Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-11-07

friend" Siam into giving up a very large por
ton of her northeastern territory ana mas peen
watching for than a haif century ioi
ripe opportunity to turn the entire kinsdorh in.o
a French dependency; and England. on the SOUTH
is guarding her Malayan peninsula with ihoie
and more skill and care, hoping for her chahce "
squeeze her neighbor into mole anu ''Ieh "
extricate her at the price OF some OF the auJaeei
lard beIoneing to the lord of the white elephant
America alone of the three most inhuehtiai ma
tions in southern Asia has never sought ior coI
quest of land or for official emolument Tor iavors
mast present or future. Her stars ana Stripes
for the last three-auarters of century have
foated from the masthead of the American con
sulate undsturbed amid all the vexatious rlVai-
ries for political and territorial gain which nave
obstinately come to the surface with great regu
larity-some of which have been referred to
Uncle Sans resident deputy for settlement
So IT would seem that II the king of Siam
were to marry American he would be out toi,
lowing his political and social predictions ana
would he endeavoring to bind still closer the
bonds of friendship and real brotherly aIectfoh
that have held through the reigns OF his Two I'M
mediate forebears-Mongkut and Chulalongkorn
But there is a better reason than this for MS
preference. Vajiravudh is not only very inde-
pendent but pre-eminently practical person, and
has often openly admired the Independent ana
practical young American women whom ne mas
met both in Europe and here. man OF tremen-
dous energy and vitality himself he has natural
ly looked for the same characteristics in the
women whom he has admired enough to make
his compauiOns. and has found them In the
women of America in a more pronounced degree
than in the women of any other country in the
world Among his Siamese ladies are ex-
amples of some of the most beautiful of crea-
lures They are slender and small boned; they
carry themselves with exquisite grace; their eyes
are large and luminous and are half covered with
heavy lids and long. silken lashes; their voices
are low and their hands and feet truly Andalu-
sian. They are companionable and steadfast and
make ideal wives and mothers, and, taken col
Iectfy or n hundred of them will combine
to please almost any husbaud-preferably syba-
rite. But the present ruler of their kingdom is
looking for a wife and not harem and unless
he changes from the manner of man he has
shown himself to be in other matters pertaining
to himself and to his rule he will select and OBJ
tain the girl of his choice and will make her the
most envied bride and the happiest queen OF the
century
She will be the bride OF good looking young
man of thirty-three, who Is graduate of Oxford
and Heidelberg. a charming conversationalist and
a speaker of and writer in many European as
well many Asiatic languages-a writer of prose
and poetry of fiction and philosophy good
horseman a fencer to be feared, lover of sport
and a tireless worker, with exquisite taste as to
externals well in matters pertaining to the
mind. Generous and loving by nature and with
an unlimited pocketbook to satisfy the desires
of himself and his beloved. King Vajiravudh
to have the making of the ideal husband
of his kingdom
as far removed from Broadway as is Mars from
the Metropolitan, but there compensations
for even the lack of opera in this charming east