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COMING EVENTS
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ness, CImo Fu Chrnkrabongs Phlvn
nnrtli, Prince Phitsnnulok, the heir
presuinpthe to the Slnmcse throne,
directs attention to the fact that
Kins Rama VI Is the tlrst bachelor
king of Slum In l!,r00 years. And,
what Is more, It Is International
diplomatic gossip that he Is waiting
to win an American woman to share
his throne. One reason may he that
ICiiil' itiinin hns seen American
jjy beauties In twenty stntes of the
Union.
Kama VI, known to his own people ns Senulct
rhra Piirniulndr Alalia VaJIravudh Alongkut Krao,
Somdet I'hra Rninu Thlhodl VI, Is one of the most
interesting monarch, writes Frederick Dean, Ai.
JV., In the New York Tribune. The llrst bachelor
that ever sat upon the Siamese throne, he Is said
to be waiting for an American girl to share his
throne. The king's grandfather, Alalia Alongkut,
used U) say that he desired and had a member
of every family of note In his kingdom In his
"'household." No outsider ever knew just how
many wives he did have. His son, Alalia Chula
longkorn, the father of the present king, had three
wives on the day before he was made crown
prince. On that day ho married ninety-seven
more to make up the complement of one hundred,
which was the proper number of wives for the
crown prince to have. When he died ten years
ago he had between 7,000 and 8,000. When his
aon, the then crown prince, returned from his long
fitay In Kurope lie had spent a third of his life
In England, France, Germany and Russia, and had
made frequent visits to Relgluni. Italy and Spain.
Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands his father
presented him with a collection of Slamobe
beauties, snylng:
"My son, here nre something over n hundred
of the beauties of the court for you to start light
liousokocp'.ng with, and to these you may add as
you see lit."
Rut the young prince, much to the discomfort
of his royal father, told the inonnrch that he would
linve none of this wholesale marriage business,
md added that when he was ready he would marry
"one wife, and she shall he the queen of my heart
as well as the queen of my realm." Ills father
took the derision of his son very much to heart
and some have gone so far as to say that his boy's
stubborn adherence to his word helped to end his
.royal father's life. When his majesty AInlia
VaJIravudh known thereafter ns Rama Vi
rtue to the throne, ns there was no queen and
no heir, n crown prince, or, as they fray In Slam,
an heir presumptive, had to he chosen, and the
lot naturally fell to the Into I'rlnce Phltsanulrk,
who was a brother of the king by the sumo
mother.
Slam Is a polygamous country. According to
Siamese law n man may have as many wives as
lie can Mipport. The households of royalty ran
Into almost countless numbers. Old King Along
kut, the grandfather of the present monnrch, used
to say :
"I like large families. I have eighty-six
children."
The present king has something like twenty
linlf-brothers and any qunntlty of hnlf.slsters. In
tloing awny with the royal harem his majesty
struck a blow at one of the oldest and most funila
inciitiil customs of the country. And If ho
chooses to step out ot the benten truck nnd marry
ii foreigner he will he cnrrylng out but one mora
of his unexpected reforms, for which he has been
noted ever since ho came to the throne.
Rama VI Is a remarkable man In m-iny re
spects. At the age of twelve he was sent to
i:nglail, where ho fitted Into the foreign school
regime ni less than six months. He played foot
hall at Rugby, learned to fence, ride and swim;
entered Into tournaments of golf and tennis, flirted
and wrote love lyrics. Later he went to Heidel
berg, where he crossed swords with the daredevils
nnd drank and sang his wny Into the hearts of his
fellow workers. Returning to Hnglnnd lie entered
Christ college, Oxford, whero on graduation he
took the flist prlo away from seven of the brain
iest of Britishers, nnd thi'n went to Paris, where
he wrote n pluy that wan produced at the Comedlo
J' nil i en! ne; he returned to Germany and wrote his
thesis for his doctor's degree In Herman, and,
after visiting every court In Europe, returned
home by wny nf America, where he stopped long
enough to pay the president an extended visit and
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"looked over" twenty of the stntes of the Union.
