Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-13

pflce, under ceilings Which are almost legend for decorative skill, and sur rounded by pictures of Velas quez, 1 Murillo, Bolbein, Yandyck, Breughel, SalVator Rosa and other great paint CTS of the past. The gIories of Ncr- folk house provide matter for a volume but the ladies of the Royal club can study them at frsthand and without
 book
 For the provision of dinners, teas,
 and luncheons small alterations have
 been made in the domestic design of
 the house. Ingenious contrivance has
 removed minor intonven!ences till the
 club runs as smoothly as though it had been one. Women will appreciate
 the forethought which has devised scheme for light luncheons at low prices-soup for ed., sandwiches for 4d. and so on. Once a week a concert or other entertainment is given in the hall room, to which mem bers can in vite their husband and friends
 America is represented on the con sultative committee by MT. Page the American ambassador, and Mrs. Page 1 is among those to whom the club owes much for its organiza tion On Inde- 1 pendence day party of American wis itors were introduced to one of the historic features of Norfolk house In 1 old Norfolk house, still standing on | the other side of the garden. George I III was born. The Americans were 1 taken to see it, and welcomed on the 1 doorstep by their English guide with i these words: This gentlemen, is the 1 birthplace of the king who gave you your independence" But the curiosi-
 ties wrought by time become so fa- miliar in present circumstances that L-l. i l clear duty at the Washington inn, over 1 the way from Norfolk house Ameri- l can officers sit there and smoke in the open around an equestrian statue l which ought to represent George III but is actually that of William III It
 is consoling to be assured by the 1 learned in the records of St. James | square that the horse was modelled i from fayorite animal of George III In all that they have done the lead
 CTS of the Beyond Seas" association
 have shown anxiety to avoid the sem 1 blance of laying the Dominions and 1 the United States under any debt Of
 gratitude. They say to them what
 they very genuinely feel: This is not
 worth talking about. We want you to
 realize it is only an infnitesima' rec
 ognition of the obligation we feel to
 you. If the positions were reversed
 and we had sent men to the States and
 Dominions, We know you would have
 looked after them as We are trying tC look, after yours" Also, in all that
 they have done they acknowledge what
 they owe to the willing and zealous
 help of the Duke of Connaught who
 has been untiring in his efforts to as . l sist them in overcoming such difficult ties as have arisen from time to time nf xx-ftI , old buildings is not limited to London From report presented one day las
 week it appeared that 220 Dominior
 officers were at that time visiting / country houses. and so getting an CD portunity to know England. During
 their stay in different parts of tn, . kingdom American and Dominion sol diers will be enabled to study botl ? our agriculture and our industries Offers uf Hospitality come from man, quarters, amorg the larger house
 which are entertaining being Blenhein = tthe Duke of Marlborough, Arunde , tthe Duchess of Norfolk, Maidel U Bradley (the Duchess of Somerset q and Hatfield (Lady Salisbury) Thes also will give our visitors rather nor : than a glimpse of the concrete record z i of England's past Officers who lov $ sport have a very welcome privilege . the king having given his fishing i ! Scotland. The fairest opportunities C union with the mother country's pas ' and present are offered to the sons C the distant lands which have come 6 ? nobly to her aid.-London Times
 gl La Nacion of Madrid, published 0 1" July 2s a leading article called "Th e Future of Egypt" which was obvious D ly inspired by either the German c # the Austrian embassy, or both r said:
 2, When we explained Kuhlmann's ia IS and the substitution of Admiral Hint2 l. we said that the outgoing foreign sec d retary was to a certain extent tn d. representative of the nercantsle clas al which from the first day of the wa e has sought a chance of reconciliatio it with England. and was unable 1 Il make up its mind to break with tt l. United States. This party did not SC 'r or did not wish to understand, ths ,e the principal enemy of Germany is tr Q Anglo-Saxon world, and not Russia { n France.
 d This fixed idea of Bethnann Hol