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...come for observance of an old Haitian custom. A crowd gathered with itching palms before the Presidential Palace at Port-au-Prince. Tradition bade the President to appear, inquire whether his people had any grievance, listen to any complaints which might be made, and finally?this being the real point of the old Haitian custom?finally to fling several bagfulls of small but handy coins...
Before he left, the Mahatma bade goodbye to Mrs. Gandhi, a shriveled little middle-aged Hindu. Well-educated, she oversees the cooking and housekeeping at her husband's headquarters and ''college," lectures to Hindu women, promotes a "spinning campaign" whereby Hindu women of high and low degree are urged to spend some part of each day at their looms...
...Mahatma also bade goodbye to a six-foot sun-blackened, scantily-clad girl of 30, with a shaven pate, who is general supervisor of the headquarters, and would tend his tasks during his absence. Srimati Mira Bai he calls her, but her real name is Madeleine Slade. Once a freckled blonde, she is a daughter of the late Admiral Sir Edward Slade of the Royal Navy. She studied philosophy in several Continental schools, found nothing to inspire her until she read of the Mahatma's labor. Correspondence with him followed; in 1926 she went to India, cheerfully accepted the year...
...parties a good woman gives are usually, and perhaps should be, dull. Everyone knows that Buckingham Palace is deadly dull, as dull as it was gay under . Edward VII. Point One: the Queen bade to tea only the wives of such members of the Delegation and Diplomatic Corps as had themselves been received by George V at levee. Point Two: the Queen, while graciousness itself to everyone, did not precisely enthuse Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson (two of whose ancestors were May-flowerites) by chatting longest with another U. S. guest. Point Three: after the ladies had had their tea Queen...
...Military Academy at West Point last week let out 64 cadets deficient in studies. At the station, Major General William Ruthven Smith, superintendent of the Academy, bade them goodbye, wished them success. All were still in uniform as they passed through Manhattan on their way home, but newsgatherers had no trouble in singling out the one they were looking for; a tall, broad-shouldered boy of 20 whose face was darker than the dark brown-paper bundle under his arm. He was Alonzo Souleigh Parham, the fourteenth Negro to enter West Point, the eleventh to leave before graduation...