James Bryce, the British ambassador, in a speech before the St.
George’s Society, is thus reported:
With regard to the patron saint of England, St. George, Mr.
Bryce asked the diners if they had ever noticed that the saints
never belonged to the countries which had adopted them. St.
Denis was not a Frenchman, St. Andrew was not a Scotsman, and
St. Patrick was not an Irishman. All that was known of St.
George was that he slew the dragon, but no historian was certain
where he came from. He was, anyhow, not an Englishman. The
nearest approach the United States has to having a patron saint
was George Washington, said Mr. Bryce, and he was born a British
subject.--The New York _Times_.
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=Saloon as a Hindrance to Aspiration=--See CHANCE FOR THE BOY.