Ho Is the only eastern monarch with a western
education the most democratic despot In the
world. For Slam Is an absolute monarchy; pos
sibly the most absolute monarchy In existence
today. Rama VI holds In the palm of his hand
not only the property and possessions of his
9,000,000 subjects, but their very lives. A few
years ago, when China was In the throes of npt
one, but of several revolutions, and had declared
two "republics," the spirit of unrest started to
trickle down into little Slam, hut stopped at the
border. Slam Is called the kingdom of "Aiming
Thai" ("the People of the Free"), and nothing
could enter thnt paradise to disturb that "free
dom." The country Is so prosperous, the taxes
are so low, the advantages are so numerous that
those living In Cochln-Chlna on the east and In
Rurmn on the west are clamoring to get over tho
Slnmcse fence to become partakers of the plenty
that awaits all who make their home In this en
chanted land.
A ruler who Is so wise and so good, so gener
ous and so far-sighted, Is capable of performing
ninny modern miracles. He Is but forty years of
age and has been on the throne ten years. Ills
father ruled for forty-two; his grandfather was
hale and hearty at sixty-three. With his consti
tution of Iron and his well known temperance In
all things nothing hut an untoward accident should
deprive Slam of her democratic ruler nnd the
world of one of the progressives of the nge.
Over a half century ago King Alongkut hud In
his palace what he called his "American room."
Around the walls were paintings of every presi
dent of the United States. Often he has been
heard to say:
"I am planning my own country on the customs
nnd the laws of America."
His sou, the late King Chulalongkprn, sent his
son to the White Ibmiso In Washington for a visit
"that has been denied me, and which I con
sider to be one of the greatest of deprivations."
Fver since Slam was opened to the West
Atuerlcn has been foremost In the minds and the
hearts of the Slnmcse rulers. And If In his best
Judgment this enstern monarch shall find u suit
able mate among the women of America he will
but cement the long filendslilp between the Inutl
of the "free" of Asia and that other laud of the
"free" of America.
Alany years ago a Siamese monarch found him
self among a people without n woman of hlch
enough rank for hint to make Ills queen. So he
married his own sister. Since that time the cus
tom has prevailed tint the ruling monarch must
marry at least ono of his half-sisters, for the
heir must he possessed of royal blood on both
sides. The late queen mother was the half-sister
of his majesty, Alalia Chulalongkorn. Her sons,
therefore, were eligible to kingship. The lute prince
was the next In nge to the king, and, In every
way. was the rightful heir to the throne. Kducated
In England and France and having lived for a
long time In Russln, where he was captain of the
guard to the czar, It was hut natural that he
follow In the footsteps of many of the other mem
bers of the nobility and the royal family of the
Slnniew court, nnd marry a foreigner. Ills choice
was a Russian lady, not of royal birth, but of;
good lineage, who became Princess Catherine or
the SI'Miiese court. The new princess w-ri u vi
vacious young woman, handsome, clever, a good
linguist and an nll-around wife worthy of the bril
liant man she hnd captured.
She was quick to pick up tho Siamese tonguo
and spoke It lluently so fluently that she became
the go-between and interpreter for Siamese nobil
ity nnd mum- of the other young Kuropenn ladles
who, like herself, had married the hlue-hloods of
Slam. She was the llrst of their number to don
the Slnmese costume and wore It with such grace
that the others soon followed, and not long ago
the queen mother was delighted to see nil oC
the "foreign princesses" appear liefoie her, robed
In the liiilllant-hiicd dress of her own court.
Of course, being n foreigner nnd not being
equal In blond to her royal husband, It would be
Impossible to think that one of her two sons
should possibly wear the Siamese crown. And so
the choice may be the third son of the Into King
Chulalongkorn and his royal spouse the late queen
mother, who before her tunrrlage was known as
Princess Sawa Pa Pongse. This third son, Prince
Nnkorn Rajasrlmn, like his brother, the king, is
unmarried. His younger brother, however. Is
married, and married to a half-sister, n daughter
of King Chulalongkorn. His Issue, therefoie,
would be In line for the throne.
What niny work a great change In the policy
of the king nt the present crisis Is the fact of
tho death of the queen mother, who died Inst
November and wns cremated last month. She
was a woman of great charneter and her opinions
hnd weight with her son, the king. As a child
she was a brilliant creature In both mind and
body. Long before she wns chosen to be the
queen of her roynl brother she was eager to learn
everything thnt "brother" learned and nothing
wns ton hard or too difficult for her Impatient
nnd Impetuous mind.
In after life the little princess proved to be all
thnt she had promised ns n child. A lover of the
beautiful, she demnnded and hnd nhout her the
beautiful things of life. Not only llowcrs and
colors nnd Jewels for the body did she demand,
but flowers nnd colors nnd Jewels for the mind.
