After all the politicians in the House and Senate had filled pages of the _Congressional Record_ with denunciations of Great Britain--most of it intended for the entertainment of Irish-Americans and German-Americans in the constituencies--the two Houses proceeded to the really serious business of voting.

The House quickly passed the bill by 216 to 71, and the Senate by 50 to 35.

Apparently the amount of Anglophobia was not portentous, when it came to putting this emotion to the test of counting heads.

The bill went at once to the President, was signed--and the dishonour was atoned for.
Mr.and Mrs.Page were attending a ball in Buckingham Palace when the great news reached London.

The gathering represented all that was most distinguished in the official and diplomatic life of the British capital.