Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-12-19
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London, December 1S.-The extraor-
binary mild weather continues to the
! manifest advantage of London's poor
Christmas does not appear so heart
rending as usual. The shopping streets
are bazaar like, the curbstones being
crowded with vendors of a wonderful
variety of marvellous penny toys.
TIE court left for Osborne, Isle of
| Wight, at 10 o'clock yesterday, where
there will be larger Christmas parties
than usual Of the Battenbergs, Con-
| naughts, Lornes and Albanys, though
the festival will be of the quietest de-
scription, the only entertainments be-
ing for the children.
The Countess of Warwick expects to
give birth TO child in February. Her
youngest is now fourteen years OLD.
She is very busy over new scheme
to establish an agricultural training
college for women, to educate them in
scientific and commercial dairying,
poultry and bee rearing and the pre-
serving Of fruits, jams, etc. The
Countess, however, has found time
to write life of Joseph Arch, the labor
leader and president OF the National
Agricultural Laborers' Union, who has
also been a Methodist preacher and has
lectureQ for the union in all parts OF
! Great Britain and Canada. In this
work the Countess of Warwick, who
was better known as the famous beau
ty Lady Brooke, expresses advanced
views on Mr. Areas theories
The Christmas theatricals at Blen-
| helm will include two playlets written
for the occasion by Mr.. Malcolm, in
which the Duke and Duchess of MARI
borough and Lady Randolph Churchill
will have parts.
Lieut. Robert E. Peary, U. S. N, ana
Mrs. Peary, will return to the United
States On board the. American Line
steamer ST. Paul, which sails to-day
from Southampton.
The Crown Prince and Crown Prin-
| cess CT Greece, otherwise the Duke and
Duchess of Sparta, will soon leave
Athens to be absent for year Prince
Constantine is suffering from severe
nervous depression, and he and his
wife, the Princess Sophia, Of Prussia,
will go to the Riviera and then to
Germany and England.
Henry Labouchere is the author Oh a
Sensational article in Truth, the au-
thOrity for which is Well-knoWn for
eign diplomat The article says:
Greece was involved in the war with
Turkey owing to the endeav0r of King
George to bluff the Gar into huTrying
the marriage Of Princess Marie. The
Gar declined TO interfere and King
| George, knowing that Russia was most
DESTROYS that there should be no dis
turbances in the South of Europe, play
ed with the war party until it got be-
You'd h s control. The Car then warn
en- King George that the Turks would
occupy Athens and that his dynasty
! would cease to reign. Fing George
finally entered into an agreement with
Russia. the after promising the Turks
shoIId not go beyond Thessaly provided
! no real sand was made against them
that the Greek forces in Epirus would
not seriously operate against Janina
and that the Greek fleet would remain
inactive. All these arrangements were
carried out, the Crown Prince Prince
1 George and Col Vase all having secret
orders from the King
The Daily Chronicle, which continues
to champion the cause of the Greek
Royal family, processes to know that
the story is untrue, but it is generally
believed
Clement Scott, the dramatic critic.
has stirred up a storm by the circula-
ton Of advance sheets of an interview
for Great Thoughts. attacking the NOR
ais OF the stage. His utteranceS are bas-
ed upon the most. intimate life acquaint-
ance with the personnel Of the profess
sion, and his position as Dean of the
London critics gives his views import
ance. Seeing the advance rec ption. Mr.
Scott requested the editor MOT to print
the interview. which he Teffsed to DO
Mr.. Scott, in the interview. g3i6 it was
nearly impossible for woman Il re-
main pure who adopts he stage. adding
that the freedom Of life. speech and ges
ture behind the curtain renders it an
most impossible for q woman to pre-
serve that simplicity Of manner which
is her greatest charm
What is infinitely more 10 be de-
pl0red." he added. lis that a woman
who endeavors' to keep her purity is al-
most as a necessity foredoomed to fail
IRE in her career. II e an awful thing
to say. and. still more terrible, ii il
true: but no one who knows the life Of
the green room dare deny It'll"
Mr.. Scott says the English stage is
the worst because the English are the
| least artistic people in the world and
more completely without the saving
grace Of humor than any nation"
Being interviewed on the subject of
this interview. Mr.. Scott protests that
| II is not an attack on the stage: that Re
| hes not been accurately reported and
! that that it Is not fair TO quote extracts.
| as he was reporting for a religious pa
per and from moral standpoint.
MANY actresses" he continued |"1ead
noble lives and the children Of actors
who are forewaTned Of the dangers sell
dom go astray.'
One Of the most risque embodimerts
OF alleged life on the stage which has
| been permitted by the British censor is
the curtain raiser entitled "a New
Leaf" by Herbert Darnley. running al
one Of the local the2ters. The principal
parsonage. Lord Annerley. is a gentle
man who has sown q generous crop o.
wild cats and sets down 10 reflect upon
these same one evening after his return
from one of the night clubs. institutions
peculiar to london While s9liouoliz-
ing upon the virtues Of his modest little
wife and his own unworthiness 10 be
her husband. his apartment is invaded