Notes

American rodeo cowboys and cowgirls made a lasting impression upon Londoners when they arrived at the capital of the British Commonwealth en route for the Wembley Exhibition. One cowboy, sitting on the hood of an automobile, yelled: "I want to rope a red-headed goil." He did, but she turned out to be a blonde, so he let her go. Every silk hat within a rope's length was regarded as legitimate prey and Londoners took it all with marked good humor. One body of men who quite overawed the excited "cowpeople" were the London "bobbies;" they were not molested. British stockholders in various Anglo-American brewery companies formed an "Individual Liberty League" "to obtain from the United States Governnent for shareholders in Anglo-American breweries compensation for losses sustained through Prohibition." Earl Birkenhead, ex-Lord High Chancellor, was elected President of the League.

At the annual dinner given by the Rhodes Scholars at Oxford, Lord Grey of Fallodon, ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that the future of the world depended upon how far the U. S. and the British Commonwealth could pull together. He stated that common ideals and not a common language were the basis of agreement. He thought that both countries wanted the same kind of a world in which to live, and that the problems of both were not problems of republics or monarchies but problems of whether free government was to be maintained and liberty upheld.

Constance Mary Lyon, shopgirl, who recently claimed before an Edinburgh court to be a cousin of the Duchess of York, was declared to be the lawful child of Herbert Ernest Bowes-Lyon, nephew of the Earl of Strathmore. She is, therefore, the Duchess' cousin.

The worst floods in 40 years followed heavy rainfalls in England, the North and Midlands suffering most. Much damage and some loss of life was reported.

Visitors to the Engineering section of the Exhibition at Wembley received a sudden shock when their umbrellas and purses and other articles containing steel were torn from their persons by an invisible force. The thief was a giant magnet weighing 6,720 pounds.

Said Lady Astor about Lord Astor at a Temperance Convention in London: "My husband is a modest fellow; you have no idea what he has sacrificed for the temperance movement. If ever he had any political career, he sacrificed it whe,n he took up the cause of temperance." Said Lord Astor about Lady Astor: "Since my wife has taken part in public life I have had occasion to change my politics and outlook, but every time this is necessary I find that my politics and outlook end on a higher plane."