Down to Rio

Like a spry cock sparrow followed by two plump robins there hopped off the steamer Avelona, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last week, David Lloyd George, followed by his wife Dame Margaret, and their daughter Megan.

Soon the Lloyd George family were welcomed as official and honored guests of the Estados Unidos do Brazil by President Dr. Washington Luis Pereira de Souza. Three days in Rio and two more of inland excursioning, to be followed by a swift return to England, was the vacation program of the onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling's India."

On the way to Rio, Mr. Lloyd George crossed the Equator and was rousingly ducked in consequence by "Father Neptune." Miss Megan Lloyd George confided to ship companions that she plans to stand for Parliament on returning to England.