Never before hnd the young women of Slam so
universal nn opportunity for study. The queen
mother built school after school schools for the
princesses over which her own niece was placed
as "school mother" and for the staff of teachem
of which she searched nnglnnd, Curope and Amer
ica. Not content with this she Instituted other
schools for the others girls who had no royal
blood In their veins, hut who hnd brains In their
heads primary schools, graded schools, high
schools.
Long before the war she had become Interested
In hospital work nnd had hospitals for the women
of Slam ns plentifully scattered throughout her
kingdom as hnd her royal husband planted hos
pltals for men. And, when Slam entered the war,
It was the queen mother who started the Red
Cross work nnd gathered around her the chief
women of the nation. Not content with the hos
pitals already hullt. she built still another
larger and better equipped than any other In the
kingdom, nnd for It she sent to the uttermost
parts of the world for the best In every depart
ment. When the young king overthrew nil precedent
and declared that he would not marry any of his
half-sisters that he would not tolerate the royal
liaiem nnd that rather tlinn this ho would re
main single, It was the queen mother who stood
hv him and who assisted him In bringing out the
"women of the court" nnd compelled them to be
recognized as n part of the new scheme of things.
At hb- majesty's coronation ceremonies the young
women of the eouit the king's half-slsfers and
others who would naturally have become mem
bers of his household were, for the first time In
Slnmesi- history, seen nt the rojnl ball, In the
flieateis. nt dinners nnd other royal public func
tions. It wns the young king who decreed the
new order, hut It was the faithful queen mother
who mail" the new order a practical factor In
the life of the Siamese court.
Slam Is a tiny little klngdem, so cunningly
tucked nway under the eaves of greater China that
the fueiage globe trotter passes it by without so
much as u backward glance. Rut he who does
stop lingers, nnd, llngeiipg, Is lost In the lure of
tho luxury of this diminutive Avintic paradise.
For Slam Is the richest country of Its sl?e In the
world, and those who have lived there longest,
claim that It Is most fascinating.
The capital of the state, Ilangkok, Is filtuated
on the Alennm Chno Phyn ("the Roynl Mother of
Wateis"), n stream that, rising up Ip tho teak
forests of the North, cuts In twain both the coun
try and Its capital and. broadening IN banks, flows
malestlcallv past the fishing villages, pant tho
pnddv fields and empties Into the Half of lani.
The capital Is ten miles upstream, n city of
nearly nine hundred thousand persons, ft is call
ed the Venh'o of the Knst ami It has more canals
than Its iinmesnke la the Adriatic.
The Kliiiuesfct are a soft-voiced, plcnsure-lovlne
people; the corners of their mouths turn up they
are always looking for something hetter.
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SUCH essential things as suits, and
other clothes for tho street, aro
j launched by their manufacturers long
j before the season for their wearing
J Is at hand. This must be done so that
.merchants may buy them a little In
advance of the tlmo when they are
needed. September finds tho public
Interested nnd October finds them buy
ing very briskly their practical clothes
for general wear and there Is consid
erable business earlier, for outfitting
young women who are going nway to
school.
, It Is for tho benefit of such forta
'nnte young persons thnt tho very at
tractive suit shown In the Illustration
'is offered for consideration in August
jit Is ono of many attractive creations
that are specially well adapted to the
'lines of youthful figures. Drawing
'such conclusions as may be gathered
this early In the season, skirts aro
to vary considerably In width, .the ex
tremely narrow ones not appealing to
people of the best Judgment nnd there
nro really not any models that con
be called severe In lino among the new
coats. Skirts may be plain or plaited.
Coats nre a matter for rejoicing, hnw
lug those vague outlines that nr(
called "easy" and are particularly!
smart. Thero Is n grent variety In!
them nnd In sleeve, which may grow
less as the season grows older. It'
nil depends upon the appeal of tho sc-,
oral styles to tho public. '
Ono cannot go wrong In the selection
of n suit like that ono shown In the
picture. It has a straight klrt In a,
conservative length nnd Just wide
enough for comfortable walking. The,
coat is straight with narrow belt con
fining it nt the waist nnd there nroj
very long ends at tho front, finished
with tnssels. It reveals the persist
ence of ctnhroldcry nnd embroidered
effects In Htyles for fall and Indication
nro thnt this vogue has not reached
the crest of tho wave In Its popular
ity. Tho collar merits speclnl atten
tion, being a mixture of styles nnd'
a novelty. It Is so arranged that It
can be thrown about tho thront 11km
a short senrf nnd Is prettily finished
with flat tassels. Buttons secure It la
tho position shown by tho picture.
