Notes

The Queen, to everyones' amazement, was distinctly seen at Wimbledon to extract a pair of heavy tortoise-shelled spectacles from a large case and don them. With the King and Queen both converted to the use of "American glasses" they are now bound to become widely worn and provide yet another mark of Anglo-Saxon unity.

To Buckingham went Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist-composer and quondam Premier of Poland. From Buckingham Palace came Sir Ignace Jan Paderewski, Knight Grand Cross of the Eminent Order of the British Empire.

A caller at the House of Commons was Colonel E. M. House, once the alter ego of President Woodrow Wilson. In the Premier's room was held a private conversation. Mr. Baldwin, Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and Colonel House participated.

Britishers, having just recovered from an appeal to their purses for repairing St. Paul's Cathedral, heard with dismay that Westminster Abbey is now in need of $2,500,000 for reparations.

A year ago there were ten hansom cabs in London. Last week, there were 70. Taxi drivers growled that Americans were to blame because they think a hansom goes better with London than a taxi.

The British Embassy building on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, is to be sold. Sir Esme Howard, who recently made the announcement, said: "When I walk through these rooms the building seems to reproach me." And well it might; for however dingy it looks from the outside, the interior is indeed beautiful and imposing. A liveried footman opens the door and in front is a heavy blue carpeted hall or reception room with a massive staircase to the rear, down which Queen Victoria, seated, gazes from the enormous dimensions of a gilt frame. To the left are two drawing rooms and the ballroom. To the right is the Ambassador's immense study. Everywhere are paintings of Kings and Queens and the lesser mighty. Only one touch of the incongruous is present and that is when the door of the British Embassy is opened by a flunkey from Spain who has failed so far to assert his mastery over the English language.