The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
LOndOners Dine, Laugh, Chat
and Make Merry
As Though No War Cloud HOY
cred Over the Land.
NOTABLE PERSONAGES.
Saw Prince of Wales Horse Win
the New Market.
King of Sweden and Richard
Croker We're Present.

Copyright 1900, by Associated Press) |
London. Nav 5.-This has been a week |
OF dinners and speeches, the latter quite
inferior to the former. So long had |
Ireland been monopolizing gaiety thal |
London had almost forgotten how TO |
celebrate, and was threatened with a |
period Of depression under the cloud |
of war and mourning. But now that
the ROYALTIES and their suites have
trooped back across the Irish channel,
many with Just a tinge of brogue, semi
polftfcal and private dinners have made
the nights of the metropolis gay, while
the racing at New Market scarcely ever
before drew a more fashionable attend
ance.
The victory of the Prince Of Wales,
whose horse Diamond Jubilee won the
two thousand guinea stake Wednesday,
added to the enthusiasm, and the great
race course became the promenade for
the most aristocratic persOnages in the
country, who chatted. bet, lunched and
cheered just as heartily as though there
was no death struggle being waged on
the plains of South Africa Among
those at New Market were the Prince
of Wales, the King of Sweden, Prince
Christian Of Schleswig- -Holstein, the
Duke of Cambridge, the Duke and
Duchess of Devonshire, Lord and Lady
Howe, Lord and Lady ROthschild, and
almost all the leading members Of the
nobility and in addition a sprinkling
Of Americans which included Richard
Croker and Reginald Ward, the latter
being the guest Of Lord and Lady Howe.
A BRILLIANT OUTLOOK.
Though late in beginning, the season
fe-eaes rr he brill nj
pected war reverses knock out the
hearts of the people. The first drawing
room will be held May II, at which
the queen will be present and viii be
brilliantly attended. The second draw
ing room set down for May H. will
coincide with the first night Of the
opera. and viii doubtless be a great
society occasion. The Prince OF wales
and a long list of royalties and other
prominent personages have re-engaged
their usual boxes, which ensures a good
operate season.
The queens birthday May "a, in ad-
dition to being marked by unusual
public rejoicing, viii be made the oc-
casion for a great national bazaar for
the army societies, which will be pa
tronized by all the members of the
royal family.
OF the recent dinners none was more
striking than the banquet given at the
Hotel Cecil Monday evening last by
the British Empire League, in honor of
the colonial troops in South Africa and
of the Australian federation delegates,
when the Prince of Wales made his
first public appearance after the at
tempt to aSsasSinate him. AS he rose
to reply to a toast he received a tre
mendOus ovation. He was unusually
pale and the nervous tone in which he
said I'VE are all in the hands of Cod"
betrayed the intense emotion he was
undergoing. But as the gorgeous ban
quet proceeded. Great Britain's future
10 hi ffi,
he is distinguished, and mirthful laugh
ter prevailed at the royal table
AN INNOVATION.
His royal highness also on this occa-
sion inaugurated a custom which may
become popular at large public dinners,
where the guests are so numerous that
they can scarcely recognize each other.
With his coffee and cigars the princes
special attendant brought him a huge
pair Of field glasses, with which he
carefully serutinized the long tables and
the galaxy Of bejeweled women who
filled the balconies in order to hear the
speeches.
The opening of the cricket season this
week was favored by fine weather, and
there was no apparent diminution of
public interest. Many of the crack
counties are severely handicapped by
the absence of their best men in South
Africa. Major POore, who headed last
years batting averages, electrifying
cricketing world by his comet like ap-
pearance among, and mastery over the
established leaders, is now provost
marshal at Bloemfontein. Among the
others absent are T. s. Jackson, who
aCaptained the last team sent to the
United States Mitchell who captained
the Oxford Cambridge team sent to the
United States in 1855 and Milligan who
was member of the same eleven. They
are already among the killed.
RESERVATION OF THE SACRA-
MENT
The decision of the archbishops OF
Canterbury and York made public Nav
/ on the subject of the reservation OF
the sacrament, in which they said they
were obliged to decide that the Church OF
England did not allow reservation in
any form and that those believing II
ought to be permitted. while justified in
endeaVOr1ng to get the law altered We're
not justified in practicing reservation
until the law was changed, has created
widespread speculation among the lait1
and clergy regarding the outcome. Til,
extreme rltuallsts nave always de.
INJURED against civil authority but III,
contentious are now under the ban O.
the highest episcopal court, which the,
swore to obey when ordained Yet i
does not appear that they are more viii
ling to give DIP their practices than he
fore. As the Daily Graphic, which Is :
churchman's paper says; 1t needs II,
gift of prophecy to fOretell that tn
Church OF England cannot continue a
an organized body If any large section
of the clergy follow the advice of III
extreme ritualists. If the high churel
clergy claim to be a law unto them
selves they must either leave the churcl
or shatter it."
Many churchmen and conservativ
papers not engaged in the controvers-
are seriously considering the question
OF disestablishment. a remedy hitheit
50 repugnant to them that they woul
scarcely discuss it
Most of the theaters are doing re
markably well. The fashionable sue
cesses Of the day are the comedy Kit