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gt From Old English Yeoman Stock With in Records of Race--Families - Emerged to Diplomatic Life After For- tunes Were Amassed in Railway Age. , HIS EXCELLENCY OUTWITTED GANDHI . Saturday, October 2. 1026. Rous (By Blowden Davies) A penetrating pen will some day evolution, The love of the soil still write & history of Rideau Hall} which will hinge upon the 'person- alities of its various vice-regal oe- cupants, 'There have been days when | fi Winro wore the ruling passions, days | to the arts and when the glamor of royalty made the | Ha} the focus point of all social | » Viscount Willingdon, famous administrator of Bombay and Madras. and Lady Willingdon, who arrived to-day to assume the vice regal honors af Ottawa, Lord Willingdon is a well-known spor tsman and Lady Willingdon a charming hostess. eyes; there were Ye when scions of Britain's oldest and finest aristo- crsey filled the King's place in bis biggest Dominion. In October it will yield to the sway of as interesting a pair as ever held its governance In their hands. Lord and Lady Willingdon | average |! are not familiar to the newspaper and magazine reader, not because of lack of achievement, but because their duties have been car- ried out with so little semsation or 1 to lurid interest, that gossip and small talk have had little to do with their names. They are of quite different stock '#0 the last few families to occupy the seat of government. Though bear {ug a title of high degree, they are not aristocrats, in the sense in _winich Lord and Lady Byng were of the aristocracy, or the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. They belong to that exceedingly $htoresting class ' of English, the yeoman stock. Their family records go back in history far beyond the origin' of many of Bagland's most famous 'titled A family originating in the days of Elisabeth, or of "the Stuarts (where, indeed, ALY great fami lies had their beginnings), is re as fairly historic. But the of both Lord and Lady trace their way far be that, evén to Norman times. In s Of 'what may have gone on in « the coming and going of from Plantagenets oll the to the House of Windsor, . yeomen of England have clung of their native land with ry that preserved them iu- sey class. They regarded with a sort. of toleration the rise of many 'aristocratic families, but treasured o themselves more highly the des- to son of re ------ THE DAILY BRITISH . WHIG "THE V WILLINGDONS WILL BRING FINE | TRADITIONS TO CANADIAN CAPITAL win is himself an example of the | tora, Australia. '1 At Cdmbridge for his | fies of the rsvy department "and then he became Governor of Vie 'It was here the two great'yeoman families crossed RAT went through Eton and Cambridge. two senior years he wad captain of the Cricket Eleven and led his team to victory In a contest out of which Cambridge graduates are still able to get a vicarious thrill. When he left coliege, and after a few years' travel, be became at- tached to the staff of Lady Willing- don's father as alde-de-camp. [aay Willingdon was the Hon. Marie Adelaide Brassey, Lord Brassey's three eéharming uz {wlings to him and his pigs and his roses divert his tired brain from |'politics. The son of a great mamu- facturer, he finds his vocation In to litera- | politics daughters, who, with .their father and their clever mother roamed all over the world in the famous sail. ing yacht, Tbe Sunbeam. Of those wanderings the mother's facile pen Coal and steel spell railways. The early part of the nineteenth century [ her diaries made her ofie of saw the development of the ® -- aS Te ---- ra kept a record, and the publication of the glant | most popular writers of her day. In| Ca NP NEW OCCUPANTS {OF RIDEAU HALL aigter industries, manufacturing and sransportation. Frederick Freeman Thomas, fa- ther of Lord Willingdon, was a great iron and coal merchant. Whan Free- mad Freeman-Thomas completed his education there was no necessity for his entry into business. The family had ecquired its wealth. The next step was therefore politics, and the diplomatic life. The evolution of the Thomas family had reaclied that point. In the meantime the same thing had been happening in the Bras- sey family. Lady Willingdon's grandfather was a friend of George Stephenson of railway fame. Through him he secured his first contract. He married a daughter of the tirdt resident of the néw town of Birken- head, child of the railway age. She encouraged him to become a con- tractor and eventually he became probably the greatest railway con- tractor in the world. He Duilt part of the Grand Trunk Railway, he puilt rafiways in Great Britain, In India, in Argentine, im aly, iu Borneo and elsewhere. When his son, Lady Willingdons féther, came to manhood, he too had acquired so much of this world's good that a business career was unnecessary. He too took to politics. Twenty years as a member for Hastings, them an of- ye WA CASTOR. pared to relieve Infants in' ~ arms and Children all ages of Coustipation, 'Flatulency,' Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Canadian libraries there are to this day bulky volumes, profusely Hlus- trated with photographs and sketch- es from those trips on which the merry family became so well acquainted with the world. Lord Bradsey's title, like Lorl Willing- don's was conferred as a reward for important Imperial services. Backed, therefore, by the best traditions of the finest British stock, familiar with remarkable eachieve- ments in commerce and industry and personally so closely associated with the administfation of civil govern- ment, Lord Willingdon has much to offer to Canada. In 1913 Lord Wiil- ingdon was made Governor of Bom. bay Presidency in India, fa authority over thirty million people of mixed faces, In British and native-ruled states. One of the powerful princes in his presidency was the Gaskwar of Baroda. He'was there through- out the war when Bombay, as the In- dian port nearest to Burope, was the channel for that great flood of soldiers that