"What Is the Reason?"

The Official White House Spokesman did not mention it last week, but doubtless the President and Mrs. Coolidge heard about it--the conversation of His Majesty T. Goesti Bagoes Djelantik, Rajah of Karang Asem on the Island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies, and one Joseph Patterson, stock broker and writer, who returned home last week and got into the headlines with this piquant chitchat: The Rajah: "Where did you come from?" Mr. Patterson: "From America." The Rajah: "Is that further away than Singapore?" Mr. Patterson: "Much further." The Rajah, producing a newspaper photograph of President Coolidge and Queen Marie of Rumania: "I know. I have a picture of your Rajah. Is this his favorite wife?" Mr. Patterson: "Oh no, our great Rajah has only one wife." The Rajah: "How many people are there in your country?" Mr. Patterson: "110,000,000." The Rajah: "I myself have only 160,000 subjects, yet I have 18 queens and many palaces. What is the reason?"