Evening star., 1926-03-07

| he has never had to shake hands With
this worlds poor.
! And so unfortunate, poor fellow, as
not to recognize unselfishness when it
J stood before him--in shining robe and
halo.
THIS is a gift from a friend of the
column:
7 II was in Atlantic City. A man stay
/ ing at one OF the big hotels went over
/ to the business section of the city,
quite a way from the Boardwalk. He
saw a sign, shoes repaired while you
wait He thought it would be a good
chance TO have his fixed. The repair
man had just started on his shoes
When the electric lights went out He
tried in vain to finish the work by
candle light, but found it was no go,
SO tho man had TO walk a couple of
miles in borrowed shoes
Another customer said he could not
wait, because he had to catch a train
for Philadelphia. One of his shoes had
been repaired. and he went back to
the station wearing one good shoe and
one old shoe.
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A WEEK gives you time to skim
the surface Of London's big sights
{
dozen times in the movies-with an
afternoon thrown in for shopping. A
| first glimpse at hats-and what you
| look like in Themselves YOU an in
ward feeling that you want to slip
your party and go for last goodbye
to dear Edmund Crouchback, Earl of
Lancaster, groOved under stone in
! Westminster Abbey since 1896. And
though you have already had your
thrills over Rritain's Unknown. War
rior. who sleeps under a slab of black
marble quarried from a Belgian battle
field, the Poets Corner, and like spot
lights in this most historically SUI
preme spot in all London, the second
visit is more compelling for the chance
it gives you to see and to think things
for yourself, with no guide nigh for
to hinder. a..
Westminster Abbey, or the Abbey
Of St. Peter, according to the tradi-
tion that St. Peter in person left
heaven long enough TO halloW his new
church. had its first building about
COS. In 1850 Edward the Confessor
took up the erection of q magnificent
edifice on the site, and he is hurried in
the Abbey, which today is the most
widely celebrated church in the Brit
ish Empire Edward was crowned in
the Abbey. as has been every monarch
since, with the exception of Edward
V, who died uncrowned. Monuments,
tombs, buStS and memorials crowd the
great place--With the Poets Corner
most popular among the visitors who
daily swarm the Abbey.
Here are memorials to Britain s
most famous bards and writer's, from
Chaucer though only few are buried
within its precincts. Chaucer. who
was really buried here Q400). attained
the honor. not as a poet. but because
he happened to be clerk of the work
at Westminster. A white, slab marks
the grave of Old Parr, who died in
1885, at the reputed age of 1852.
The chapel of King Henry VII. now
in course of reconstruction, is the most
magnificent portion of the entire edi-
flee. The first stone of it was laid in
1902. In the chapel of Edward the
ConfesSor you sense the futility of
life's greatness, at sight Of six kings
and six queens lying in rows, and in
the middle is the large shrine of the
Confessor 0066l. erected by command
of Henry VII, and for centuries an
object of veneration to the devout -
so says your guide. Seemingly, the
custom holds. good today, since an au-
thorlty vOuChed to this one prOWler
among the Great and Gone that thou
sands Of pilgrims come each year to
kneel before the tomb Of Edward. The
coronation chair in the Confessor's
Chapel shows the Scone. or stone of
destiny, on which the Celtic kings
We're crowned. 1t is of Scottish origin.
but tradition Identifies it with Jacobs
pillow at Bethel The splendid tomb
Of Henry VII and his queen, Elizabeth
Of Iork-the recumbent eff1gieS in
bronze, Of Italian workmanship. rest
upon a tomb of black marble inclosed
in a shrine of wrought glass. 1t was
their son, Henry VII. considered by
some gracelesS humoriSt to be the
most popular pepper in all history
who divorced his first queen, beheaded
several more-not counting poor Anne
of Cleves, who was sent back home
to mother, and the lucky Mrs. Henry
who survived him--through whom
the Abbey. with it's handed-dow cen
turies of Catholic faith, became Of the
Church of England. Queen Elizabeth,
daughter of Henry VIII, is buried
mere. and near to her lies the elder
daughter of Henry. that Mary whom
some call Bloody who was the child
of katherine of Arragon. and who,
doubtless, revenged her mothers
treatment when she got the chance.
In your goines and comings through
LuC ADDty ana OIDef historic points
you come. across a number of graves.
each filled by Henry-his good friend,
Sir Thomas Moore; his true adviser.
Bishop Fisher, and number Of
monks and noblemen. who went to the
AK i'll preference TO recognizing him
as head of the church-and, yet, with
this against him-not unmindful of
tiirtatious Ann Boleyn, her disloyal
honor maid, Jane Seymour, and tricky
Miss HoWard-nor Katherine who
escaped beheading because of the
power OF Spain-and, maybe because
OF Henry own feeling for the woman
who had been his wife for IS years
nor forgetting the fact that Henry's
resentment of Martin Luther caused
the Pope to honor him as defender of
the Faith still. Henry had his good
points. And. if, instead of being com
PEELED to marry a sister-in-law too old
for him, he had been free to marry
some girl around the corner he could