The King and Queen were introduced to the game of darts when they visited the Slough Social Centre last night (Slough was turned. by war and the Government from a pleasant little country town of a few thousand people into'a monstrous industrial ugliness but it has a superb social centre where 5,000 members Get swimming, gymnastics, recreation of all kinds and education—if they like 1 "Slough and Windsor are, not part, geographically, and the King and Queen wished fo sce the Centre. It was quite an informal visit, and everyone was told to go on with their occupations in the usual way.
Directly she saw the darts game the Queen said that she wanted to try. So she had three shots and scored 21 and the King had three and only scored 19, and the Queen laughed and left the room rather reluct tantly to see the swimming and Darts is a most fascinating game: which has warved its way up from the public house to society. With the Increase of motoring ° public houses have become popular with our young people, and there they have Tearnt the attraction of darts. Now every big country house has a darts board as regularly as a dining table. But if you're going in for the game '<I don't know whether it has spread to Shanghai—be advised to have a very large board to back it. For the target {s small and bad shots can make a shocking mess of the surrounding wall. Indeed it was rather to the credit of the King and Queen that, never having tried before, they bit the target with li six shots,
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