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...Last week rumors ran that he is "about to espouse a Swedish princess" (Astrid, 25, Martha, 20, and Ingrid, 16, are all available); and of course he might marry, said the rumormongers, Princess Giovanna, 19, but surely not Princess Maria, 12, of Italy. The press of the world has grown habituated to making itself ridiculous over Tsar Boris...
...quite sure that if you try to bring up youth on entirely unbiased history he will never read it. I prefer my own method of getting a vivid picture first and correcting it afterwards; because, generally speaking, you do not want to be fair until you are grown up. ... I think that to try to make young people see every side and sit on the fence would be to train up a generation of mug-wumps who would be singularly ineffective in practical life...
More robust was the Chicago Tribune's response to this later day touting of the name of Kipling. The Tribune's editor frankly admitted that he had written Mr. Kipling's obituary long ago, had grown tired of seeing it around the shop. Why not slap it in now? Done...
Senator George William Norris, who, more than anyone else, may be called leader of insurgent Republicans, has grown stoical during his 13 years of high office. Inirritable Mr. Norris philosophically decided at the close of the last Congress that the details involved with the chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee were irritating and asked to be relieved of that responsibility, though he would continue as a member. In all probability he will be succeeded by Senator McNary, author of the wrecked and wrecking farm relief bill...
...though to keep his nerves steeled against Fate. When a group of admirers presented him with a lioness cub they supposed he would scarcely venture to play with her after a few months. To the despair of his guards Signor Mussolini has become so attached to the now full-grown lioness that he insists on entering her cage for an occasional frolic. When he calls: "Italia! Italia Bella!" the lithe tawny beast bounds up to him, is said to purr with alarming loudness. To date 11 Duce has suffered barely a scratch or two from the claws of Italia Bella...