Ishbel

P:Just imagine ! No public Coney Island at this time of year. But I want to see the working class amusing themselves, so maybe I can visit some big sporting event. . . ."

P: Yes, not only had she seen Atlantic City but she had visited a baby clinic in Harlem.

P: "I just love waffles."

P: She does not know how to drive a motor car.

P: She received a marriage proposal from a U. S. swain-by-mail. "No, I am not going to America to look him over."

P: "Some of my friends have been trying to at least get me to powder my nose, but I won't even do that."

P: "I don't drink at home, so I suppose that settles that." The same went for cigarets, including endorsements thereof.

P: About seating arrangements at state functions: "I don't care. I just want a nice neighbor."

P: On the Berengaria she danced with Thomas Mellon (nephew) of Pittsburgh. "I'm not particularly fond of dancing. ... I don't dance at all in London."

P:From Wyoming to Washington hurried the Howard brothers, Edmond and Francis, sons of the Ambassador, just about her age (26).

P: Two popular beliefs which she wished to erase: 1) that she is "a great knitter"; 2) that she keeps house for her father.

P: Her prime interest in the U. S. : the juvenile courts of New York City.

P: "A very charming young woman." -- Queen Mary, 1924.

P: "A charming girl -- a splendid girl -- and I hear she is very capable, too." -- Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann, 1929.