Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-11
WILFRED LAURIER
pected.

Inc CnrOnlcle says tnat emperor VIII
liam attaches the greatest importance
to his visit to England upon this occa-
sion, and he hopes to meet the czar under
his grandmother's roof and improve the
between Russia and Great Britain. The
court functions Of the approaching sea-
son include five drawing rooms and five
levees. The state apartments in St.
James palace are being renovated and
the Prince of Wales will hold two
levees there previous to his departure
for Cannes in the middle of February.
The May drawing room will be held by
the queen in person and the rule limiting
the presentees to 20 will be strictly OBJ
served this year. The government has
yielded to the agitation against foreign
goods, being used in the crown depart
ment. and has issued a circular to the
department. chiefs to confine their con-
tracts to English manufacturers, and. in
order to prevent the possible palming off
Of foreign goods by middlemen. only
manufacturers direct are to be dealt
with.
A great deal of amusement has been
caused by letter from Harding Giffard,
dated from the Junior Castleton club.
Ciffard, who is a nephew of Lord Sails
bury, the former lord chancellor of Eng
land, violently denounces the increasing
fraudulent use Of arms, and who wants
" form an Armerial club, where those OF
gentle birth may withdraw from con-
tact with spurious gentry. No one will
be eligible unless certificated by the Her.
lad college, So that as wag remarks:
Its aristocratic members may be safe
from contact with spurious pretenders
possessing only unauthorized heraldic
beasts, birds and monsters"
For a person POLITICALLY dead Mr..
Gladstone is still attracting the greatest
attention in Europe. His Armenian
memorial speech at Hawarden. on Jan. g.
upon the occasion of the celebration of
the birthday of Mrs. Gladstone, has been
cabled verbatim to the Sultan of Turkey
by the Turkish ambassador.
Remarkable evidence of Mr.. Glad
stones mental activity is shown by GEN
eral Booths account of his recent visit
with the venerable statesman. 1t fills
columns of newspapers and gives
pleasant picture of the grand old man
home and pays tribute to his extraordi-
nary voracity for informal ton on every
subject.
There is considerable talk in the Ca
madam colony here regarding Wilfred
Lauriers' new years honors, and the
consensus of opinion is that knighthood
was offered to the Canadian premier, but
1t was thought prudent to decline it,
as Laurier is virtually an untried man
and Great Britain had better wait and
see what he will do. The general impress
sion prevails that he will be sworn as
memeber of the privy council when he
comes to England.
The action for preach of promise of
marriage brought by Mabel Duncan of
Geisha company in Days theater here
against Captain Arthur Pingham
Crabbe, late of the Third and Eighth
Hussars, and now of the Royal Irish
Sigmet, has been set for trial on Monday
next. Miss Duncan, who is a very pretty
young woman with limited experience
on the stage, asks for $4,000. i,
The theatrical novelty of the week was
the first performance at the Avenue
iheater on Saturday last Of THE Men
About Town." which turned out to be a
dire failure. Managers of London thea
tiers. following the examples of the
American managers, are agitating the
question of ladies' large hats in places Of
amusement. Several of the British
managers have been interviewed on the
subject. They include Sir Henry IT.
wing, Charles Wyndham, George Alex
anJer and William Greet. Messrs. Irving
and Wyndham are both of the opinion
that the matter rests entirely with the
public. and that any reform must come
from the outside.
Mr.. Greet frankly admits that he
would be glad to refuse admittance to
all offenders. but is afraid to make the
attempt. AS matter of fact, no hats
or bonnets are worn at evening perform
ances in best London theaters. 1t is
only at matinees that the nuisance is
encountered In Paris. at the Theater
Francois. the regulation against ladies'
hats extends to all afternoon perform
anceS.
The only remedy in the world that will
at once stop ftphfnQSS Of the skin in anv