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THE STANDARD MAGAZINE SECTION OGDEN, UTAH. JUNF. 1914 lM Who's boss In England. the $ueen or the King? Just now It I tl rumored about that the Queen Is 8 boil. She must be boss. , A few years ago when Gray came g home from Canada, where he had j been serving as Gcernor General, , King: George of England, who had f ja Idea he waa boss of his own g people named his own uncle, Ar t tfcur of Connaught, brother of his g fither, as Governor General Connaught's term is practically t &n end. Has the King returned him' The newspaper dispatches if he has not and the people of I Enrand say they know why. It Is f that the Queen, who doesn't believe la woman suffrage. Is boss. f Her brother, thr- Prince of Teck. bu the position and the Queen Is happy. (her across the water, the Cana 41ms are not happy. They are jlbmocratic and hoped that when Connaught was retired some one otiide of the royalty would get the Poit England thought it was a Popular move to compliment the ' People of Canada- It does not seem however. The first hint that England re vived that such a move was not Popular was when the Hon. H. R. Emmerson, a member of the Cana- 'Itn House of Commons, protested Mt the rule of another royal Mnce. Hty objectl on," he said, "Is to JyHy, and foreign royalty, being fought to Canada. Wo have gone th limit with the Duke of Con UfhL if necessary I would be 'fepared to move a condemnatory fuolutlon." These views of Mr. Emmerson jT been approved by a number of -idlan newspapers, and there is weipread sympathy there with his ntment against the establishing "royalty in the Canadian province, The failure of the Duke of Con stat, who is King George's uncle. fulfill the expectations formed -England at the time of his ap W.ntment to Canada In 1911 is not Je the Duke himself, but to the .urtiers of the court at Ottawa. Tn P'te of the simplicity of manner, fKen'a,lty anri kind heartedness !th the Duke and Ducnes5' not" lnandng the absent of any f even of condescension in j lr attitude toward those with i m they were brought into eon arid their efforts to reduce Lmp ard fuss and feathers to a 1 inimum. they have been sur- Jjajed hy a royal court. )tnT rXDID -l "UK or conn v(. ins. Bfl this court promptly undid all tin the Dukc and the Duchess and Ifo , daUhtor' tho PrlnrCPS Patricia to charm and please those with they came In contact. TJie r0.m 8 ot th royal entourage did a f) 'p.. "m to appreciate Ihc fact that A ' iWil1 Hal at Ottawa is neither lfJ,0r Castle nor Buckingham 1 l ' and they displayed a marked 100 ; yf tact and diplomacy. ?her' iHr!ernbt'rs of thr' households of the I tit" I scions of tho reigning house ,tloO j ftKUnd have been recruited for """f !vrC,gn from certain families "J1; ftled and untitled aristo- ufin,! V ' and known as court families. h n W lhoir youth up they have ,ldC,!f brcd 10 the Idea that their ln Hh. duly on Joining one or an to Cil f the Ioval households was f de- i'MiT hat appeared to then, Lred W Dres,1mp'ioll on thr part of of Utir ar,prachlng their Illustrious Ciuro 88, to discourage and repress icnt. ,td u anything that savored of familiar ity, and to keep people at a dis tance by surrounding the royal per sonage in question with an almost impenetrable wall of etiquette. That sort of thing goes all right ln England Where there Is a tendency to place royalty on the highest of pedestals. But in Canada condl- tlons aie entirely different. There the people are intensely democratic; so much so that, as Is also the case In Australia and New Zealand they disdain titles .to such an extent that the acceptance by any public man of a knighthood or of a baronetvy s usually held to mar his political prospects, And so the Canadians, won M the affability of the Duke and DucheSS, and of Princeae Patricia, received an unpleasant shock when they en countered the members of the court Their enthusiasm for the royal Gov ernor was chilled to a considerable extent when they were cently but nrm,v pushed into the background the gentlemen and ladles in waiting. nd when they were In formed that It was contrary to roal etlauette to broacn a iubjecl In con versation with roval.y without wa t lnK for the latter to take the intla-tlve- that it was wrong to take a eat to the preso.co of the Duke and ou" receiving permission to do so. Indthat is was pomethlng very akin to hife'h treason lor persons to talk J t one another in anything but llll r 1 hushed voices when royalty was on the scene. All this impressed the. Canadians as being rank foolishness And it soon alienated the Canadian people from the Duke and Duchess, whose only fault was their failure to select as members of their suite dignitaries more tactful and more appreciative f the difference in the atmosphere of Ottawa to that of the Court of St. James. The Duke of Connaugnt accepted the office In Canada purely from a sense of patriotic duty. He believed that in so doing he would serve his crown and nation. He had nothing to gain by taking the office. He was very wealthy, both through his Inheritance from his mother. Queen . torla. and through his wife, who had a large fortune left her by her f it her. Prlnoe Frederic k Charles of Prussia- Indeed, instead of maklm? money out of the post at Canada, It Is quite probable that he was forced to supplement his allowance and alary from his private means. The Duko had already refused a European throne, that of his naibr brother, the late sovereign Duke of Saxc-Coburg and Gotha. He al ready possessed the highest honors that the Sovereign could bestow upon him His acceptance of the Office of Governor General of Canada necessitated his taking orders from the Secretary of Slate for tho Col onlea .it Whitehall, and his asking permission for leave of absence when he visited New York and Washington a couple of years ago. Ills lif" In England was almost Ideal. He is the most popular of British Princes of the blood, both of 6 TOP, left Duchess of Connaught, aunt of King George of England, by marriage, and wife of Governor General of Can ada. At right King George of England. Center Prince Alexander of Teck, brother of the Queen of England, with the Princess and his children. Prince Alexander will succeed the Duke of Gonnaught as Governor General of Canada. Below, left The Duke of Con naught. Right Queen Mary of England, home and abroad, ana is always a welcome guest at every foreign