The Cabinet reshuffle at Westminster necessitated a certain amount of rearrangement in another quarter. I refer to Madame Tussaud's famous ax works. When I looked in just before the Parliamentary change-over they were busy giving Neville Chamberlain a new body so that he could stand up and altering Sir Simop so that he could sit down.
The head of the Government is always on his feet at Tussaud's, while the Chancellor invariably oc-Cupies a chair. Other members of ihe Cabinet are grouped round a table which is modelled on the one at Downing Street.
Surprise was expressed in some quarters at the refusal of Mr. Ram-vay MacDonald to accept a peerage, but his nearest friends know that he prefers to be thought of as a man of ihe people.
At least two other distinguished politicians have adopted a similar attitude when honours were offered. Gladstone declined a peerage from Queen Victoria. Harcourt, though he accepted a knighthood when Gladstone promoted him to the office of Solicitor-General, would not allow King Edward VII-to make him a peer. are of the utmost importance in your ' eyeglasses.
The frames are incidental, but the best Doctor's prescription can be spoiled if "cheap" lenses are supplied.
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