Portraits v. Keys

Workpeople who have been employed 40 years by the Imperial Tobacco Co. Ltd. of Bristol, England, are sent to sit for their portraits in oils and these are hung in the corporation's Hall of Honor.

Last week Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York promenaded the Hall of Honor with Tobacco Chairman Sir Gilbert Wills. "I am reminded," said the Duke, "of a curious American substitute for such beautiful paintings, which came to the notice of my brother."

Edward of Wales, it appeared, had been told that workpeople employed by Marshall Field & Co. of Chicago for 50 years receive a key by means of which they can admit themselves to lavatories otherwise reserved for executives.

Passing on through Bristol, Their Royal Highnesses visited a Settlement where one Thomas Preen, 16, presented the Duchess with what he described as "a drawing of a caterpillar playing leap-frog with a rabbit and a mouse."

"Oh, how charming!" exclaimed Elizabeth, Duchess of York, and promised to carry the sketch to her daughter Princess Elizabeth ("Baby Betty") most popular infant in Great Britain.