Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-08
The Cold and Storm Give the
Gaities a Severe Setback.
Last Drawing Room Affected--W
All Over in Half an Hour.
New Coins for Queens Jubilee-An Actress
Book Creates Sensation.

Inufsday'S drawing room was SparSely
attended, and in marked contrast with
the similar furction last week. 1t was
all over half an hour after the gates of
Buckingham palace We're opened
The Princess of Wales and her daugh
ters will remain in town until next week
and will be busy visiting the theaters,
etc. The Prince of Wales is enjoying
a holiday along the Riviera. On his way
there he stopped in P3eis and visited the
Vaudeville theater. where he. witnessed
the latest success, La Don.oureuse."
Between the acts he complimented Nine.
Rejane. The next day he lunched at the
British embassy with NJ. HanotauX. the
French minister for foreign affairs, ard
others. Later he exchanged visits With
President Faure.
1t is announced that the Prince of
Wales remains in constant Geographic
communication with London, in view of
the Cretan situation.
The long agitation against the cruel
ties of the royal hunt has resulted in the
queen commanding that "A report on
the subject be submitted to her. Her
majesty is disposed tc abandon the Buck
hounds altogether. In any Ease, it
seems certain that the hunting of tho
tame stays Will be discontinued.
The paean of praise for the United
States ambassador. Thomas +. Bayard
is tempered here and there in Great Bri
tain by criticism as to the appropriate
ness of such laudation. one London
newspaper says: Ma Bayard has been
so liberal with butter lately that the
lions tail is really too slippery to twist.
1t does seem q lopsided arrangement,
which is always proved at the banquets.
that while we Englishmen, all of us, love
the Yankees. our love is recprocated by
one person only, the United States envoy
for the time being. The National Re
view expresses The hope that Colonel
John Hay is not an orator.
The demesne of the Vatican ha, been
considerably enlarged by the recent pur
chase of the property of Prince Borg
.hese adjoining the papal grounds. 1t
appears that before buying the pope
secured the governments consent. Hi
some quarters the purchaseis beived to
indicate the intention of the holy see TO
gradually acquire land until the sea is
reached and a seaport is secured on the
Mediterranean, SO solving some features
of the Roman question.
Lieut. nant Governor George A. Kirk
patrick of Ontario has progressed suffi
GENTLY to leave his nursing room next
week, when he will go TO Brighton for
a four or five weeks stay prior to his re-
turn to Canada. Sir Donald Smiths eff
forts in aid Of emigration to Canada
have aroused u great deal of interest in
Great Britain.
The government has decided to signal
lie the occasion of her majesty's jubilee
by the issue of new coinage which will
bc put in circulation next June The de-
sign is said to be of very striking and
handsome character and includes new
pennies with most artistic design on
the lines of the design at present in use.
Despite the statement in medical pa
pers that the queen is in perfect health.
considering her age, the statement is
again published, and emanates from a
very excellent source, that the sovereign
is nearly powerless to walk. Sciatica is
what the queen suffers from, and lately
it has become so much worse. that with
support she can only walk d few feet.
and that with difficulty. She has to be
carried up ana uOWIl StdiIS ana liltO her
carriage and wheeled from room to room
1t is this fact which has necessitated the
Prince of Wales and the Duke of Con-
raught taking so much on their Shout
ders in connection with the jubilee fes-
tivities. The queen will leave Windsor
for Nice on Wednesday, March 10.
1t is settled that not fewer than 1856
bishops, from all parts of the empire
will be present at Canterbury cathedral
in July. on the occasion of the gathering
of the Pan Anglican meeting. On July
. there win he service in the cathedral
hen the speakers will include the
archbishop of Armagh and the bishop of
Ripone.
1t has remained for Miss Emily Sol
dene to write a most Interesting and
certainly the most sensational book of
the season. This volume. which was
published tive or six weeks ago, was re-
ceived with indifference on it's appear
ance, but as its frank revelations about
the gilded youth of statesman and
fathers of faniily-men like Lord Rose
berry and Lord Dunraven-began to be
known there has been a great rush for
the book. Most of the men who. % years
ago. were going the pace in London have
read its pages with fear and trembling
W lille the rest of the upper ten" are
ohuckling over Miss Soldene's revela-
tons.
Miss Soldenc made her first appear
ance on any stage at Convent Garden.
in 1865. playing the part Of Azucena in
al Trovatore.' From that time for
ward she reigned as one of the chief
favorites Of the London boards
Miss Soldene first went to America in
1874. Her company was known as the
"Soldene English Opera Boufre com
pany.' They opened at theI4yceum the
alter in Fourteenth street. New York.
THIS is how the artist describes the New
York women:
The ladies were most extravagantly
dressed for the street. wearing long
bright colored silk. brocade or MORE
skirts which trailed in the dust. The
American lady of 1874 was of an entirely
different physique to the American lady
OF 1896. She was fragile with tiny, flat
feet and had no instep. She was made
W to an alarming extent, not only her
face but her figure. They wore diamonds
at breakfast and cut through the vast
space of the hotel dining room with
elevated. thin. nasal, metallic voices
that made ones skin Green They G,-od