The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-21

bing. Suffragettes did Il long ago. And
next door IL Lady Somebody ELSE. whom
Miss Il. respects above all others be-
cause "She 'as a 'and-p'nted st'ireway
with fruit and horanges apecpin' all
hover hitl'
For top royalty In our neighborhood
We have good old Queen Anne herself
In a bustling little stone statue that
sets In a niche In our building. No. III.
Queen fAnnes Gate. Tho guide books
| tell all about II and they also say this
LIS the center OF the stronghold OF seven
teenth century antiquity"
( Queen Anne's gate In not Il gate at
all but a decorous little street. as prim
as Anne and about as long. A few doors
west II shies around n corner into ~.
! James park. Directly across the park.
a minutes walk. IN the Mall. the stately
pageant.way approaching buckingham
| Palace. which In simple. rectangular
white-stone building which might bo
mistaken for an American public library
IL II were not for It's home-like curtains
and It's lack Of names OF authors chis'
elled on the front You can have
1
than Of the White House. but through
n much higher and heavier fence.
The other end of Queen Annes Gate
leads, by way of half dozen curling
little strets--that must have been laid
out by "A Spenccrian penman-to West
minister Abbey. The Henry VII chapel
Of the abbey is directly across Parlia-
ment street from the many spires and
towers of the houses of parliament.
Parliament street, after two short
blocks. becomes Whitehall, ending in
four blocks at Trafalgar square.
/ must tell you of the prime minis
ter's official residence. II is In a sort
Of alley OF Whitehall called Downing
street, and IL n dingy three-story brick
closely resembling side-street office
building ] was in just Il few weeks ago
in Columbus. Nebraska. But not quite
SO ornamental. Tho embassies are close
at hand.
The nerve center of the war loops
around us.
Writing in the London Daily News,
Fullerton l.. Waldo OF the Philadelphia
Public Ledger refers TO the soundness
Of middle west opinion, and explain
some of the local monstrosities as fol-
lows:
"Of course, when n mass OF unstriated
protoplasm like Mayor Thompson OF
Chicago starts his mouth going. and
then goes of and leaves II TO deliver a
lot of outlandish pro-German rubbish
some people may thing that he repre-
sents considerable portion of Ameri'
ca. He does not. II is an American
proverb that whereas heat always rises,
hot air sometimes goes down. Mayor
Thompson, Senator Reed Of Missouri.
and a few others who would rather be
wrong than be vice president have ac-
curately perceived that the only way
TO arrest attention is to try to get them
! selves arrested It must be very pain
. full TO them to find how few care even
to hit them with n club. The country
at large is too busy clearing a straight
path for civilization to pay heed to CO.
coanuts dropped by the monkeys here
and there In the tall timbers.
we know the facts today. Hence
the infiexible determination that the
Prussian lie is not to live. and that the
. truth shall make us free Of all bonds
save the bond of human brotherhood
between America and England"
: Champagne. 25 marks bottle; with
cork. 1927. This change on Berlin wine
; cards will probably be made when the
courts hand down a decision in case
reported in the Berliner Tageblatt. In
Berlin, Hamburg and other cities there
were free fights for corks between
guests. proprietors and walters. when
it became known that the walters were
making q marks a hundred on the
corks they pocketed The Berlin court
has to an Observation-Disclosures the
: corks.legal-ownership to submit
decided.