Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-08-31

Honorable Mrs. Herbert, wife of General Her
bert a most aristocratic lady, was one of those
favored, and on ringing to order her carriage
was told that "the coachman had gone out
She had to telephone for cab. When she en-
tered the ballroom at Government House. the
first thing she saw was her coachman dancing
with Lady Aberdeen. This is a factl
Another day Mrs. Herbert and friend were
asked there to lunch and went at the appointed
hour. After keeping them waiting half an
hour in the drawing room Lady Aberdeen came
In, apologizing for keeping them, but said that
thS tsHaddo club had meeting that morn
ing and she only hoped the servants would
have time to get them something to eat. Evil
IDENTIFY the servants hadn't, for after another
long interval tray was brought into the draw
ing room with small plate Of ham sandwiches
and some cold tea not fit to drink, and that
was all the lunch they got.
The domestics at the vice regal mansion are
most insolent. They don't attend to the guests
and make audible personal remarks about
them and laugh at their own jokes. The other
evening at dinner a lady asked the butler for q
fork, and he replied haughtily, Madam, all
you require is on the table,"
At an evening party few weeks ago friend
of mine told me that when she went in TO sup
per-quite early, too-hve or six Of the maids
were sitting down at the supper table, stuffing
themselves as fast as they could. One was al
last induced to pour out cup Of coffee, but
poured out another for herself at the same
time, endeayoring to enter conversation with
the guests.
The servants wear no ouniforms-not even caps
and aprons, which Lady Aberdeen regards al
badges Of servitude. Other peoples servants
are beginning to follow suit and say they will
not wear them either.
His excellency always calls her excellency
baF h0fh in ntIh IN nd TN bk
state drawing room, held in the senate cham.
ber at the beginning Of the parliamentary ses-
sion, every Jack and Jill in Ottawa was pres.
ent, while but few society people put Ia an ap.
| pearance. Mother" got tired Of standing
when the ceremony was about half over, 30 ev.
erything came TO standstill for her to rest
She was just going to sit down on the ''thrOne.
but remembered in time her husband repre-.
sented the queen, at any rate In public, what
ever he might do in private. There was no
where else TO sit, so they split the difference
and each sat down on an arm of the throne
| and dangled their lower limbs, to the great ed
| ification Of the galleries. He chatted to hii
aids-de-camp and she to her ladies in waiting
| till sufficiently rested to continue.
Lady Aberdeen's appearance is against her
| She has good clothes and jewelry, but seems t.
| throw them on. At the recent drawing room
| no two people would have looked more out Of
| gal state were intended Lord and Lady Aber
deem have most effectively provided spectacli
| to make loyalists weep and republicans jeer.
| There is quite q romance connected witt
Lord Aberdeen's marriage. The young peel
| was on a walking tour through Scotland, ant
| knowing that he was somewhere near the cas-
tie of Lord Tweedmouth he thought he woulC
| call on him. However, as the hills were envei
| oped in a thick Scotch mist, he soon lost Inf.
way and wandered about helplessly for hours
When It lifted slightly. he perceived in ths
| distance a young Scotch lassie, very plainl;
dressed in homespun and accompanied only b,
q large collie dog. Thinking her some shep
| herds daughter, he said, my good girl, car
| you direct me to Lord Tweedmouth's2',
To his surprise and embarrassment, tn.
| good girl" replied, II should think / could
considering have lived there all my life, beinf
F.! his daughter"
| They chatted merrily after this, and or
| reaching the castle It turned out that the IA.
theirs Of the young people had been firm
| friends years ago. The acquaintance thu
made ripened into friendship, friendship intt
| love, and their wedding bells rang Nov. Z, lS77
| The union has been most fortunate one fol
Lord Aberdeen, as he possesses q morbidly
sensitive and nervous temperament and Il
| frightened, 1t seems, by his own shadow. hang
ing persistently to his wife's apron strings o.
oil occasions. Indeed 1t is common ssyinf
that she 10 the better man Of the two.