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...Borough of Forfar assembled before a table studded with ale bottles to pass suitable resolutions, drink a health to the "first royal birth in Scotland for more than three centuries."* They decided that plebeian ale did not befit the occasion, spent the town's money for four bottles of Scotch whiskey which were instantly consumed...
There is also a gruesome legend, "The Monster of Glamis," which is repeated at Scotch firesides in two versions. Version A: 500 years ago an heir of Glamis and rightful thane was born a hideous monster. He never died but is still alive in the castle's secret room. Version B: most of the Earls of Strathmore have been second sons, the firstborn sons, rightful heirs, being monsters which had to be spirited away...
Last week a few U. S. citizens with sporting friends abroad were eating grouse -plump red Scotch grouse sent by express steamers and heralded by cables giving warning of their shipment. For a fortnight the shotguns that the Scotch call "double pipe scatter guns" had been popping on the moors. King George was there to get a little shooting before seeing his new granddaughter (see p. 21). John Pierpont Morgan was at Gannochy Lodge and Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Hunt-hill, Brechin. Bernard Baruch could not stay but Silkman Emil Stehli and Charles Steele of the House of Morgan were...
...born north of the Tweed. The British postoffice, guardian of Britain's telephones, prepared a special wire from Glamis castle to the Royal Yacht Squadron (not "club") at Cowes to carry first word to King George. That able obstetrician Sir Henry Simson and the Duchess of York's dour Scotch nurse were ready and waiting. Newsagencies round the world kept their ears cocked, cables ready. All these preparations were for a Boy. If the Duchess' widely-heralded child should be a second girl, that would be interesting family news but of little world importance...
Black. English, Scotch, Welsh and Irish were the nurses chosen to attend George V during his desperate illness (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928 et seq.). Last week Irishwomen were one up on Englishwomen, Scotch-women, Welshwomen. Nurse Catherine Black (Irish) was appointed permanent nurse to His Majesty, installed at Buckingham Palace in comfortable chambers...