The Britannia also took part in the racing at Largs, but after) leading for more than half the course she sprang her main boom, and missed victory by a very slight margin. The King was accompanied by the Princess Mary, and they will retain a vivid memory of Largs and its course, It was; a day of rapidly changing scenes, with a wind basis of a strong racing quality. It began with sunshine, changed to rain and haze, andj then became squally of a. quite September fierceness, finishing up' with a gale and the biggest and angriest seas of the season. The Clyde Fortnight thus went out with a flourish that was quite characteristic of the most intensely yacht-i ity in Scotland. As all those who hare sailed our seas are aware, this king of sports cannot, be satisfied with doing things by' halves.
Rupyary Kietixe axp tan Scots At a dinner given by the University of Edinburgh to the recipients of honorary degrees, Mr. Rudyard Kipling was_one of the principal speakers. He compared, our University buildings to a great! chain of well-devised Border fortresses and keeps of learning which, for generation after generation, had trained and equipped the Scot, for his capture and conquest of the world. He added that many' excuses for this overwhelming fact had been put forward by the overwhelmed, one of them being that a race born among granite boulders and compelled at an early age to seek their sustenance from under the snow would naturally find any condition of life elsewhere subtropically luxurious, Toy-MakiNG IN THe HuicHLanps.
The Highlands of Scotland may shortly become a toy-making centre. The Board of Agriculture for Scotland has-been considering the mat-it er, and the Committee of the Council on Education will be recommended to introduce toy-making as a home industry in the less populous districts of the Highlands where it might be made a profitable evening hobby.
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