Foreign News: Leech & Bloom

Rheumatic pains in His Majesty’s right hip (“nothing serious”) kept George Vfrom standing before or sitting upon his Throne last week. Nevertheless thelast two Royal Courts of the season were held, with Queen Mary, who became 63 last week, standing with tireless grace for three hours before her Throne. George V’s birthday gift to the Queen and Empress whom he calls “May” was a diamond pendant. No one could say whether she wore it or not at the Court, so encrusted was she with ropes, pendants and brooches of diamonds. Of the 14 U. S. citizenesses presented Miss Carolyn Farrar Apperson Leech of Louisville, Ky. and Miss Vera Bloom of New York most engaged British newsfolk. They learned from southern friends of Miss Leech that “she founded the international observance of Armistice Day.” Miss Bloom, they discovered, is a daughter of the man who built the Midway Plaisance at Chicago’s World’s Fair, Congressman Sol Bloom of New York (Dem.).