Foreign News: Mr. & Mrs. Cinderella

In a tiny Scotch cottage, among very common neighbors, live Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, he a coal miner until his grimy neighbors in their might sent him to Parliament.

In 1924 the King-Emperor could think of nobody better than Mr. Brown to send as Lord High Commissioner and direct representative of His Majesty to the Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

In a great, clattering coach Mr. and Mrs. Cinderella rode to Holyrood Palace, lorded it over dukes and earls for 10 splendiferous days, ate and drank with homely dignity things they had never...

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