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J. H. SANDERSON. V. S. VILLAGE AND FARM PROPERTY ALW’AYS ON HANDS Glazier. Grainer and Paper- Hanger. RESIDENCE. RICHMOND HILL Tel. )1. 3631 RICHMOND HILL, THORNHILL AND UNIONVILLE W. HEWISON HOUSE PAINTER, A large stock of Funeral Furnish ng Kept at the above places BARRISTER. SOLICITOR, NOTARY ETC Toronto Office, Richmond Buildings, 33 Richmond Street, \Vest. Richmond Hill Office (‘ Liheral’ Oflice), every Thursday forenoon. Maple, Thursday afternoon. Woodln'idae, Saturday forenoon. Money to Loan at Current Rates Barristers. Solictors. &c MANNING ARCADE, 24 KING ST. WEST. TORONTO, CANADA Frank Denton, K. C. John Irwin Grover Arthur A. Mucdonald Harry D. Anger Denton, Grover & Macdonald PIANO TUNING Jofim, CAMPBELL, REAL ESTATE Special attPntion given to sales of every description. Farms and farm stock sales a specialty. Farms bought and sold on commission. All sales at- tended to on shortest notice, and con- ducted by the mostapproved meLhods. 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RICHMOND VETERINARY SURGEON, "Elnornhill. JOHN T. ANDERSON PIANO TUNER TEACHER 0F ‘iano and Wroice gofin .7. 9auidson Organs Repaired. ing‘t Work WRIGHT BROS WILLIAM COOK â€"AGENCYâ€"â€"â€" MANAGER Residence Elgin Mills Residence Phone 41.4 RICHMOND HILL. ONT.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1917 Princesses! Geell Isuppose weall have preconceived notions of Princessâ€" es, either from Alice in \Vonderland, or Anderson’s Fairy Tales. or from a. fleeting glimpse of Princess Patricia, when she was in Toronto. But I tell you whatl expected: It was (1) silk, (2) more silk (3) still more silk. I expected to see much silk. followed by more silk rustle down the stairs. and it would be up to us to salaam and murmur wnrds of adoration into nui whiskers. The Princesses would con~ descendineg how. and we would very sclf~cnnsciously enter the tea-room and essay the impossible. by performing the acrobatic stunt of balancing a tea cup. a plate. a sandwich, a cream puff and a knife and fork on one knee, try~ ing at the same time to think of some- thing else. wishing that we were better looking and that our feet were smaller. and wondering if the war weie still going;r on. Then some one would stand up, we would kow tow again, bow our~ selves out backwards. bumping the door en route. a bobbing flunkey in pea-blue or sea-green livery would gently but firmly push us into our car and away we’d go. But we arrived about three. A very trim servant met us and told us to wait in the reception room. He was the only servant we saw in all our visit. After a while we noticed two drab figures coming up the path outside. 'Izhe most noticeable features of their uttire were dark grey rain coats. and very simple hats. In they came. Mrs. MacDonald cnrtsied. and Miss Flora made a gesture like a P1 eshyterianâ€" hunting for a Psalm on a dark Sunday morning. Then Mrs. Mac said : “Your Royal Highnesses. let me introduce." etc.. etc. I was third on the list. and was just wondering whether to let my knees sag the way they wanted to, or And so we prepared to go. Craw- ford filled up on beefstezik and pota- toes. as he might be too shy to eat: Hudson filled up on atmosphere and statistics about Canada to beguile the Princesses with; I dot’fed. with the aid of the barber. a lot of my superfluous capillery vegetation on the apex of my cranium; and Groen donned his little old cork-tree font, and away we went in Mrs. MacDonald‘s cur, with Mrs. MacDonald, Miss Flux-:1 and many, many gisgivingfis and sinking of heart. ’1‘he?rificesefinyul had phoned Mrs. MacDonald in the morning Lu say that she would receive us at the Royal en- trange. Swine class to us, eh ? About. six miles the other way you come to Mar Lodge. which is the home of the Duke of Fife. It is about this that I want to tell you. because I was given a very fine opportunity of seeing it. The late Duke of Fife, if you re- member, married the Princess Royal, the eldest daughter of King Edward VII. One of their daughters is ma rried, I believe, to Prince Arthur