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Rama VI, King of Siam, having issued a decree "demoting" his childless Queen (TIME, Oct. 26), blazoned another edict in the Siamese Official Gazette last week, and "promoted" handsome Chao Chom Suvadena to that rank...
...Siam, whose king translates Shakespeare while foreigners carry on his government still has its Eastern foibles. One of the most fundamental traditions, that of the harem, the present king has modified after the Oxford manner. Possibly, the high cost of educating young princes abroad caused this scion of a prolific family to be so far converted to the doctrines of Malthus, as to content himself with one wife...
...idea was as Western as soap or bathrooms. Reno, Paris, the divorce mills of the Oocident are but crude counterparts of the gentle Eastern system of demotion. Many men would appreciate the opportunity of getting rid of their wives by the smooth working machinery used by His Highness of Siam. With judicious advertising, Bankok could become the demotion capital of the world...
Several of the foreign students are either the official representatives of their governments, or have official connections. The countries represented are China, Cuba, Great Britain, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, Russia, Siam, Sweden, and Switzerland...
...Folsom, Calif., one Lleieus- szuieuszesszes Willihiminizzissteiz-zii Hurrizzissteizzii was convicted of arson, was classed as an undesirable alien, sent back to his home country, Siam...