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...used to beautify feminine cheeks, is assuredly the height of Babbittism. The news has just arrived from the Harvard-Boston expedition to Egypt that the princess, who was first thought to be wife of Sneferuw, used green cosmetic. If the walls of the tomb had also contained a solemn royal edict to the effect that no such decoration was to be used by the women of the Nile valley, the explorers would doubtless have enjoyed a hearty laugh at its absurdity. Yet it is just such an edict which the New Hampshire House passed...
...royal bedside went Sir F. S. Hewett, K. C. V. O., M.D., Surgeon Apothecary to His Majesty and Surgeon Apothecary to the Household; Sir Milsom Rees, K. C. V. O., F. R. C. S., Laryngologist to the Household; Lord Dawson of Penn G. C. V. O., K. C. M. G., C. B., M. D., F. R. C. P., Physician-in-ordinary. With one voice they declared that His Majesty's immediate condition was not dangerous and that his general condition was satisfactory...
...several days, the King grew better and better in every way. He remained abed, but attended to pressing affairs of State. The Queen appeared not in the least perturbed. The Prince of Wales only once visited his royal father and stayed to luncheon with his royal mother. The people were consequently not alarmed...
Despite the King's antipathy to taking a voyage at this time, it is almost certain that he will bow to his doctor's orders, which are sure to have the sentimental backing of a majority of the people. Accompanied by the Queen, he will probably leave on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert early this month for a Mediterranean cruise and may possibly spend some of the time with his uncle, the Duke of Connaught,* at the latter's villa near Nice...
...royal diary...