The farmer and mechanic., 1915-04-13


may come along. After that period
fixed so as to enable the young man
to continue his theological studies
the father-in-law sets the couple up |
in business. CuriOuSly enough, the
wives of these ChaSidim are known Tor
their shrewdness in business and their
capacity for driving hard bargains
But possibly they need this faculty
to make up for the studious nature
of their husbands.
Handsomest Royal Boy.
EurOpe'S handSOmeSt royal boy, the
eldest of the three children of the
King of Belgium, has just had his
dearest wish fulfilled by being al
lowed to go over to the fighting front
some day rule if-well, it is a
pretty big if, Prince Leo
pold is fourteen years Of age, and
when the Germans bombar1ed
Antwerp he was packed off to Eng
land with his younger brother. Prince
| Charles, and his little sister, Princess
Marie-Jose. There they found hospi-
| tality with Lord CurZOn, while Queen
| Elizabeth remained with the king in
Flanders.
5, Martial little Leopold, however
wanted to see something Of the war,
and finally his father yielded to his
| entreaties and allowed him to go over
| to Flanders. During the past few
days he has visited a number of field
| ambulances. and under the wing Of
| King Albert has seen the trenches and
been presented to the valiant Belgian
army. Besides being unqueStiOnably
the best-looking Royal youth in Eu-
rope, this small prince is precocious in
| the best sense Of the term. When he
was twelve he wanted, like Master
Anthony Asquith, to be an aviator,
and after much cOaxing persuaded his
father to let him take a little fight
toward the sky.
Before he wanted to be a sky-pilot
he was a pOet-thiS at eleven-and
suffered rather severely from the
somewhat acid criticisms of his
brother. Charles, count Of Flanders,
and his sister, Princess Marie-J ose
When he was only a month old, how
ever, Prince Leopold figured as the
hero Of a charming little ceremony.
His mother, the Queen Of the Bel
gians, superintends a. charitable or
ganizatiOn for children's country holi-
days, and the mothers Of these chill
dren presented to her a Brussels lace
cushion for baby. The baby was pre-
, sented to the deputatiOn, and King Al
, bert-then Prince Albert-observed
, that his son was already q gallant
, for, finding himself in the presence OF
so many ladies, he resolutely refused
to cry.
81 One Of the most interesting side dis
; cussions Of the problems OF the great
> war, although not intedded to be so
: was Lord Bryce's Creighton lecture al
\ Kings College, London, a couple OF
: days ago. Some reports Of this IN.
q doubtedly have been sent to the Unite
= States, but there were several 5000
things, from an American viewpoint
which were missed from the Londo1
!, reports, and no doubt failed to fine
- their way across the Atlantic
= Lord Bryce, VINO, OF course, is al
= most, II not quite, as we'll known il
= the United States as he is here, de
;, spite the fact that he is an Irishmal
:, and has been in English politics 70
= couple of generations, selected 70
:, discussion the question of how far ra
- cial instincts and feeling had played
= part In international wars. Curious
- ~ enough, the subject Of the lectur
:. = was chosen last June, before the pub
- - lie, at any rate. had any idea of tn
- struggle that was to begin six or eigh
:. weeks later. Lord Bryce was scrupu
ie lously fair in what few comments h
did make on the present war; in fac
8 so much so that not once did h
rs arouse the perhaps natural race sym
s. pathies Of his audience.
DC But of special interest to America
listened-and the writer was nc
the only one, for the American an,
~ bassador sat within the reach of HI
r. right arm, and Henry James, til
If American author. on his left-was tn
~ lecturers statement that the Amer
;s can revolution was perhaps the great
,;s est cause Of the race consciousness
~ that made subsequent wars struggle
- between peoples and not between dy
Wy naStieS or castles.
"a Another and perhaps more interes
~ ~ ing observation of Lord Bryce's we
% his statement that although now tt
' So Bible is printed in no less than fort,
iie two languages in one State in tf
United States, he believed he was sa
~ in predicting that in fifty years I
IS. more than four languages would |
I'M spoken in America.
OF One Of the most appreciated sci
Q! tences in the whole lecture was IL
OF Irishman's description Of the gre
en- Aryan race, which he spoke of
ely starting from it's Asian home az
ire marching west. driving it's cattle b
~ fore it, until it arrived at the CT