The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-09
Small Fortunes Will Be Won
and Lost by the Noblest
and Richest.
LESSON AS TO LOW NECKS.
Nazrulla Khan, the Afghan Prince,
Shocked by the Cut of Swell
Ball Costumes.

Whitsuntide holidays those who could do
so fitted to the country or few to the sea-
side, and the town has been com paratively
deserted by those who furnish food for the
gossip for the millions. But they are fit
ting back to London, doubtless refreshed
by their trips, and are again plunging into
the whirl of metropolitan life.
The rumors SO persistently circulated
recently of the probability of an early
dissolution of Parliament are gradually
dying out, as the moving spirits of both
the Conservative and Liberal parties have
already been made up for the racing
at Ascot Heath, which will begin on
Tuesday next and last until Friday, in
elusive. There will be assembled Britain's
noblest and richest, and small fortunes
will change hands daily in the wholesale
betting which will take place almost
within sight of Windsor Castle. All will
be out in force and no doubt Nazrulla
Khan, the Afghan Prince, who has been
feted and petted until the very mention
OF his name to the sober-minded citizen
is almost nauseating, will be there in all
his half-savage glory.
Ii the northern Occidentals have reason
to laugh at the un-Parisian cut of his gar
ments, he feels justified in showing con-
tempt at the lack of garments when Eng
hsh women come dressed, or rather I'M
dressed, at terpsichorean affairs. During
the official bali he actually had the pluck
to refuse to offer his arm to Lady Lans-
downe, whose decollete was even too con-
spicuous for this son of the harem. In
stead of promenading arm in arm he
walked just a step in front of her.
1t was comical sight. When asked
why he did this he said his father would
never forgive him if he learned that he had
walked arm in arm with a half-naked
woman.
There is the usual row about tickets of
admission to the royal Enclosure. The
Conservatives assert that Ascot suffers
terribly in its former exclusiveness on ac-
count of the Liberals being in power, as
the master of the buckhounds, Lord Rib.
blesdale, who has had charge of such
matters, is obliged, it is claimed, to admit
the wives and families of his radical SUD-
porters.
A ticket of admission to the grand stand at
Ascot Heath contains the following clause:
"lf the holder in default in respect of stakes,
torfeits or bets upon horse racing, or has
been guilty of any fraudulent practice on
the turf, or any matters connected with it,
or shall display and make use of any stool,
color, hat or number, badge or name or
other device for the purpose of betting, or
taking money in advance for bets, or make
bets (past the post) his ticket will be
forfeited and he will be expelled from the
stand and inclosure without having any
claim to the return of the money paid for
his ticket"
But there are people who do not look
upon being present at Ascot as a great
honor. Vanity Fair, for instance, consid-
ers it to be mo compliment to be, one of
such mixed and addressed crowd" Last
year, it says, the lawn was swarming with
people who had never seen royalty before
who stood staring straight at the royal
box.
1t is announced that DR.. Pin, the English
lawn tennis champion, who has for the
third time Just captured the Irish cham
pionship and won outright the Fitzwilliam
cup, has decided to retire from the tennis
field, owing to his growing practice as q
doctor.
1t is expected that Viscount Cough, the
first secretary of the British embassy at
Washington, who, by the recent death of
his father, succeeded to the title and family
estates at Cough Castle, County Galway,
and st. Helens, County Dublin, will soon
return to Ireland from Washington.
As cabled to the Associated Press yester-
day. Mr.. Arthur George Van Sittart, Sec
rotary OF the British Consul at Chicago.
has been appointed in succession to J. 81,
Sadler to that Office. Mr.. Van Sittart has
been IN the diplomatic service for twenty
years, and his transfer from the latter SER
vice to the consular service is very rare
departure. But promotion in the British
diplomatic service is slow, and the con-
sular post at Chicago is worth f12OO yearly.
Marshall Field Jr. has taken Earl Rus
sells beautiful little place, Amberly Cot
tage, at Maidenhead. The Earl, whose
troubles with his cratic wife have brought
him before the public in an unenviable
light, has lately been delivering addresses
at Newington and other places on marriage
morals.
Some confusion was caused here and
elsewhere in regard to coming breach
of-promise suit, which is sure to attract
considerable attention. unless it is set
tied out OF court. It was announced dur
ing the week in the newspapers that
MRS. core, formerly an opera bouffe act
ress, had brought an action for breach
OF promise OF marriage against Lord
Sudeley, and it was asserted that she
had retired from the stage upon becoming
engaged to his lordship. 1t happened
that Lord Sudeley is an eminently re-
spectacle elderly man and married, with
grown children, and weakness for spec.
ulation in stocks, which made MIN well
known throughout the city. His friends
were terribly shocked, until it was ex.
planned that mistake had beeu made in
the names, and the actress is suing Wis.
count Sudeley, dashing young man, and
a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guard:
and a member of Whites, the Bachelors
the Turf and the Ranleigh clubs, all very
aristocratic institutions. The young Wis
count is the only son of the Earl of Arran
who sits in the House of Lords, and in the
confusion of names the SUIT has been dis
cussed in smart circles, as Viscount Sude
ley is well-known figure about town. III,
is 81 years old.
Some curiosity has been aroused here
over an advertisement which has just ap