The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-17
MARY
MILL Be 1925
LEADING BRIDE
......4e Anecdotes Reveal Sort Of
eid Engiand's Royal Bride
Elect Is.
n. MILTON BRONNER.


roudon. Dec. IT. I'D like to
| now just what kind of a girl she
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.sssed that longing since the en-
srrsnt of Princess Mary, only
Esstar of the king and queen OF
asss.nd was announced And their
Ilss,odty has been quickened by the
.crt that her fiance, Lord Las
- NAV become governor gen
nj OF Ireland.
r want TO be woman-not n
P m.ry was just a little girl when
aid this-but she has lived up
|. aver since. She was with her
~ - mother at q children's bazaar.
"a overheard a youngster say,
Mamma, / though Processes wore
Gowns. 49,
sWhen do / get a CROWN Mary
.sked the queen.
sWhen you marry a king" her
/ mother replied.
srheu I'll never wear a crown,
Ia Mary: adding, Il want to be
voman-not a princess"
Nary and her eldest brother, the
prince of Wales, have always been
1 dose pals.
when the prince entered Dart
,outh. he was immensely proud of
lie naval cadets uniform.
0ne morning he found on his
,lste a package which came by
/ nail.
l,essed like himself and labeled IN
tis sisters handwriting:
Isn't he pretty?"
NARY. when little, went shopping
WITH a governess. She wanted a
NOON. Il must be little and stiff.
The salespeople and the governess
uied to persuade her TO buy some
hing else, but she replied:
NO. | want d broomi Henry
/ ,ser brother) is lazy. want him
1 10 learn to sweep the paths in the
4 garden"
/ One Of the first things the queen
/ taught Mary was to mend and sew.
/ She used to mend the socks of her
hrothers,
1 During the war she knitted with
ii Ill the other girls.
i One der something went wrong
1 with a sewing machine at Balmoral
/ tsstle. The princess met the girl
/ mechanic sent to repair it and ex-
/ daimed:
L oh, let me try! l am rather
gpod with machinery and it's great
i'm fixing things"
She took the machine to pieces,
mt it together again and it ran
eriectly
Another thing the queen taught
Ter was the art Of cookery.
Asked what kind Of cooking she
lhed best, Mary replied with can
tr:
I like to make something that 1
ayself can eat afterward."
One OF the things she likes to
nak is cake.
Mary is the linguist of the royal
Emily. She knows something of
Ill Scandinavian languages, speaks
| spanish and Italian fairly well,
German very well and French ex-
silently
She also hammers out letters on
be typewriter and has written
lOme of her fathers more intimate
jurisprudence 1t was these &C
nmplishments among others that
i ed the Prince Of Wales to sigh:
II What a pity it isn't Mary who'll
Be king! She is so clever, you see "
When Mary was II, she was row.
rg On the Thames with her broth
Igs
4 boat containing three Elton
Students bumped into the royal
i sEfi.
j There was nothing to indicate
ast either the vessel or its owners
we're royalty. One of the Etonites
sagrily asked:
nEr
And just as angrily, little Mary
replied:
Il When you learn manners"
i ms same kid at that age had
ny little reverence for the high
1n mighty lords who came to call
"a papa, the king.
tor Instance, there is the grave
RT council. To Princess Mary
vas the Oily Wig"
Une day she called a privy coun-
siior billy Wig" in her fathers
aesence. Papa, the king, gave her
very severe lecture.
on the day that her betrothal
rs announced she visited the tots
: Iae Royal Sussex County hos
a. stopping at each bedside to
~ to the sick ones.
are you a real princess?" asked
ae hid.
1 Vary admitted the charge.
well, said the child, II like
Hincessr