New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-15

sanity, and played at whist as atrocousy az ever an
great men play games badly. Perhaps they are ne.o
enough in their game OF chess or cards. oehg uisua0
nv superor considerations Yet it does not seem So
Mr. Gladstone is as eager at his game as an ahe'en'
spinster When the table wobbled have seen nl jump
m eeure book or pamphlet look first at the title ana
then put It under the short tabeeg to make All sea!
But he is an awful player, nearly as pau Us 4u''
the late Irish Secretary who Is the terror OF 'ne
room at the Reform Club. Mr.. Forster Is one OIL u"o
bestnatured men in the world and II seems hard tha'
he should not be allowed to take his turn at whist ho
anybody else But then he does not play Ike anypouy
else and is avoided like pestience. He does not m'h
paving for his fun and loses fearful nnhper Oh n
crown points in the course of the season but ho wv
the game as Taleyrsnd loved it. Talleyrahn was u"
arocious player, but paid the large sums nc ost ~
Travellers Club with unfailng cheerulness. "heh MS
Mariners lost all patence and made cutting RENAL ks ne
only smiled paid up and went on playing as WERNER
C1orofte like a wel-conduced person, went OH cu'
ting bread and butter" Why it may be asked I'll" no'
Pho Mono play billiards well He had plenty OF ptao-
tice And again. how odd that two great generals NJ"
poleon and Frederick the Great shouiu nave P"'
abominably M chess! So.
Mr. Gladstone has no time for club card-Dlaying hut
delights IN after dinner Part of the Gladstone soc
method is clever and agreeable lie always talks 10 '
new man. the person he has not met, who Il 10 MIN h
sh uncut volume Slash go the Gladst"h"h p"oS
tions like one OF the great paperknyes IN vogue o
point displaying astounding eagerness Tor lmorh"''o
What Is most curious Mr.. Gladstone is the ml'a-
blty OF the man, intensely human aud therefore NV
able Wellington College has long appeared 10 'ne IL"
jority OF reasoning men monstrous perVersoh VI '
original object of the endowment. II instituted Ior
the education OF the OF poor military oicerS'
lowest rate that any boy can be admitted for Is apou
5000 year. and the general average Is 500 the reu
expense being much greater rs the extra boys VINO
pay 5000 or more and thus contribute materially as Mt
Gladstone holds to the keeping mp OF the establishments
set an example of luxury and eNtray agahee witch
very pernco,l,ly on lads who may have TO live on theI
army pay with very slight assistance from lneI! @ nj
Mr. Gladstone a stanch upholder OF TINS az ,c
and improper administration OF trust iund lhtehueu lo
poor boys
Yet il was only a little while ago that heard HIM. over
dinner table, inyeighing asaiiSI te S are not
penditme OF Eton boys, VINO except Wy w' o rch
poor al all. There can he no possible Optcon W ~ -
@ of t hundred rounds not dollars per head. If they
choose In do so II a man afford from twenty {
hundred to three thousand pounds 10 sehu us IN a.,
Eon first and xford aferward the money Is wen III
vested. often this education costs ere,i a. oboa
il large item of expenditure aud ocke-lnoney TUE it
into A serious sum. young friend OF mine VINO l lcit
brave truc and generous had his finer instincts nc
vron,d Inv ms excellent father. who when he went fs
cheek hook without that frequent and bitter accom-
imminent OF palciua dollars, advice he ad G q NC
With rcn lcc that when he one Of ms ere itor'
check before leaving. the ancient dame nh"r on pI
haste tie bank TO make SUR oi ht nioloS ,t
II
fIe only Fon boy who had and has banking hcc9nnt
Mr. Gladstone Is shocked at such thing, protested nn
ali th roclct money he had at one time was ihe
or four tounls aud that boys were now lhnpcr'u ah
,nr. fed IN . nr.pnsterois extent. he was rem ndri
of standard we're higher and work mental s wen as
rIy.ir4I. had become more severely competitive. nc
said mat tsre wa something IN ihai. ht NOT 80 WuIn
os MA. Sumo cd Tor according 90 record LION uS "I,.
rcsc :. inches moro the hieh lump than thcN dlh
in hi, youth The grand old lnau !, "a strong al Z"
/ reply ever.
Nolrtle curiosity wa, excited on Thursday by The
fnir of a new theatre called. ai~urdy cJ"i-H. 'he
IoIr. r,uafiquc-. with The iarccdl COMEDY 81 Ascot
me cast whcrroi was ALLEGED To h,, with one 90 t""t
,.pt lus composed cntir ly ~ rcionS ~ no4' a','
,.i, nnf plopf.d the STAGE profession l'IN Iu
NOR Enthusiastically circulated and parpcraphrd houtu
fl Lo.r on the hI-t night There , no doui utl we
hon Roger NolyncuN, brother ~ Lord ~"it" "i ~.
cpJer Md Glove fimc and thc Hon Ms Nnr'" "r-
| the Erv Ni>couut Molc-wurths daughter, a. "'' ~
Florence Nfirryatf. Imuur Oh" company "i INC ~,
| Dr,matiluc-. However Sue only noble scion VII"
| " t,rn,ed "A lion was MI ellie w upuhiI WIZ
payrl exceedingly vel and Will make, Gc-, "m "''
! lax -u 90 good actor. , NJ .,.o
10 nleht Mis- lIla Hilton. The VII" Of an "Nc,r r the
| royal Iuciu.cga viii open tsr opera ,ouiIu' nllH
bondage that there r. mo- longer any d"up' il ,Ir
luruer -lcr.' Jcamc- called tAcnl are '4'i!l! m
| tcres cdin the Drama.