Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-03

this war is over. The nation tolerated
few who made for
A nisorace IN tunes during the civil
!. war, but that was be-
DC hieu. fore the present ideas
of the duties that go with money had
taken universal hold. Women will
soon be parting with their jewelry and
men will Tbe turning golf links into
potato patches"
This prediction was made recently by
the Rev. DIR. S. Edward Young of Brook
Ign and published in the New York
American.
The young Prince of Wales, heir to the
British throne, recently took his seat
in the house of lords,
| Edxuord,s says the Brooklyn Eagle.
He is about twenty
4Itles. three and a half years
| old and could have exercised his pre-
negatives as a legislator as far back
as 1912. Unlike ordinary mortals, the
sons of the king attain their majority
at the age of eighteen and Edward AL
bert, the future Edward VIII, was born
on June %. 1894. He has hitherto re-
life. Prior to 1914 he was too busy fin
ishing his university course at Oxford
and since the outbreak of the war most
of his time has been spent at the
| front as an active staff officer.
/ Young Prince Edward bears other
titles besides that of Wales. AS the
Duke of Cornwall he enjoys an income
of between 100000 and $780, a year,
most of it derived from the rents of a
large and particularly poor section of
surveyed and is having the worst
| houses pulled down and comfortable
| dwellings put up in their stead. He is
also Earl of Carrick, Lord of the Isles
| and Prince and Grand Seneschal of
/ Scotland. Naturally he is a much deco
| rated youth. All the friendly monarchs
of Europe have Wed with one another
in covering his breast with their
choicest orders. The former Car of
Russia gave him the diamond cross of
the Order of St. Andrew, and the King
| of Spain bestowed the Order of the
Golden Fleece. At home he has been
made a Knight Commander of the
Thistle, Knight of the Garter, in ad-
dition to a host of minor decorations.
| AS a matter of fact, his investiture
| with the insignia of the principality of
| Wales came much later than the ma
| jority of his honors. The office is not
j the heir to the British throne to be
| created Prince of Wales, but a con-
| siderable number of future kings have
Enot received the appointment. Some
have been elevated while they were
1 still babies; others have had to wait
until they were grown men. The late
| Queen Victoria, for instance, made her
eldest son. afterward Edward VII
Prince of Wales before he was a. month
old. The present holder of the title was
promoted when he was,seventeen years
old.
So many officers and enlisted men
have been in New York on furloughs in
the last few days; says the New York
Herald, that the civilian observer al
such after-dark amusements as the
opera and the theaters received the i'm
preston that the black of conventional
evening dress was the exception rather
than the rule. - ~
II In one intermission at the revival OF
81 Puritani" in the Metropolitan Opera
House recently fifty men passed a point
in the parterre row corridor and thirty
five of them were in uniform-English-
men like Maj. Lord Robert Innes-Ker
In dark blue and red; Frenchmen like
Lieut. Nuffat OF the 2s9th Infantry, in