court. He has a stately palace In London, and a great country estate at Bushey Park There is no doubt that he made a big sacrifice when he left England to assume the duties of Governor of the Domin ion. It is a sacrifice which has never been fully appreciated by tho Canadians, as they, naturally proud of tholr country, could not conceive if anyone making a sacrifice when ihey came there to live. But It is a sacrifice which has been without avail; not through any fault of the people of Canada, not through any fault of tho able and 1 unsi ientious Duke, his popular wife and daughter, but almost wholly through the fault of the members of their royal court. If Hie Duke of Connaught. a gal lant soldier, an able administrator, an extremely popular Prince was a failure as Governor General f Canada, the Prince of Teck. who bears a German name and title, and who does not enjoy the same re spect, prestige and popularity as Hie Duke, has a hard task before him. He has no great fortune. In deed the comparative poverty of the Tecks has been the cause of much newspaper comment; Queen Mary had come to the assistance of the Princess In keeping Insistent trades men at bay. And so Prince Alex ander is liable to be handicapped by the feeling among Canadians that hh appointment was prompted by a desire to provide him with a well paid berth But if he and the Princess dis pense with the presence of courtiers Imported from England, they will r.void one disadvantage which has proved the great drawha' k to the administration of the Duke of Con-naught. Itomaus Rapidly Becoming Ex tinct. "When In Rome, do ns Ropimii do." must soon be metamorphosed into "When in Rome do as the Ro mans used to do." The discovery has Just been made that of the Roman peoplo- who once conquered and ruled the entire world, there Is little more than a literal handful left At tho rate at which thej have been disappear ing for some time past, a few more generation! Will witness their com plete extinction. This rather ftartllnc condition was brought to light when a recent attempt was made at Rome to or ganize a "Society of Romans of Rome." Although a canvass was iiimle of the entire city to invite I : : w I hi v personally even' person who could lay claim to be a Roman, the result would hardly have passed for a ward meeting in an American city ln an off-campaign year. With some thing of the spirit that their sturdy ancestors showed, however, the few dozen Romans who succeeded in finding each other in Koine decided to organize the society and keep it going as lung as a singlo Roman ia left ulive. In tho Investigation which fol lower the discovery of the gradual disappearance of the Roman people. It wai found that there still remains at Rome only one small, solitary quarter Where enough Romans live to Justify saying that that portion of Rome is still Roman. This is what Is known as "Trastcvero" or the "Across-the-Tiber" district It Is inhabited exclusively by the poor er classes, but classes composed al most exclusively of Roman families. Although taken altogether these families do not number more than 200 or 800, yet the old Roman type, I and especially the old typo of Ro man female beauty, is often found. A.ide from this small Roman col- I ony the remainder of Rome Is ? completely in the hand3 of foreign- ! ers as the world outside of Rome I was In the hands of the Romans I twenty centuries ago. Close to one- j half of the population of Rome are American, English. Jewish, German .. and other foreign nationalities, ! '":;s, while a goodly portion of the busl- I ness and Industry of the city is also ln the hands of the "forestlerl." Of that portion of the population j which Is Italian there are larger representations of the other Ital llan peoples, such as Neapolitans. Tuscans and Plemontese than of Romans. j This oil but total disappearance of Romans Is apparent In every phase of Roman life today. In the middle ages, when the Catholic Church was supreme at Rome, prac- j tlcally every cardinal was a Roman. j Today ln the entire Sacred College, j Cardinal Cassetta is the only reprer 1 sentatlve of the Roman race. Repetition of History. If Charles Dickens were living to day. and in Washington, he woulu 1 find characters rivaling those he re- called during his days as parlia mentary reporter. The fascination of official life- and the charm of be ing within the horizon of many cele brities never seems to wear away ln Washington. Former officials remain after their term of office expires, to do the things that they wanted to do while in office. In the libraries are many "browsers" looking up spe 1 Iflc Information that might be avail able "some time " It Is always ln lerestlng to meet one of these ell Informed and Intelligent men who spend their time researching for bits of past history. Congressmen and officials, swirl ing In the maelstrom of public life, I often find use for 'recorded" infor- I matlon thus unearthed. In a re cent discussion on s question of is- 1 sue, a browser pulled from his pocket some material that was later used by a member of iongrcss and found Its way Into the Record. The browser was proud to be the Instru- inent of making "history indeed re peat itself." while the congressman felt very learned as he presented historic Scarcely a situation comes up to day In public life that has not had its counterpart ln the records. The discussion of the money question brought to the surface information . oncernlng the "House of the lied I Shield ' known as the House of Rothschild, end how the Civil War I was about the only great conflict tr conducted in modern times f. without a connection directly or In directly with tins powerful money Jfc; Interest. This fact has thrown a new 1 itr h t on the universal genius I of Abraham Lincoln. H The story of his struggles In H financing a disrupted nation with- H out financial help from abroad m l j In SpitS of foreign opposition. brings him ' loser to the eminence of a financial genius than even his H Intimate friends and biographers I have dreamed. Back of every move ment is human impulse, and one finds a comparison between the men of today and the men of yesterday "H an endless bundle of biography. with only the dates changed. As a dear old friend remarked tho other j day: "The emotions and passions of l men operate ln Just the same way now as they did a hundred years I ago, only there is a different frama on the picture."