of Con- naught. The other, Princess Maud, is at home with her mother. Mrs. MacDonald. our hostess, has become very well acquainted with their Royal Highnesses. Her hotel. the Fife Arms, is upon the Fife Estate. On Sunday the Princess Royal phoned down to Braemar. asking Mrs. Mac- Donald and her daughter, Flora, up for tea. Now, Mrs. MacDonald. should have been a general. She went up and had tea at Mar Lodge. and in the course of her conversation, told Her Royal Highness of the four uioe Cana- dian officers who were her guests. By all accounts she lauded us clean up amongst the Milky \Vay and Venus and Adonis and Herpicide and lhe rest of the stars. _Anyway, she stimulated a. ray wholesome “curiosity in the Prmcess Royal’s heart to see these boy wonders, and the result was a most cordial inviLaLiou to spend the afternoon at Mar Lodge on Tuesday. As I said before, Mrs. MacDonald is a general : she is also a \VODdl-‘l‘. So is her daughter. But this is neither here nor there. There are four of us pulngnns of wisdom and beauty, as I said before. There is Capt. Hudson. M. P. R, of Wainwright. m the Provincial House. Like all politicians he is full of much breeze and tact. There was Green. a Nox-Weginn. who lost his leg on the Somme last year ; them was Crawford. son of the Hod. Thomas of the same name, Speaker in the Ontario House. and there was yours truly, of whom enough has been said. 7 The followinginteresting and umqne letter, dated Edinburgh. Scotland. Oct. 30, 1917. was received by Mrs. \V. D. AtkiAnsn‘n from her son, Licuc. W. D T. Atkinson, servihfiquTHHâ€"lg Battalion : Letter From Lieut. Atkinson Edinburgh, Scotland. Oct. 30, 1917. we noticed two drab up the path outside. able features of their L grey ruin coats, and ;. In they came. Mrs. tsied. and Miss Flam like a Presbyterian [atlm gt} a aayk Suflday In Essentials, Unity; in Non-Essentials, Liberty WV _ __.V_.D..... There was absolutely no formality. We chatted away as the spirit moved us, which was Often, and in sundry places. N0, girls, I’m not going to forget that litLle tea party for a. While. - ' r .I “" “ "“ V After tea we were shown the draw- mg momâ€"a magnificent, place, show- Then we walked to the larder and saw the-re venison, which lbev send to Military Hospitals, and tu their stables and saw their carriages; their horses, all but one team, they gave to the Guttde at the outbreak of war. Then we swapped partners and went on through the gardens to their ,pri- vate chapel. Princess Maud and I walked together this time. The Prin- cess Royal had designed the whole chapel, and believe me, she was no mean artist. The color scheme was perfect, and the windows magnificent. Princess Maud showed me around it herself. Her father, the Duke of Fife, is buried there. and there are tablets designed by the Princess Royal to King Edward. the Duke of Clarence and Queen Victoria. umuas at me outbreak of war. \Ve strolled back to the house and let ourselves in ; there wasn’t a servant in sight. Ten. was on the table in H. large, dingy room. H. R. H. sat down by the tea. pots. Princess Maud faced her. Mrs. MacDonald sat two seats from H. R, H. on the right ; Miss Mac- Donald faced her. \Ve men sat in between. All which showed more art on H. R. H’s part. The sexes were beautifully shuffled, and each of us mere men had the honourofsitting next to Royalty. My own seat was between Princess Maud and Miss MacDonald. whi'ch washighly reasonable I thought. \Ve went first to the hall room. It isa large barracks of a place. quite simple and unadorned, except. forthree thousand skulls and horns of three thousand deer. not, to mention about. fifty deer. Three thousand skulls, un- derstand. with no flesh on them. just, the white bone and dark horns, and the arrangement, was absolutely won- derful. By careful selection they had brought, together those horns which mnsL closely resembled each other, By setting the skulls up regularly they had made it into n sort of weird pat- tern. But it simply defies description. \Ve took our hats off on entering, hut H. R. H. made us put them on, saying we'd catch cold. After passing the time of day H. R. H. suggested a. walk around the grounds. So she zmd Hudson led the parade and off we started ; Gwen fulâ€" lmved with’ Princess Maud, and then we lesser lights. The Princess is quite reserved. evgn shy. _ She is hard to describe. 