Foreign News: Gaspers for One

His Majesty’s venerable aunt H.R.H. Princess Louise, dowager Duchess of Argyle, dowager Baroness of Inveraray, Mull, Morvern, Tiry et al., daughter of the late, great Queen Victoria, attended recently a concert staged by her own Kensington Regiment, found fault.

“Why aren’t the men smoking?” she questioned crisply. “Let them all smoke! In fact, I want a cigaret myself.”

Shamefacedly the regimental commander pulled from his pocket a slightly crumpled pasteboard container. “I am sorry, Your Royal Highness,” he apologized, “these are not one of the best brands.”

“Nonsense!” snapped Victoria’s daughter, taking one of the cheap cigarets, bending over the embarrassed officer’s match. “Nonsense, I always smoke gaspers!” and as the concert began His Majesty’s venerable aunt was seen to inhale vigorously.

Queen Mary, since it became publicly) known that she smokes (TIME, July 14, Aug. 11), has received a constant stream of protests, not from Her Majesty’s own subjects but from women’s clubs in the U. S. babbitt belt. The Queen does not smoke “gaspers” (popular brands) but medium priced, tipped, essentially feminine cigarets.