company.
Section a.. The duration of this fran.
chise shall be as years from and after the
taking effect of this ordinance.
Section J. The compensation TO be
paid TO the city of St. Johns for this
franchise shall be the SUM of three (stl
dollars per annum, which said sum shall
be paid by the said Oregon Railroad
and Navigation Company to the city
treasurer OF the city OF ST. Johns on or
before the Ist day of July Of each year.
Section 4. The Oregon Railroad aud
Navigation Company, its successors aud
assigns, shall keep In repair that portion
OF said street occupied by It's said side
track authorized under this ordinance ~
required by the council, aud the said The
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Com
pany, its successors aud assigns, shall
pay, prior to the time of delinquency,
any special assessment for the repair or
impi ovement of that portion of the street
between the rails OF the said side track
aud extending one foot outside OF such |
rails, and that portion Of said street |
lying between the two tracks Of the said |
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation |
Company at said place, aud In case OF
failure or refusal TO comply with the
notice 10 repair, improve or maintain |
such portion OF said street, or OF neglect |
or refusal to pay any legal assessment
for repairs or improvements, the said |
city Of ST. Johns may declare by ordi.
nance the immediate forfeiture OF the |
franchise herein authorized.
Section S. Said The Oregon Railroad
aud Navigation Company shall. within
thirty days after the passage and taking
effect OF this ordinance, file In the Office
Of the recorder It's written &C, eptanee OF
the same.
Passed by the council June 7, 1911.
Approved by the mayor June 7, 1911.
X. {. COUCH,
Mayor.
Attest: Il. A. RICE,
Recorder.
Published In the St. Johns Review on
lune ., 1871.