1n the early twenties, her dark hair well down on her forehead, short and inclined to he stout, but one of the most, charming girls I have ever seen. Her mother is quite tall and fair. She looks quite like her- mother, Queen Alexandra. and she put; us at our ease in about: two minutes. grabbed it like a Sixteen your old girl grabs a. naval officer‘s. It was the Princess Royal’s. She gave me a vex-V cordial shakennd I murmured somev thing. [don’t know what. I think I tried to say. “Your Royal Highness." and “I‘m pleased to meet, you,” at the same time. Then followed the Plincese Maud. to stand rigidly to attentiun, when I noliiqedft‘ hfypd held out, to me, and [ Alex. MacGregor South York Electors Will best WIN THE WAR (Opposing W. F. Maclean) By the people For the people Government of the people mm Honestly, it was one of the finest timesI ever had. ] felt just like I would in any one else's home. A ClOSH-llp view like this reveals them to he just as human as the rest of us ; in fact a little more so. \Ve certainly were. wonderfully lucky. \Ve were, as I have said. the first Canadian Officers that their Roy- al Highnesses had met, and were the 1 first Canadians to have been in Mar r Lodge, and you bet we appreciate the ( honour. and when “old age has seamed our cheek. and our joints begin to creak, and our teeth are made of as- l phalt and cement," and when our hypothetical grandchildren foregather on our decrepit knees, and ask us to tell ’em a story. I fun’cy that the won~ drously interesting tale of the aged lady who dwelt in a shoe, will he often left unsnid. and that the burden of oursong will be our little old after- noon's‘domgs at Mar Lodge. yuyrr, uuc lUl' Cull“ ()1 Lne rl-mcesses, as they graciously said they wished to preserve them in remembrance of the first Canadian Officers they had met. They saw us to mu- car. No caerulean flunkey bowed us out. “79 shook hands all round again. We thanked them for theirkindness. They made light of it: and hoped we really enjoyed ourselves. Say, girls. is it any wonder We are wearing 8% hats, all of us? \Ve are absoâ€"bullyâ€"lutely unbearable with conceit ever since. The car was a closed one. I rode outside with the drivéx‘. So I hauled off and did a rigid military salute and clambei'ed aboard. and just; get this, they waved at us till a» turn in the drive hid us from view. But. I hav? prated enough and more than gnough, As I said'at the start, I trust all is We“ at home. Then We returned to the reception room and the Princess Royal presentâ€" ed each of us with a. lucky com to wear with our identity disc, and a book~a Sort of comic. illustrated one of trench life. I got my Canadian nerve into play and asked for an auto- graph in it. I was not refused. Prinâ€" ccss Maud followed suit. Believe me, children. that little libretto is going to occupy a. prominent position in the centre of my study table when once again I am a. poor pedantic pedagogue. At preSent it is in Mrs. MacDonald‘s fire proof safe, and will be brought to Canada by me personally. if I don’t die of old age before the War is over. \Ve were asked to sign the visitor’s book. I had :1. squint back over the preceding pages. Most people sign 0an one nameâ€"Dukes, Kings and such folk. I suppose I might have signed my nickname. Then we signed our names twice more on sheets of paper, one for each of the Princesses, Then they produced cigarettes and invited us to smoke. I wonder just how many vulgar Canadians from the land of Indians, log cabins. bears and real estate booms have been invited to smoke in (he presence of Royalty I 7 ing further touches of the Princess Royal’s artistic taste. It was done in rich green and red. The most. pmmi- nent, picture was a Landseer, of which tbs‘y seen'ied very proud. 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