went from Indias to help win the war in the west. So successful was the edministration that he was persuaded ut the end of his term to proceed south to the presidency of Madras" (whidh, by the way, became British under the same treaty by which Canada was ceded Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by ind Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving natural sleep. Tm Zon Ril to Britain), where he had forty- i the Stomach everywhere recommend i BT RRR iE one of | daughter of Sis, Johnstone 'I has a broad knowledge without be- three milions under his 'administra- tion. There he was so successtul in seciiring mafive co-operation that he completaly frustrated the plans of Crate mens sein British rule. From the splendor of his oriental presidencies, Lord .Wil- lMagdon returned home with Lady Willingdon to England in 1924. There his rémarkeble knowledge of the oriental mind was called igto use in the matter of the return of the Boxer indemnity, which was complicated dy the present political state of China. His jon took him across Canada and Be Bad a bird's eye view of the country. He was in China when the message reached him, inviting him to he Canadian Governor-General. On his returs to London, Willingdon made: a speech which he recounted some of his! impressions of Canadians. The two characteristics which seemed to im-| press Nim most were the confi. dence and the optimism of the cpun-| { Lord | in} try. He concluded by a simple statement that was almost a vow. This is what he said "lI am determined, so far as it lies in me, 10 do my utmost to 'en- sure the prosperity and progress of the great Dominion." Lady Willingdon is a charming woman. Bred in dan at- here of public service, she hasbeen a valuable asset. to her dis- tinguished 'husband. She has suffer- ed, too, and carries within her heart a griet that will make her kin to 'Canadian women who wear little silver war crosses. Her elder son, doing his "bit" in France, vanished with the host of missing men. It was in the battle of the Aisne, in 1914, that he "went west," and no man has discovered what his fate was. Not among the dead, or the wobsd. ed, not'dmong the prisoners was he found. There are many Canadians who can sympathize with these folks "set in authority over us" who shar. ed the common sorrow of the war. Their second son, Capt. Inigo Prée- man-Thomas, now the heir to - his father's honors, is married to a Forbes- very Robertson. On the return of Lord Willing- don to Hastings, which hie had re- presented in the House of Com- mons, 'he took a hand in the return Quebec, City of the shield which had been taken from ome of the city's gateways io the conquest of Quebec and presented to Hasti There seams little doubt bat what Lord and' Lady Willingdon will ba 'personally popular in Can- ada. Lord Willingdon is a sports man, bolted for carrying imtoo all his dally dealing the principles of fair play. He is genial, in spite his natural reserve; he is fine tool ing, tall, bronzed, muscular, ead) looks tem years less than his sixty years. He Is a fine Freach scholar, ing a Dookish man, and is well vers- ed in financial affairs. Lady Will ingdon is a worthy daughter of one of the noblest women of her age, the \ ¥ Sunshine Furnace London, Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Saint John, N.B., Hamilton, Calgary, - JURRY, Kiddies, get off your duddies, the bath is ready." No shivering or hesitating in' the genial atmosphere of the home peated. with a McClary's 'Sunshin ce. fied in the f ne Sr Pg / Warmed air properly. humidis urpace, uniformly dis- tributed to every room in the home, gives it that summer softness . which means comfort and health to all the inmates and that is just 'what the Sunshine Furnace is guar- anteed to do when installed by McClary's accredited dealer in your district. 'No More Fuel Worries The Sunshine Furnace elimin- ates the fuel worry, too. It burns 'hard coal, soft coal or coke equally well. All Cast Iron Construction gives it the sturdiness to stand up under the concentrated heat of coke, and the patented Exclusive Air Blast Ring by a simple opera- tion of the drafts enables it to burn soft coal as well as hard coal. Write your nearest McClary's Branch for free booklet: Canadian Homes," "Winter Comfort in that, will give you much interesting information about heat- ing, fuel, and the proper installation of furnaces so necessary in solving the problem of comfort in Winter. MClarys Saskatoon, Edmonton, Liverpool, England late Lady' Brassey, Whose charities | were famous. Much of her sweet-} ness, ber fortitude and her graci-| ousness have been transmitted lo Lady Willingdon, who is also a! charming bostess and a woman of broad intelligence, October will see the beginning of | the Willingdon regime in' the ting of Rideau Hail -- : Quill pens ars still made from the | long wing feathers of geese. st A GRAVES BROS. PLUMBERS AND TINSMITHS 211 PRINCESS STREET gents for McClary's Furnace and Gas Ranges TELEPHONE 332 Issued by the Ontario Depart- ment of . Highways to secure the co-operation of motorists and tyoek operators ix abating the sbuse of the roads of ihe Province. t Overload Your "Frc this Fall 40,000 Trucks Now Use Ontario's Highways : Commercial users have increased from less than 2,800 in 1916 to 40,000 in 1926. h County Engineers and others complain of damage to roads because of overloading of trucks and speed at which they are driven on ~highways. The necessity of limiting loads was recog- nized by the Government three years ago. Unless you wish more drastic legislation, further limiting of weight and speed v will co-operate with the ight a He and o the law. All taxpayers must not be penalized because of temporary profit to the few. Road repair bills should never be Wai demioms and will not be if you use the highways reasonably. Penalties are fant driving. nIcessary. ovided for overloading and hese should be unnecessary, but will be rigidly enforced whenever THE HON. GEO. 8. HENRY, Minister of Highways , 8S L SQUIRE, . Deputy Misister . - . a