In Cockspur Street yesterday 1 stopped at the window of the C.P.R. to admire the superb model of the Empress of Britain, beside which was plan and pictures of their Majes~ tes! suite, But T daresay they would be just as happy, for the moment at any rate, in a tramp. They have now, fas T write, had their last reception and can really rest. The universal opinion is that they have done their Job. as no two people, certainly not their position, ever did it before. T'met a hard-boiled Canadian jour-rialist this week, Just arrived, © and asked him, "Was the Royal tour all was cracked up to be?" answered. without hesitation, "More, and in America too."
Tu some ways the tour seems also to have had a ood effect on the King and Queen. "I don't know whether you picked up their broadcasts. But it was noticeable that whereas in hig first broadcast the King had two rather long pauses, in the second there was no trace' of unhappy people."
So they should be taken away to fa quiet, "pleasantly furnished room, where they might sit round a table, "which often makes for confidence," and tallc things out without restraint The magistrates in charge of such cases should be married men, and the court probation officers if possible grey-haired. Young offers were not Of much use, 'Some of these methods have already ven tried by one or two London magistrates' With marked success. How can one expect any good to be done when all' the private feelings of the husband and wife have to be ragged out in open court and perhaps made into a would-be funny story for the evening papers? More often than not both husband and wife fare very young, and the basis of trouble is no more than the reaction which follows the first months of wedded ecstasy, while they are learn-Ing to adjust themselves to the new life. "Probably both are secretly longing to make friends, but are tongue-tied, do not know how to, express themselves and are perhaps held back by false pride. For such fas these Mrs, Birley's methods might Only this week an English husband and French wife were before the magistrate at Feltham. Language dimculties seem to have been the main part of their differences. The
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