The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-05-27

much like him, although he is of
another generation, more progress
sive in many activities-but all of
them highly respectable and COM
mendable. He is not destined to
furnish anything new for the Cos
sips, once they run out Of wind.
At forty-one "a fresh, boyish for
ty-one), he has reigned six months
and in that short time has returned
a dignity to the throne worthy of
the best efforts of a much older and
more experienced man. He seems
willing enough to fall in line with
the idea that he should emulate his
late father.
He goes to church regularly and
has brought back to the Bucking-
ham Palace chapel the daily
prayers that were absent during the
reign of his brother. Whether
prompted by the case of Edward
or by the strict rules of the Church
of England, he has made the slight
est suspicion of divorce excuse to
refuse anyone aspiring to the hon.
ors of the court.
That he may have expert advice
in following his fathers footsteps,
he has returned to the post of pri-
vate secretary to the king his IA
theirs lifelong friend, Lord Wigram.
Other members of the old king S
household have likewise returned.
The country seat of the family at
Sandringham, Norfolk, will be car
ried on as it was under George v.
The tenants who left under the
economy of Edward are coming
back. Even his fathers racing sta
BILE and loft of pigeons are to re-
main intact.
Newspapers of England have
helped him to build up the resem-
blance to his father by calling at
tention to it at every opportunity,
even to the statement that his sig
nature, George R. II, is penned
in strikingly similar fashion to the
way his father wrote it, despite the
fact that he prints the "R. l."
while his father wrote it in long
hand.
Has Retiring Nature.
He is expected to become, indeed
he has become, admired by Britons
for the way in which he has sur
mounted personal handicaps. He is
quite at ease in public today, de-
spite the semi-retirement long
forced upon him by illness which
required his quitting the navy and
by stammering which all but tied
his tongue. An operation upon
his stomach restored his health
some time ago, until he has become
an accomplished athlete, and per-
sistent training under an Australian
specialist so corrected his stam-
mering until today he rarely ever
does it, except under the most eX-
citing conditions.
Long subsection to the more dy-
manic personality of his older broth
er as well as long periods of i'll
health have left him with rather
a retiring nature, so that there is
likely to be no more idle gossip
about him than there was about
George v. The raciest tales told
about him concern his revealed abil-
ity to cuss when some sailors inter-
fered with his shark-fshing and
when the microphone failed in a
public hall where he was speaking.
Oh, yes, and the time at college
when he was fined for smoking in
the street while wearing cap and
gown.
Yet in some ways he differs from
his sire. He does not live quite so
much the life of the court; rather
would he spend the days in the coun-
try, at his great, white house in the
park at Windsor, with the queen
and his children.
He has the interest in industry
that characterized Edward in one