PIN MONEY PROPOSITIONS
THHRI2 nro women In every com
munity who would like to earn
pin money by some mentis that will
not Interfere with their home duties.
In the larger cities there nre "short
hour" women employed In tho shops,
with hours from eleven In the morn
Jng until three or four In tho after
noon, who Hnd they can tannage their
household affairs and go to business
too. Hut their homes are usually
pmnll and convenient npnrtmcnts In
which housework Is reduced to a
minimum of effort. Tho samo oppor
tunities do not come to women In the
smaller towns and villages or on tho
farms. In the lnrger communities
also there are opportunities of mer
chandising In n small way. Somo
women, fnmlllnr with millinery, do n
.thrifty llttlo business In the spring
and fnll of the year, buying and sell
ing lints which they display In their
own homes. Waists and neckwenr
urovo worth while for others. A busi
ness of this kind Is usually condncted
by women who hnvo had experience
In n store nt some time.
About tho most salable of all things
nre good foods. Women who excel In
nny direction, ns In making bread or
,cako or preserves, jams, pickles, or In
canning fruits, have nil opportunity to
build up a permanent sourco of In
come if they can Introduce nnd mar
Jjot their products. Alany of them aro
using the parcels post for shipping dl
Vect from country to city. Tho first
teqnlslte Is to gather together a few
customers, and this must ho dono
either through solicitation by mnll or
bv iiers-onal solicitation. A friend will
sometimes undertake to placo farm
products among her acquaintances In
tho city, and after tho producer gets
In touch with a few regular customers
these enn ho nsked to recommend
commodities to their friends. Pre
serves. Jams nnd pickles, being less
perishable than fresh fruits and moro
profitable, ought to prove Interesting
prospects to women who excel In mnk
Ing them.
Women who llvo nenr tho main
traveled roads used by motorcar tour
ists often ptck up considerable money
during tho summer months selling nil
sorts of eatables to tho passers by. A
signpost at tho sldo of tho road di
rects tho hungry nnd thirsty motor
pnrty to tho wayside refreshments.
Sandwiches, hard-boiled eggs, bread
and butter, doughnuts and cookies aro
onvenlently hnudled. Women who
k tlnd themselves near summer camps
for boys or girls can usually arrange)
to furnish supplies of some sort to
them.
Resides these usual means of pick-,
Ing up pin money there nre opportu
nities for women who own and drive!
enrs. In summer nnd winter resorts'
they get together sightseeing parties
nnd take them on short motor trips;
thnt yield a pretty profit, or they es
tablish n regular trip carrying peoplo
to and from certain points. Women',
hnve proved themselves quite equal to
driving motorenrs In nil parts of the
country. Somo young women hnvo a
very happy faculty for entertaining
children. They undertnko to look '
after n number of llttlo ones ono or
two afternoons In ench week, releas
ing mothers from their care for a
brief time. The children must be,
brought to tho home of their enter
tainer nnd cnlled for. She provides;
pfor their amusement nnd gives then
nny attention they may need, for a fee
liy looking nfter a number of theia
regulnrly the Income Is worth while.
Somo women nnd girls nro success-)
ful In soliciting subscriptions to peri
odicals and books. Some do well sell
ing merchandise, ns stockings, corsets.;
embroideries, among their friends. In,'
considering the matter of making pin
money It is necessnry first to take,
stock of ono's accomplishments to de-'
termlno what work Is easy to excel In.
Women who know how to plnn all tho
details for cntertaliuncnts, luncheons,
dinners nnd parties nre In demand In!
thickly settled communities nnd many,
of them turn their gifts to good no-1
count.
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Tho Modish Overblousa.
A boon to limited Incomes Is tho
modish ovcrhloutfo, which may ho mador
In all lingerie types and, aided by a
single skirt, gives the appearance oC
many different frocks. Ono of tho
smartest versions of a moro elnborata
garment was developed hi henvy filet
mesh, hip lpngtli, dyed Jade green. The
nwck lino was Influenced by the present
oriental mode nnd reached In straight
beaded bands from shoulder to shoul-i
dor.
An overmlddy of bluo crepe de china
Is embroidered In an allorer design lit
white beads. j
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