Arizona republican., 1899-06-09
DUKE TOO STRICT
 FOR THE PRINCE

will stay with MT. and Mrs William
 Goodwood races. instead of as usual with the duke of Richmond and Ger
 dCn, who owns the Goodwood race
 course. For some five-and-thirty years
 the prince and princess of Wales and
 other members of the royal family
 have each year spent the Goodwood
 week at Goodwood house as the guests
 of the old duke. There was only Cne
 year that I can recall his staying
 aW,ay from Goodwood house. This
 was the year following the sensational scene between the duke and the prince at GoodWCod house on the subject of
 baccarat The duke, who is very in
 dependent very frank, and possessed
 of a very keen sense of his own dig
 nifty and importance, had courteously requested the prince not to inaugurate
 any games of hazard while under his
 rocf. declaring that he had a very
 strong objection to high play. The
 prince promised to comply with his
 wish. Punctually at 10 the duke re- tires to bed, no matter who may be stopping in the house. On the night of the scene in question he had taken leave as usual ot his royal guests and had withdrawn. Some twenty minutes later he had occasion to go down stairs to fetch book from the library. | Passing through enc of the salons he found to his amazement not only the | prince and others of his male guests. but likewise a number of ladies, en- gagged in a very stiff game of baccarat. | The old gentleman's indignation knew no bounds, and in the presence Of the entire company he rCmonstrated sharp | ly with his future king, recalling to mind his own wishes and the princes promise, and intimating that the heir apparent had been guilty of q breach of faith.
 | There was no more play that night, and on the following day the prince seized a pretext to return to town. The next year the prince did borne, travelling to and fro by special train every day. But it was so uncomfortable, and there was so much unpleasant gossip in con nection with his absence from Good wood house, that on the following year l he became cnce more the dukes guest, and if he has continued going there year after year since it has been rather as a social duty than from any feeling of pleasure, since he naturally felt the restraint imposed upon his tastes
 With regard to MT. and Mrs. Willie James, they are friends rather of the prince of Wales daughters than of his. Mrs. James is a daughter of that love- | ly Lady Forbes of Newe, who is sis ter to the dowager countess of Ddd- ley, to the duchess of Atholl, and, alas, also to the divorced Lady MCrdaunt. Mrs. James. in fact. was one of the girlhood friends of Princess Victoria of Wales and of her two sisters, and is probably the cleVerest and certainly one of the most cOmeiy amateur act resses in England. Her husband, MT. James, is one of three brothers who in herited enormous fortunes from their father, a Manchester merchant and multi-millionaire. His mother was an American lady. One of his brothers was killed by hunting accident out in India. It may be taken for granted that at West Dean park the prince of Wales wishes will be consulted in everything, and no restriction what | soever will be placed upon his fond | ness for baccarat. Indeed, it is prob | able that MT. James will be ready to lose to his royal guest any sum that the latter may play for.
 III EuFOD0 the duluCTIl1OS dIS AO " | much stricter on the subject of ladies removing their hats in theaters than here in America. At Athens a lady | who declined to remove her hat at the | court theater was sentenced to a fort | nights Imprisonment, although the | wife of enc of the leading bankers of | the great metropolis, while the other | day at Paris, Mime. Casimir+Perier, | wife of the former president of the French republic and who was escort ed by him, was requested by the door keeper of the Comedie Francaise to re- move her hat before taking her place | in the orchestra seats. AS she de- clined to comply with this request. she was denied admission. and returned | to her carriage. Her husband, how ever, took matters more quietly, and permitting his wife to return home alone, remained to see the play.
 
 People are so much accustomed to see pictures of the young duke of Lein- ster representing him as a chubby boy Of years old that it will doubtless come as a surprise to many to learn that he has just gone to Eton with his younger brother. Lord Desmond Fitz- gerald, and that when the duchess of York was in Ireland the other day he did the hcnorS of his magnificent country seat, Carton. to his future queen in the most charming and un- affected manner. He is the orphan son of that so famous beauty, the late duchess of Leinster, and besides is the premier duke marquis and earl of the Emerald Isle
 iWth the death of Baron Malortie there has passed away one of that ft11.011 of l01O 10=c r011 n d. venturers and adventuresses who make their home on the banks of the Nile, and whc are so interesting, from the fact that every one of them has what the French call "antecedents, and has played a part either in some sensational romance or scandal. A scion of one of the oldest French fam