The Press: Modern Pilgrims

"Checking New Englanders Round the World" headlines the Boston Evening Transcript over an entire page—"Our Modern Pilgrims and Where They Are Today." Then follow great lists of Bostonians and New Englanders—"Leaving Kobe, Japan, tonight for Nagasaki": So-and-so and So-and-so and So-and-so; "At sea between Algiers and Monaco": So-and-so; " Now on the Nile": So-and-so.

Here is what The Daily News (New York) says about royalty: "Holding down a job as a king or a royal prince nowadays is pretty soft. They don't have to work at it—the lucky stiffs!"

This was apropos of Gustavus...

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