I was interested to see that Prince Henry followed the latest fashion of leaving his hat behind him when he arrived at St Mark’s, North Audley Street, on Wednesday, with the brother officer to whom he was best man. The bridegroom, Major GE Gosling, likewise came hatless, and so obviated the usual difficulty of retrieving a silk hat which, almost invariably, gets lost in the vestry.
With the gradual passing of the opera hat for all occasions except the theatre, many well-dressed young men, setting out to dine and perhaps two or three dances, leave their top hats at home to avoid having to carry them while driving or climbing in and out of the low-built cars which have become so popular.
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Now that the fashion has spread to weddings, it looks as though the ranks of the “hatless brigade” will become greatly augmented, with corresponding detriment to the silk-hat-making industry.
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⬤ Extraordinary evidence was given at an inquest in Rathmines, Dublin, yesterday, on the body of an unknown man found in the Grand Canal on Thursday last. Three different witnesses identified the remains.
Frederick Maguire said he knew the body was that of his father by the shape of his nose. Mrs Parkinson said she was quite sure the body was that of Frederick Maguire, who had been lodging in her house for six months. Mrs Connor said she identified the remains as being those of her husband, Charles Connor, with whom she had not been living for some time, by the shape of his ears, nose and the bald spot on the top of his head.
The inquest was adjourned for further evidence of identification.
⬤ Earl Winterton, MP and under-secretary for India, yesterday unveiled the St George-in-the-East war memorial in St George’s Church Gardens, Stepney. The memorial, which was dedicated by the Bishop of Stepney, is a pillar of white stone bearing a raised crusader’s sword. It cost more than £240 to erect.
The unveiling of war memorials, said Winterton, was one of the proudest duties any man in public life could be called upon to fulfil. The Great War had shown the heroism of the people who lived east of Aldgate, and he was glad that people of the two great religions of the district, Jews and Christians, had combined in the raising of the memorial to the men of all faiths who had fought side by side.
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⬤ The will of the late Mr Joseph Conrad, the writer of sea stories and formerly a master mariner, has been proved. He left estate valued at £20,045, with net personalty of £17,854, and expressed the wish that Mr Eric Seabrooke Pinker should continue to act under his trustees as literary agent. Mr Conrad left his property to his wife and two sons.
