The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-22
PRINCESS MARY IS
VERY LIVELY MISS
English Public Believes She
Should Be Sat On
London Gossip.

| tile at Carnarvcn, he is not to be
| permitted to take part in any public
ceremony until he reaches his actua
raority. is generally approved. There
| re people at court however. who
would be considerably happier if the
King would use his paternal and royal
authority to suppress princess Mary
mo they say is far more in need OF
being sat on"
The Princess, these people say, is
ar too precocious. She loves TO assert
'orself at every occasion and at the
Coronation she actually DELAYED the
! recession from the Abbey by insist
ng on entering the carriage ahead OF
| her older brother, declaring that the
princess Royal ranked higher than
a Prince of Wales, who was not yet
Prince of Wales.
There is in fact danger, that
'rincess Mary will become in her
lay. as great a nuisance as the pres
mt Queen of Spain used to be in the
alter Victorian days
The First Universal Races Congress
which opens here on Wednesday and
astS until Saturday net has among its
supporters over thirty presidents o.
Parliament, the majority of the mem
)ers of the Permanent Court of Arbi
ration and of the delegates of the
second Hague Conference; twelve
british governors, eight British pre-
niers; over forty colonial bishops
Fome 1870 professors of international
Law; the leading anthropologist and
:ociologists of the world, and the off
GERS and the majority Of the counci
IF the InterParlamentary Union.
Special consideration will be giver
% the problem of the contact of Eu
ropeans with other developed types
civilization. The views of the coloret
races are to be voiced, and paper
have been prepared on questions at
fecting China, Japan, Turkey, Persia
India, Egypt. Haiti. the American ne
gro and India, and the negro of Yves
and South Africa by distinguished
members of the peoples concerned
A good story is being told in Fleet
street at the expense of a party OF
Scotch journalists. who occasionalls
dine together and entertain guest
Last week they were asked to re-
ceive a distinguished Indian visitor
They declared themselves honored
The visitors dignified bearing, his
gorgeous apparel, and his gravity pro
claimed him an Fastener of high
caste. He was accompanied by mill,
tary man, who interpreted a speech
which he delivered To this speech one
of the best known Scottish journalists
in Fleet street responded. expressing
the sense of honor felt by the COM
pany. Then the visitor sang a plain
tive native dirty, accompanying him
self by tapping straw hat. The com
pany declared the performance most
Then suddenly the distinguished Wis
itor electrified his hosts by jumping to
his feet and singing 81 love a lassie,"
with a broad Scotch accent The Sc
cret was out. The Indian Prince" was
a Dundee artist disguised. The jour
nalists were speeches. with amaze
ment for few minutes, and then with
quick wit turned the occasion to good
account. They sent urgent messages
to a number of their colleagues in the
offices, and gravely intro
duced them to their guest. The laugh
ter was loud and long as each new
victim entered the room and was
made to bow low in response to the
grave salutations of the gorgeous
stranger.