George A-Visiting

Last week George V., modest Imperator et Rex, felt stirring within him that urge toward pheasant shooting which in his youth caused him to become one of the crack bird-shots of the Empire. While the Prince of Wales spurred madly after foxes and Queen Mary occupied herself with vague housewifely duties at Buckingham Palace, King George set out for his annual visit to Elveden Hall in Suffolk, where some of the finest pheasant and partridge shooting in England is to be had.

As all good-grade Britishers know, the owner "of Elveden Hall is the luxury-loving Viscount Elveden, first Earl of Iveagh. At 78 he is one of the most notable British exponents of la chasse de luxe. His huntsmen-guests are dined wherever they chance to find themselves at mealtimes, with the aid of an especially built traveling kitchen. Throughout his almost limitless estates there are scattered more than a sufficient number of hunting lodges, at which opulent shelter is to be had.

Sneered certain backbiting gossips: "The King has gone out to hunt with Edward Guinness, who made his millions out of Guinness Stout. He has been an Earl for only six years."

Others said, "The King is reported to find the informality at Elveden refreshing. It is significant that Colonel Walter Guinness, Lord Iveagh's younger son, has recently been appointed Minister of Agriculture in succession to E. F. L. Wood, who will go to India as Viceroy, succeeding Lord Reading."